Minimal

Our gardener isn't a fictional being after all! When I got home today both the front and the back lawn had been mowed! It somehow makes me so happy! Lawnmower is a nice word. When I was little, I always read lawnmover, and didn't even realize what it was until I learned what a lawn was. I just thought it was something you moved lawns, whatever they were, around with. It is funny how you somethimes misread and misinterpret words. Every now and then I mishear words in songs, and then when I for some reason or another look up the lyrics, or happen to realize what the misheard word really is, I get quite surprised, because sometimes it can change the meaning of the whole song.

My gaming fingers are starting to itch. I've promised myself that after I've finished my essay I'm allowed to start playing something big and epic. My goal is to finish tomorrow. I have 900 words now, a couple hundred of which are to be the so called final version of the text. The rest is random, unstructured facts. Unprocessed raw matter. Tomorrow I will process this matter into a finished, academic product á la Essay on Minimalism, complete with an introduction and a conclusion. Actually it's a lot easier than just Minimalism. It's about how minimal artworks were considered, no, theorized as objects in the 1960s. It's quite narrowed down, actually.

And that's good.

Casserole Power

Today's menu looked like this:

Mmm. . . macaroni casserole

Feels so luxurious to eat meat.

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The Wishlist:

Essential, serious stuff:

Stick blender
Stavmixer
Sauvasekoitin

Won't need that many of them, I hope.




Crisp rye-bread
Surskorpor
Hapankorppuja

You simply can't find essentials like this in the UK




Money
Pengar
Rahaa

Quite essential.




Bicycle
Cykel
Polkupyörä

Might be best to give me money for this one. Quite difficult to ship.

Can opener
Konservöppnare
Purkinavaaja

The normal, sane, cheap version. I'm sorry Brits, but you've got this all wrong.
Or then I'm just too simple-minded for the fancier versions.





Pot (ha ha, very funny.)
Gryta
Pata

Might once again be better with money, quite heavy to take on the plane.

Cash
Fyrk
Mammonaa

I can't stress this enough.




Money for artist's materials (going to order markers online)
Pengar för konstnärsmaterial (tänker beställa tuscher på nätet)
Raha taiteilijantarvikkeita varten (tilaan netin kautta)

For messing around on paper.

Nice, sharp, big kitchen knife
Trevlig, vass stor kökskniv (eller förskärare)
Mukava, terävä, iso keittiöveitsi

Needn't be that fancy, but preferably one that actually functions properly.
The set of knives we bought isn't the best thing that has happened to us.
The knives are whetted so that the edge is askew, in a way we're not used to have knives,
so we find them really hard to use. What I'm trying to say is that in order to
cut something straight, you have to hold the knife at a strange angle.
We don't like that. The big knife from the set is impossible to cut harder things,
such as potatoes or carrots with.

Not so essential, but oh so nice stuff:




Bubble bath
Bubbelbad
Kylpykuplia

Because I'm worth it.

Books:

Watership Down
Richard Adams

Cute bunnies hopping around. Nothing more.




Abarat. Absolute Midnight
Clive Barker

Filled with nice illustrations.

The Witches
Roald Dahl

More lovely illustrations.

Fables vol 2. Animal Farm.
Bill Willingham & Mark Buckingham

Because I like Comics.

A Dance With Dragons
George R. R. Martin

I'd really prefer this cover, it would go together with
the rest of my collection. It's a paperback.




Nerdy section:

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Intense game of investigating and winning legal cases.

The World Ends With You

Heard it's one of the best games for the DS.

Action-packed role playing game with a great story (i heard)

Professor Layton and The Curious Village

Intelligent and unique puzzle-solving game with an outstanding gameplay.

Bastion

Downloadable from Steam.
Beautiful, unique adventure game with flexible gameplay.

Terraria

Downloadable from Steam.
Do what you want; craft items, explore, build, and hunt.

And the most important section - Sweets:

Something I've been longing for, these won't need explanations.

Dumle

Fazerin Sinivalkoinen
Blåvit Fazer

After Eight

Tupla

Angel-chocolate
Änglachoclad
Enkelisuklaa

Mulled wine concentrate
Glöggconcentrat
Glögitiiviste

Would be nice to be able to drink some back in England even after christmas. . .



Last but not least:


Would be nice to get some visiting relatives and family members here
to fill the fridge with nice expensive stuff such as cheese, meat, cake,
chocolate pudding, cheese, meat and pastries.

No pressure.

(Of course it would be nice to show other parts of the house also.
If lucky, I might even show something else than the supermarkets over here!)

Shameless Self Promotion

I find great fun in designing characters. Especially when they turn out well. I like his tail.

Would be nice to continue on my comic (well, the other comic (and this one too)). I enjoy looking at the result. It's just a bit sad to get great visions of pages, but you still have at least another 150 pages to go (actually no idea) until you reach them. I have recieved a lot of positive feedback though, that's really what keeps me going. That, and to have seen some finished projects in printed form.

Namely Treebone. 160 pages of anthropomorphic swashbuckling adventure. It is ugly and embarassing, but still a really fine little comic.

I still have a few copies left, hey. Give me a shout if you'de like to buy one!
(Preferably if you're Finnish or know me from uni or something)
The cover looks like this.

All right, that's enough self promotion for now, I think! (:

Finnish Treats

Ah, Saturday. Time and energy to make a proper post. See, I'm more of a morning person, but on weekdays I need to go to uni, and then there's usually loads of more important things to do (such as cooking, eating, watching films and surfing on the internet) in the evening than updating, so it tends to be quite rushed. Not that it bothers me, I don't think that every post in a daily blog needs to be a masterpiece, the most important thing for me is to keep it going somehow, and really just putting up that sketch up there. Everything else is just bonus.

Today the bonus is HUGE.

I have pictures, text, an update to The Wishlist, everything you could ever dream of! Whoop-de-doo! Here it goes:



Last sunday Roomie tricked me out on a stroll in the sun. It was really nice, actually, I saw places I haven't seen yet (because most all of my strolls have been towards the city center, supermarkets, train stations or uni) and it was quite a pleasant experience altogether. Here are some pictures from that very stroll:

Ooh, what could there be on the other side?

Uh, hello there.
[To Roomie] Should we go another way?

Fields of Green

So fluffy! :>

Yesterday we made rice porridge for dinner, and if you're a proper Finn, you make enough rice porridge to be able to make some Karelian Pasties (haven't tried since home economics in Jr High). They turned out pretty well.

Now we just need to make some egg butter to go with them. Mmmm.

And last but not least, The Wishlist. Check out the new addition to the Essential section.

Essential, serious stuff:

Stick blender
Stavmixer
Sauvasekoitin

Won't need that many of them, I hope.




Crisp rye-bread
Surskorpor
Hapankorppuja

You simply can't find essentials like this in the UK




Money
Pengar
Rahaa

Quite essential.




Bicycle
Cykel
Polkupyörä

Might be best to give me money for this one. Quite difficult to ship.

Can opener
Konservöppnare
Purkinavaaja

The normal, sane, cheap version. I'm sorry Brits, but you've got this all wrong.
Or then I'm just too simple-minded for the fancier versions.





Pot (ha ha, very funny.)
Gryta
Pata

Might once again be better with money, quite heavy to take on the plane.

Cash
Fyrk
Mammonaa

I can't stress this enough.




Money for artist's materials (going to order markers online)
Pengar för konstnärsmaterial (tänker beställa tuscher på nätet)
Raha taiteilijantarvikkeita varten (tilaan netin kautta)

For messing around on paper.

Nice, sharp, big kitchen knife
Trevlig, vass stor kökskniv (eller förskärare)
Mukava, terävä, iso keittiöveitsi

Needn't be that fancy, but preferably one that actually functions properly.
The set of knives we bought isn't the best thing that has happened to us.
The knives are whetted so that the edge is askew, in a way we're not used to have knives,
so we find them really hard to use. What I'm trying to say is that in order to
cut something straight, you have to hold the knife at a strange angle.
We don't like that. The big knife from the set is impossible to cut harder things,
such as potatoes or carrots with.

Not so essential, but oh so nice stuff:




Bubble bath
Bubbelbad
Kylpykuplia

Because I'm worth it.

Books:

Watership Down
Richard Adams

Cute bunnies hopping around. Nothing more.




Abarat. Absolute Midnight
Clive Barker

Filled with nice illustrations.

The Witches
Roald Dahl

More lovely illustrations.

Fables vol 2. Animal Farm.
Bill Willingham & Mark Buckingham

Because I like Comics.

A Dance With Dragons
George R. R. Martin

I'd really prefer this cover, it would go together with
the rest of my collection. It's a paperback.




Nerdy section:

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Intense game of investigating and winning legal cases.

The World Ends With You

Heard it's one of the best games for the DS.

Action-packed role playing game with a great story (i heard)

Professor Layton and The Curious Village

Intelligent and unique puzzle-solving game with an outstanding gameplay.

Bastion

Downloadable from Steam.
Beautiful, unique adventure game with flexible gameplay.

Terraria

Downloadable from Steam.
Do what you want; craft items, explore, build, and hunt.

And the most important section - Sweets:

Something I've been longing for, these won't need explanations.

Dumle

Fazerin Sinivalkoinen
Blåvit Fazer

After Eight

Tupla

Angel-chocolate
Änglachoclad
Enkelisuklaa

Mulled wine concentrate
Glöggconcentrat
Glögitiiviste

Would be nice to be able to drink some back in England even after christmas. . .



Last but not least:


Would be nice to get some visiting relatives and family members here
to fill the fridge with nice expensive stuff such as cheese, meat, cake,
chocolate pudding, cheese, meat and pastries.

No pressure.

(Of course it would be nice to show other parts of the house also.
If lucky, I might even show something else than the supermarkets over here!)