tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51925692024-03-07T09:51:27.929+01:00The Plump Penguintraining stuff, food and drink, rants and raves...feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-55864105474293864842012-02-12T19:26:00.002+01:002012-02-12T19:28:45.214+01:00Pingu shenanigansPingu has started playing with building blocks a lot. He also has this toy where you can put different shaped blocks into the correct shaped holes in a bigger box. Well, this particular toy has pink triangle blocks that he absolutely hates for some reason or other (he normally doesn't mind pink)... Last weekend while cleaning up all the blocks he has, we discovered that the pink triangles were feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-50713755202947577312012-02-04T18:52:00.001+01:002012-02-04T18:55:48.751+01:00Reasons #3627 and #3628 I'm fat#3627: Not only does Pingu feed himself his baby food with a spoon, he spoon feeds me as well, and I accept the food so that I don't get him too upset or offended.He's getting better at getting food from the bowl onto the spoon and into his mouth, but he still needs a lot of practice ;-)#3628: At some point during dinner, Pingu decided to stuff his food-slathered hand into my mouth. I licked the feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-72894699328226486062012-02-03T20:17:00.003+01:002012-02-03T20:18:11.785+01:00Fire! Fire! Uh-huh! Uh-huh!We've FINALLY lit a fire in our fireplace WOOHOO!!!feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-32767963285525470572012-02-02T21:32:00.003+01:002012-02-02T21:39:23.609+01:00sometimes I wish......that Pingu was a Pinga. Then I could dress her up in pink and glittery stuff, and buy her pink Legos and Hello Kitty and stuff. Just to piss off the so-called "feminists" who are anti-pink and anti-anything girlie. Because they hate being women and femaleness and girlieness so much that they will deny anyone with XX chromosones the right to want to wear pink, be pretty, etc. because misery feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-4709806984609478292012-01-31T19:59:00.003+01:002012-01-31T20:10:47.950+01:00pics from Pingu's first birthdaySince I was too lazy or something and didn't post them here on the 8th of January...Here's a shot of Pingu, very fed up with Mamma and Pappa, who only wanted a nice family photo...After the photo session and a nap, we took Pingu out for his first sledding ever! He got the sled for Yule but we didn't get any proper snow here until the day before his birthday (my birthday hah!) Sledding was very feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-80820008621859365802012-01-31T09:57:00.002+01:002012-01-31T10:12:08.884+01:00Wow, 2012 already?It looks like I got lazy. Or busy. Or something. My last entry here was from the day I went back to work after maternity leave...A lot has happened since then. So here's a quickie update. Pingu has grown. A lot. He started barnehage (Norwegian version of daycare) in November and is doing very well there. He really needed it by the time he started. Not that there was anything wrong with hanging feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-36713262427285105962011-08-08T19:04:00.002+02:002011-08-08T19:07:21.123+02:00Back to work...Today was my first full day of work since... last year. Pingu is seven months old today. Husband of feitpingvin has his work cut out for him for the next four months... muwahahaha...
As expected, work was a bit chaotic. After reorganization and my group moving floors, I had no workspace and all my crap was missing. By the time I left, I had a desk and I found a good amount of stuff but I'm stillfeitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-69884129556800844872011-07-09T10:29:00.004+02:002011-07-09T10:41:52.382+02:00six monthsOur little Pingu turned six months yesterday. To celebrate, he got his first taste of meat. It went down very well :-)He started solid foods at five months. There is a lot of debate as to when to start babies on solids; some say four months others say wait until six months. Pingu was very ready for it at five months. He was showing great interest whenever he watched me eat something and he was feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-84262292719464232582011-07-06T15:24:00.000+02:002011-07-06T15:25:08.860+02:00Pingu shenanigansPingu is not allowed to play with power cords. This means that playing with power cords and especially pulling them out of the plug is the best thing in the world to do...I'm pretty good about keeping an eye on him and making sure he stays away from the power cords. But he tries to find ways to sneak his ways to the forbidden fruit... er, power cords. He has discovered that if he "tosses" his feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-27528366633178095362011-05-14T22:58:00.001+02:002011-05-14T22:58:56.985+02:00Eurovision...I normally do a snarky blog entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, but due to other distractions (Pingu), I decided not to do it this year. It's just as well as this is the worst Eurovision I have ever seen. Usually, Eurovision is "so bad it's good." This year it's all just plain awful...It's a shame that Dana International didn't make it to the final. I would have SMS voted for Dana feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-28358903110697658082011-04-25T20:51:00.006+02:002011-04-29T21:02:14.097+02:00Salma coladaI made this the other day using some of the salmalaks we hoarded; it was a very random experiment. I'll formalize the recipe some day, but in case you're good in dealing with haphazard recipes you can try it yourself...Start cooking the sauce:- 200 ml coconut milk- juice from 1 can pineapple chunks (from those 3-pack things you get in Norway, can edit with more info later) - ca. 100 ml. Be sure feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-58003725895320334222011-04-25T20:48:00.002+02:002011-04-25T20:50:50.949+02:00annoying...There was this dude at the gym who was lifting up his shirt to check out his "abs" in the mirror. All he had to offer was a round belly, even when sucking it in...Now why couldn't this have happened when I was 30-something weeks pregnant, so that I could carry out my evil plan? The one where I whip out my pregnant belly and admire it in front of the mirror each time I see some dude lifting up hisfeitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-35252131715251962682011-04-19T19:19:00.004+02:002011-04-19T19:33:04.348+02:00salmon and vegetables in spicy Thai-style blood orange sauceOne of the grocery stores here had this really fancy salmon (Salmalaks) on special and I bought a few pieces. We usually use it for sashimi but it's nice for other dishes as well...Tonight I made a sort of Thai-like curry with the salmon. And some blood oranges I had to get rid of. Here's what I did:- Squeezed out the juice of three blood oranges. Put the juice in a saucepan, boiled, and allowed feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-83538801703998442052011-04-18T19:11:00.003+02:002011-04-18T19:14:11.008+02:00100 daysPingu has now been the Emperor of our household for 100 days now. His first 100 days speech started with some cooing and gooing and aahing, ending with some shrill screeching. A revolution in the midst? Hmm...feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-77471981775351611752011-04-17T17:14:00.002+02:002011-04-17T17:19:27.790+02:00getting there...I had a really good workout this morning. I seem to be getting somewhere with the squats now, and managed 3 sets of 8 reps at 60 kg. Again, it seems like a weak core is my nemesis. It's the showstopper. And admittedly, I have been bad about training my abs since having the baby. I'm bad about training abs in general; it's so boring. But if I want to get back to the truly heavy squats, I really feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-28764442011129641362011-04-13T21:00:00.003+02:002011-04-13T21:08:12.283+02:00"vaccine thighs"Vaksinelår in Norwegian. Pingu had his three month control today and, among other things, got some vaccines. His nurse said he had "vaccine thighs" - nice plump thighs that were perfect for sticking a needle into :-DI'm so proud of him too with regard to the vaccines... he got two shots, the first one while he was asleep (rude awakening, the poor thing), and after some screaming and squealing, hefeitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-12310075074828800552011-04-11T14:29:00.005+02:002011-04-11T14:36:23.786+02:00sharp dressed babyIt was nice and warm and sunny out yesterday, so we all had lunch at a local pub. Unlike his Mamma, who is looking tired and flabby due to lack of sleep and exercise, our little Pingu is looking rather spiffy at the tender age of three months...Of course, it was Mini Wolfgang who taught him how to dress... ... and how to hang out at pubs hehe... which only results in Mini Wolfgang's favorite feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-52052454203706154092011-04-09T12:02:00.003+02:002011-04-09T12:10:57.717+02:00three monthsPingu turned three months yesterday. I was going to post this yesterday too, but I couldn't log in... boo!Anyway, I took him to the clinic to get weighed and he was 6550 grams, meaning he weighs a little over twice his birth weight. Damn he's gotten big :-)He's also changed quite a lot over these past weeks too. He's more curious about the world around him. Some of his signals - cries, facial feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-90526712785166788292011-04-02T16:40:00.002+02:002011-04-02T16:41:54.299+02:00stupid calves...Don't you hate it when a pulled muscle ruins your workout? And the rest of your day? Grrrrrmf!I did manage to do a set of Tabatas though. I tried to do back and abs exercises after I limped off the treadmill, but my mood was already killed... bah...feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-20293693067755902772011-04-01T17:41:00.001+02:002011-04-01T17:41:48.284+02:00I haz shiny new passport!!1!!1!Wow, the new passports are really nice. I really like all the different pictures and quotes on the pages as opposed to that old boring design.What's also great is that I could order a 52-page version right away, so that I won't have to deal with getting extra pages well before my passport expires...feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-64875872295985111942011-03-31T19:11:00.004+02:002011-03-31T19:14:14.470+02:00comfort foodToday is one of those not-so-nice spring days. You know, the one that is more of a winter day than a spring day...I'm making meatloaf for dinner tonight, served with mashed potatoes, green beans, and brown gravy. I haven't made meatloaf in ages, and it's the right kind of day for a meatloaf meal...What comfort foods do you enjoy? And what's for dinner tonight?feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-68840753528126089482011-03-31T16:31:00.005+02:002011-03-31T17:52:14.413+02:00lazy ThursdayThe weather has suddenly turned from nice to total crap. It was snowing earlier, this wet snow that gets nasty when it hits the ground. Now it's raining. Bah. Indoor weather for sure...I did manage to force myself to go out while it was snowing since I needed to buy diapers and some groceries for dinner. Rather than use the pram, I used our baby carrier. He was awake at the start, and was rather feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-17133781287451486512011-03-27T15:06:00.004+02:002011-03-27T15:19:15.060+02:00I hate daylight savings...I really need the hour that I have now lost. Because of it, I probably won't be able to take Pingu out in the pram so that he can get some fresh air. I'm off-schedule and in a bad mood because of it. Everything feels so wrong today...I didn't make it to the gym until noon; I had been hoping to go between 10 and 11. Grrr. I did mostly upper body work and I'm still pathetically weak since I'm only feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-76491132518794574432011-03-25T21:11:00.003+01:002011-03-25T21:12:53.415+01:00cute and cuddly...Taken using my mobile phone. I really should use my proper camera for shots like this...feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5192569.post-79421178418827733272011-03-21T16:51:00.003+01:002011-03-21T16:57:38.850+01:0010 weeks of Pingu-related facebook status messagesNot all of them, but most of them ;-)Jan 9: Pingu is here! He decided to show up 8th of January at 23:17. He has blue eyes and lots of dark hair, is 49 cm long and 3232 grams. Now... to find a proper name for him!Jan 10 feitpingvin loves the smell of newborn baby ♥Jan 13 feitpingvin walked into the bedroom to see Pingu and husband of feitpingvin sleeping in the *exact* same position! ♥Jan 15 feitpingvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12156752899131605072noreply@blogger.com3