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MRI Day

I wore the lovely, naalebound hat I got from Ingvild again today. I find I like wearing ‘pointy’ hats. maybe it’s the witch in me :D I need to make more of these, and I’m definitely making myself a Chaperon. By the way, the only reason it’s standing up  like that, is that my bun is in the point.

It turned out to be a long and hard day. I arrived in Trondheim around 8 AM. I had planned on returning some before going to Unilabs, but discovered that the doesn’t have anywhere to deposit books outside of their opening hours. So I had to do that after the . I’m thinking all this carrying of books might get any injury to show up even more clearly as well. It was far from .

If you’re surprised that I’m writing at all with my shoulders in this condition, there are more ways of writing than sitting at a desk, in front of a computer. I’m mostly using my phone, since it doesn’t require me resting my arms on anything. I’m also using my laptop, since I can lay down on the couch and write, which also prevents some of the unnecessary pain. Another thing I wish to make clear, is that I didn’t write all this in one go, it was written in increments throughout the day, and then edited together.

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Viking Market and Hair

Yesterday I went to Vikingmarked and had a great time, but I thought I’d share what I had done to my before going. On Thursday evening a and her soon to be 18 year old daughter helped me braid my entire into 80+ braids.

First rounbd of braiding

I know I look weird here, but I don’t mind the variation in thickness and location. Although my friend said I looked like I’d escaped from an asylum. We almost laughed ourselves silly over that. more »

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Things you see

Things I see on my way to in the mornings…

I have to remember to just look, not buy...

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November Norn

I've blurred this photo so she can't be identified.

From what I hear, this was the coldest in 220 years. The temperature has been -7,9 C/17.8 F, the warmest 8,2 C/46.7 F, and the coldest -22,7 C/-8.9 F. And the last week it’s been around -20 C/-4 F (according to official ). So you can imaging that my have been acting up.

I didn’t use to be bothered by , but this time I have been. I talked to the doc yesterday, and got the ok to up my doses as long as this cold spell lasts. Energy levels are good though. I’ve started a few new , like learning Icelandic and making animal totem with Norse graphics.

The thing I wanted to write about was something that made me a bit curious, and I want to hear if you’ve had any similar experiences. Remember that I’m speaking as someone who has no psychic ability whatsoever.

As I was sitting in the train station this past Thursday afternoon, a caught my eye. And the first thought that popped up in my head was the word ‘Norn’. For those of you who don’t know, the were fate goddesses in the Norse Mythology. I have no clue of why I got this idea, but I did.

She was tall, slender and very beautiful, but also very pale. And she was wearing a black coat with her hood up. She had the posture of a very strong and confident woman.

I know she isn’t a real Norn, but I though it was interesting that this was my first thought. I normally don’t get such ideas when I see new people.

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Samhain Preparations – MrsB’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 20

Yesterday, we got home about 45 minutes later than usual, because of an accident. It looked really bad, one of the people were stuck, but fortunately the three people involved suffered only mild injuries. Here’s the news article, if you’re interested: http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/sortrondelag/article1542356.ece

I tipped off the newspaper and a station, and I was posting on Facebook and Twitter during the time we were in the traffic jam. The newspaper asked me to take a picture as I passed, but I didn’t get any good ones, and their journalist got there before we were allowed to drive.

 

 

It’s been snowing today. These were taken early this , that’s why they’re dark:

 

Earlier posts:

Day 19

Day 18

Day 17

Day 16

Day 15

Day 14

Day 13

Day 12

Day 11

Day 10

Day 9

Day 8

Day 7

Day 6

Day 5

Day 4

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1

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Samhain Preparations – MrsB’s 31 Days of Halloween – Day 15

I thought I’d show you some I took with my phone yesterday. The weather turned from sunshine to in about ten minutes. Even though I didn’t want this soon, it’s pretty fitting considering yesterday was the first day of , and was seen as the . It’s celebrated as ‘vetrnætr’ or by many heathens. Some celebrate díseblot on this day.

Not a very nice thing for the drivers to see. I thought these leaves had a lovely color.
A fallen leaf. Up in the tree.
Another leaf, Maple this time. Lots of leaves.
I seem to have a thing for leaves :) And tree tops.
Guess I don't have to tell you what this is. And another leaf.
Snow! More snow.
Well, it was more like hail.

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Earlier posts:

Day 14

Day 13

Day 12

Day 11

Day 10

Day 9

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Day 6

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Day 4

Day 3

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Lisa Williams in Trondheim

Photographer: Caroline CohenourAs many of you know, I watched in on the 12th of . The show took place in Olavshallen and started at 7PM. I was seated on row 9, so I had a good overview of the stage.

Before the show, the projected clips form the shows that have been broadcast on TV.On the stage, there was a chair and a small table with flowers on it.

Lisa came out onto the stage in a blue dress and a black jacket. She had a new hairdo and color, at least for me. Her was dark with red accents. She looked good.

She started off by talking about languages, and that it doesn’t matter that she doesn’t speak Norwegian, and that the spirits may not speak English. There is no language barrier in the spirit world. She apologized beforehand for any mispronounced names. She said she normally tries to learn some of the language when she’s abroad, but said that she hasn’t been able to get a handle on Norwegian. That’s perfectly understandable. I’m , and I had to twist and turn quite a bit to learn Norwegian, even if they say our languages are pretty similar.

Lisa Williams Live is coming back to Norwegian TV next year. Then they’ll include clips from Norwegian shows as well. She’s got a new book which will be published on the 1st of March next year. It’s called ‘Survival of the soul’ and deals with what happens when we die. This book can be pre-ordered from Amazon.com. It will probably be translated into Norwegian, and Lisa hopes she’ll get the same translator as last time.

She spoke briefly about the crystal ring they were selling outside. They launched it in Bergen this year, and it has an amethyst and the text ‘I believe’ on it. This is because Lisa, and many other mediums, had to hide her abilities from others, and it’s a reminder to believe in yourself.

She plans to come back to next year to run a teaching program. If you’re interested, you should sign up for her newsletter to get updates.

The stage had a couple of drapes with flowers, and bubbles. Lisa pointed to the bubbles and made a comment about confusing them for orbs. She said it was OK to take pictures before starting. But when she started her , she needed cell phones on silent and no cameras because they interfere with the connection.

She showed a piece of paper and said that she’d taken down some messages before the show, and that these would be read at the end. Someone on her staff had written them in Norwegian as a joke. Fortunately for her, they were written in English as well. She said that she’s traveling with two men, and they behave like her brothers. They pull pranks on each other all the time. She said that the messages would be published on her site, and that she might post them in Norwegian as well.

She described the way she finds the person the message is for, and said that it’s sometimes very specific, other times not. So she asked us to make a clear sign if we felt like she was referring to us. Too many are shy and look at their feet when they recognize something, but then they run the risk of her missing them.

She told us a story about a skeptic who was once called upon, and who she finally got him to acknowledge that she was speaking to him. Like she said ‘There’s no escaping L-dub’. She asked us to remember that it isn’t our gut or our forehead that does the talking, so we should speak into the microphone, and speak clearly. The microphone doesn’t bite, she said. She also asked us to forget about any spilled spaghetti sauce that might be on our shirt. She needs interaction. This means real answers, communication, not just ‘mhm’.

In the middle of it all, she asked someone ‘Can you wait a second’. There was a very pushy spirit trying to get through.

She explained that several spirits might work together for a reading. That they might share a message. So if we felt like part of the message was for us, it most likely was.

Before she started doing the readings, she asked if there were any children in the audience. The reason for this was that she might have to filter the messages for adult content. There was one child in the audience that night. She also said secrets aren’t safe. We shouldn’t ask the spirits to come through while in the shower, or in other embarrassing situations, because they will see that.

She finished her intro by saying that she’d be in Oslo the next night.

The first reading involved someones son. A pushy but charming man. Lisa first got something about a gray, or dark t-shirt. She then got something about a tattoo. They had brought his gray t-shirt and his sister was getting a tattoo on her wrist the next day.

Lisa commented that it might get a bit ‘Late Night with Lisa Williams’ sometimes, before going on with the next reading.

This time it was something about cancer, lung problems, a confused mother, and someone not liking vegetables. A man stood up with her mother. The spirit was his father, and the confused one was his grandmother. He hated vegetables. Lisa had messages from both his father, his grandmother, and his mother’s in-laws.

Before the next reading, Lisa made a comment about hating peas.

The third reading was about a little girl who had been ill. There was something about a bike as well.She said that she didn’t like the hospital, but that she was happy no.  Lisa asked if they were planning another child. The mother said they’d talked about it. Lisa told them to talk some more, because the daughter said she was coming back, but that she couldn’t do so before her mother had let go. She said she’d come back as a boy. Lisa said you can recognize people that come back in their eyes.

This girl helped another girl come through. Lisa saw wheels around her, and that she’d been difficult to understand. This was a seven year-old who’d been in a wheelchair.Lisa spoke to the mothers of these girls. The seven year-old girl was with her aunt on the other side.

The next reading was for a man who’d seen Lisa’s show in Bergen as well. She got a pain in the head, something about dying in another country, and then America. His brother had died in America. He died from a guns hot to the head. Lisa said that although there had been attempts by everyone to make this something it wasn’t, the brother was the architect of his own death. The man’s mother, his father and his wife’s father also came through.

For the next reading, Lisa got the name Astrid. She said there was cancer in the picture, smoking, and someone who was a bit of a shoe freak. A named Astrid was who the message was for. Lisa said she could smell the smoke, and that the mother was smoking now. That she loved her smokes and her food. She said the mother had huge breasts and panties, and that she’d hang her panties so that all could see them. She gave the daughter the message that ‘The shoes don’t help your knees’. The mother like everything neat. In the middle of everything, Lisa got the message’ Please don’t sing’. This was for the daughter again. her mother had also said ‘Your father’s here’. They had the kind of relationship where they had a friendly banter between them. He was a proud man with a lot of inner strength. She was ‘Daddy’s girl’. There was the message ‘Celebrate your birthday’. This was meant for Astrid’s daughter. He also said that he has the dog. Apparently this was Astrid’s sister’s dog. There was also a man with his trousers up under his arms, and this was the twin brother of Astrid’s father. The reading ended with the message that someone needs a new bra. That or someone’s having a boob job.

The next reading was about a vivacious and charming woman. She had a sassy look. She liked to sing and the message was for a sister or a friend. There was something in the chest area which had spread to the pelvis. The sister was in the audience. She said that her sister had died from breast cancer which had spread. The dead sister talked about her getting the boobs in the family. She also talked about being with her mother who picked her nose. She died too young at 54. She asked them to say hello to her daughter via Facebook. The living sister’s husband, who died from cancer, came through to talk to his daughter. He said he comes to them in their dreams, but he’s sorry he can’t speak to them there. He also went too young. He said it’s OK to have moved on, and that he loves his daughter’s art and the writings of his wife. His son has his watch, which has stopped. He didn’t mind this, but he asked them not to throw it away.The father said he’d be at the wedding in December, and that he wanted the daughter to have the perfect life.

Lisa then read the messages she’d taken down earlier. She didn’t read them in Norwegian though. She said these would be posted on her website, but they aren’t up yet. She said she’d be back in Norway about the same time next year. This will be a longer tour, and it will include a teaching program.

It was a great show. Very entertaining with lots of humor.I got the ticket for free, which is the reason why I could go. And no, I’m not going to tell you how of from who I got it.

Lisa is a woman and one of the few mediums I feel I can believe in. I’m a pretty skeptic person otherwise. She’s able to communicate details that would be impossible for her to know, without being in contact with the spirit in question. She’s also very , friendly and caring.

Links:

http://www.lisawilliams.com
http://www.twitter.com/lwmedium
http://www.facebook.com/lisawilliamsmedium
http://www.myspace.com/lisawilliamsmedium

Associated news articles:

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1528299.ece

http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1528471.ece

http://nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_trondelag/1.7289076

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Review: Bakgården Spiseri & Bar

Picture from their website

Yesterday evening, before I went to the show, I had dinner at Bakgården Spiseri & Bar. The restaurant is at Kjøpmannsgaten 40 in , . Their specialties are tapas, pizza, wine and cocktails. When possible, they use fresh and local produce.

The first thing I noticed was that it wasn’t very easy to find. It took a while before I saw the sign.

As I walked to the front door, I saw their outdoors area. It looked nice, but since I was eating with a who has rheumatoid arthritis, I suggested to my other that we’d sit indoors. Once we got inside, my impression was a pretty cozy, smallish restaurant. There weren’t that many guests, but that’s probably due to the fact that we arrived at 5PM.We were greeted, friendly and promptly, by the waiter. We sat down at a table for four, and the waiter came to remove one of the settings, because we’d told him there were three people in our party. He came back with the three menus and we began deciding what to order. The menu is in Spanish, with Norwegian translations.

My friends ordered pizza. One ordered a Margherita (because she’s vegetarian), and one ordered the Serrano Pizza (Serrano ham and Rocket). Both were satisfied with the taste, although the one with the Margherita, who’s used to real Italian pizza, commented on the softness of the crust.

I decided to try the tapas, because I can eat pizza anywhere, and when I can, I like to try something new. I had to choose something reasonably safe though, since I was going to be stuck in the theater for a couple of hours immediately after eating.

I only ordered from the warm tapas, and the dessert menu. I had:

  • Cordero con mango, Papaya y Aji (Lam with Mango, Papaya and Chili)
  • Calamares á la Romana (Fried Squid Rings)
  • Patatas con Aioli (Fried Potato Segments with Aioli)
  • Forest Berries au gratin with White Chocolate and Vanilla )

I was a bit worried about the lamb being too hot. I don’t normally eat spicy food, so I’m not used to it. But there was nothing to worry about. The lamb (which was from Røros) was wonderfully tender, had no trace of that ‘ flavor’ you sometimes get, and was perfectly balanced. You got the chili taste, but only warmth, no real heat.

I’d never had squid before, but it was nice. It was very fresh, not rubbery at all.

The potatoes tasted good. The only thing about them was that I might have liked them a bit crispier.
The forest berries that I had for dessert were wonderful. The ice cream tasted like real ice cream, not like it was bought in a half gallon plastic tub at the local super.

It was, over all, a lovely meal.

With this I had a glass of Laroche Petit Chablis 2008, which I liked. I normally stick to Rieslings, but I liked the mildness of the Petit Chablis. The bread which we had on our table was very fresh.

We got our food and our check in good time. You have to expect to a little when you eat in a good restaurant. I have only good things to say about the service and the food. So I will return another day to try more of their tapas. I will probably do this on a day when I don’t have to play it safe :)

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