A Wonderful New Year to You All!!

I wish you all the best for the new year and a great new years celebration tonight, where ever you might be in this big small world!!;) Me and my love are joining some good friends for dinner at their friends house tonight. If we're lucky my sis and her boyfriend will be dragging their asses over to celebrate with us later:)  At midnight we'll be at the roof balcony of the building with bubbles in our glasses, surrounded by firework, good friends and toasting for the new year that we're entering into!! I'm really excited for the New Year, I hope it will bring much joy and wonderful things for me, my friends, everyone close to my heart and all the rest of you people out there!!!;D

Winter Wonderland..

The snow has been falling heavily over the last few days, we're something as unusual as allmost snowed in down town! If I wanted to I could take my skies out and go skiing down the road and most likely I would get anywhere I needed to go... Probably the best way of getting around right now by far! We woke up to more snow yesterday morning, apparently it had been snowing all night.. The road into the house was all covered by at least a foot of snow. Usuallly we don't get much snow in town since it's warmer here, also it has a tendency to disappear or turn into wet, slushy, brown snow... Have to enjoy this while it lasts!!;)

Some photos taken late last eve of the wonderful winter wonderland...

Have yourself a merry little Christmas...

... Let your heart be light

From now on,

our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,

Make the Yule-tide gay,

From now on,

our troubles will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,

Happy golden days of yore.

Faithful friends who are dear to us

Gather near to us once more.

Through the years

We all will be together,

If the Fates allow

Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.

And have yourself A merry little Christmas now....

I've had this song playing in my head over and over again the last few days...;) Big, white, soft snow flakes dancing down from above, drinking my Christmas toddy while snacksing on Christmas cakes. Yes indeed, it will be a very merry little Christmas for us this year, I wish you all the same! My thoughts goes to the ones that's not as fortunate as myself.

One thing life has taught me, you never know what life might bring you and be sure to put no boundaries on it.. As Judy Garland sang so beautiful "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough"... Live life to the fullest and may all your wishes come true!

Warm hugs and much love from VirgineMary!! <3

Christmas time... <3

Finally we got all the Christams presents done, wrapped up and ready!! With Christmas carols on the speakers we packed them together like the little santa helpers team we are;) It all really put me in a Christmas mood! Something about listening to the same old Christmas carols as I have done every year since I was little, the smells and all the traditions...

Grandfather decided to gather the family this year some days before Christmas, which is the first since my grandmother passed away. My grandmother had her birthday a few days before Christmas, the whole family has come together at their place every year since before I was born. When we were kids it was all about making Christmas decoration, playing dress up with my grandma's old clothes (from her hippie periode) and biggest of all; who would get the almond in the Christmas Porage this year! All very exciting:) The winner would get a big marzipan pig which  lasted all Christmas, sickening, but soooo O good! I remember my childhood Christmas parties as a very special time, allmost magical. It was never Christmas before we had been there. That's pretty much how I feel about them still.. This is the first year that I really feel the Christmas spririt again since my grandma passed.  I think I finally got some more distance to loosing a very special person in my life, which I allmost was convinced would live on for ever. At least till a 100! I think we all did. She allways was so full of life, strong and filled with a force that seemed stronger than death it self. Therefore loosing her was a bigger shock than it may have been otherwise. Allmost like when a young person passes away.. It wasn't expected at all. Even when they found the cancer, I was sure she would be able to fight it, and I'm sure she would've.. Only it had spread so badly through her intestants that there was never really any hope. So veird how a person can seem healthy and strong as an ox one day, the next everything is turned upside down and nothing is like it seemed to be and it will never be again. She went through surgery, 88 years old. She would have had to live with a bag on her stomack the rest of her life. Horrifying for my grandma, a very proud person. I'm not sure if it was the cancer that ate her or the thought of the bag or both, but it all got to much. She refused to eat and slowly shrunk into nothing. She fell asleep one December morning, just as silent as the powdered snow crystals falling from the sky...

But life goes on, and it has. My grandfather finally seems to be doing good, though his thoughts is never far away from his love. The fact that he had the party this year says alot.. We had a really good time, gathered on her day, which has also become our day. Celebrating all those passed Christmases, the good time and memories that we have, but also all the Christmases that will come. Don't forget what has been, but never forget what you have and what that will be.

Concerning me, I have a very special person in my life.. Celebrating the first Christmas with him brings all the magic back!!;)

My first angel in the center of the photo, a real beauty;)

I think this is the second one.. Complete with fillings in her teeth. Which I was really fascinated of when I was a kid, I thought it was really beautiful.. ahha Guess I allways been a bit different;) lol

Some decoration from moms dinner table for Christmas eve, the 24. of December.. Which is when we celebrate Christmas in Scandinavia. We celebrate with a really nice dinner, usually with all kinds of traditional norwegian Christmas dishes. Santa come with gifts during the evening, so we actually get to see him;) We also walk around the tree while we're singing Christmas carols.. A very Scandinavian thing to do, I think we are alone about doing that in the world? (Correct me if I'm wrong). I remember one Christmas when we had my greek boyfriend (my ex) on a visit from Greece, I think he thought it was the most hideous thing he had ever seen.. He was standing on a chair taking photos while laughing hysterically. I'm not sure if it says more about him, us or my taste in men;) ahhaha

Santa-mingo for tha brave!!

Or for those who want to make the most (?) out of their lawn ornaments and their holidays (????). The holiday flamingos!!! ahhaha When I thought I've seen it all... Hmm on the other side I guess it can be a good way to keep the holiday deco on a minimum, all you need is a mingo-closet on the attic and a couple of birdies stuck in your grass. Just dress up your pink plastic thingie on the lawn and you'll be all set for the holiday!

We come in peace.. (Yeah right)!

Hohohoh and a merry Christams to ya'll!!

Santa mingo with his mingodeer, why not make it complete with a set of 8..?

 If you still haven't had enough, here you have the über garden flamingo set to make sure that ANY holiday will be a MINGO holiday! Moooohahahahha!!!!!

(All from thepinkflamingo.com)

Hmmmmmm I'm not so sure if I want that scele-mingo on my balcony when we move anymore.... It's like joining one of those sects.. You'll never get out!

Mooohahah And a Very Scarrrrry Merry Christmas to Ya'll!!;D

I've not been able to write for days now, a week maybe.. Christmas has arrived with all sorts of Christmas preparations, arrangements and soscialization... Jolly jolly happy! Christmas table at work (with a splendid after party that lasted all morning, with strangers met in the dark of the night), beer fiest the day after (doing a rare double night, because a promise I made to my man. Never back out of a promise) and a totally new position at work together with my old one has kept me awfully busybusy all week!!:S

I also had my hand read on my way between the Christmas table to more beer out. A random meeting at a road cross down town. A gentleman asked for the time. Turned out he reads energies and hands for a living. That's when I popped out my hand. Peculiar experience, scary how much one can read out of a hand...

I've made a scaresome lil' package of frightful art for you that I found while working late this eve, since we're closing in on the jolly season... Be very aware of the Christmas ghouls;)

Bloody gifts this year.. Merry Christmas by DarkRedRose.

This is so sweeeeet,  I love the decorated tombstone;) Merry Scary Christmas by Platinium420.

Something tells me Christmas won't be the same this year.. Christmas Is Ours by Van Heist.

Love the colors and the silouettes.. Merry Christmas To All by My Twisted Logic.

Very devious, indeed... Welcoming Christmas carolers. Messy Christmas, wallpaper by Dianar87.

Silent night..? My Bloody Christmas by Rotten Orange.

Who can resist this guy?;) By Azkaban.

Ghoulish Christmas decor for the brave;)

Aren't these Christmas ornaments the sweetest? They'll cause the kids to cry and your mother to cough her coffee back up! haha Matter of fact, I think that they would give a great balance to all the traditional, sweet and blingbling ornaments that we have stacked up in our basements and attics for this time of the year. If I wasn't so damn far away from Canada, I would love to get my paws on some of the dark, devious but O so ghoulish sugar coated Christmas decoration from the canadian artist based in Toronto, My Ghoul Friday. I'm waiting with excitement for the next horrific holiday pieces.. I'm sure it isn't the last cuties we'll see before Christmas bells once again are ringing and Santa gets stuck in the chimney;) In the mean while I'm chewing on the idea to get some friends together for a Christmas work shop/wine eve....

Cyberlove by first sight, part 1 <3

Sweet lord, what a a busy week! Feels like I don't even have time to exhale between everything that's thrown over me at work:/ Yaaaiiiiiiiks!!! Christmas is moving in like a buldozer in a china cabinet and unlike for most other people (?) it's  the most busy time of the year with the project that I'm working on. Part from the summer, which is basically mayham too! It could probably be the reason to why I all the sudden feel all jingle bell jolly? It will be the first Christmas for me and my love together, our FIRST Christmas!! Can't believe it. Yeaaahhhiiii, so excited!!! The other two years we've been spending with our phones attached to our ears with duck tape, in dispair of being half a globe away from each other... Talk about jingle bell blues...! Everything has basically been a "first" this year..

Our story starts two years ago. Girl meets boy, they fall in love and all of that.. But we're not talking the traditional way. We're talking viritual dating and falling madly, deeply in love, going like a glowing, hot wire between Norway and the U.S. Forming a realitionship so deep, tender, sweet and pure I think we both were totally and utterly blown away of what we had found.. On the other side of the planet. Impossible, some would say. Fantastic!! Yes impossible I also thought it was, that I would fall in love with someone the cyberway.. I wouldn't have dreamt of it in a million years. Maybe it's just a lack of imagination to start with;) haha Mmm but seriously, I allways thought I would have to have the fysical part to fall in love.. To be able to flirt, touch and see.

We fell in love despite that. The sparking magic of pure connection and words.. At times when we were writing, I could swear that I felt his presence in the room and all around me, though we were miles away and I never even had met the guy. And I'm absolutely positively sure that I felt that first kiss, even though it was a viritual one;) He was with me every minute and second of the day, it was impossible to concentrate on anything. I walked around like a love zombie, blind to everything else, my whole existence revolved around this other person thousands of miles away. Like a drug. Couldn't have enough and I would gladly overdose on him any day if I were given the chance!

Days turned into nights as we turned the day around. Being so far away meant that the time difference worked against us 9 hours. It also meant that most nights I wouldn't get much sleep at all. I would bring my computer to bed and chat all night, or talk on the phone till I dozed away.. The mornings for my part were spent in front of the mirror applying makeup on with one hand, while chatting with the other, and/or while having him on the phone. Most of the time with the videochat on. Glory, glory, halleluja.. Texts and more chatting through out the day, allways there. Allways connected. At some point I developed some sort of veird, disordered emotions for my computer and cell. It's like my electronic devices turned into the real, flesh and blood man that I was in love with! ahha Madness. Hmmm that's when I found out that I had to get my butt over the pond to find out if it really was as good as I thought before I turned nuts over here...!!

I quicly learned that nothing is impossible! Something I had forgot through years in the wrong relationship..

2. part of this impossible possible, adventure of a love story will be coming to you soooooon...!!

Brought to you by VirgineMary;)