Oslo is cold and snowy today. Clouds are low and wind is cold. I wish I could have stayed longer in Houston.

However, Im not gonna complain too much. At least I was allowed to go for my wonderful trip and i do enjoy my colleagues a lot, so its great to be back with them!

So, Im back in Oslo, well located at home.

Due to a complete jet-lag I was so bright awake already at 3:30AM. No possibilities to sleep in so I decided to get out of bed and watch TV to make the time go by.

I watched a touching movie called We Are Marshall
See also other links here to articles about this movie
The official site from Warner Bros
A wiki article about the plane crash this movie is about

I was at work before 7 and its dark for so long in the morning. Its not even getting lighter until after 8:30. Sun never came up today.

As usual my 8 weeks away in Houston and Netherlands went by far to quick to feel real and now Im back to the hard realities of snow and winter.

Getting in early makes you be able to leave early and I did. I first stopped to pick up the luggage my colleague Gaute brought over the atlantic for me. Oyvind has picked it up at Gautes house and has stored it at his work. It was sooo heavy. Im impressed I managed to get it with me at all. After picking up that luggage I stopped by at Jorunn and Atles house to pick up the cat and catch up :D
So with the cat, his luggage, my bag and the purse I had enough to carry. It was tremendous. I did however get it home, how i still wonder, but its home and I spent the rest of the night in front of the fireplace wrapping christmas gifts :D

Kitty seems soo happy to be home and its amazing how he seems to also be very happy to be around me ! I love that cat. He is so adorable.

Since I got home, we have had 1 and only one day with sun in Oslo. All other days have been cold and cloudy, Most of them it has snowed. One day was so foggy we could hardly see our hands in front of us. Temps vary from 0C to -10C
Ive spent a lot of time at home warming up in front of the fireplace.
Its fun to feel like a penguin when walking, because of all the clothes covering you up for the cold. On the sunny days winter can be quite charming.

WOW, that I think was the two fastest passing weeks for a LONG time.
After arriving home and getting back to normal I have been busier than in very long time. It has been a busy period both at work, private life and at home. It is right before christmas and lots to do and prepare.

Finally I managed to find some time for myself and Jorunn and Me went to see a movie.
The tickets were for the Pre-Premier for TWILIGHT
Check also: http://www.myspace.com/twilightthemovie#charFlash
To see teasers - look here:

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We met at Furuset, took the metro downtown where we went to Saga Kino to see Twilight.
Unfortunately I had not the right previous knowledge of the movie. I thought it was a Vampire movie, not a romantic Vampire movie. Therefore I also miscalculated the amount of 14 year old girls showing up to look at the cute vampire fall in love.
This miscalculation was quite awkward at the beginning when the kids were screaming when the movie started, screaming when ALL the cute guys were showing and clapping and screaming some more.
Jorunn and myself found ourself rather amused by this behaviour...

The movie was great ! It was filled with action and funny teenage first love moments, cute guys (funny how that works when they use older actors) and exitement. Its well made and many good comments.

I learned a new, very favourable way of talking about beer. An expression i highly liked:
Hops Vitamins (Humle Vitaminer).

Unfortunately the movie ended too soon and as neither of us wanted to go home, we decided to watch another film as well.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

Watch Teaser here:

This was a completely different movie. It was great, although much deeper and much more serious. It has recieved bad critics in the Newspapers, but what does critics know? Maybe they had a bad day... I dunno. I liked it. And that Keanu Reeves is good eyecandy anyways.

We had a burger and a glass of hops Vitamines before we went home. It was a great night out !