Sabine’s Blog

“I sit and watch umbrellas fly…”
This could sum up my nights lately when most often, after 3 or 4 hours of sleep, I wake and then lye down in bed and wait for sleep to come back.
4 am, it is loud outside, the birds sing “out the wazoo” (oiseau! ) and the sky is gradually changing from dark to dark blue with sprinkles of golden lights into the horizon.
Soon the children of the night get tired and hungry and want to come home. Some of them scratch at the window to come inside. Squeak. I let the fur in and am immediately rewarded with a big cuddle on my big belly. Rubbing, rubbing and purring.
Fruit, chocolate, honey, cereal crackers and milk come my way.
Then after several hours, I wait to fall back into Morpheus’ sweet sweet arms.

Happy mama-to-be at 36!

My first completed knitting project: a pair of lovely but somehow weird looking baby socks. I have used alpaka wool that was hard to knit because it splits and breaks… but it feels good to create something with one’s own hands!
Here is the result:

Our favorite restaurant in Oslo has now become the fusion Vietnamese Xichlo!
The “delicatesses” served there deserve the terms as divine and exquisite.
To give just an idea, this is what desert looks like:

Saturday, April 19th, 2008
My baby shower took place in a cafe in my favorite neighborhood of Oslo called Grunnerløkka. The weather was warm and sunny.
Thanks to the few who came, I had a great time!

Accepter l’imprévu
Mais on aura beau s’être informée, avoir tout préparé, tout prévu, tout programmé, il est possible que l’accouchement réel vienne tout bousculer, et que l’on ne contrôle plus rien. Ce n’est pas obligatoirement un mal, si l’on pense que pour que l’enfant naisse, il faut aussi savoir lacher prise, accepter de perdre le contrôle d’une certaine manière (ne serait-ce que le contrôle de ses sphinc-ters…), et laisser son propre corps devenir, avec la violence que cela implique, le passage glorieux du bébé.

Alors, vraiment, on aura mis au monde.

Source: Publié dans Allaiter Aujourd’hui n° 14, LLL France 1993. Online.

A French expression literally translated as “there is people at the balcony” but that really comments on the female upper anatomy.
Context: the opening of the new Opera in Oslo last week-end.
Guest Angela Merkel, sits with Norwegian prime minister who has to make sure he keeps his eyes at face level!
And obviously, the cleavage was commented on in the Norwegian press the week after the ceremony.

There are days when I would much rather be anywhere else than in Oslo, Norway. Today, April 6th, it snowed and rained practically non stop with about 3 degrees above freezing level. Where is the F++++g spring???!!!
Too bad, I had started the day in a rather good mood and had lots of small projects for around the apartment. I started with a pile of ironing while listening to my favorite French show on cooking. Then I made a “clafouti” with berries and in an attempt to cheer up my dear spouse, put in Annie Hall in the DVD player. His answer was a mere grump and he spent the next two hours surfing on his Iphone and me eating clafouti and laughing at the Woody Allen movie!!!!
While ironing I had started to feel a pain in my belly, very localized and it was worse while standing; so I spent some time in bed resting. I can still feel it and hope it is not too bad. We’ll see the midwife tomorrow.
This is a typical scenario for a dreary Sunday, it is so gray and cold that we end up not going outside and staying in all day does not help. But where would we go? What would we do? No family around, few friends and they are busy with family. It’s a sad life.

The worrisome discovery of franco-japanese nano-technology scientist Eddie Shushuang was revealed last week, in a long article in The Researcher. The scientist’s revelation can potentially create a revolution in the the cell phone industry. Indeed, the active wifidus, a new communication technology will most likely bring about the death of cell phones!
“It was a completely random discovery, explains Shushang, that took place after I ate a yogurt. I put myself in the lotus yoga pose and was suddenly able to have a conversation with my wife who was in Osaka, more than 100 miles away from me.”
He first thought he was the victim of his fatigue when it became clear to him: “It was the result of the interaction of two molecules, the Lactobacillus delbrueckii, a bacteria contained in yogurt and the télépatitae illimita, that I had taken before eating my yogurt.”
source: Telerama.fr