Uudenvuodenvietot

Tosiaan, jos vielä jäi epäselväksi, niin matkasin uudenvuoden viettoon Ouluun sunnuntaina ja palasin kotiin eilen. Junalla. 7h / suunta. Kammotti etukäteen mutta selvittiinhän siitäkin. J tuli takasin päin samaa matkaa.

En muuten enää koskaa valita et Hämeenlinnaan olis pitkä matka...

Sunnuntaina pääsin Ouluun perille joskus viiden jälkeen. Sinä iltana ei tehty mitään ihmeempiä, syötiin ja saunottiin ja löhöttiin. Maanantaina käytiin vähän shoppailemassa, ite en löytöjä tehny (ja olin just ostanu ennen lähtöä jo kahet kengät täältä niin varaakaan ei olis löytöihin oikeen ollu), mut J'lle onneks löydettiin sitä sun tätä. Käytiin myös katsastamassa J'n ja J'n isän kanssa paikallinen saman ketjun kahvila kun missä oon töissä, vertailusilmällä tottakai ;) Takas kämpillä alko valmistautuminen, jonka välissä kuitenkin tehtiin pikkuvisiitti J'n veljelle ja tyttöystävälle, jotka oli muuttanu vähän aikaa sitten. Joskus iltasella suunnattiin aika lähellä asuvien, J'n lapsuudentuttujen luo, johon porukkaa keräänty illan mittaan ihan runsaastikkin. Itehän tunsin sieltä vaan muutaman ihmisen, mutta eipä siinä, kivaa oli silti. Keskiyöllä ulostauduttiin kaikki ampumaan parit raketit ja kattelemaan ilotulituksia. Uudenvuoden vaihtuessa pussailtiin ja halailtiin ympäriinsä. Joskus kahen maissa tuli jäätävä väsy ja kun käveltiin takas J'n porukoiden kämpille niin oikeesti varmaan nukuin ja kävelin samaa aikaa :D Ikinä mikään matka ei oo tuntunu niin pitkältä, vaikkei se kai loppujenlopuks ees niin pitkä ollu..

pientä otetta UV'n vietosta...:D

hyiiiiisss

Tiistaina, vuoden 2013 ekana päivänä, lagattiin hyvin pitkään vaan sängyssä katellen kaikkea turhaa telkkarista. Kolmen maissa skarpattiin vähän ja päätettiin ettei koko päivä sitä voi olla, ja päätettiin lähtee leffaan. Suomalainen komedia, Rakkauden rasvaprosentti (J'n ehdoton ykkösvalinta!!11), eihän se laadullisesti mikään mestariteos ollu mut ihan hauska :D Illalla vielä saunottiin ja syöpöteltiin sitten.

UV'n bilekoira!

Keskiviikkona ei hirveesti muuta ehitty tehä ku syödä siellä aamupala ja sitten jo lähettiinkin juna-asemalle. Piiiitkä junamatka, Helsingissä tuntu et olis jo juurtunu siihen penkkiin. Kaheksan maissa olin Helsingissä ja yheksän maissa himassa. Yks facebook-kaveri oli lisänny kuvan palapelistä ja mulla tuli hirvee himo tehä palapeliä, niin ostin sitten kotimatkalla vielä itelleni palapelin. Tietenkään ei olis kannattanu yhtään ajatella tota tasoa... en oo tehny palapelejä vuosiin ja tajusin sitten yöllä 1 maissa että toi on ihan hiton vaikee mulle :D noooh onneks tänään on vielä töistä vapaata, ehin vähän väsätä sitä. Muuten oon tänään vaan pyykänny enkä oo viittiny mennä ees suihkuun vielä kun ootan puhelua harkkapaikasta työvuoroja koskien. Mulle sanottiin että ne soittaa ke tai to mutta ei oo kuulunu, en jaksais koko päivää vaan istuu ja venaa puhelua! Joulukoristeita korjailin pois ja koitin vähän siivota. Passia ei oo löytyny..

70th birthday (surprise) celebration

Hello again! Were is my motivation? I've lost it, once again.. Well. Let's see.

After the crab party I was at work on Monday&Tuesday. On Wednesday I felt a bit sick again... In the evening we had a movie night at my friend's house (i'm so jealous about the apartment....) with two other friends of mine. It was nice to hang out with those people after a long time. We watched American Pie: Reunion hahah. My friend had her super camera with her so there are quite a many (doubtful) pictures from that night.

i tried to be artistic.... fail

On Friday my aunt came to pick me up and then we headed towards Mustio again. The reason for this weekend trip was my grandma's 70th birthday. On Friday evening we went to Mustio manor to decorate the place that was booked for us for Saturday. The theme was Britain (as you can see from the following pictures). So, Saturday was the main day, and it was a surprise party for my grandma (who loves England end everything that's British). We were all well dressed up and we started with a afternoon tea (including some British teacakes or scones or whatever :D) at Mustio manor's facilities. After the afternoon tea we moved over the manor and we had a guided tour through the exhibition (about Hjalmar Linder) there. I actually liked it, or should I say I think it was interesting, which is rare because usually I don't like museums or exhibitions. And, btw, my voice was gone. Flu, again......

 After the guided tour we went back to the place that was reserved for us. They had already changed the afternoon tea setting to a dinner setting. But first it was time for toasts and a few short speeches. For dinner we had roasted beef, roasted potatoes, peas, Yorkshire pudding.... and wines of course :-) it was all very good!

 After the dinner we went back to our own place for dessert and coffee. We didn't have a cake because it was my grandma's wish to have a "krokaani" (I didn't find the word in English, but I mean one of these) because they had one at their wedding for 42 years ago. So my aunt decided to fulfill the wish and the krokaani came into the house :-D I hadn't tasted it before and first I thought it was weird but after all I liked it. we also had macarons and Fazer chocolates, not bad!

I came back home on Sunday. On Monday I went to the dentist and spent a fortune there. On Tuesday I was at work, and on Wednesday&Thursday I've been at school. We also had a "Back 2 school party" yesterday, I had fun! I slept maybe 6 hours last night so now I'm quite exhausted. Bed ->

Crab party!

So, last Friday we headed towards Björköby again, this time because of the crab party!

We went there on Friday, but the actual party time was on Saturday. and well, what can I say? A lot of drinking, singing, good food (not only crabs, i guess some people didn't even taste them :-D). I still think crabs are too difficult to eat! or, well, i don't mean 'difficult', i mean it takes too much time to get out the edible parts compared to the amount of the edible parts, you know what i mean? :D We were about 20(?) persons there, mainly J's relatives but also a few friends. I felt comfortable, and I got to know some people better (and also a few whole new persons).

the old cattle shed which was repaired and fixed for the party!

We started the party already at 4pm or so and we went on 'til the night. It was "the last summer weekend" so it was legal to shoot fireworks (never heard of this kind of event in Southern Finland??). I enjoyed the night, a lot! The next morning wasn't too nice, but everyone survived :-D Waiting for the next year's crab party!

a booklet full of drinking songs :-D

On Sunday we had to drive back to Helsinki, it took about 5 hours and I can tell you that none of us felt too comfortable :D Hangover......... Even though we all had fun on Saturday, I guess we all were so happy to get back home after the long drive!

finally i did it!

(written on Thursday, just pictures added today)

Okay, here we go... finally!

So, on Saturday 14th (almost two weeks ago.. woops) we got in a car with 4 friends of mine and headed towards a rented cottage situated in MeriTeijo, quite near to Salo. It took less than 2 hours to drive there. My friend and her friend had rented the cottage for a little cottage party! They both had invited their own friends so eventually there were quite many of us. Luckily it was a two-storey cottage so we didn't run out of room. There was also a terrace, three (?) bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a sauna, a hot-tub (:D), two bathrooms and... well that's about it! and the sea was very near so the craziest ones were able to go for a swim (why just the craziest ones? sea water here.... COLD). a few photos:

living room, isn't it a bit risky to put white carpet and white sofas there? :D

going to the beach! the journey back to the cottage wasn't so nice - uphill all the way

we had a grill and we grilled sausages and meat and corn!

drinking game with hunks-cards!

So we had a nice Saturday night there, I love my friends! On Sunday we all had a small hangover so we stopped in a pizzeria-restaurant in Salo to have some hangover-fastfood to deal with it. Then we came home.

Last week was quite tough for me when it comes to working. I had only one day off, Friday. On Friday, as I told in my previous (short) post, 4 friends of mine had their farewell party. Three of them are going to Peru for exchange and one is going to Spain to do an internship (I may be a bit jealous..). This fall will be strange for me as my best school mates are not there! :( I will miss you guys! Well I couldn't party much then because I had to go to work on Saturday morning but at least I was able to participate. It was great to see all the people, some of whom I haven't seen after my own farewell party.

I was at work on Saturday and Sunday, but on Sunday after work I took a bus to Helsinki where I met J and then we took a train to Hämeenlinna, to our summer cottage. You see I'm trying to catch every chance to go and "relax" in the countryside.. We spent a few days there and on Tuesday we came back. The weather wasn't good at all, but well, at least we got some things-to-do-at-the-summer-cottage done; we went to sauna, we went fishing, we took a countryside walk and saw lambs! It wasn't as relaxing as I had hoped but I'm still happy we went there instead of sitting here at home and just waiting for the next working shift.

fishing! all the foreigners, welcome to our lovely, sunny summer!

i caught a shellfish??

we saw lambs! there was also an angry rooster that kept on crowing..

countryside (what a sunny summer, right?)

So we came back on Tuesday and in the same evening I went to the stable with my friend and the horse girl inside me was very content! I was there with her also a week before, and my I can tell you that my desire for riding lessons has just strengthened...

Now I'm having four working days in a row and on Saturday I have an intention to go to another summer cottage after work. Our plans still haven't clarified totally but I hope everything goes as planned and I would be able to be there from Sat to Tuesday with my relatives that I haven't seen since Christmas! Then I have four working days in a row again, one day off, three days of work and then we are off to Oulu with J!