Glad to see you're all still here! I've been away, not because I'm insanely busy all the time, but more from not believing I'll ever get anything posted before the dial-up cuts me short. Anyway, here goes nothing ( Read more... )

   I just returned from the dentist, where I had the dubious pleasure of getting the root that's been bothering me pulled out, and in a relatively painless way, too. It has messed up the holidays just a bit, but with any luck, it won't bother me much, once I recover from the surgery. We don't use nitrous oxide much here in Finland, so I only got ( Read more... )

   I've spent most of this week taking care not to hurt my ankle again, and it's finally starting to hurt less. It's about time, too, because on Saturday my friend and her family are moving house, and we (my cousin, and another friend) promised to mind the kids during the move. They are three and two years old, and then there's my cousin's baby, ( Read more... )

   I suddenly realized it's been five days without an update again. I really need to try more... It's not even that I'm particularly busy, or that I can't use the internet here, because I'm not, and I can. I've just required a nasty habit of neglecting my blogging, but I truly will try to update more often starting today. Stick with me, it will get ( Read more... )

   I've recovered a bit, but man, this was a weekend to remember. I got sick during the night between Saturday and Sunday, with a high temperature, aigue, and fever cramps, not to speak of an asthma attack that made me throw up. I've been having a bit of a fever ever since, but today I finally felt well enough to get outside and go to the library. ( Read more... )

   We got the car back! Dad's car hasn't been working for over a month now, because it took a lot of money to fix it, but it's finally working now, and it's going to make a lot of difference for us, with the move and everything else. Luckily, the weather hasn't been too frightfully bad, for a Finnish autumn anyway, but we're all happy to have the ( Read more... )

   I never got around to blogging yesterday, I just couldn't buckle down to it, and I don't want to obsess over my blogging. This is meant to be fun, after all, not a duty or a burden.
   Today was another of my name-days, so I went to my parents, as I usually do on Saturdays, but I also got some presents: a T-shirt, a pair of socks, blueberry green ( Read more... )

   I've been away for a while, sorry! I stayed overnight with my folks to watch the Olympic opening ceremonies, and it was worth staying up late for. I was a little surprised at the three hymns sung as part of the entertainment, but they were beautifully performed, and I enjoyed the whole spectacle a great deal. I'm a fan of many British things, ( Read more... )

   This day just whizzed by. I did some laundry in the morning, then I fooled around on the internet, and then I suddenly got the inspiration to clean my desk. It's about time, too, because I've only been using it for keeping papers and magazines on, and occasionally to hold my laptop. I usually don't sit at it, because it's an L-shaped table with ( Read more... )

   I like Harry Belafonte, how about you? The title is from one of his hits, such a lovely, sunny song. Belafonte's music always makes me happy, there's such a nice rhythm to it, and he had a great voice.
   Anyway, we went to a sunny island today, this one. It was actually quite a hot day, so the weather was perfect for what we did, which was ( Read more... )