We stayed, of all places, in a tatoo studio last visit. SO is close friend with the tattooist (all his friends are, but this guy trusts SO more than the others because he is not the partying type). So while the tatoo guy was in Norway on his working vacation, we babysat his flat/studio. SO was tired and we did not have much money. But we watched American movies with Turkish texting and finally we got to take the mountain cablecar up the mountain together, in daytime "like a real couple". The mountain was icy cold and it was foggy but I liked it, and on the way down the fog lifted and we got to see the green hills, the blue mountains and the sea. We did not go out, but we stayed at home cooking some really nice barbeque. The electricity and the water dissapeared two days, luckily we had showered the day before and the restaurants have electrical generators and so we could use their internet. We met a lot of his colleagues, who for the most part was fired/not rehired and were now working in various restaurants (we visited them all). We watched the full moon from the balcony. We started to fight a little over nothing and made up. SO started to work, which means he was painting a fence out in the sun so I didn't see him much the last couple of days, and in the evenings he was super tired. What a timing we had... I met a Norwegian girl who talked constantly about her personal stuff (especially her recent divorce and possably dating a Turkish man) and asked me if SO had proposed...which he sort of did 1 1/2 years ago before we even had started to date properly, but we can't really marry legally and SO is scared sometimes, so how to say any of that to a stranger....

Originally, we had a lease deal on a great flat that was broken for no reason whatsoever. We had paid to move in on April 1st, which was halfway in my stay, but we got only dodgy information and it seemed that the owners wanted to use it themselves, which they found out 4 months after we made the deal that we also prepaid 3 months rent for. Really not a nice situation! Hope we get our money back... Now it seeems we have the choice between our old flat or to rent in the middle of "Norwegian land" in the area (great flats with acess to pools). Now I just leave everything up to SO. There is not much I can do from afar.

We are both upset because the cat is missing. After we left the old flat, SO kept feeding him outside every day. Then SO went 2 weeks to his home town and 4 weeks to visit me, and after he came back to his work town that cat was not there. Looking back it maybe had to happen. We are hoping someone has taken him in and is keeping him. His mum is having kittens again and we are a bit exitied about them though. We love cats so, so much!

I have got the two next travels in April and May booked, it is great knowing the dates! And so nice that my boss tries to work with me to plan work and my writing weeks (and her taking out overtime to go on extra vacations). We have not talked about June and August yet because that relates to summer holiday, but I am expecting to be in Turkey most or all of July. My husband will also come for at least two weeks. I plan to work all through summer, too... I mean I will sit in the beach or in the house to read and write for my thesis. Hopefully I wil continue to come for one week a month in the fall, but if I get the new job maybe I will travel from the capital. I hope it all works out

I am applying for another job! It is a small one, and based in the capital so I would have to travel a bit, but I really want it and I hope I am qualified. I am hoping that with the job I have and this one I will be able to support myself (and my SO somewhat) and still have time to do my studies.

Me and my husband live in a new and bigger flat now, and finally we are starting to settle there. We have yet to sell the old flat, but the photographes look great (I did the styling, which is something I don't usually do) and I am HOPING the flat will sell in a couple of weeks for way above asking price (our neightbour flat sold 200 000 NOK over asking price, that is 2460 USD/23400 EURO). After we sell we can use the money we make to turn around our economy and erase som debts. During the whole process we are almost broke, and we are very tired. But we are hoping that it ends well

I signed up for a very interesting conferance, I hope I can make it to write something. If I can do that, for sure I can write other things and little by little the thesis will write iteself...I keep my fingers crossed!

I am babycraving so bad. It seems to me that everyone I know is pregnant or with small children now. I would really want that. But now is really not the time. I have crawled back into the workforce like a miracle (when I met SO I was unemployed and still rather sick), got the flat I have dreamed of for the last 3 years... I need to know I have a steady job, a steady income and am physically fit to take care of a baby on top of everything else. It will not hurt to know where SO is physically and mentally too. I know it will happen, I just dont know when. But I will prepare for it. I will stop partysmoking, cut down on alcohol, work out, eat healthy... Maybe working out will help ease the knot I get in my stomack when I see others with their babies, it has helped me so many times when I struggle.