Eija’s greetings

updating ordinary life of a finnish girl

Happy birthday! maaliskuu 25, 2007

Aihe: Stories of life — Eija @ 9:37 ap

Jyväskylä +1 degrees Celsius, sunny.
Sunrise 6:03, sunset 6:45.

I almost forgot, but not quite!

Happy Birthday on 23rd of March to Joy and Poppe!
And Happy Birthday on 25th of March to Mom!
I love you all! :D

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Addicted to knitting… maaliskuu 22, 2007

Aihe: Knitting — Eija @ 9:16 ip

Jyväskylä +2 degrees Celsius, mostly cloudy.
Sunrise 6:10 am, sunset 6:37 pm.

My absolutely dearest hobby is knitting. I learned to knit from my mom when I was about nine years old. I had to go to hospital once a month when I was little, and because we visited there so often, we knew that there’s lots of spare time while waiting of getting to the doctor, to the laboratory or getting some results. Being a wise woman that my mom is she was always repaired to the situation. We always had something to do. She brought books and her knitting works with her. When I saw her knitting (and I didn’t have anything to do) I asked her to teach me. The first thing I ever knit was socks for my granddad. He thanked me for them, but he was a man of rapid circulation of blood, so he never actually did use them. :) Since I learned the skill of knitting I have been doing it a lot. I usually knit small products like socks, mittens, woolly hats and so on. Bigger things bore me, even though I’m quite fast knitter.

Because all the babies that have born lately or are on their way, I have now been very excited of all kind of items I could make for babies. I have tried little baby socks and mittens, but the thing I’m absolutely addicted to right now is baby blanket. At the moment I’m making baby blanket from small squares. I haven’t had too much time to knit lately, since I have loads of school work that is just waiting for me to do them. Here’s something I’ve done so far:

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Update maaliskuu 18, 2007

Aihe: Stories of life — Eija @ 12:12 ip

Helsinki +2 degrees Celsius, partly sunny.
Sunrise 6:29 am, sunset 6:29 pm.

It’s time to update the blog… :) Nothing really special has happened since I wrote. Except one of my dearest friends, Elina told me she’s pregnant! That was really big news. I was driving car when she told me, and I was shouting her afterwards, that doesn’t she have any sense of self defence. :D Dangerous thing to do when someone is driving, I think.

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The future mom…

Mom and Dad came back from Mauritius and I think they had a wonderful time. Mom got a ring with seven diamonds on it! And dad got really cool watch. I was surprised that they did something that drastic, but it’s only god thing.

At school my third period ended last Friday and fourth and last one is starting tomorrow. I have so many homework that I need to return during few next weeks. It feels horrible sometimes, but I know that in the end I’m going to make it. On fourth period I’m going to study subjects like, Jurisprudence of Clothing Industry, Entrepreneur and Business, Communication of Clothing and Spanish. How does it sound like? A bit dry? :) Well couple of those courses are compulsory and Spanish and Jurisprudence are something I think I’m going to really take advance some day (dry or not).

Obligatory coverage of Finland’s weather: We have had really warm weather lately. They say that the beginning of March have been warmest than in 45 years. (And people still think there’s nothing true about global warmthning!) I feels already like spring although yesterday we got some light snow.