Biiiiiip

It almost feels like when your call goes to voicemail: “i cannot come to the phone right now, please leave a message after the bip!”

No one’s picking up in the other end.. Or more like I’m not really there, it might feel like im screening blogs atm, I’m not really it’s just been very hectic at work physically and mentally, and everytime i open bloglovin 30+ new entries, in just 24 hours..just thinking about it makes me exhausted. and the bloguniverse is only a small proportion of my life.. my mind is in the real world at the moment, and that’s stressful enough. sadly it’s rubbing off here as well.

I’m not taking a break or purposely being ignorant i’m just not connected right now, don’t want to feel like a voicemail not in the online world nor out there with the living.. 😛 Now I’m trying to recharge. Ttyl(sms slang right?)

want more hits on your blog?

I was browsing blogs and came across something cool..
It will give you more hits on your blog and if you get others to join you’re guaranteed even more traffic. The page is in swedish so I recommend that you should be norwegian, swedish or danish to join this.
It is called bloggtrafik.nu and is quite a good idea if I may say so.

Edit: I’ve had 47 visitors through that site just today, so I would say it’s effective!

I’ve also added a BlogLove page, where I’ve posted links to a bunch of great blogs. It ended up in the sidebar as this new theme doesn’t seem to allow it to be up by the header.

First blogpost challenge

The very lovely Gudrun Jona challenged me to post my first blog post and as I guessed it wasn’t very entertaining, but it’s still a fun challenge.

Here I am
posted: 12/10/2008

This is me..

and who am I you might ask..

The name is Ida, I often go by IdaPida, but by clicking on this blog you probably already knew that.

Like my best friend Renate I’ve decided to start up a second blog, mine also mainly english.

Not easy writing in norwegian when the keyboard is english. But now I’m on my way. I will try my best to keep both up, as I do know some people prefer reading in Norwegian.

I do not expect this one to be highly popular with loads of hits, because that is very unlike me, but hopefully it will be a place where friends and loved ones can keep up with my doings and such.

So with that i welcome you to my brand new blog!

No pictures, no entertaining quotes, nothing, but as you can see at that time I was using two blogs, sadly the one I used to have in Norwegian was deleted. then I checked my second entry,it was actually password protected, as I was terrified the person it was about came across it, but it shows how annoyed I was about my former housemate hehe.. that’s a bit more juicy so I’ll show you that one too..

10 things I hate about you
posted: 12/10/2008

i feel the need to blow out some steam, because I am getting pissed off, and i don’t like to be.

Hopefully you will never ever read this, because I don’t wanna be the one to cause problems.

Most of the time it’s ok, but I guess that is because I’m not someone to loudly speak up in situations like this..

Seeing as I must be the most annoying creature on the planet sometimes, you’re not perfect yourself.

1. I hate that you never flush properly

2. I hate that you never shut doors after you.. be closest or cupboards whatever..

3. I hate that you never dry up after yourself after having a shower

4. I hate that you wash clothes so often we can barely get to the machine, I dont have anything to wear anymore

5. I hate that you try to be in control of everything, making me feel worthless when it comes to things like the household money

6. I hate the fact that just cause you paid the bill(which we paid you back for later), you think you own the tv 24/7, we always budge for your wishes

7. I hate that you complain about our music, yet play your own loudly while singing falsely along

8. I hate that you never air out the kitchen after cooking something that smells

9. I hate the way you approach things and assume the worst all the time

10. I hate that you get grumpy when we have someone over, when you’re “Guy-Friend” spends the night several days a week (thanks Renate)

wow that felt good.!

luckily we didn’t have to suffer another year, but I guess it shows I wrote in English from the very beginning of my wordpress blog.
So I want to pass this challenge on to Astrid Katrine, James and Monica.

all you have to do.. is ask!

Since I feel like my blog is falling apart a little,
I’ve decided to copy so many bloggers before me and have a question round.

No questions are too lame, too personal or too unpersonal.
I will answer absolutely every single question the best way I can.
You can write them in Norwegian if you want to as well.

I hope you guys have something to ask me, that i’ve at least made a little bit of an impression for you to be able to come up with something you wanna know, or learn about me.

I mean my life isn’t all that exciting right now, so I don’t really have much else to blog about.
So help me get this Fail!Blog back on track, also give me advice on what I can do to become a better blogger.

ASK AWAY!

i feel like..

I need a life..
I need more of something and less of nothing..

I don’t really know what I need, but I’ve been trying for days now to blog about something.. anything..
Nothing..

The weekend was spent watching tons of movies, going to with my housemate Leida to shop, well more like watching her shop, going out, leaving early and then watch a bunch more movies..
I mean it is great to be able to go to the gym whenever I want (resulting in 4-5 times a week)
But I’m getting sick of myself, of being on  my own, of not having anything to do.
I’ve even offered to help people with uniwork, because I’ve come to realise that not having anything to do doesn’t really suit me.

it rather brings me down, not even frozen yoghurt ben & jerry’s could cheer me up today
not even the fact that I could add more weight on the bar at body pump cheered me up, not even pita bread..

I’m 23 years old (24 in a month) single, jobless and bored out of my brains..
I also checked my balance the other day and that was a blow too, luckily i get paid for the work i did during christmas on friday, so i can spoil myself to some more froyo b&j for sunday when all the happy couples are out smooching and i’m sat at home watching sappy movies being bitter towards the most stupid day of the year!

but in all honesty, my life is good, i’m just having a bad day or two.
Hopefully spring is right around the corner to put a nice smile on my face again..

sorry for boring you with my silliness, i just wanted to post something so you wouldn’t forget about me.

Renate's Steven, and myself partying hard!

I also figured i’d add a recent photo so you’d all remember what I look like, and because a post without pictures can be even more boring than a post of silliness..

blogging, comments, etc..

I’ve been thinking about writing this entry for a while, but I’ve sorta started it, then deleted it and stuff because I’m not sure if it is my place to say anything about it..

I love blogging, it’s been an important part of my self-development for over a year now, a place to release frustration, to let people get to know me a little bit, a place where I most of the time don’t feel like I have to lie about how I am doing and what I feel.

Early in January Ida wrote a great entry on quality of blogs, how it is important to be able to catch the attention of your readers and try to make your blog as interesting as possibly..  and how it is nice to try and reply to your blog comments, but don’t be generic about it.
Click here to read the full entry in Norwegian.
It is somewhat of an eye-opener really!

for me, this entry is not going to be about how to make your blog better, because frankly I am pretty sure lots of people find my blog generic and boring, I know I don’t write many deep and meaningful posts, I don’t open up to my deepest feelings,  if anything my blog is pretty average and I am suprised I’ve managed to capture this many followers, I must say some stuff that appeal to you all

but now over to what I wanted to talk about, it is something Ida mentioned, which is commenting..
I love commetning other people’s blogs, I love reading and putting my own thoughts to their ideas or feelings whenever they allow me. It also makes me happy when people are able to share their thoughts around whatever I’ve decided to post, but one thing I do not appreciate are comments strictly replying to my own comment to that persons blogentries. Sure it is ok to come back to my blog and give a reply if you want to..
But as a fellow blogger you could at least pretend to have read the entry your commenting?
I’ve had a few doing that on my blog, but I’ve seen it loads on others too..

if you’re going to take the time to reply to a comment, please have the decensy to actually read the entry you’ve decided to comment, it’s blog politeness. I know that’s a word I made up just now, but in my eyes it is only fair..
even if you find the blog boring and uninspiring, if you take the time to go to it and reply, it only takes you a few more minutes to read a little bit and make a quick comment.

Now I’m done with today’s rant, my room needs to be cleaned it’s a disaster area.
It is making me think less about my poor macbook who is with the appledoctor right now, poor lonely macbook going through surgery on it’s own.

YAY

Screw blogbreak, it’s over.
I love blogging too much to be on a break to be completely honest!
I miss writing about my day or my plans for the day or whatever.
Sure uni is keeping busy but blogging only takes a few minutes..
Besides I’ve been posting from time to time anyway, so I never really took a proper break.

I don’t really have too much to tell at the moment though.
I’m doing a lot of uniwork, writing essays, rewriting esassys, handing them in. Eating celementines.. Going to lectures and write another essay. That’s what my days consist of.  I am still not sure how I’m gonna get everything done in time, but somehow i’ll manage!

Today I got the best surprise! I don’t have an advent calendar this year, I haven’t really had one the last few years so it wasn’t something I missed too much, but…
I got mail today, and in that envelop was a post it note from my mum and dad wishing me a nice december and this:
A scratchcard calendar! fingers crossed that £50.000 prize is mine this year!

Also my younger brother has now made himself a blog too, check him out and surprise him with comments! Vetleblogg 😉

Question!

So, I’m still really busy with uniwork, but I genuinely miss blogging,
and what I miss most of all are the lovely comments I get, even if it is replies to what I’ve written to others or just genuinely nice comments on my own posts..
I’ve still been reading a lot of your blogs, even if I don’t always comment.

since I’m a busy bee studying hard to get my essays done for christmas,and I used to have a writing blog, but I deleted it as it wasn’t really a major success, I want to share some of the stories I’ve written throughout the years with you on here..I’ve always had a passion for writing and I wanna share my passion with you

my question is this, would you be interested in reading them?
some of them are short, some of them are a bit longer and they are all in English.
I could post maybe one story a week, for the next three weeks..
i just wanna know if you’d be interested in reading them?

I do have an aspiring author in me, I just rarely let her loose

Recommendation!

Might be a bit biased in saying this cause she’s my best friend!
But you should all have a look at Renate’s Photography blog!
She’s a 2nd year student of Photography at University of Wolverhampton,
and even if she was good before, she’s even better now!

this is just a taster, go and have a look at the rest, I promise you’ll be impressed:

P.S. thanks for all your wonderful and kind words on my previous entry, I appreciate every single one of you ❤

Goodiebag? ja takk!

For once I am gonna write this in Norwegian, James is my main english reader anyway so:P

Satt å surfa på litt blogger å kom over tidenes mest geniale konkurranse.
Har titt og ofte kikka innom Reidun Beate sin blogg, hvor hun skriver om stort og smått.
Og nå har hu jaggu slått til med en heidundrende konkurranse hvor du kan vinne en goodiebag til en verdi av 700kr :O Det er ikke småtteri, hvem har ikke lyst på en så fantastisk premie liksom?
ikke bare er innholdet hemmelig, men du kan også velge hvilken innpakning, dvs veske det skal annkomme i. Men uansett om man vinner eller ikke er det jo innmari spennende med konkurranser av slik dimensjon.

nå har hun allerede bortimot 200 kommentarer på dette innlegget sitt, men det er jo alltid lov å prøve seg er det ikke? nå som jeg har på en måte stengt shopping avd i lommeboka mi og greier.
studentlivet tærer på bankkonton vettu..hehe

So with this I leave you all for a while, sky promised our net would be up within 15 working days.. so in about two weeks time we should have proper net, I might post an entry or two from uni though, just to keep you all updated.
Have a great weekend, I know I will!