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*clears throat*

Remember all those plans I had for Christmas? Making posts, sending cards, that kind of thing? So, yes, did none of that. Very sorry. If you don't mind getting a Christmas themed card about a month too late, then I could still send them out. In my defense, I did buy them. I have the stamps and everything. I even know where I have them. I could offer a bunch of excuses but, really, I just buckle under pressure and my studies were handing out a lot of it in December. This is so not a fantastic quality in a person, but there you go.

I did have a nice Christmas though, once I got over moping about missing deadlines and things. I now have a new little carry-on bag thing with wheels that meets the requirements for Ryan Air, a french version of the Stieg Larsson trilogy, lots of yarn, and pajamas that have pictures of sheep on them. Oh, and that Final Fantasy that came out for the Xbox 360 back in the day, but that I never got to play because I didn't have the right console. So, hooray!

New Year was beyond awesome, as usual. This time we were in Finland, and I had the luxury of not needing to fly anywhere. I got to sit at home and have all my friends come to me instead. We didn't have a lot of snow, which was sad. Naturally, it all came down just a few days after the Italians, who had been the most keen on seeing it, had already left. Meh.


Sister got addicted to SPN, and finished blazing through the entire series just last week. I am glad. My msn kept lighting up with her live commentary, and I got to vicariously re-live the experience of not knowing what was around the corner.

But, say. The thing that happened in 7x10... did that really happen? I mean, that didn't really happen, right? They wouldn't, right? Right?


I feel accomplished now. Look at me, I wrote an entry!
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Still alive. Just barely. Back from Ostrobothnia. (Where I was rather silly) Super tired. There's so much I want to do! The day does not hold enough hours.

I want to
a) sit down and read a tonne of fic
b) actually participate in the wacky wonderfulness that is my flist (I am reading, seriously.) and answer a bunch of comments, because peace of mind cannot be achieved until my inbox is empty.
c) post the last entry about the Murmansk trip
d) edit rpg-fic
e) finish the stupid chapter about Crowley and post it somewhere
d) post things on the Finnish fandom comm (because I have things to say!)
e) watch the extras on the SPN season 1 DVD that I bought with money I was supposed to use on groceries.
f) make a rant-y post about the silly new government and why it's silly, and make everyone listen to this song, which is not at all my style of music, but the lyrics are delicious and it's been stuck in my head for days.
g) write a proper introduction-type post, so that the stuff I scribble here might have some actual context

... There was something else, but I forget.

News in Jutta-land read as following:

- I have work at the local hospital until next week and need to get up at 5:30 every morning. (And this is not complaining, because omg, I'm actually getting paid for this. This is joy, eventhough it's joy mumbled sleepily into a pillow.) As it turns out, speaking four languages isn't all that impressive - but being fluent in the complicated system that is the shipping, billing and moving of goods in a hospital, that is a skill that will make people call you at home and offer you work. This is good to know for future reference.

- Harvest has started. The house humms with tension and excitement. The family has swelled from the normal 5-8 people to around 15. The kitchen bustles 10 hours per day, the sauna is heated every night. Due to working during the day, I'm exempt from tractor and barn duty, but not from the cooking and cleaning. If it doesn't rain, we should have cleared the fields in 14 days. *keeps fingers crossed* Parents decided not to close down the B&B during this period, so we (read: me & mom) are hosting somebody's confirmation party on Saturday.

- Weekend will see the arrival of at least [livejournal.com profile] lillannan. This is of the yay!

- I think it would be fun to try and record a podfic. I don't have the voice for it, I know, but it would be nice to try it once.

- Sister was the sweetest thing and ranted at parents about how they keep eating all the low-carb food I've been trying to save for myself so I could stick to my diet. I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point my chronically ill-tempered, bratty sibling has grown into a rather compassionate human being. I need to try harder to treat her like one. It's hard to break some patterns, and I don't think I'm always fair to her.
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I love returning from trips. The un-packing is not so much fun, but nothing says "welcome home" like an inbox full of random messages. I feel loved.

The trip was amazing. It was informative, educational, and on occasion deeply moving. And lots of fun.

I listened, I learned, and I took pictures. I saw reindeer, elk, bear and wolf, and the kind of environmental destruction that they used to warn us about on Captain Planet. I got a little bit of practice on my feeble, feeble russian and read lots of cyrillic. I'm brushed up on the Lapland War and learned entirely new things about Operation Barbarossa that had never occurred to me before. I saw a ghost town - or a very good imitation of a post-apocalyptic wasteland - and I saw the Arctic Ocean, and I spent lots of time on a bus and didn't see the sun set for five days.

If there's any interest, I could do a more detailed travel post with pictures and such. My notebook turned into something of a travel journal, so I do have quite a lot I'd like to type up.

The thing I wanted to write about here and now, though, is my kindergarten adventure )

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