Salisya's Ramblings

I never noticed these guys much but I have been lately. See, I always knew they were cute, but I was never obssessed with them.

Now I meet mai_li and she is gaga over penguins.
So the next thing I see is this post on them from judecorp . Ok so I never here anything, so no big deal one thing. Then yesterday I am walking threw the mall with my mother-in-law (getting school clothes for Ulie since school starts tomorrow!) and we pass by one store that I always admire the paintings as I go by, and what do I see???

A painting of 3 Penguins!!! Thinking I have to show this to Mai-Li!!!
It is like when you buy a new car, all of a sudden everyone has that car.

Mai-Li, we have to go to Oasen! I have to show you this painting I saw!

I have stopped doing that for a while.
It is not that I am board of it, it is more that I have had other things occupying my time. Like WoW. I thought that after a while my attention to that game would diminish, but it hasn't. But I was brought into reality for a little bit... I found a friend!!!

mai_li She is great! And she is my boat. She lives over the bridge from me and moved to Norway for love. (Isnt that just romantic?) And now.. I got her hooked on WoW. So when we can't hang out in person we hang out daily in game.

Life can be good.  :)

I am here, I am alive, just busy.

Dealing with red tape from the US.

Yes, we went to Oslo to renew my sons passport and they wouldnt.
I knew his father had to be there when he got the passport, but I didn't know he had to be there to renew it. So there is this form that he has to get noterized and send to me that says he is aware and can have a passport. @@

Yet that isn't the most stupid part. The stupid part is what the lady at the Embassy said.
She asked if I had sole custody and I told her no. Then she told me she need a noterized form from his father saying he can be in Norway.. Uh DUH, the boy is ALREADY in Norway. We wanted to renew the passport to get back to the US.
I pointed out he was there when we got the passports and going to Norway was the reason. I also showed her his resident permit. The Norwegian government needed specific permission from his father that he KNEW he would be living in Norway. So we had done that but the paper was put on file with the Norwegian immigration.

So here we are back in town waiting for my Ex to send yet another noterized form that states our son can leave the US so that we can get his passport to get him back in the US. HAHAHAHAHAHA

First we went to get my hair cut, (not to sure if I like it yet). Dropped the kids off at the in-laws, then after had a bite to eat. Took a nice 2 hour walk past the beach and had a slushy (yes, they have slushy's here, just a different name).

Came home, relaxed and played WoW while dh painted some minitures. He hasn't been in the mood too for ages. Actually he hasn't been in the mood for anythng in ages. It was great to see him painting again. It is one of his favorite hobbies, it is great to see him enjoy his work!  :)

Life has been a bit hectic partly since dh is home from work on a medical leave. So I have had to take care of him on top of everything else I normally do. So please excuse the lack of posts.
It seems I may never get a pattern of consistant posts the way my life has been the past few years.

But oh well, I am to happy about today to worry about tomorrow.

Have a great one all!

Yea thats right. Tonight we went to the local theater (Festiviteten) and saw a show.

Since I love musicals it was perfect. One of Norways famous musical theater singer. Jan Werner Danielsen, he was fabulous! He started off with Phantom of the Opera and did it in such a new way. He did several songs from the show telling the story along the way. Of course the songs (or most of them) were in English, but the story telling was in Norwegian. So I was a little lost there, but it was still great. After Phantom he did Chicago, Les Mis, Sound of Music and finished with Miss Saigon.

Fantastic evening.