Once In A White Moon - by Gina Therese Hvidsten
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Once In A White Moon

Dancing with the stars

Last night a group from my orchestra, and I, went to Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo to attend the annual Christmas concert from the group Penthouse Playboys. The concert was extremely entertaining. Those guys really know how to put on a show. They played lots of covers ranging from Wham’s "Last Christmas", golden oldies, to even older Swedish popular songs.Their guest artist, Tone Damli Aaberge (Norwegian Idol finalist, elected one of Norway’s most sexiest women by several magazines, and still only 19 years old, but burning hot) joined in on some of the songs, as well as a couple of solo numbers.All in all the concert was very successful, but the real fun didn’t start until after the concert. The current conductor of our orchestra […] Read more

To bee or not to bee

Last night it happened again. I woke up and felt something in my hair. After much shaking it all about, a hornet fell out. After some more crazy shaking to make sure no other hornets were crawling somewhere on me, I guided the one hornet outside. Knowing what happened on monday, I was now pretty fed up with these nightly visits.I fetched my Maglite and shined between the wall and the inner skirting around the window to see if I could find where they were coming out. In one particular place where the skirting stood a bit out of the wall, I could see two pair of legs crawling around (strictly speaking there were 12 legs). I then found the one nail I had lying […] Read more

The birds and the bees… especially the bees

I know it’s been a long time since I’ve updated this, and I’ve started to realize that I should probably forget about trying to update ever week or so. But I’ll still update it from time to time, when something worth mentioning happens in my life… and this is one such occation. A couple of weeks ago I heard a small, high pitched, scratchy sound after I had gone to bed (you know, the kind that’s impossible to locate). I didn’t think any more of it, and thought something happened in the room above, which is really none of my concern. However, the next days I started noticing that same sound every night, so one night after I had gone to bed and heard that […] Read more