Oh my gosh, I forgot!

The business of the job and everything that's been going on has totally made me forget that I do in fact have TWO blogs! As I've probably mentioned to you on MSN and stuff, it got very summery here during easter. It was warm, people were in shorts and t-shirts and then suddenly last weekend it started to get cold and it's been very chilly all week. Now it looks like summer is coming as the days are getting longer and warmer again...

Job has been going well, mostly. There are those odd days when it feels a bit like banging your head on the wall, but then on other days it's just sort of... flowing. I like being important and needed and being able to present some new ideas to some of my colleagues. I have no idea how it happened, but I feel as if I've somehow become the go-to girl when it comes to all things CODE. It's kind of cool and my inner geek has really been enjoying the hours and hours spent writing html and pondering the functions of CSS.


I can't wait to get my new computer... though I'm still sad that you had to send my old one over for nothing. I do hope you can maybe get it fixed or at least get some decent parts for it. Maybe you can sell them, when you're here. I'd be fine with that. The next 3 days are going to be hectic, with the opening tomorrow and my parents coming and all that. Resting is a distant dream when you're sharing your apartment with two pensioners who like to be up at the crack of dawn... Especially when you can't escape that since you're all pretty much stuck in one room.

I hope I can get the webcam working with the new computer soon. I need a new headset too, as we know... I'd like to find the time to "call" you with MSN or Skype at least a couple of times in a week. It's been too long since we did that.

Now I'm going to wrap this up and head to bed though, because I'm feeling as if I can't keep my eyes open anymore. I love you.

First rant of the week, since MY week begins on a Monday!

For some reason I didn't write anything on either of my blogs yesterday. I felt really strange all day, couldn't get anything done. I just sat and thought. About everything. At least I managed to make a to do -list:

• Check bank balance
• Mail the raffle wins (my Finnblog's raffle that is)
• Buy food & toilet paper
• Buy the cosmetics (razor, cleanser & toner, tweezers)
• Go through the newspapers (I've got a pile sitting in the closet...)
• Find out what to do with KELA
• Visit the health center & renew prescriptions
• Buy more asthma meds with the renewed presciption
• Charge phone
• Do something productive! (Like actually write the book...)
• Figure out how to put stuff on the walls with minimum hassle

Mind you, it'll take them five days to renew my prescription and then I have to go and physically get it back. Well, I guess I'll get a walk. So much for those "Hey, a new thing, you can renew prescriptions at the pharmacy!" -news. The lady at the health center was all like "That must be something from the future!"... Yeah right. Good thing it was already on the news and all as something that has been PASSED. Whatever.

Of course then there was the usual annoyance with KELA as with all things that involve bureaucracy (horrible word, just like the meaning)... But I ranted to you enough already about that over MSN. I've been ranting a lot lately, haven't I? Just like I've been learning new things with my spare time as I've had nothing better to do. I told you some of those yesterday. Like how grown women are far more into dolls and dollhouses than I could've ever imagined! And I thought I would be frowned upon for holding onto a Barbie!

After a weekend of Japan Japan Japan, I was trying to take a break from it yesterday. It was a moderate success. It's all that there is though, in the news. Japan. It is a giant disaster, that's for sure. But I can't help but to think if media is blowing it out of proportion just a little bit as they tend to do to sell more news... I think that some of the Finnish media has been guilty of that. And guilty of printing stuff without quite verifying how things went in the first place. I feel so weird about the Japan-situation anyway... even without the doomsayers.

This morning I entertained myself with some fantasies about spring/summertime dress up:

Funny seeing the shoes as large as the dress...

Well, you know me, of course I'm not going to rush out and buy high heel shoes, no matter what kind of a delicious powdery pink color they come in. I wouldn't be able to walk in them and I'd feel like an amazon. And well, that color would probably blend in with my skin too! But they sure are pretty... in all that simplicity. Speaking of amazons by the way, I think I walked past a strip club for amazons today... Can't be too sure, but it looked ominous with the red and black design - somehow a trademark for strip clubs and sex shops in this city.

That dress I would totally wear though. If I ever had the chance to go to a party...