decorating home + challenge

Even though I have a lot of school stuff going on, I've still found some time to think about my apartment. After I got the red sofa I told about in my previous post, I've been a bit obsessed with getting my apartment into a nice condition. On Tuesday we went to Ikea with J (I've been wanting to go there for sooo long!) and today I went to Anttila as I got their advertisement leaflet and I found so many interesting little things from there. From Ikea I didn't buy anything big but many many small things instead. Mainly red and white. Candles candles candles! The ambiance in Ikea was so good, not too many people and you could tell that Christmas is coming. I may need to go there again, still before Christmas... From Anttila I just bought one hanging candle holder, i love it :-) I haven't been such a Christmas person before, but this year I feel like buying all kinds of Christmas stuff already! And I love scented candles, especially vanilla and ginger bread scented!

on my door already!

Toffee tea I bought today, it was quite good :-)

i think it's pretty :-) I may have to buy another one of those..
 

And by the way; because I'm afraid I'm just gonna write some stress posts about all the projects and stuff OR I'm not gonna write at all, I decided to accept a challenge that I found from a few blogs. It goes like this:

Day 01 – A picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself

Day 03 – What you think about your friends

Day 04 – Your idea of the perfect first date 

Day 05 – A picture + 5 facts about a special person in your life

Day 06 – Who are you? 

Day 07 – Post a photo from the past

Day 08 – What’s inside of your bag?

Day 09 – Where would you like to travel?

Day 10 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to

Day 11 – What kind of person attracts you?

Day 12 – Something you’re scared of

Day 13 – Why do you write a blog?

Day 14 – A song to match your mood

Day 15 – A picture of something you want to do before you die and why

Day 16 – A photo of the item you last purchased

Day 17 – Something that you miss

Day 18 – One moment

Day 19 – Something you’re proud of in the past few days

Day 20 – Something you’re currently worrying about

Day 21 – Five ways to win your heart

Day 22 – Things you like and dislike about yourself

Day 23 – One thing that means a lot to you

Day 24 – 5 things in your room you value the most.

Day 25 – Your opinion about your body and how comfortable you are with it

Day 26 – One thing you’re excited of

Day 27 – Five weird things that you like

Day 28 – Something you don’t leave the house without

Day 29 – How have you changed in the past 2 years? 

Day 30 – Your highs and lows of this month 

red dream

I've been dreaming of a home with only certain colors - red, white and black - since I got my first apartment. The dream was ruined when I bought a dark blue (dark violet? okay it was not this clear..) sofa, just because I needed to get one so soon and it was suitable because of its size and price. Because of it I had to adapt to the idea of never getting a home with only white, red and black... until now!

About a week ago I noticed a picture on my friend's facebook wall, a picture of a red sofa. She was asking for someone to come and get it because she's moving and getting a new one. Then I realized it was my chance. I asked her if it was still free, even though I had no idea of how I would be able to go and get it. But as soon as she said that yes, it's still free, I told her to keep it there for me, I knew I would get it somehow. So, today I rented a delivery van (?) and we drove to Vantaa with J to get the sofa (and at the same time we took the old one to a recycling center).

Now it's here and I'm happy. My red-white-black dream isn't lost after all.

11.11.

The day of the most important person of my life. Father's Day.

picture from weheartit.com

I miss you more than anything.

5 weeks?

This week has been a bit weird. I've been feeling weird even though I haven't done anything so special. On Sunday I was at work; a nice day because there were enough of us. Otherwise this week has consisted of school stuff, as the only day at work is going to be tomorrow (a looooong day). I've had only one morning at school (yesterday, the last lesson of one course, yay), otherwise just afternoons. Weird. From this week forward I have free Wednesdays, that's weird too, as I'm used to having school every day from Mon to Fri. As I said, everything's weird. My feelings have also been weird, I don't know why.

One day I realized that I have only 5 weeks of school left. On one hand it feels relieving but on the other hand I got so stressed - every project must be finished by then? I'm supposed to have an internship contract by then (if I want to start at the beginning of January)? I'm supposed to know how I'm gonna go on with my job by then?? waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa STRESS!

Problem nr 1: My projects aren't even nearly ready.
Problem nr 2: I don't have an internship. I've sent applications but haven't got any sure answer yet.
Problem nr 3: I can't make the decision about continuing my job if I don't know about the internship.

I just hope that
a) my groups would DO THEIR JOB with the projects, because those projects are a bit too wide to do by myself...
b) One marketing manager would answer to me that it would be possible to do my internship at their company.
c) I would get the internship thing solved soon so that I would know what to say to my boss about continuing my contract.

So, 5 weeks? After all, nothing relieving about that.. Now I can't concentrate on writing anymore! Have to go to the school and try to get something done with one big project. If anyone of my group even turns up...

I wish!

(pictures from weheartit.com)

All Hallows' Day

Today we think about all the people who are already stars, angels. We take a look at the edge of a cloud, we wish there deep peace. Someone important, someone precious is sleeping there, someone who left too early. That's why we wish for a bright night, because there - in the sky - he/she is the brightest star.

Publish this text, if there's someone you would like to see, hug or talk to but it's impossible.

one year

Yesterday was our 1-year anniversary with J. No gifts, it was decided, but I got a flower! It was the first time during this relationship... :D (a bit more often would be nice, just a hint...haha)

It's not often that we go to eat in a restaurant, so that's how we decided to celebrate the anniversary. There were many options but after all we turned to the Chinese restaurant which is always a good choice. The food was good and we rolled away from the restaurant as we were so full.

The last time I updated was almost a week ago, when we had the season's first snow. It didn't last long but the temperatures have stayed quite low so I guess we'll have more of it soon. On Friday we had a halloween party with some friends (and some people I didn't know before). I dressed up as a witch and my dark make up was made by a friend. First we were in one's place but then we went on to the Club Aussie Bar (in Kaisaniemi, Helsinki) where they had a good halloween party already going on. People mainly had some halloween costumes but there were also some boring ones, haha.

On Sunday I was at work and we had a rush the whole day long. I was quite exhausted when I got home. On Monday I had a long day doing school stuff, as we first had an interview with one company's sales manager, then I met a group from another course, and then I still had a lecture that lasted 'til 6pm. On Tuesday I was at school & at work, and yesterday I already told about. Today I first met one group in order to make a safety plan (of 22 pages..) for the event we are organizing. Then we had a guided tour in Paasitorni & hotel Scandic Paasi (in Hakaniemi, Helsinki), it was quite interesting and I got a business card from the marketing manager - in order to ask for possible internship possibilities. It would be so interesting to get a chance for the internship as a marketing assistant in a big company like that (consisting of hotel, restaurant, congress and event business)!

So no, I still can't say my life would be too boring, so much stuff to do. And it doesn't seem to calm down. I'm stressing about a few projects 'cause I want to get them well done, as well as about the internship thing. I have counted on the fact that I would get an internship from January onwards, but what if I don't?? I have asked from 5 places now, three of them are still open so I haven't heard from them yet, but two already answered that it's not possible. I'm still going to contact the Paasitorni's marketing manager and I'm also waiting for our school to start looking for marketing interns for the spring. I need to get an internship for the spring... But it's not easy as I know what I want and I'm quite demanding (I don't want to go to a hotel or a restaurant as many of the students from my degree; and I want to be paid for the internship - many of them are not paid). Well, let's see, I just wish I would get a positive answer soon, or at least a possibility to be interviewed!

Now I'm gonna finish with one portfolio. Wish me luck with the internship places! Bye :-)

this is waiting for me for the event we are organizing ;)

first snow

in & out of fall

outside: fall. rain. colors. darkness. coldness. clouds. leaves on the streets.

inside: candles. cinnamon. vanilla. warmth. onepiece. salt liquorice. candies. moomin mug. school stuff.

the beginning of a new, rainy week

No school today and I still had to wake up at 7 o'clock... because of the dentist. I went there, I had a check up and I was out. useless.... but maybe the first time I got to leave without any further actions. She just said that I should book an appointment at the beginning of 2014. Fine by me! Btw, the weather is soooo depressing. When I left at 8am, it was so dark and rainy and cold and... ugly :(

So I came back home after 9 o'clock and now I'm thinking whether to go back to bed or not... maybe for a little while. or maybe I'll take a nap a bit later. I have an evening shift at work so.. Tomorrow I'll have a lecture in the morning and also an evening shift, on Wed - school, on Thu - school, on Fri - school, on Sat - work. Sunday = free!

Last week I was at school every day and at work on Saturday. After work, we went to the movies with J, after a long time! We went to see Savages (Raakalaiset) which was about drug dealing business and stuff. Not an easy movie but it was quite ok!

By the way, now that I bought the mini laptop, I guess it's finally time to give my MacBook to J's friend for reparation.. I know I'm gonna feel empty without my Mac! I got it over 3 years ago so it's not easy to give it away, even for a while. I hope the reparation is not gonna take many days. And I hope it's in a better condition when I get it back. Lately it has been very slow and overheated easily so it needs some fixing. I actually moved all my files to an external hard drive and then I deleted everything from the mac (more than 15 000 files.. I seriously hope that the external hard drive won't get broken!), so now it's ready for reparation.

And PS. even though I promised I wouldn't buy anything after the mini laptop, I still NEEDED to go to Hullut Päivät on Sunday (the last day of sales) and I bought a scarf, mittens, facial wash and candies... whoops. But from this day forward, I'm not allowed to buy anything unnecessary!

Ok, now I start doing school stuff (again..). Have a great week!

it's mine now!

picture from: http://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/32033/dgkxd

Acer Aspire One D270, 10,1"!

no problems to take a computer with me to wherever I want as it weights only about one kilogram ;)

(but, MacBook, you are still my number one!)