Have been trying to install Movable Type on my server, for what feels like forever, and I'm just going to call it a night and see what can be done tomorrow. I've been running Wordpress so far, but there are certain things about wordpress I'm less than keen on, and would like to try out Movable press. 

My main problem so far has been that the MP instructions seem to say that I have to put a certain folder in the CGI-BIN folder, but talking to support, it seems very clear that I haven't deleted this folder by accident once upon a time, that it is in fact hidden. And attempts to put the contents of the folder in the main directory instead gives me the error of downloading the installation script folder instead of starting it. Yay…! Which obvious was not what I was intending to do. 

But the further I go along, the further I'm inclined to think that this is an impossible task at the moment. 

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Norwegian female took gold yesterday. Norwegian female took gold in biathlon today.

As my former American classmate (now a Dane) would say: Biathlon is skis and guns, what's not to love?

Waiting for the males to race now.

http://www.kvsc.org/

And wouldn't you know, the lack of sleep, a cup of tea, and one small square of chocolate has brought back the heartburn and general stomach issues. I long for the point where I have a tube shoved down my throat to find the actual reason for all this, and not just figure it out after I eat stuff that I can't handle.

Finally found the last 500 words to the crossover I've been working on since the summer holidays: How I Met Your Mother/Buffy crossover: at Twisting the Hellmouth

I do like it when I manage to finish up some of the stories that hang around in my head.

 Sitting in my kitchen, observing the pot that might be Dulce de Leche when it is done - if things work out okay. I found a recipe here, that I am trying out. I don't know why, but there is something about weekends when I am not working that make me want to try new recipes all the time. Possibly also because I have energy now, after three+ weeks of being without any energy at all. 

I filled up a jar with rum earlier and added some vanilla beans. Let's see if it turns into vanilla extract. (Which is an ingredient in a lot of recipes, but I haven't been able to find it in stores in Norway. Possibly because it may contain alcohol and Mother Norway is notoriously tightfisted about having high percentage-alcohol for sale in regular stores.  [cut a long rant about Norwegians and alcohol and legislation]

It is freezing cold in Norway (isn't it everywhere, except where they have summer, perhaps) at the moment. I'm kind of finding it comforting to sitting in the kitchen, watching something cook on the stove, knowing that I don't have to go out tomorrow. 

(I plan to go out tomorrow to work out at the gym, but I don't have to go out... there is a difference there, I think.)

For the past 7 months or so, I have been sleeping on a bed that had been in my grandmother's guest room for the past 30 years. My grandmother and mother were going to be nice to me when I moved home, so they put a bed in my room (and then lumped all the books I'd had stored at home into the room with it.) 

This has meant that getting a new bed (and in fact the whole decoration process for my room) has taken a bit more time than it would have had I arrived to an empty room. It took me about four months to get to the step where I painted my room, and it has taken me three additional months to get to the point where I went out to buy a new bed. I suspect a dresser is going to take me a couple of additional months. Curiously, a book case took me less than a month. 

But my old bed was short. Which in itself did not matter as I am not among the shortest of people. I slept fine lengthwise in it. But doing other things, as in lying on my stomach and reading, was deuced uncomfortable. And my bed was narrow. I measured it, and the standard Norwegian mattress today is 90 cm (which would be just a bit over 35 inches), mine was 78 cm (30 inches.) No wonder I felt like I either was hitting the wall, or falling out of the bed. 

So, I decided that I wanted a bigger bed. 

The smart thing to do, would have been to get a double bed, but then I would not have had any floor space left. 

So, I got the second-best thing. I got a 120 cm (47 inches) wide mattress from IKEA, which I plan to put legs on. Then I don't have to worry about space for the frame, yet I get space under the bed for stowing away things.

And I have room, glorious room to roll around. 

On New Year's Eve 1999, I had just completed my first semester of high school.

This New Year's Eve, I have just completed 7 months of my first "real" job. I have a bachelor's degree, I have a master's degree... and I have student loans that I will have to start paying back in February. I have lived 5 years abroad. 

It's been an interesting decade, to say the least. 

Happy New Year People!

I had an excellent time last night. Just me and my sister, S, but it was fantastic. No fuss to get anywhere, and an amazing view in both directions of the fireworks. We played some monopoly, saw the first episode of the West Wing, and then the two first of Firefly, because S hadn't seen that before. (Now she is borrowing the DVDs to watch the rest).  

True, I started getting tired around 8-ish, but a cup of tea rejuvenated me enough so I stayed up a good 7 hours after that. 

The menu was so good. We started with home made Challah bread with butter and jam: continued with Sweet & sour chicken with jasmine rice. and ended with butterscotch and chocolate fondues in which we dipped fruit. 

Yummy. 

Back in December last year, I made a list of goals for 2009

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(Without, you know, actually being one, and being very tidy and...)

I've been making Christmas cookies all weekend (three kinds), topping it off with Nigella Lawson's meringues (coloured blue and pink, because we felt like it.)

And I'm planning more with my grandmother for next weekend.

and blogging about it: lemon mousse (sitronfromasj), carrot patties, sago porridge, and the cake from Matilda, Miss Trunchbull's Chocolate cake.


It is kind of neat to take the time out to actually create something. kailyra and I have been mapping out which Christmas cookies to make this year (odds are the parents will be making some at their place, and we don't want to make the same things, because that's no fun when it comes to swapping). So far we're at 6 to make ourselves and two to make with grandmother, and then comes gingerbread and other things with the parents. So we'll probably beat the seven kinds of cookies that is needed in Norway by good housewives.

And I did not make Nano. Which I'll make up starting tomorrow on a new project. <br>