Good morning, iPhone!

*Experimenting with translating some of my posts. Norwegian version below*

My mornings have gained new meaning, snoozing is a thing of the past, and when the alarm rings at 7 am I’m instantly wide awake, grab my alarm clock, turn it off, but I don’t put it back down.

My alarm clock is of course my iPhone, and this is where my new, daily favourite ritual begins – Facebook, the news and blog feed. I usually spend my evenings with a film or book and I have actually set a “Goodnight, iPhone” alarm at 9.30 pm when it goes into night mode lest it disturbs my much needed sleep. Hence there’s lots of goodies waiting for me when I wake up, and brain activity is kickstarted before I even get out of bed, and if I’m lucky, I get about 30 – 45 minutes before my actual alarm, “muuuuuuuuum, I’m awaaaaaaaake!” sets off!

What I’m reading about these days that encourages such unusal morning spirit? I’ll tell you later!

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God morgen, iPhone!

Morgenene mine har fått ny mening, slumring tilhører fortiden, og når alarmen ringer klokka sju er jeg med ett lys våken, jeg tar opp ringeklokka og skrur den av før den egentlig har begynt, men setter den ikke tilbake igjen.

For ringeklokka er selvfølgelig iPhonen min, og her begynner mitt nye, daglige favorittrituale – Facebook, nyheter og bloggfeed. Som regel bruker jeg kvelden på film eller bok og har faktisk satt en “Godnatt, iPhone” alarm på kl 21.30. Da går den også inn i natta-modus så ikke den dyrebare søvnen skal bli forstyrra, og derfor er det alltid masse spennende godsaker som ligger og venter på meg når jeg våkner. Og slik ligger jeg og får kickstarta hjerneaktiviteten frem til min egentlige alarm, “mammaaaaa, jeg er vååååken!”,  begynner å ule 30-45 minutter senere, hvis jeg er heldig!

Hva jeg leser om som kan inspirere til slik uvanlig morgenfugl-aktivitet? Det skal jeg fortelle om senere!

e-books and p-books, apps and p-apps

A couple of years ago, I surprised many by announcing my fascination for e-books. Since I got my Kindle I have even been known to choose it over p-books I already own, like the beautiful, unopened, cloth-bound copy of Little Women that stared reproachfully at me from my bookshelf while I was in bed with my leather-bound e-reader…

The truth is that I love conveniency and I relish multifunctional objects and I am absolutely dependent on technology, so my happiness was complete when I recently appropriated my first iPhone (the first smart phone to live up to my (read: Steve’s) high  gadget standards). Before that, I was lugging my laptop, iPod, Kindle and stupid-phone with me every time I went to the library. Hardly convenient.

My next project is to go completely paperless and get rid of all documents and stuff that it’s not strictly necessary to have a hard copy of. But, when I got my belated Christmas present from my little sister in London last week, I must admit that I experienced a thrill that downloading new apps seldom results in. I even booked an extra bag to be able to bring the 16, yes, 16 items back to Prague.

I thus present my new p-apps:

Live Learn Love

Rate it or Hate it

School of Life

Happy Travels!

Travel journals are from teNeues, five-year journals are from Potter Style and the rest is from Knock Knock.

FYI: I think it’s a sin to throw away books, and I never-ever will commit that sin. In fact, I still have two massive hardback books that was given to a friend by Jehovas witnesses and that she wanted to throw out. I took pity on the poor things and will forever keep them in a box in my attic…