i want you oh my love

16/m/finland and you???!

So now I have officially lost my self-respect and published an idiotic photo of myself. This isn't the worst one though, you should see the herp derp photos, oh my God really. Nevertheless, Siiri had painted this mainstreamish (they're everywhere on the internet right now) sugar skull thingy which looked pretty good! See some of the photos I took on her blog here. Now we're baking cupcakes, the last time we made them was like a year ago, soooo weird. Some time ago we used to bake them all the time (literally).

Happy Halloween!

TURKU | ÅBO

Today early in the morning I left to Turku with my family. We went to a spa and a shopping centre and practically spent the whole day there. When we were back at home it was already dark, soooo typical in Finland in the Winter (+ Autumn and Spring too......). On the way back home I had maybe the worst cup of take-away coffee, but it did its job. So bitter but the cup was adorable! Aand by the way, I'm attending to a halloween party next weekend and I still have no idea what I'm going to wear!! I just want to be a cat but I have been told that only girls can be cute animals... But I just want to draw whiskers on my face! Got any costume suggestions for me? I'm gonna get killed if I don't have a proper costume. Literally. You should meet my friends.

ミ☆ I'll be back

HELLO CHRISTMAS. Even though it's not even November yet I finally have decided that it's a good time to start preparing for the year's most materialistic event. I mean, Justin Bieber's new christmas-y song is out and they are selling advent calendars in supermarkets, so why not. Today I baked these pastries called joulutorttu for the third time this year (= past two weeks), and I have no idea if there's a proper English word for them but whatever, jultårta på Svenska! Oh how I miss them during summer, they are so good with hot - not warm (or cold, God it's gross), glögg. ♥

Apparently my friends have abandoned me so all I have left is dramacrazy.net and you know what that means. Lots and lots of dramas! I'm soon going to finish Heartstrings which I really grew to love - at first I thought it's just a boring love story but man, it's so lovely, funny and cute. Why isn't my life like that?!

gifs from here

Snail mail always calls me "Mr."

For such a nerd I have some quite weird hobbies and I was asked to make a blog entry about one of them which is the old-fashioned snail mailing. For some reason I have always liked writing and receiving letters and the thought of sending an e-mail is frightening to me. I always wonder how to begin en e-mail, how to write it (politely / casually etc) and how to end it, but when writing a letter, it's clear that I can start the letter with "Dear..." and end it with "Take care,...". And the rest just comes naturally. Nowadays everything has moved to the internet and people hardly ever even send a postcard to someone because you can just say it on Facebook. But I appreciate a hand-written message - even a short one, more than a copy-pasted Merry Christmas wish. Call me a granny, I don't care.

Snail mailing is usually considered as a girls' hobby but I think it's a great way to make friends and learn about other countries for everyone. When chatting online with foreigners I find it hard to remember their names if I've talked to them only a couple times, but after receiving one letter I will never forget the sender. At the moment I have penpals from the USA, England, South Korea and Japan. And some of them are already real friends to me and I hope to meet them all one day!

And here's a little DIY project for you! I constantly complain about the ugly envelopes and papers they sell in Finland so I tried to do something with my own hands. I have fallen in love with the vertical envelopes which we don't have here. I made one by myself and one of my penpals is going to receive this after I've bought a stamp. I hope you don't hate True Blood!

First you want to make a sample on a regular white paper so you can use it several times. It's important to get the measures right - these ones I used are just examples. Fold the letter paper you use once and measure it so it'll fit perfectly in your envelope.

Choose a coloured paper, poster or anything you want and cut it to the right shape. I thought that I could use these posters I have since there are hundreds of them in my drawers and I never use them. Remember that some parts of posters are quite fragile but you can use small pieces of contact paper on the back side to make them stronger.

After cutting just glue the paper to the shape of an evnelope but be careful and don't make the same mistake I did. I applied glue on the wrong side of that part and failed the Lady Gaga envelope. So obviously you should glue the side that is now showing and hide it inside the envelope. I'm so damn stupid at times. You can also cut the 3 cm part to a shape you like - it'll be the part of your envelope that closes it before sending. I didn't want to glue it after I put my letter inside so again, I used tiny pieces of contact paper as a tape. It's probably one of the most brilliant inventions ever. I also used it to attach the address - it protects the white paper and the text from water.

If you have any questions, send me a comment. I will happily help you out! And if you want a penpal from another country, go to Interpals.net - signing in there is the easiest way to get to know foreign people! And please share your opinions on the topic, tell me about your snail mail experiences and so on. And have a great Sunday!

Why are you offline when I'm missing you?

I have a love-hate relationship with perfect people. Mostly love though.

Autumn holiday!! Oh man I'm so happy it finally begun. No, I don't have any plans for the following week and yes, I will be praying for school to begin not later than on Friday, but still, I'm going to enjoy this peace for a moment. I have tons of thoughts in my head at the moment and thought that sharing some of them with you would be the worst idea ever. So I'm definitely going to do that.

  • I want to dye my hair very dark but I'm so pale I'd probably look like an idiot. Seriously, my mom still has tan lines and I didn't even get tanned at all even though I tried my best! I'm the least succesfull sunbather.
  • I need new friends but I'm not sure if I have too high expectations of people. I want someone to eat chinese with me, to take silly selcas with me and you know...! Or actually, I just want one person to be my friend. Oh well.
  • Today has been the worst day in ages. Ugh.
  • I listen to the same songs all the time and I don't care. I'm stupid and I'm proud of it! Though I'm a bit unhappy now because my brother came to my room, told me not to listen this "shit" and he even wanted his loudspeakers back. I guess I really should get my own speakers but I don't want to pay for such nonsense!
  • I want to get my ear pierced. But it costs like 10 € and I could do that by myself for free but omg I could never actually do it. So I'm just sitting here like a fool.
  • I like your comments ♥ Have a great weekend!

Photos from weheartit.com

Week 42

I'm just too tired to write anything - enjoy the photos and music. (All songs are heartily loved and recommended) I'll be back when I'm on my Autumn holiday, see you soon!

waiting on the world to change

Ugh, back to work again! This week's not going to be bad and Friday is the last day before the autumn holiday that lasts for a whole week. Yay! Today's been all about school, studying Japanese and listening to Ayumi Hamasaki. I'm amazed how much I've learned in such a little time, now I can write hiragana without a problem - usually I've struggled with memorizing certain signs, but not anymore. Can't wait to start studying kanji! I'm so excited.

Apart from that, I'm bored as hell, being alone at home all the time sucks but what can I do. Oh the joys of being the only single in your friend group ~ I need to get a life, more new friends, something. At least I just got a new penpal from Japan! And I'm gonna make a post about my snail mail hobby soon. Have a great Monday!

一人きりで生まれて

Some bits and pieces of what I've done today. 

001 For once I had a proper breakfast - I ate Turkish yoghurt with honey and raspberries, baguette and drank coffee. I hadn't been drinking coffee in a while and it tasted so good even though my first cup was ruined because apparently that Alpro soya milk isn't supposed to add to coffee. It was so weird, after some minutes my café au lait had become completely heterogeneous. Oh well!
002 My bed head was quite interesting today and as you can see, my hair can be very curly at times. At school one of my friends couldn't believe that I use a hair straightener because I always have to do something to my hair and she's never seen me like this. Me, superficial?
003 After we came back from the supermarket, me and my sister baked some white chocolate bisquits while listening to our old favourite songs. It was so funny to realize that we still remember the lyrics to these silly songs we loved over five years ago! Gwen Stefani, The Black Eyed Peas and The Pussycat Dolls were the coolest artists back then, I don't even...
004 Roasting marshmallows indoors is so much fun! You just have to be so careful because they burn very easily and there aren't many things worse than burnt marshmallows. My sister was doing a lot better than me, mine were always on fire! Well, it needs a lot of concentration which is not my speciality really.

Have a great weekend!

Random

Some random photos again. I have survived another week of school and I'm so, so tired. Yesterday we were eating so much I can't even believe it - a typical Friday night here at my dad's place. In the evening we went out to take photos in the dark with an ugly flash and most of them were quite artistic. My sister got this stupid idea and was outside without a jacket even though it was only about three degrees celsius and I was freezing and wearing a jacket. Today we've been hanging out with the family, went shopping and other stuff like that. Since I was supposed to publish this post yesterday I'm gonna spam another load of photos soon again, hope you don't mind! I always have too many photos during the weekends and only few ugly ones during the weekdays. But now I'm going to eat some chili con carne, see you soon!

花ざかりの君たちへ

This Twinings Voyage tea has the most amazing flavour of orange and obviously, I love it.

Days like today are not strangers to me anymore. I hardly slept last night because I have too many things in my head right now, I was almost late from school and I nearly started panicking during my first P.E. lesson. I'm trying to convince myself that I can do it - it's the last P.E. course I'll ever have to take, but seriously, I can't. I don't hate excersice nor sports, I really like to go swimming and jogging by myself. But I hate to do it with people who don't know me and vice versa. I want to believe that our dog senses that I'm not happy right now because he insisted on coming to room even though I stepped on his foot earlier today since I didn't see him in the dark. But probably he just hopes to find another piece of a bisquit under my bed. (Sorry baby, I have just vacuumed.)

One thing that has made me smile this week: Hana Kimi and its total randomness which is so funny. After watching lots of Korean dramas I can see a big difference between Japanese doramas and Korean dramas, but I still love them both.

Sunday in photos

You asked for a "my day in photos" post, and I decided to do it today even though nothing special has happened. It was nice to spend a day doing nothing because next week I'm gonna be at school from 8:30am to 4pm every day (except on Fridays school ends at 2:30pm, yay). But anyways, my Sunday!

#1 I woke up at 11:30 because my little sister came to wake me up, thank you dear... She thought that I had slept enough already but I really didn't mind because I hate to wake up at noon.
#2 I made myself a breakfast because everyone else had already eaten, those early morning birds. I loved the karelian pasties but that cheese looks so gross I can't even look at it! As you can see, I've started eating more fruits again and I'm totally addicted to clementines now! Though that one was so sour it made my eyes water.
#3 I took stupid photos of myself and edited the layout, I get bored so easily! At the same time I was discovering and downloading new music and my brother was mad at me because I stole his loudspeakers. Come on, I have to right to do that, I'm your big brother!
#4 I will have my first Japanese lesson tomorrow and I've already been going through the book, so excited! I'm probably going to be the only 2nd year student there, but whatever. It should be fun.
#5 After spending the whole day indoors I went out to take some photos, saw my friend and had a quick chat with her. It was really cold, only 6 degrees celsius - winter is coming...

So that's what I've done today. Now I'm going to take a hot shower and start preparing for tomorrow. Have a relaxing Sunday everyone! ♥

I was a heavy heart to carry

Today was probably the best day of this horrible week. I went to meet my friend from Tampere and we hung out with other friends and had a lot of fun. Sometimes everything you need for a good time is your friends and a big package of the cheapest ice cream which you eat shamelessly on a public bench while everyone's staring at you. Days like these make you realize who are your real friends and who are not and I really hope that it's true what they say - better to have one really good friend than lots of fake ones.

I went out to take some photos of stars since a lot of shooting stars should be seen tonight but it was really cold and I got bored after ten minutes so I don't have any good photos to show. But the Moon was well pretty and sooo bright! Have you been out taking photos of the night sky lately? And hey, is it possible to find working film cameras from flea markets? I've seen a lot of them but haven't bought any because I really don't want to buy something that's broken. At the moment I just feel like spending my last euros on a lovely, old camera!

Comic Sans is for pussies

A while ago I discovered this amazing webstore called Glamour Kills and almost died. Even though they don't have hundreds of different prints and t-shirts available, the stuff they sell is pure quality. The prices aren't too high either - I'd definitely spend $50 on that hoodie (which I totally have to get) if I had the money at the moment. It makes me sad to find such cool clothes when I'm out of cash but I guess I could spend the money I get wiser at times...

The exams are finally over and I'm exhausted. Yesterday I studied physics for the whole day but the test was way too difficult and I started panicking and had to leave the class. Well, I tried my best and it's all I can do. I just can't help feeling like a loser when some people in my school get straight A's and I don't. Anyways, onnea kaikille koeviikoistaan hengissä selvinneille ahkerille opiskelijoille! ♥

The best thing of the week. Florence Welch, fucking marry me. Now.

Photos: Glamour Kills

Our love is pastured such a mournful sound

I had my math test today and I think I didn't even fail it! Everyone was panicking before the test, it was quite funny actually to see people (including me) studying like crazy at the last minute. Yesterday I went to buy something nice for myself because I was proper bored after finishing my Finnish test at 9:30 and bought Kiki's Delivery Service! I want to watch it already and I'm happy to own one more of Miyazaki's masterpieces. I still want to get Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea and Princess Mononoke - at least. Definitely the movies I'm going to force my kids to watch. Now I'm off to my dad's place to study some more, gotta love physics!

You can do anything you want to

So it's October now. Today I woke up after only few hours of sleep and didn't see the usual sunrise - it was almost pitch black outside. I panicked because of my tiredness and quickly drank a cup of coffee (with cream, damn it tastes fatty but good...) and then was being totally hyper. My social studies test was pretty easy and I think I did well, at least I had prepared for it quite a lot. Yesterday I spent the whole day studying so I could give you an hour-long presentation about the parliament of Finland! Tomorrow I have Finnish and on Wednesday maths test. Oh well.

I'm out of ideas what to post at the moment, so do you have any ideas? A day with me? Or you challenge me to photograph stuff? At the moment I would even have time to do something like that, so send me a comment!