Tatetatatutu

Wow, now I've been a proper person. I've voted and went to Tate Modern (huge contemporary art museum). I almost fell asleep on the train back. You simply don't have that much energy after being ill for so long, y'know.

Loropop (Longhaired Roomie's Father) gave Longhaired Roomie knives. Big, sharp knives. They make me want to cut things all the time. Vegetables, sausage, fingers, throats. . . >:D

They're really nice. Almost as nice as hot chocolate with whipped cream. Almost.

I Can't Come Up With A Title (Dragons Ate My Hard Drive Space)

I have a new addition to The List to announce! I have known it for some time, and just yesterday fully realized that I'll need an external hard drive to relieve my computer from some of the stuff that is clogging it up. The important part is that i want the hard drive to be small, handy and portable, it doesn't need to be a five terabyte monster.







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The Wishlist (updated!!!):

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.

Small, handy external hard drive

Liten, praktisk extern hårdskiva
Pieni ja näppärä ulkoinen kovalevy

Don't really care about the brand, preferably a quality one though.

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!)

Seaside Town

We had a lecture about surrealist and dada film in the early 20th century, it was really interesting. I also finally saw Andalusian Dog, have only seen parts of it before. We had another 'lecture' in the afternoon, during which we watched a film about an artist who did a really big project in the US, it was also interesting.

Here's some pictures from Whitstable (a lovely seaside town in East Kent, England)

Cool kids hang around in the harbour.

Ah, the smell of the sea.

Looks like someone doesn't want surprise guests in the garden.

SPLUOSH!

Small, sympathetic houses all huddled together by the seaside.

I caught a roomie! I really love that alley's name.

It was really cold that day, but nothing that a hardy Finn can't handle. Especially with a cup of hot chocolate (with tiny marshmallows!) in a cozy café.

Fly Fly Fey Flu

I feel this cold creeping up on me, and I hope it'll change it's mind. Drinking hot chocolate and eatin varm soup and doing other equally unpleasant things to scare it away. Do you think chocolate will discourage it? I'm absolutely positive that the delicious chocolate cookie assortment the neighbours gave us last saturday contains the right medicine. I might have to eat try my way through several different chocolate coated bisquits before I find the correct one. All in the name of health.

Speaking of chocolate I'm quite proud to tell you that I haven't touched my "Fazer's Blue" I brought with me all the way from Finland. It's quite possibly one of the best milk chocolates I know. I haven't found any with a similar taste yet. I however have to admit that me and my roomie bought a couple of Cadbury chocolate slabs (or big bars, whatever you call it), one Dairy Milk and one Caramel. They aren't bad either. In my defence I'll say that they were on a special offer.

Also, speaking of roomies, they both have their own blogs (we are three people living in the house). They also have deviantART accounts, so pay them a visit if you're interested in their doodles (dA) or writings (blog).


Pastelfoxhunt, her deviantART is Santih.

Engelska knackorvar, her deviantART is pemmi.


We had our first proper lecture in Critical Histories today. It was really interesting, but the enthusiastic lecturer spoke with the speed of light, so if you even thought a second about how to phrase my notes, he'd already rushed a couple of textmiles and powerpoint slides further.

I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually.