Eurovision 2016

I found out a bit late that Eurovision was going on :o aka i missed the first semifinal :( I'm a eurovisiongeek for those who don't know btw xD Luckily i could watch the 2nd semifinal and the grand final :D

The grand final started with some boring performances according to us watching in the living room, but after some performances, the better ones came. I guess our favorites were Hungary, Poland, Austria, and Australia.

Russia and Bulgaria wasn't bad either =D

I also liked the Lithuanian song, but the others in the living room didn't agree with me xD Other songs were medium, and some were better before they started singing, when muted, or as background music, aka they were kinda bad xD

When they counted the jury votes, we couldn't believe the outcome! Seemed they liked all the songs we didn't like (except Australia) and gave few votes to the songs that were good. The people (aka televotes) seemed to be agreeing more with our opinion, giving Poland many votes =D Russia won the televotes and Australia won the jury votes. Ukraine got the most votes combined and won Eurovision 2016.

This song we didn't really like that much. Fine, it wasn't horrible, but it wasn't that awesome either, with a woman crying at stage with desperation in her eyes, singing about some war stuff or so. Would have been better with Australia, Russia or Poland, or the others i mentioned earlier winning because they had catchy songs that were nice listening to =D

I also watched the semifinals again to find out which songs that i liked from the ones that didn't make it to the grand final. Belarus their song was awesome, and should definitely have made it to the grand final, and maybe even win!!!

I also liked Ireland, and Denmark their songs. They weren't my top pick as winners, but they were better than some of the songs that were in the grand final.

This years Eurovision was atleast much better than the 2015 one, where no songs sticked out much, so we didn't have much preferances then.

Fire at my work!! (like 2 weeks ago cuz i'm the slowest blogger ever... xD)

So Saturday 7th May at 6:30 or so i got awakened by my boss calling me, telling me there wouldn't be work that day because there had been a fire at work. Kinda sucky because it seemed like it would be a good day at work with many costumers, and now we would have a lot of disappointed costumers instead. I chatted a bit with a collegue about who could have done it, and what the damages might be. Would everything be burned down, could we sell the tiles, and was it an angry costumer setting the shop on fire, or just a random person? Later it was also updated about the fire in the local newspapers, BA and BT. I biked over there later that day to see the damages myself. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, it was mostly between the container and the back entrance, and the roof that had burned. I biked a bit longer trip since it was nice weather and i had nothing else to do before i headed home.

The day after (aka Sunday) i biked to town, went up Fløyen, over Vidden to Ulriken (mountains) and down, and back to where i had parked my bike before i biked home. It was nice weather and actually warm (20+*C!!) so i wore minimal with clothes, and ended up getting sunburnt (quite much!) even though i wore sunscreen. This lead to me not being able to enjoy the sun for the following days because i didn't wanna increase the damage to my burnt skin. I also started having pain in my left foot after this trip, that lasted for almost 2 weeks! I'm luckily better now, but i haven't been able to exercise much now because of that, and it didn't really help the healing with all the walking at work either. My sunburnt is also better now so now I can enjoy the upcoming warm and sunny period that will start now. This time i'll try being more careful though.

Monday we were still closed because the ensurance company had to take a look at the damages, but tuesday we were asked to come to work. We were still closed, but served costumers and answered the telephone, while some people walked around and looked at the damages and how to reduce the ash amount in the air and stuff. Luckily, nothing inside the shop got damaged, only the items in the container outside. We noticed it was bad to stay long inside. We started to suffer from the air inside the shop, so we tried to stay outside. Later we had to remove the container and the contents because it was kinda burnt and broken. The different components on the pallets (wood, cardboard and tiles/stones) had to be separated, which was kinda sucky, because it would have been way easier to just send away the whole pallet with everything on without having to seperate them first so it was a lot of work, but at 16 we could leave :)

Wednesday we opened up the shop like normal again, but closing at 18 instead of 20 because they would try to improve the air in the shop by gassing it or something. They also had installed lots of fans to increase air circulation to get out all the ash, so eventually the air got better, day by day, and now the air quality is good again. After that we kept our usual opening hours. There seems to be a bit fewer costumers now though. If that is because of the fire and people being unsure if we are open or not, or if it's because of other reasons i don't know, but hopefully we will have many costumers in the future :D