Stop

It's time to take a brake and think a little. In my previous post, I talked about the importance of keeping myself busy. That wasn't a really good plan after all..my body gave me a big cold slap on the face this week.

I've had a pretty active and hectic summer, I've exercised more than usually (there's nothing else to do here) I've been busy doing something almost every weekend, and during the weeks I've stayed up really late ('till 3'o clock most nights) for no good reason and have consumed at least one energy drink everyday, many days two. Adding the stress with this plumming renovation, money problems, new job and few relationship problems, what do you get?
Well I got some heart problems...scary. Yesterday I went and had my heart and lungs checked.

For three days I had had pain in my chest, to the point that I couldn't sleep. The night before I went to the doctors I was sure that I'm going to die...I was sure I have cancer or at least some kind of horrible heart disease. After all the tests had been done, and they pretty much didn't find anything, I felt relieved and pissed off at the same time. There has to be something wrong with me if I feel these things!! But there isn't (thank god)..it's all in my head.

So people, before you get yourselves into this situation think hard about your life and the problems you have..are they really worth stressing about? Don't compare your life to someone else's, don't keep enemies just forget the people that make your life miserable. Don't panic over material things...believe that good thing come to good people. Take care of your self...don't exercise too much, only to make you feel better. Call your friends if you feel sad. Take one thing at a time as they come, you can't do everything at the same time so why bother stress about them all at the same time. Believe that life will carry you if you let it.

The doctor ordered me to rest for the rest of the week. I do feel better all ready, and am looking forward to my friends birthday party this weekend. I'm concentrating on that for now, trying not to think about anything else. Just trying to go with the flow and not worry about things that I can't do anything about. You do that too.

Don't walk fly!

It has been an amazing summer. When I think back I haven't really even noticed my living conditions. Sure I've been whining about this horrible Vuosaari flat a lot, but in the end it hasn't bothered me that much. There has been so much things to look forward to, many great thing going on. Even going back to work after my summer holiday was exciting, because of my new position there.

Now it's sad to see that the summer is almost over. I get this nervous autumn feeling again. I'm afraid of the cold winter. I feel like lying in a park on my back all night long, breathing in the last summer breaths. I worry that I'll go into a small coma and not wake up until it's summer again. That's why I try to plan my life ahead a bit. If I have plans and exciting thing coming up, maybe I won't notice the winter that much either!

In October it's LONDON BABY! I get to go to my favourite city with one of my favourite friends...!! The flights were so cheap that I'll have more budget to do all my must do things there, like Urban outfitters. <3


Also I'll be seeing my sister and her family in Maidenhead. We'll get to go for a pub lunch which I always love. I'm hoping we'll find a small pub with a warm fireplace, with cosy sofas and flower printed wall papers. Somewhere on the Thames.

This will be a good trip I'm sure. I've always wanted to travel with L so this should be really good.

The summer isn't completely over though...few parties still coming up. L's birthday with cocktail dress theme(love it) and another party on the same day that I really hope I manage to go to! Then it will be time to move back home <3 <3 <3 The vigorous decorating can start! There are fabrics, pillows, trays, dog bowls and beds going through my head so fast that I can't keep up!

In September it's my birthday. I'll be 24 years old. Don't know what I think about that yet. I'm just happy to have all my friends at my home having fun together.

So here were most of my thoughts and plans for the near future. I felt like posting 'cause when I woke up I felt really nervous happy and excited! Life is what you make of it for sure. And I've made this summer fabulous! The icing on the cake was Lily Allen, last Sunday at the Flow festival. Perfection.

Mad for quotes

I've found myself reading these quotes almost every night for about a week now. In some way I find comfort in them. Like today I've been really annoyed all day for various reasons, but after a good run with Jazz and reading these I feel so much better!

Here's few great ones:

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin


When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

And the greatest one of them all:

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
- Michael Jackson

So true....

Good times

Last weekend was really good. The weather was perfect, the company was perfect and I got to do all the things I love. Saturday I went out to party a little with a friend, and on Sunday we went to do some serious shopping with another friend.
I found the perfect Flow-festival dress and the perfect shoes...among other things. Even the fact that I was a bit hangoverish didn't slow me down, I just really enjoyed the day out in the city for a change!

I have lot's of other plans too, good things coming up. I'm really happy that I have things to be excited about!Life has been going really nicely lately.


We went for lunch to the F8 restaurant/coffeehouse. F8 is a brand new floor at Stockman. Sleek and nice, not so cosy but they had lot's of foods to choose from! A bit on the expensive side, like Stockman usually is, but the food was okay.


We shared a chicken-cesar sandwich, and a crab-prawn sandwich. So good...


Today I went to check out my home. Like always I go in to a small schock when I go there. There's dust everywhere, holes in the walls and so on. I don't know why I always expect to see my home as it usually is...I do KNOW that there's a renovation going on. Still every time I feel like crying a bit. Silly!




There was one surprise...they had ripped one wall down to the point that I could see the bricks. That means that I have to paint the hall, which was not in my plans really. Well at least that gives me the opportunity to change the color, so something positive in that too.


And look, I'm getting a heated bathroom floor!! Perfection <3



This is how much dust there is...I really need to hire a cleaning lady to do the cleaning for me. I'll never manage on my own.



Bye home for now! 18 days to go...

Look what I found!

I was taking the garbage out here in Vuosaari, and found this cute lamp!! I thought it was so cute that I had to take it..someone had coldheartedly thrown it away. Poor little lamp!

Today I took a closer look at it to see how I should clean it and saw a little engraving on the back of the lamp...it says IDMAN! This is a design lamp from the 50's I think!I don't really know for sure, but that's what I suspect. If someone knows anything about it please do tell! I'm trying to find something from the internet, but haven't found anything about this particular lamp yet.


It's really dirty, and needs a lot of work, but because the fabric on the shade is some kind of plastic fabric I think I should be able to get it fairly clean. I'm also planning to change the ribbon that goes around the shade. I'm thinking a yellow satin ribbon with a big bow...lovely!




The foot of the lamp is the dirtiest part. I haven't tried to clean it up yet, if anyone has some ideas what products to use I would love to hear some tips! I'm worried that if I use too harsh chemicals I'm going to ruin it. Maybe I'll just try plain water first..



Then another thing I'm really excited about! A new chocolate I found from the store!! I'm badly addicted to Suffeli Puffi chocolate sweets, but here's a new competitor...The package is so CUTE! Wit all the different coloured sweets flying around! And what a concept...chocolate inside of chocolate...you cant' go wrong with that recipe ;)
Actually the candy isn't that mindblowingly good but, the fact that it's so cute looking makes it worth buying and eating!It's called Marabou Non Stop...so sweet and cute!