tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39285570601623268562024-02-07T08:57:37.185+01:00N is for LoveN is really for Norway, but I moved there for love.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03079436262337312755noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928557060162326856.post-78121439361878499082012-08-16T09:57:00.003+02:002012-08-16T09:57:15.653+02:00Goodness, some days it is just hard to write a blog...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I was back, baby, and doing so well last week, but then we went to Berlin (yeay!) and my Blogger went german (ohhhh!). It was awfully hard to understand, so I figured I would skip a couple of days. But then I got a bit sick (ahhh!) and didn't want to write a blog, just lie in bed reading other peoples. So I did (niiice!). </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03079436262337312755noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928557060162326856.post-73593751752790789172012-08-11T08:59:00.000+02:002012-08-11T08:59:00.972+02:00It was just like the Billy Goats Gruff, except the troll was smiling. Kind of.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03079436262337312755noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3928557060162326856.post-74857815814673591202012-08-08T08:17:00.000+02:002012-08-08T08:17:05.516+02:00I may have been awfully forgetful about blogging but I had a fabby couple of weeks with my nephew. And that is totally delicious.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So, I think you must know by know, <a href="http://nisforlove.blogspot.no/search/label/wedding">we got married in Vegas</a> - two years ago in September for any of you that are counting. It wasn't something we had planned for months or even ever thought about before. It was all a bit backwards. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Today I shall big up the old US of A, in preparation and celebration of July 4th. Yee ha. Because that is totally how they all talk. Because they are all cowboys. Although some of them are movie stars. Although some of them are both. (Please refer to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_wayne">John Wayne</a>).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It has always been a bit easy to mock America because we englishers are smug that them americans don't get irony. Are we sure about that? They have brought Dallas back WITH JR IN A NURSING HOME. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">To me, America is the home of shopping, I frickin' love it there. You can buy what you want, on whatever day you want for not so very much money. Admittedly I may have been in eye-wateringly-expensive-closed-on-Sundays-and-quite-a-lot-shuts-down-in-the-winter-too Norway for too long, but I revel in all that consumer availability. I am both shallow and unapologetic for it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But, to balance all that commerce out, Americans are good people who will build you a jolly big and fabby house for free. Often in the rain. And often with a country music star in tow. And Xzibit. I know because I have seen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Makeover:_Home_Edition">Extreme Makeover Home Edition</a>. Although normally I am crying by the end (or even quite soon in to it) so I may have a couple of details wrong there.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Plus it is full of friendliness. And whilst I am aware a lot of it is customer service rather than genuine pleasure at how delightful I am, I still like it. Norwegians are brilliant and all but they are tough nuts to crack. And to crack a smile from. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It is nice to have some shiny superficiality. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh dear, I seem to have called the nice Americans shallow cowboys, and this was meant to be lovely and in praise of the States. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I shall try again tomorrow.</span></div>
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