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What I did on my Christmas holiday [Dec. 29th, 2007|07:17 pm]
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I, my father and my brother J were probably the only people in Finland who were happy about not having a white Christmas.

This is why )
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Congratulations to Finland! [Dec. 6th, 2007|11:22 pm]
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[Current Music |Jean Sibelius: Finlandia]

Happy 90th birthday, Finland! I'm not the most patriotic person in Finland but I think it is touching that this has been the longest period of peace in this country since we got the independence. And if you think of the time before Finland become independed country, there has probably been longer periods of peace, but I'm pretty sure it was a long time ago. I can't remember history very well, I'm afraid. I am grateful for not having experienced the war. I am lucky and I know it.

I am at my parents' now. My father has clearly become "professional" at feeding birds at winter. He claimed there had been grey partridges (=peltopyitä) on his feeding ground and I didn't believe him. I thought those birds had just been female pheasants (=naarasfasaaneja). I was wrong, they really were grey partridges. I had to believe him, because I saw them with my own eyes. I have never seen those birds before in my life. They were funny looking round-shaped birds about the size of a chicken. Very cute.
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Christmas party [Dec. 1st, 2007|10:23 pm]
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[Current Music |Radiohead: House of Cards]

Last saturday there was a Christmas party for all municipality workers. Surprisingly, I had a great time there. I was thinking I'll just eat a free meal there and leave but my boss was on a party mood so I ended up staying there with her. Alcohol is a funny thing. Sometimes I can be drunk after just three drinks and sometimes I can keep on drinking through the whole night and I'm just a bit tipsy, that's all. Or maybe it's the human physics that works in the mysterious ways, especially woman's physics. Anyway, this time it was the latter case. I kept on drinking and did not get drunk. Very odd. Maybe the drinks I drank were not very strong. But it was better this way. At least I did not do the Christmas party routine: get drunk, insult people and puke in the punch bowl.

During the last two weeks there has been two work trainees from junior high school (yläaste?) working in the library (the first two weeks ago and the other last week). It was nice to notice I actually have something to talk about with teenagers, well, at least some of them. On the other hand I couldn't help being worried about the fact that I had similar interests with people younger than half my age. I think in a way it's sad that I actually know who Gerard Way is and which country Tokio Hotel is from (that's not hard to guess though). My only consolation is that I don't like them. Then again, I really like Pirates of the Caribbean movies a lot. Shit. It's just sad, I know it myself. This means you will be reading posts from me about music and movies and anything related to culture in any way in the future too.
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I'm a mean bitch [Nov. 10th, 2007|09:02 pm]
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[Current Music |David Bowie: Cat People (Putting out Fire)]

I had a weird Friday. My co-worker and the employed person were talking about dogs. They both love dogs, and so do I, but the way my co-worker was talking about dog breeds gave me the shivers. She has a poodle and she said that no one should ever breed two different coloured poodles. I was getting the shivers already at this point, but it got worse. She also said that two different dog breeds should not be bred either. Then she said: "It would be same as people would...well, of course different coloured people can have babies together, but..." and then she continued and tried to save herself from the slip of the tongue she had made. I am appalled. Just. Completely. Appalled. Funny thing is that literally just a couple of days before I had had the thought that most likely she would have *loved* to be a nazi in the nazi Germany back in the days. She would have been obedient, greedy for power and competent. When people think of the nazi Germany they always think that they themselves would never have done the horrible things people did there, I bet she thinks that way too. But as I have said before, there is a little nazi living in all of us. Some of us give in to that nazi, some of us fight back. I've often thought most dog people are racists in a way and I guess she proved it. I know it was just a slip of a tongue, but on the other hand doesn't it tell something? Is it any wonder if I jump into conclusions? I've had the idea she is politically quite far in the right before.

I'd love to get a dog of mixed breed just to piss her off xD Or even better, fall in love with a man as dark as the darkest night, marry him and have babies of mixed blood with him xDDD

And then my boss. Let's talk about her. I can't remember if I have told you here before about how concerned she is about weight. She has had a weight problems herself, but then she joined the weight-watchers and managed to lose weight. But I think she has misunderstood what being a weight-watcher is about. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you supposed to watch over your own weight, not other people's weight? She is often watching over what I eat on lunch and coffee breaks. I can feel her watching me when I eat a cookie or two, or a muesli bar. She starts to talk about how much fattening substances there are in the cookies/muesli bars and how easily little munching can make you gain weight. I've always been quite content with my weight, but all this makes me wonder if I am overweight and just don't see it myself. But the fact is I am not overweight. There is not a single kilogramme of overweight in my body. And it's not like I would be eating very unhealthily. So why the hell she keeps watching over what I eat!? And even if I was overweight, what the hell does it matter to her? It's not her business at all!

Sometimes she has talked about her daughter, about how she likes to munch everything fattening. From the conversations we've had I got the idea her daughter is a bit overweight. I've seen her before, but I couldn't remember if she was overweight or not. I saw her again on Friday. She was quite thin. I think my boss has a problem.

In my previous post I did not complain about anything ;D
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There are people who find me fascinating! [Nov. 3rd, 2007|09:05 pm]
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[Current Music |The Beatles: Yellow submarine]

I'm at my parents' right now. My mother seems to be doing fine and my father has finally come to realize how much household work my mother has done over the years, now that mother has not been able to do almost anything. Serves him right if you ask me. My aunt, her husband and my cousin visited briefly today and I was able to see my cousin's kid for the first time. I seem to be amazingly attractive to men under five years old. The kid could not turn his eyes off of me through the whole visit though there were other people present as well. I wish I had the same effect on grown-up men. When they left I waved him bye bye and it was so obvious he was very happy about it and also adorably shy at the same time. It's not the first time something like this happens. I seem to have this strange influence to little kids even though I don't like kids that much. Maybe that is why. I mean I don't know how to talk to kids so I just smile and talk to them like to grown-up people. Maybe they appreciate it. Or maybe I just look funny. More presumably so... After I started working in the library I've also noticed I'm very tempted to practically talk bullshit to little kids. Like when there was this very lively kid in the library in Oulu. He was very fascinated about the red light of the loaning machine so I said to him that it's a good thing he doesn't have a bar code on his hand. If he had, someone could borrow him just like a book. That made him giggle. Then his mother had to show him not all bar codes work in the library's loaning machine. I guess it was because of what I said. The kid would have probably tried to "loan" everything after what I said or maybe even drawn a bar code to his hand.

My friend is planning on buying a sailing boat with her friend. If she does buy it, I think I'll invite myself to her sailing boat next summer ;) No, not really, she'll probably have enough "friends" if she decides to get the boat. I'll be happy if I'm able just to visit her next year, Helsinki is so damn far away. Or maybe she'll visit me. I won't blame her if she doesn't though, there's nothing to see here :P
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My mother, me and my big mouth [Oct. 27th, 2007|06:58 pm]
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[Current Music |Sonata Arctica: Good enough is good enough]

My mother had her back operated last Monday. She had a slipped disc (välilevyn pullistuma). It's always frightening when someone has an operation, but everything went well and she got home already on Thursday. She's not allowed to do much anything for a long time. I'll travel there next weekend to help in cleaning and other stuff if I don't get sick before it. I've been feeling like I would be catching a cold for couple of days now and I don't want my mother to catch it from me now.

I was on a first aid course last Tuesday and we'll have a final examination next Tuesday. The course is organized for municipal workers so it will cost almost nothing to me. It was nice to get to know other municipal workers, some of them were a bit over enthusiastic though. I was practicing giving artificial respiration (or whatever it's called, siis tekohengityksen antoa) with the doll and after I had practiced it for some time I thought it was someone else's turn so I said that maybe I could quit now. This lady said very strictly: "No! You have to go on until the patient starts to breathe herself!" I said: "So I just keep doing this until this doll comes to life?" I don't think I'll ever be friends with her now. Oh well.

I got tired of how dull my journal looked so I made some changes. The violet color is a bit too bright for the eyes, but I just have to have some violet color on my journal. It's my favourite. I also made my YouTube page pretty.
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Lactose, sports and candy [Oct. 13th, 2007|09:47 pm]
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[Current Music |Nightwish: Bye Bye Beautiful]

Ah, the irony. )
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Tagged by Magic_potion [Oct. 7th, 2007|09:25 pm]
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[Current Music |AC/DC: Let There Be Rock]

List 7 songs that you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in you LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to in absolute random order.


CMX - Punainen komentaja

CMX - Kaikkivaltiaan peili

Nightwish - Sahara

Nightwish - The Poet And The Pendulum

Marilyn Manson - Are You The Rabbit?

AC/DC - Back In Black

AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)


I think I have to explain why I've been listening AC/DC and Marilyn Manson lately. I purchased the latest Marilyn Manson CD called Eat Me, Drink Me for the library. Somebody had requested it. I've never been a Marilyn Manson fan, I've found his music boring, but this record was surprisingly good in my opinion.

The explanation for AC/DC is that I read the biography (AC/DC : Maximum rock & roll by Murray Engleheart and Arnaud Durieux). My opinion about AC/DC's music is that it's testosterone filled hard rock with stupid, suggestive lyrics played by small, ugly men. But they ROCK, so I forgive them. I've watched their concert videos on YouTube and now so many presently popular rock bands sound and look even crappier to me than before. My goodness how much these EMO bands, who call themselves rock bands, suck! They're just posers. I may be getting old, or then I may actually be right. I hope it's just that I'm getting old. Good thing there are still interesting heavy metal bands, otherwise I would be declaring that rock is dead, or at least dying.
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Update on my life [Oct. 6th, 2007|09:28 pm]
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It's been three weeks since I last made a post here. Sorry about that. There are two reasons for this: firstly, there has not been much going on in my life so I didn't have anything interesting enough to write about. Secondly, ever since I bought the digi-box I've been spending a great deal of my free time in front of my TV. Before purchasing it I could see only three Finnish channels in this part of Finland. I'm going to make up the lack of posts by writing two posts this weekend, maybe already today, if I have the energy for it.

My stomach has been...better. It's too soon to say if it's actually healing or not. After all it has felt better a couple of times before and then it has got worse again, so I'm not being that optimistic quite yet. It did not get healed by the medication, at least not immediately after it. It actually felt quite bad after it. I'm not pro bottled water, but I admit that lately I've been buying it a lot and drinking almost only it. The tap water in this municipality contains ridiculous amounts of lime (=kalkki). I've never seen anything like this before. You boil water for tea just a couple of times and your kettle/water boiler is already covered with lime. It's insane! So I started thinking that if that's what happens to kettles/water boilers etc. then what happens to my digestion system! I've never heard that lime would be a health problem, but then again it's hard to think that it would be totally harmless when you see what it can do.

I finally got a freezer for myself! I now have a brand new deep-freeze refrigerator (=jääkaappi-pakastin) in my kitchen. And I didn't have to pay anything, the landlord bought it for this apartment, because I called him couple of times and complained. I have lived in several rented flats, but this has been the first time I've lived in a flat where there was no freezer of any kind. So I think it was about time to get it in this flat. The landlord admitted it had been a strange decision not to purchase it for the apartment in the first place. You can just imagine how much easier my life gets now. I can freeze food! I can cook a lot of food and freeze what I don't eat! I don't have to eat canned food any more if I don't want to! I can buy ice cream! And other frozen stuff! And most importantly, I can make ice cubes! Yay! (I may have a slight fixation about ice cubes :D) Seriously speaking, this is good news especially for my poor stomach. My diet has been limited because of the lack of a freezer.

You have mentioned a sort of a class reunion a couple of times. I offer my place for that usage. I have a lot of room for it, some people just have to bring their own mattresses and blankets with them. And you can get here by train. The only problem is where we would go from here...Kemi is the nearest town if you don't want to settle for the local bar. I assume you don't ;) Anyway, it's only about fifty kilometers from here to Kemi. But it means we would need a driver or a taxi :P
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I'm having a nice Satuday [Sep. 15th, 2007|04:34 pm]
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[Current Music |T.Rex: Cosmic Dancer]

Yay! Sotkamo did not win the championship of Finnish baseball! They have won it too many times, which has made them arrogant, so I hate the team and whole Sotkamo. Champion of 2007 is Hyvinkää, which is a big happy surprise. They so deserved it and I think it's good for Finnish baseball that a team from southern Finland won the championship for a change. My favourite team Vimpeli finished 5th, which is a nice surprise as well.

I'm also happy that I gave up and bought a digibox. It's T.Rex theme Saturday on YLE Teema today, so yay again! I've seen Born to Boogie before though and it may well be I've also watched the document on YouTube, but it's nice to see them again. I understand if you are not a least bit interested. I cannot explain why I like these two things, Finnish baseball and glam rock of the 70's, so much. I don't understand it myself. It's totally unexplainable, I just...like them.

I called the local health center because I was anxious to hear about the samples that were taken from my stomach in Kemi. I found out that it takes a month to get the results. They forgot to tell me that in Kemi. I hung up the phone and started wondering how come I don't get the medication for helicobacteria since it's already certain I have it. So I visited the health center and they said that yes, I should start eating drugs for it and the doctor would write me the prescription on that day. I'm afraid this is how the Finnish health care works too often nowadays, you have to be very active yourself and not to trust that you will get the treatment you need as soon as possible. You have to make phone calls and ask questions to make things happen. My father told me that after I've eaten all the pills I should go to a test to find out if the bacteria is really gone. They did not tell me that either. There are too few workers in hospitals and health centers and they are way too busy.

It's too early to say if the drugs are working. My stomach has hurt a bit more and I feel slightly feverish, but those can be good signs as well as bad.

One day I will write a post in which I don't complain about anything.
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Decisions [Sep. 8th, 2007|10:49 pm]
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[Current Music |CMX: Kaikkivaltiaan peili]

I have made two decisions: 1) I will start a new hobby - boxing. I need to get rid of the aggressive feelings my co-workers are causing me. There is boxing organized for women here. Nice. 2) I will start peeking for adverts for a job again. I made these decisions in the small hours between Friday and Saturday last weekend when I couldn't get sleep. I was too annoyed to sleep because of the Friday's staff meeting, or as I call them - let'sfindfaultsinSundayMonday'swork meeting. I cannot believe I turned from a pretty good library worker to a crappy library worker overnight when I moved from Oulu here. How could it be possible? I think I got along well with the boss of KV branch library in Oulu and she was clearly quite satisfied with me even though people say she's very demanding. I even got a text message greeting from the staff of KV after I had been living here for a while. It was really nice of them. I had a private development meeting with the boss last Friday and I was pretty direct with her. I told her that it would be nice to get some positive feedback for a change. And that I was pretty pissed with the behavior of my co-worker. I got a letter from my friend who lives in Helsinki and in my letter back to her I described my co-worker like this: she has an angry hair cut, angry glasses, angry make-up, angry clothes and angry expression on her face and she also seems to be angry or annoyed most of the time. She once said she doesn't sleep well, ever. I bet it's because she is feeling angry.

I immediately felt better after making these decisions and I could finally fall asleep. Finding a new jog is easier said than done though. Now that I have permanent job I cannot apply for jobs that are temporary so there aren't that many jobs to apply for, which means it may take a while before I find a new job, maybe even years *shivers with horror*. Or maybe I'm doomed to live here for the rest of my life *gets a panic attack*. But I will keep on searching. When I came here I was pretty open minded about my future. I could have decided to stay here if I had felt good about this place.

Now something nicer. I have finally paid back all of the student payment payback. They claimed they had paid too much student payments for me and I had to pay them back. It's done now, which means I'm fifty euros richer every month from now on. And last week there was the publication of the new CMX record called Talvikuningas. I had pre-ordered a numbered special limited issue of it, I got number 7490 out of 8000 via mail on Tuesday. I have now listened to it couple of times and I can say it's definitely not easy listening music. Okay, CMX's music never is, but this time it's even harder to understand than usually. There is not a single nice and radio friendly song in the album. Which means I love it! They are so getting rid of those teen aged emo kids who like their pretty songs. LOL. I'm visiting my parents this weekend and I listened to the record all the way from the train station to home. Apparently the CD-player of the car loved the record so much it did not want to give it back to me. I had to pull it out of it by force which caused some scratches on it and those scratches annoy the hell out of me, but thank goodness the music still plays. Why on earth that CD-player had to start act like that right now, with my brand new CMX record?
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(no subject) [Sep. 1st, 2007|12:44 am]
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Mitä on tapahtunut booktards-kirjayhteisölle? Onko se tosiaankin lopetettu vai onko minut vain heivattu sieltä pois, kun en ole kommentoinut? Mitä ihmettä? En ainakaan löydä sitä enää.
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Hose swallowing in Kemi etc. [Aug. 30th, 2007|06:42 pm]
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[Current Music |Nick Drake: River Man]

I had the gastroscopy today. It was very revolting experience in every meaning of the word. I did not puke though, just heaved a couple of times. And I managed to stay pretty calm through the whole thing. They did not see anything that would explain my stomach ache, but the results of the samples they took inside my stomach will come later. Besides, I already know what it is. Last week I heard the results of the samples they took here and apparently it's helico bacteria (I don't know if that's the correct spelling). I feel relieved because I was afraid they wouldn't find anything and would tell me that I'm completely healthy. But now the mystery is solved and I will get a medication to get rid of those little rascals in my belly.

You may have already heard this: T lost his job as a verger here for someone who had the education for the job and thus was more qualified. But now T has found a job as a verger in Espoo! He told me that he was interviewed for one position there, but after wards he actually got to choose from three different positions as a verger in that area. It tickles me that he was not considered qualified enough to work as a verger of this municipality but is well qualified to work as a verger of a "tiny" municipality called Espoo! LOL

Finally something happened here. Apparently the population of this municipality tripled last weekend. There was a fair here last weekend and also a soldiers' oath was held here on Saturday. After it the army marched through the center. I wasn't interested enough to go and see it though. Besides, it rained through the whole freaking Saturday, just rain after rain and on top of it some more rain. Luckily the weather was prettier on Sunday. The fair was held ten km:s from the center but they had organized free bus transport there and back. There were a lot of people there! I was walking in the crowd in this municipality! Very strange ;D

In case you're wondering how I know so many fine words in English, I have to confess I'm using MOT ;)
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Blueberries, slipped disc and Finnish baseball [Aug. 18th, 2007|10:56 pm]
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Last weekend I was at my parents'. My mother has a slipped disc (välilevyn pullistuma), which is very painful and I feel very sorry for her. Because of the slipped disc my mother was not able to pick any berries and I thought I should do it and so I did. I picked blueberries with my father last Saturday. It was nice actually, though I thought it wouldn't be.

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In Finnish this time, because it's faster [Aug. 15th, 2007|11:00 pm]
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Täällä on asiakkaana kaksi samannimistä ihmistä. Toinen on joku pikkutyttö ja toinen on se nainen, joka hääti sen kusipään pois tietokoneelta. Se nainen oli käyny eilen kirjastossa ja pomo oli kertonut, miten oli käynyt ja pyytänyt sitä olemaan vastaisuudessa tarkempana, koska kirjaston henkilökunta sai syyt niskoilleen. Tähän nainen oli vastannut, että "en se ollut minä, vaan se pikkutyttö". Ja kun minä tasan tarkkaan muistan, että kyseessä oli aikuinen ihminen eikä mikään lapsi! Kun se vielä oli pyöreän sorttinen nainen, niin erehtymisen vaaraa ei todellakaan ole! Pomokin tiesi heti, kumpi oli kyseessä, kun kuvailin häntä pomolle. Kuvitelkaa - se nainen yritti vyöryttää syyn tapahtuneesta pikkutytön niskoille! Onko näiden ihmisten röyhkeydellä mitään rajaa! Se nainen oli sitten vaan ihmetellyt, että onko jotkut ihmiset tosiaan sellaisia, johonka pomo että kyllä ne vaan on.

Pomo sanoi epäilevänsä, että se nainen käyttää hyväkseen sitä, että sillä on sama nimi kuin pikkutytöllä. Varailee aikoja lasten koneelle silloin kun aikuisten kone on varattu. Mä ihmettelinkin jo ennen tätä kaikkea, että onpa siinä aikuisella ihmisellä lapsellinen käsiala. Mutta ilmeisesti siis tahallaan kirjoitti silleen.

Tässä vielä se kirjoitus, jos kiinnostaa:
Risuja _______n kirjaston naisvirkailijalle. Sain häädön nettipäätteeltä, oma varattu aika oli 7.8. klo 17-18, toisen takia? Ikä/sukupuoli syrjintää?

Minä kun luulin olleeni ystävällinen hänelle! Ja tuostahan saa vielä kivasti sen kuvan, että minä olisin se, joka on häätänyt jonkun pois tietokoneelta, nimittäin jonkun noin viisikymppisen naishenkilön. Tarkoituksellista? Kysymysmerkit on muuten käteviä, ei voi muuta sanoa. Kaikkein paskintahan tuossa on se, että varmaan moni pystyy päättelemään, kuka on ollut asiakaspalvelussa silloin. Ihan varmasti moni paikkakuntalainen on huomannut tuon kirjoituksen. Pitää vain toivoa, että se ei vaikuta heidän suhtautumiseensa minuun, suurin osa asiakkaista on nimittäin tosi kivoja eli ei täällä kaikki ole mätiä sisältä.

Mutta mua tää kaikki jo lähinnä naurattaa. Toivottavasti tämä asia on nyt loppuunkäsitelty eikä sen kusipään äiti ota asiaa puheeksi tulevaisuudessa. Kusipää tuskin ottaa, kun ei saanut suutaan auki silloinkaan.
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FUCK!!! [Aug. 13th, 2007|07:16 pm]
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[Current Music |Amorphis: Perkele]

There are two internet computers in the library, one for children under fifteen years old and one for adults. Last week this woman called the library and ordered the computer meant for adults for an hour for his son. When the time came, the son, who is about twenty I guess, came to the library and went to the computer. Then this girl, who is about twenty as well, came to the library, wrote her name on the reservation list of children's computer. Then she marched to the man and told him she had made a reservation on that computer. She was wrong of course, she did not have a reservation on the computer the man was using, but instead on the computer right next to it, the children's computer. Either she wrote her name on the wrong list of was mistaken with the computer she had reserved. So the man walked to me and we looked at the list together and at that point I realized what had happened. I said to the man that he was the one who had a reservation on that computer. I'm pretty sure I also said that he can go and tell it to the woman. But then I also said that maybe he could go to the children's computer instead. So he did so without saying a word, there were no kids who would have wanted to use the computer on that moment in the library. The problem was solved and everybody was happy. Right?

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Ultrasound and new glasses [Aug. 9th, 2007|11:04 pm]
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[Current Music |John Denver: Annie's song]

I got ultrasound pictures taken of my stomach on Wednesday. Nothing was found. Well something was found, but not the reason for my bellyache. Apparently I have this 'nonmalignant thing' (=hyvänlaatuinen juttu) in the other kidney (=munuainen). 'Thing' is the word the ultrasound woman used. I assume in this case the word 'thing' means some sort of tumor, but it's nonmalignant so there's nothing to worry about.

I had to travel to Kemi by train, spend couple of hours wandering in the town (which was actually quite nice because the weather was so beautiful) because I was there long before my appointment for ultrasound, but I had no other way of traveling there than the train I took. I couldn't even eat or drink anything before the ultrasound. And then the actual ultrasound took only about 15 minutes and nothing was found. Frustrating.

But the trip wasn't complete waste of time. I finally found new glasses for myself. I'm not completely satisfied with the ones I chose, but they are the best looking titan frames I could find. They will do for the next 3-4 years. They are red, which sounds bad, but the color was actually pretty cool in my opinion. I'll get them via post maybe already tomorrow.

I went swimming on Wednesday after I got back from Kemi. It was the first time this summer. The water in the river was so freezing I almost changed my mind about swimming.

I should be sleeping already.
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My thoughts about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [Aug. 4th, 2007|08:39 pm]
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WARNING!!! Spoilers under the cut! If you don't want to know what happens in the last Harry Potter book, do not click this! )
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I've finished reading it [Aug. 1st, 2007|10:48 pm]
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I didn't open my computer for couple of days. The explanation for this extraordinary behavior is that I've been too busy reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which I finished today. I will write my thoughts here about it some day. I'll be putting my them under the cut of course, but I warn you already now just in case: Do not click it, if you don't want to see some serious spoilers!!!

This was the first time I read Harry Potter book in English. I did so because of the spoiler risk. Actually I haven't read many books in English, usually I find it kind of troublesome. I can understand English pretty well, however, I have to concentrate on the text more when I'm reading books written in English and then it easily starts to feel to me like a work, not like an entertainment. This was different though, maybe because it was actually meant for younger people so the text is not too complicated. I think last time I tried to read a book written in English was when I tried to read Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which is an autobiography of Lawrence of Arabia. I got it from the Oulu university library when I was in work practice there. I tried hard but it was way too difficult for me to understand. Old fashioned, upper class English and really long sentences. I think I'll just flip through it some day and read some parts here and there, it will be enough.
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I forgot to tell you I quit the sugar free and milk free diet after two weeks. Read more )
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