Summerummerummer

Look, I have a blog! I've been in Finland for exactly one month today. This blog will probably be more or less hibernating during that time, due to me working, seeing people, enjoying the summer and so on.

Thanks for putting up with me though it's been slow on this front. Sometimes it's hard to find balance when a new daily project comes into the picture. Sometimes it just feels as if nothing particularily interesting happens, apart from saturday meals I forget to take pictures of because I'm too busy eating them. (:

Anyway, have a great summer, you. Unless anything really cool happens, and I realize I could write about it, I'll post again in September.

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!)

HORRIDUS

(Horridus, apparently, means furry in latin.)

I ate very well today. Thank you, longhaired roomie. Did you know that cheap cola products may contain gluten. You learn something new every day. I also learnt that Pom Poko was way weirder than I could have imagined. Do watch it, but do it alone if you're sensitive and prude.


wewofema


rIGHT.


I did, just now, solemnly decide that I won't erase anything anympore. I lieds, but now I'm not pulling your leg anymore, I actually did right now. But NOW I wont erase anymore. Here you go, all typos and accidental clicks ri-- drrg, erased it again. It's a n automated process. Hard to.. resist.. the..urge.


I'm not high. I just find this experiment interesting. And I'm in a fUnNy mood after watching Pom Poko. But the food was really good. We had noodle soup and cheesecake. yum. (:

Everyone should try experimental writing every now anbd then. I'ts really refresheing. I writer trerribly itf I can't erase. I'ts especially hard when I have an audience of sniggering roomies + rlonghaired roomei's sister laughing here, and making me laugh. I think thais experiment is showing that my finger's can't keep up with my brain. I have clumsy , slow fingers. Luckily, I'm not a pianist.

Klka-- sorry. I'll try agiain.


Klaxon is a funny word. Good night.


(go POM POKO)

This is what Fine Art does to your brtain.

Drip drop

Well, it eventually turned cold here too. Not neccesarily outdoors (not during mid day-afternoon at least), but boy is it cold inside the house now. I mean, seriously cold. Putting on another sweater doesn't really help. Eating warm food and drinking hot beverages helps temporarily, but as a poor student one can't really afford to eat all the time. And it is a tad early to turn on the heating, I think.

Another funny thing is that we haven't been able to get any response from our landlord's agent since we refused to have a cleaner come into the house. I seriously hope he's just on vacation, and that this isn't the uh.. very grown up reaction it seems to be.