Shopping like a white girl (almost)

The theme of this week - shopping and travelling! I spent most of the week at Kouvola at my dear friend's place, just chilling and spending time leisurely. We also got on one-day-Helsinki-trip, and this entry is mostly about that adventure.

We visited the Art Museum Ateneum, that had a Tove Jansson 100 years- exhibition! The exhibition included Jansson's self-drawn portraits, landscapes, illustrations, magazine-prints, and of course - Moomins! There was also art from people who Tove had inspired, or Tove had been inspired by. I love Moomins very deeply, and visiting this exhibition was probably one of the most exquisite things during my entire life. Unfortunately it wasn't allowed to take pictures in the museum, but I recommend, that if you're visiting Helsinki, go see the exhibition!

Here's a good chance to show my late Birthday-present! <3

Fortunately for us, there was also a special day in Finnkino in our day of visit, so we went to watch the Grand Budapest Hotel! A great movie, I recommend you watch it :D

In Kouvola the days went by lazily. We ate good food, chilled, slept too much - spent our youth in the right way, someone liberal enough (a.k.a. me) might say. And since the pics tell more than a thousand words:

In the end, something I have NEVER done in the history of  this blog - I post pictures of clothes and other randoms that I bought during my trip.

This shirt is from (UGH, I feel kind of an teenager when I say this) from H&M at only 7 euros! We both bought the same type of shirts, me and my friend - and yeah, that somehow sounds like something only 13-years-old-best-friends do. But wha'evs! I also bought new sunglasses, that match quite nicely with the shirt :3 They were from Tiger (cost only 5 €uros, so I'm not that sure how long they will last!)

I like moustache. I like them too much. No reason why. The just are. Moustache. Something you can't have too much. Especially in accessories. The stickers were from Accessorize (0,75 €uros/arch), the flask (4 €uros) and the socks (3 €uros for these beautys, wow!) are also from Tiger 

This DVD got to my bag from flea market with only 2 €uros! Finally I have the entire LOTR-trilogy on DVD :3

In the end, a few pics of my new wallet that I am deeply in love with! This one dropped to my postbox from eBay with only around 7 €uros. Just love <3

Few, lots of pics but hopefully they we're worth watching :D Now I will just relax for a few days, since next week I'm gonna go for a real cottage holiday for about 4-5 days! I get to to my grandfather's cottage, where I've last been about 8 years ago. Hopefully I will be all whee and yay and whop-a-dee-doo because of that!

Days of being wild

My summer holiday has finally started properly! Last week's Friday was my last working day at my Grandma's, and now I've had all the time to just enjoy all the time that I have in my hands. So far I've been busy doing stuff such as:

(Sorry about this silly selfie, I just had to commemorate the first face I made when the holidays started :D )

 I think chilling with a cat is one of the best things you can do, when you don't have anything clever in mind :D Our little (and old) Leevi turned 15 years this Midsummer, but he's still such a lovely honeybunny and mubedibobediboo. Whatever that means. Just love <3

I've also spent wonderful times with movies! Here's the latest Toy Story movie (vol 3), that makes my cry almost every time. (Not because of this scene, though.) Everyone who's seen the movie probably knows, what's the scene that makes the tears have a party in the corners of my eyes :'D I haven't watched much movies, but today I felt instant happiness (and crush) since they showed How to Train Your Dragon in television! The second HTTYD has had it's premiere this weekened, and I can't wait to see the Hiccup being nevillelongbottomed (Check the google if you don't know what it means).


Just so you don't think I've been all by myself this week, I'll post a few pictures of an event where me and my friends we're working this week! As some of my readers might know, I study in Mikkeli, in the training program of bachelor of cultural management (phew, that sounded nice in English.)

Alongside of my studies I take part in a student-theatre group called Teatteri Idea. This week a few of our group members worked in Hulivilikarnevaali. This serie of events last for entire week, and it offered many different activities for little children! Our part in the week was to create a Nature Adventure (wow, that actually rhymes in English!) for children and their family members. Because of this we dressed as animals of the nature. Thankfully the weather was nice, so the suites weren't steaming hot! Here's some visual proof about our existence in the event.

#Lots of pics of me this time, I see...

 In the end of the week I returned back to my Depeche regular mode, and spend time with my folks, computer, cat and dog. I also wrote quite much, and read a few nice books (The restaurant of yellow lemons and Rakkaudella, Hynynen) I'm trying to right my first, concrete novel this summer, and so far the writing has gone well - I only have about 8 chapters of the 26 chapters left to write! In the same time I'm working on a script for our theatre group, so I'm definitely not running out of creative things!

The Patriotic Dog. <3

And last but not least - a pic of the newest love of my life - a new bike! I got this from my grandma as a some kind of pre-heritage, and I hope I will get the most of it during this summer - aka hopefully I can cycle everyday, anywhere I want to! Wheeeeeeeeeeee~

That's all for this time - EXCEPT for one thing! As a music tip of the week I recommend Ed Sheeran. This man is too adorable. And annoying. And talented. If you wish to fall in love and hate somebody at the same time, find him on Spotify ot Youtube!

Midsummer's Epic Adventure

^That's not the best of my headlines, but let's go with that since every blog need to have a tacky headline at some point. Last week we spent Midsummer on Finland, which is almost as big of an party here as Christmas. For one weekend people will go crazy with barbecue, bonfires and sauna, and spend time with family and friends. Midsummer is probably the only traditional holiday during the summer of Finland.

I spent my Midsummer in Kokkola with my parents & little brother. The place was really nice, and it didn't even matter that we had to drive about five hours to make it to the place, where we had our cottage ! The place that we stayed was Kokkola Camping, quite near the center of the town. Our cabin was a bit of a disappointment since there was only about 35 square foot of space, but luckily most of my co-travelers stayed positive and made my trip a some-sort-of experience :)

But let's go on with the photos!

This was a reeeeally high culmen on our way to Kokkola! The distance between the top and bottom was apprx. 400 meter, and the hill was also really abrupt  to climb up :D

We had some ducks wandering around our cabin almost the entire time! They we're as cute as little kittens.

... and got really close if they found out you had snack with you :D

This door of the grill-cottage looked like a Hobbit-door!

#random_clouds_and_pavement_thingies

#more_random_clouds_and_stuffies

These hobbit trees could be found at our frontyard! It felt so nice to sit beneath them in rainy weather and listen to the sound of raindrops.

 ... But then, a few pictured of our cabin. I think they speak more than I can tell, so just spend a few minutes with these photos and listen, what they have to say.

in the end, me and my little brother acting like the coolest dudes of the universe. #She-Man and the Mistresses of the Universe.

Now I've had a few days to recover from the trip, and I'll be heading back to work - but not for more than three days, and then my job will end and summer-holiday will begin for the fullest!
What did you people you at your Midsummer? :)

Uninternational No Connection- Day

This week me and my friend Iida decided to try, what it'd be like to live one day totally without Internet-connection and mobile phone. To me the challenge was quite big, since on the summer holiday I've gotten used to spending lots of time by watching series online, chatting in Skype and scrolling over news medias. On the other hand, life without phone wasn't that hard since most of the people that contact me regularly were aware of my "one-human-revolution".

On a nutshell my day contained reading, writing, meeting my grandmother in the assisted living building, visiting library and heating up the sauna! I warmed sauna by myself for the first time last weekend, and I STILL feel like a alpha-male because of that :D I bet you all know what sauna is - it's that awkward small, very hot cabin where it is very hard to breathe or think of nothing else but fresh exhaustion!

^ How Japanese see Finnish.

While writing this entry I've been jamming with music, which reminds me about one of the worst things during this challenge - no music with transport! Usually I listen to music almost 23/6, so now that all the music was in the phone (as my loyal MP3-player crashed down last April after a 7-year-companionship), I felt quite... normal and lame because I didn't have my personal "soundtrack" with me. Luckily I had the chance to listen to the music from my PC in the evening, since our challenge didn't forbid the use of computer!

To me this challenge proved, that nowadays a regular, on-going citizen with average social skills and a broad interest towards the changing world etc., blablabla, can deal for one day without Internet if he/she has other things to keep her/himself busy with! I suggest that everyone that reads this post, tries to shut down the mobile phone and Internet just for one day, just to see how will they manage :) you never know, what comes to your mind when you don't spend your every free minute by checking, if someone has poked you on Facebook or sent game request from Candy Crush Saga.

(Greeting from the girl, who found herself reading a book in the sauna for about 45 minutes in the temperature of 80 celsius-degrees :D)

A post from my Midsummer- trip to Kokkola will shortly arrive!

Busy busy busy doing nothing

Greeting from the middle of nowhere! This post will be super-short since I don't have much to say - I think most of the things I've been doing lately include work, writing, work, food and more writing :D I've spent reeeally much time with myself, but still haven't got bored of my own company even though I speak with myself most of the time so that I don't feel too lonely.

I know these foodphotos are a real pain in the social media's ass, but so am I. In this you can see some berry-kissel, Bulgarian yoghurt and millet-porridge, my regular breakfast nowadays! I've eaten so much kissel for these last days that it probably pours out of my ears some day, but as long as it tasted great I won't stop loving (and devouring it).

And here's some kissel with ice-cream. As you can see, the food is very convertible :D

In the writing area I've been doind critics from books, movies and other cultural things (btw, if you're Finnish you should check out my other blog Let's get Cynical!) And yeah, this was a almost-accidental selca :D

And then I found some old photos from my grandmas cupboards <3 In these pictures I'm probably about 3-4 years old. I really love-hate the fact that me and my brother have the same kind of trousers...

"Big bro ate my bun. Meep." (That's be sitting on the right side, the other one is by BB :D)

Kawaii desu, neee?

... and again the sadface.

My favourite of the pack - me as a little child, trying to take care of the household!

In the pastime I also tried to revive my drawing skills, and started by drawing some Terra E- original art from a ref-picture :D The results are still unfinished, but here's some sneak a peak to what I managed to sketch last evening.

More pics coming soon! (I facepalm to the hand of Jomy {the one on the right}. Such thin thing!)

This weekend my contemporarily-alone-time will end for a while, since I'm travelling to Kokkola for the Midsummer with my parents and little brother! I'm trying to get loads of pictures from my trip so that this blog won't die :D

Happy Midsummer to all of you!

First pages of summer

Hello there!

I think the heatwave has destroyed most of my skill to think and analyze things, but hopefully these pictures are enough to tell you about my first summer-week! I've been working as a personal caretaker of my grandmother at Hankasalmi station (a place in between no-man's-land and middle-of-nowhere), and most of the time I've spent by reading, watching silly anime and random YouTube-thingies. It's been really weird to have some much pastime in my hands !

But on with the pictures, like I promised.

In the beginning of the month I made some soyballs by the recipe I got from my friends blog (which you can see by clicking here! The blog is mostly in Finnish, but I'm pretty sure neither me or my friend can write the recipe in English also, if needed :) ) The soyballs tasted much better than they looked... My friend made these for my birthday-party last month, and I solemnly swear this is one of the best soy-foods I've ever eaten.

And even my cat loved me when I made these. Cats <3 creme

More food - pizza I made with my parents! P.S. I put some zucchini on my own pizzas, and blimey, it was goooood.

 I've also spent lots of time with hairy dudes. I mean doges. I mean dogs.

Okay lets have one doge because summer.

#assketchum

"Wow such water! Many wet, much cold!"

This weekend I went on a summer cottage of a friend of mine and his uncle had his lovely Milli-dog with him :3

Although I have been spending a lot of time by myself lately (since I'm quite far away from most of my friends + family), I've had lots of fun via Skype, Facebook and face to face, also!

We've been having a semi-epic poking-battle on Facebook with a friend of mine, and last week we reached the check-point of 100 pokes! I know, we seem to enjoy the little things a bit too much since because of this my friend made this magnificent and unique "motivational poster" to cheer us towards the next, 200-pokes-check-point :D The artist wanted to stay anonymous, but let's say that he is a well-respected and bohemic artist with great visual sense. Even though his grammar is - let's say - a bit cranked.

Like I said, I also went to my friend's summer cottage that locates somewhere in the Puula-lake, and had reeeeally funny times over there! Although this picture might look like we're having a some kinf of spiritual convention, that's not what actually happened; we just wanted to play a game called Changing Labyrinth in a exciting atmosphere!

And I think those were the main things that occurred this week. Next time I will try to put more pictures of my cat and sceneries of summer, since I looove Finnish summer veery much :)(Gosh, I gotta get rid of those stupid loooooong words. They make me look like a troll.)

In the end, some summer music for you!