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Second part of moving also completed

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:09:41 +0000

Hmmm sja.. hmm the second part and final part was then also completed.. about a month ago haha...that's what you get, too busy and no time to write one single word on your blog anymore.

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88 years old

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:52:38 +0000

Last sunday it was my grandfathers birthday. Grandfather from my mothers' side that is. I called him and all his party-goers at around 4.20pm to congratulate him to that achievement.

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First moving part completed

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:20:10 +0000

We've finally started on our moving project. Ofcourse we have started already earlier this and last month on packing stuff and mostly throwing stuff we don't need; that saves us moving them. On friday I asked my boss if I could loan the car, which I use for delivering food to companies around. This is a big Nissan Van (bestelwagen/varebil) with room for lot's of furniture and boxes in one trip. As our current house is furnished from the owner, we needed to find some new furniture on the web given away or sold to use in our new appartment, which we also needed a big car for to transport. We are looking still for: a sleeping sofa, a chest of drawers, shelves, 2 PC desks, a glazed cabinet and a wardrobe with sliding doors.
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Strange Commercial

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:23:57 +0000

Last monday this commercial came to my attention...

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February update

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:36:28 +0000

An update from us in Norway about ourselves, the latest achievements and that what is going on in Norway itself.

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Cruisetrip Danmark

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:30:21 +0000

We are currently on a cruise trip from Stavanger to Hirtshals (Denmark) and back.
This is a trip that was originally planned to happen just before christmas with a christmas buffet, but then there were storms and storms and storms..and more storms. This week right before friday we were again having a storm and today it calmed a little down...
This trip was planned by people of Theresa's work privately (so no company paid trip). So the storm calmed down...

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Christmas and New Years eve 2011

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:25:30 +0000

Christmas was this year celebrated at our place in Sandnes with Theresa's family: Laura, Hallvard and Lisa. New year at Lisa and Ivan together with Anja.

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Holland September 2011

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:50:26 +0000

We had a wonderful, but hectic and very busy, week of holiday in Holland. We spend time mostly with family, a great deal with friends and the rest was visiting certain places in Holland (musea and the like).
We thank everyone for a wonderful time. In this blog a short review of what we've done and experienced during that week in September.

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Richard in Norway 2011

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:43:55 +0000

Our holiday started ofcourse a little earlier, to prepare for our friend Richard to come stay with us. The days of the week before, we had to clean after work. We tried to get a cleaning agency to do this for us, but they were either occupied or way too expensive so we ended up doing it ourselves. At the weekend we were supposed to have a relaxing stay at the house in Sandvatn, but when we arrived we figured out that the waterline had sprung again in the past winter, so we ended up with a friend back at our house in Sandnes. This friend returned on Sunday evening with the buss. The next day our friend from Holland would arrive, but not before the end of the day (22.30).

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Pancakes with a friend

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:51:50 +0000

Last saturday (4-6-11) started with a very grey sky. It even rained a little I think. I wondered if I was going to work on my websites all day or not, but we would have plans later that day aswell. We would pick up a friend of us that wanted to visit us at our home for once. In the afternoon, circa 2pm suddenly the clouds broke away making place for a warm summer sun, a blue sky and unfortunately also a rather cold breeze.
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Friday BBQ

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:30:09 +0000

Last friday (3-6-11) it was beautiful weather here in Sandnes. Although the temperature measured in the shadow wasn't all that high (15) it sure was hot in the sun without any wind whatsoever. And having no wind is rare if you live so close to the sea.
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England Trip 2011

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sat, 07 May 2011 01:35:01 +0000

Already for more than a week ago, that we were on a trip in the UK to visit family to Theresa.
A trip in the Easter period with fantastic weather, perhaps because Easter did fall this year in the end of April, or perhaps just because we had so many bad Easters before, who knows. Anyway, we had a great time.

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Vastelaven

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sat, 07 May 2011 01:33:38 +0000

I wanted to write about this when it was actually vastelaven, some month or so back, but I totally forgot and actually wanted to make sure that the email system would work first again so that you all would be notified of the new weblog(s). This should now have been fixed so therefore is this weblog hugely delayed.

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A week with my parents

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:22:36 +0000

It all started on friday (10 sept 2010). Or should I say thursday, when we were trying to get the last minute things done with the house and where I ordered some special meal for when they would arrive at the shop that I work nowadays.

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Busy Summer

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:48:00 +0000

This summer is/was a busy summer. Some events have been blogged, others aren't. Here a place to write about the things I forgot to blog about or where we were just simply to busy with enjoying these things etc.

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The Cruiseboat Tour

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:37:42 +0000

On sunday 5th of september we were expecting our friend Hugo from the Netherlands in Stavanger. He would come with a cruise ship touring the Fjords of Norway with final destination Stavanger.

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Geocaching

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:10:00 +0000

We got invited by Egon - a collegue of my work - on sunday for a bike trip combined with a special game / sport around Sola.
This game is called Geocaching. The first time I heard about this was from my friend Mike in The Netherlands, but I never got to actually 'do' geocaching.
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Extrema Outdoor in Norway

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:12:21 +0000

Extrema Outdoor, the festival that is well known in Holland, will now come to Norway at the 26th of June 2010 with for a full day of techno/trance/electric music in Oslo on a beautiful island called Kalvøya.

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Easter 2010 with Stefan

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:06:12 +0000

This years easter started already on wednesday for me, the day before Holy or Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, as all Norwegians stop working at 12 o clock the day before the christian holiday. This meant automatically that all shops were shut at 16:00. This years easter is a little different from other easters in that we had someone staying for the whole week with us.

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The wind is ice, the sun is nice!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:14:36 +0000

With that slogan we shall enter spring. The last two weeks The Great Meltdown started...
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Welcome to 2010!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:47:37 +0000

As you have seen I haven't written at all anymore since somewhere in december 2009. The reasons for that are many.
For one we have moved to a place closer to my Stavanger job, in Malmheim in Sandnes. Around christmas we were very occupied with both the christmas celebrations as well as the move to Sandnes. And for the other it is generally busy when you have a job.

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Snow Dec 2009

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:20:36 +0000

In europe you got it already a little earlier in the week. We had it actually briefly before that again, but it was pretty fast gone too. Also a month or so ago when I was driving from Stavanger to Valle, I had to drive partly in a lot of snow and snowstorms. But that was on a higher altitude ofcourse.

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New job for Steven

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:27:23 +0000

We are happy to announce that Steven has got a new job in Norway. He will start in January 2010.

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Theresa's Citizenship Ceremony

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:23:53 +0000

Theresa's Citizenship Ceremony, a ceremony for welcoming her in the Norwegian society and giving her a couple of rights, such as rights to vote and having a Norwegian Nationality and Norwegian Passport. It was a day or rather a couple of hours with celebration and cake

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Norwayrock concert 2009

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:37:41 +0000

Yesterday we were at the NorwayRock festival with Laura and Hallvard, where great artists such as Testament, HolyHell and ManoWar were performing their sets.

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New garden equipment

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:43:59 +0000

It's finally fully summer and with that you get days or weeks without rain. This results in some places to forest fires but in our case mostly yellow grass and dying plants. So I had to organise something against that problem.
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A sporty morning

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:04:33 +0000

Yesterday morning I wanted to go quickly to the nearest shop to buy some more catfood and some milk for our breakfast, next to the ingredients for the chocolate ice cream I made yesterday. So I go outside and press the 'open doors' button on my remote key.
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Finally!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:53:39 +0000

Today it's official! I am finally done with my Bachelor study marketingmanagement/publishing!
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Just surfed in...

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:59:02 +0000

Just surfed into this website that kept me busy reading for quite a while about nonsense. I don't have that often, but this one did absolutely capture my attention for a while, since I thought at first that I was at an appropriate source of information and after reading the first paragraph it turned out to be something totally weird.
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House M.D.

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:48:55 +0000

For once a subject totally different from all the general progress news that I usually come with on this blog. Perhaps also a start for that category system that I wanted to start so that I can report multiple subjects over one blog system. I want to talk about a serie that Theresa and I follow at the moment (TV serie). It's called House M.D.
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The Busy Nightlife of Flekkefjord

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:11:50 +0000

Since Giovanna asked us whether we could go out somewhere and have a drink and a dance and I had this conscious on me saying that I should meet up with a Dutch friend (Ton) in Flekkefjord again (and we didn't for a year or so), we decided to go yesterday night to Flekkefjord. A small explanation how busy this nightlife is and what you will find here.
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Steady progress

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:44:40 +0000

Steady progress. Spring is slowly coming, things seem to be more positive slowly on our side. More jobs on the market and Theresa started a couple of things that will make things easier in the future.
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Relaxing weekend

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:16:31 +0000

Another relaxing weekend (apart from the two times three hour drive in snow and sleet) in Setesdal at Hallvard and Laura. Time to let the stress fall away. Let everything go in your brain and in your thoughts. Enjoy Norwegian nature to the fullest and enjoy the accompany of your family and friends.
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New webdesign released!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:50:10 +0000

Today I released the new design to the website. Some fine tuning is still being done, but the main part is done.
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Cold and Snowy February

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:13:09 +0000

It's cold for once again in Norway and snowy too. While life goes on (finding a job, study, projects, driving to appointments etc) roads get very icy and landscapes very beautiful. Several pictures have been uploaded by both me and Theresa the past few days.
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Oure new daughters

Theresa@weblogforyou.com (Theresa) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:16:45 +0000

The weekend before Christmas, was rather a special one. I, Theresa, decided to join the Norwegian Dyrebeskyttelsen (animal protection). I finally found them after many years of searching. Norway is on the bottom of the list to take care of animals they have no RSPCA or animal police, so it's good that the animal protection service exist. They are very new and they only started a few years ago.
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Audrey, Henry and Peter in Norway 2008-2009

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:16:07 +0000

They arrived the 26th in Kristiansand at midnight and smsed us that they arrived in their hotel at 00:30 to have a nice sleep before they would travel to Kvinesdal. So then the next morning we woke up early to do the last arrangements and then went to Kvinesdal to meet up with them. At first we didn't see them, nor could we reach them, so me and Theres drove off towards Øyesletta towards the big bridge and tunnels. When we were nearly at the bridge Theresa suddenly received the call that they had arrived in the center. They appeared to have taken the D-tour via the old road of the new road crossing of Farsund to Kvinesdal (that must have been some adventure, icy roads, waterfalls all over the place and a small road).
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Christmas 2008

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:27:05 +0000

On the 23rd we had Lisa and Ivan from Kristiansand over and the 24th (official christmas eve) we just had them with us without any special party going. We shopped a bit still, visited Ivan's father in Flekkefjord and exchanged presents here and there. Iactually caught a nasty flue at that time already since monday, so I was mostly inside or in a car.
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Julebord 2008

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:30:07 +0000

Last friday we had a fantastic Julebord (dinner) from Osigraf/AESTON in Kristiansand, the company that I currently do some work for with servers. This dinner we were allowed to come with our partners so we both came nicely clothed to the party, from which we had bought some special clothing in Sandnes the weekend before. We took Helge and Emil with and together we traveled to Kristiansand.
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Christmas shopping and my 28th birthday

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:26:52 +0000

Some more christmas shopping done on saturday 6th of December and a relaxing day at home on my birthday celebration on the 7th of December. Read here all the details!
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A day long travel

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:24:48 +0000

A Blizzard caused us to travel a little longer than just a couple of hours over a distance. Blizzard, not to confuse with that company with that great online game, but a true storm of snow and cold wind.
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Nice weekend for house and feeling

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:43:39 +0000

Last weekend we had a nice weekend with both going for a trip and fixing up some things on the house.
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Halloween party

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:58:04 +0000

Had a great party on Halloween with lots of food and many friends.
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First Snow 2008!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:03:01 +0000

Well well, it's not even november yet and we have already full winter feeling. Two weeks ago it started to get really cold and we had already some hail that stayed for a day or two. At the moment it's snowing in Sandvatn and they also expect snow for the coming hours and the early morning.
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Waps, AudioSurf, De Blob, Tabby, Water Fountain

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:21:27 +0000

This time a very unusual title, I know. It doesn't say much but that are the subjects I am going to talk about. Perhaps I should actually add a keywords system to the blog, than I could just use normal titles and add keywords to the blog haha.
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A Very Fast Boat Trip

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:45:11 +0000

In this report I will talk about all what has been done by our visitors Mark, Jessica, Richard and Eelco the past 7 days in a fast boat trip time and I will also tell you about one of the events we did: traveling with a very fast speed boat in the Fjords.
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Jessica, Mark and Richard in Norway

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:33:34 +0000

At 2 in the morning (after a lot of sms traffic) I finally received a call from Richard (on Jessica's iphone). 'Hello we are now off the road and I see a traffic sign to Kvinesdal and to Farsund. Am I right?'
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Amazingly warm and sunny weather

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:01:03 +0000

Amazingly and very surprising, we suddenly have fantastic nice weather after a week or two of rain.
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169 kroner!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:27:44 +0000

'That will be 169 NOK!' the checkout lady said to the lady in front of me in queue.
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Moose!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:27:25 +0000

We had a nice weekend last weekend with Laura and Hallvard in Valle, Brokke and drove sunday evening back with a very amazing surprise!
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Visitors June/July 2008

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:35:37 +0000

So as I said in my last post, during June and July we had the first wave of visitors in Kvinesdal with from 17th to 25th Stefan from Kaiserslautern, Germany and from 28th of June to 5th of July Arjan and Martine.
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Back to school for a test

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:10:54 +0000

During 28 may 2008 upto 12 june 2008 Theresa and I went back to Holland for two important things. 1) The Mitsubishi needed a checkup from the state (APK or EØS) and 2) I had a test at school that I have been trying to complete the past 3 years.
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Trip to England

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:05:01 +0000

Haven't reported anything for quite a while, but that practically means we have been very busy with more important things, and that is a good thing. In this report a summary of what our progress is and the announcement that we are about to make a trip to England to visit Theresa's father, who is going to marry coming week.
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Something to think about

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:41:45 +0000

Found this article via a family mailing of Theresa's family in England. They send all kind of fun stuff via mailings (I bet you know this kind of mailings) and sometimes something to think about, like this one. I think this article that I will publish in this article is very good to fit in our discussion topics blogcategory. The article is about schools 1977 vs 2007, the differences between how we look at things nowadays with terrorists, court and generally rules (again? yes again).
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Where is the winter?

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:06:49 +0000

Is this the effect of global warming or is it normal? There is not much of a winter here. What should have been snow is becoming a rain flood everywhere. The lake is really high in water, everyday we have a rainstorm nearly and it causes floods on the nearby river towards Liknes. Several pictures made from that.
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Electric car vs. normal car

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:17:49 +0000

The whole world is doing stuff around CO2 emission now. Holland makes new car's more expensive, unless it's a hydro, electric or diesel. Everything above 200mg co2 emission also gets more expensive on taxes.
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Theresa's 19th birthday

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:38:52 +0000

On the 21st of January 2008, Theresa's was exactly 19 years old. Nice age, hehe. I am already starting to get old haha. We celebrated her birthday over the weekend and also with friends on monday.
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Rules

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:38:01 +0000

If you thought Holland was the land of rules, Norway is it even more. In all kind of ways, whether it is about getting a job, a permission to stay, building a house, starting a company or buying/firing off fireworks.
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Det Snø!!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:03:43 +0000

Det Snø!!! It is finally snowing. I said it would probably snow after new year. I hoped for the first of Januari in the morning, but there wasn't any then yet. Today (2nd of January) it started early morning. Now we have perhaps 5 cm snow. They expect a lot of snow coming week and weekend, so I will tease you all with wonderful snow pictures! haha
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Christmas wishes!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:31:22 +0000

From us out of the far North, Norway, the best wishes for the new year and ofcourse for your christmas celebrations.

We just had our Christmas Eve (24th) and our Christmas day (25th) celebrations with our Norwegian family.
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Colder

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:29:53 +0000

It's getting colder in Norway. I don't know if that also goes for the rest of Europe, but we have nights of -5 or lower and sometimes the rest of the day is also that temperature. The grass and trees have a frozen layer over their branches. It's a weird thing to see. The photo album about Norway Impressions, shows that kind of photos currently.
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Happy Birthday Steven!

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:47:26 +0000

A weblog about myself, well not entirely, I will also write about last week and current week where a lot has happened again. Friday 7 Dec 2007 I became 27 year old/young. I had a very nice and variated day. Also I added a few photos to the photo albums that you have to see!
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First Advents Tea

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:18:29 +0000

Today, Sunday second December 2007, it is First Advent. We started the day with cleaning up, working on websites (work in other words) and baking cakes and preparing dinner.
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Jysk

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:48:15 +0000

We did some big shopping at Jysk, a shop for all kinds of house decoration things. We bought all kind of things to decorate the house for christmas, but also the bathroom has been decorated in a Chinese / Japanese / Samurai style.
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finally!

Theresa@weblogforyou.com (Theresa) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:25:41 +0000

Muhahahahaha you did not think you did see the last of me did you?!

NOW! as i finally found the log in i will rule this website.how steven did this is just as stupid as building A house without a entrance.
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Icy and cold

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:54:16 +0000

It's not too warm in Norway. Although today, at day 3 so to say it seems to have rained all night and the temperature must have been above zero to get all the ice away.
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Arrived in Norway

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:02:11 +0000

We started our journey at 9.30 at Monday 26th of November to Norway. After saying goodbye to my parents and grandfather and Rover (cat) we drove off following the TomTom, which directed us straight into the sand mess at Delden (haha) so we made our D-tour ourselves around the trouble and went on to the road past Hengelo and Oldenzaal to Germany.
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Moving dates

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:49:56 +0000

The exact moving dates are now clear.
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Road pictures Flat in Norway

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:41:21 +0000

The pictures of the road are in. These pictures are made for the truck to see if they can move around and turn etc.
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New flat in Norway

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:51:06 +0000

While in Holland we also try to organise stuff in Norway. We have to anyway, where do you go with your truck otherwise?

We found a flat in Faråd (do I write it right Theresa?) in Kvinesdal. It will be at Faråsvegen 20, 4480 Kvinesdal (Vest-Agder), Norway.
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Two months back in Holland

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:51:06 +0000

I went back with Theresa to Holland for three reasons
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Three weeks to Norway

Steven@weblogforyou.com (Steven) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:51:06 +0000

After my last exam and some things around a funeral of a family member of Theresa in Germany we went to Norway. This was supposed to be three weeks, which I also said to family, friends and neighbours. After those three weeks I had to tell them that it will take a little longer. And in the end it was three months before we went back.
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