all is well

just an update on the ranting post wherein i made lists of lists of ways to torture husband because he couldn't/wouldn't come to oslo this week.

well, his boss came to his senses (without the help of the armenians i was going to sic on him) and it's all ironed out and husband will come to oslo on the crown of scandinavia with sabin and me tomorrow afternoon. we will sail, eat too much at the buffet and have breakfast while sailing into the oslo fjord the next morning. then, i will go to work and husband and sabin will play all day in oslo until it's time to come to the family summer party at my work in høvik.

the weather is supposed to be glorious. we'll be home again on saturday morning when rafy, the good polish guy will show up and he and husband will build the writing house. hopefully in one go.

posh mall food

posh white norwegian pizza

1 very thin, very crispy pizza crust

white sauce consisting of:
3 kind of delicious cheese, grated (i'd use prima donna, gruyere, and a nice mozzarella)
1 small tub of creme fraiche (sour cream ok)

mix together into a creamy sauce, spread over the pizza crust

thin slices of ham
leeks (sauteed briefly in butter)
fresh mushroom slices

bake like a normal pizza.

drizzle with garlic olive oil. serve. it would also be very good with a salad of rocket and marinated artichoke hearts on top. super crispy, thin crust is a key to this recipe. i have a good recipe at home, but can't remember it off the top of my head. will post it later.

i just ate this at a strangely posh food place in the mall. i say strangely posh because mall food generally isn't that posh. the place was called bølgen & moi food garage, which isn't a particularly posh name. perhaps it only seemed posh because norway is so expensive. actually, it was really good and definitely wasn't the usual mall food.

i'm wired again

the TDC guy was here today. it took him over an hour (because he had to run a new line up the house and drill through the actual bricks which comprise the house), but i'm online again, baby! just in time to go to oslo for the week. where i will also be online, since i'm at the radisson and they have wireless.

what is strange is that i haven't been glued to the computer since i came online. i've been doing other things! like dishes and laundry and packing and putting away clean clothes and gathering my papers that i'll need in oslo. perhaps the time away did me some good!

i'm taking half a suitcase of artsy supplies with me to oslo. is that mental? the idea of being all alone in a hotel room without glue and pretty paper and rub-ons and stamps just didn't sound good. so, i made a small, portable box of goodies to take along and packed my art journal. i'll see what effect it has on the creativity to create from a hotel room.

so post about something other than boogers while i'm gone this time, will ya?

good story!

i don't have as good a story as your furniture-buying adventure. i've just been out, checking out the retail scene in oslo. oslo is pretty in its downtown. strangely, tho' it must be smaller, it feels more metropolitan than copenhagen. i has a bit of a feel of glasgow, which i mean as a compliment (tho' it could be interpreted otherwise). i wandered into a small knitting shop and wandered out again WITHOUT BUYING ANYTHING. yes, it was a small miracle. i found a juice bar where i fixed my jonesing withdrawal from my juicer. whew. i wandered into a bookstore where they had the best selection of moleskine journals that i've seen, well, ever. i bought a really cool one that's small like my fave kind, but that is 60 pages all connected, like an accordion. i'm going to make one long, art journal picture, based on what i see on trains and planes. i'm inspired by the jennifer new book on journals. i also bought a small moleskine that you can do storyboards on the pages, because they have the squares for it all built-in. so, oslo passed the moleskine test, for sure.

then, i wandered along and found a store called norway design where they had a fabulous paper section--lots of pretty papers (from which i restrained). and when i say fabulous, i mean FABULOUS!! i bought small red envelopes. i think i'll use them to make invitations to our housewarming party (when it's finally done). i'll say, "small envelope, big party" or something like that. i also bought some cool pens. they're markers, but seem like they will work like paintbrushes. looking forward to trying them out in the art journal.

well, it's time to go to dinner. you still haven't posted any disney stories and pix, so get it on while you wait for your furniture.