tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62194351068682885682024-03-07T04:33:58.656+01:00California Girl In NorwayCalifornia Girl In NorwayJeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-47517580168415129012012-02-20T19:34:00.001+01:002012-02-20T19:35:01.646+01:00Life in Norway...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-87470135627371542432012-01-23T20:13:00.000+01:002012-01-23T20:15:10.546+01:00Birthday Trip to ParisWhere do I begin?<br />
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Knut surprised me with a weekend trip to Paris for my birthday.<br />
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Friday night after work we took the train to the airport and began the birthday weekend celebrations!<br />
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We got into our hotel and settled around 9. When we got to the hotel, we asked the guy at the front desk if it was possible to have a room facing the front of the hotel so we could enjoy the view of the walking street in front....he said it wasn't possible, and sent us up the elevator with a bit too much attitude and our key.<br />
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We were pleasantly surprised when we reached our room which turned out to be on the top floor and in fact on the front side of the hotel after all. I immediately go to the window and open the glass doors to find that we have a view of the Eiffel Tower!!!!!<br />
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We spent that night just roaming and checking out our neighborhood.<br />
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In 2008 Norway officially opened their "Doomsday Seed Vault" which houses millions of variations of the worlds seeds being preserved in case of a catastrophic disaster where the earth would need to essentially be re-statrted.....creepy!</div>
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In Norway, Government funded projects that exceed a certain amount are required to include art work. Dyveke Sanne, the artist behind the structures art work, was inspired by the arctic light and wanted the piece to represent the importance of light in the growth of plants.<br />
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In 2009, the Seed Vault won the Norwegian Lighting Prize for best outdoor lighting and was also ranked #6 on the <i>Time</i>'s Best Inventions of 2008. Pretty Impressive!<br />
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Guess you really do learn something new everyday! I have been living in Oslo for over 3 months now and have not heard one mention of this place....i guess somehow the conversation of the world ending just doesn't come up as often as you would think....go figure!Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-49276285662740595762012-01-16T18:00:00.000+01:002012-01-16T22:12:29.637+01:00The Norwegian WaterI feel like I don't say enough good things about living here. I don't want to give off the impression that I am unhappy here, so I want to start a new weekly feature where I name one thing that I really love about living here.<br />
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This week I will start out with the water here.<br />
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Not only is the water that comes from the tap better tasting than any bottled water I knew of back home, it's the softest water too!<br />
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I think my hair is the happiest about this. I love the way my hair has felt since moving here. There is only one other place that I have been where I saw a noticeable change in how my hair would behave and that was NYC. The water there is amazing, but I think Norway may actually have NY beat!<br />
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I think I will need to bottle it and stock it away when we move just so I don't have to go back to harsh water. My skin and hair will go through withdrawals!!<br />
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It may seem trivial to be thankful for my hair softness, but I suppose life really is about the little things!Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-80891575588916773362012-01-08T00:11:00.000+01:002012-01-08T21:26:18.401+01:00Surviving the HolidaysWell, its now the 7th, so I guess its safe to say that the holidays are officially over!...although the tree that is still up in our living room might say otherwise, but that is neither here nor there.<br />
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I remember this time last year having some reservations about what the first Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas away from home might be like for me. I have almost always spent the holidays with my family and over the last couple of years, I have come to cherish a few newer traditions with my friends.<br />
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For instance, on Halloween, Suey has her annual Pumpkin carving contest that Kristin always wins!....I always come in second. One of these days you are going down my friend! :)<br />
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On Thanksgiving, my mom always slaves away all day making that quintessential meal that makes you feel REALLY at home and gets you in the holiday spirit, and then after dinner we would plan out our <i>Black Friday</i> shopping excursion. The next day, we would wake up at 4 or 5 am (although each year it gets earlier and earlier thanks to Target opening earlier and earlier) and go out to wait in lines with all of the other shoppers, and get all of our Christmas shopping done. I think we have done this at least 25 of my 28 years of life!<br />
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For the last couple of years I have thrown a Christmas Ornament Party so that I could have my tree covered in memories...and it was just a good excuse to get everyone together to all drink and be merry.<br />
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I also had a cookie decorating evening with my friend Val that I really looked forward too each year. The cookies got slightly more perverse and demented each year...so I can only imagine what they would have been this year!<br />
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My 5 "ring friends" and I had started doing a Family Christmas dinner a few years ago. We would all get together, just the girls....no boyfriend/husband distractions, and have a formal seated dinner and dessert at Kristin's house and exchange gifts. In the last few years, it had become one of the only times of the year (if not the only time) we all got together and just had a good time. No wedding, birthday, or shower of any kind. Just pure family time with each other!<br />
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We spent Halloween at Knut's coworkers house. Norway does costumes....but not like what we know in California! Some people really went all out, but most put together costumes with the items they already own in their closets.<br />
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Thanksgiving this year happened to fall on my birthday. Obviously Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here, and Black Friday is a foreign concept....literally! That day happened to be the first day of the Sample Sale at my work, so that is where I was. They did surprise me with a gorgeous cake and pink champagne....which was SOOOO sweet!!<br />
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Knut and I didn't really do much. His gift to me was a surprise trip to Paris (more on that later) a couple weeks after, so on the actual day here in Oslo, we really didn't celebrate. But he did surprise me with a bottle of wine, a frozen pizza (Norway's official national dish) and a new Muubaa Clutch that he sneakily bought from the agency that I work in.<br />
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Then there was Christmas....where do I even begin?!? Normally the season is kicked off by Black Friday, but this year it was kicked off by an MMS from my mom in line at Black Friday (which made me cry for a only a minute or two...) and a surprise holiday trip to Berlin!<br />
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The company I work for too all of the employees on a getaway for our gift this year. We showed up at the airport, checked our bags, got through security, and still had no idea where we were going. All we knew was to bring our passport, and an overnight bag consisting of both day and evening clothes. We spent two days roaming the city attending Christmas markets (Berlin is known for having the best in the world I guess), shopping in some of the best stores, and eating all over the city.<br />
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Here in Oslo, we attended the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. The whole city gathers in the center of town and everyone sings and they light the big tree. While we were walking down there from our house, we ended up right in the front of the parade of people walking up Karl Johan carrying candles to "light" the Christmas tree. Some woman handed us both a candle, and you would have thought she handed me a million dollars! I was soooooooo excited to be a part of it!<br />
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Decorating the house was fun. I love the way it looks with all of it's Christmas best on. It was a labor of love to get it up though. I had made an advent calendar for Knut this year. Each day got a surprise or gift of some kind. One day I decided I wanted to surprise him with a Christmas tree when he got home that night. So I stopped at Clas Olsen Norway's closest thing to Target) on the way home from work and picked one up. This just so happened to also be the first day of the year that it snowed. We opted for a fake tree since the real ones were all upwards of 100-200 including stands, and the fake was only 60. The box holding the tree didn't seem too heavy when I was in the store, but after walking for a couple of blocks it seemed to gain a few lbs or kilos to my norwegians. So I hoped on a bus. There are a ton that run from the city center (where I was) to our apt which is really only a mile, but when its snowing and your carrying a tree seems like 5300 miles.<br />
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Frazzled from the stress of the situation, I unknowingly got onto the 31E bus instead of the 31. No biggie...they go the same route, but the 31E doesn't stop at some of the stops the 31 does....one of which being the one in front of our house of course....awesome!! <---Sarcasm (That's for you Kristin!)<br />
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I had one of those moments where you just want to throw your hands up in the air and shout, "REALLY!?!"....The bus took me blocks and blocks past my house. I got off on the first stop I could, tried to go back in the other direction, but ended up only being able to get as close as 4 blocks from home...at about 3 blocks away the handle on the box broke, and the box fell in a pile of brown icky snow....awesome again! I manage the rest of the way carrying it over my shoulder like some kind of gorilla carrying a woman into its cave....but in the end, Knut and I got our tree and it was all worth it.<br />
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A couple of weeks later we had some friends over for a Christmas get together....<br />
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Really nice night with great people!<br />
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In Norway they celebrate Christmas on the 24th. We went to Knut's Uncle's house here in Oslo and had a big traditional dinner consisting of mostly meats that I had never heard of before and have no idea what animal they even came from. I ate potatoes and some kind of carrot mash. I think I offended his Uncle's mother-in-law by not eating the meats. She was under the impression that I wasn't eating them because of some prejudice against norwegian food or something....I am not sure. But she gave me that angry grandma face and told me I couldn't possibly know I didn't like it if I didn't try it. I am ok with assuming...sorry!<br />
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After dinner we had ice cream and warm arctic berries. The berries looked like a yellow version of raspberries, but way more delicious! One of their family members had picked them and sent them over....you can't buy them in the stores and I guess they are somewhat rare. They were amazing!<br />
Halfway through dessert Knut got yelled at (in norwegian) by his 4 year old cousin to hurry up because they couldn't begin opening presents if everyone was still eating. Santa came in a while later and brought the girls their gifts....we all opened the remaining gifts, had some more sweets, coffee, and wine and enjoyed each other's company, then made our way home.<br />
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As for the Christmas with my friends and family.....the dinner with the girls looked something like this:<br />
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All in all a very successful holiday season....but I am really glad to be done with it all and get on with 2012!<br />
<br />Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-7609260078669742282011-12-18T13:52:00.000+01:002012-01-07T23:12:38.006+01:00Lessons I have learned in Norway....the hard way.I have been here about two and a half months now, and I cannot even count the ways in which my life has changed!<br />
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Along with these changes, I have learned a few very useful life lessons that I had to learn the hard way.<br />
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1. When it's raining outside, don't walk too closely to the curb....(or make your boyfriend walk on that side of the curb)....a lesson you only need to learn once!<br />
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2. Since moving to Olso, I have come to realize there are both pros and cons to not driving. While it is nice not to have to worry about sitting on the 405 for 3 hours in rush hour traffic, or not worrying about gas money, car payments, insurance, repairs, or designated drivers, the god awful stench of the bus some mornings is maybe worse than losing 3 hours of my like in traffic.<br />
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This isn't the worst part of the public transportation commute. One particularly cold morning, I was on my way to work, and layered up in a thick sweater and coat, and didn't think much of the fact that the bus seat felt cold....until I got up and realized "cold" really meant WET! It has taken all of my strength to not think about why on earth the seat of the bus would be wet, but I am going to just decide right now that someone must have spilled their water bottle.....right?!?!<br />
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3. "Slippery when wet" really does mean slippery! What the sign should read is: "Watch out asshole! Just because you can't see it, does not mean ice is not there and you will fall on your butt!"....now that would have grabbed my attention!<br />
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We have these little pebbles on the ground near my work, and I didn't understand what they were for. It looked like some truck had just spilled a bunch of tiny pebbles out of the back. I hated them because they get stuck in your shoe. Then, all day, you would click when you walk....they drove me crazy! That is until the first snow....now the pebbles and I have a new found friendship.<br />
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4. I never cared much for socks....living in CA my whole life, I never had to worry too much about them. We wore rainbows, ballet flats, or heels 90% of the year, and the other 10% we were either in gym shoes or boots, no one ever sees your socks and therefor you don't put much thought into them.<br />
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Here in Norway, socks have become something I need to worry about as much as the rest of my outfit. Not only do I need to worry about having warm enough socks (apparently only wool socks keep your body heat in), but I need to worry about them being aesthetically pleasing as well!<br />
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When you go into someone's home for a party, dinner thing, or just for vorspiel (the pre-drinking that happens at someones home before hitting the town), it is customary to take off your shoes. The first time we went to one of Knut's coworkers home for dinner, I had to change my whole outfit just so that I could make my socks work with the ensemble!<br />
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5. I grew up in the land of the Santa Ana winds. One time when I was a kid, the wind actually shattered my bedroom window just from the sheer force! I thought they were the worst thing in the world until I felt wind in Norway. Imagine a strong wind, but instead of being pleasantly and surprisingly warm, it is bone-chillingly cold!<br />
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6. Eating a hamburger or sandwich the "polite way". We have all seen that Seinfeld episode where everyone starts eating the Snickers bar with a knife and fork. Here it is considered rude to eat with your hands. Try eating a burger with a knife and fork without making a mess. It is maybe the hardest thing I have ever done!<br />
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I am sure that as the months pass, more embarrassing moments will come along to remind me on a daily basis that I am, in fact, a foreigner! I guess it's all of my bad karma for calling Knut a silly foreigner all those times when we were back in the U.S. Oh well....live and learn!<br />
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<br />Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-83308749878276567092011-12-05T10:51:00.001+01:002011-12-05T11:32:24.246+01:00Christmas in NorwayBefore I go into more details on Berlin, I want to share a little about our Christmas here.<br />
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This is our second Christmas together, and our first one away from most of our friends and family, so I wanted to make it extra special for Knut by spreading out the holiday cheer all month long!!!<br />
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So I made a little 25 Days of Christmas surprise for him. Each day has a card with some kind of Christmasy fun.<br />
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So far we have had:<br />
Day 1: To get in the xmas spirit he got to open gift number 1.....German Beer set from my trip to Berlin.<br />
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Day 2: Letter to Santa love note.....sorry kids, not going to share details of this one....<br />
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Day 3: Cookie Face Race! We still can't watch this video without laughing like crazy!! This is one Christmas tradition that we will be keeping around for future years.<br />
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We also sent out the invite last night for our 3rd Annual Christmas Ornament Decorating Contest.....its really fun, and mostly an excuse to be with friends and drink and be merry! I love having my tree full of Ornaments made by all of the meaningful people in my life over the years.....that is what Christmas really is about to me anyway.<br />
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Here are some pics from the first 2 years....<br />
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<br /></div>Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-87278043966921039332011-12-02T23:07:00.001+01:002011-12-03T13:21:20.924+01:00Berlin on a WhimWhere do I begin?<br />
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Here I am working at a showroom for just shy of 2 weeks....very much the new girl still, and the owners come over to me and ask me if I would like to attend their Christmas party in a surprise location.<br />
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The only things that I know are to show up at 7 am and to have my passport and an overnight bag with "going out" clothes!<br />
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So.....after thinking, for maybe less than a second, I of course agreed!<br />
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We show up at the airport and we still have no idea....<br />
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We get to the baggage drop......still no idea.<br />
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I get randomly searched and subsequently felt up after going through security....still no ideas.<br />
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Pass quite a few of those arrival/departure boards and try to figure out the times.....no ideas.<br />
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Sit down at a cafe, 3 bottles of champagne materialize.....no idea.<br />
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Then, after the bubbles have been pored, they say it in unison...............IT"S BERLIN!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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In a matter of minutes we were on the plane and off to our holiday party....details of the trip to follow, but all you need to know at this point is that I work for the world's most amazing company and it was an amazing trip!!!!<br />
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Stay tuned..... :)Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-3904145480542259002011-11-17T22:41:00.001+01:002011-11-17T22:44:49.590+01:00What exactly are you selling?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I dont know about you, but I am uncomfortable!</div>Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-47723810996721508242011-11-17T15:52:00.001+01:002011-11-17T15:55:54.470+01:00Damn Bird!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Listen bird, Halloween was over weeks ago, and I am not amused! It is November now, and unless you start singing Happy Birthday to me (Since my bday is one week from today!!) or Christmas carols, I have had about enough of your lip!</div>
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Last night, Knut's uncle Arne treated us to a limited screening movie "premier" here in Oslo of På Bølgelengde (which translates to On Wavelength...or how we would say "on the same wave length"). Arne's friend had made the movie in the city of Stord, Norway where Knut's mom's side of the family is from. Oh did I mention the entire film is in Norwegian? </div>
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First a little on the theatre itself. We start out by passing the Bar/ Cafe where you can buy a beer or cappuccino for your movie going experience. Then we went downstairs to get popcorn in what I can only describe as the movies very own grocery store (I say this because the "concession stand" was bigger than our local grocery store).</div>
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Whenever this "hottie" comes on screen, the song "My Lovin (Never Gonna Get It)" by En Vogue comes on....yes the same En Vogue from 1992....and you're welcome for getting that song stuck in your head for the next week! I can't stop singing it. I think Knut has at least 5 sniper style videos of me singing and dancing to this song all alone as I cook, clean or go about my daily activities. I can't get rid of it now!!</div>
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<br />Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-12401937882415751412011-11-09T19:37:00.000+01:002011-11-17T15:54:24.793+01:00Those girls sound like they could be my people!I had lunch today with a fashion industry person that I knew from CA. He happened to be in Oslo for about 5 hours meeting with one of the stores here, so we met up so I could pick his brain....nothing wrong with a little networking and a free beer right?<br />
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That's not the exciting part of my day though, the exciting thing happened when I was walking home. I am just crossing the street, minding my own business when I hear a couple of girls behind me talking. "Some d-bag in a lifted truck trying to get my number....." is all I could hear.....all I needed to hear. Lifted truck, d-bag, english speaking brunette....all those things add up to one thing: AMERICANS!!!<br />
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Naturally I immediately invite myself into their convo (I really am that rude american chic I guess) and ask them where they are from...One girl is living in Oslo, and the other in Germany and they are both originally from Seattle, WA! The girl that lives in Oslo lives in my neighborhood, and so we exchanged numbers and are going to get together next week. That means I officially have 2 new friends here completely separate of Knut and his friends (whom I love btw).<br />
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All of this say that I think I may be officially becoming the equivalent to that guy who drives down the street "hollering" at girls to get dates...."That d-bag in the lifted truck"....only I am not trying to win dates....just friends. And technically I am not "hollering" at people , just politely saying, "excuse me, I cant help but notice you're american". That's not as creepy right?!....well just humor me and tell me that it's not.Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-8534277159960265872011-11-09T11:22:00.000+01:002011-11-17T15:55:00.299+01:00Nothing Like the White Noise of a Record Player...When I woke up today I noticed that it was just a little bit colder....Winter is officially knocking on the door! So to enjoy my last bits of Fall, I decided to get ready for my day to the familiar sound of my records. I think today we'll start out with a little Bill Withers <i>Ain't no Sunshine, </i>and then follow that with some Phil Collins....because let's be honest, Phil makes every day just that much better!<div>
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Thank goodness for my record player coming back from the dead. We thought we had lost it there for a while. To those of you that don't know, you need to have some kind of energy converter for U.S. electronics, and we plugged the record player into such a device, but apparently not the correct one, because all we heard when we turned it on was a loud bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, followed by a POP! When we (ie: Knut) went to investigate what had happened, the plug converter had shot out of the wall! </div>
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</div>Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-4370818576495374332011-11-08T14:08:00.000+01:002011-11-08T14:09:55.445+01:00Suzie Freaking Homemaker!Now that I am living a life that is completely foreign to me in every way, I have needed to make certain adjustments. The foreign life that I am referring to is not that of living out of the U.S., but that of an unemployed house-"wife" (I use the term "wife" loosely....honey try not to hyperventilate!).<br />
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So, to try to contribute to our household in a way that I never had much experience in before, I have taken to having a hot dinner on the table every night when Knut comes home to his clean house....(cleaning being the other "chore" that I have adopted).<br />
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I am quite proud of my dishes usually! Especially since the majority of my culinary skills back home consisted of Mexican food (easiest thing to make vegetarian without his objections),which i have been forced to branch out from since the necessary ingredients are difficult to come by.<br />
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Tonight's dinner: Pesto Chicken (for Knut), Pesto Tofu (for me), Balsamic Parmesan Cauliflower, and Balsamic Cinnamon Carrots.....delish!<br />
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Quick shout out to all of my Pinterest finds.....without that site, I would be a terrible house-"wife"! These are all things that I have made in the last couple of weeks that I would recommend trying...links to recipes are below....enjoy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorgeous waterfall along the river by our place.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite thing in the entire world!....Duckies! :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just pretty buildings.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just on our walk...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path we walk by the river...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gotta love Grunerløkka...look closely at that "swan"....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little Norwegian Troll...</td></tr>
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<br />Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-1855834023556448492011-11-04T10:30:00.000+01:002012-01-07T23:12:37.999+01:00Cribs...Oslo Edition<div style="text-align: center;">
At the request of many, here is the pictorial tour of our apartment in Oslo....</div>
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When you walk in the front door this is what you see.....</div>
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.....then you turn your head left and you see our bedroom....</div>
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....do not adjust your screen! You read that correctly....this is our bedroom....</div>
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....go ahead, don't be shy. Climb up the ladder....</div>
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Then at the end of the hallway is our bathroom...very fancy I know!</div>
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...which houses Knut's "man" chair....</div>
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....if you turn around you see the formal dining room....which conveniently also happens to be our informal dining as well!</div>
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....here is the kitchen....</div>
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<br />Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-36686772458475587712011-11-03T14:23:00.000+01:002011-11-04T16:44:01.309+01:00Catching up<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have not been very good about blogging before I got here, so I am going to try to actually keep up with it now that I am a million miles <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">(5315.4 miles to be exact) from everyone I know, I figure this is a more efficient way of keeping everyone up to date. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The only downfall is that I never seem to have what I need in the house to make any of these meals. So I have to wander out to the market which has quite possibly become the most challenging part of my day. When I was back home, grocery shopping was therapeutic for me....I think it might have something to do with the fact that it was justified, guilt free shopping. Now that I am here, it is a new adventure EVERY time! </span><br />
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First off, journey over here was kind of madness! The flight itself was fine, but once I landed here in Oslo I had NO method of communication.....NONE!!! That was a first for me and was an interesting experience! Apparently Verizon cell phones have some sort of completely different technology that doesn’t even register on the European signal so cell was useless...Computer had died hours earlier and Ipod and iphone were not picking up a signal.....so I am roaming aimlessly in an airport with 5 suitcases trying to find someway to call Knut to tell him to meet me at the central station....Cant charge computer because I don’t have the right converter for the plug (Knut brought them all with him), cant find a pay phone to save my life (yes apparently they do still exist) <br />
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Then next door was this HUGE antique shop filled with the most amazing things! 50+ bins of records, 100's of bins of old postcards (with writing on them) from the 1970's all the way back to the 1800's! There were so many all organized by the dates. Not cheap though... they were 400 NOK each!!....like 80-90 USD!! The records weren't so bad though only 5 USD each so we bought an old jazz compilation. I can't wait for our shipment to come so that I can actually listen to it. </span></div>
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The big surprise came when buying alcohol. Beer is the only kind of alcohol that you can buy in the stores....(wine, hard liquor, and even high alcohol content beers have to be bought in gov't stores...which I haven’t seen yet, but apparently there are a few around town)....but the price marked on beer is per can/ bottle. so you buy a six pack and think that 30NOK is a good price for it...but it is per beer.....so close to 200 NOK for a 6 pack of budlight type beer.....yikes!<br />
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There are H&M's on EVERY corner! There is one 5 way intersection in the center of the city and i swear there is an H&M on 3 of the 5 corners! The store is different here too....they have a whole make-up section like a target would. isles of american makeup brands...Maybeline, Cover girl, you name it and its prob there...not the typical yoj type of store that we are used to back home.<br />
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That night Knut's friends had us over for dinner. They live just outside of the city in the woods....literally! We took a train and then once we exited the train, we walked into a dark street in the woods with long driveways (also unlit) that lead to big houses. Knut couldn’t remember which house it was exactly, so we walked up a few random dark driveways in the woods until we got the right one....yes it was as creepy as it sounds and yes I felt like I was in the middle of a horror film! but it is apparently very normal here! After having been there now, I can see why one would want to live out there though. Their house was a big beautiful old home and I hear during the day you can even see the fjords from the living room window.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next night we walked to his uncle's apartment a couple miles away on the other side of the city for Knut's cousin's Birthday (5th bday!....Princess themed!!) So we got to spent the night prior in the barbie and disney princess section of a few toy stores looking for gifts...that was fun! Met a bit of Knut's fam. They are all very sweet and all spoke English all night just for me! SOOO sweet and welcoming and the little girls (2 sisters...3 and 5 I think) were maybe the cutest little things I have ever seen!! They are blonder than blonde and big blue eyes and both wearing disney princess dresses and crowns and speaking Norwegian! Too adorable for words! </span><br />
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<br />The weather has been really nice! Mostly in the 40's...perfectly clear blue skies and no wind. There are these huge trees EVERYWHERE and all the leaves are every shade of Fall that you can imagine. It looks like a movie set here! People kept telling me how amazingly beautiful this city was but I couldn’t even imagine this in my wildest dreams! There is this long river that winds all through the city and these old bridges to walk over and I swear that when you are standing on them you forget for a sec that you aren't in Disneyland or something similar....that is just what it looks like! I will take more pics when I get my phone situated.....have to get it unlocked somehow.....hopefully will get that done soon!</span><br />
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TV is interesting here. I guess there are no commercials on Norwegian TV due to some gov't tax twice a year (per TV)....but the cable channels do fill the 15 min gaps between the shows (since the length of the american shows are intended for commercials) with the most sexual ads! I tried to record one yesterday that was a piece of bred doing what can only be described as "touching itself" in private parts....haha! There are some really old TV shows and some super current...I am currently watching MTV music videos and the video for that song "I wish" by Too Short is on....I think this song was big when I was in 6th grade??? <br />
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Well, I think that is about it....I will stop rambling now. I have to go do laundry and dishes...(haha the story of me trying to figure those two machines out on my own will be saved for another day.....I am pretty sure I may fill the apartments up with soap and bubbles one of these days like in the movies just trying to run the dishwasher or something!</span><br />
</div>Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6219435106868288568.post-78710523718599164872011-02-04T22:40:00.000+01:002011-11-04T16:44:01.319+01:00"You'll be home in a month....TOPS!"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I said in my </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About Me</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, I am currently in the beginning of a very BIG move. I am planning on moving to Oslo, Norway this Summer/ early Fall with my boyfriend, "The Norwegian" (Name has been changed at his request). He is a native Norwegian and just landed an amazing job that will have us living in Norway for the first year...(I know he's is going to hate that I am bragging about his accomplishments, but I am just really proud of him!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, back to me! I have lived here in sunny California my whole life, so when I tell people that I am planning to move to a country that is known for cold weather and days in the winter that are dark for 20 hour time frames, the reactions are always.......well shocked is an understatement!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be honest, part of me gets joy in the shock factor of it all. I am in a time in my life where all of my best friends (we'll get into the girls later) are either engaged, married, or having babies, so I must admit, it is nice to have a bit of my own info to celebrate. The part about telling people my plans for the first time that I COULD live without is the inevitable reaction of "NORWAY?!?!? You will be back within a month...tops".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What exactly are people trying to tell me with this reaction? Lets examine their intentions shall we? The possible scenarios that will have me coming back to the U.S. are as follows:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. The Norwegian and I break up....(uuugh! I hate even typing that as a possibility!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. The Norwegian somehow loses his job/ gets relocated. (also hate typing the losing the job thing.....if you know him you know this is clearly not even a small possibility)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Financial issues...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Notice I am not including Option #5....me getting sick of the weather/ cultural differences and come home with my tail between my legs because it isn't even a possibility in my mind!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do my loved ones have such little faith in me that they refuse to believe that I may actually be able to compromise living in the most desirable climate in order to explore the world with the person that I love!? Or are they just implying that they do not believe that the two of us will last as a couple?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Either way....it just seems to me like a crappy thing to say to a giddy school girl-like person telling you their big news!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the net net of it all is when I tell you about my plans, please refrain from telling me your negative thoughts! To me it is the equivalent to you announcing that you are getting married and me telling you that "It will only last a month" right to your face! Or telling you that your newborn baby girl looks like a sumo wrestler!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.S. to kick off this blog, I figured I would include a picture of me with my Norwegian....cutie right?</span>Jeanette Russohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05799898836166593339noreply@blogger.com0