Visiting Sanna and Jussi helmikuu 28, 2007

Helsinki -2 degrees Celsius, light snow.
Sunrise 7:20 am, sunset 5:44 pm.

Yeah! I finally got my ”new” digital camera working. It is really my parents’ old camera, but now that they have the new one, the old one needed a home. I actually got it a while ago, but I really didn’t know how to use it… Now I’ve learned how to use it and especially how to transport photos from the camera to the computer! Clever bunny!

Today I visited my friend Sanna and her bloke Jussi. It was really great to see them. Sanna is now eight months pregnant and her due day is 20th of March. From the pictures you can see that she really have a baby in her belly! Despite all the trouble she has had during her pregnancy she is doing fine at the moment. At least if you don’t count swollen feet and weight gaining of whopping 22 kilos (although you can’t see it from her)! But they really seem to be very happy about the baby, and about of each other. I’m feeling also happy for them.

Here is some pictures from my visit.

This is me wondering the size of Sanna’s belly.

Here Linda, Jussi and Sanna are posing for me.

And here are the sweethearts!

Winter holiday is coming! helmikuu 21, 2007

Jyväskylä -18 degrees Celsius, mostly cloudy.
Sunrise 7:45 am, sunset 5:16 pm.

Oh, no! I just realized that I haven’t written here for a while. Lot has happen since the last time, but nothing really, really big. If I don’t count the fact that my friend Emma left to Kenya. It’s really hard to understand that she’s so far away! But like I told her, the main thing is that she will enjoy herself and come back safely.

My parents also flied to Mauritius today! This is their advanced 30 years anniversary trip and at the same time the honeymoon they never had. I hope they will enjoy the warm and are able to relax in the paradise… Good news for me is that I can use their car meanwhile they are away. I just have to go and pick it up from the airport. I was planning to drive up north to Oulu, to visit my friend Mari on next week (next week is our winter holiday week). Unfortunately Mari just called me and told that they have so many people on sick leave at the moment that she is forced to have 12-hour days next week. And besides this they have inventory in their store! All her time is going to in working, so there’s no point of me going there and not even have any time with her…

Now I have to figure out something else for my holiday. I just don’t know yet, what that something else could be.

During last weekend I had an intensive course on “how to drive daddy’s car”! Of course I have driven a car before, but definitely NOW my dad’s car! The car is my dad’s treasure and he really isn’t happy that anyone else is using it. He has all kind of rules for how to behave with the car. It was really hard for me to stay serious at times during the training… But then again it really is my mom’s and dad’s car so they decide and I just try to fulfil their wishes.

Lately we have had really nice and freezing winter weather over here. I have been surprisingly happy about it. I would’ve thought that I hate the cold weather, but it’s so nice to pack yourself with all the clothes you could ever imagine! I love winter!

An Evil Child! ;) helmikuu 5, 2007

Helsinki -10 degrees Celsius, mostly cloudy.
Sunrise 8:27 am, sunset 4:43 pm.

I got a splendid idea to enrol my parents (or to be strict about it, their apartment) to decorating TV-show! Show is called Inno (comes from the word innovation) and the actual format goes as followed: Some kind of space has a decorating problem, the decorator comes to see how the space looks like and at the same time interviews the home owner of his/hers preference in style. When the decorator has all the information he needs he gets back to his designing table. Now he’s designing the space and all the alteration work is done without the customer. In the end of the show they are surprising the customer and seeing how he/she likes the new decoration. And that’s it! Pretty simple, don’t you think?

My conversations about the topic with my parents went little bit like this:

Eija: “Hi mom! Now you are going to enrol yourself to the Inno!”
Mom: “We don’t want to be in TV!”
Eija: “Yes, but it would be a great idea. Which room do you want to enrol?”
Mom: “I don’t know.”
Eija: “Okay, it’s the small room then.”
Mom: “But I and dad don’t want to be in TV! If you go instead of us, it’s okay.”
Eija: “Okay, I’ll call dad and tell him that you thought it was a good idea!”

Eija: “Hi dad! You are going to enrol to the Inno!”
Dad: “No, we don’t want to be in TV.”
Eija: “Which one of the rooms is the problematic one?”
Dad: “None of them, they are all alright.”
Eija: “No, I don’t think so. What about the small room?”
Dad: “There’s no problem with that one, because it’s so small that nothing fits in to it.”
Eija: “Okay, so that’s the problem room then! I’m going to enrol you for you!”
Dad: “Do as you wish, but your mom and I don’t want to be in TV.”

That went well! I actually already wrote the base of the application, but I’m going to finish it on next weekend when I visit their new apartment and get some photos of it. And of course it’s not sure that they get into the show even if I enrol them. If they get in, we’ll work with that situation.

I’m an evil child! I’m sure they think like that…