I've now been on vacation for 3 weeks, one week left. It feels like ages since my vacation started, which is a good thing, it means I've been doing stuff ( Read more... )

I received my birthday present from Mike today, even though I don't turn 27 until Tuesday. He got me a classical guitar! The guitar is a Landola, made in Finland, and it's a bit smaller than normal guitars, 7/8. I tested it already, and it feels good to play, and finally I don't have trouble reaching. The sound is beautiful, and it's much easier to ( Read more... )

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released in less than 2 hours! I know I said I'd stay away from the net until I've read the book, but I'm too excited to do that, and I haven't been spoiled yet, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. There's been coverage of the book release in all the news, and I even saw siilukka being interviewed ( Read more... )

Today is mine and Mike's 2 year anniversary. I had forgotten all about it, but then Mike called me at work and wished me a happy anniversary. We're not doing anything special today, and besides Mike had an evening shift at work, so we don't even have time to do anything extravagant. We just watched a Queen concert from December 24th, 1975 from ( Read more... )

I had a wonderful evening out yesterday, but the best part was when I and Mike left On The Rocks, and headed home. We were crossing the square between the national theatre and the national art gallery, when Mike grabbed my hands and turned me towards him, and said "I wish I could make all the people go away, and I'd sing to you..." and then he ( Read more... )

When I was in L.A., I bought a lovely oyster colored Guess bag for 75 dollars ($81.19 with tax), which is 64,58 €. I loved shopping there, because it was so cheap! Today I went to the Guess store in Helsinki to do some empirical research. They didn't have the same bag I bought, but I checked the prices of the bags in the same size as my bag, ( Read more... )

It's my boyfriend's 33rd birthday today. I got him two Deep Purple CDs, Fireball and Deep Purple in Rock anniversary editions. I'm really bad at giving presents, except on those rare occasions when I get a really good idea. Once I even almost forgot my ex-boyfriend's birthday... (When we were still going out.) Fortunately we didn't see each other ( Read more... )

Today is the 1 year anniversary of my first date with Mike. Our first date was on a Monday, June 27th, 2005. Our second date was on Wednesday June 29th, and our third date on Friday, July 1st. After that we've been together pretty tight. Six months later, on December 27th, Mike moved in with me ( Read more... )

I love this warm weather! Finally it's a proper summer! The only bad thing is that I haven't really had a chance to enjoy it yet... I've been busy with work, and on top of that I took an extra Java-programming assignment. So finally when I had an otherwise free weekend, I was supposed to be programming! I did something on Saturday, but on Sunday ( Read more... )

Mike told me today that yesterday, when he was out with his best friend, he had said to his friend that he's finally starting to accept the idea that our kids will be bilingual. His friend had been delighted, because he's Swedish-Finnish bilingual just like me. I'm of course really happy about this too! I wrote an entry on Noveber 28, 2005 about ( Read more... )