Good morning! Or noon, whatever.
I just woke up feeling very happy and wanted to tell someone. I’ve slept like a baby, woke up every two hours crying, (jokes), and am proceeding this unusually happy sunday with caution. The other one brought me coffee and my laptop to bed and this is where I’m currently at.
On an island of comfort and safety surrounded by down and a crisp breeze from the window promising colder darker times ahead. I can’t wait for winter. But am determined to enjoy autumn this year. Even though my dream every autumn, that never comes true, is to own an ankle-length camel coloured shearling coat to accompany the leafy park in which I’ll be walking in. Sunday afternoons probably. Like straight out of a movie from the decade which holds the best movies ever made- the 90’s, I predict every autumn to be. Never is. But maybe this year. Maybe this year I’ll buy a shearling, bring coffee on a thermos and sit on a worn-out green paint-peeling bench in a park watching dogs and children swim by. But most likely not. It’ll probably do what it usually does, which is fly by as those couple of weeks between summer and winter when it was really beautiful but we only watched it from inside because we weren’t climatized enough for the sudden drop in temperature and we didn’t know whether to come back from summer scared to death over the year to come and all the work put off during summer and the dark times ahead or simply to start our dear Santa’s and praise higher powers that bikini season’s over and we can start to slowly descend into chocolate chip cookies and hot chocolate and not feeling shame no more for wearing full faces of makeup to make up for the loss of summer glow..
(which we never really even had in the first place, because we’re adulting and wear spf 1000 on our faces to not let cancer believe we’re flirting with it and die unnecessarily early as a result. We as women has yet to master the art of not knowing just how to act in order to achieve what’s best for us, so we better pile that shit on just in case to let it know. It is not welcome. Off limits. Not interested)
This year I’m the latter. With hopefully an actual autumn memory this time. Just the one. At least that’s what I’m feeling this morning. Oddly present in this sort of calm before the storm. With a million things to do, but very aware that it is just that. Things that I need to do. Life is something completely different that happens on the sideline.
(hope you’re not dying of a hangover, if you are: please dismiss this post and scroll further down for a more negative life approach)
Our AC broke this week and I never wanted to be Norwegian more.
This autumn I will wear a brown tenchcoat and sit on a park bench and stare at children to see if it feels like I’m in a 90’s film.
I slept do good im too lazy to get out of bed. Have him get me coffee too 😬
Kidding kidding ill do it.
Excited for autumn and excited for you with your new webshop and things to come 😘❤️
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Nice shirt, Snoopy noses right? 😉
I absolutely hate waking up, would be nice to be brought coffee!
Personally I’m thrilled about the colder weather, but it’s a bit a warmer here in Cornwall. I would love to see the whole Aksnes clan come down here at some point, there’s a lot you’d love I think. The little one would get lost in the Museum of Witchcraft, and I mean like, mentally, actually probably physically too.
Your image of the autumn, the leaf litter, the peeling park bench, it’s so real! I love it. I’m going to live it, plenty of those about. You might need to chase it down, those moments are out there, waiting. I’ll make it over to Norway sometime, see a stave church in the rain, bliss! 🙂
saggy titties
Yeah! I was joking. 😛
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no no..no hangover here, ask me that next sunday after destroying the bunker with “the horrorist” that ebm’isch sounds are best for that exessive dancefloor killing thing you know… but a decent rhino sinusitis…and..no we will test the 30+ degree again the next days… i really speculating of detonating a h-bomb to stop the gulf stream !!! i wanna these rainy foggy clamsy german weather back a as a sign of a hard cold winter with 3m snow… yes i`m totally with you in that point ! and at least a bit psychology.. now i know why im still here and why i’m giving me this capricious young lady… it took some time.. but on the first pic in bed you are totally my first real kiss in the eighth class class on “burg schwarzenfels” oh my god.. yes you’re the one ! …so you see it’s all about objet petit a 😉
…yeah i see that irony thing mostly won`t work 😉
heres something for you and yous sisters, perfekt for the coming dark nights and always worth to listen to, a bunch of great sounds if you don’t know it…
https://archive.org/details/eastvillageradio-minimal-wave
Oh, don’t talk about Autumn yet Viktoria, I still have another week of my Summer holiday left (Ha ha).
I have just visited Lower Brockhampton, I wonder if you would like this quaintly English 15th century house?
I’m always wondering how you’re all coping with those really, really dark winters in your country. I mean, I really like winter, but it’s kinda heavy on my mood, leaving the house when it’s dark to go to work and coming home in the dark as well. And I’m saying that as a person whose skin can’t cope with too much sun either (I already need a quite high spf in early summer), because it mostly makes me look like a cooked lobster, if I’m not careful. 😀
Some day, I definitely need to spend a winter in Norway, to see, what it feels like. Actually, I can imagine it to be quite cozy, when you’re with the people you love. 🙂
I’ve only been to Norway on a class trip, 9 years ago, in autumn so far, and can’t say I’ve seen that much of it yet, but I really like hiking (even though the last time it became quite slippery, due to a strong regnskur, but the nature was so overwhelmingly beautiful, I could still burst out of feelings just thinking of it). I can’t tell, where it was though, apart from being in an area of about 50 km around Kristiansund, so not even in the even more beautiful regions further inside the country. The people living there were really nice, even though I only knew some Swedish words back then, which probably made them wonder about my accent even more (actually I wanted to make a good first impression on the first Norwegian people I met, but I guess that failed that way ;)).
By the way, could you recommend some Norwegian movies you like? I still have my books from university, but I love hearing different dialects as well, since nobody in Norway speaks the way that I could find in German or English books for learners. 🙂
I’ve already watched Elling, Jeg reiser alene and (I almost don’t dare to write it, but I hope you won’t find it weird) Få meg på, for faen. I’ve heard of the series Skam and Lifjord, but have no idea, if Skam is also interesting for people who’re already fastly approaching 30 as well or if it’s really rather for teenagers (can’t assess it, since the only thing I know about it is that media calls it “better than Skins” and to be honest, I don’t know Skins either :)).
Now that became more than I originally intented to write, but I wish you an awesome evening and hope you might know some interesting movies or series from Norway (I remember having read an interview with Aurora lately, in which she describes Norwegian movies to be very rough in general, but I’m really curious about that, even though I’m not sure what to expect). 🙂
Advise on good literature would be great as well. I mostly read thrillers, but I’m open to everything from surrealistic, kafkaesk books over fantasy to coming-of-age-stories. The only important thing for me would be that it’s available in Norwegian. 🙂
Some great Norwegian books I’ve read or heard are great are
Jo Nesbø – Snømannen ( also Rødstrupe)
Lars Saabye Christensen – Halvbroren
Knut Hamsun is a great writer if you’re into some heavy reading – with novel Sult, for example
Jan Wiese – Kvinnen som kledte seg naken for sin elskede
haha regnskur <3
Nice! But the coastline cities are in my opinion the most beautiful. I grew up on the coast, so a bit bias obviously. But I recommend Bergen, Ålesund and Lofoten if you're coming back.
Love that you asked me about movies! LOVE Norwegian movies. Some of my favourites:
Hodejegerne
Max Manus
Kon-tiki
Fjols til fjells
Den tolvte mann
De usynlige
Så som i himmelen "As it is in heaven ( Swedish)
90 minutter
Series:
Frikjent
Broen (Swedish/danish)
Det tredje øyet
Grenseland
Halvbroren
Valkyrien
Thanks so much for your recommendations! I’ll definitely check them out (books, movies and especially also the places) 🙂