Mi objektive vurdering av familien.

Som eg lova denne påska, skulle eg gjera mailen der eg freista å gje Triin eit bilete av familien min, klar for offentlegheita. Avsnittet som eg publiserer, er fullstendig uredigert. Berre dei mest personlege delane av mailen er tekne bort.

Så her får de min vesle analyse av familien Lid! Brøl av fordervelse eller le av fryd. =)

"Hmm. And the favorite things of my family. It's a really hard question, because it'll still be my point of view that will be shaping your picture of them=P But I can try.

Let's see. Let's start with my dad. I'm writing pretty randomly here, btw.

My dad, Petter, is born 28. 12. 1950. My dad likes to rest after dinner. He likes to walk in the mountains, and to stay in shape. He likes inspiring christian speeches. He likes to talk about languages or Norwegian dialects with people. He likes to study birds (like owls) in his garden. He likes the small things in life, like small blooming flowers. He has some really nice flower beds. Sometimes my dad likes things as they've always been. He's pretty direct.

My mom, Marit, is born 14. 05. 1950. She's less charismatic (in the christian meaning) than my dad, and she likes the symbolism in a state church service. She's good at laughing at herself. She really sees the good things in everything, and she's good at compliments. She's more touchy than my dad. She likes music more than him too. Especially classical. She has been playing the recorder, and she also sings. My mom likes coffee more than my dad. My dad plays a little guitar, btw. Both my parents are educated teachers. My mom's been teaching mostly elementary school.

Over to my siblings... I'm trying to stay objective here, but it's hard. Bear over with me=)
Alf Magne's born 22. 02. 1976. He's very good at a lot of things. He's the best guitar player I know. His musical ear is amazing; he also sings and plays the piano, the bass guitar and he can drum. He's good at playing chess: he says the secret is thinking far ahead. He's working in KPMG, a pretty respected accountant firm. He's still going to Levende Ord, the church in Bergen that lost their pastor. He's pretty good at having a time with God every morning. I guess Alf Magne is a man of principles. He drives a red Mitsubishi Lancer. He's good at driving. He dresses in tight jeans and stiff shirts a lot. He likes strategy games. He likes to watch Poirot, or charismatic meetings on TV, like God channel. He doesn't watch too many movies, because he sometimes gets scared or upset from thrillers. If he does, he has the need to talk things through. I think he's really funny at times. He likes IQ tests. I think Alf Magne likes tea more than coffee.

Monika's born the 11. 04. 1978. Monika decided early to become Victoria's favorite aunt, and she's made it. (She only had one competitor, though.) She works as a social worker in Førde. She loves family, and she likes it when of all of us are home at the same time. She likes to renovate, and she's better at it than anyone in my family. She's the social glue sometimes. Ingvild hangs out with Monika a lot, they click in a good way. She likes clothes, and she dresses pretty youth-like. Rina's style reminded me of Monika's, but she's a little more into nail belts and stuff as well. She's pretty direct. She likes good, new christian music, or normal non-christian soft rock. She helps out a lot at home. She enjoys staying in touch with people in general. She likes social board games, and she sings. I think actually Monika would like the american version of the Office. Monika drinks coffee as much as me. She likes a nice, calm skiing trip once in a while. She watches Grey's Anatomy a lot.

Øystein's born the 03. 06. 1981. Øystein likes literature and photography. He has a really fancy digital camera, and a normal analogue camera, because he likes those pictures better than digital ones at times. He plays the piano, but he recently sold his electrical piano and bought an old seventies organ at home. He knows computers better than me, I think. He still likes a good game of football once in a while. I like Øystein's combination of intellect and stupid humor. He's been working as a journalist for a couple of years now. He lives in Bergen, but signed out of Levende Ord. He enjoys Star Trek, the Simpsons, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Gladiator... guy movies and science fiction. Øystein likes to pick berries around the cabin we have at a mountain plateau. Øystein hung around a lot with me when I was little, even though he's 5 years older than me. He drinks a lot of milk. He likes some music, but he's not that interested in it anymore. He likes comedies too, like Seinfeld, Frasier, or intellectual humor. He likes cats.

Ingvild's born the 02. 02. 1983. I wish I knew Ingvild better. What I do know is that she also likes renovating, like Monika. She drinks a lot of tea. She studies mathematics, master this year. She became a Christian at 17, like you. She's grown up on an island an hour from Bergen. She has two younger siblings. She likes clothes too. Decorations. Beautiful things. She goes to bed early, unlike Øystein and Monika. I think she's good at talking with people and connecting with them, and she reads people well. She's very practical, and she once got excited about getting a new electrical drill.

Victoria's born 14. 03. 2005.

I hope this is helpful... I had fun writing it, at least. I think I figured out I don't know my siblings as well as I thought.
But I really do think the question is intellectual, and you're taking my family seriously. Thank you=)
Btw, Øystein is on Facebook now."