Sunday, August 29, 2004
I'm all packed. Scary. I know I've bought loads of things during the summer but I swear, everything I brought with me has multiplied by three.
We're setting off tomorrow morning way too early. Unfortunately it's a must as the drive will take ages because we won't be allowed to go faster than 80km/h. Oh well. It's not the first time we've done this. And this year we only need to take this frustratingly slow road trip once. Last year we did it twice and that was pain. This time I also plan not be hungover so it ought to make things slightly easier :)
The Elvis show on Friday was brilliant. Apart from this one rather scary guy, an annoying man and the fact that both my skirt and my shoes were way too small for me. The shoes and skirt didn't stop me from dancing like a looney, though. Now my feet are killing me. Oh well. All in all, a very nice evening.
Last night in Ruukki was less entertaining. It was nice to be with E+E but I had slight problems with keeping myself awake. So I left after 1.30am. One thing I definitely won't miss about this summer is the bar. Or more accurately the fact that I've had to make sure not to drink too much and getting to bed early enough. That's now past. Hurrah! I just don't know how well this goes with Samu coming back to JNS and all. Oh dear. This will be the destruction of my clean image in the eyes of my JNS friends.
I promised to treat Milla a salad and a DVD tonight to celebrate my last day of work. Big Fish is the choice of the evening, I've been dying to see that.
I've re-discovered The Ark from my CD collection.
Thursday, August 26, 2004
I forgot something from my summary list. Coconut latte is my new absolute favourite beverage. I love it! So what if a small cup is 3,2e? You're perfectly entitled to small luxuries every now and then.
More simple joys in life: mum and me bought a shitload of uselful home things today, like cleanser and two of those little brushes one uses for cooking and baking, whatever they're really called. I felt a bit guilty because mum ended up paying for it all, but she sort of volunteered after I slyly suggested it without her realising I did. Erm.
Why in American shows and films even the single people own houses? Just wondering. What do they do with all those extra rooms? Don't they ever get scared with all that empty space around them? Funnily enough I, being alone at home, got really scared last night for some unknown reason. And our apartment only has three rooms. Although this doesn't happen too often, I don't think I could cope alone with two floors and three bedrooms and all that. Random thoughts.
I really want to move. I've got this certain buzz. Today I found myself thinking how I would furnish the kitchen of my work place were it a studio flat O_o
And at the same time I'm happy to go back to our little ghetto. Me and Miia had a little text message fest today and she told me that before Hanna moved out, she'd cleaned the balcony and thrown all the old, half-rotten furniture from the mid 80s away. Miia has also cleaned half the kitchen herself which was something I didn't expect. I promised to take care of the horrendous dirt between the wall and oven next week.
I'm having my hair dyed. My head feels itchy :|
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
There's a vast difference between being out of bed and doing things and being actually awake. When I got to work I realised that absolutely nothing I'd written this morning made any sense. Decided to delete the whole crap and write a little summary in chronological order with facts and no extra babble.
- Monday was a good day to live.
- Engaging oneself to good conversation is good way to spend time.
- Emmu and Samu are precious.
- And I don't mind Matti hanging around either.
- Although Karl Urban is very handsome and Gabriel Byrne's got charisma, they couldn't save Ghost Ship.
- Where did they get the font for the opening credits?? :D
- The film was still most entertaining, I can't remember when I've last mocked a film for its full length.
- But it'll take a while until I eat beans again.
- Helsinki day yesterday was good but we skipped Kiasma.
- Free exhibitions are a nice.
- Islamic exhibition thingie.
- Look, it's the MuslimMatch.com!
- Anna! I really want to go to Barcelona soon.
- I finally own a good English-English dictionary. And it was on sale!
- Yesterday was also a good day to live even though things got quite depressing in the end.
- It takes approximately the time of me drinking one pint for hysterical laughter and playing with words to turn into serious moping.
- The Singles Club has been formed.
- I promised to lend my uterus if Matti and Samu ever want to have children together.
- Serious sessions of spin the bottle phone with the "truth or truth" mode can lead to strange and sometimes unwelcome revelations.
- Honesty is still very much appreciated.
- Emmu is the champion.
- Now I know there is a person (or even people) who thinks so highly of me it's ridiculous.
- Songs I over-relate to should be strictly forbidden at 1:30am.
- It's amazing how things always look brighter in the morning.
That's basically it.
I realised I should be doing loaundry and packing like looney because otherwise I'll run out of time. I'm so busy for the whole week it's not even near funny. Bugger. But nevermind. I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Me and Emmu had a lazy evening yesterday. We just sat in Hovi and drank cocoa and whatever. We also invited all the people we found from the phonebooks of our phones that we thought might be free to come along. Unfortunately only one of the invited gentlemen actually replied and turned up but it didn't matter. We talked a lot, real things as well as useless stuff. At least it did me good :)
And it was fun to see Matti (who obviously was the one who showed up in the end). I hadn't seen him properly the whole summer.
I was just on the phone to this girl who is looking for a roommate. The apartment sounded wonderful apart from the fact the one wall of my room would be mirror O_o But we'll see. If nobody else manages to nick it first, I'll go to see it on the 31st. There's no way I could go to see it sooner, which is rather annoying but whatever.
Last night I watched Cruel Intentions which dad taped for me on Friday when I was at the Tsuumi show (aaaagh!). The film hadn't got any better but I taher enjoyed it. Even though watching Ryan Philippe in any film is pain. But the soundtrack is brilliant. I didn't even remember I owned two Placebo albums! Next task: find them somewhere. Actually, I think I took them both to Karkkila for the summer which would mean that they're somewhere in my room. Hm. Right now I feel more like Without You I'm Nothing than Black Market Music but if I find either of them, I'll be happy.
Friday, August 13, 2004
I refuse to be mocked in my own blog because of a typo!
Or in case no one spotted the stupid typo, I refuse to be mocked in my own blog because I think the plumbing of Helsinki acts funny.
Oh well. Whatever. :D
I had a dentist appointment today at 8am. What was I thinking? The left side of my hard palate (oh, don't I use fancy words?) is all swollen and it's very difficult to breathe. Maybe the anesthesia thingie will wear off soon.
Yesterday's episode of My Exciting Life: Male Contact.
I think it's very nice that Atso feels comfortable enough around me to lean on me with his full weight (which is not a lot, to be fair) every time he feels like it. Or starts to laugh. I would very much appreciate it if he didn't lean on me so heavily that I have troubles with not falling down myself all the time, though. Obviously his personal space is physically a lot smaller than mine.
His thoughts frighten me a little. But that's no news.
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Milla and me drove to Helsinki yesterday to see Dirty Dancing on big screen. Insane, I know. But man, it was fun. Once again Patrick Swayze was the best ever :D Nothing beats Dirty Dancing, honestly.
It was raining in Helsinki so much I couldn't believe it. There was over 50cm water on the street in the worst places. This guy biked past us in one crossing and he was up to his knees in water. And when the film ended, it was like it never had even rainded. Good plumming.
Tomorrow we're going to see Tsuumi, woo!
I realised how depressingly little I have left of my holiday (and how many things I still need and want to do). And the stupid thing is that I'm only thinking JNS things now and once I'm there, I wish I wasn't. Bugger.
I don't think I'm getting my CD shelf from Ikea after all. I have no idea when we would have time to fetch it. I'll be away from Sunday to practically Wednesday afternoon, mum and Jussi will leave on Friday and be gone for over a week. And then we'll leave for JNS already. Hmm. Unless we could go on Thursday next week. Worth considering. Because I really do need that shelf.
Riikka volunteered to take over Eternity. I don't want to keep it any longer because it's getting way too big for me to handle without phpfanbase but I know giving it away to anyone will tear me apart. Oh well. I've decided to give it to someone, sooner or later I'll have to decide who.
The 70's Superman on telly tonight! I, of course, can't watch it because if I did, there'd be no way I'd get up at 7 like I need to tomorrow. But that's the occasion VCR was invented for. Whee.
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Woo. For once I managed to spend my two days off so that now I actually feel like I've really had two days off. Nice to find the spirit of holidaying when I have one "weekend" for which I don't have any plans left before I'm going back to JNS. Lovely.
The things I've done during these past two days include: burning my whole back badly, my first kebab meal ever, finally visiting Fiskars, hanging out on the beach, (re)discovering David Bowie. Hmm.
Of course, me being me, I was really stressed out last night and couldn't sleep. My list-making habit is getting a bit obsessive and I have to admit I'm getting slightly worried. I'm starting to resemble Memma in all this. Yesterday I first made a budget for the autumn term and realised I really am poor. Shoot. Budget isn't really a bad thing, I didn't have one last year and I was completely lost. I just don't think it was necessary to make it last night after getting home from Hovi. Well, whatever. It's now done.
After completing the budget, I started to make a list of cheap but good food products. At that point Emmu told me to sleep.
Next thing I can worry about is not being able to afford anything for the next 10 months. Hurrah.
When I was listing (now, really..) the good things about PoA, I completely forgot to mention Buckbeak. I loved Buckbeak. I want a hippogriff.
Monday, August 09, 2004
Sweet cheese. I just weighed myself and realised I've put on so much weight this summer it's not even funny. Well, 6 kilos but five of that I happily dropped last year. One is extra. Few more kilos and I'll be fatter than ever. Lovely. I know I've only got three weeks left of my holiday and come school year, along with my forced tomato soup diet, I'll lose a few. Still. Annoyance. No more movie nights for Hanna.
It was Milla who finally saved me around 8.30pm last night. We watched Mona Lisa Smile and I couldn't help noticing certain similarities to Dead Poet's Society. But who cares? It was a good Sunday night film nonetheless.
Before that I'd cheered myself up, though. Nothing makes you feel sadder than watching old NKOTB tapes alone and eating dry noodles. But once you get past that, it's actually fun. I sang along to all the concert parts (it was NKOTB at Disney's MGM Studios special) and had a blast.
Hold on. There is one thing that makes you feel even sadder. It's realising that you still think Donnie Wahlberg to be extremely cool O_o
But Jordan (or Jon for that matter) can't dance to save his life. Honestly. He looks absolutely ridiculous over half the time. Of course, the choreographies aren't helping much. Take Call it What You Want, for example. Help! The person responsible for that should be dragged out on a street and shot. Except that it surely adds the fantastic camp-value of the performances. So I take that back.
As it is still morning and it isn't bloody hot yet, it's good time for Prisoner of Azkaban.
1 - Not enough Sirius! And it's not just me saying that, the film really lacked some explanatiom. Six more minutes would've done it. 4 of them possibly in the Shrieking Shack, the scene was way too short (it's two chapters in the book for goodness sake!). 1˝ minutes of Sirius and Harry talking outside. And possibly a glimpse of him beside Ron's bed with a knife and I would've been happy. I think the character was left extremely flat. Like they didn't care if nobody really understood the importance of Sirius. No! Go and ruin it for me.
2 - Why didn't anyone tell Harry the true identity of messers Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs? Might have made more sense. And also explained why Harry's Patronus looks the way it does.
3 - The film was visually gorgeous but I have to say that the changes in Hogwarts area bothered me beyond annoyance. Also, why where they prancing around in their own clothes so much? Where were the cloaks?
4 - Not enough Percy. You could barely see him. He's the Head Boy! And the absence of Sir Cadogan and Oliver Wood still pains me.
5 - Hermione's getting way too pretty. That's not Hermione. I'm feeling like a purist. Blast.
6 - Some of the changes in the plot and short cuts they'd taken were terrible. I fully understand that fitting the book into one film is impossible but there's no way I'd forgive some of their ways.
7 - Why were the dementors flying?
8 - And what's up with Malfoys hair?? Or hat.
But it wasn't all bad. There were many good things that saved the film and make me definitely see it again.
9 - As I said yesterday, David Thewlis's Lupin. Wonderful. He must be mine!
10 - Michael Gambon. I love the way they haven't even tried to replace Richard Harris (who's still, and will remain, unbeatable). Gambon's Dumbledore was a whole new character. Perfectly different in appereance and style in every way.
11 - I think Rupert Grint is getting better all the time. Some other nice performances too. Emma Thompson made a lovely Trelawney. Timothy Spall was just slimy enough. Alan Rickan was again perfect.
12 - Also, seeing Gary Oldman in anything is never really a bad thing.
13 - Marauder's Map! Enough said.
I guess that would be it for today. Mischief managed.
Sunday, August 08, 2004
Stupid canceled plans.
But at least Samu remembered to cancel yesterday already, not five minutes before we were supposed to meet.
Still. It doesn't help the fact that I'm bored.
Seriously. I'm way too close to crying, and only because I'm feeling up for anything really, but it's too hot to do anything even remotely intellectual (like what? wash dishes?) and whenever I try to contact anyone, they either don't answer or are busy elsewhere. Bollocks.
And one more bad TV movie and I'll snap, I swear.
I'd go to Helsinki and harrass Mikko if only I didn't have something to do here tomorrow morning. I'm pretty sure I won't see him whole summer. Oh well. We'll live.
Blaaaaagh.
Although I've found the joys of biking again (my orange little jopo is a wonderful little thing), I can't go out biking because before yesterday I hadn't ridden a bike for three years and now sitting on even a sofa is painful enough.
It's too hot even to complain about Prisoner of Azkaban, which was a major disappointment. Though I have to admit that David Thewlis's version of Lupin was absolutely charming.
Friday, August 06, 2004
Emmu's in Hungary. Anne's in Bulgaria. I am not envious. I am not.
But at least I get to see Prisoner of Azkaban tonight. I don't know which one of us will freak out more, me or Kassu. I'm fearing it'll be me and that's slightly embarrassing. Poor Milla. She'll have to witness the occasion.
I'd have to phone some man about this apartment I want. I hate phoning people I don't know. Or rather, I'm a little bit scared of it. And I'm not feeling especially courageous today. Aaaaa.
Titta got in. Yet another culture producing (or whatever they call it) person in my acquaintance. Hmm. I think the amount of those people has already exceeded the amount of the multimedia folk I know. But she seems happy, so it's a good thing.
Phone. No.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Because I already vacuumed and can't be bothered to add new Eternity members, I am killing time. From here.
Last Time You...
[ Had A Nightmare ]: Can't remember but it wasn't long ago.
[ Said "I Love You" And Meant It ]: Can't remember but it was long ago ;)
[ Ate At McDonald?s ]: Yesterday, actually. Salad.
[ Brushed Your Hair ] : This morning.
[ Washed Your Hair ]: Look above.
[ Checked Your E-Mail ]: This morning. This is getting boring.
[ Cried ]: Last Saturday.
[ Called Someone ]: Today but she didn't answer. Does it count?
[ Smiled ]: Today. At least I tried.
[ Laughed ]: Today.
[ Talked To An Ex ]: A few weeks ago.
~* Do You... *~
[ Smoke? ]: No.
[ Do Drugs? ]: No.
[ Have Sex? ]: I am a female. Ha-ha! That joke got old about 2000 years ago. And yes, I am old enough to remember it.
[ Sleep With Stuffed Animals? ]: no.
[ Have A Dream That Keeps Coming Back? ]: A few.
[ Play an instrument? ]: No.
[ Believe There Is Life On Other Planets? ]: There must be. Somewhere. Out there.
[ Remember Your First Love? ]: Define "first love".
[ Still Love Him/Her? ]: -
[ Read The Newspaper? ]: I try to do it daily.
[ Have Any Straight Friends? ]: Sure.
[ Like The Taste Of Alcohol? ]: Skip.
[ Believe In God? ]: Not the Christian God, no.
[ Go To Church? ]: I've gone twice in my life.
[ Have Any Secrets? ]: Who doesn't?
[ Have Any Pets? ]: No.
[ Wear Hats? ]: I'd like to but they hardly ever suit me.
[ Have Any Piercings? ]: Not anymore.
[ Have Any Tattoos? ]: No.
[ Hate Yourself? ]: Don't know about hating, but I do deeply despise myself occasionally.
[ Have An Obsession? ]: Just ask how many :)
[ Have A Secret Crush? ]: Nah.
[ Collect Anything? ]: Not at the moment, no.
[ Have A Best Friend? ]: I can't single just one person out.
[ Good Handwriting? ]: One time out of twenty.
[ Have Any Bad Habits? ]: Some.
[ Care About Looks? ]: On scale from 1 to 10, I'd say 7.
[ Boy/Girlfriend's Looks? ]: I've got some interesting theories about this. Ask me when I'm pissed and I'll tell you.
~* Current... *~
[ Dress ]: Jeans and black t-shirt.
[ Mood ]: Tired.
[ Music ]: -
[ Taste ]: Spirte Zero.
[ Hair ]: Bad.
[ Annoyance ]: Several.
[ Smell ]: Nothing special.
[ Thought ]: Several again.
[ Book ]: Reko Lundán - Ilman suuria suruja.
[ Fingernail Color ]: Natural.
[ Refreshment ]: Eh?
[ Worry ]: A normal one.
[ Crush ]: Sirius Black <3
~* Last Person... *~
[ You Touched ]: Don't know.. Milla?
[ Talked To ]: Mum.
[ You Hugged ]: Anna.
[ You Yelled At ]: I hardly ever yell, I have no idea.
[ Who Broke Your Heart ]: It was ages ago, bygones.
[ Kissed ]: :p
~* Who do you want to... *~
[ Kill ]: Bugs?
[ Slap ]: This certain person who very well deserves it.
[ Be Like ]: Depends on the day.
Oh bore. Maybe I could do something useful next.
Anna was in town for 25 hours and somehow managed to do more things (and cause more mayham) than any of us in the past three months. She too amazes me.
She's also very bad influence. I counted all the beers I had on Saturday and it's honestly no wonder I was terribly hungover the whole Sunday.
It's funny how in a collective drunken state people always end up buying something and usually regretting it the moment they wake up the next morning. Me and Emmu both bought this CD on Saturday and it's one of my best purchases in the last year. Sometimes the drunken brains do work amazingly well.
But I really shouldn't have been nervous about Anna. It was a blast again (apart from the parts where I was crying my eyes out for some reason or another - Sunday really was the strangest day in a good long while). I'll try to go to see her on the 29th again when it's her farewell party but I don't know if I'm able to do that as I'll have to be packing like looney myself as well. We shall ponder this.
Milla and me had a shopping day yesterday and I can't really remember when was the last time I've blown that much money in one day. Not that I bought anything useless. Now I have a new rug, forks, knives, spoons (in two sizes), the two first Harry Potter films on DVD (24,90e for both of them together, I couldn't resist) and heaps of other things. Whee.
I still have tons of things to buy and it's depressing me. Even with yesterday's shopping madness the list didn't seem to get any shorter. :|
E+E and me had a traditional movie night last night. As we started quite late, I was prepared for one film. Emmu was prepared for one or two. Emppu made the choice and we watched three. Staying awake for the last one (28 Days Later) was extremely difficult, I think I actually nodded off a few times.
Oh bugger.
Yesterday I decided I'm not going to buy a new bed this summer after all and will suffer for another year with the one I have now. And now dad sent me a message telling that they're still advertising the one I've had my eyes on. I just haven't bought it yet because there's no way for me to drive it anywhere with Jussi and the car away. Dilemma. It's really cheap and I really want it but I can also live without it. :|
My head is stuck. Boring thoughts. And slight nervousness. I ought to phone one very uncomfortable phone call and I really don't want to. Normally I'd just send a text message but this time it's different, I don't dare. Asking for money, even it's been promised to you for the work you've done, is never too easy, is it?
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