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Dr. Thomas Dooley: “Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.”

George Henry Lewes: “The only cure for grief is action.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”

Well, I am not bragging since I am not a Norwegian, but I do enjoy living among them…a pretty proud bunch of people! 😉

The strip above is the well-known Hägar the Horrible, a strip that is a caricature and loose interpretation of medieval Scandinavian life, set in an unnamed coastal village somewhere in Norway. Quite funny. 😉

Helen Keller: “When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

Carl Jung: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

It is pretty amazing what people can do with their voice and beatboxing is a great way to show it; this girl is mixing chicken sounds in a freestyle beatboxing performance, amazing!

I blogged some other great beatboxing performances before, check them out here and here, spectacular!!

McCallister Dodds: “Real strength is not just a condition of one’s muscle, but a tenderness in one’s spirit.”

J. H. Holmes: “The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.”

Lois McMaster Bujold: “What you are is a question only you can answer.”

I *love* driving my LEAF, especially when I am heading back home to pick up Misha from kindergarten; half of Norway is on the road at the same time (between 15:00h and 17:00h), but driving an electric car in Norway comes with a fantastic benefit…I can use the taxi/buss lane!

Watch the video below to understand why I am laughing so much these days!  😉

Anita Roddick: “The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.”

You might have seen men around you who out of the blue are growing a moustache…you wonder why? Well, wonder no more for it is Movember! An annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of prostate cancer and other men’s health issues. Movember moustaches were first grown in Australia back in 2003 and since that time word of Movember and its men’s health messages have spread across the globe.
Below you will find a TED talk by the creator of Movember, interesting and funny!

So…are you in??

Sean Stewart: “Sometimes you feel other people’s pain worse than your own. We’re armored against our own troubles. We can’t afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your…heart.”

Hugh Macleod: “Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It’s your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.”

Do you love your movies as much as I do? Then I know that you too use IMDB.com to look-up plot and cast information as well as movie reviews…and if the movie doesn’t score high enough you will think twice before watching it (unless it is a cult film, in that case you’re just gonna watch it anyway and be pleasantly, or unpleasantly surprised… 😉 ).

The YouTube clip below shows the IMDB Top 250, only movies with a IMDB score of 8/10 or higher…how many do you recognize?? A fantastic clip tune too…I love it!

Rod Steiger: “The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”

My timing for arranging wood to heat up the fireplaces kinda sucks; it is already November and I have just wood enough for a week or two; by far not enough to keep me warm this winter, aahhhh!! Luckily I have friends who are much better in wood-planning; they just cut wood to dry for winter uhh 2014!! 😉

We found a perfect win-win; I would help out with their wood ‘farm’ 😉 and then get wood in return, nice! Perfect plan, if only my back wouldn’t go bad; great timing to wake up with terrible back pain on ‘wood’ day, not!! That was yesterday and I did help out with the wood (will power, or stubborn? 😉 ), so there are many (big, uncut) wood logs in the back of the car but not a chance I can take ‘m out with this back pain…interestingly enough, all movements a daddy needs to make to take care of his son are no problem?!? Nature is an amazing thing… 😉

Randy K. Milholland: “Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.”

George Eliot: “It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”