This is the blog of a Norwegian (Marianne, aka 'M') who moved to Australia in 2007 to be with Roger (aka R) and feels lucky to have escaped a comparatively communistic country with ridiculous weather!

I sent R back to England today, and once again I am left with an empty, lonely feeling inside. It doesn't help that he's going back to Australia soon and I won't see him again till I go there in December. All I wanna do is cry:(

I so hate long-distance relationships....

These are 10 things to 10 different ppl which I'd never say to their face, or shoulda said/wish I'd said and didn't.

1. I'm a sexy, beautiful 24 yr old woman, you're 40+ and wrinkly, why would I wanna have coffee with you??! (Instead of 'sure')

2. I love you too.

3. You dam liar (to a guy who lied non-stop the whole time I knew him and still hasn't stopped lying).

4. I like you, but right now your breath is so bad I don't wanna be near you.

5. No thanx, you're boring and I lost interest 4 yrs ago (to a guy who asked me out).

6. No, that sounds boring and I don't want to (instead of the mandatory lie when you say no to someone who asks you to do something).

7. Why the f** did you send me this email?! What on earth went through your mind when you thought I would be interested in this?

8. You stink. Have a shower.

9. No, she died (instead of 'yeah' to phone sale ppl who ask for me and wait while they go on and on about their wonderful product and when they eventually have to stop for air 'no thanx not interested')

10. You seriously need help. I can't be around you anymore, you drain me of happiness and joy and everything that's alive in me and I've considered burning your house down.

On Sunday nights there's usually a documentary on here. And it's always about 'different' ppl. They have Tourette's or they're fat or they have fur all over their body or they are dwarfs. Or maybe they're just ugly (not that I've ever seen a documentary about ugly ppl). And they always talk about how they don't fit in and how ppl always look at them when they walk down the street.

And it's just so wrong. Society's shallowness shouldn't be taken out on different/ugly ppl. They can't help it. And looks don't matter anyway. Looks never started a war.

It's like there's this mold you have to fit into to be allowed to be happy. And if you don't, the rest of society expects you to be unhappy and you should do your best to either fit in or stay away so ppl don't have to deal with your differentness.

That's my thought of the day....

There's a new Australian site for sufferers of cluster headaches, www.clusterheadaches.com.au

Cluster headaches are nasty things, and now there's finally a site where sufferers can talk to other sufferers and there's a forum and lotsa information about CH.

After I went to safe mode to get rid of a virus 11 days ago my MSN stopped working. There was no error message, it just kept spinning and said it was logging on, but it would do this for hours and never connect. It was extremely frustrating, especially since that meant I had to use either MSN web messenger or windows messenger. They both suck. So for any of you who has this problem and also happens to read my blog, here's how it was fixed.

I was reading a site where some guy said he had the same problem, and the ppl at MSN told him to do the following: Click start, then run, then type 'regedit' and hit enter. Go to  HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > MSNMessenger > Policies. Then delete the Policies folder.

R also told me to do this: Open Norton Internet Security and choose to configure the personal firewall. Then remove MSN from the list of programs and click ok. (I didn't, but the rest of you may need to add it again and set it to 'Permit all'.)

Since I did both of these before trying MSN again I dunno which one worked, but it did. Only reason I'm writing this is cuz I'm so happy and I needed to share it:D

And because I hope lotsa ppl have this problem and they will find my site when they try to solve it, thus increasing the amount of visitors on my site.

On American tv shows ppl always seem really surprised when they stumble across a gun while going through someone else's stuff. They always look shocked, gasp and step back. Why are they so surprised to find a gun in a country where they are about as common as toothbrushes?

Personally, I think owning a gun is ridiculous. It doesn't accomplish anything. They don't give protection. If you're being robbed, and start fiddling to get your gun out, you're just more likely to get killed. I know if I was robbing someone, I wouldn't stand there and let my victim shoot me, I'd kill them first.

So it turns out that this positivity thing everyone's always talking about actually works. I got a job today. I interviewed for the job 2 weeks ago, and before the job interview I kept telling myself 'I will do a really good job interview and I will definitely get this job, there's no reason why I wouldn't', which I've never done before any of my other interviews. And I got it:)

Well, technically I didn't get the job I interviewed for, but it's at the same store, so that counts right?

We got first snow today, so I guess that means it's winter. I hate winter, but I try to stay positive, so here are 3 things I like about winter. It was supposed to be 10, but then I thought 'there's no way I can find 10 things, so I'll make it 5'. And now it's 4:)

1. When it gets really cold, and it's sunny and the snow gets really dry and it makes that romantic creaking sound when I walk on it.

2. How good it feels to come home to a warm house after I've been out in the cold.

3. How clearly I can see the stars on really cold nights.

4. How snow muffles sound so when I go for a walk at night it's completely quiet.