chocolate - the new drug

I doubt a lot of people will disagree when I say that chocolate is very addicting. And it's not weird when you come to think about how good it makes you feel :)


When I first came to america it was

then...


...then



I look back at my past year, and what seems to show up, almost everyday is chocolate, in different forms.


I wonder what my next addiction will be..

Will I ever get over this love for chocolate, or will it be my down fall ?!

when gravity hits

Gravity is a bad thing.. It ruins your face, makes your body all weird. It makes hard heavy things fall on your toes, and we can blame gravity for the need of using a bra.

but a thing I never thought I would blame gravity for was my job;

you see;I was at work, and we were closing, so we had to take the garbage out, and I decided to be nice and do it. I was carrying two of those huge heavy black garbage bags, with tons of holes in them, coffee and all sorts of liquid gross stuff was pouring out of it...

The final destination was the container. I swung the bag back and forth, and did a over my shoulder toss.. or at least it was supposed to be.. It went fine till it was right over my head, and then gravity.. dear dear gravity hit, and the garbage bag, fell, on my head. It was pretty gross and I am never doing the heavy garbage bags + over shoulder toss again...

Other than that, it was a rainy day. I borrowed my sisters rain pants. Picture small rainpants on a big girl.. it's very nice when you can see half the leg, where the rain pants should of been.

What an exciting day

It's sunday

Not the typical sunday I would have in Iowa. There I would wake up, hurry to get dressed and go to church, eat, hang around at home,do laundry, church, popcorn, go to bed...

But this sunday. I woke up. Or my mom woke me up. I went to work, which went surprisingly fine. It must of been my almighty dad who watched over me :) I got back home, eat some supper, and fell asleep.

My mom knocked on my window and told me that "Julie, you have to clean the bathroom"

MY WORST FEAR


Okay, it's not that bad, but you get the point..
When I was done, I went back upstairs.. half an hour later I go back down, and what do I find?! SOMEONE MESSED UP MY MIRROR!
Why even bother cleaing, if it's gonna be just as messy half an hour later...

My new job

I start my job tomorrow.

First let me explain it..

I work in a zoo/amusement park (www.dyreparken.no)and I used to work in a nice little waffle house, with plenty to do


But this year, my job is the assistant over all the places in the park where you can eat... Meaning that I am to tell the daily leaders of the place what to do.. There are 10 of those assistants.. They have all been daily leaders of one of the places you can eat in the park. They have been chosen because they were so good at their job. But I on the other hand, didn't get chosen because I was awesome at being a daily leader.. I was never one of those...

So you can kinda say that I am pretty scared, and I feel pretty clueless.

BUT, (there is always a but)I hope, and chose to think that they chose me because they saw potential in me, and I know that with God on my side nothing is impossible. So to those of you out there reading this, please pray that God will work through me, because there is no way I can tell people how to do their job, when I don't know how to do it.

Wish me luck!!

Is this when you say "break a leg" or does that even work?!

My exciting day....

I went shopping with my mommy :) Now I'll finally be able to sleep in the morning (yaay)

I drove a little. And it's not easy.. just so you know, it's stick shift, and it's scary. So far top speed is like 10mph...

Decided to make some brownies, but it never got to the oven.. sadly


I was so bored, so I went to my friend Stine's house and we watched Big fish :)

It was a pretty long movie and my hair was in the way, so I decided to change it...

then i came home and had to take it out...

Tip: if you want volume in your hair, braid it..:)

But it's almost 1 a.m in Norway and if I have an idea what's gonna happen if I stay up any longer


Good night :)

Prom

Prom in America is a big deal. Girls talk about it for months and months, buy their dresses several months in advance and put down a lot of money into it..

Here is some pictures of my prom april 17,2010

Decorah with "grandma"

I woke up around 7am and we drove to grandma Epley with the big tractors. Grandma and I drove to Decorah. It was very nice. It didn't really feel like a very long time. She went to this quilt shop, to learn a new pattern. She told me that I could go and explore main street, so I did. I should maybe mention that I might of torn my ACL, and for those of you who don't know what that is, it makes the leg stable. It's in the knee. So My knee is very swollen and looks more than anything like a very very big potato.

You see. I had a soccer game on wednesday. The first actually, and a couple of minutes into the game, I slide tackled a girl, and she lost balance and stepped on my knee.. I could hear a crack inside, but the trainer said that I was good to go, so I played the rest of the game, which was like an other hour, and it didn't hurt too much. But it kept swelling up. So that's the story...
Back to Decorah. We also went to a Norwegian museum and I bought Daim chocolate and Ballerina kjeks, even though they were very dry, it was still awesome. When we got home, grandma epley found some crutches I could use.

You norwegians back home know how much I hate crutches, because of my history. I even wrote a hate essay about them for a Norwegian class my sophmore year.. But these are american crutches, so if they make me get less blisters than the norwegian, I'll be very pleased :)