OH HEY THERE

Where to start?

I’ve finally gotten my resident card and I can now say I live in Tennessee, for real. No more immigration stuff, until I go through with the citizenship and that’s at least 3 more years until.

My mom got cancer, and had to deal with that, but they found it out pretty early. They got to remove it all, so no more cancer for mom!

My dear uncle died of cancer. That’s sad, but at least he got do die in his own home surrounded by his closest.

I thought I had cancer for a small period, so I sent a stool test to the lab. It came back negative, so hurray for hemorrhoids. My thyroid tests are clean and well. Going to OBGYN next Monday to replace an implant in my arm for birth control.

We didn’t do anything on Halloween. For my birthday I think we stayed in and went to eat lunch or dinner the next day. Sam bought me a Steamdeck, that is a handhold console, where you can play games. Next year I turn 40, that will be fun!

For Thanksgiving this year, we are going to Florida, to visit mother-in-law. From Wednesday to Saturday.

Christmas this year, I think we are just gonna stay in our apartment. No plans at all. Sam gotta work anyways.

I’ve started to make coasters out of perler beads. Look it up.

LET ME TELL YOU

Oh my goodness. What a month.

My in-laws went to Europe, for a vacation. So I was dogsitting and housesitting. Very relaxing. The day they left, Molly was super sad, understandable, but luckily 2 days later, friends of the in-laws came with their dog. So she finally got some company. I watched them both, when Steven and Lisa went to Lisa’s son’s wedding Thursday and Friday. I also watched them when they went to a city in Georgia for a daytrip. I earned 150 bucks out just for 3 days. I wasn’t expected this, I do this for free! Anyways, I have been watching a lot of Housewives on Peacock, what a drama drama drama show.

I have seen a rabbit, a possum, deers and a snake. Black rat snake, that are supposed to live in trees. I don’t know where it came from. All we know is that it came on the terrasse when it was a thunderstorm out. And it crawled back to the shed and that’s is the last place I have seen it. I named it Gertrude. Also NOT dangerous nor poisonous. My in-laws have never seen a snake by their house before, so I guess I call it luck?! Sam has also never seen a snake in this town.

I have also been driving around a lot and recently filled up my car with gas and it’s just 30 bucks. Around 300 kroners. For full tank! Very cheap.

I’m gonna housesit for 1 week and next Friday, they are coming home. Too bad it’s gonna rain and big thunderstorms are coming my way this week. I was looking forward to tan a little, but I guess I’m not that lucky! I did get a little sunburned the 2 days I was here before Steven and Lisa came here.

Hopefully I can tan by the pool when I get home. :)

NASHVILLE

We went to Nashville 17th of April, where we slept at a weird hotel, Comfort Inn, they are supposed to be really good, but not in that area. We arrived late Wednesday and I fell asleep pretty much right away, while Sam went to bed around 1am. I woke up at 2am and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I was soooooooooooooo hungry, that I ate some of his snacks.

W did our interview at USCIS and we think it went well. So now we waiiiiiiiiiit. :)

IT’S BEEN A MONTH

Hellooo, let me see what I have written down in my diary, cause I don’t really remember much what we have done lately.

21st of March, I got some sad news about a family member. They found her dead in her bed in her apartment. It’s her heart. I’m sad that I didn’t get to go to the funeral. Stuck here.

23rd of March, one of my friends who streams, had 2 year anniversary on Twitch and I watched that until we went to a Vietnamese restaurant to eat dinner and went to Dutch Bros after. Got myself a Nitro Cold Brew.

24th of March, finally some good news, my cousin got a baby girl!

29th of March, my mom’s birthday! Sad that I didn’t get to celebrate with her.

31st of March, went to the in-laws for dinner and I ate too much carrots and dip that it resulted in a small diarrhea, while I was there, great. It’s a great dinner, but the carrots ruined my dessert mood.

9th of April, finally got my own car. Now I gotta man up and get driving. Also taking duolingo for German, Spanish and Japanese. Went to the doctor and took a blood test for my thyroid and went to Walgreens for my final shot of HepA+B.

I have been driving around with Sam twice now, but I still get that weird feeling in my leg whenever I’m in a downhill or uphill, standing still, pressing on the brake pedal. It’s the same feeling that I got when I was waitressing, when I felt like I didn’t have control over my tray and it felt like it’s gonna fall off my hand. It’s a horrible feeling and I don’t know what I can do with that. So when I press my foot against the brake, I get scared that my foot will get tired and just remove itself from it, and in normal situations, you have control over your foot, but I feel that I don’t. So that’s something I’m really struggling with when I drive.

UHM... HI

17th of march

I slept pretty much all morning, we didn’t go to Dutch Bros, but we did go to Sam’s Club. It’s a HUUUUUUUUUGE storage building similar to Walmart, but also had tires. Got a Walmart vibe out of it. We bought drinks and snacks, plus I found the famous cinnamon buns I have been craving for ages. After we were done shopping, there’s a small cafeteria like at IKEA, where you could buy drinks, pizza slices and hotdogs. I tested out the hotdog and it wasn’t that bad! I miss the Norwegian hotdogs tho.

After we got home, I went to bed to listen to my audiobook and took a nap that lasted for 5 hours. Been playing Supermarket Simulator and watching very bad movies on Hulu.

upDATES FROM THE DENTIST OFFICE

So the other day, it might be 1 or 2 weeks ago now, I went to the dentist cause I thought I had a tooth ache and it’s pretty painful. Little did I know, I had a gum inflammation. They also told me I have 1 tooth loose. (Probably cause of the gum inflammation + there’s not tooth close to it that it can lean on.) My dentist back in Norway actually told me this could happen, but we hoped together it wouldn’t, BUT IT DID. Also I pulled one tooth out before I got to US, cause it’s a dead tooth and why have it there, so I have been without a tooth on my left side, not the tooth in the back, but the tooth in front of that.

Wisdom teeth <- Never go those.
Molar <- That is loose.
Tooth <- Pulled that one.

They also told me I need to pull that molar out, cause you know it’s loose and I need 2 implants, but I have been fine without that tooth for 2 years now, so I might just need 1 implant. LAST BAD NEWS; I need 2 crowns on my upper left teeth of my front ones. So I hope that I can do this in Norway, for cheaper price, cause this will cost a lot here. 80,000 kroners. No thanks.

Yes, I did cry, mostly cause it was so much news on a Monday and I hadn’t been crying in forever.

I did do the gum treatment, just because that is probably the most important one. My dentist was named Ashley and she was so nice. I got a deep rinse, also got a rinse + tooth paste and Oral B tooth brush that has a BLUETOOTH. So yes, I got my whole mouth numb and it’s not a delicate experience, but it had to be done!

Haven’t taken any pictures lately, so take this.

//Jeg sov ganske lenge på morgen denne dagen, så vi dro ikke til Dutch Bros (kaffesjappe), men vi fikk dratt til Sam’s Club, ligner veldig på Walmart, en kjempebutikk med all mulig ting, de har også BILHJUL der. Vi kjøpte brus og snacks, pluss jeg fant de kanelbollene jeg har siklet på i en evighet. Etter at vi betalte, gikk vi bort til den lille sjappa som de har på IKEA, hvor de selger brus, pizza og pølser i brød. Jeg smakte på pølse i brød, og det var ikke så verst, men de pølsene i Norge er desidert best. Etter at vi kom hjem, la jeg meg i sengen for å høre på lydbok og klarte å sovne, så jeg sov i 5 timer. Spilt spill og sett på alt for mange dårlige filmer på Hulu.

//Her forleden, vel kanskje 1-2 uker siden nå, dro jeg til tannlegen, for den jekselen nede til venstre var så vond, så jeg trodde jeg hadde tannverk, men der tok jeg jaggu meg feil. Jeg hadde en tannkjøtt betennelse, og den jekselen jeg trodde det var hull i, den er løs og må trekkes. Ikke nok med det, jeg trenger 2 implantater, men jeg tror jeg bare trenger 1, for jeg har klart meg fint uten den tannen jeg trakk foran jekselen for 2 år siden. Tannlegen min i Norge sa at det kunne skje at jekselen kunne bli løs fordi jeg trakk den tannen som jekselen lente seg på. De fortalte meg også at jeg trenger 2 kroner på de 2 tennene til venstre for fortennene, toppers. Jeg gråt, mest fordi det var veldig mange dårlige nyheter å få på en mandag og fordi jeg hadde ikke grått på en stund. Jeg dro tilbake for å ta en dyp rens for tannkjøttet og det var absolutt ikke en behagelig opplevelse, men det måtte gjøres. Nå har jeg fått en Oral B tannbørste med rens og tannkrem, og den har BLUETOOTH.