I've been hiding from the news as part of my holiday rituals. (It's always a low-tech 1974 during my holidays :) So this 'Dagmar' storm took me by surprise last night. Now that was one of the more impressive storms of late, I barely dared look out the window to see the damage. Fortunately, we seem to have gotten away with some windblown garbage from the one neighbor who cleverly piled their stuff against the outside of the trashcan when it was full. So that was exciting.

Otherwise, a nice, low-key weekend with much good food and enjoyment of presents. And Skype is wonderful invention with family as scattered as mine :)

Okay, testing testing, do my mood themes work here now?

ETA: Hrm. Didn't work on this post, but suddenly turned up on some of my previous ones. Oddnes. Fiddling a bit more...
ETA2: Yay, works!
ETA3: Boo, broken again. Hosting trouble, I suspect. (If I've guessed correctly, the 'weird' icon might work.)

I was going to post on Dreamwidth, what with LJ begin buggy, but apparently it's been too long since I was on there. Had to try several time to get the password right, and ended up with a message about my ip address being banned for trying too often. Using the 'forgotten password' link didn't help either. The most annoying thing is that there's no info anywhere about what temporarily banned means -- minutes? hours? days? weeks? Bah. Over to Google+ to try if that cooperates today.

Spent the evening watching two 15-meter dragons battle it out along the Aker river. Pictures sometime when I have more braincells :) (and computer respons at a rate faster than 1 character every two seconds. Hrmm, now what's up...)

At this rate I'm going to defeat the purpose of having reusable shopping bags, by having so many I'll have to start disposing of them. But not quite yet, and I'm having so much fun with them... This is the newest aquisition, which is a sparkly red rose when folded up.
( Cut size of pictures... )

I'm so glad so many of my Livejournal friends have made the move to google+. Probably need to revive my Dreamwidth account if this continues...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2063952,00.html

Pictures from my attempted shopping trip downtown today -- the shops were nearly all closed, it turned out, at the advice of the police. (They were still somewhat uncertain as to whether there was a second shooter, I think.) Fortunately, everybody I know in Oslo seem to be safe, I think I've heard back from most one way or the other by now.

https://picasaweb.google.com/103046004721860247033/OsloTheDayAfter20110723

As I'm typing this TV is showing photos from the other nordic countries, where people are gathering in front of Norwegian embassies and similar to light candles and lay down flowers and otherwise show their support. It is quite touching.

Now that was a beautiful, beautiful episode. No waffling monologues or needlessly inserted non-book scenes, wonderfully acted and filmed. I'd scatter little hearts about the post if I knew the trick of it! <3 <3 <3

There must be a Murphy's Law somewhere that covers the situation when a new mail notification pops up .5 second after closing the the gmail tab -- it's as effective as bringing on rain by washing your car!

Excellent episode tonight (not done with season 1 yet over here), with Catelyn Stark finally getting moving and joining Robbs army. Enough with the waffling, This Means War! Sansa and Arya fight the fight in their own way, the Septa defends her ward with her life, Daenerys saves the 'lamb women' from fates worse than death, and whatserface the captured wildling at Winterfell puts things into perspective for Brann. And the godswife that will later cause major spoilers enters the game. (And people still gripe about GoT not having positive female roles. *snort*. Oh, and I forgot the other whatsherface, war leader for one of the Vale tribes, who was delightfully non-lovely :D.) Oh, and Tyrion is wonderful as always. Loved the scene where he met his not-so-loving father!