This was a stay-at-home day, as most of my days are. I've been feeling increasingly restless since Monday, and I can't wait for next week, when I get to start work, or at least train for it. Anyway, I did the laundry, calculated a budget for the next almost two months, went to the grocery store, and cooked. I thought about cooking some more, but ( Read more... )

   It's been a peaceful day. I stayed at home, read, played the keyboard watched one of my new Poirot films, and surfed. For some reason, my apartment feels quite cold today. It's probably because the weather has been warmer, and so they don't turn the heat up immediately, when it gets colder again. I think it's done automatically, anyway.
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   I've been thinking about stories today. I read The little mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, and it's been a long time since I read it last, but it hasn't lost its charm. We have all seen the Disney version, I think, but I never like the movie versions as well as the originals. And this one was definitely "disneyfied", with so much comic relief ( Read more... )

   I didn't write anything about David Copperfield yesterday, did you notice that? I've been reading his story steadily, though, and now he seems to have reached the best part of his life after his early childhood. He found his aunt, and the aunt got him into a nice school and comfortable lodgings with kind people. There is only one person, who ( Read more... )

   It didn't snow today, hooray! At least not yet, and the temperature has been about +2 degrees Celsius.  By the way, I have been writing earlier about "it getting less cold". I know it's more common to say that the weather is getting warmer. But at these latitudes (60 degrees north of the equator), and under the weather conditions this winter, " ( Read more... )

   I will be honest with you: I didn't feel like blogging today. I have been discussing literature and other things with my new LJ friend. Read the comments and feel free to join in! Anyway, having had a lot to say on many subjects, I suddenly feel like I have nothing to say today. It's partly because I've been at home these last days, with my ( Read more... )

   I feel better now, but my back is still a bit sore, and it seemed to get worse when I practised. I love the feeling of "flow" you get when you play something you already know well, so I always play something familiar during my hour of practice. I try to play for an hour at least, since it seems the appropriate length for a session. It gives me ( Read more... )

   This has not been a good day. I woke up, after some four hours of sleep, at 06:30 AM, because my back and left side were hurting, and I'm still aching after almost 12 hours. I have no idea how I've managed to strain my back, or pull a muscle, because I didn't hurt myself at all yesterday. I've rubbed on some ointment, taken a pain pill, applied ( Read more... )

   That's what they call Valentine's day in Sweden, "Day of all hearts". In Finland, we call it Ystävänpäivä, "Friends' day". I like the Swedish version best, because Valentine's day isn't just for couples. I think friendship is even more incredible in some ways than love. but that may be because I've never been in a long-term relationship. I'm so ( Read more... )

Oh, you can kiss me on a Monday, a Monday, a Monday is very very good.
Or you can kiss me on a Tuesday, a Tuesday, a Tuesday, in fact I wish you would.
Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday, a Thursday, a Friday, and Saturday is best.
But never, never on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday, 'cause that's my day of rest.

That's a song by Manos Hadijidakis with ( Read more... )