Wednesday, January 10, 2018
#314; Proof of life
Thursday, March 16, 2017
#313: About the "unrelated note"
So yeah, about the "on an unrelated note".. My "lovely" boyfriend kinda pressured me into telling him the url for this blog. One could say that it was a stupid move to tell him I had a blog in the first place, when I'm not too keen on showing it to people, and I would agree with said "one". It's not like he blackmailed me or anything, he's not that horrible, but as he said "you might as well show me now, otherwise I'll find it myself, and make it so much worse!"
Honestly, I'm not sure if those were the exact words, but it was the essence of what he said. And I sadly had to acknowledge that it would indeed be worse if he found it on his own and then was able to torment me with it - so I give up the url "voluntarily".
Aaaaaaand I regret it 😂 (btw, since when did emojis happen on blogspot?!)
He then proceeded to snoop through some of the most horrible and cringey (in my opinion) posts on the blog, especially from some of the first years.. noooooooo..
And since we were talking on the phone at the time I had live commentary on all of the horrible posts that I really just want to forget all about.
Why I haven't deleted them? Well, even though I want to forget they even happened, those horrible posts are still a part of the blog, and part of my most horrible blogging habits, and admittedly - cringey-ness aside, it can be almost fun to read through some of them from time to time. Still - reading them on your own is okay-ish. Having other people read it and comment on the horribleness of it all. HORRIBLE. DO. NOT. WANT.
So, in conclusion: My evil boyfriend have trawled through some of my blog posts and has teased me with it.
Honestly, I'm not sure if those were the exact words, but it was the essence of what he said. And I sadly had to acknowledge that it would indeed be worse if he found it on his own and then was able to torment me with it - so I give up the url "voluntarily".
Aaaaaaand I regret it 😂 (btw, since when did emojis happen on blogspot?!)
He then proceeded to snoop through some of the most horrible and cringey (in my opinion) posts on the blog, especially from some of the first years.. noooooooo..
And since we were talking on the phone at the time I had live commentary on all of the horrible posts that I really just want to forget all about.
Why I haven't deleted them? Well, even though I want to forget they even happened, those horrible posts are still a part of the blog, and part of my most horrible blogging habits, and admittedly - cringey-ness aside, it can be almost fun to read through some of them from time to time. Still - reading them on your own is okay-ish. Having other people read it and comment on the horribleness of it all. HORRIBLE. DO. NOT. WANT.
So, in conclusion: My evil boyfriend have trawled through some of my blog posts and has teased me with it.
(and yes, I call my boyfriend babe💓)
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Saturday, March 4, 2017
#311; Hi, I'm not dead!
This blog has been inactive for months..
To be just a tad more precise it is today the 28th of January, 2017 - and the last post on this blog is from the 25th of March, 2016.. Soeh.. It's been quite close to a year. I do have a good explanation for 7 of the months, though!
I have been traveling Australia and New Zealand for just about 7 months, and I came home the 26th of January.
So there's that! I have many times doing my travels thought about posting some updates on my blog, but the thought has always slipped out of my mind, or I have just decided to live the experience, and then maybe write about it when I came home. This is what I am planing on doing now, and maybe I'll stretch it over a few posts, but we'll see.
It has been such a great feeling to finally come home! My parents visited me in Sydney for two weeks starting at the end of November - and when they left to go home I had a few options; I could go back to Melbourne (where I had come from to meet them in Sydney), I could go home with them, or I could go to New Zealand.
The choice became New Zealand, as I didn't feel ready to go home at that point, and I didn't fancy flailing around in Melbourne and risk not having accommodation over Christmas and New Years. And well, I was already on the other side of the planet, so I figured I might as well go to New Zealand while I was there in the first place.
I was lucky to be able to travel with the weather, meaning I was able to move around and stay in temperatures I, as a normally pasty white Scandinavian, could survive in. The highest temperatures I experienced was about 35 degrees Celsius, and admittedly I was on the brink of melting 24/7... This was in Cairns, one of the bigger cities on the north of the East Coast, in "Tropical North Queensland".. "Tropical" isn't really what I'm used to so that was definitely a huge change for me.
The big change was especially because at that point I came straight from the "winter" down in Adelaide - South Australia. To be fair, the winters they claim to have are not just mild, but for me, most of the days I experienced the 1½ week I spent in Adelaide could easily have been the spring back home. We are talking about 15 degrees here, and most of the locals were running around in giant jackets, hats and gloves. That was extremely strange for me to see, as we break out the light jackets, and some of the true viking even wear shorts at this point of the spring back home. Now, you might think I'm highly exaggerating, but I seriously know 3-4 guys who stubbornly wear shorts as soon as the thermometer says 15 degrees Celsius outside.
I had read online that the warmest months in New Zealand would be from December to February, which suited me really well as basically all the clothing I had was summer-y, and I did really have space for buying more clothes - my bags were packed almost to the brim. And yes, bags, plural! You accumulate a lot of shit over 6 months, so by the time I was flying to New Zealand I had 4 (!!!) bags..
Two "big bags", a big duffle bag and a small 25 liters hiking bagpack. Then I had two backpacks, where one of them was packed into one of the bigger bags. So I had two pieces of checked-in baggage, one carry-on and then my small handbag. I didn't exactly travel as primitively as I could've.
This post is turning out to be quite long, so I'll write more about my Australia and New Zealand adventures in other posts. And I promise there wont be several months between posts, as it has more or less been custom for the last 1½-2 years - I am really not good at writing on a blog, but as it is something I really want to do, I'll get better.. Maybe ;-)
Till next time!
- Kristine
To be just a tad more precise it is today the 28th of January, 2017 - and the last post on this blog is from the 25th of March, 2016.. Soeh.. It's been quite close to a year. I do have a good explanation for 7 of the months, though!
I have been traveling Australia and New Zealand for just about 7 months, and I came home the 26th of January.
So there's that! I have many times doing my travels thought about posting some updates on my blog, but the thought has always slipped out of my mind, or I have just decided to live the experience, and then maybe write about it when I came home. This is what I am planing on doing now, and maybe I'll stretch it over a few posts, but we'll see.
It has been such a great feeling to finally come home! My parents visited me in Sydney for two weeks starting at the end of November - and when they left to go home I had a few options; I could go back to Melbourne (where I had come from to meet them in Sydney), I could go home with them, or I could go to New Zealand.
The choice became New Zealand, as I didn't feel ready to go home at that point, and I didn't fancy flailing around in Melbourne and risk not having accommodation over Christmas and New Years. And well, I was already on the other side of the planet, so I figured I might as well go to New Zealand while I was there in the first place.
I was lucky to be able to travel with the weather, meaning I was able to move around and stay in temperatures I, as a normally pasty white Scandinavian, could survive in. The highest temperatures I experienced was about 35 degrees Celsius, and admittedly I was on the brink of melting 24/7... This was in Cairns, one of the bigger cities on the north of the East Coast, in "Tropical North Queensland".. "Tropical" isn't really what I'm used to so that was definitely a huge change for me.
The big change was especially because at that point I came straight from the "winter" down in Adelaide - South Australia. To be fair, the winters they claim to have are not just mild, but for me, most of the days I experienced the 1½ week I spent in Adelaide could easily have been the spring back home. We are talking about 15 degrees here, and most of the locals were running around in giant jackets, hats and gloves. That was extremely strange for me to see, as we break out the light jackets, and some of the true viking even wear shorts at this point of the spring back home. Now, you might think I'm highly exaggerating, but I seriously know 3-4 guys who stubbornly wear shorts as soon as the thermometer says 15 degrees Celsius outside.
I had read online that the warmest months in New Zealand would be from December to February, which suited me really well as basically all the clothing I had was summer-y, and I did really have space for buying more clothes - my bags were packed almost to the brim. And yes, bags, plural! You accumulate a lot of shit over 6 months, so by the time I was flying to New Zealand I had 4 (!!!) bags..
Two "big bags", a big duffle bag and a small 25 liters hiking bagpack. Then I had two backpacks, where one of them was packed into one of the bigger bags. So I had two pieces of checked-in baggage, one carry-on and then my small handbag. I didn't exactly travel as primitively as I could've.
This post is turning out to be quite long, so I'll write more about my Australia and New Zealand adventures in other posts. And I promise there wont be several months between posts, as it has more or less been custom for the last 1½-2 years - I am really not good at writing on a blog, but as it is something I really want to do, I'll get better.. Maybe ;-)
Till next time!
- Kristine
Friday, March 25, 2016
Little PSA
Hi there!
Some time back I swore I would NEVER take the famous trip down memory lane, and go through my old blogposts, because I came across one, and it made me cringe so damn hard I couldn't really look at it for longer than 15 seconds - those seconds felt like a lifetime!
Buuut, I'm going to do it anyway! The reason why I'm doing this because I've seen that some of the pictures used have been taken down, and since I sometimes posted a picture with very little text, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have those posts still there.
I've started a thing where I'm giving my blogposts numbers:
I'm not really sure if I'm going to keep doing that, but we'll see..
I once promised in a post that I wouldn't go back and edit old posts, no matter how cringe worthy they might be - but I found a loophole in my own promise; I never mentioned not editing the "headlines"! So I might do that to a few posts, but I'm going to make sure it won't go "too far", especially because it's okay to have been hella awkward teenanger (Lord knows I wasand can still be, woops), and I'm not going to be too strict on myself, awkwardness should not be totally forgotten, after all, it was who I was at the time ;)
Small changes might be coming, so let's see how it's gonna go - cheers!
Some time back I swore I would NEVER take the famous trip down memory lane, and go through my old blogposts, because I came across one, and it made me cringe so damn hard I couldn't really look at it for longer than 15 seconds - those seconds felt like a lifetime!
Buuut, I'm going to do it anyway! The reason why I'm doing this because I've seen that some of the pictures used have been taken down, and since I sometimes posted a picture with very little text, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have those posts still there.
I've started a thing where I'm giving my blogposts numbers:
I once promised in a post that I wouldn't go back and edit old posts, no matter how cringe worthy they might be - but I found a loophole in my own promise; I never mentioned not editing the "headlines"! So I might do that to a few posts, but I'm going to make sure it won't go "too far", especially because it's okay to have been hella awkward teenanger (Lord knows I was
Small changes might be coming, so let's see how it's gonna go - cheers!
Saturday, February 20, 2016
#310: Music recommendation
Hi there!
A lot of things have happened in my life since I last updated this blog (a lot can happen in roughly 6 months....), but I intend to get better at this, also because I found out it can be quite therapeutic for me to type out things I might need to get off my chest. Which is also part of the reason I have about 30 drafts of things I needed to write down, but have no intention of ever sharing with the world.
I am going to start small, and post some music recommendations , pictures from my life, and inspired posts (like promts) and maybe smaller text posts until I get into the habit of posting more regularly, regularly is not defined as anything on purpose, as I don't really know how fast I'm gonna pick up on this again.
Well, moving on to what I actually wanted to do with this post - recommending some music!
I recently started listening to twenty one pilots, and I have become quite a fan. twenty one pilots was one of the band I've heard a bit about, but have never "reached out" to myself - and therefore have not heard a lot of their music.
But then I came across their newest hit: "Stressed out" - and I am absolutely in love with it! With the knowledge that I like this piece of music, it made me search for more of their music - one of the best music "decisions" I've made in a long time - so I thought it could be a thing to pass on, as I know a lot of people find "new" music through others' recommendations, so here are mine;
Apart from "Stressed out" I have also fallen in love with the track "Car radio" - something about it just fits my mood at the moment, so I'll throw that in your faces as well;
Lastly I want to give you a link to a youtube playlist with a lot of their music - here
There you are, my current music recommendation for today
A lot of things have happened in my life since I last updated this blog (
I am going to start small, and post some music recommendations , pictures from my life, and inspired posts (like promts) and maybe smaller text posts until I get into the habit of posting more regularly, regularly is not defined as anything on purpose, as I don't really know how fast I'm gonna pick up on this again.
Well, moving on to what I actually wanted to do with this post - recommending some music!
I recently started listening to twenty one pilots, and I have become quite a fan. twenty one pilots was one of the band I've heard a bit about, but have never "reached out" to myself - and therefore have not heard a lot of their music.
But then I came across their newest hit: "Stressed out" - and I am absolutely in love with it! With the knowledge that I like this piece of music, it made me search for more of their music - one of the best music "decisions" I've made in a long time - so I thought it could be a thing to pass on, as I know a lot of people find "new" music through others' recommendations, so here are mine;
Apart from "Stressed out" I have also fallen in love with the track "Car radio" - something about it just fits my mood at the moment, so I'll throw that in your faces as well;
Lastly I want to give you a link to a youtube playlist with a lot of their music - here
There you are, my current music recommendation for today
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