Own apartment

Its been quite a while since last post. But atleast now something has happened!

Last week I went to see an apartment. I live on a rent now and cause of future renovations I don't really want to live in the middle of it all. Also I thought that living in rented apartment again would be kinda useless when rents are quite massive especially near Helsinki center. So I had been searching for an apartment for some time now. But yes, last week I finally did find one. Of course its not yet 100% sure but 95% sure atleast!

Next week I will go and go talk with my bank and the week after that I will go and sign papers for the apartment. But I just have to say, its the most perfect little apartment for me!

And yay, its Big Brother season again! Its been on for about a week now, last sunday I went to the talk show. Big Brother and a new apartment, life just couldn't get any better. All I need anymore is a man and a cat. But those are irrelevant issues!

Animals and ice cream!

Last week one of my friends had his birthday. So last weekend we went to Korkeasaari (a big island that is converted to zoo) to celebrate it! On our way to the raft, I said, "yea we probably should take one student and one elderly folk ticket". When the ticket salesguy came and asked what kind of tickets we wanted, my friend said that. But then the guy was quiet for a while and then asked "do you have students card?" ...

Lots of animals were seen in Korkeasaari!

Grass is greener on the other side...

Rawr rawr

にゃん　にゃん

Later on the island I had an ice cream, when suddenly I heard fluttering sound and a big shadow landing on top of me. I turned around and it was a seagull! Trying to snatch my ice cream! I dodged so it couldnt get it and my friend chased it away. Seagull jumped a bit to the side and after that some goose chased it. Must've been rough day for that goose...

This week was a bit odd workwise. It was just three workdays, one day off, and then another workday and weekend. I am still a bit confused about the days. But its been nice weekend this time as well. I saw a friend after long time yesterday. It was great to catch up. Only problem maybe was that I lost my voice! I have been having slight flu and coughing occasionally, so the coughing probably did the trick and I sounded like a young boy hitting puberty. Well, I could speak anyway!

So.. I guess this wraps it up, see you!

Sunny days, made for running

After mayday its mostly just been hockey hockey hockey. It was a very tasty victory and people were very happy and united cause of it. I suppose the hockey fever still hasn't passed but yeah, its been 16 years since last victory.

Last week I started to go to thai boxing practices again. Its been very nice to go there after long time and today I went running to Naisten Kymppi (10 km "womens marathon") which also went much better than I suspected. Sunny day just made it perfect.

Just about one and a half months and its time for summer holiday. This spring has gone so well that I can hardly wait what summer brings along! :)

And yes, PSN is back on!

Mayday and other nonsense

Still haven't gone to practice. Its been over a month now. But good news is that my ankle is getting better day by day. Maybe in next week I dare to go. Also hockey games now so its not really that big deal to skip practice.. ;)

And there was mayday and mayday was fun. At 10 am my friends came over and we had some baconsausages and beer cake along with some mead (self-made of course) for breakfast. Yes beer too. After that we went to a park where there were lots of students and non-students (like me). I knew quite a few of them and had been spending almost every mayday there since living in South Finland. Then we went to help my friend with moving. Since there were so many of us, the whole thing was over in 2 hours and she treated us with pizza and beer. Also then I accidentally swallowed my tongue piercing (yea just the ball) while eating... But luckily I had spare ones at home.

Weather has been pretty cold now in Finland. Not even reaching +10c, compared to the ~+17c we had earlier, its been really really chilly. Though on next week it should go as high as over +20c! Beach season, here we come!

I am feeling a bit too lazy to post any pictures here since I now have much more easier method! You can spy on the pictures I take with my lovely HTC Desire Z here!

And R.I.P. PSN :(
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Winter holiday

And so it is my winter holiday from work, finally. Work starts again on the 27th day so plenty of time to rest. Speaking of which, is very needed right now.

My ankle had been sore for about three weeks. First week it was sore a bit, then eventually it was so bad I could barely put any weight on it. Two weeks passed and I was limping around, hoping its just stressed out from practice. Also I was very frustrated I hadn't been able to go to practice due that. So finally yesterday I decided to go to doctor. After 4 hours of waiting and different exams, they found the reason in ultrasound. My ankle had a small fracture. Surprising I had even been able to walk around. I was supposed to go visit my family in East Finland as well, but because of the ankle, I decided its better to rest for now and go there on thursday. Well, I have been playing Playstation, and damn it really feels like vacation!

One year

Ha, didn't even realize but its been one year (and two days) since I started my blog. And no, this is not April fools. In fact I didn't get even fooled today, which usually is quite easy to accomplish. It probably has something to do with the fact that I was very busy at work.

Nevertheless, thanks for reading my blog, have a nice weekend and yaddayadda. ;)

Days of my life

Are going way too fast.

Weeks go by so that I cannot even realize its weekend again. I am not really overloaded by things that I do, time just simply goes so fast. Work, thai boxing, calligraphy... All the free time I have is usually spent with friends and if I happen to have a day off at home, then it feels like time is going really slowly.

Nevertheless its also a good thing! I can't wait for summer to come and its anymore 6 weeks (or 40 days now) to my winter holiday.

But I really should try to pull myself together and finish some of the projects I have. Too many unfinished socks, amigurumi and games. Maybe I need a schedule for wasting time.

Sick. Again.

Only this time its with 39-40C fever and lots and lots of coughing. Also a weeks sick leave. I am already bored to death and its day two. Mostly it annoys me cause I was supposed to

- go workout on monday and wednesday
- take a course from monday to thursday
- see a friend I haven't seen in a long time on thursday.

Yes. Annoying.

I could spend my days gaming, I am hooked on Gran Turismo 5 and would still have to unwrap 3 other games. Problem is that due the fever I can't really concentrate on anything. So I just end up sleeping an hour, staying up an hour, repeat.

Rant rant rant. But maybe tomorrow I will feel better! :)

One Delorean needed, thank you

Yes, time is going way too fast.

Few days ago it was mothers 50th birthday. I sent some money to grandma and asked her to take roses to her grave for me, since the place is hundreds of kilometers away, which kinda sucks. But I get to visit her soon.

Four days till my summer holiday starts. Yeah, it is summer holiday, had one week left from last summer I hadn't used yet and now its a good time to do it. I'm going to East Finland to visit my family for christmas on 22nd day and will stay there for almost a week. Of course its gonna be my birthday party there as well on 23rd day (woo, more cake!).

Really hard to believe that its less than 2 weeks till christmas eve. Seriously. And almost year 2011. Goddamnit, another new number to remember.

And I went to see Rare Exports with a friend. Absolutely great movie! Can recommend it wholeheartedly!

But anyway, life is nice and good and we have lots of snow, yay!

Weekends and visits

This weekend my cousin and his girlfriend dropped by from east Finland. So, nice evening at Helsinki night and getting him hooked with desperate housewives (yeah he really is a guy).

Also my father called that the socks I made for him were perfect fit, so another great success.

Next weekend is finally such that I don't have any bigger plans, which is nice cause christmas party period is starting as well and feels like time is just flying with all office work and just sleeping over weekends. Usually I have started to listen to christmas songs when its November but now I have sort of skipped it all. I didn't even realize when the month actually changed.

Yes. I really should start thinking about making gingerbread cookies.

Home

So its been already one week in new home, time goes really really fast. But during this week I've learned to like this apartment a lot and the location is just perfect. Even if its single room apartment, it still fits couch, bed, desk, three shelves, drawer, table, tv-set..

Work is more busy now but nothing special there. And now I feel like continuing some of my crochet pattern designs, its about damn time already!

Just a small update to let people know I am still alive and kicking, but will post soon when I have something else to tell.

Experiments

Now lets see how this thing starts out...

Mayday and other nonsense

Lots has happened since I last time wrote a blog entry.

First it was Mayday, which Finnish laborers usually celebrate drinking cause they get a day off. Unfortunately it was Saturday and it was raining. People also start the celebration on Mayday eve. But this time I didn't! Just stayed at home and had a few beers. On next day me and my boyfriend went to have brunch with my friends and the food was just delicious! Usually when you order á la carte meals you only get really tiny steak, so we ordered appetizers and main course. Well as it turned out, both meals were huge, atleast to me. So in the end I could only eat half of the main course, sorry chef!

I bought this Tinker Bell balloon from work

Later my friend came over and we drank and ate some more and played Band Hero and Singstar... And then the next day wasn't so nice. But it was great Mayday nevertheless!

Two days ago I also saw my friend from Netherlands. He was in Finland as an exchange student when I was studying and he visits pretty regularly here.

Oh yeah and hockey season started! I'm not really into Finnish championship games or NHL but world champion competition is a must. So, today, Finland vs. Denmark. I wonder which one will win ;)

Also today is my friends house warming party and I finally get to meet their kittens, though they are probably grown up already.

Well.. Now that you think about it, nothing much has really happened. But it was an excuse to update anyway!