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Wanna know a bit more about me and what I do?
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Or you can try my tests (don´t take it seriously - it is just for fun): Are you the man of my dreams? OR
The really quick man of my dreams test

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So, who am I??.....
A question I keep asking myself , and keep on giving shape with each new step every day. I don't believe anyone to be a fixed as a person. We change every day, and we are what we tell ourselves and choose. So all I can say is who I am right now and what I have done in my life so far :-)

I am A Norwegian girl, with a gypsy heart and a zest for life.
My name is Aasa (Åsa) (derived from the old viking mythology - Aasatrú, and means "goddess" (wuhu!)

I am not a very "typical" Norwegian - I am more emotionally dominated and most of the time I am happy, cheerful and outgoing. I am a peace-loving person who adore social interaction and meeting new people, and besides art, it is mostly what drives me in life. If you get on my bad side, you must have done A LOT to me, cause I hardly ever get mad and also forgive those who truly seek forgivness very quickly,- compassion is a strong drive in me - nearly to a fault.

I am excited about things that I love and just life in general. I am very enthusiastic, intense and energetic - I just have much love and energy in me, and I adore giving it to somebody that is open enough to receive it. (And I am honest "to a fault" - just ask ;-))

I cannot live without my writing, paintings, drawings or photos -art and expression is a part of my reason for living....I love music, literature, theater-( both performing and watching ),playing, mythology, psycho[logy, philosophy, movies, games of all kinds, discussions, new people, languages, science , politics ( I am a Libertarian socialist, who strongly believe in egalitarianism, but I always love a discussion), cultures, , comics, cartoons, drawing, costumes, computer-editing or creating, the night, painting, cheese, writing , learning, food and cooking, sensory pleasures, fine cheeses and red wines, art-photography risk-taking, excitement, exploring, adventures, the subconscious, mysticism, traveling, traveling and traveling - all in a good mix.

Although I am an agnostic (leaning towards atheism), but I am also a highly spiritual and philosophical person, and I am very interested in different kinds of mysticism, philosophies and world/soul/life understandings. I am especially fascinated by Zen Buddhism, Taoism and different mythologies.

I love anything that's creative and challenging. I am full of contradictions in my personality, but my dominant features are : kind, childlike, caring, playful, empathic, quirky, and positive with a BIG serious side as well.

I have been ruled by my impulses, seeking excitement and change and this made me very bad at planning, structure and future thinking. But now I am committed to integrating these things better into my personality andI can say I have succeded quite a bit already. Now I seek healthy relating and deeper meanings over excitement.
I have found out that excitement through impulses only fulfills you in the moment and then it is over. And it doesnt even pierce the surface of your feelings and who you are. But deeper things reach into your soul and make a mark,- and they give your life purpose.(I will never totally abandon excitemnt though, hehe, it is a good spice in life when you also have the deeper foundations to stand on)

My view on life is that I learn from everything, so there are no regrets, just experiences to take knowledge from. There is something positive in anything if you are open to seeing it. I prefer to find solutions and work on and with them, a practical approach is always the best instead of digging and emotional ditch and jump into it. I shy away from victim-mentality and negative thinking.

I am a very open-minded spirit that is very frank and open about what I feel and who I am. I feel that you cannot judge people before you have walked in their shoes or slippers. And if you manage to do that there is no reason for judging, as deep understanding and compassion takes the judging element away.
I hate mind-games, manipulation, control and narrow-mindedness, as I grew up with some of these things around me. So I have done everything to learn from it and take myself on a different road. I am trusting and honest to a fault and have been hurt by people for it countless times. But that will never make me change it - I think it is a lovely gift, both to me and others...And it already is with the friends I have found so far :-)

I don't consider many emotions negative, just part of lives different aspects. What is told to be negative will also be so in your eyes. I experience sorrows and griefs just as part of life - and then they become wonderful parts that can teach me new things and deepen the range of my hearts emotional capacity. The only things I see as negative are the things you give into that stops yourself from growing. Sometimes we can enjoy seeing ourselves as a victim for others. There is no way to go from that place than further down.

I am working very consciously and hard with going through and leaving behind some old patterns and roles that are not me, but coming as a result of happenings in my past. I feel that I have come very close to resolving them recently and that has empowered me to dive even deeper into all matters of my "darker sides" that needs attention. I am no wuss, ha ha! ;-)

Oh, and I have been a vegetarian for 19 years now. (I am considering quitting actually. Have started eating fish again)

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PS1: I hardly hardly EVER answer any messages here, just the VERY FEW that really grabs my attention. I am Sorry - don´t take it personally if I don´t answer you, or just answer you once and then stop. I am sure you are a great person - I just know what I like in people when it comes to giving them my attention and time, and it is very narrow. I am quite peculiar in many ways, and therefore few people truly match me deeply. But if you feel that it has hurt you in some way, just message me and tell me. I am sure I can mend and make you understand why. There are just SOOO many messages I get here so i can get a bit lost too you see :-)

PS2: Please dont insult my intelligence with a message like "You are pretty" or "Hi, how are you. What are you doing today?" I know you can be more inventive than that, and if not, I wont answer you, as 80% of my mailbox already si full of boring messages like it.

Life is goooooooooooooooooooooooooood whopiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!

I have made a new webpage for my work! WHUPPIII!
Check it out and tell me what you think.

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From My Facebook Profile:
About Me:
Freelance photographer
Educated in Barcelona, Spain and Oslo, Norway

I am New, Every, Day

Right now I am at a new starting point. I am looking and searching for several new things in my life, to give my life a deeper sense of meaning. I have been avoidant of responsibilities and clinging to my own freedom. Not understanding that that is its own loss of freedom and a cage. I am exploring these things nowadays and I am on a path of a more balanced way of living. This is why I am also looking for certain things:

*That special city/country to settle in. I am tired of rootless travels. I want to have one wonderful place to settle, that will be the base for my journeys into exploring the world more also, but building a foundament there where I can set roots. It might be in two different countries, one of them my birth country Norway, for half of the year.

*The outer frames for where I can practice the work I love (art, crafts and photography) in the place I am settled in. (Update: have come quite far on this one, and grown much as a photographer and artist. But of course this is a path that never stops, but always keeps evolving)

*Create and explore the meaning of a deeper love-relationship.

What kind of people do I like? I used to think that chemistry was everything. But I have changed and learned that chemistry can also mean a disaster and, not nessecarily something that is good for you. So qualities like being kind, sweet and deep are more important to me than ever these days,- People who can show care and empathy, but at the same time can be exciting and adventourous. I am a curious soul, and I would never want to stop growing as a person and explore the world. Just because you are dependable and warm-hearted doesn´t mean you have to be boring ;-) and I always found opposites and complexity in a personality very attractive.

I have done several different things so far. Worked in kindergartens, studied art, philosophy, psychology, languages and linguistics. Traveled around in several countries, and lived over longer periods in Oslo, Norway (my birth country) Germany (Ulm, Berlin), Spain(La Gomera and Barcelona), the Caribbean(Dominican Republic) and Seattle (USA)

The world is my home, and I never get enough of exploring it.

Other than that? Just being a playful person, continuously curious about life , people and the world. Committing, learning and exploring. Finding the deeper sides of life as well as the light and fun ones.

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Oh... all of that and dragons! I love dragons!

Being loving and supporting

Understanding and listening to you, whoever you are

Being enthusiastic (!) and bubbling over with ideas

Giving massages and daydreaming...not at the same time though.

Being creative and come up with wacky new plans and thoughts

Being an optimist and cheer you up

Being open minded (maybe too much ?)

Talking and playing and talking some more (and a little more)

Analyzing everything from people to abstract ideas.

Pondering life, love and the unconscious mind

Helping you on your road in life

Being silly and surreal

Being opinionated but yet flexible and open

Being 30% crazy.

and.............

............just being..............

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I am really bad at: (Working on all of this and improving)

Not answering back if you are rude, or anything similar (I have a big mouth, he he)

Shutting up and not give my opinion

Sending you SHORT mails if I really klick with you

Waiting...for anything (I cannot express how much I hate waiting. Still have gotten pretty good at it though)

Focusing on one thing for a long time (Update: Really good at this now actually)

Completing and sticking with all my ideas (Argh - this one is a tricky one, but very important for me to improve)

Being detail oriented and doing things slowly

Just accepting that not everything has an answer

Behaving as I "should" , follow authorithy or take orders

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Dragons... again... well... really.. dragons and kitchen cabinets... don't worry if you don't get it. If you're worthy... you will

If I am really into something I give it ALL of my burning
attention. That goes for activities, ideas, people,
things, and expressing my thoughts.

That I don´t censor myself; nothing inside me will be beautified
for polite consumption before it comes out of my mouth ;-)

How important dedication, honesty, and ideals are in my life. I am honest to a fault. This has scared away some people -- but I'll never compromise my integrity in this. I would rather scare away people who can´t take the truth of my existence than not be who I truly am.

That I am both extremely extrovert AND introvert. I love people, and I find social interaction to be one of the things I could never live without; it energizes me and I thrive on it. At the same time, I also love and need to be alone
regularly and deeply enjoy it.

Physically? Maybe my lips. But I am a bit tired and bored of getting comments about my looks (except from my special someone of course.) That sort of thing is common when
you are a blond and have lived in Spain ;-)

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Again, and I realize it's getting to be a bit predictable but...
dragons. Somehow people aren't used to that anymore it
seems.

Oh.. and before I forget... bowler hat !

ANYTHING that touches my heart, gives me a zizzles or moves my emotions or makes me think in a new way. I like everything from (labels:) popular trash culture to underground "weird"-stuff ;-)

Here are some of my current favorites of mine for you:
Novels/poetry: Pablo Neruda, Haiku, Tao Te Ching , A new earth - by Tolle, Naiv - Super by Erlend Loe, Patrick Suskind - The perfume, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, The propht by khail Gibran, The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera, The little prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery, Steppenwolf, Stranger in a Strange Land, The complete guide to the galaxy by Adams, The Discworld series by Pratchett (should be tried by everybody who loves the hitch-hiker),Alice Walker - The Color Purple, Crime and punishment by Dostojevskij, Anna Karenina by Tolstoj, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Tao of Pooh (everybody should read this - excellent!), Helter og monstre paa himmelhvelvingen (stories from greek mythology), Siddharta by Hesse(Anything by Hesse), The old man and the sea by Hemingway, A song of ice and fire by George R.R.Martin, Simon och ekarna by Marianne Fredriksson, Through the words (+ Through Chaos) by Marie Cardinal, Anything by Amy Tan (especially "A hundred secret senses"), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Everything written on Winnie the Pooh by A.A.Milne, anything written by Torbjørn Egner. I could go on forever so I think I will stop here. (Yes, I am a huuge bookgeek) I also love reading non-fiction :) I guess I just love to read, throw me something to read and see me devour it, ha ha!

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Films: Anything that really appeals to my analytical or philosophical mind or my heart. In general - any movie that shows creativity behind its making. I hate gory movies though - am too sensitive to take it, and dislike violence.

Some examples: Amelie, Shine, Run Lola Run, My idiot brother, Monsters ball, Central do Brazil, Edward scissor hands, The Piano,Italiensk for begynnere, Il Postino, The phantom of the opera, Ice age, The Curse of the Were Rabbit ,The Shawshank redemption, David Lynch films : Lost highway, Mulholland Drive etc, Immortal beloved , Amadeus, The green mile, LOTR, Monsters Inc , Donnie Darko, Monthy Python movies, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Merlin, Benny and Joon, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Sommernattens leende, Chocolat, Shrek, The chicken run, The unbearable lightness of being, Rain man, Dracula (by Francis Ford Coppola), Ronja Roeverdatter. I am forever in love with Twin Peaks (the series, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Tim Burton, Kubrick, Lynch, and of course Ingamar Bergman(The man is a genius. Every freaking word has a deeper meaning!)
Also lovelovelove documentaries....about almost anything really :-)

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I like a lot of different music, but am mostly into rock of any kind, Indie, folk, classical, goth, world music, medieval and jazz. Here are some current favorites: Tori Amos, Cocorosie, Cultus Ferox, P.J.Harvey, Nick Cave, Corvus Corax, Nine Inch Nails, Imperiet, Sigur Ros, Jan Garbarek, David Lynch and John Neff, Anja Garbarek, Loreena Mckennit, Eva Cassidy, Julee cruise, Rammstein, Radka Toneff, Carmina Burana, The Doors, Beethoven, Elvis, Louis Armstrong, Edith Piaf, Dead Can Dance, Portishead, Prokofiev, Angelo Badalamenti, VNV Nation, Ani DiFranco. I especially have a thing for "powerfull", creative and weird women who sing (like Cocorosie) - it tend to catch my ear easily.

If you have some music you want to share with me I would TOTALLY LOVE IT!

My Favorited food flavors are like life: mixed and full of contrasts. So the tastes I like the most are 'sweet and sour' or 'sweet and salty'. Opposites are so different in your experience of them, that they awaken you, force you to think and be dynamic and alert. This is something that I find to be very alluring, both in food, people and life :-)

I have a weak spot for tapas, Mexican or Indian food (Thai is also great), but I also love to cook new things I haven´t tried out before. I especially love making desserts and cakes!(Cheesecake, oh my oh my) I also have a sick nearly dependent love for cheese and good, quality red wine OR ANYTHING with garlic on it(!)

Here's tree categories I would like to add: Artists: Mark Rotkho, HR Giger, Munch, Dali, and Man Ray. I love expressionism, surrealism, symbolism, art neauveaux and experimental photography. Miguel Rio Branco, Diane Arbus, David Lachapelle. I love everything emotional with underlines that makes you think in a new way, combined with mythological or spiritual themes. A little sensual darkness to spice it up doesn´t hurt either ;-)

And Poets: Rumi, Hafiz, (Sufi poets) Karin Boye, Inger Hagerup, Edith Sodergran, Astrid Hjertnes Hansen, Olav H Hauge, Tarjei Vesaas, Hans Børli, Stein Mehren.

And Comix: Calvin and Hobbes, Jason, Ernie, Pearls before Swine. Savage Chickens, Chuck and Beans, The far side, Neil Gaimans work, Vallhall (Peter Madsen), Nemi

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From My Facebook Profile:

Books: Tao Te Ching,A New Earth,The Prophet,The Little Prince,The Hitcher..Discworld series,The Color Purple,Crime and punishment,Dracula,Memoirs Of A Geisha,The Tao Of Pooh Siddharta,The Old Man And The Sea,Through the words,Demian.

Movies: Amelie,Shine,Run Lola Run,Central do Brazil,Edward Scissorhandshands,The Piano,Italiensk for begynnere,Il Postino,Bagdad Café, Into The Wild...
Monthy Python,Coppola,Kieslowski,Burton, Kubrick, Lynch,Ingmar Bergman,Almodóvar.

TV Shows: Twin Peaks (love), In Treatment, South Park, True Blood.

Music: Rock, Jazz, Indie, Folk, Classical, Electronica, Opera.

Six? Why? PFT! Rules are normally just guidelines to hold the society together and are often taken too far. In the en d people can´t see the forest for all the trees. ;-)

The basic things I would´t want to live without are:
The ability to reflect and learn, tenderness, love, intimicy and understanding, physical contact, meaningful communication, excitement, childlike playing, pleasures, creativity and deeper meaning(s)....my heart

The enjoyment of simplicity.

The small things in life that has enormous beauty.

The sound of silence.

An unopened letter.

The smell in the air just before it starts to rain.

The smell of the man I am in love with (this is an absolute fav ;-)

OR:

Where am I going? / What do I want? What am I searching for deep down? What is my drive / my deeper meaning?

Why like that? Whats behind? What's in it? What's under all of it? What does it mean?
Why did I do that? Why did he do that? What was the deeper meaning in those words? Is a joke just a joke? Why did I do/say this? What was my real intentions behind it all?

What is it all? / Is there an objective meaning or only a subjective one?

etc etc etc etc etc...

.........and sometimes..........

That maybe I think to much ;-)

OR.... I am just totally blank for really long, only focusing all my energy on doing - without thoughts, just dwelling in being and the world - and I love that, ha ha!

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25, aeroplane, barca, canon, astronauts, spoons, light, joy. And obviously the links between those. You can see them as well, right?

yes, indeed, then also.....I am...*nod* - isn´t it GREAT!?

If you wonder about anything - Just ask! ... very few things really embarrass me anymore and if it`s not against some inner feeling of protection I will always answer you - I am brutally honest...

Oh yeah, the graphs where they guess my personality here on my profile fits PRETTY DAMNED WELL, except "less sex driven". I think I understand why they have analyzed me answers like that,- I am very passionate, I love the feeling of a connection and the electricity and thrill from physical touch....BUT I am also VERY choosy about it. I have to feel a strong connection with sombody to want them, so in other words,- easy or meaningless sex is not my thing and no it does not pull my strings in any way. But passion is VERY important to me, and my passion and attraction comes from chemistry and connection.

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....You are looking for a good friend, or just somebody to have fun, philosophical chats with

You too wear mismatching socks

If you think you can learn me something new....(;-))

If you like to sit on rooftops looking at stars...

If you like to climb trees...

If you would like to join me in endless walks in a dark forest with tall impressive trees under a sky filled with moonlight...

if you are brave enough to face your demons in life, and want to tell me about it.

If you love art, photo, theater, acting, music, movies or literature...

If you are a passionate and compassionate person...

If you are a spiritual person...

If you are a hopeless romantic with a tender heart

If you love traveling, discovering new cultures and languages...

If you can tell me a weird little story that you make up just for me...

If you believe in the magic of life...

if you want to get to know me and think we can share something great or fun together.

Or just if you want to

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But most importantly, if you take yourself and life serious enough not to take yourself and life to seriously!