Pingu 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 missing and that a few of these really nice building blocks were also missing.
Hmmm...
We looked pretty much everywhere. In drawers, under tables and the sofa, in bags... I even dug through the rather full and nasty garbage bag to see if I could find the blocks. Nope...
So we figured they would turn up eventually but we were still a bit distressed...
A day later, Pingu and I were playing on the floor after I picked him up from barnehage. He was playing with his favorite blocks - these green cylinder-shaped blocks. Green seems to be his favorite color. Anyway, he suddenly crawled over to one of our speakers and put the green cylinder in the hole of the speaker. I took it out and gave the block back to Pingu. He screamed at me and then shoved the block back into the speaker hole with a very defiant look on his face. I had to stick my arm in to get the block and... lo and behold! A whole cache of blocks inside!
Silly penguin...
I managed to fish out most of the blocks but we had to shake out the other blocks, after unsuccessfuly trying to disassemble the speaker only to find that the parts were painted shut.
We've now stuffed some thick wool socks into the speaker holes so that this doesn't happen again :-D
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12.2.12
6.7.11
Pingu shenanigans
Pingu 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 toys towards a power cord, he can roll over to the toy and make it look like he's trying to get that toy. He'll keep "tossing" and "shoving" the toy towards the power cord until he can roll right up to the power cord and start playing with it...
The little sneak...
And he isn't even 6 months old yet (he will be on Friday). Yikes!
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 toys towards a power cord, he can roll over to the toy and make it look like he's trying to get that toy. He'll keep "tossing" and "shoving" the toy towards the power cord until he can roll right up to the power cord and start playing with it...
The little sneak...
And he isn't even 6 months old yet (he will be on Friday). Yikes!
14.5.11
Eurovision...
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 International... *sigh*
It's a shame that Dana International didn't make it to the final. I would have SMS voted for Dana International... *sigh*
8.1.09
the war on pink
So pink is damaging for girls but blue is not damaging for boys?
I think some of these "commentators" take themselves too seriously. They go on and on as if every single thing out there for every friggin' female is pink. Sheesh...
I think some of these "commentators" take themselves too seriously. They go on and on as if every single thing out there for every friggin' female is pink. Sheesh...
26.12.08
Alternativ jul
It was the same procedure as last year - husband of feitpingvin and I spent julaften (Christmas Eve) and 2.juledag (Boxing Day) at Alternativ jul doing the dishes. Husband of feitpingvin sent stuff through the industrial dishwashing machine while I did a lot of manual washing, mostly of pots and pans, and cleaned up the dishwashing area every chance I could. At one point during julaften, husband of feitpingvin disassembled the dishwashing machine and he scrubbed down the whole thing while I hand-washed all the parts. We spent all of last year doing dishes, and our experience came in handy, as we were able to systematize the procedures, ensuring that everything ran smoothly. It seems like our efforts were really appreciated; lots of people commented on how good and efficient we were at doing our work...
There were a lot of guests on julaften. The doors opened at 4 pm; when we took our dinner break around 7 pm, it was difficult to find a place to sit and eat. When some of the volunteers dressed up as Santas to give out presents at around 9 or 10 pm (don't remember when they did this), I went out to take a peek at the action, and the main dining area was completely full. It was not that full last year or the year before. Good thing there was lots of presents. And food! Sheesh... it seems like every year we get more food than the year before (and we've been doing this for eight years). Among other things, we got more marzipan pigs from Nidar and individual-sized cartons of orange and apple juice than anyone knows what to do with. The volunteers were allowed to take as much as they wanted to home with them (and there's still lots left over!). We also got to take some leftover smoked salmon and free-range eggs and cream (hah! we have the ingredients to make ice cream now!). Yummy :-) Oh, and I also managed to snag a plush Pingu (leftover from last year's gifts) hehe. Just what we need here. More penguins... ;-)
On a sad note, Alternativ jul did have a nasty incident. Gypsies showed up, and while many of the guests were sleeping/resting, the gypsies went around and stole from them. WHAT. THE. FUCK. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with them?! The "regular" guests are people who don't have much to begin with. The gypsies, on the other hand, are tourists from the EU (Romania - they can come here on a 3-month tourist visa). So while we've more or less always had an open-door policy in the past, we were instructed to not let them in. It really, really sucks that they have to ruin things like that. Seriously, is it really possible to stoop so low?! Aaarrrrgh...
The guests were otherwise well-behaved, polite, and very appreciative of our efforts and all the presents and all the food. As always.
Anyway... it's all over for us this year. We're tired and happy, and will most likely do this again next year. Now... what on earth are we going to do with 2 kg. of marzipan?!
There were a lot of guests on julaften. The doors opened at 4 pm; when we took our dinner break around 7 pm, it was difficult to find a place to sit and eat. When some of the volunteers dressed up as Santas to give out presents at around 9 or 10 pm (don't remember when they did this), I went out to take a peek at the action, and the main dining area was completely full. It was not that full last year or the year before. Good thing there was lots of presents. And food! Sheesh... it seems like every year we get more food than the year before (and we've been doing this for eight years). Among other things, we got more marzipan pigs from Nidar and individual-sized cartons of orange and apple juice than anyone knows what to do with. The volunteers were allowed to take as much as they wanted to home with them (and there's still lots left over!). We also got to take some leftover smoked salmon and free-range eggs and cream (hah! we have the ingredients to make ice cream now!). Yummy :-) Oh, and I also managed to snag a plush Pingu (leftover from last year's gifts) hehe. Just what we need here. More penguins... ;-)
On a sad note, Alternativ jul did have a nasty incident. Gypsies showed up, and while many of the guests were sleeping/resting, the gypsies went around and stole from them. WHAT. THE. FUCK. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with them?! The "regular" guests are people who don't have much to begin with. The gypsies, on the other hand, are tourists from the EU (Romania - they can come here on a 3-month tourist visa). So while we've more or less always had an open-door policy in the past, we were instructed to not let them in. It really, really sucks that they have to ruin things like that. Seriously, is it really possible to stoop so low?! Aaarrrrgh...
The guests were otherwise well-behaved, polite, and very appreciative of our efforts and all the presents and all the food. As always.
Anyway... it's all over for us this year. We're tired and happy, and will most likely do this again next year. Now... what on earth are we going to do with 2 kg. of marzipan?!
23.12.08
21.12.08
oh, and speaking of cluelessness...
I saw this gem the other day. It's so full of fail it's unreal, and it's typical of "journalism" these days, especially in matters relating to science, nature, health, and medicine. And if that weren't bad enough, you should read the comments. People actually wash their produce in bleach. Fascinating. I'll bet these are the people who are sick all the time...
It really makes you wonder how human beings managed to survive so long. Now excuse me while I go feast on some raw eggs and "rinsed just to get the dust off" fruit..
It really makes you wonder how human beings managed to survive so long. Now excuse me while I go feast on some raw eggs and "rinsed just to get the dust off" fruit..
19.12.08
Bigotry baiting under the guise of political correctness
The more I read about something-or-other Christmas being banned because Christmas "offends" other cultures - the whole "War on Christmas," for example shit like this (OK, we're talking about housing association twats and they're by default a pack of dumbasses, and they took back their petty demand, but still) - the more convinced I am that it has nothing to do with "offending" other cultures and all to do with inciting "Christians" (and some others) to hate people of other cultures, religions, and whatnot. I doubt anyone has asked what Muslims, Hindus, Martians, whatever think about the Christmas lights or other Christmas crap...
Here in Oslo, a lot of Muslim businesses actually decorate their establishments with tinsel and lights while spraying god jul on their windows, with that white fake snow stuff. It's usually pretty garish, but at the same time kind of funny and cozy...
Here in Oslo, a lot of Muslim businesses actually decorate their establishments with tinsel and lights while spraying god jul on their windows, with that white fake snow stuff. It's usually pretty garish, but at the same time kind of funny and cozy...
30.1.08
sure, give Norwegians another reason to hate foreigners...
This really pisses me off.
I need to calm down before I can write much more about my feelings about the matter. My guess is that the people who thinks this is a good thing are the "I'm from Oslo and therefore better than everyone else in Norway" elitist twatballs who want to force the Oslo dialect (a rather unpleasant dialect I must add), and it's a severe insult to everyone from anywhere else in Norway; this has historical roots.
Of course, they're going to make foreigners the scapegoat rather than the arrogant Oslo elite who think they're better than everyone else. And let's not ignore the fact that this makes foreigners look stupid and incompetent. Like that stupid Russian chick mentioned in the article. "Waaah waaaah waaaah, boo hoo hooooo, poor me I can't understand dialects, accommodate me!" Like that stupid journalist, who can barely translate Norwegian language articles to English. This hurts us more than it helps us, but I guess my cries fall on the deaf ears of the coddling crowd...
Also keep in mind that the kind of "people" bearing the arrogant "get rid of the dialects" mentality are also the same "people" who refused to let rooms to people from the districts, before the Pakistanis started showing up...
*grrrrrr*
I need to calm down before I can write much more about my feelings about the matter. My guess is that the people who thinks this is a good thing are the "I'm from Oslo and therefore better than everyone else in Norway" elitist twatballs who want to force the Oslo dialect (a rather unpleasant dialect I must add), and it's a severe insult to everyone from anywhere else in Norway; this has historical roots.
Of course, they're going to make foreigners the scapegoat rather than the arrogant Oslo elite who think they're better than everyone else. And let's not ignore the fact that this makes foreigners look stupid and incompetent. Like that stupid Russian chick mentioned in the article. "Waaah waaaah waaaah, boo hoo hooooo, poor me I can't understand dialects, accommodate me!" Like that stupid journalist, who can barely translate Norwegian language articles to English. This hurts us more than it helps us, but I guess my cries fall on the deaf ears of the coddling crowd...
Also keep in mind that the kind of "people" bearing the arrogant "get rid of the dialects" mentality are also the same "people" who refused to let rooms to people from the districts, before the Pakistanis started showing up...
*grrrrrr*
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