Daddy: "She's an attractor."
Momma: "A tractor?"
(convo about "Usher" dancers being on Dancing with the Stars...)
Me and Mel: "He's more of rap music..."
Momma: "Well, they should be Christian if they're ushers."
hahaha...I love you Momma! You make my day...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Conversations with My Mom...
Me: "Actually, only two guys have ever asked if they could kiss me."
Mom: "Who else?" (I had already mentioned one)
Me: "Scott."
Mom: "And after that there was another day?"
Me: "Another day? Oh, another date..."
Mom: "No, another day."
Me: "Yeah, people walk up to each other, ask for a kiss, and then never see each other again."
Mel: "I hope I'm not doomed to be like you, hardly date and not even know how a kiss works."
Me: "Yeah, you barely kiss Daddy."
Mom: "He has bad breath!"
Mel: "Well, suck it in!"
Me: "WHOA! I don't wanna see them doing that!"
Me: "I honestly wonder how you had two children without even knowing how a kiss works."
Mom: "God works in mysterious ways!"
Me: "Our dad must of snuck up on her..."
Mom: "No, I plan everything."
Me: "That must mean they only had it twice..."
Mel: "That's gross."
Mom: "Who else?" (I had already mentioned one)
Me: "Scott."
Mom: "And after that there was another day?"
Me: "Another day? Oh, another date..."
Mom: "No, another day."
Me: "Yeah, people walk up to each other, ask for a kiss, and then never see each other again."
Mel: "I hope I'm not doomed to be like you, hardly date and not even know how a kiss works."
Me: "Yeah, you barely kiss Daddy."
Mom: "He has bad breath!"
Mel: "Well, suck it in!"
Me: "WHOA! I don't wanna see them doing that!"
Me: "I honestly wonder how you had two children without even knowing how a kiss works."
Mom: "God works in mysterious ways!"
Me: "Our dad must of snuck up on her..."
Mom: "No, I plan everything."
Me: "That must mean they only had it twice..."
Mel: "That's gross."
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Stability and Your Prayers Please
Ever get so overwhelmed by life, that you just wish one thing would be...I don't know...normal? Sane? Stable?
But it seems like, whenever one thing goes wrong, a million other things crumble in around you, and even the smallest crack will seem bigger, just because we're already hurting.
That's me right now. I'm just praying for stability, no more running around, no more lost-and-found...
if i had the energy or enthusiasm i'd write something with those words
"no more run-around,
no more lost-and-found"
but my mind stops there. my head hurts, and i know i'm going to be crying soon which will make it worse.
today i cried about something i thought i was over. but, obviously i'm not. i could've figured that out, but i guess i was denying that, trying to hide from my true feelings on the issue, my real fears.
i'm just so...frustrated. i've had a rough year. and at this time in my life, i'm in transition, leaving my parent's and making my own life, so it's hard...especially hard to know where it's best for me to be when i'm so...desperate.
one thing i can say...i need someone's arms to hold me. and the sad thing is, i can only think of one person who would really understand my pain right now...but he isn't even real.
(no, not God...lol...i mean a person. someone...i had help imagining...but it doesn't matter now...)
sorry to sound depressed. but that's my reality right now.
nothing makes sense. nothing has gone..."right"...or at least...not very well.
well, i did pass my classes. and considering i wasn't in classes for like, 3 months, almost the whole semester, that's pretty good!
but it's upsetting that so much of my life was interuppted, destroyed really...
and now, bit by bit, i find it disappearing more.
pray for my family. we have to put our precious dog to sleep this week. It'll be ten years this summer that we've had her, and we've been so blessed.
i don't regret finding her at all. :) and i will say, it's because of me she even got to this point today in our lives. i wasn't going to leave the Humane Society without a dog...my family had already left the kennels...and I was soooo sad...then I saw her...Spice...my precious baby girl. :P
i don't think we could have had a better dog all these years. she's a sweetheart. and so beautiful.
she will definitely be missed.
so, please pray for her pain to ease, and for her to have a safe delivery to Heaven to wait for us with Chipper...lol.
and pray that those who love her with all their hearts...like i know i do...will be ok...
chelle
But it seems like, whenever one thing goes wrong, a million other things crumble in around you, and even the smallest crack will seem bigger, just because we're already hurting.
That's me right now. I'm just praying for stability, no more running around, no more lost-and-found...
if i had the energy or enthusiasm i'd write something with those words
"no more run-around,
no more lost-and-found"
but my mind stops there. my head hurts, and i know i'm going to be crying soon which will make it worse.
today i cried about something i thought i was over. but, obviously i'm not. i could've figured that out, but i guess i was denying that, trying to hide from my true feelings on the issue, my real fears.
i'm just so...frustrated. i've had a rough year. and at this time in my life, i'm in transition, leaving my parent's and making my own life, so it's hard...especially hard to know where it's best for me to be when i'm so...desperate.
one thing i can say...i need someone's arms to hold me. and the sad thing is, i can only think of one person who would really understand my pain right now...but he isn't even real.
(no, not God...lol...i mean a person. someone...i had help imagining...but it doesn't matter now...)
sorry to sound depressed. but that's my reality right now.
nothing makes sense. nothing has gone..."right"...or at least...not very well.
well, i did pass my classes. and considering i wasn't in classes for like, 3 months, almost the whole semester, that's pretty good!
but it's upsetting that so much of my life was interuppted, destroyed really...
and now, bit by bit, i find it disappearing more.
pray for my family. we have to put our precious dog to sleep this week. It'll be ten years this summer that we've had her, and we've been so blessed.
i don't regret finding her at all. :) and i will say, it's because of me she even got to this point today in our lives. i wasn't going to leave the Humane Society without a dog...my family had already left the kennels...and I was soooo sad...then I saw her...Spice...my precious baby girl. :P
i don't think we could have had a better dog all these years. she's a sweetheart. and so beautiful.
she will definitely be missed.
so, please pray for her pain to ease, and for her to have a safe delivery to Heaven to wait for us with Chipper...lol.
and pray that those who love her with all their hearts...like i know i do...will be ok...
chelle
She hates cameras, but I have managed to occasionally snap a pic or two. :)
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Gunnar, Tolkein, and Lewis
It's been like walking into the Lord of the Rings or the Chronicles of Narnia around here. Both those guys must've traveled in Norway.I keep expecting to run into hobbits, dwarves, elves, etc. Well, guess I've seen the hobbit - every morning in the mirror!! Ha! Stilldon't Took is the name, I think. (dense fellow from birth, thus "stilldon't" as in "he stilldon't get it, does he?")Suppose somone got an idea from this picnic table, too?
Gunnar Strikes Again
Good morning to you ladies, it's 2:15 pm here. The sky is clearing and we're getting some sunshine for the first time since arriving.I did my keynote speech this morning at 8:15, it seemed to go OK, I didn't run out of things to say ;). Guess that's no surprise to any of you.
Walked up to the old church on the hill, there's several graves with Lunde, so could be relatives of the family that farmed at Buxton, ND, Grandpa Al's mother's family.
A man was mowing in the cemetary and told me that "Lunde" is very common in Norway, though, so could be like being named Smith and they may not be any relation.
Interestingly, he did know that many families from this region did emmigrate to North Dakota, but someone told him some misinformation because he thought they stopped in ND for the mountains! Ha!
The church also has a old stone Celtic cross from about 1000 AD, was done near the water on the current site of the hotel, moved to the church about 100 years ago. So that's cool, dates back to the conversion of the Vikings. Wow.
Hardly slept at all last night, the jet lag seems worse now than ever, which is backwards, but I'm trying to stay up all day today so that I sleep tonight
Walked up to the old church on the hill, there's several graves with Lunde, so could be relatives of the family that farmed at Buxton, ND, Grandpa Al's mother's family.
A man was mowing in the cemetary and told me that "Lunde" is very common in Norway, though, so could be like being named Smith and they may not be any relation.
Interestingly, he did know that many families from this region did emmigrate to North Dakota, but someone told him some misinformation because he thought they stopped in ND for the mountains! Ha!
The church also has a old stone Celtic cross from about 1000 AD, was done near the water on the current site of the hotel, moved to the church about 100 years ago. So that's cool, dates back to the conversion of the Vikings. Wow.
Hardly slept at all last night, the jet lag seems worse now than ever, which is backwards, but I'm trying to stay up all day today so that I sleep tonight
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Gunnar Cont. and Pics
Haha...just got a reply from him...
Hey! I was about to yell at you for stayin up so late, but it's only 5:20 pm over there - now I have to yell at myself!!:)It's very giant here - now wonder they thought of giants and trolls and all that stuff, people just seem like little ants running around in this country with several thousands of feet of mountains and snow sticking practically straight up from the valleys or the fjords. Take good care of yourself this last week - only 1 final? I could've used you here, maybe German is enough like Norwegian some words would've made sense.Is it as expensive in Germany? They wanted to sell me a $180 shirt yesterday! Even 1 pair of underwear was like $20. No wonder Scots don't wear anything under their kilts. Oops, I'm getting silly now. I better finish my note to Lynn and Gary and GO TO BED.
so, sounds like he's keeping in touch with his brothers, which is good. :)
hopefully he found some kind of underwear...i won't ask...:P
The Adventures of Gunnar Roalsvik
Hello all! Since my life at this point is rather boring, all I'm doing is cleaning and packing and sorting what I'm keeping at Grandma's and what I'm taking home...I've decided to dedicate sometime to a relative of mine who is on an exciting adventure of his own!
My dear old father :P
He's in Norway to be a speaker at a convention. How cool is that? So, here are some of his recent accounts of his adventure thus far...(these are from his emails to his girls. he has no clue i'm doing this...haha)
Friday, May 02, 2008
We were very late leaving Houston. Just got to Newark and caught the scariest electric cart ride ever across the terminal and got to my gate just as they called for elite boarding on my flight, so not even time to use the bathroom before getting on the plane. But I made it. Whew.Excitement.
Have a good night, I hope to sleep on the plane. Very funny recorded instructions being played in Norwegian right now.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
finally got to a computer that i can use here at the Oslo airport hotel. it's almost 8 pm here now, we left Newark only a few minutes late, which I found out was bad when we got here because my rolling garment bag with all my clothes and my jackets did not make it. So i took the express train down to oslo and had to try to find some clothes. they are ridiculously expensive here, i finally foung a real ugly zipper sweatshirt for 12 dollars and two shirts for 20 each. that's all the clothes i have right now besides what I'm wearing and this norwegian keyboard is driving me crazy. i'm going looking for toothpaste and a razor now, might not find them as there is hardly anything here around the hotel off of the airport grounds. this place is way out in the country really the boonies crazy but truly an adventure more later i hope then to bed for the bus ride tomorrow hopefully the hotel at Loen, being a resort hotel, will be more helpfuly, and hopefully my bag will come on tomorrow's plane and Continental will send it on to Loen
Sun, May 4, 2008
Hello from Loen, Norway, at the Alexandra Hotel. We took about 8.5 hours to drive up the main valley of Norway, then west up and up a smaller valley until we were above the trees and only snow and rocks all around, then down thru 3 long tunnels, 4.5km, 4km and 4.5km, then out into another narrow, deep valley and down and around a whole series of switchbacks to the bottom, then followed the snow melt river down to the lake and around the end of another mountain to the fjord and hotel. What a trip. I've take a lot of pictures, 202 so far on a card that holds 999, but my battery is down to only 1/3 and my bag has still not shown up. Thought my spare battery was in there, but wonders! I have my spare battery in my computer bag - so yay! More pictures tomorrow.
Norway looks a lot like Colorado, or western Montana, or Idaho or Washington. The really big valley where the airport is looks more like Minnestoa, pine and birch trees.
And did you know the dandelion is a wildflower? At least over here.
Attached are 3 views to the west, southwest and southeast from my hotel room this evening when I arrived. Also a few views coming down from the snow covered mountain pass.
(the above mentioned pics will be in my next post...in like...a few minutes :P)
My dear old father :P
He's in Norway to be a speaker at a convention. How cool is that? So, here are some of his recent accounts of his adventure thus far...(these are from his emails to his girls. he has no clue i'm doing this...haha)
Friday, May 02, 2008
We were very late leaving Houston. Just got to Newark and caught the scariest electric cart ride ever across the terminal and got to my gate just as they called for elite boarding on my flight, so not even time to use the bathroom before getting on the plane. But I made it. Whew.Excitement.
Have a good night, I hope to sleep on the plane. Very funny recorded instructions being played in Norwegian right now.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
finally got to a computer that i can use here at the Oslo airport hotel. it's almost 8 pm here now, we left Newark only a few minutes late, which I found out was bad when we got here because my rolling garment bag with all my clothes and my jackets did not make it. So i took the express train down to oslo and had to try to find some clothes. they are ridiculously expensive here, i finally foung a real ugly zipper sweatshirt for 12 dollars and two shirts for 20 each. that's all the clothes i have right now besides what I'm wearing and this norwegian keyboard is driving me crazy. i'm going looking for toothpaste and a razor now, might not find them as there is hardly anything here around the hotel off of the airport grounds. this place is way out in the country really the boonies crazy but truly an adventure more later i hope then to bed for the bus ride tomorrow hopefully the hotel at Loen, being a resort hotel, will be more helpfuly, and hopefully my bag will come on tomorrow's plane and Continental will send it on to Loen
Sun, May 4, 2008
Hello from Loen, Norway, at the Alexandra Hotel. We took about 8.5 hours to drive up the main valley of Norway, then west up and up a smaller valley until we were above the trees and only snow and rocks all around, then down thru 3 long tunnels, 4.5km, 4km and 4.5km, then out into another narrow, deep valley and down and around a whole series of switchbacks to the bottom, then followed the snow melt river down to the lake and around the end of another mountain to the fjord and hotel. What a trip. I've take a lot of pictures, 202 so far on a card that holds 999, but my battery is down to only 1/3 and my bag has still not shown up. Thought my spare battery was in there, but wonders! I have my spare battery in my computer bag - so yay! More pictures tomorrow.
Norway looks a lot like Colorado, or western Montana, or Idaho or Washington. The really big valley where the airport is looks more like Minnestoa, pine and birch trees.
And did you know the dandelion is a wildflower? At least over here.
Attached are 3 views to the west, southwest and southeast from my hotel room this evening when I arrived. Also a few views coming down from the snow covered mountain pass.
(the above mentioned pics will be in my next post...in like...a few minutes :P)
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