Hello Steemians – hello world! I am so excited to join the steemian community!
I don’t know whether it’s because I’m an “oldie” – yes, I was born I the mid 70’s – but it took me a while to catch on. Can you believe I only got introduced to Steemit less than a week ago?! Currently feeling a little stupid that news of this revolution hasn’t made it to my little nook of the world, but there you have it. Perhaps it’s because I reside in the frozen north, where life is slow and news travel even slower?
Anyway, I am Michele and I am from Norway. I grew up on the west coast of Norway, but now I live in Sandefjord, a quaint little town on the eastern shores.
2017, as it turns out, was a year for trying new things on my behalf. It didn’t stem so much from a desire to re-invent myself, but rather I found myself at a point in need of combating the drudgery of everyday life.
So I took up, and instantly got totally hooked, on the classical trade of upholstery. In my new-found hobby I continuously find relief in a variety of ways: I can feed my artistic inner child with vibrant colours and inventive combinations. I can use my hands to undertake physical work quite unlike my computer-based professional life. And I can, after hours of laboring over an object, stand back and say the magical words: “I. Made. This”! There’s not much that beats that feeling!
For my second attempt at new things in 2017, I found myself at the local tennis courts. Yes, you heard me right – pushing mid-forties and a newbie at tennis! Yet again I find myself hooked, and my spare time is a constant squabble between whether to upholster an armchair or battle it out on the tennis courts.
We Norwegians pride ourselves on the beauty of our countryside, and going for a walk, just for the sake of walking is a huge thing. We even have a saying: “ut på tur, aldri sur”. It basically means that going for a walk will put you in a good mood. That even if you are in a foul mood, going for a walk will somehow magically make it great again.
So if you decide to follow my blog posts you can expect to see posts from both seaside and mountain walks – both summer and winter time, pictures of our grand Norwegian countryside, details on upholstery projects, the odd frustrated spiels on learning a new sport at a mature age, and hopefully many many more subjects as life just happens here in the frozen north.
Let the good times roll, and steem on!
-Michele
