when I saw you on that stage, I shiver with the look you gave

Traipsed downstairs this morning to discover my brother visiting. I'm sure my mother nagged him to come home to eat. I was happy to see there was wonton soup-- one of my favourite dishes ever, probably. The siblings and I sat watching animals on television, before my brother had decided he'd had enough. So Monchita and I tagged along with him to his apartment. It was Monchita's first time seeing the place, so she got a bit of a tour. My brother had bought a board game for reason I didn't really listen to, but we sat down to play a round. I lost, which I already knew would happen before the game started. Regardless, it was fun. After chatting for a bit, the sister and I decided to leave. We we're getting hungry, but stopped by Oyster and Mars' house. We did the kind of thing that no grown-ups do these days: we just stopped by without calling or texting on beforehand. Luckily for us, they were actually home. We had a bit of a chat on the bedroom floor of their younger brother-- my hands were distracted by lego. Upon arriving at home, we discovered that we had visitors. It was some of our extended "family" (not blood-related), and the kids were playing in the garden, which was a really nice sight. It reminded me a lot of my own childhood running around like that. My mother made spring rolls yesterday, which we had for lunch today. It's not that often that I eat spring rolls, but sometimes it's the best thing ever. I didn't exercise today-- in fact, I haven't all week. A bit not good. I will endeavour to be better for the next week. I've got work in the morning, which I'm dreading a bit because I'm not sure how well I'll sleep. And the normal dread before a shift, because you never know when it's gonna be hellish. 

Don't you hear that rhythm? Can you show me how we can escape

Yesterday was a fun day. First day of vacation started off packing, using my newly acquired packing cubes. And honestly, it's so fucking satisfying looking at how organised my suitcase is. I've really been looking forward to this for a month or so, now, and it was just how I thought it'd be. Kiwi laughed at my silliness, but agreed at the practicality of packing cubes. As did Marble, and I knew that Marble would get it. We've travelled together multiple times now, and we've always had conversations about how messy it is, living out of a suitcase and never finding that thing you packed until you get home and unpack. We had planned to go to a museum yesterday, only, none of us had been attentive enough to check out closing times. So we got to the museum, realised it was going to be closed in ten minutes. So instead of going to the museum, we just continued walking towards Akershus festning, then towards Aker Brygge, and then Tjuvholmen. After walking from store to store, we ended up having some grub at Wayne's Coffee at Tjuvholmen. We did think of picking up a few things at the grocery store, then walk back to Akershus festning, but time was running out. After we'd gone to the loo, we went to the venue where we were going to watch stand-up. It was already filled up when we got there, but eventually we found ourselves some seats. Sugar was a bit late, due to her train. But she got there just in time. It was hilarious, my cheeks were hurting from smiling so much. Maybe it was the two beers I had guzzled, but wow, I thought I'd pee myself. Obviously, not all acts were my cup of tea, but that's just how stand-up goes. After going to the loos, and waiting for the rest of my friends, we met some acquaintances from school years ago. Well, they're good friends with Marble, but to me they're acquaintances. But they joined us for drinks afterwards, and it was lovely. We all ordered different drinks and had a taste of all of each others' drinks. Funnily, they were all in different colours. I went hard on my last drink: a mix of vodka, gin and rum. It was definitely noticeable. I tried my first drink because of one of the ingredients were Midori, and I was curious to taste it. I know now that it's not my kind of drink, but it was good to taste nevertheless. We chatted, and sat for maybe two hours before we decided to go. Sugar had left us an hour in, or so, coz she was going out. The rest of us decided on a whim that we'd go out too, well, try. When we got to the place we wanted to, it turned out they had a 23-age limit, which was fucking annoying. As Marble and I discussed: it feels like we never get old enough. We wanted to go dancing as well, and there's not many options when you want a good dance floor. So we went to the neighbour club, where the line was humongous, but we decided to give it a try. Our acquaintances left us then, and we were joined by one of Kiwi's acquaintances. An hour in, we were still stuck in a near-still line, and had just gotten enough of all the pushing back and forth. So we left to try another place, but the mood was kind of subdued, and we knew that we wouldn't get the dance floor we wanted. So after walking from place to place, we decided to go home. A lone Dane approached us, asked us for directions. Gracious as we were, we actually followed him to the underground, only to find that it had stopped going, then we lead him to the bus. We all got a hug each, and I concluded that we had done a good deed. Imagine being in a new country, your friends have left you, and you've no idea of how to get home. Just a minute later, we were approached by two guys who had lost their last train, and no way to get home unless anyone could drive. We couldn't help them, but they were grateful anyway. Kiwi and I were both welcomed to sleep over at Marble's, but I figured out that I could just walk from one of the bus stops, and get home. Another day, I'd probably sleep over. But I figured since I'm going to Paris tomorrow, I ought to be home and pack up. I got home at 2.30 am, but didn't go to bed until 4 am. Burnt myself on hot cheese on my toast, nearly finished reading a fan fiction. Although yesterday didn't go just how we'd expected, I really liked it, and it was a perfect first day off. Doing things on a whim usually means the endstop will be uncertain, but that's the fun in it. You don't know how things will end up. I'm glad we decided we wanted to go out, despite not getting in anywhere. At least I had a nice walk with my friends through the streets of Oslo. I always find that it's such a nice atmosphere at night, when everyone's had a bit of alcohol, the bars are pumping with life, and strangers meet strangers. I woke up at noon today. I've got to clean my bedroom, exercise, have a shower and pack up the last bits. Tomorrow awaits an exciting adventure, though I strangely enough don't have much expectations. It starts really early, so I have to somehow fall asleep early tonight. Good luck with that, I tell myself. As for you, have a good week. See you in a week, when I'm back from Paris. 

when I saw you on that stage, I shiver with the look you gave

Been playing around with my glitter pens as you can see. They were gifted to me, mostly as a joke I think. They're One Direction glittery pens, and prior to a few days ago, I had not used them despite having them for what feels like years. But I've been using them when editing my thesis, and yesterday I decided to have a break to do some drawing. I'm obsessed now, everything just looks really nice when it's glittery, I think. I listened to Fearne Cotton's last show yesterday, and it's so strange to me, how BBC Radio 1 seems to be having this huge remake or summat. Everybody's changing and I don't feel right. It was really good though, some tears, and very lovely messages from a lot of different artists. Coldplay and Tom Odell wrote songs for her, others covered songs for her. It was lovely. I also realised that Olly, lead singer of Years & Years is dating Neil from Clean Bandit. It was coz Olly had posted a picture of them urging the Irish to vote yes to the marriage referendum (basically voting yes for all genders to be allowed to marry each other). I totally ship them, they seem so cute together, ah. It seems like Ireland is saying yes, so that's really great. I mean, people travelled home from loads of places just to vote, which I thought was so incredibly awesome. I decided to sleep in today. It's the first time in weeks I've not had an alarm on, and my dad came barging in around 9 am. Said: "we're going to the store". Usually I think I'd decline, but instead I groggily rolled out of bed and got dressed in record time. My sister drove us, which was slightly strange. It doesn't matter if she's gotten her license, my dad's still very much "do this, don't do that". I imagine it'll last forever (not). I've not sat in a car for what seems like ages, so it's always a bit strange. Also, I've not joined in on a family shopping day for ages either, and we went to a grocery store I'm not completely familiar with. Whilst my dad was looking at a coffee machine, I went to find what I wanted, and my sister went her own way. It's Eurovision tonight, so we're going to make food and snacks for it, I think. I'm excited! But for now I have to do some editing on my thesis, then I might go outside to enjoy the sun for a bit. Lols, looking at what I've written now, all of the artists I mention are British. Is it hard to guess what I favour? Good weekend. 

it's you that I've been waiting to find

Are we out of the woods yet? So I spent yesterday doing nothing on my thesis. Well, mostly nothing. I was initially going to meet with my teacher today, but I'm not done with my thesis yet (when will I ever be?), and it didn't feel right to meet with her when I wasn't done yet. Because I slacked yesterday, I really need to get some work done the next few days. It's eleven days until it's due, and eleven days until I'm free. It's weird, because I think I feel more sad then stressed. I told Ally, whom I've been talking to the past week, that I sort of don't want it to be over. Because this is the very last bit of being a nursing-student ever. We did a bit of reminiscing. Yesterday my belieber friend brought me home with her, made me food and brought me to her woods. We saw one live squirrel, and one dead. The latter made me scream in fright. I don't like seeing dead animals, and I've addressed it once. It was especially awful because we'd just seen one chilling in the woods, eating. We played a bit of Mario on Wii, this time with Darren. We didn't do any better or much worse I thought. But we only played for a tiny bit. I got home just in time to watch Norway perform in Eurovision. And we made it through to the finals! I was really relieved, because I genuinely thought we wouldn't make it, considering there was a lot of really great acts yesterday. I told Kiwi I don't have an inkling of who'll win. There's just so many good acts this year, I thought. I'm looking forward to watch the final, and to the live blogging by others. It's so amusing, like this picture. I still can't get over Australia, but I think it's funny. Alright, I ought to get some work done. Good weekend x.