Spring Sprung

Spring has sprung and just like all previous years, I am running around mentally and physically to catch up and try to stay on top of everything.
New this spring though is a totally new job where I have basically started from scratch.
In this job people who have been doing it for years are still learning something new every day. Its exciting, but it takes dedication and hard work. I’m still learning those things

Back in February, when competing at Dalane drilliaden with my favourite twirl girls (http://loveofcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/2nd-place-d/ and http://loveofcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/competition-photos/), we made the decition to compete again in June. Technically, we were planning to wait until october for the next one, but we were flying high on the competition buzz.
This too, is very exciting. If you told me a year ago that I would be competing in three competitions this year, I wouldn’t have believed it. The plan was to compete in october last year and potentially february this year. And then I didn’t really picture much else.

October last year didn’t happen. We were all busy trying to remember the basics and trying to get back in to twirl girl mode. But when February came, we were back in the game, and got us a nice little trophy to take home with us. The trophy was like fuel to a recently lit fire, and we are now in prep for June 4th, competition day again.
We still have the same twirl team routine, but have added a duet. Me and Elise are still working on it, and its not done yet. But come June 4th it will be done and rehearsed, and we will be dancing it out on the competition floor. Also, we are attending a workshop early in May, and the plan is to learn some amazing new rolls to add to the duet.

Our training times are spread out over the week, one hour here and one hour there. We must love what we do, because we are really working hard to make this twirl thing work out. Also, we are prepping the little twirl girls for May 17th (Norway Day), for the parade (folketoget)  in Stavanger. And some of the girls for a little weekend performance thing at the end of May.

Before it all gets to me though, I will be taking some days off to go home for Easter. Where the plan is to eat too much sugary stuff, watch movies with my sisters and read all those books I recently ordered off Amazon (www.amazon.co.uk). And after that, I’ll be ready. Fit for fight

Its life. Its busy. Its spring.
Its wonderful <3

Happy Easter!

x JennyMathilde

Falling in Love with Ben’s Brother

I downloaded some songs from “Pretty Little Liars” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1578873/) a few weeks ago, and fell in love with the song “Beauty Queen” by Ben’s Brother.

Since then I have aquired the rest of the music by Ben’s Brother, and I am completely falling in love with the music.
Though there is a newer album (“Battling Giants” ), the album I have fallen the most in love with is ”Beta Male Fairytales” .

I am a lyrics person, and often find that if the lyrics are bad then I will pretty much hate the song all together. Ben’s Brother knows their lyrics.
For you, so you too can fall in love with Ben’s Brother :

x JennyMathilde

Birthday Party for My Dad

We had a birthday party for my dad late in March. He turned 50 this past December, and we had a celebration with his closest friends and some of our relatives. We had a fun night, and we sang a lot of songs
Me and Aina even did a little performance in dedication to our brilliant dad. We sang ‘In the Sun’ by Joseph Arthur.

Here are some photos from the party:

Love you, dad You are BRILLIANT!!!!

x JennyMathilde

Taking Care of My Jewellery

To start taking better care of my jewellery, and to make my bedroom a little more decorative, I went online shopping to find a nice jewellery stand and some hooks to hang my jewellery on.
I ended up on amazon.co.uk, and a little shop called ‘Not a Jewellery Box’ that sells jewellery stands, hooks, earring books etc. (shop here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/b/qid=1302449495?ie=UTF8&me=A38XQXCXTKHT5M)

I bought these particular ones because they are a little fun and reminds me of spring and summer:

I loved them so much that I’ve ordered some more of the hooks for my bracelets, and a couple for future birthday presents

x JennyMathilde