Summer <3

Summer is here! I'm not really enjoying it as I should, since using crutches somewhat hinders me from for example swimming and going to the beach, but other than that - amazing weather and sunshine all around.

I've got a bit of a tan, not a good one or one that covers my whole body but it's a start. I would love nothing more but to soak in more sun and get a proper tan but I also got the Flu now.. It's nearly gone but some of it still remains and it's quite annoying to sit outside when all you feel like doing, is lie in bed watching telly. Thank fuck I go back to work at the end of the month. The days feel really long when you have nothing to do...

My Book-A-Month project is a success already.. I've read 10 books so far and only need to read two more to hit my target. That will be no problem. I still have 6 books waiting to be read and nothing but time on my hands. That's why I decided to finally test out the nail polish I got from work. I've had it for a long time - sitting there, waiting - and today I finally used it, and it looks amazing! I want to get the black one from work as well and E put it aside for me. That'll look even better!

I bought my first ever car on Friday! I've drove for some time already but I haven't owned a car - had one in my name and all. It's about time! I love the car even though it's old and cheap - it's all mine. It's not red, which is a very nice change.. I've drove it enough to love it but not as much as I would have, if I didn't have these crutches.. I don't want to put unnecessary stress on my foot so driving for fun will have to wait.

Now it's back to Da Vinci's Demons.

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Summer Holiday <3

I have two weeks for doing nothing and for enjoying my time off and what do I do? Come to work. I'm here now, thinking about all the things I could be doing if I wasn't here.. My thinking process starts with me being annoyed about being in work but ends in a completely different way - what would I really do if I wasn't in work right now? The answer is - nothing. I'd literally sit on the couch and watch The Voice. I'd like to think I might sit on the balcony soaking up the sunlight, listening to the radio or reading, but I really don't like the heat. It's uncomfortable, you can't successfully hide from it and it makes you sweat. I wouldn't say that I enjoy winter either. Us Finns just moan no matter what season of the year it is!

It's probably like +35 outside right now and there's at least a million people eating ice cream out there. So it shouldn't really come as a surprise that none of them accidently end up inside and at this shop but there's nothing wrong in hoping!

My foot is really killing me. It's been sore for a couple of days now and I'm hating it. I hurts when I walk, stand, drive and when I touch it. I don't want it to be the same it once was before and that's why I'm paying so much attention to it. Otherwise I'd be like - it's just pain, whatever - but if it's not just that, then I'm fucked. How long should I wait before going to the doctor? I'm thinking a few days but I've already waited for a few days - a few more maybe? This is such bullshit. It doesn't hurt all the time though so that's good.

I still have about 3 more hours to go. I think I'm gonna spend some of that time reading so I don't fall behind on my project. I don't know if I'll have much time to read during the summer..

I have this Expo thing this weekend and I just talked with my boss about it. We're leaving for the airport around 5am to get there in time for our flight. After the flight there's like an hour on the bus and then the whole day doing whatever it is we're doing. And then partyyyy all night long, just to wake up fucking early to do all the traveling back. Hmm. Should be good though.

Have a sunny afternoon everyone!

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Once Upon A Time..

..there was someone who updated their blog more often than I do.

I literally don't know what the problem is. I've talked about this so many times and never get better at this.

I've been working a lot. I've been working a lot since the beginning of this year. But I'm on summer holiday for two weeks from Saturday and only have a couple of days at my other job, so I'm off for nearly two weeks. I do have a work thing out of town for two days but that doesn't count right? I've planned a lot for my holiday and I'm kinda pissed off at myself - I'd like nothing more than do nothing but I've not been able to do much because I'm always working, so I have to play catch-up.

I've been having some problems with my wisdom tooth and today I got an emergancy appointment at the dentist to check when we could take it out. What I didn't realize, was that they had more time than I thought and they took it out there and then. I panicked like crazy because I'm so afraid of pain but it wasn't that bad.. I have some pain now but nothing I can't handle. Some people complain about the amount of pain when they've got one or both of their upper wisdom teeth out, but I guess that's the most pain they've ever felt and don't know there is worse pain out there - like having the other two out and having them shaven off your jawbone. Now that was motherfucking pain. Sorry for all the ladies who've given birth - I haven't had the pleasure of labour so can't say that's the worst pain ever.

I've been off today. I've watched some programs and now I'm actually nearly up-to-date. I mean, on some of them I'm so far behind that I stopped caring whether or not I'm getting closer to the newest episode or not, but a lot of them are going on brake for the summer and so I've been watching those and once they've ended, I'll have time for the other ones. Thankfully there aren't that many programs on during the summer.. True Blood starts soon! Love it.

The World Championships of Ice Hockey is very current now. We're getting down to the really important games. I've only been watching Finlands games and haven't seen them all - most though. We've lost one game and won the rest. This one I'm watching right now - Finland vs Slovakia - is one we have to win. There is no losing this one. But like always, our boys make stupid mistakes and let them get through and they score. Defence boys, DEFENCE!

My sister got a job for the summer! I'm so happy for her. It's about time she gets something else in her calender than just changing nappies and doing Mommy-stuff. I mean, I'm sure being a mother is the best job in the world but they probably also want to do something else every now and then. Also, this opens up an opportunity for me to take care of J. That is awesome! She is growing up so fast and I'll be working all summer, so need to take every chance I get and make the most of it. Btw, we're getting a summer worker for the shop as well. I wonder who it's gonna be and when they start..

My Book-A-Month project is going well! It's taken a step back because I got so hooked on this game on the tab that I've been playing that instead of reading, but I've read 7 books this year. Actually 7 and a half. I still need to finish that one book.. I'm totally gonna read the 12 books and probably even more. I still have 3 of those other books left and once I've read those, I'll read this halfway through book that I've not been able to finish. That will bring my total to 11 books. I borrowed the Fifty Shades books from my sister. I have them in English and she got them in Finnish - have to find out if they're as good in Finnish as they are in English. I doubt it, but have to read them anyway. I don't know if I'm gonna count them to my total though because I've read them already, even if it is in a different language..

What else.. The sun has been shining lately, so I guess it's summer now. We also went to this Chinese restaurant and really enjoyed the food. We've been twice and we're definitely going again but next time we're taking I with us because she's never been there. B got the whole of July off work. He's never had a real summer holiday so this will be an awesome experience for him! His thinking about going to England for a visit but we don't know if his passport will be back in time to get flights. We had to send a lot of paperwork and his passport to England for renewal and it says it'll be at least 4 weeks before it's done. We should have got this done 2 months ago but somehow we never sent it off and did it now, at the last minute. Sometimes we're fucking idiots.

It's down to the last minutes of the game and it's so close! It's 4-3 for Finland so just as long as they can keep it that way, it should be fine but I have to stop writing and watch the end of this completely focusing on the game. Have a nice upcoming weekend!

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Training To Be Better

Today has been a knowledge rich day. Many hours of endless learning and doing group assignments. These training days are extremely valuable, even though sometimes it feels like it's repeating itself. Every time we learn something new because we talk to new people and people you've already met before, have new experiences to share. And it's always good to remind ourselves of the things we are supposed to use or say but don't because we might have forgotten. A very good day indeed.

It's also been a very long day. We wouldn't even had finished work by the time we finished this training, but for some reason just sitting down listening and sometimes talking, makes the time slow down. The food we had - awful. I am officially starving at this point and there is still this 2, 5 hour drive to get through before the possibility of food. I don't really know what I'm craving for.. Yesterday we ate chips and I woke up with the most horrible stomach ache. I don't know if it's the chips or not, but that's a strong possibility..

I have some kind of viral infection in my throat. There is something swollen and pain when I swallow. It's quite annoying, but not bad enough to skip work. Hopefully it doesn't spread because at the moment it's only on my right side and I definitely don't want it on my left side. There is some kind of virus going around and it seems everyone is down with it. There were no available doctors appointments the day before yesterday so I had to wait. The doctors office is fully booked.

Yesterday was a quiet day in work, which was fine because we have a complete new system to work with - new everything - and we are all still learning to use the new system. It's a lot easier and faster than the old one but learning how to sell the new stuff is proving to be a bit of a challenge. I should really study it before going to work tomorrow. Also, I wasn't supposed to work this Monday or Saturday but now I am and that's great! More money for me :)

I finally decided on my summer holidays. I'm gonna be enjoying some time off next month for two weeks at the end of the month, one week at the end of July - beginning of August and one week in September. I told my boss I don't care when I have them if I have to take them - he said I have to take them so I decided on spreading it a little here there and everywhere. And yes, I see how someone might read more into that last part.

Anyway, B and I might go on a holiday in September and now we just need to decided where...

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New PC

It's here! We got it a few days ago and put it together straight away. It's fucking awesome! We had super nice people doing all the ordering and putting shit together and all we had to do was take some stuff out of our old PC and put it in the new one. Thankfully we had everything backed up and didn't lose any of our photos or what ever. I am super happy with this PC and thankful for all the help we got getting it!

There was this thing that popped up every time we started the PC up and we didn't really know what it was for so with a little (A LOT) help from Google, I found out what to do and get this - I fixed the problem! I was pretending to be a computer geek and it actually worked! I did a few other things with the help of Youtube videos and got everything working the way we wanted it. I am so proud of B for dealing with everything - I didn't have to do anything other than pick it up. Amazing.

It's been work, work, work every day this week but I'm off tomorrow and will do some major relaxing today! I finally get to go to the country again! It's been ages it feels like.. But now we can spend the night there and holy shit - there is running water again! The pipes must have defrosted or what ever and now we can do things like get a drink of water from the tap and flush the toilet! Amazing! Too bad B is working until like 7 tonight, and we'll only get to the country house for 8ish but at least we are going today and that's what matters.

Something else happened today.. I took B to work this morning before coming to work myself, you know so I can just pick him up after work without having to swing by home to drop his bike off and the police stopped me. I mean, they were stopping everyone to give them the breathalyzer test! I've never been stopped for that and I have to admit - it was exciting! I told the nice policeman that it was my first one and he gave me the pipe thing as a souvenir :) Obviously there was no problem, since I didn't drink last night and it was the perfect moment to have this experience :)

It's been really quiet in work for the past few days and it doesn't look like today will be any different. But it's only a couple of hours until finish, and then it's off to home we go. I really need to put some new music on my iPod so that is on my to do - list today. Not much else.

Have an amazing weekend everyone! Let's hope for some sunshine! :)

Ran Out Of Pages

And I didn't bring another book with me. I had something like 30 pages left of the book I hadn't yet finished and realized early on that they wouldn't last me long. There have been like zero people in today. Ok, that is a lie. There has been at least 10 people. Ok, maybe like 15 people. My point is - it's not been very busy today and I really should've brought another book with me. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now. At least it's forcing me to do other stuff like finances or blogging.

So B has become an uncle. Again. His sister gave birth to a healthy baby girl yesterday. Healthy size and all, even though it came 2 weeks early, so good job L! Can't wait to meet that rugrat. We also sent some lego hero (?) to England for J-P's BDay. He should be getting it Thursday or something like that. Hopefully he'll like it! :)

We had a meeting in work this morning but thats ok because it wasn't until 9 so didn't have to get up that early. I actually put my face on and everything and in record time. I don't actually mean that I did it super fast but like why do I get up at 8 when I'm in at 10 if I can do everything waking up at 7.45 and be at work for 9.. I guess it's to make sure I'm awake and ready for the day.

I caught up with all my programs but some new ones started and now I've fallen behind again. B only finishes at 10 tonight so I'll have some time for programs when I get home. I've been reading more and when I have time to watch programs, I've done something else. How lazy am I, if I can't sit down and watch a frickin' program?

It's still 30 minutes until hoovering and 1 hour until mopping so perfect time for checking everything's good and all the clothes are in order. Some customer bought the skirt that was on our doll and I had to put an outfit together for it to wear. It was a lot harder than I originally thought! But the new clothes already got one customer to buy the scarf and another to try the dress on, so I guess the outfit works :)

Now I'll go do something useful. Have a nice day!

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Easter

A definite sign of spring! It still gets cold at night but during the day it's warm and the sun stays out for longer every day. It's nice to know we're coming up to sunnier times - not just the weather.

It's been gloomy and it doesn't seem to be getting any better but when there is nothing you can do about, is it better just to leave it alone and move on? It's always hard when there are problems in the family but it's even harder to know how to fix something you didn't realize was broken. Maybe it'll get better with time.

One Book A Month is going great! I've now read 4 books this month and halfway through my fifth - actually halfway through two books but I decided to leave the original book on the back burner until I've read these other ones. I'm loving them and don't feel like continuing the original choice - but I will, as soon as I've read some of these good ones.

So I had my week off work and I spent most of it doing nothing - nothing but things I enjoy. There was a twilight marathon with I, shopping trip out of town, shopping in town, reading, sleeping and eating whatever I wanted. It caused a huge set back on my diet but it's the beginning of a new month and anything can happen. Don't really think I'll reach my goal if I don't seriously step up though but I'm really thinking about taking on exercising - that'll do the trick.

Now I'm back in work and life goes on as normal. Hopefully with the spring everything else will get easier.

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