Milan tomorrow

Milan is the shopping heaven for designer clothes. If I was rich I would maybe buy some design stuff, but I am not, and I don't like putting money just on brands. So I will eat icecream, drink wine and eat mozzarella and just enjoy life. And off course, act as a guide to my mom.

I am cool...and calm.

I have started a new less stressful life. Every morning I write a list on what I should do, and then during the day I can draw a line over them, and when all of them are drawn over I can do whatever I want without feeling stressed.

Tomorrow I work and on Thursday I go home to mom and Pojo to cut my hair and on Friday we fly to Milan for 2 nights. I need wedding shoes, some sort of pin for my hair and underwear. Finding underwear that goes with my dress is not fun, since special underwear is expensive and I want to be comfortable.

Soon I get to send out the invitations. Yeah! It has been really hard to decide who to invite and now we are down to around 90 people, but that meant the all the persons we were not sure of, we decided not to invite. So it will be our oldest friends and family. My life in Helsinki is so messed up and I don't have really good new friends, but I know people and have had fun with them sometimes and I consider them my friends, but not great friends. So it was really difficult to decide if we invite them or not. I decided to keep it small, since I really do not want it big, I want to have fun with the people there.

The dogprincess Jigi

Here she is. I am feeding her, again. This time she started eating herself after I begged her to do it for 5 minutes. She is a big scary rottweiler, but can't eat herself. She is so not rottweiler as a rottweiler can be, the only rottweiler gene she has, is that she is stubborn, so so stubborn. Nothing else is rottwieler with her.

I would like to have a dog of our own, a rottweler, but days like these I so get why I don't want one yet. I want one some day I have a house where I just can open the door and let the dog out. I realised when I got out that it is a horrible storm out there. Nice. We got wet.

Big, big girl in a big, big world

I survived the shoolday and am now home do nothing. Will soon go for a walk with the dogprincess in the lovely, lovely weather. Later tonight me and Micke have a date. We are going to watch the new Bond. This is my last evening with him for a really, really long time. Two weeks. Too long. I love out evenings.

Had decided to eat healthily before Milan, but it might be hard with movie and popcorn and candy... This last week I have eaten badly, a lot of bad sugar and fat and uuuh. Feel very big.

Sunday again

The dogprincess Jigi is here again, until Wednesday. Today is fathers day. I am going to make chocolatemuffins for Mickes dad. I am so nice.

Yesterday we danced a lot. We are starting to get really good. Then I ate a lot of expenisve fish and in the evening we played poker and Cranium at Pedu and Tanjas place and I drank 3 alcholportions. Cider.

I like writeing like an 8 year old. It's simple.

Micke quote

Micke in the train on the way home after 2,5 h of bugg:

"If you could remove one thing from the world, you would have a hard time choosing between poverty and world of warcraft."

No chocolate fountain

We made a sad, sad decision some days ago. We won't have a chocolate fountain for the wedding. We both really wanted to have one, but the ones you can buy in Finland are really small so we would need many and if you rent one it is extremely expensive. Then someone would have to check on the fountain all the time. Sad, sad. But practicla and cheaper.

We will have a cake with chocolate instead.

we have two

Yesterday something weird, weird happen. We got a cycleergometer, the same one that we took back to lidl some months ago, and got the money back, and bought a new one from Pedu. But yesterday we got a new one from lidl, and we carried the 30 kg package probably 500 meters. Not nice.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

We went watching Vicky Cristina Barcelona yesterday evening. I liked the movie a lot, I recommend it. Micke who is more into normal hollywood stuff was not as into as I, but he tought it was okay. He was just most worried that I would do what the engaged girl in the movie did. Never.

There was a lot of Barcelona, crazy Spanish temper and spontanity. So great.

Then we went for some wine and tapas afterwards. Such a perfect evening.

HÄÄT

There is a finnish wedding magazine called HÄÄT, and it is crap. It is just a lot of advertisement for companies and few helpful articles. I made the misstake today and bought the new issue of it (it was packed in plastic so I could not scroll trough it, and it was 20 cents cheaper than the other one). Should have remembered how the last number was. Not good!

In this number of almost 300 pages they had only one good story, and it was about fighting in a relationship, they concluded what I also did, that it is good to fight. Then they said that there will be to smaller magazines in the number and it was jsut advertisement for Nivea and now and forever. And almost all the articles were from the wedding fair so I knew the shit already. Crap.

I passed the exam!

The exam I was stressing about two weeks ago. I passed it. The last question went bad, got only 2 of 10 points, but the other 3 questions went great (10, 10 and 8). Now I just have to get my term paper written and passed and then I am done with this course. This course has been stressing me, since I last year decided to skip it since I did not like it.

I am a chocolate muffin

Somehow I got this great tought today, to make chocolate muffins, and practice being a great wife who makes chocolate muffins. Micke is also in a sweet stage so I knew he would love it.

After coming back from school (was supposed to listen to one presentation, but the one did not show up, so no class) I went jogging, and since I am nice I went to buy the missing ingridients on the way back (of course I forgot the butter, and made Micke go and get it later). I somehow regret buying the ingredients since I have now eaten so many muffins, that my workout and burned calories are gone. Now I am a muffin and feel like a muffin. But these muffins are so good, look at them:
There is both hard and soft stuff in them and they are so chocolaty. Yum, yum.

17 years - back in Finland after 10 months

I just started thinking of the time when I came back from Ecuador, after having been there for 10 months. I was 17, I sort of hated being in Finland. Everything was, in my opinion then, better in Ecuador, the food, the people, the enivronmnet (many of the things still are). I saw nothing negative with Ecuador and everything negative with Finland, was down for almost 6 months after coming back, had a Finnish cultural shock.

The day when I flew back is a day I never forget, mainly because I was an ass. My friends did the best things someone ever has done for me. They dressed up as male and came to pick me up from the airport. Ja hade beundrare. It was so cute, and the only thing I could say was that I hated Finland. Always regretted that.
But I had had a really bad time on the way home, cried half the way because I missed my hotfamily, I missed Ecuador, I had to pay 500 dollars to get my baggage home (had 12 kg too much, in total 76 kg) and they took me to check my bag for drugs, Finland was flat...

Another funny story is some weeks later. I was in Säästö Pörssi with my mom (still 17, not allowed to buy alchol) it was maybe 1 o'clock in the day, I took a cider, put it in our shopping bag, my mom bought it and then I drank my one cider in the car, like it would have been any coke or soemthing like that. Such weird behavior.

Everythign was so much different then. Now I am more grown-up, but my life is also more boring. We did crazy thing with Lee and Dagny during those times. Sad that it is over.

More exciting things

I totatally forgot one thing to be excited about. I am going to Milan next Friday with my mom.

And then another not to be excited about: Micke is next Saturday going for "repetition exercise" (repövning). He is going to run around in the Ekenäs forest shooting possible enemies (as you can see, I have no clue what they do there) and I am going to be all alone from Sunday to Friday. Horrible.
Since Costa Rica we have seen each other every day (except maybe one weekend). And I love it!

Greatest family in Ecuador or the world.

Lorena is such a great person. Lorena is my hostmom I had in Ecuador when I was 16. I love her and that family so much. She just called me. I am happy, happy. She, and Galo her husband, have 2 lovely children, Mari who is already 9 (she was 4-5 when I was there) and there new kid Tomas, already 2. Tomas is the reason why I consider wanting children, he is so, so cute. And Mari is just the sweetest. The family is just so great. Have visited them twice since my first 10 months with them, one whole summer and then last christmas. I miss them, it would be nice if they lived closer and the tickets wouldn't cost 1000 euros. They gave me so much, when they did not at all have to, and they have given me since. I will send them chocolate tomorrow, they love Finnish chocolate.

Lorena has 4 cellphones and I have one. Poor and rich countries. Read an article where it said that cellphones can be more common in developing countires than toilets.