Try this out if you feel like it
Follow these steps and really take your time with it....
Buy a grape
Take one in your hand
1: Look at it thoroughly:
What colour does it have? Does it have different colors?
Does it have any cracks?
Is it smaller or larger than normal? How does it smell?
2: Take it in your mouth and roll it around. Feel it with your tongue
What does it feel like? Is it soft? Hard? Smooth?
3: Take a bite of it
What does it taste like? Is it sour? Sweet? Or both? Anything else?
4: Chew it and enjoy the taste. How does it feel to chew it? Does it taste any different from when you just took one bite?
5: Eat it all up
6: Did this grape taste any different than other grapes you have had before. If yes...Why?
~ Aasa

List nr 13: Things I loved as a kid

After having worked with children a lot, you start to think about some things
Like the development of personality
The funny thing is that you see their differences and personalities sooo early. Its truly fascinating
And I see that the things I loved to do as a kid, reflects who I am still today.
I was talking to my sweet grandmother here the other day and she told me stories from when I was a kid. She said that these were a few of the things I loved to do:

1.Go up to a big mudpond close to the house and jump all around in it (especially those time they put on my shiny, white, newly washed overall)

2.Sing, sing and sing. After she had put me to bed and gone downstairs I would always get up and hold on to my bed while singing to myself until I collapsed in my bed and fell asleep

3.Invent stories. And it seems I was very good at it as well. I have a friend of mine who still believes that I had tree blue cats. She claims that she even saw them (this is what makes me believe I was a real badass at telling the stories, haha), but that they were blown away by the wind, she claims, and that's how I lost them.

4.Dares. I could for some reason never say no to a dare. I ate dangerous stuff just because somebody said that I wouldn't do it. And got in trouble with the kindergarten, doing stuff people told me I wouldn't dare to do. Ha ha! Nobody tells me that I cannot do something!!!!

5.Doing stuff that seemed risky. Me and my best friend had a favorite hobby: Climbing roofs and jumping from the next roof to the other.
To get to the first "Starters roof" at my house, we had tree options.
-Either to climb a pretty easy and safe way (which we never chose, as it was boring)

-Or go through the neighbor's gardens (where there lived a woman who always used to scream at us, if she saw us) which I did now and then, cause it was a little fun,

-Or climb a plank we called "the rotten one" (which looked like it would collapse any day soon and which also was very hard to climb and which we were advised never to climb again after a neighbor saw us doing it), Of course I chose this one I most of the time, haha!

6.Draw. I have been drawing like my life depended on it ever since I was a tiny little bugger. My mother had to buy new sheets og paper all the time cause I was drawing so quickly.

I used to draw my own comics that often had either a comment on political, romantic or religious issues (yes, we were quite occupied with politics even though we didnt get much of it), I find them quite satirical and funny when I read them now. (Looking at this drawing - what do you think he is saying?)

Then in 7 grade there was this girl that drew very slowly and precise. This influenced me a lot, since I thought it was so pretty, and I had a looong period where I made the most awfully boring drawings. I later found back to my more "rough, and quick" style, which I still prefer.

7:Climb. All kinds of stuff. Trees, buildings, roofs. (See point 5)
The tree on the picture is one of my fav trees in the world. (I think I am secretly in love with him.) He is a grand old oak - they are my favourite, because they are so gnarly, twisted, powerful and nice.

8.Talk and laugh. I seemed to be an extremely outgoing kid. And also almost happy all the time. My teacher called me our class butterfly, twirling from person to person laughing and talking and smiling.
I had an extreme downperiode from 13 to 19, being very introverted and shy. (Mostly because of some really bad experiences) But now I feel I am back to my true nature.

9.Explore. Every little mudpond was a little adventure full of magical worlds. I still think they are and I never get tired of exploring :)

10:Cuddle and hugs. Will never get tired of that. I have never met anybody yet that has "outcuddled me". I can cuddle for days straight. Ha ha!

Today.......

1 I found a pear in my purse that I had forgotten
2 The light went out in my room
3 I found a place to live in the Gothic area, with a really sweet English girl and a funny Swedish guy
4 A woman smiled and gave me a hug when I gave her a donation to a childrens hospital
5 A man spoke totally weird Spanish at me and whistled when I left
6 I went to an art exhibition with the worst junky art i have seen in ages
7 I snuggled with pinkie the panther
8 I walked around the Gothic area for a long time and fell in love with it, again
9 I was supposed to be in Paris

Lists 12

10 Random things I like

1 The smell in the air right before it rains
2 Getting a letter the old way and the feeling I have just before I open it
3 A hug I didnt expect
4 When somebody I cuddle with kisses me softly in the neck
5 The sound leaves make when they blow in the wind
6 The way Piglet gives away his house to Eeyore in "The House At Pooh Corner"
7 Crossing out something I have done on a "remember"-list
8 A movie that makes me smile when its done, because it touched my heart
9 Jumping in ponds
10 When somebody says something sweet unexpectedly and without any reason at all

Lists 11

Smells I like

1: The smell of a man I am in love with
2 : The air just before the rain starts
3: Cholcolate getting melted
4: A new bathed baby
5: A man who just have shaved
6: A foaming sea
7: Freshly baked bread
8: A tree in the forest
9: Garlic getting heated
10: Moonshine

10 random things I found out

I found out some new things after I came back to Norway
I have also made some new desitions

1. I have lost over 10 kg in Spain (I think it´s horrible, but they are running back on me now in Xmas, ha ha, I am glad they do)
   
2. I have really missed the snow
3. I have missed the nature here even more
4. I love Norway, but the norwegains still bore the crap out of me (If you tell the average norwegian guy about your dream to skydive with your boyfriend and kiss him in the air, he would say: "hmmmmm, really? But why? Wouln´t it be better to just kiss him when he is on the ground?)
5. I am not sure I am a big-city girl anymore (always was), I want to live closer to nature and have a city nearby instead
6. My school is done already in April, then I will try to figure out where to take the second year (It will not be Barcelona)
7. I feel more and more that I want a "simple" life, do "a Gauguin" or something...
8. I really love pudding
9. Number ten has no information at all
10. I love to be random
    

Lists 10:

Silly things I like to do:

1: Tickle
2:Jump in ponds
3: Play hide and seek
4: Create new languages
5:Find a nickname for somebody
6: Say things that make no sense at all
7: Get tickled (but not too much, it hurts)
8: Find out which animal somebody resemble
9: Try to make figures out of the signs on the keyboard
10:Scare a friend I meet randomly in the street before they see me

I dont know what to say
I want to say something, but I have no idea what

I think I want to think about something good................

Lists 8:
6 good things that has happened lately:

1: My roomy Julien saw I was sad last night so when I came to the kitchen this morning I saw he had left me some fresh croissants for breakfast and a little note saying that he hoped it might help a littel and lost of hugs to me
I think it was really sweet ( he works at night and sleeps in long, thats why he gave it in a note)

2: Julien (the other one) made me laught a lot today when I chatted with him online and it seems his life is going really smooth, so I was so happy for him.
I always feel well when somebody I care for is having a good time, I alwayas whish them the best, and it rises my mood to know they are fine.

3: Classes in school has turned out to be really good and the teachers of high quality

4: I have been to the park a lot of times and its like medicine to my heart (Havent found the perfect climbingtree though)

5: I have gotten a lot of sweet messages and mails after I wrote about being down and I am so glad to see that I have this kind of support, it warms my heart more than I can say.

6: When I made this list some of my good, old, sparkly, positive mood seemed to sneak back and I caught me smiling to myself. I have really missed it these last weeks and I am so looking forward to see it return. Its one of the things I value most in myself and could never live without it.

Best whishes to all of you out there that I care about and love
I miss you and whish you the very best

xxxxx
Aasa

Lists 7: 10 random tings I have done in Barcelona

1: Got totally lost
2: Climbed a Spanish tree
3: Slept 14 hours nonstop
4: Got toally lost again
5: Got buzzy on wine at 1 pm
6: Walked with no purpose or direction until my feet was hurting
7: Ran through the streets with a supermarket shopping-trolley
8: Starting to read the "strangest" old classics in books, like "Jane Eyre" (There is not a huge selection of books in English)
9: Been repeatedly hit on through my apartment-add by different guys
10: Asked around 35 people for directions

Heya people!

Just a short message to the world, I dont have much time

-I am in the flat but still looking at others, cause I would love to have a park nearby (So I can climb trees at night)
-The flat I am in now has a guestrom with a bed (wink,wink)
-I started school yesterday, a little disapointing, but I am not going to make snap judgements before I have more information.
-I am eating loads of croissants (the are so damn delicios) and fresh fruit.
... looking at my posts you might think I am a littel obsessed with food. If you are making quick judgements like these often I must warn you ; you might be very right! (Especially in this case, although it never shows on me, I never gain weight)
- I am all good and still in love with Barcelona

Hugs to all of you
xxx
Aasa

Lists 6: Barcelona

I have discovered some new things about this city the first day of my stay

Food:
1: They have a lot of cheese (I am in heaven)
2: The milk tastes like shit and lasts for more than 2 months (very suspicious)
3: They sell a lot of white bread and its really difficult to get something darker with nuts in it
4: The yoghurt is little droplets of heaven
5: They have 10000 different fruit-juices

People:
1: The people are very straightforward and outgoing (I love it)
2: They stare a lot when one walks in the streets (I like that too)
3: There's a lot of hot guys (Cant say I don't like that too, ha ha)
4: Some try to pick you up through apartment adds (Weird)
5: Thre are a lot of punks here (I love that too)
6: People seem really friendly and helpful to strangers

City:
1: Its huuuuuge
2: I love it and I can see myself living here for a looong time
3: Its a lot of narrow alleys and cute little streets
4: Its surprisingly cool and "artsy", I am overwhelmed
5: There are tonns of bars and restaurants
6: There is tonns of different people everywhere
7: It contains of a lot of different areas that none look the same

Me:
1: I love this place
2: I miss my forest and climbing-trees (getting really sad without them)
3: I miss my loved ones (same goes for that)
4: I am really looking forward to get to know a lot of people here

Lists 5 : 10 Random things I have done on travels

1 Get a guy arrested because I was skinnydipping in the middle of the nigh in the holidays (They don'nt arrest white touristst in the Caribbean for such things, so they took him instead. Can you believe it? I couldnt...Really injust)

2 Kissed a guy through the sprinkles of an old fashioned prison (result of the incident above) while a lot of other prisoners where cheering for us in the background.

3 Begged a policeofficer to release the guy pretending to be his pragnantat wife (They release people on the strangest reasons there. The entire systemtm is fucked up)

4 Hichiked for many months covering an entire country

5 Been borrowed (me and two of my friends) a huge mansion with swimmingpool for a day just as a nice and friendly gesture towards us

6 Been threatened with jail if I dint have sex or give money to a guy, who actually went and fetched the police, to take me in when I said no

7 Gone for 3 hours through an entire village looking for water that had absolutelyly none of it

8 Been robbed for all my money and creditcard and gone starving without money for 14 days

9 Cut off all my hair (2 cm short) myself with a rusty scissor after having it long (or half long) for 22 years

10 Been offered a job as a scubadiver instructor, but turned it down, since I went on an impulse trip to Germany with a guy I met instead, that suddenly inviteded me and who lived there. (Ended up living together with him as his girlfriend for 5 months)

Lists 4 : 10 Random things I have done

1 Get a guy arrested because I was skinnydipping in the middle of the night on a holyday (In the Caribean, Its very injust, they dont arrest Europeans and wites so they took him in my place, can you belive it? I couldnt either)

2 Kissed a guy through the sprinkles of an old fashioned prison with 10 other prisoners in the background cheering (result of the above) and begging a policeofficer to releaes the guy pretending I was his pragnant wife

3 Hichhiked for many months covering an entire country

4 Been robbed 5 times during a periode of 6 months

5

Egs de la Aasa

Here is one of my home made recepies that I call "Surprise egs de la Aasa"
This is how you make them:

1 Boil an egg
2 Peel it
3 Heat it up in the microwave for at least one minute
4 Wait and watch why I call it surprise egs ;)

Bon appetit!
Muhahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lists 3 : Chocolate

I just found a really funny and good Norwegian blog lately and stole an idea there for a new list.
The very best cholcolates:

1: Krembanan
2: Mokka
3: Caramello or Center
4: Kindereg
5: Troika

My own comments to the list I made yesterday

Yesterday I was in a "Get the hell away from me mood"
It doesn't happen that often, but it does. I think it occurs if I feel that somebody is trying to manipulate me and then I just back off from the entire thing.

Now I am back to my good old "I love the world" mood he he, and thats the true me. The other version is more of a defence-mechanism.

Thought I should add some comments to my yesterday post.

1 I am also also very flexible and ready to see other points of view
2 If somebody shows me that I am wrong I have no trouble admitting it and go with their way
3 With "clingy" I mean : they dont respect signals - they dont follow a natural flow of relating. Like if I send them one message they send me 7......
4 .....If you get my point. There should be balance
5 Co-dependency is not a good idea, somebody independent and selfsecure is always a good idea (I am not here to make your world complete)
6 I also give a lot of freedom
7 I think that's just healthy and with the right person I don't need that much alonetime actually
8 Why not find somebody who is okay with that? And also, If I am in love, I get totally focused on that one person.
9 This could be a very beneficial point for a special someone, he he
10 Who cares really? And if they do...Ha ha, I think that would be kinda petty.
11 Could be a problem, but I am working on myself every day
12 I wouldn't be with somebody who also didn't sherish alone-time
13 I wouldn't be attracted to somebody who wasn't "weird" (In the eyes of society)
14 This is a big problem for me, but I am also working on this. Would need a lot of understanding here and also a lot of excitement in a relationship
15 And not someone clingy ;)
16 Or controlling
17 Or manipulative. I think its just healthy of me to react on such things
18 Okay, this is also one of my issues. Nobody is perfect. Also trying to do something with it, but some things take time

19 Yes I do :) but you can do that together with someone too

I don't think I am difficult really. But complexed, yeah :)

Reasons why I think I am going to stay single for a looong time

1 I am very, very stubborn
2 I want things MY way
3 I very often find people to be clingy
4 I hate clingy
5 I dont want to rescue or be rescued!!!!!!!
6 Me freedom is almost everything to me
7 I need lot of space and alone-time
8 I love flirting (Even though I mean nothing with it)
9 I am extremely slutty in the right circumstances (selective slut; With just one guy; my boyfriend)
10 I have some gross eatinghbaits now and then (I can eat an entire package
of creamcheese without anything else on it)
11 I do what I want to do and I hate to plan things (I am so bad at it also)
12 I love being alone
13 I am very weird (At least people tell me so, not sure to which extent I agree)
14 If things bore me I find something else to play with
15 I hate clingy (had to repeat that)
16 I hate any form of control or being controlled
17 I hate any form of manipulative behavior, even if people do it unconsciously
18 I have problems with demands, restrictions ands rules of any kind

19 I just wanna, live , love and be free (Yes, I am sortof a hippie)

See? I am damned difficult ;)

The Blues

If you are new to Blues music, or like it but never really understood the why and wherefores, here are.....
Some very fundamental rules about Blues:
(My absoulte favourite was nr 19, ha, ha!)

1. Most Blues begin with: "Woke up this morning..."

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes - sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher and she weigh 500 pound."

4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch...ain't no way out.

5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft and state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the Blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.

6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7. Blues can take place in New York City, but not in Hawaii or anywhere in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, and Nawlins are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the Blues in any place that don't get rain.

8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the Blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg 'cause you were skiing is not the Blues. Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chomping on it is.

9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10. Good places for the Blues (a) highway (b) jailhouse (c) empty bed (d)bottom of a whiskey glass.

11. Bad places for the Blues (a) Nordstrom's (b) gallery openings (c)Ivy League institutions (d) golf courses.

12. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old person, and you slept in it.

13. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if: (a) you're older than dirt (b) you're blind (c) you shot a man in Memphis (d) you can't be satisfied No, if: (a) you have all your teeth (b) you once were
blind but now can see (c) the man in Memphis lived (d) you have a 401K or trust fund.

14. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the Blues. Sonny Liston could have. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the Blues.

15. If you ask for water and your darlin' gives you gasoline, it's the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are: (a) cheap wine (b)whiskey or bourbon (c) muddy water (d) black coffee.The following are NOT Blues beverages: (a) Perrier (b) Chardonnay (c) Snapple (d) Slim Fast.

16. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So are the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broken-down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or while getting liposuction.

17. Some Blues names for women: (a) Sadie (b) Big Mama (c) Bessie (d)Fat River Dumpling.

18. Some Blues names for men: (a) Joe (b) Willie (c) Little Willie (d)Big Willie.

19. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Jennifer, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

20. Blues Name Starter Kit: (a) name of physical infirmity (Blind,Cripple, Lame, Toothless, etc.) (b) first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon,Lime, Peach, etc.) (c) last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson,Fillmore, etc.) For example: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Pegleg Lime Johnson or Cripple Peach Fillmore, etc.

21. I don't care how tragic your life is: if you own a computer, you cannot sing the blues, period. Sorry

LINK to where I stole this from

I have been tagged

Oh, it seems I have been tagged. This is something unknown to me until this very day, but life is a learning-process isn't it? .... So, heh.
Being tagged means according to Sangroncito -who did this evil deed to me (sob, sob*) I have to list five to ten songs that I am currently "digging". Since I found this extremely painful and a total waste of my time, I spent even more time on it and added 18** instead (Never been so good on following rules MUHAHHA!*huge grin*

This will reveal one of my hidden secrets for many years (shame, shame, but I will give in for the pressure)
Then I am instructed to tag five other people to make them reveal their shame to the world as well (So much fun, HAH!)

*I am actually enjoying this, but trying to make it look like I suffer so you wont understand my pathetic pleasure for decadent random silliness like this.
**I actually added 19, so I cheated even more. I am impossible* sigh*

1. Beloved VNV Nation (Makes me disappear and float)
2. A sortof fairytale - Tori Amos (I am ever faithful to Tori)
3. The dancer - PJ.Harvey (Listen to me scream together with her, ha ha)
4. Balladen om briggen Blue Bird av Hull - Imperiet (This is awesome - makes my cry)
5. Asking too much - Ani Difranco (Yeah baby! She knows the deal)
6. Human nature & Erotica - Madonna (Shit did I really admit this? My bad taste is official)
7. The lady of shalott - Loreena McKennit (Or ANYTHING else by her, beautiful)
8. Spirit dance - Dead can dance
9. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong (NEVER gets old!)
10: Henry Lee - PJ.Harvey and Nick Cave (Just a dash of evil)
11: I know you by heart - Eva Cassidy (Speaks to my heart)
12: Got to see you again - Norah Jones (Just because)
13: Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Ros
14: Rammstein - Rammstein (Very good for jumping up and down and screaming, he he)
15: Winter poem (Radka Toneff)
16: Riders on the storm - The Doors (Never dies)
17: Ode to joy - Beethoven (This man was a genius, no doubt)
18: O Fortuna , Carmina Burana - Carl Orf (This is awesome - gives me goosepumps)


There. I listed the songs I am currently obsessed by.

Now....
My victims will be:

Bloggerihuana

Entropy

Just a girl in the world

Dreamer of Dreams' Journal

Life of a Left-Handed Plebe

Considerr yourself tagged (MUHAHAHAH)

Today

Today I have:
Stopped and smelled a rose for several minutes on my way home
Been unable to find my keys and used the same amount of time finding them in my purse as I used smelling the rose
stared at a girl on the subway eating an icecream just because she did it in a really sexy way
Jumped "paradise" in the street just because (Is it called paradise in English too?)
Listened to the same song 15 times in a row
Gone to bed kinda early (1 am) but been unable to sleep before 4:30 am because I was so hyper
Thought a lot about people I know and had pretend conversation with them in my head
Eaten a large chunk of cheese