Valmis.

Kas näin. Neuloin keltaista ja lämmintä. Niin se kesähän tulee jo ihan kohta.. Mutta pidän tästä uutuudesta siitä huolimatta, että lämpenevät ilmat vähentävät sen käyttömukavuutta.

Kuka keksisi seuraavan neuleprojektin?

Love you Verohallinto <3

Ennakonpidätyksen tapaan hyväksiluettu valtionverotuksen ansiotulovähennys 84,42€

Tämä ja muita hyödyllisiä tietoja kopsahti postiluukusta sisään esitäytetyn veroilmoituksen muodossa juurikin tänään. Ja rehellinen, toimelias, ahkerakin ja kaikin puolin mainio työntekijä tukee valtion taloutta vielä 36,08€:n verran. Kertakaikkiaan. Ensimmäisen erän eräpäivähän on 1.12.2009. Nytkö saa maksaa reilun kolmenkympin mätkyt erissä? Eh, elämys sinänsä. Kai tästä pitää valokuva laittaa kuuluisaan muistojen albumiin - kyllä, omistan sellaisen - ja kuvatekstiksi laitan tietysti Elämäni ensimmäiset veromätkyt.

Entä jos sittenkin harkitsen sitä eläkesäästämistä? Verottajahan arvostaa sitä kovasti ja keventää rokotuksia huimin prosenttilukemin..

Ja tapahtui viime päivinä..

Kevät. Mainiota! Kyllä tätä on odotettukin - ja vihdoinkin se on taas täällä, jee! Melkein ilahduttaa jopa herätä lakaisukoneen ääneen aamuvarhain. Tosin hengityselimistöni on päättänyt olla ei niin sopeutuvainen lisääntyvän katu- ym. pölyn määrään. Ei hyvä. Ja tämä yhdistettynä pyöräilijän vauhdinhurmaan - aina vaan paranee. Mutta kevät on hieno asia!

Pääsiäinen. 10.-13.4. Eräs kevääni kohokohdista. Eikä ainoastaan siksi, että pääsiäisen aikaan sijoittuu (hiihtolomasta asti odotettu) neljän päivän loma, ah! Mutta lomasta puheen ollen. Hyppäsin lauantaina erään tietyn punaisen Volvon kyytiin lauantaina liittyen sen omistajien seuraan ja niin ajoimme kohti etelän kevättä - ja AURINKOA! Odotukset korkealla. Taidan useamminkin hankkiutua viikonlopuksi reissun päälle - Irti arjesta-kampanja. Tällaista tällä kertaa.

- Ihan parasta seuraa! - kiitos osanottajille, kaikille tasapuolisesti :)
- Aurinkoa, joko mainitsin?

- IKEAa pehmiksineen

- Kiertoajelua - lue: kolmen jyväääskyläääläisen pyrkimys saapua määränpäähän "suorinta" mahdollista reittiä

- Musiikkia - laatu-sellaista

- Seikkailua Helsingin yössä - huippua!!

- Elokuvaa - Jackie Chan ja New Police Story

- Ruokaa, nam!

- Seurapelejä - kai Darts voidaan myös laskea..?

- Järvenpäätä - 9h panoksemme 24h ylistys-maratoniin oli jotain sanoinkuvaamatonta.

Ja arkielämään laskeutuminen aloitettiin palaamalla kotiin noin klo 5 maanantaiaamuna.

Häät. Joskus ihmiselle vain käy niin, että hän tulee "siihen ikään" - ei suinkaan mennäkseen itse naimisiin - vaan ottaakseen osaa lähipiirin häihin. Hyvin mahdollista on, että niitä osuukin sitten yhden vuoden sisälle esimerkiksi noin kuudet kappaleet :) Itsehän pidän häistä hyvin paljon - oikeasti. Juurikin eilen eräs veljistäni avioitui ja se oli ja on edelleen erityisen hienoa! Päivä oli hyytävän kylmä, mutta valtavan kaunis. Jälkimmäinen ilmaus sopii osuvasti myös hääparin kauniimman osapuolen kuvaukseksi. Oman veljen suhteen sitä on kai jäävi ja komea on sanana klisee, mutta yhdyn silti valokuvaajan sanoihin:

"Komea nuorimies".
Saattoi käydä myös niin, että tanssihäissä kun oltiin, pääsin itsekin pyörähtelemään valssin tahtiin kahden nuoren miehen toimesta!

Tämän juhlavan päivän kruunasi nostalgia-ajelu lapsuuden maisemiin - Vihdin Tervalampi ja Tervalammen Nuottakoto. Ja tietysti piti juhlatamineissa kipsutella ensin rantaan ja vielä kallion huipulle. Ulkoilu-

kohtei-

den ranking-listan kärkikaksikko

- yhä ennallaan. Ympäristö, kotitalo mukaan lukien, vaikutti kutistuneelta, tai ehkä olen itse kasvanut kymmenen vuoden kuluessa, mene ja tiedä :)

The End. And the Beginning.

Okay, it seems like this isn't really working. I have a blog. And I've got enough time to update about once every couple of months.. With the common sense that's been granted to me I've come to realize this is not the point. And as you might remember the reason why I have my blog in English has got something to do with my international friends. Now that Google Analytics tells me, there are no visitors outside the borders of Finland, I assume there's no need to use English anymore. So this is the End part, I'm done with English. But if you're like "she's making a mistake - there's no way I'd be able to keep up!" please, don't hesitate to write that down as a comment to let me know :) Otherwise, I'm gonna write in Finnish, most of the notes. And that is the Beginning part.

My First Day at The Age of 20.

I had such a Wonderful Birthday! That was yeasterday. The first thing in the morning was a smile on my face. How poetic - but so true! I woke up at 6 o'clock cause I had to decorate the cake that was for my workmates. And I got to admit that it became a really good cake after all! Thanks for the Support Person :) Here, take a look.

And they treated me like princess at work :) Like everybody hugged and said and sang Happy Birthday and they wrote me messages on this kind of announcement board in our teachers' office. Big smiles! And all the messages on my wall in Facebook, whoa! Thanks guys :) Even the Facebook Team, you know, the administrators wished me Happy Birthday! I love Birthdays - especially my own, yay! And of course I gotta have few words for gifts too. I got this Beautiful necklace from the Precious Lady I'm living with. It's just perfect, isn't it?


But about this day. I'm on a sick leave. But it's okay, I don't mind to have a couple of extra holidays. Though it'd be nice to be healthy, but I've got that scheduled - later! And because of this illness two Gorgeous friends decided to cheer me up and two movies and concerning supplies were delivered to me yesterday! Thank you.

The loveliest highlight of this day was a call to Crowborough, UK. Since Christmas I've been an owner of a web-cam and a microphone, so we took a call via Skype with one Dear friend of mine. Good times! Love you Miss Aupair <3

So, it's been a good start for the 21st year in my life!

A Sweet White Christmas.

Well, actually it's not that white, but compared to those too many days (WEEKS!) without snow it really is White here. Though you can still see every stick and stone and even the lawn in our cortyard.. But we have some snow here in South Finland, that's the point!

And about the sweetness. Chocolate. We fortunate people have got maybe few KGs that stuff around here! All kind of chocolate. I made a list, take a look.

Caramel covered with milk chocolate
Hzelnut and almond praline covered with milk chocolate
Hazelnut-almond praline with nuts covered with milk chocolate
Praline covered with milk chocolate
Hazelnut paste with Brazilian nuts covered with white chocolate
Unstoned cherry in liquid cherry cream
Hazelnut-almond filling covered with white chocolate
Orange fondant cream covered in dark chocolate
Liquid fondant with pineapple flavour covered with plain chocolate
Ganache with orange liqueur covered with dark chocolate
Plain chocolate cup filled with rum mousse
Marzipan in dark chocolate topped with a walnut
Praline
Liquid strawberry cream filling covered with milk chocolate
Toffee covered with milk chocolate
Orange crunch filling covered with milk chocolate
Vanilla fudge covered with milk chocolate
Coconut toffee filling covered with milk chocolate
Milk chocolate block
Caramel swirlcovered with milk chocolate
Marzipan with croquante covered with milk chocolate
Coffee marzipan overed with milk chocolate
Tripple hazelnut covered with milk chocolate
Marzipan with walnut covered with milk chocolate
Milk chocolate cone
Marzipan with pistachio nut covered with milk chocolate
Nougat
Geisha made by Fazer
And so on

Wow. Isn't that something? And you can't even eat that much! Unfair. Luckily I don't like all the sorts, so it's not that unfair :) In fact I've decided (maybe that's quite strong word in this case.. let's say I've got a steady intention) to take a break (a long one) from eating chocolate and all the candies. And salty liquorice – you can’t call that candy, right?

Okay, that’s about it. Let’s get back to this Christmas. I’m gonna tell few more things of my Christmas.

Hurry. Certain condition before Christmas. Well, I’m always in some kind of hurry. But in December there is so much more to do during few weeks than usually. This year I decided to not panic – success, yay! Why on earth do I always put so much pressure on myself!? And every once in awhile I notice that it doesn’t make any sense to put on all the pressures- But when I go around the next corner, I forget it again.. How stupid can a person be?!

Christmas cards. I think this is one of the main reasons for the great hurry. Sometimes in summer time I've almost been able to get a good grip of the back of my neck and have almost get the card project started. But then this crazy idea jumps into my head: I'll save this till November, just to make sure that I've got some preparations to make for Christmas! Wow, how logical.. But. I was faithful to my 'Don't panic'-program: I developed some photos of me enough early to get them mailed right on time as Christmas cards!

Holiday. Hurry comes to its end. There’s no hurry at all when the Christmas holiday begins. One of the best things in holidays. I’m spending my Christmas holiday at my parents’ and so does one of my brothers too. Spending time together contains for example board games and movies – just hanging together. Somehow it’s hard when you’ve got used to live alone, but on the other hand I value our time together Very much!

Christmas Carols. All the prettiest, of course.

Candles and Christmas lights. Light to the darkness!

Declaration of The Christmas Peace. Declared from Finland’s Turku. We don’t have a TV, so we listen that through our radio at 12 o’clock on the 24th of December.

Tomorrow, God willing,is the graceful celebration of the birth of our Lord and Saviour;
and thus is declared a peaceful Christmas time to all, by advising devotion and to behave otherwise quietly and peacefully,
because he who breaks this peace and violates the peace of Christmas by any illegal or improper behaviour shall under aggravating circumstances be guilty and punished according to what the law and statutes prescribe for each and every offence separately.
Finally, a joyous Christmas feast is wished to all inhabitants of the city.

Church. Christmas Eve Devotional. Usually at 10 pm in our local church, but this year we went to neighbour village cause few friends of ours were singing and playing strings and organ there.

Christmas Evangelium. The story of the first Christmas. Traditionally kids present that story as a play in Christmas Parties in schools. So did our little first-graders. They were soooo cute! Young one Mary holding babydoll Jesus. Coeval Joseph holding her hand. And too little angels with their sparkling wings as a huge angelic choir. Awww.

Food. Lots of food. Traditional Finnish Christmas Menu. We eat Christmas food so much that we get fed up with it for a year and then we start all over again.

Christmas tree. Back in the day when my brothers and I were little, the decoration operation of the Christmas tree took a loooong while. We set the decorations on the tree in turns, one by one. Except those ones we had four pieces, one for all of us. The whole operation has become a lot simpler and shorter, cause only willing to do that in addition to me is my little brother.

Presents. This year I was not supposed to get like any presents at all, but as usual I got quite a lot of them. But that’s allright :) A paper guillotine was one of my favourites! And a web-cam and a microphone, yay! Well, presents are actually part of the famous hurry too. I mean those ones I'm gonna give.. But my program was successful even here! I think I should try this again sometime!

Crib. Every Christmas we set a little Christmas crib with few figures: Joseph, Mary, baby Jesus, one shepherd and lots of lambs.

Jesus. He’s the main reason why we celebrate Christmas. Well, yes I know that Jesus wasn’t actually born on the 25th of December and Christmas used to be a pagan celebration, but still for me Christmas is The Birthday of my Saviour King Jesus!

The coup of the week.

This is what I did on Monday.

About 8 pm: I decided to go to meet two friends of mine at the railway station at midnight. They were coming from a holiday trip - Rodos for a week.

About 9 pm: I started to make a poster. I had this one meter long piece of paper and lots of crayons and markers.

And one and half an hour later: Take a look at my creation.

It says welcome in Finnish. And the idea is that my friends are standing on the island with the palm tree, under the bright shining sun. They took a plane to Sweden and came by boat to Finland, city called Turku. And the last vehicle they used was a train on their journey between Turku and Jyväskylä. And at the destination it's cold, dark and wet. So welcome back!

22.36 pm: I tried to get some sleep before I got to go to the railway station.

22.38 pm: I realized that I was not that tired that I'd be able to fall asleep. So, I started to read a book.

23.10 pm: My eyes didn't stay open anymore, I thought I could sleep for awhile.

23.20 pm: My alarm clock rang. Luckily I remembered to set it ring at the right time..

23.25 pm: I said to myself: "If you were, like seriously, gonna go to the railway station to meet them, you'd better get up now!" And that's what I did.

23.37 pm: I left home and headed to the station. And waited for the train. It was few minutes late. And then ten minutes late. And then twenty minutes late.

23.57 pm: They arrived!! And the athmosphere was cheerful! And the common tiredness made it to be increased further :)

00.10 am: Home again. Surprised about that I really did it! I didn't expect me to have enough determination to wake up at midnight when I had just fallen asleep, to meet my friends at the railway station :) But I'm glad I did have it and I did it!