oslo – Think of nothing

Ghosts of Christmas Past

You know what happens when your backup hard drive crashes? Personally, I lose the motivation to take more pictures. What’s the point of preserving a moment or a memory for ever, if you won’t see it ever again?

And those crashes, they happen to me a lot. Do they happen to you too?

So I haven’t taken pictures for months (except for ❤ work <3). Because what’s the point? Also, it’s dark outside >_> #polarnights

Then, I decided to look through my old backup disk earlier today.

IMG_8806-2 — Preparing for New Year (Christmas isn’t really celebrated in Russia), Year: 199x

There will be no photo summary of 2015 on this blog. “R.I.P. stupid hard drive”. Instead – pictures of christmas past:

bonding — Sometime during this photo session, I realize that Caroline is my BFF ❤ Oslo 2010

Santa is cruising the canals

Choir in the dark.

Christmas in Lille

The Ice rink @ Spikersuppa is open = love

a sky of ballons, no need for a christmas tree

_DSC4460Novikova copy — Christmas time, Drammen 2013

Oslo 2014

Oslo 2014

Oslo karneval

These are some of the photos I took during Oslo Carnival. See the whole collection @ my FLICKR 😉

More about this event: Karneval i Oslo – Oslo Karneval 2015

These are some of the photos I took during Oslo Carnival. See the whole collection @ my FLICKR 😉

Twinkle, twinkle

Oslo unfocused.

The Weekly Photo Challenge.

phony autumn

my precious

new shoes

blue sidewalks by Scorpius, Oslo

FINALLY! I’ve got my driving license

Akerselva walk

Coffee from Kaffebrenneriet/Torshov

Oslo skyscraper / skyskraper

for a warmer society – orange scarf campaign

don’t ask…

wooo, I’m going to Bergen!

Bergen

halloween – guess who?!

posing with graffiti/Bergen

Benny butikk birthday

demonstration against fur, Oslo

mountain walk, winter vorspiel

Autumn is the weirdest time of the year.

I love it ❤

Shot with Phony:

Rainy walk

A random walk around the neighborhood. I like it when it rains too.

You might remember that I have this awesome backyard at my disposal?

entering the dark season

I’ve been consumed with work lately. Written like that it might seem dreary for people who don’t enjoy their work, but for me: It’s WONDERFUL!

I only wish the days were longer… while they’re literally getting shorter. Høstjevndøgn in Norway falls on 23. September. It’s when the day and night are equally long. (Called equinox in English, according to Google Translate.)

And on the Thursday closest to this date, a magical event finds place to remind us that the dark season is full of light.

September 2014

4,000 torches light up the Akerselva river.

Akerselva is decorated for the night walk.

In the dark, you find artsy stuff – like this poem.

Some places along the river are very dark. Most of the electric lightning is off for this night.

Choir in the dark.

Join the shadow play.

Dancing in the dark

Orgel/Organ bus

rella-ella-ella-ellaa

😉

More about this event – yeah, #2lazy2write

:-OSLO

The bliss

Oslo these days is like: sun OFF, sun ON, sun off and on. But no matter the weather, it’s eternal sunshine in my mind (this week).

I finally have a job, you see ^_______^

So for at least ten months, I will not be whining about being an unemployed journalist. Be glad you’ll never see some of my post drafts from last year published; they all start with an account of a quite fortunate and privileged girl’s struggles in the Real World of Adults. Which could have been interesting musings, if the girl writing them didn’t happen to be the least inspiring person on the planet when she’s pitying herself.

Now it’s in the past. I’m working and living in Oslo. Life is good.

And this is my new neighborhood:

August 2014

phony summer vol.1

Oslo+summer=BBQ

there’s a hulk in the backyard o_x

Oslo, Nationalteateret

Milli love // the summer of Milli

hytta på fjellet – mountain cottage

Milli finds new friend

Milli & fashion pants // summer of Milli

doggy bliss // Milli-summer

pink highlight, in the middle of a field

Oslo Pride – pink highlight 2

horsie

BEWARE!

Oslo, by Aker river

summer night walk: wanna feed the ducks?

❤

sunshine, roses, vacation – what more do you need?

work, work

summer blur

I feel the need to write something too

My Facebook feed is bouncing from drowning me with all the sad stories of the world to bathing me with sunlight. The summer in Norway has been incredibly sunny and warm this year, a phenomena most Norwegians have managed to share on FB, in one way or another. Dream summer – drømmesommer. And it lasts, while my feed otherwise grows darker.

What will I remember of this period? The flowering parks and afternoon barbecues, or the distant wars and fleeting moments of melancholy?

Two things are certain: I had a higher opinion of people in general when we couldn’t comment and share news stories, and I felt the world was a better place before I started following the news.

The more you know…

newly moved

I moved into a new flat last week, in Oslo. I really liked living in Drammen centre and the daily walks by the river there, it’s beautiful. (Posts about Drammen >>) Buuuut, YES, hooray! I’m officially back in the capital, closer to my friends, big events and potential work. Fantastisk!

This is my new place!

Although the process of moving is always tedious, stressing and generally no-fun, having settled in (yeah, I call moving most of my stuff to a place “settled in”) is beyond GREAT. A new home is a chance to start anew, a new beginning, a possibility to start on a different life.

I’m ready.