Friday Fling!

Happy Friday! I've got the whole weekend off and o'boy is this gal planning to have a lot of F-U-N!!!

For one thing, this evening it's kick-off for a major cultural happening in Oslo, Oslo Kulturnatt 2009! Unfortunately I missed out last year 'cause I was working, but this year I'll be there for sure! There's so many fun, spectacular & exciting things going on all over Oslo, and it's all free - yeah, you heard me - it's FREE!!

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Writing this bit Monday evening as I was nowhere near a computer during the weekend. Quite a few of my posts lately have been pre-planned & ready to hit cyberspace on a given time & date. At the momtent I'm finding it hard to remember what I did on Friday. Lets see ... I had the day off, and as I was feeling completely knackered and quite out of my element, I opted for the easy "route" and slept in. Late afternoon, after some "quality time" on the couch with Mr. TV, I headed downtown for a luncheon with a certain miss Elisabeth. Post-lunch window-shopping resulted in a mini-"presskanne" (no idea what that's in English, it's a coffe pot with a filter you press down) & a few pens from Muji @ Åhlens. Ah, also found this stunning autumn jacket in a two coloured tartan pattern (dark-blue with red) at H&M. It fitted perfect and it was a very flattering shape for me - gave me a tiny waiste. The style was reminescent of a vintage flight attendant uniform, so I felt very glamorous in it.

My beau came downtown to meet me after work. Nice to have company on the walk back to Løkka. For dinner we made pesto-marinated salmon fillets baked in the oven. Deliciously yummy! As we both were feeling low on energy, we turned into couch-potatoes for a few hours, while we worked on a plan for the evening. Amazing enough we actually did end up going to one of the Oslokulturnatt events: Greetings from Chaincity + 9 at DogA (The Design & Architecture Center), an exhibition exploring the authenticity of a city. The departure point of the discussion is Venezia and the many copies found around the globe; which is more authentic: the real, material city or the idea of Venezia? The discussion is relevant for Oslo, and thus the discussion is carried on in a video installation on public spaces in Oslo. It was a nice evening, so the walk down to the DogA was worthwhile itself. Sort of mandatory to enjoy what's left of beautiful days & evenings this year!

Finally the evening ended with a couple of episodes of Mad Men, thus making the day simply perfect!!

Quick summary of the rest of the weekend:

• Saturday: Late afternoon coffee with T & AC; sashimi @ Namkang (I was too chicken, so T eat the oyster that came with my sashimi appetizer - major kudos is in order!) & some booty-shaking @ Mono + Internasjonalen (the latter was slow early on and thus replaced by a trip to our favorite club, but horrible music rendered the evening short, until T & I heard the funky music coming from Internasjonalen's 2nd floor. Quick stand in queue and we were set for our last hour of boogie that evening)!
• Sunday: Slept in until late, late afternoon; lazy day infront of couch; a very energetic burst of housework by me & T even later; opted for easy solution for dinner: eat out. Delicious curry & nan-bread @ Cafe Stolen with Frode before evening ended yet again on the couch.