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The Blogette is in the running!

I was over at a blog I frequently visitt the other day. This time, I noticed for the first time a poll at the sidebar. This particular poll, polled the most annoying things on a blog. You could choose between a various of, I guess ANNOYING things. Hm... I feel like the Blogette is under attack!

Here are the socalled "annoying" blog elemtents up for voting:

1. Google Ads. I'm still in the clear.B


2. Bad grammer. Hit one! My grammar may not be all that bad, but my spelling is horrendous. I have mild dyslexia. And my spell checker isn't working so there is a lot. I know.


3. Expletives. Well, I NEVER swear... My dad always said swearing only let's on that you have a limited vocalbulary. I wouldn't want people to think that of me. I read. A lot. I'm intelligent! I promise.


4. Pink Layout. Hit two! I'm guitly. You should have seen my lay out before! It was a lot more pink on here then. But how can a pink layout be annoying? I don't get it? Isn't pink EVERYONE'S favorite color??


5. Slow loading. I don't think this is a problem. I don't have a lot of stuff on my site that need to load.


6. Food pics. Hit three! Yes, I've had them and I'm planning on putting more of them on here! I was going to do a recipe sharing with pictures and encouridge others to do the same! Like a recipe party! What a great way to learn new, simpe and tasty recipes from all over the world. How can this be annoying?


7. Girle stuff. Hit four!! I'm a girl! Of course there will be girle stuff on my blog!

Conclusion: I got a 4/7!! I guess my blog must be really annoying. So I thought, should I change anything? Well, I guess I could try to look trough my posts better before clicking post. Spelling errors are annoying. But I won't promise perfection! I do have dyslexia and english is not my first language.


Then there was the pink lay out. It stays. Enough said!


Food pics. Hm.. no, they stay. I love pictures on blog. In fact, I think it's annoying when people write and write and write and never breaks it up with an illustrating photo! Preferably one they have taken themselves. Well maybe not annoying but defintly boring. People are visual creatures after all.


My final hit was on girlie stuff. It's obvious people enjoy different things. I'll keep my pinks, my pictures and continue to post whatever I want. And if you don't like it:


STAY AWAY!

And for your viewing eyes only: Look what I made for dinner tonight! Yummy!!

xoxo

Carina Blogarina

Yesterday I was pretty fed up with studying so I called up my boyfriend to cheer me up with some jokes. He told me a few.

Jokes have a tendancy to ridicoule people. In Norway we have this "feud" with Sweden (all in good fun of course) so we have a lot of Sweeds jokes. And they have a lot of Norwegian jokes. A lot of the jokes involve a swede, a danish person, and a norwegian person. The Scandinavian version of the luheran priest, the catholic father and the jewish rabbi I guess.

There are a lot of jokes out there that makes fun of serious matters. Racism for example. Two of the jokes Derek told me yesterday were about starving people in Sudan. A serious topic. Still, funny jokes.

I'll admit it. I laugh at these jokes. The fact that they are so offensive makes them even funnier. What do you think? Are some topics to serious or sensetive to be touched? Or is humor a way to bring people together and should know no boundaries?

It would really make everything so much easier if you could comment on a post directly from google reader. Think of all the time we could save if we didn't have to actually open a new window or tab. It's really unecessairy. Since the post is already read, all we do is scroll down to the post comment button, then we have to wait to load another page or pop-up. This really annoys me. This time could be used to read more posts! Maybe we are not talking about that much time, but still it would be so great to be able to leave feedback directly on the page you read the post.

This would be a great christmas present to bloggers everywhere. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would appriciate such a feature.

Thanks in advance! I'm sure you'll get right on this.

Carina Blogarina

Oh, if you are looking for something to read, check out my shared items on the right side bar. I recently shared a few new favorite posts from my google reader. Maybe you'll discover some new bloggers to follow!

I moved into my appartmentbulding, which is in a ice part of town, the week before easter. As my dad and I was going shutte between the car and the appartment carrying all my stuff the girl across the door from me opened and a girl came out. A really pretty girl. No, strike that. She was georgous. A classic beauty, like Anne Hathaway. She was so sweet and introduced her self as Rachel. She just moved in the week before! I immidiatly thought she could be my new neighbour friend. Where I lived with Derek I got real close to a neigbour, and we're still friends.

A few weeks later it was just about midnight, and I was on my way out to take Percy on his evening walk. As I was locking my door an older man came in the entrance and started unlocking the door next to Racheal. He was completly wasted, barely able to keep his balance. And of course, he started talking to me. He was really open, to open for my taste. He told me how he was going through a divorce. How this was his daughter's old appartment he was living in now. How he was a big bank executive. It was annoying, because I wasn't really in the mood to talk to anyone, I just wanted to walk Percy so I could get to bed. And, I'm not particulary fond of old drunks either. Also, one should be careful when dealing with drunks, after all they can get agressive real fast. This man seemed harmless enough though.

Then he dropped the big bomb! Now, he didn't fart or anything. But he started teling me how the girl living next to him was a whore! Meaning a woman who sells sex, not just a girl who as lots of partners. He was referring to Racheal. He told me that he has seen men go in and out of her appartment, that he could hear her get it on at night. I didn't know what to say. But I didn't contradict him. Like I said, I don't like provoking wasted people. I didn't know what to belive though. I mean, I had gotten such a good impression of her that day in the hallway. She didn't look like prostitute... She actually looked really classy, and fresh. But, who knows what a prostitute looks like these days? I mean, maybe she was one of thoose luxery girls?


What would you have done? Would you have defended the girl? Do you think you can spot a prostitute?


Needless to say, this was six months ago and a lot have happend since then. I'm a drama-magnet! I have to hit the books again now, but I'll tel the next part of the story soon.

I started this blog one year ago. Actually "The blogette"'s one year birthday was last week, and my last post was post number 500! When I started this blog it was a all about me, my wrecked relationship and how i coped with depression. I don't blog about living with depression anymore, as it's embarrasing. When it comes to my relationship, you who have followed since the beginning know that I got my way and Derek and I are maybe stronger then ever. We're really in a good place now, but it will be exciting to see how the relationship will be when we move back together.

I haven't posted anything in a while. There are a few reasons for this. The ones that weighs the most is that I have been so busy with school that I have been getting behind on reading my blogs. There are so many blogs out there that I love to read, like Life of Leetid , Mommy Mania and Insomniac Lolita which are my favorite blogs. There are so many posts that I want to comment on but there is just enough time. I have so many unread post in my reader at this point. I try to read a good chunk every day, and then I keep the ones I want to go back and comment on unread. Some of you may have gotten comments from me on a lot of posts all at once? lol.

I feel bad when I don't comment. It like there is an unwritten rule in bloglandia that if someone comments on your site you have to comment back. So instead of writing myself, I spent the little time I have to surf the web on getting throug the numerous blog I follow in reader. But I miss getting my own rants out to... Like this one. Blogging should be fun, it shouldn't be about trying to please everybody else. Sometimes lifes get's hectic. Personally, I'm in my examsperiod here and paragraph this and that is all I time for.

I think from now on I'll try to write my own posts, and maybe there will be a few less comments coming your way. I hope you won't think I'm rude, or ignoring you, because that is not the case. And I'm excited for December to come around and I'll be back on my normal schedule :o)

Remember about two months ago I wrote a post about Martine Vik Magnussen, who was brutally murder a year and a half ago in London, and who's killer still goes free. Tonight they showed a documentary on the case on TV2, and it's bothers me a lot that her suspected killer goes free in Yemen because of politics. This is not justice.


Scotland Yard has concluded that her friend Farouk, who escaped to Yemen in the early morning after the murder did the evil deed. Then how it is that he is still living in freedom? Why is it that neither the British or the Norwegian authorities have managed to have this man in front of a trial? It is disturbing.


Martine's friends have started a website, http://www.justiceformartine.com/, where they ask people to sign their name and location. They put out this signature campaign only this afternoon and all ready they have over 5000 signatures. They have started a group on facebook that in less then a week gathered over 50 000 members. From a small country of 4 million, that is a lot. Clearly, people are reacting to this case. By a crossing a border this man has escaped the consequenses of his actions. There should be, and there is a need for, internation laws so that these loopholes in justice will be closed.


I ask you all to sign the petition on http://www.justiceformartine.com/ . The first part is written in norwegian, but translation follows in english. You sign on the left side bar. Even if you are not norwegian or english, I think we are all beniftted by establishing some international rules on extradating policies and so forth. I hope you will all sign.

From the site: The murder of Martine Vik Magnussen cannot be solved until a fair trial has been set up. So far neither British nor Norwegian authorities has been able to do this. That's why Martine's friends now are seeking help from you! Together we will try to influence Jemeni, British and Norwegian authorities, in addition to the man wanted for the murder and his family, so that justice can be done.

We hope to create a big movement in support of Martine's rights! And please remember: this is not only for Martine, but for your rights and for basic judicial rights in all of international society. Please help us through your participation! See this Scotland Yard web site for more information: http://www.met.police.uk/wanted/suspects/abdulhak.htm.

Obama is this year winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. I guess this means he has to pay my city a visitt to come and pick it up.

I am joining most norwegians in being completly shocked the Nobel comitte choice. I mean, there were so many amazing candidates this year. Obama has only been in office since January, what has he reaaly done to contibute to world peace at this point? Yes, he has restored hope in his people. And he has bettered the international climate between the states and Europe, but then again after Bush - how hard was it?

What about my favorite candidate prime minister of Zimbawe Morgen Tsvangiari? He ahs fought so hard this past year for democracy in Zimbawe and has borught dictator Mugabe at least to some extent to his knees. He has made and will continue to be such an asset to the people of Zimbawe. He would definitly have been my choice.

Or what about Hu Jia? The chinese human rights activist he been working on enstoring democracy in China and has been involved in AIDS advocacy. Or Ingrid Betancourt, the columbian-french politican who were captured by columbian gerillja FARC back in 2002 and rescued in 2008. There are so many great canditates this year, who have contributed to peace in conflicted areas and to securing people's right. And then Obama wins? Hm... It just seems wrong to me.



What do you think? Who is a worthy winner of the Nobel Peace Price 2009? Who deserves to join this exclusice club along with Martin Luther King, Dalei Lama, Mother Theresa, Kofi Annan, the UN, Doctors without boarders and Nelson Mandela?

If you do think he was the right choice for the prize this year, why do you think so? What has Obama done to become the recipicant of this award in your opinion?