Birgit’s blog

Hehe, the title sounds like something Cher Horowitz (or Paris Hilton..) would’ve said, doesn’t it? It’s not quite _that_ bad, though.

When I got my job in the web design agency, I had to bring my own pc (very small company, I was their first employee who didn’t also have an ownership in the firm). I purchased a real working hero, an Asus T6K, at nearly 3 kilos. It’s been great - and still is - however, now that I’ve gotten my own desktop pc at work, and we already have several at home, I no longer need a “big bad monster” of a laptop. I’ve persuaded my partner into purchasing it, and for a while I’ve been looking for a smaller replacement, one that I can carry along with me everywhere. I think I’ve settled on the Asus Aspire One - but which colour? I’m torn between white and pink, but I kind of like both the blue and the brown ones as well. Which one would you chose, and why?

Shopping from US online stores isn’t always the easiest thing when you are living across the Atlantic. Some stores don’t ship internationally at all, which is a pita when the items they offer aren’t available elsewhere. Fortunately for me, Jen <3 doesn’t mind being the middle man, meaning I have the stuff shipped to her, and then she sends it to Norway. This summer my oldest kiddo had his mind set on a Godzilla playset found on Amazon.com, and of course they wouldn’t ship directly. Jen to the rescue, she told me go ahead and send it here, I have a few things I want to send to you anyway. Today those “few things” arrived..! Adrian was dead happy to get his monster figures, and I? I was beyond thrilled to find not one, but _two_, bento box sets, _lots_ of bento supplies (rice molds, egg molds, sauce bottles, food picks, grass dividers). Bath’n'Body lotions, a Hello Kitty notepad, a box of Pocky and two boxes of yummy Pretz, om nom nom nom..! The gift was made even more special when I learned that Jen has a pink version of the box on the picture, and that she and Sarah both have the black box with rabbits and birds. We’re connected!

I’ve added photos of the “haul” on flickr, please have a look! Oh, and on the subject on other sites: I’ve set up a dolls&toys LJ. I didn’t want to mix personal entries with squeeing over plastic, and I am pretty certain most of those I’ll add as flisters on that doll journal won’t be too interested in what’s going on in my non-dolling world. Please add moeeeh! ო if you want to keep up with my collections! (Why “moe“?)

Off to Denmark tomorrow, on Thurs-Friday I am participating in an Umbraco training course in Copenhagen. We are thinking of using this CMS for low budget clients, will be interesting! I am going alone, and “have to” spend an extra day (tomorrow) because of stupid flight schedules. Am taking my camera with me and hoping for nice weather! Now I’d better log off and set up the laptop I am bringing along..!

.. I am so smitten by the Pullip bug right now. Just look at these gorgeous photos!

They are taken, and edited, by a young boy named David. Looking at his flickr profile I wouldn’t be too surprised if the kid makes a career in design, not everyone have as “clean” and stylish rooms at such a young age..! And the eye he’s got for what’s pretty.. I am envious!

My own Pullip photos so far can be seen here. I am having so much fun with this!

So, after having drooled over asian ball-jointed dolls for several years, I’ve finally splurged out for one. I have been wanting the Dollmore Eve “Lilis Liv”, but $550 is more than I can afford or even grant myself for a toy, beautiful as it might be (and although my partner tells me otherwise, he’s a model car collector and claims that they can be just as expensive). Anyway, I’ve discovered that the less expensive Pullip brand has some really gorgeous ones too, and I’ve just received my first one; a Nomado. Pullips are not _really_ ball-jointed, but they are commonly mentioned as such and often collected by bjd lovers.

I haven’t really had a real photo session with her yet, the picture above is from when I unwrapped her. I haven’t even given her a name, as I understand is custom among doll owners. Suggestions, anyone? I was thinking “Lisa”, but that’s really dull compared to the names that others give their Pullips.. (I just thinks she reminds me of character Lisa from Six Feet Under).

I’ve also bought a Chill (pic1, pic2), and I am currently the highest bidder on a Zuora. That one is nude, though, and not with her stock clothing, so I won’t go too high. Pullipstyle.com has her in mint condition for a reasonable price, so if I don’t get the eBay one I will most probably order her from there on my next paycheck.

These dolls can wear Barbie clothes, so I am going shopping in my lunch break (as soon as I’ve blogged this!). ) I will also have my mum knit me a few outfits - she’s declined to make me amigurumis because she hates sewing them together and shaping them, but I know she’s knitted Barbie clothes before so now there’s no escaping! Finally, I will set up my sewing machine - this will be the incitement I needed to get it fixed (there’s a problem with the bottom thread). I am really looking forward to creating stuff for the dolls and taking them outside for photo sessions!

What’s _your_ silly hobby?

I’ve recently had a boost of attention towards my flickr account, the reason being a few decent but yet mediocre macros of butterflies. I am not playing the flattery game here, honest, I won’t even show any of the photos in this post. My point is that I have _loads_ of other photos on my stream that I personally hold _way_ above those butterflies, but has anyone but me noticed those? I think not. And the same thing applies to how some can get page up and page down of comments on photos that - at the best - are.. ok. I find myself gobsmacked by some of the photos that, judging by the comments, should be wallworthy at a fine arts gallery. I’ve realized that doing the rounds on others’ streams works wonders, but I don’t think I will ever _quite_ understand the mechanics behind how the flickr comments system works..

Lazy first evening of summer vacation, originally uploaded by anotherme’s stuff.

I am between laptops - now that I’ve finally gotten a desktop computer at work, I’ve convinced my significant other to take over the “monster” laptop that I purchased a couple of years ago in order to actually get that job (small company, we’ve grown since then). I want a smaller one to use at home and out-and-about, I really really want a Macbook but will probably end up with something similar to the one on this photo.

Tonight I’ve been installing and modifying a “hidden” version of Flock on my kid’s laptop (no shortcut icons anywhere, you have to get into the program files folder to start it up). As it’s a pc granted to him for use in school, I don’t want to set up an extra user for it, nor do I want to keep switching bookmarks etc. for his default browser (although Foxmarks made that task a _lot_ easier). Plus, now I can autosave the passwords.

Anyway, Flock is the perfect browser for my social butterfly evenings on the couch, using kiddo’s laptop until I get one of my own! A few glasses of nice, chilled, white wine goes well with it.