A sharp intake of breath has become part of your active vocabulary. You think nothing of paying 50NOK for a bottle of 'cheap' spirits at Vinmonopolet. You rummage through your plastic bottles collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to the recycle center. It's acceptable to eat lunch at 11.00 and dinner at 15.00. Your front door step is beginning to resemble a shoe shop.
Silence is fun.
It no longer seems excessive to spend 500NOK on alcohol in a single night. You enjoy the taste of lutefisk. You use mmmm as a conversation filler. You wear sandals with socks. You have only two facial expressions, smiling or blank.