Bad luck? Me? maybe...

Hello Hello!

Thought I'd pop by to write a little blog post while taking a break from homework. ^.^

I am a person who has a lot of bad luck, mostly connected to sports involving balls. For some weird reason I always manage to get hit in the head by a ball very often., and today was not an exception. We were having handball in our gym class, and guess who was able to get a ball in the head just by sitting on the bench? You guessed correctly, me! I am not a very athletic person, have never been and will never be, but I think I should manage to not get hit in the head all the time... Maybe I should add that to my New Years resolutions?

This could definitely happen to me... just maybe without the umbrella :p

On to something totally different, the fear of failure. 

I often feel like I'm not good enough or I don' do it the right way, and I know I'm not alone about it. We are given demands or requirements to follow up, and a lot of the times it feels like it's no good. We see beauty and fashion ideals that are impossible to live up to, people at work or school that are expecting something or does something really good and you have to live up to the expectations. This I'm sure many recognize, but it's all a feeling we have. I have tried to tell myself that, but no matter what I'm doing, even if I've done it a hundred times before, I still get performance anxiety. This is something that is actually good for us, because it sharpens your mind and give focus. Those that are not nervous at all might think lightly of the task and oversee something important. But if the nervousness is too big it might not be too good either, because the body will react totally wrong to things and your performance might be diminished. So how do you cure your performance anxiety? This is something I'm still working on myself, but the most important thing to do, is to change the way you look at your self. See yourself in a different way, a more positive way, and focus on the good parts instead of the bad. This way you'll see what's good about you and maybe you'll understand that you are better than you thought. Find out what you can do to make yourself happy and feel good.

Have a good night/evening/day depending on where you are, but make sure to make today or tomorrow a great day! ^.^ 

Bye Bye~

Simple step to happiness

Hi cuties! ^^

First of all, what am I doing? Eating a bowl of ice cream on a Tuesday? Well, in my new year resolution it stood clearly "NO chocolate or soda in weekdays!" But nothing about ice cream, so I've forgiven myself. :3
And by the way, I ate some tiny chocolates while visiting my grandmother today so, uhm... I'll work on it.
Why am I so weak for sweets? >.<

Let Rilakkuma explain: It's sweet, and it makes me happy! ^^ (I sound like a drug addict...)

Anyway, today I realized something. Why does so many people have a hard time accepting others?

I say many, because it is! Maybe you do it too, without even knowing it? 

And why is it that we have to accept others, anyway? Once someone told me: "I accept your taste is music. It's kinda cool." That really bothered me. Somehow he felt like he had to approve my own personal taste in music. Like it wasn't my decision! Like he was saying "I allow you to play that music on your iPod."

Here's what I think: There's no need for us to accept others. Just respect them, be amazed, or walk away. 

It's really that easy! And I know some people really want to be "accepted", but that's where they already went wrong. Don't give anyone the power to decide if you're good or not. It's not just giving ammo to your enemy, it's handing over your whole war plan! (Did that make sense?)

I mean, what if the guy had told me: "I hate your music. It's total crap." Should I've stopped listening to my music then? Switched to something else? Some people actually do this, and it's so sad. One should never change that much for others. 

People are different, and we all have our special talent! How can you know the talent of that not-so-popular girl in class, if you never talk to her? If you blindly go along with the flow all the time, you make it difficult for yourself to see both others and your own talent. You don't know what you're good at before you try it, and you don't know what others are good at before you give them a try! ;)

There are so many thing to amazed about in our daily life, but sadly many never notice it. 

Hope you all dare to be open and honest to yourselves! ^.^ 

By the way, what to you want to read about on this blog? If you have any suggestions or thoughts, don't hesitate to comment! : > 

Bye!

My fashion inspiration; Gyaru! ^.^

Hey there!

I thought I'd show you one of my fashion inspirations today. I am very interested in the Japanese fashion trend gyaru. Gyaru is a street fashion that originated from the 70s. The style is girly and glamorous, and breaking with the traditional portrait of Japanese woman. It was a way for Japanese teens to rebel against what the society wanted them to be like, it was their way off showing their personality. I really love this fashion and the idea of it, also the make-up and hair trend that follows. It's so awesome and unique, at least here in Norway.

The make-up focuses on the eyes and enlarging them, and the hair is big and voluminous. I love everything about the style, and I find a lot of inspiration and ideas to my clothes here. 

There are also many, many, many subcategories to gyaru style. gyaru-kei; the original/basic style kinda, hime-gyaru; princess kinda style with lots of ribbons and cute princess points, ganguro; a very tanned verson with bleached hair, kogyaru; a girl who is in high school and follows the gyaru trend (the trend goes against most of the rules in schools on how they are supposed to look). These are just some of the many subcategories, to find out more about it just google: Gyaru style. 

Kogyaru

Hime-gyaru

Ganguro

The ganguro style is a little too extreme for my taste....

It is such a cute style and I so want to be able to do it properly once. This is one of my main goals by going to Tokyo this summer. I'll be able to shop at the ultimate gyaru mall, Shibuya 109! ^:^ Can't want!! :D

What do you think of this style?

Bye bye~ ^.^

Execution of my gingerbread house!

Hello sweethearts

I just got home from school and thought I'd actually try to blog a little. Sorry for not blogging much, but I couldn't get myself to write anything that made sense when I was sick... Don't think my head works the right way when I'm sick. :p

Like Silje mentioned we crushed my gingerbread house the other day. I have wanted to crush and eat it for sooo long, and it's been mocking me for weeks just standing there... But finally I got to eat it! :D And it was yummy! The whole roof was covered with thick icing sugar frosting and candy, as well as the walls. According to Silje it looked like an execution, but what are you to do when you don't want to get it all over the room? Had so much fun smashing it. It's half the reason why I make them.

Here you have the finished result of my crushing! This might be a good way to went out anger. Hmm, maybe I'll do that once. :p
I really love Christmas and all it's traditions, and am already looking forward to next year. Am I crazy? Nah, I'm perfectly normal.

So I've been thinking about what I should blog about, and I would like to get some tips and ideas what you would like to read about. Please give me some ideas ^.^

Bye~ ^^

Going back on track! ^.^

Hi again everyone! :D

Sorry for not blogging yesterday, Gulli is still a bit sick, and wanted me and a friend to join her, crushing her ginger bread house! We had a fun time together, though I was a little bit devastated to crush something that pretty :/ Both Gulli and our friend Audun are superb chefs, and make lovely cakes and muffins. I am, on the other hand, just happy if the kitchen doesn't burn down in the process. The house was so cute, and I can't imagine how long time she spent to decorate it. Just to crush it with a hammer. Because we didn't want crumbs to fly all over the place, Audun put a plastic bag over the house, while Gulli hit it multiple times.
It was just like an execution!! I sat on the couch covering my eyes, and waited for it to be over. If you didn't understand that yet, I'm a very compassionate soul.

Look at the pretty little house :3 Before it was smashed to pieces, and eaten up, that is.
She even melted lollipops to make multicolored window glass! My house hardly had any windows at all...

Anyway, I'm finally starting to get back in my everyday routine. My teachers obviously haven't heard of "a smooth start", and packed us up with tests and homework already. It seems like everything has started like a big explosion, and it gives no time for laid back persons like me to get back on track.
Well, I guess you just have to go with the flow sometimes ^^
The Christmas snow has melted away in our town now, and in the previous days it's been raining a lot.
No idea why, but it makes me so happy! I think I might be in love with rain. It's perfect for getting back in the normal routine, and after a long Christmas inside, it feels so refreshing. Also, raindrops drumming on the roof is my ideal lullaby :3

I haven't told you about my New Year resolutions yet, maybe I'll write a post about them later ^^
But I picked up a lovely idea from Rainbowholic, a super cute and inspiring blogger and fashionista I'm following! If you're having troubles staying encouraged throughout the year, why don't you write down what you're happy and grateful for on small pieces of paper, whenever you remember something?
Then you can store them in a jar or something similar, and read them at the end of the month or whenever you feel down ^.^

I'll try to do this, as you never know when you'll need some encouragement and inspiration!

Hope you all have a nice beginning of the new year, and stay tuned to us! (Gulli will be recovered soon too, believe me, I'll force her to)

Until next time <3

A little depressed? Yeah, me too.

Hello loved ones!

Today is a rather crappy day. I'm exhausted, frustrated, sad and I feel sort of ignored. Does it sound familiar? School wasn't bad either, it's just that I have tons of gloomy thoughts stocked up in my mind that keeps tormenting me. Confusing words coming from a meditation enthusiast? Yeah, I know. I've had trouble finding a solution for my problems though, and the main reason is that I don't know for sure why I feel so depressed. At the beginning of a new year, and everything!

And as always, you have Facebook. Honestly, it isn't many other webpages where you can find so much crap. Or maybe there is? Well, Facebook is being used by almost everyone in your social circle, so it's hard to avoid people you don't like at the moment, and it's very hard to control the content. Your news feed can be hilarious, sad, frustrating, boring and everything in between depending on who of your dear friends that has been active recently. I think one should be able to label Facebook content. Like: "stupid girls", "alcohol involved" or "relationships you don't wanna know about" or "annoying popular person that knows way too many people and have 200+ likes on his/her profile picture".
You don't want to hear about those when you're depressed. And so, you could just cancel out all posts with those labels... Ah, at least I can hope.

It is indeed very frustrating when you feel like you're just never good enough, pretty enough, effective enough and successful enough. I know it sound like a big cliche, but we often forget the most mean and merciless criticizer of all: ourselves. 

Sometimes there is so painfully little you can do about how things work, and how people see you.
And when you're way to tired to concentrate on pan flutes and breathing techniques, it's time for the classic emergency break.
Chocolate, sad/angry music, and a cute childish movie with a happy ending. 
It may not be a long term solution, but it works perfectly when everything else is wrong. Don't ignore any feeling, take it all out and actually taste it, so you're prepared to deal with them once you have the strength. Remember, it's absolutely perfectly fine to break down!

Hope you all have much happiness ahead of you, and have a nice weekend! ^.^
Now I'm going to eat chocolate and watch Barbie and the 12 dancing princesses.

Improvements!

HI EVERYONE AND LOOK AT THE TEXT!

I figured out that this blogs weak point was the text design. It was so hard to read, and all our cute little smileys disappeared in an inferno of streaks and dots. :(
But it's fixed now, and we hope you take the time to read some of the posts over again, to see what you might have missed! ^^

Also, I'd like to apologize for not posting enough. I really like to cover many themes and make everyone happy, but sometimes I'm not sure what I should write about. If anyone who reads this could give me any feedback, I would be so grateful! Don't be afraid to ask either, you'll be surprised how much unnecessary information my brain holds, and I'm not afraid to take on a challenge! ;)

Oh, and the New Years Eve celebration post I promised you is late, I know. We have a lack of pictures, as a guy who have a crush on Gulli stole her iPhone most of the night...what don't you do for love? The pictures and video we managed to take, will be posted soon by Gulli. She is at the time being, sick again, I can't believe that girl, her immune system  is as weak as a rare tropical flower being planted on the North Pole.
Did that make sense? Well, I fear that the Norwegian climate is going to kill her one day...

Thanks to everyone that reads this blog, and I hope you will keep up with us!! ^.^