I really like Uno Café and House of Burgers as well as Wok Inn. I like using Foodora to order to home. I live in the North part of my country in a relatively large town for our scale.
I like eating at home, it feels like I get to enjoy the food without the strangers and general noise. But sometimes it’s genuinely good eating at an actual restaurant. It depends on the situation.
Those are some thoughts this night, from a slightly hungry state of being.
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?
1 Tea. Absolutely, I love tea. Any type both herbal and true teas like oolong or English Breakfast tea. I enjoy combining teas to create the best flavours and feeling of it.
2 Family. I enjoy spending time with family, we make each other laugh and having interesting conversations and shared moments.
3 Wool blankets. In particular Nordic type wool, though I also enjoy merino wool blankets. It keeps me warm and comfortable. We all should have at least one blanket, that’s my belief in practical living.
4 Music. This one is major to me, I need it to function as well as possible. I think in lyrics and there is constantly a feeling of music playing somewhere. I enjoy different genres of music, everything from metal to drum&bass music.
5 Nature. I love my environment and the view from our house and walking through the forests is truly special. I grew up spending a lot of time outside and it really is important, especially in my Northern culture.
I love walking. And I don’t drive due to my health conditions, how close it is to my home and climate considered perspective. I also cannot afford having a car on my economic situation.
So walking isn’t just exercise, it’s part of normal life for me as a Northerner and my deep family connection with nature and history.
I also like mountain hiking and climbing, both rock climbing and indoor climbing.
These are some good ways to keep health good both physical and emotional levels. It would not be the same without it.
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?
Note; darkness unfolds, prematurely
Yes, I would be Benoni from Knut Hamsun work. It’s deeply connected with my fathers history also, the darkness of the mid 1970s in Northern Norwegian society. There was a television series called ‘Benoni og Rosa’ from 1975 and my father knew the dark side of being different in a closed environment.
I watch the series online a few years ago, and it really affected me deep. I thought it would be painful but it was also very interesting seeing 70s actors being in a fictional 1800s Northern Norwegian community. Benoni was a fisherman visiting Lofoten region and his love interest Rosa being central to the story. If you live in Norway I believe you can watch the whole series on NRK nett-tv (online television) and I can recommend doing that.
I’m as some already know a Sámi woman and there were some Sámi persons in the series and books. That one character became my fathers cruel nickname from his Norwegian classmates, I don’t understand why the society was so closed off from other Northern towns with slightly different way of speaking. Maybe it’s Norwegianization related, forced assimilation policies toward Sámi and Kven cultures in Norwegian society.
Sometimes I just need to talk about dark topics, and this time it’s about 1970s television series being used to harm an innocent boy doing his best to blend in with the other children while being hurt deep.
Those are some thoughts today, I don’t know what more to write.
I cannot say any common house pet is the worst pet, so I describe from the good side.
My grandparents had a farm and they had plenty of animals there, including many collies and several cats. I loved being there in my childhood years, it’s a whole different world and it’s remote location so often quite peaceful environment. My grandmother told me stories about my father from when he was little and that really matter to my understanding of my family origins.
I love dogs, we have one in our home. It’s my mothers dog but they are fully a part of our family, an elderly small dog with black colour fur and grey tones.
My cousin has Bengal cats, they are so beautiful and fascinating beings. At one point she had four cats, she is part of Dyrebeskyttelsen in Norway.
We used to have degu in our house when I was an older child, they are funny animals. I just liked watching them be cute and we had two. They got offspring even though we thought they were the same type so we had the little ones to help take care of.
So those are some good pets according to my experiences with animals, they all belong on this Earth.
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Note; Off-topic.. maybe?
I seriously was Sleeping Beauty in a school play, and I’m good at acting. I put myself in the positions of my role, I liked being male characters from Harry Potter series books. I have a vivid imagination and movie-like dreams, they are honestly immersive and I feel like it’s an adventure I’m allowed to experience from my own nighttime cinema.
Okay so I wanted to be an actress, because I already played my part.
And my boy classmate called me “Tornerose” (Sleeping Beauty in Norwegian) because I overslept and came late to school.
Yes, that’s my experiences today. Acting and dreams go well together. I also dream that I’m a deejay, I enjoy music in waking reality so it isn’t surprising I live it during the night
I enjoy it most when it’s around 14° celsius and some sunshine with small/medium clouds.
I like when it’s real winter temperatures like -15° celsius and the sunshine still is somewhat gently warming my dark colour hair.
The weather changes a lot from day to day and our winters are long here in my region. I enjoy being outside in different environments and temperatures.
Which animal would you compare yourself to and why?
I would compare myself to this animal (the marten/mår) because we both love climbing and appreciate being alone sometimes, especially in forests. I kind of look a bit slightly alike in appearance too especially when I had very long hair.
I also love reindeer and ravens. They are local animals like the marten is as well. The reindeer are both cute, funny and very important to our Northern culture. The raven is the symbol of intelligent and curious birds, a bit mystical.
I see reindeer in urban settings when I lived somewhere else and the little ones are very cute and funny. Reindeer are herd animals and sometimes people kind of act like herds. It’s also a part of my Sámi heritage, I value reindeer in cultural ways as well as just reindeer being awesome in themselves.
The raven is not only extremely intelligent, it’s also playfull at times. That is a part of my approach to life as a human being.
So that is my answer today, the animal kingdom is vast and diverse. Sometimes we learn a lot just looking out the window and observe nature as it is.
I love going to the health food, supplements and tea shop we have in our town. It’s a chain store but the experience is everything, buying new teas and finding the favourites as well.
They have different supplements, I enjoy New Nordic supplements like for example Hair Volume and Melissa Dream.
So that’s my shopping spree store. I hope your days are good and thanks for reading ❤
What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?
Yes, my “middle name” is Ingvild. It means something in Norse that has to do with ancestors and battles. The struggle of my foremothers, protected by Yngvi-Freyr, the fertility god.
More than that it’s a part of my everyday life, I like names. I have several. More. My mother nearly named me something different and I changed it. Not telling a word about my former name, what would the point be to that? Sorry, I’m not in my right mind at the moment. And I’m not telling you.
And yes, I’m not drunk. I’m overtired and I want a couple cans of cider with Battery Peachberry along them.
Thank you for reading and stay well, as good as it gets in this profoundly scary madness world.
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.
Warning/note: rambling today
The question is ‘who is your father?’ and I hate to be asked this by certain people because the answer is complicated and potentially dangerous. That sounds really dramatic but the truth is real, I hate this question for a good reason. I don’t really know my father well, and the Darkness inside is taking over when the light disappears from behind the scenes. Okay so, yeah.. my father is truly my biological father, we are both DNA-tested and share 50% DNA. I hate to be asked by people who might react if I tell them the truth, they might remember the boy the others targeted for being different. It involved serious violence toward him, sometimes it makes me wonder what’s wrong with the world that let this terrible thing happen to an innocent child.
I also hate being asked what I do for a living because people expect I’m in school or in the workplace but I’m disabled and that’s how it is. Life is good no matter what you do in daily work or learning, disabled people matter just as much even without employment or the advanced education.
So those are some things where the answers are complex and not easy in social situations to answer in both honesty and also self-respect for family and disability.
What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
The moving places often in childhood and teenage years, learning the history behind me and the path forward.
Knowing my history from before I was born and the way experiences travel through several generations has given me more resilience and shaped my view of myself.
Yes, I’ve had hard times. And they got me to where I am now, I would not have been the person I am without facing them with both determination and a refusal of letting it break my fighter spirits.
And the environment around me plays a major part really, nature affects all of us especially those living in extremes of light like the Arctic regions. Cold winters really speak clearly.
And that’s part of what helped me grow the most.
Thank you for reading and I hope your days are good ❤
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.
Early twenties definitively. I had a lot more going on then, on holidays and frequently saw health care professionals and friends in family. Now I do wish I had cherished and seen how important they were. Now turning 33 this year I’m hoping the rest of my thirties will go the right way.
Yeah, the medium level alcohol-containing beverage I buy rarely at Vinmonopolet. I also enjoy Bacardi Razz, but that one is very strong. I’m used to drinking regular cider and the Razz is a different animal entirely.
I also more regularly enjoy tea, iced tea, lactose-free iced coffee, lactose-free oreo shake and Battery energy drinks. Those are everyday luxuries I indulge on without guilt.
And of course I love water as it is, nothing beats that when you are thirsty enough. With some ice cubes and a slice of lemon it is simple magic.
I don’t follow usual Norwegian social rules. I don’t try to mask my neurodivergent functioning so it could look to others as if I’m not following any rules. But I most definitively do, it’s just acted in a different way.
As I said on my other blogs I have had to exit a car in frozen winter to relieve my bladder by the road. Mostly out in the middle of nowhere with very few cars passing by, but it’s likely against legal law even in my country. It’s still preferably to the event of peeing my pants in a car.
Well, I pay what I need to pay in money and recieve some gifts from my good conscience afterward. I’ve tried to have a system for it but this works quite well, so I keep it up.
Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you?
Yes, I’m deeply patriotic. In a way that values our diversity and cultural features in any ethnicity. I had refugees as best friends growing up and that has profoundly important effects on my relationship with belonging and my country.
I’m from Norway as I may have mentioned before and I’m in my 30s now. I love living here. I love the culture influenced by several different languages including Sámi and Kven as well as the Northern Norwegian. I’m a quarter Southern Scandinavian as well, I love Agder county both in nature and the people living there.
In general it’s more about values and nature to me, not excluding anyone based on their origins or language. I love Norway and I always will.
My mother was a student single mother of two, my father was drifting in addiction and absence. But both were eternal students of life, only in different forms.
I may not know my father well, but I care very deeply about his well-being and history. My mother is my daily contact with the rest of the offline world, I’m very grateful we are so close.
So the main message is to enjoy what you actually have in the moment, not focus on the things missing or not yet there.
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