Long time, no see...

...So its been a while.
I had visitors from home, and after that, I've been doing so much else.
My visitors were my mum and my granny, who just turned 80 (my granny, that is).
They stayed for 4 eventful days, and left behind them supplies of Norwegian necessities, such as chocolate, smoked salmon and caviar. Oh joy!

The last couple of days before they arrived were spent trying to clean up our appartment, as, well, I wanted to show my mother that I actually can keep things tidy.
Its not as much the joy of a clean house as the pride of the clean house that made me into an obsessive compulsive dust hunter those last 2 days. Absolutely everything had to be perfect. This was my chance to show that I managed to well, manage a household, and that I was doing well and had done some grown up down here in far-away-land :P
(of course, this all has its roots in my astonishing ability to make my room back at my parents house look like its just been some kind of raid or something. I always blame the size of my room (which is barely 8m^2,I swear), and then say that I always keep it clean and tidy down here :P)
Ridiculous thoughts, of course; first of all, I'm not the only one living in this apartment, so i cant take more than 50% of the glory. I would actually think that my boyfriend deserves 80% of the credit :P Second, I'm way to absent-minded to really be able to keep it clean and tidy for more than a couple of hours without the help of my beloved.
And thirdly, and maybe most important, mum knows me, and knows that I'm about the messiest person living on this planet, so I really don't know why I was putting on this show of "perfect apartment syndrome".
Anyways, it turned out quite nice, and has actually stayed that way since, too :)


The visit itself was just perfect. We had just about enough time to see the things we wanted to see, and enough time to relax a bit too :)
We drove around for a bit and got to see Slovakia through the eyes of a tourist, and not a student :) One of our trips took us to the neighbouring city, Banská Bystrica, a very beautiful city which arose some 800 years ago. The main street is impressive, and we found a nice café where we could sit and admire this nice city for a little while :)

The 5th morning my visitors left for Norway, which meant it was time for me to start studying for my pharmacology exam. After a few days, I found that i had to abandon that project, as my back did not comply with sitting in a chair studying for more than 2 hours at a time.
This means that I still have an exam hanging over my head, worrying me, yay! :S
I still study though, just at a slower pace, so I hope to be ready for it in end April :)

Now, its 2 in the night and I cannot sleep because I'm having what surely is the most annoying cough in the world, which wakes me up every 30 mins :(
The cough medicine doesn't really seem to work, so I'm trying my own treatment; I'm simply going to stay awake untill i get so tired I'll wont wake up from the coughing!