Easter is the longest holiday here in Norway, but we didn’t find this out until a few weeks after we came. Since lots of people in Norway travel over the holiday, plane fares skyrocket, and we didn’t have much time to plan. We ended up finding a reasonable rate on a RyanAir flight to Milan, [...]
I think there’s something in the air, because in the last two weeks, three of my friends have given birth to new daughters! Three babies in 2 weeks! That’s just crazy!!!
On top of that, Brandy and Lee Ann both had new babies late last year, Jilu is getting close to her due date, and to top [...]
This morning when I logged in to my GMail account, the little news & advertisement bar at the top of my Inbox showed the following CNN headline: Sheep hoarder charged with animal cruelty. “That sounds strange,” I thought. “I wonder why someone would hoard sheep?” So I clicked on the link and after catching up on my mail, [...]
When I was growing up, Meg wasn’t all that common a name in the US. There were plenty of Megans but not a lot of Megs. I used to have to explain that it was “Just Meg. No ‘an.’” And all those little pseudo-personalized knick-knacks you love as a kid like bicycle license plates and [...]
After searching Google Images to try to find decent artwork for the post below, I’ve decided to offer the following Challenge and see if anyone can/will help me out!
Challenge:
Open a Sims game, flood the bathroom, and take a screenshot of someone getting really mad trying to fix it. Send it to me at webmaster@megdesk.com
Reward:
1. My gratitude (and what [...]
If you’ve ever played The Sims™, you know that according to the Sim law of appliance maintenance that a basic shower or bathtub will break down approximately every 5 days and flood the bathroom floor. I always thought this floor flooding was a little extreme and was introduced simply as a very clear visual cue [...]
I don’t know what it is, but there’s something in the air or the water here! I’ve only had a skin-level allergic reaction to one thing in my life (in college, I broke out in a scary rash after using a new kind of body wash). I’ve always had notoriously reslient and oily skin, so the idea of “sensitive [...]
There are a lot of subtle differences between Europe and the US (and China), and there are things that are particular to Norway: the emphasis on family, the early shop closings, the prices. However, we expected all of these things and aren’t all that surprised when we encounter them.
The first thing that’s truly surprised me [...]