September

So summer is over and I'm kinda feeling...empty. I have made loads of new friends, find some love and said goodbye to a loved one. I feel like I'm waiting something to happen, something big that will change everything and I fear it's not coming and I just keep waiting. But look, cute wet cat toes!

Pardon me

...for not writing earlier. I have had some problems with my internet connection (bleh, mokkula) and it's summer, so I wont be spending too much time around computers. I have been up to many things.

- growing my own food (potatoes, zucchini, peas, beans and chives)
- reading True Blood novels until the pages literally fall off
- getting tanned for working in the garden
- got a job from a bar
- having breakfasts in sunny porch
- hosting two teenager boys during Sauna Open Air and being
the only one with horrible hangover (kinda feeling old now)
- eating mostly vegetarian food
- listening The Doors and doing nothing else
- attending to party, my brother is newly qualified chef!

Kirjahaaste

Syy katsella kirjahyllyä. Vastaa kysymyksiin kirjojesi nimillä.

1. Oletko mies vai nainen?
Baby Jane

2. Kuvaile itseäsi?
Pimeää vain meidän silmillemme

3. Kuinka voit?
How to be an explorer of the world

4.Kuvaile nykyistä asuinpaikkaasi?
Muumilaakson puutarhakirja

5. Mihin haluaisit matkustaa?
Amsterdam

6. Kuvaile parasta ystävääsi?
Olisi vähän kerrottavaa

7. Mikä on lempivärisi?
Punainen mylly

9. Mikä on paras vuorokauden aika?
Dead until dark

10. Jos elämäsi olisi tv-ohjelma, mikä sen nimi olisi?
Munakoisojen kiukku

11. Päivän mietelause
The ultimate book of useless information

12. Millainen on parisuhteesi?
Catherine M:n seksuaalielämä

13. Mitä elämä sinulle merkitsee?
Löytöjen koti

14. Minkä neuvon tahtoisit antaa?
Pieni sydän jaksaa rakastaa

15. Miten tahtoisit kuolla?
Onnellinen kuolema

16. Mottosi?
Helvettiin ja takaisin

Reasons to grow up part 1

The very first thing I felt when unpacking my things in ugly two room + kitchen apartment in Hervanta was overwhelming freedom - I could do whatever I wanted to. It was autumn 2006, I had returned to Finland from The Netherlands few weeks earlier and I had no idea what I was going to do. I had only one friend living in the city back then and my then-boyfriend was working very long days, so I was lonely. I visited the library all the time and tried to learn play guitar. On weekends we played 4 hour games of Carcassonne.



Things changed quickly when I got a wonderful job from art school and we moved again, this time to a much nicer apartment to the middle of the city. I loved that apartment and I was happy there. Sometimes I still see dreams about it. We planted herbs, painted two walls tomato red, had some good celebrations with friends and we got a cat and an aquarium. I was too busy to take photos and in summer 2008 it was time to leave.



I found a small apartment from Pispala. Two rooms and bathroom, first room was kitchen/laundry room and hallway in same time, the other was my living room and bedroom. It was in the cellar floor, so my rooms were partly underground and there was a window with a view of wall that was later built. It was almost hundred years old house and there was always cold and mice eating the trash. By that time I had two cats, so mice were not a problem. However, sleeping with wool socks, long sleeved shirt, trousers and three blankets is not fun. My neighbors were wonderful and I made some friends while living there, but I had to leave half year later due problems with the landlord. ...Yes, I love the last photo. No, I don't have any idea what is going on in there.