job & norwegian music

so tomorrow i'm starting my new/old job at the international office...really looking forward!
i'm quite excited & nervous at the same time...wondering if i still know most of the stuff and how long it's gonna take before i really feel that i'm 'back into it'. also i'm working with 3 assistants and 2 of them i've never worked with before...but they're great girls so i'm pretty confident it will work out just fine!

other than that...it's summer! so sunny and warm...loving it! think that most of all i like to wear all my summer clothers again...and flipflops...and my two pairs of new summershoes (no not at the same time!)

and other than that i'm totally into this norwegian singer maria mena at the moment! her video of 'just hold me' was on dutch music tv a LOT a couple of nights last week and i just had to have the song then...in the end i decided i had to have her complete album from iTunes, of course i did listen to the snippets first!
it's a wonderful album with some very cool & heartbreaking songs...and she just has an amazing voice!
i kind of knew maria from last summer(?) when she had a minor hit with 'you're the only one' which i always thought was a very nice and funny song ('You're the only one who holds my hair back when I'm drunk and get sick..') and then my dad once asked me if i knew about her & her music (he expects me to know all contemporary scandinavian artists haha!)...but it's only now that it really hit me.
oh and OF COURSE, same with anna ternheim last fall, i also discovered that she just played in amsterdam about 2 weeks ago...grrrrrrr!

at the same time i'm also listening to another singer from the north today, mari boine. she's a sami from norway and mixes traditional jojk music with modern music...very interesting & also good to have with me during my trips to lapland this summer! have borrowed 5 cd's of her from my dad so if that's not gonna keep the people in the bus busy for a while... hehe!