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Trying to Enjoy Life

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

There was no school today. Tomorrow is the last day I’ll go to school this season, maybe. I’ll only go to school to find out if I’m going to have an oral exam or not. If I don’t, it’s holidays. Which sounds wonderful, unbelievable actually.

Right now I’m trying to enjoy life, but I can’t really remember what that means, so I’m really just doing what I always do when I’m too tired to do what I’m supposed to: Watch a stupid movie, surf the net, and try to find out what’s the most important thing to do, or in this case; what I want to do.

On the to-do list is:

- Organizing all my old school papers

- Cleaning the windows I haven’t cleaned yet

- Making a movie about my dad, uncle and two other guys’ trip to the Orkney Islands

- Editing all the pictures I haven’t finished editing yet from the past month

- Finishing the piano song I just started making

- Tidying a bit- this place is a mess

- Reinstalling Cubase, because it suddenly claims my license is wrong

- Reading one of the 30 books waiting for me in my book shelves

- Designing a website design I’m actually pleased with (and capable of finishing)

- Blogging (and as you’ve probably noticed, that’s what I’m doing ^^)

Probably quite some other things to do, but I’ll stick to that list of choices for now.

But still, what am I doing? Watching Diminished Capacity and.. yeah well, at least I’m blogging.

I think maybe I should plan what to pack next week soon. I’m leaving in 8 days :D:D:D It’s going to be wonderful to see England again enjoy the countryside of Cumbria, the banks of River Eden… Drinking English Tea with English water (I’d never drink the water like it is, because it tastes horrible compared to the water here in Norway, but it gives this special taste to the tea that I really like :D). Play Scrabble long past midnight…

I’m really looking forward to go to Italy as well. We’ll go from Manchester Airport directly to Sardinia (an island outside Italy) a week after we arrived in England. We always go somewhere else for one week. Italy is new, though. We usually go to France. Something else that’s new, is that I won’t go back to England with my parents. Instead I’ll take a plane from Sardinia to Lugano, Switzerland, where my Swiss boyfriend will pick me up :D We’re going to have three wonderful weeks together this summer, which is more time than we’ve ever had together before. Usually we only get to meet for like eight days. Last time we only had five. Hopefully we’ll get to travel around a bit, and see more of Switzerland too. It’s all gonna be a real nice, but different (compared to the usual “four weeks with my parents in England and France”), holiday to me.

Anyway, I’ve used like an hour writing this, and now even my movie is finished. The length of it tells me I should stop as well. Probably write more as soon as I get something interesting done xD

Oh, and btw: Just read “The Beginning of the End” by Dean Koontz, which actually was a quite good book. Unfortunately, I read it in Norwegian, and the translation was terrible. The essence of the book was still the same though, so I suggest that you lot read it (if you like books with lotsa details and an actual meaning) :D

Oh, and another btw: I’m going to a Muse concert in Oslo in October with friends!! :D That’s just gonna be great! *adds a Muse song to the*

Cheers!

- Juno =)

Story of My Life, Part I: Music

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

It’s ice cold in here>_> No clue what to do right now either. I’ve done some cleaning around the house and I’m planning to maybe do some shoots for Easter pictures today. I don’t know of what yet, though. The weather outside has guaranteed that I won’t do any outside photograpy today either, at least. It rains a little bit, the sky is completely white, and the wind seems to make the trees into giant whips. It’s nice to look at from inside, but wouldn’t do on photos, I think.

So… What to talk about… I guess I could tell you a bit about myself:

For starters, I’ve experienced seventeen winters, and I’m quite tired of them. I’m the kind of person who stays away from most sports, especially things including running, jumping or skiing. I love swimming though, and volleyball is quite fun as a social activity. I’m an eleventh grader, which means I’m at the end of my first year at gymnasium, and have finally started realising that school isn’t the most important thing in this world. Despite this little realisation, I have great plans for further studies. My dream since I was ten is to become a psychologist.

Now to the music. When I was ten I also bought a guitar just because my cousin had gotten herself one quite cheaply, and I wanted to find a better deal (and I managed). I never bothered to learn to play it though, until in eight grade when guitar playing suddenly was part of the school’s pensum list. I took it quite seriously and made sure to get a  6 (best mark) on every guitar test. It also made me more interested in music and I started making my own songs. They’re quite amateurish, but I don’t know if I even can play them anymore anyway. I always forget to practice, so it hurts now. Half a year after I started playing the guitar, I bought myself an el-guitar, and I’m still working at decorating it with tons of stickers. Here are a few pictures of it:

The following summer I wanted a better acoustic guitar as well, so I bought a lovely one in England. That was two years ago.

Now I’ve only talked about me and my guitars. I totally left out the piano. When I was seven years I started taking piano lessons at my grandmother’s. We used an hour a week, and I also got a keyboard from my parents so I could practice every day. It didn’t go long before I went tired though, because I didn’t really manage to learn at the speed  I wanted to. Just so that I’ve mentioned it, though, I really appreciated the time I had with my grandmother back then. We had so much fun during the lessons! But well, when I was nine or so, I put away the piano playing for a while. Again, I returned to my piano pretty much because of school. I just loved the instrument when I started playing it again, and I’ve done so since. Last Christmas I bought myself a new stage piano (Korg SP-200), which is the best electric piano I’ve ever played on. It almost feels real! I’m still not too good at the piano though, but I’m practicing and it will probably focus on that as my main instrument in the future.

So that’s the music. I’ll try and record some stuff soon and upload it too the new website I’ll hopefully make soon (Yeah, that’s a lot of stuff to do, so you will probably have to wait for quite a while ^^).

What about webdesign? And photography? And writing? I’ll give you those and probably more stories another time!

- Juno