Rise and shine!

It's 7.30 am. I have been awake since 5.06. I have had exactly 3 hours and 14 minutes of sleep.

I read somewhere the other day that too little sleep or an unregular sleep rhythm can cause you gaining weight, increase your chances of developing numerous diseases such as diabetes, even cause depression and mental illnesses. One study showed that people who sleep too little or too irregularly actually live 21% shorter lives. Really?! I'm practically a lost case. I work nights at a gas station, one week on, one week off. 26 weeks of the year I'm nocturnal. This didn't use to be a problem, after finishing a work week, I would take the first day off to turn the day around, and I would sleep at night like normal people do for a blessed while. But now, for some diabolic reason, I can wake up after 2-3 hours, feeling tired, but not being able to go back to sleep! WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!? I have better things to do than sit for 3 hours in the morning listening to birds sing and watch Good morning Norway for crying out loud! What happened to those fantastic lazy teen years, when you could sleep 12 hours straight, huh? I'm not asking for 12 hours, just a couple.. minutes.. more... zZZzzZz

Happy birthday!

"I think, therefore I am"

The man behind these famous words, René Descartes, was born on this very day in 1596. 413 years ago. I was born on this very day 21 years ago, and our philosophies on this very day are much the same:
"I eat cake, therefore I am"

Happy birthday to me! And to René Descartes, and according to famousbirthdays.com, a happy birthday also to: Joseph Haydn, Christopher Walken, Rhea Perlman, Angus Young, Al Gore and Ewan McGregor.

Give me the flu!

You know what I really hate? Being sick. I'm sick. But not the "oh-i-seem-to-have-a-fever-mom-can-you-make-me-some-soup-while-i-watch-tv-in-bed?"-kind of sick, oh no. Just the annoying kind of sick, where your throat has adopted the texture of a mexican cactus and your nose is runny, but apart from that, you're perfectly fine. You know what I'm talking about? You feel like crap, but it's not enough to get off from work? I mean, if I'm going to get the flu, at least have the decency to give me a proper one with a fever, so that I can stay at home, drink hot chocolate and watch Disney classics!

Eyes on the road ahead

I got my new little lovely planner in the mail a week back, and it is now my new best friend. It contains everything I'm looking forward to the next few months, and I have A LOT to look forward to:

March 31st: Birthdays are always nice, especially when you still live at home and your mom makes you cake.
Easter: A lot of the lovely people I miss are coming back home.
April 18th: Maybe spending the weekend with one of my best friends in her family's cabin.
April 29th: Going to Trondheim to visit a good friend and have a look at the city I'm going to spend the 5 next years of my life in.
May 13th: Going to Iceland to visit the fabulous Hulda.
July 7th: My last day at work.
July 9th: Going to the United States to visit MaryGrace. New York, Dallas, Vegas; here I come!
August: Starting University and my new life in Trondheim.

So, cleaning toilets and floors, and making burgers and hot dogs to an endless line of people at the local gas station might actually be worth it after all.

:)

Linntroduction

I'm Linn, I'm Norwegian, I'm in my early twenties. More or less normal, but I'm apparently an exhibitionist: I suddenly felt the urge to make my writing available to the masses, a billion people can get a peak into my thoughts, my life, through their computers, and I am happy to share. Oh well, we've all got facebook, right? I'll be blogging mostly in English because I have a profound love for the language, and, I've got friends outside of Scandinavia who simply haven't gotten around to learn Norwegian yet (I'm sure they will, any day now..)

Anyway, it so happens that I have a lot of opinions. Opinions on all sorts of things. Opinions on films, music, art, people. Opinions on how Sex and the City ruined their last season on way too many episodes with that sleezeball Petrovsky, opinions on why buying blu-ray is an absolute waste of money, opinions on how much it sucks that keeping your weight and living on chocolate don't mix. Should I be talking about global warming and the world economy, you say? Nah. I'm not saying I'll only be discussing the trivial things in life, but we've got some good people on these very serious issues allready, and enough of blogs where the opinions are being tossed randomly at topics greater than them.

I sound young and hopeful, even naive, in my new blogger existence, but I can assure you I won't be a very good one. My joining the blogosphere, (yes, blogosphere is an actual word) and what little signifigance it has, will probably not concern that many, maybe just me. So I write for my own sake. I'm a busy girl (or was it lazy?), so I won't be of those who open their posts with "I am soooo sorry I didn't write yesterday, so to make it up to all you faithful readers out there, here's a list of what I ate, who I met and what I saw on TV". Nothing annoys me more. Nope, I'll only write if I find something interesting to write about. Note: If what I ate, who I met or what I saw on TV was interesting to me, of course I'll tell you aaall about it. And by all means, give me feedback: what you make of what I'm writing, what you would like for me to write about, questions, etc.

Oh, and I almost forgot; today's thought provoker:

More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.