Day Ten

AWWW YISS snooooow, I took this photo like the first thing when I woke up! I'm so happ--- no, wait, wait a minute, hold that thought--

Oh, yeah, that's right, the temperature climbed up, it wasn't snowing anymore when I left to my dentist appointment at 3:30 pm, it was RAINING SLUSH and then just plain raining, so BYE SNOW and welcome the crappiest weather and road conditions ever. So, in other words, every fall and spring in Finland.

But I mean, driving when it's snowy or currently raining isn't even that bad.

But when the roads look like THAT? When they're covered in ICE, literally covered, and on top of all WET? Worst driving conditions EVER, and at least we here in Finland and in other Nordic countries are prepared for it, we have proper tyres to deal with roads like that, unlike for example in UK (I think, at least they always show video clips in our News of how the drivers are totally screwed in UK if it snows and the roads get slippery).

AND IT'S STILL HELL.

Seriously, it's like the scariest fucking thing when you're driving and you can hear how your tyres are spinning furiously but the car isn't moving, or is moving very slowly, like it was when I left from my parking spot in that pic and made a u-turn :'D. It's the sound every driver dreads when they're driving in the city and going uphill, it's a very disconcerting noise even on a flat surface.

SO. Weather conditions News from Finland, over and out! Drive safely out there, kids!

(Road conditions like that make walking like hell too, and even though I have winter tyres in my bike too I'd be terrified to bike on a road that was covered in ice.)


And here's a bonus pic, I'm sorry, this is probably something that only my Finnish followers will understand but I can try to explain!

AND OKAY, maybe it's just me, but I thought this was hilarious when I was walking up the stairs to the dentists' floor :'D. It's an advertisement poster (kinda) for stair-days (when people are encouraged to use the stairs instead of the elevators I assume)! And basically it just says 'you stair user!' in this teasing, playfully accusing manner, but what makes it funny (at least to me) is that they've used a word 'porrastelija' which... is NOT an actual Finnish word x'D and it'd be something like 'stair-er' in English I think, and it was just randomly on the staircase wall and it was so short and ACCUSING and clever and I just had to laugh when I saw it.

Aahh brilliant :'D. And it definitely caught my attention, so well done, whoever made that poster, well done.

//EDIT I'm also still contemplating if I should keep the pictures centered, like they're now, or should I  align them to the left, like the text, so if any of you have any opinions on which alignment would look better, please tell me! Thanks!

Day Nine

O Christmas tree, o Christmas tree!

It's a bit early for a live tree to be inside, or at least in our family we bring the tree in not until a few days before Christmas eve, but since I'm not going to be in Turku after next week (probably) I wanted to bring one here now. IT'S MY SUPER CUTE SUPER SMALL CHRISTMAS TREE : DD! It's so small, and so cute, a bigger one wouldn't have fit into my apartment so this was the perfect size :'D. It's not in the best place currently though, I should probably move it, but I just don't know WHERE.

Oh, and it's in a whiskey bottle :'DD not mine, my dad's! He emptied it just conveniently when I went home the last time and we discovered that it'd be a perfect pedestal for the tree, haha! I love my Christmas tree, now I just have to figure out how I'm going to give it more water without all the ornaments on it dropping.....

Day Eight

The lights that were on in the second photo? Here they are now, on my wall above my bed, with my Avengers poster and noteboard and stuff. I really like how they look, I'd like to keep them on when I go to sleep but I doubt that I'd be able to fall asleep with the lights. They're really pretty though, even though not long ago I told one of my friends how I don't really like Christmas lights that have multiple colors - but for some reason I really really like this one. Maybe it depends on how they're set?

I'm kind of in a bad mood, have been the whole day and I probably will be until this one fucking exam is over. I'm so done with reading and schoolwork on the whole and urgh! I'm so done with everything at the moment. 

I'm just going to watch some more episodes from Earth's Mightiest Heroes. That at least temporarily cheers me up.

Day Seven

This, my friends, is my snuggly corner of snuggles. It's my throne, it's my sickbed, it's my corner of escapism and procrastination, it's where I spent most of my days. I'm not kidding, if I'm at home I'm most likely snuggled at there whether I'm using my computer, reading, watching TV or playing. Drawing I do at my desk, I've never really gotten the hang of drawing while keeping the sketchbook propped against my legs, for me it just doesn't work, I need a horizontal surface for that.

But yeah, so, I've a divan sofa - or well, just a divan, I guess, you don't need to add 'sofa' there, I think - and the corner of it is just the perfect spot to snuggle up in with my huge fleece blanket, especially since the weather is getting colder. The atmosphere in this pic with the warm glow from my Christmas lights is just perfect to reflect how comfortable I feel when I'm all snuggled up there with the blanket and I thought this could be a nice, relaxing photo for today.

Even though there IS that damn exam book in the photo too, not so relaxing anymore SNIFFLES.

Day Six

Happy Independence Day Finland!!

In four years, in 2017, Finland will turn exactly 100 years! We don't celebrate our Independence Day as fabulously and loudly as the US does for example, but I hope we'll have some special celebrations when Finland turns 100. It'd be awesome, really! I really, really love Finland - even though I'd like to live somewhere else for some time, for some years, I think I'd always want to return here in the end, because even though there're lots of things that absolutely suck here I still feel lucky to have been born here and there're so many things that are awesome here too. I guess that's with all the countries though, but oh well, wherever I'll be in my future I'll always be a Finn, and I'll be proud of it.

Oh, and here, have a bonus pic! I grew kind of frustrated because it wasn't winding enough and the flag mainly just hung there limply, so I had to improvise a bit :'D.

That's better!

Day Five

Yesterday's photo is late because...

Our choir had a Christmas concert! We had a joint concert with a local orchestra and here's a picture from the church that the concert was held in. The orchestra is already having its final rehearsals while the choir is getting ready downstairs, doing some light warm ups and easy singing exercises to prepare our voices. 'Opening up our voices' as we say in Finnish, I don't know how well it translates into English but I'm sure you guys get it : D.

The concert went well and it was super fun! The mood was GREAT, so warm and Christmas-y and I just felt really, really good afterwards. I really love our Christmas concerts, they're the best.

Today's photo will come a bit later! Some of you might guess the theme already ;D.

Day Four

So, in case you haven't noticed, there's no particular theme to these photos, they're just.. completely random photos :'D I'm sorry, I guess I should make them Christmas themed somehow but, well, at least this day's photo is not.

The quality of the photos isn't that great if it's dark, but it'll do. This is taken at my friend's place, we watched the second Lord of the Rings movie today (last week we watched the first) and hopefully we'll watch the third one soon, then I'd have finally seen all the LotR movies :'D. And here are her pets, Jassu (the one she's petting), Hemuli (the other cat) and Saga the dog, they're all so damn adorable and lovely aaah!

Day Three

Today's photo is a bit lame, I was busy moping around and running to a choir practice to come up with a good idea for a photo.

This is basically the view from my window (obviously it's a bit wider but I only wanted to include these buildings where somebody actually live) and I thought I should take a photo now and then another near Christmas and see if and how much the amount of Christmas lights increases : D. I should take the photo a bit earlier than I did today since some people might already be sleeping, but oh well, I'll worry about that when I take the next picture. I didn't reduce the size of the photo too much so that you can actually SEE the lights that are already there. I can see... three windows that certainly have lights, all in the two upmost rows of windows. So three windows with Christmas lights (that could be a fourth, the window almost right in the middle of the picture but I'm not sure).

But uh, hopefully a more exciting photo tomorrow!

Day Two

Second day of December, already! THIS MONTH IS GOING TO GO PAST SO FAST.

Nella, again, our Christmas dog! Although she's actually staring at me here like WHAT ARE YOU DOING, HUMAN, WHY. I was testing out if all of the lamps in the line would light up when I plugged it in (they didn't, there was like two parts were multiple lights wouldn't light up but with my dad we figured out that the line was probably somehow damaged, somewhere, because if you moved the line a bit they'd light up, so, basically as good as 'they work') and since Nella was lying there close by I couldn't resist it. And she stayed still even though she did glare at me, haha.

I'm back in Turku now so if I have to take a new photo every day I won't be able to take photos of Nella for some days, how sad! But at least you guys will see something else besides Nella too, haha.

OH, and there was a crazy storm yesterday evening, it winded so much and we ended up getting a little bit of snow too :'D. BARELY, but still snow.

Okay, 'till tomorrow!

Day One

SOOooo, hey, it's December!

I'm going to try and do a kind of Christmas Calendar thing here by posting one new photo taken with my cellphone every day! I'm so sure I'll utterly forget to do it some day, but I'll try! So here's the first photo for the 1st of December yaaay!

Nella, naturally. Now that I'm visiting my parents most of the photos I've taken are of Nella. We went to look for a suitable Christmas tree earlier today and she of course grew tired and bored soon and while me and my parents stood still judging if a tree someone had picked was too broad or sparce or yellow or one-sided she sat down or laid down, waiting for us to move again. I took so many photos of her sitting here but almost all of them were more or less blurred, this was the single un-blurred one and I guess she looks accurately bored here.

On another note, WHERE THE DAMN IS THE SNOW?! The ground was a little frosty but that's it, and it RAINED when we came back, I WANT SNOOOOWWW!