Weekly Review June 23, 2013 // Wochenrückblick 23. Juni 2013

Newsflash: I am now writing my blog posts in English and German, mainly because I will also review books that have not (yet) been published in English.

I am slowly getting back into daily life here in Switzerland. Currently, I am staying at my parents place but at the end of next week, I will be moving back into my own castle. I cannot wait for that day, I am so excited to have my apartment back (especially my beloved bed).

Music
Currently, there is one song I am listening to almost all day long, it's Katastrofe's 'Sla dag ned'. Brings back some Oslo memories... You can find the video here.

Celebrities
So it really happened. Kim Kardashian gave birth to a baby girl and if it wouldn't be hard enough to be born the child of Kim K. and Kanye, they decided to come up with an absolutely ridiculous name, North 'Nori' West. But as I said, I think it will be harder to be born into this family, no matter what your name is.
Rachel Zoe is said to be expecting her second child and everybody is hoping for a girl, so she may finally stop dressing up her first born son Skyler like one.

Beauty
This week, a whole bunch of new stuff arrived/was purchased. First, my Sleek order arrived and I am in love (Blogpost). Additionally, I invested a gift card (goodbye present from my colleagues at my last internship) in a new foundation, lipgloss and a primer (plus all the goodies I got with this purchase). For the foundation, I decided on Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra 24H in the shade 03. Also from Lancôme, I got one of their Gloss in Love in the color 323 (?). My new primer is from smashbox, the Photo Finish Foundation Primer Color Correcting Adjust.
All I am waiting for now is my Real Techniques order and then I will reduce my beauty shopping to a minimum (at least, I will try).

Purchase on the left side, goodies on the right side: Yeah!

Reading
As I am on holiday (at least until tomorrow), I finally got time to read:
Dan Brown - Inferno (Review)
Rita Falk - Griessnockerlaffäre
Timur Vermes - Er ist wieder da
Jojo Moyes - Me before you (Review)
Today I will continue with some academic papers, as I am doing some brainstorming for my master thesis topic.

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Neu gibt es meine Blogposts zweisprachig, da ich auch einige deutsche, noch nicht auf Englisch übersetzte Bücher rezensieren will. Also gibt es nun alle Posts "doppelt".

So langsam lebe ich mich wieder ein in der Schweiz. Momentan bin ich noch bei meinen Eltern, ab Freitag nächster Woche wohne ich dann wieder in meiner Wohnung. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, ich freue mich so auf meine eigene Wohnung (insbesondere auf mein Bett).

Musik
Mein Song der Woche (er läuft hier rauf und runter) ist 'Sla dag ned' von Katastrofe. Erinnert mich an all die guten Zeiten in Oslo (Video gibts hier)...

Promis
Endlich ist das Kardashian-West Kindchen da. Ein Mädchen ist es geworden und leider Gottes scheint es nicht genug Strafe zu sein, in diese Familie hineingeboren worden zu sein, nein, das arme Kind hört nun auf den Namen North 'Nori' West.
Promi-Stylistin Rachel Zoe erwartet angeblich ihr zweites Kind und nun hofft jeder darauf, dass es ein Mädchen wird und sie endlich damit aufhört, ihren Erstgeborenen Skyler wie ein Mädchen anzuziehen.

Kosmetik
Zuerst ist diese Woche meine Sleek Bestellung eingetroffen und ich liebe meine drei neuen Blushes (Review). Zusätzlich hab ich dann noch einen Gutschein, den ich von meinen ehemaligen Arbeitskollegen zum Abschied erhalten hab, in eine Foundation (Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra 24H in der Farbe 03), einen Lipgloss (Lancôme Gloss in Love in der Farbe 323) und einen Foundation Primer (Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer Color Correcting Adjust) investiert.

Links die Einkäufe, rechts die Goodies: Yeah!!

Nun warte ich noch auf eine Real Techniques Pinsel Bestellung und dann ist dann mal Schluss hier (ich versuch zumindest ein bisschen sparsamer zu sein).

Bücher
Zumindest bis morgen dauert mein Urlaub noch (die Master Thesis hätte gerne ein Thema :P) und deshalb hab ich auch wieder Zeit zum Lesen gehabt:
Dan Brown - Inferno (Review in Englisch)
Rita Falk - Griessnockerlaffäre
Timur Vermes - Er ist wieder da
Jojo Moyes - Ein ganzes halbes Jahr (Review)

Weekly Review May 12, 2013

This week was quite boring. Studying, studying, studying. No books, no great food, really boring.

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Studying. And watching ice hockey. Our Swiss guys are doing a great job. Hopp Schwiiz!

Strawberries and macroeconomy studying on our rooftop terrace. Life is good (minus studying)!

After workout dinner on a really sunny day: Pita, salad and Corona

MAC Limited Edition Temperature Rising haul (review here)

I used this baby a lot. Coffe for the win!

Notebook, corporate finance papers and icehockey world championships on my iPad. Yay!

Yes!! This team is so entertaining this year, it's amazing!

Nails

It is spring on my fingers and my toes.

Fingers: Essie - Tart Deco (review here) 
Toes: LCN - 13

Catrice - Karl Says Très Chic (review here)

Essie - Bahama Mama (review here)

Weekly Review May 5, 2013

Another week has passed and the end of my stay in Norway (as well as exam period) is coming closer. A friend from my home university has been visiting this week, so I was doing more sightseeing than studying.

Food
Guess what? I had sushi again. Lille Asia is becoming my favorite place here in Oslo. This week, I was at their restaurant at Hegdehaugsveien. The place is amazing, I could sit there for hours. Great food, great atmosphere, just perfect. 

And because we are all studying now, we are spoiling ourselves with dinners in restaurants. So on Sunday evening, it was time for Italian food at Vapiano. We have it in Switzerland too and I sticked to my favorite dish, Linguine Granchi di Fiume.

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Sunday evening. Watching 'Tatort' on my iPad and checking the comments on Twitter. Social Media TV evening.

Studying is hard. This helps. At least a little.

Library outfit.

A perfect evening. Beer, great football and good friends.

Magazines from home.

Now I have spring on my feet.

Music
My song of the week is a really old one I have not heard in a while. A couple of years ago, I listened to it until I knew the lyrics by heart. And hooray, I still knew them. The song is "Seasons of love" from the musical "Rent". You find the final broadway performance here.

Nails
Another week of not changing my nail polish every other day... I really have to work on this, I am a little worried I get worse if I am not practicing.

Essie - Decadent Dish

Essie - Bond with whomever (Review can be found here)

Weekly Review April 28, 2013

I had my last lecture (during which Mario Götze's transfer to Bayern Munich was announced; I am still not sure whether this was a good move) of this semester and therefore, I am now officially in study mode. When I am not studying, I am at the gym to make me feel that I did at least one useful thing a day. Oh and we had our first rooftop party. You know, it's kind of spring here. The sun is shining and it's around 10°C. So why not spending the evening outside on a rooftop, right? I must say, it was worth the goose bumps and the dangling, as we can see the Oslo fjord from our rooftop.

Beauty
New in this week: John Frieda Luxurious Volume Shampoo
It does make my hair kind of fluffy but I am not sure whether it also dries out my hair. So far, I cannot say if it's a 'yay' or a 'nay' product but I will keep on testing.

Books
As I have finally switched to study mode, I am reading all day long. In the evening, I am happy if I can just watch TV and switch off my brain. On Saturday evening, I managed to read some pages of Nate Silver's book (review will be on the blog as soon as I am finished).

Celebrities
I love celebrity gossip. In this week's news, Reese Whiterspoon and her husband got arrested. Best thing about this is her mugshot which looks like a blurry image of a beauty blogger presenting her eye makeup.
Kim Kardashian finally got divorced, which is great for her, as I really don't want to imagine Kanye living with the fact, that his child legally is Kris Humphries' child. What is not great is Kim's maternity wardrobe. Okay, it's not maternity fashion, she just squeezes into normal dresses, as usual. She should get some lessons by the duchess of Cambridge, who looked radiant this week in a mint Mulberry coat, a baby blue 50s dress, a navy blue floral dress and a polka dot topshop dress which of course was sold out within an hour. 

Food
On Tuesday I went out for a pre-Champions-League sushi dinner with a good friend. As we planned to watch the game at a pub in Grünerløkka, we went for dinner right next to the pub at a place called lille asia. And here is my delicious maki plate, all shrimps.

Oh these iPhone colors... That wasabi's green color was a lot less intense in reality

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I kicked off strawberry season this week (and already had 1kg in the first two days). This was my study snack on Monday afternoon.

Working on a group assignment. 3 hours of Excel and Stata and we're still not done.

After the 3 hours, I forced myself to step by at the gym. I did some abs and my favorite sling workout. That's all I can do after an afternoon with Excel files.

I was wearing my favorite ring this week, a Cartier beauty that once belonged to my late father.

My gym here in Oslo (Nydalen Athletica) got a remodelling this week and they've added some motiviational quotes like this one.

Listened to this record all week long.

Oslo at 10 pm (rooftop view).

Music
This week, I spoiled myself with a new CD, the deluxe edition of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' 'The Heist'. What a brilliant record.

Nails
I didn't even have the time to change my nail color more than once this week. Long days at the library and gym afterwards (plus football and party in the evening) made it hard to find time for a mani change.

Essie - Forever Yummy

Essie - Madison Ave-hue

In light of spring, my toe nails are currently wearing a bright yellow by alessandro. I cannot show a picture here though because my toes are not the prettiest part of my body.

TV
It's Champions League time! We enjoyed the first game (Bayern - Barcelona) at an Irish pub with around 500 screens (okay, according to their webpage they have 40 but it feels like more). And what a game that first semifinal was. May this finally be the end of that incredibly boring tiki-taka. I am so bored by this and I am happy that several teams now have proven that this is not the ultimate way of playing anymore. The second semifinal, Dortmund vs. Real Madrid, I've watched at home. Another great game that already makes me look forward to the final.

Weekly Review April 21, 2013

What a week that was. I spent a lot of time checking news pages regarding the tragic events in Boston.

TV
A couple of weeks ago, I watched my first "Tatort". It's a crime series in German TV, airing once a week on Sunday evening and it started in 1970. My mother is watching it and so far, I wasn't really interested. I have been watching several old episodes this week and I will now make "Tatort" my new Sunday evening ritual.

Shopping
It was time this week for some serious beauty shopping. I needed new facial products. My skin is not really causing problems but as I am aging, I thought it might be time to invest in some good products. After some beauty blog research and asking my best friend, I decided to go for Clinique and Origins. At Steen & Nordstrøm, I found all the products on my wishlist.

My cleaning routine is now so much more fun. I really enjoy using these high-end products and my skin also seems to be happy about this new routine.

Food
My food highlight this week was today's breakfast. Yesterday, I bought some strawberries and today, I included them into my breakfast. Banana, mango, strawberries, müsli and vanilla jogurt. It was delicious.

Books
I had no time to read in any of the books I am currently reading. The only thing I read was Elle magazine. Okay, that was not really reading, more looking at pictures.

Nails
As usual, my nails wore a variety of colors this week.

Essie - Miss Fancy Pants (and football)

Catrice - I sea you!

Essie - Turquoise & Caicos topped with Essence - glorious aquarius

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This is how my week looked through Instagram filters.

Bringing a little Switzerland to Oslo: Sechseläuten

Spending the night watching CNN (yes, the coverage was crappy)

This is heaven, right? W.B. Samson

Oslo, sunshine, over 10 degrees: I am wearing ballerinas. Without socks.

This is how my next weeks will be like. Studying at the library and spending an enormous amount of money on coffee.