Shopping in the cold

It is absolutely FREEZING! I mean it always gets cold in Finland and Northern Europe in general. But this year it stayed warm for so long, that this temperature now just feels extra cold. It is now 25 degrees BELOW zero. Yes -25 celsius. We use celsius degrees here, and converting into fahrenheit is not something im good at, so you can google it ;) Lets just say that, i have dark hair, i went out today and it was silver/grey/white once i came outside. And doggie will not even go out. I can take here there, put her down, she does her business and goes inside. She will not walk and even standing looks funny, cause she keeps lifting one paw at a time off the ground. Yea, yea, im Finnish so i should be use to this cold, right? No. I was born here, but i wasnt born with fur, geesh.

Today man didnt have practise, so despite the cold, we took a bus downtown and while he was having lunch at their team lunch place, i went "shopping". I call it shopping, even though most of the time, i really dont get anything, i just look around and might even try stuff on. I think its a fun waste of time and just walking around town, you see so many people and different styles, and can get inspiration for dressing. Well, i did find two tops. I been wanting something new to wear under my cardigans, and something long too so i can wear it with some comfy leggings. The tops are actually jersey dresses from the summer, but lucky for me, short enough to look like tops. Also what was good about them was the price. 15.90€ regular, now 5€ a piece! So i got myself a white and a black one. They were from a store, i NEVER find clothes from, called Anttila, which is a department store, and the brand was Rut.m.fl. I was looking at their clothes over there and there was actually some other nice pieces too. Also, what i realized was that Nelly.com (a good internet clothing store) actually sells Rut.m.fl. So even though Anttila is not the fashion store at all for me, atleast this brand was nice and is good to know they sell that brand somewhere other than online.

The tops i got were very much like the green one in the middle of these pictures. Only difference is that my tops had pockets on the side. A very good deal i would say, and sooooo perfect with leggings and a cosy, warm cardigan.Just what i wanted!

Its time for me to go make some salad, and watch man cook for himself. Im being lazy, and because im not eating carbs, im letting him do the cooking tonight since he wants something with carbs. Have a good rest of the week. We´re already half way done!!

xxoo

Introducing doggie!

I thought i would share a picture of doggie since i keep talking about her. The first pic was taken a year ago, but she really hasnt grown from that alot, if all. Only thing that has changed, is that her ears are up now and not saggy like when she was a puppy. She is now a little over 1,5 years old, very small as you can see in the picture taken today,sleeping with her favorite toy. She is also very stubborn, very loveable and sometimes annoying haha. She does not wear clothes, i dont dress her up and carry her around. She is not a toy even though she is a russian toy terrier.
She is a funny dog, who wants to play all the time, wants to go for long walks and jogs. Despite her size, she wants to do everything bigger dogs do. She is hardly ever tired and could play for hours with her "quack, quack"-which is a duck (also in the last picture) toy she LOVES. If you tell her "quack, quack", she will run to get the toy.

So here she is, introducing doggie:

xxoo

Nightmares

I had a horrible night last night. Its even hard to explain what it was. I kept waking up every few hours or less. I had nightmares but i cant remember what they were. I just know i felt uncomfortable when i woke up, my heart was beating fast. I had a million thoughts running thru my head:. The kind of "what if"-thoughts that i HATE: "what if i couldnt pay my rent and bills next month", "what if something really important comes in the mail while im gone", "what if something really bad happens" - weird thoughts that just came out of nowhere, and at midnight made me feel really strange and i just couldnt close my eyes.
Then when i finally forced myself to get up, drink some water and realize that everything is ok and its just restlessness, i felt ok..for a second.

At 4.30am this ridiculous noise got my attention. I guess in this building that man lives in, people start going to work at 4.30 and the last ones leave around 8.30. Yes, that is the time i was listening to them stomp in the hallway, talking and laughing extra loud, banging their doors, pulling the elevator door (if you do that, it makes this really loud bang sound) and ofcourse doggie, just couldnt stop barking, so i had to tell her to be quiet every other minute.
I dont normally ever complain about the neighbors making sounds, because i once had a neighbor,when i lived in Helsinki, who complained about everything (she turned out being mentally ill, so you can only guess what level she took her complaining, but anyway..) because when you live in an apartment building, you can not expect everyone being quiet and normal life causes noise, thats a fact. But the noise here this morning,geesh, do you really need to be that loud when you´re going to work people?? When i leave early in the morning, i go as quietly as i can in the hallway because i expect for people to be sleep. I definitely dont laugh out loud, talk really loud or bang my door.

Do you have any pet peeves when it comes to something your neighbors do?

What kind of nightmares or scary/annoying thoughts keep you up at night? and how do you deal with them? I would love to hear!

Now im going to watch Frasier on tv and lay down. Except that theres awesome basketball on tv tonight (well online for us since we´re not in the US) : Lakers - Heat game comes on at 3am Finland time, i know man is going to watch it. And i know he will not watch it quietly. So it might be one of those nights again for me..

xxoo

Cheap Flights here!

Its about that time for me to start looking for the flights to my second home this summer. Actually this year i have a feeling, that I might be heading to Florida earlier than normally. The years before the earliest i´ve gone there was at the end of may, and most commonly i get there the beginning of june (Yes, the extremely hot season, where Floridians normally get out of there). But this year, man ends his season in couple of months or less and theres not really anything here that i need to wait for. Does anyone know any cheap flight sites i should look up?
Also check out the banners on my page for cheap flights inside EU!! They´re having some great deals! I hope i will find one too, all the way to Jacksonville.

xxoo

Let´s goooo ! ! !

We´re getting ready to leave soon for the away game ! Im not a big fan of long bus rides, but with man its fun and we get to spent time together. He is doing his "pre game rituals" right now. You would never guess what they are ha ha; washing dishes !! I love it! Need to put some make up on, walk doggie and go.
Let´s go team !!!

xxoo

Yummy salad

I just stuffed myself with salad that i made out of stuff that man had in the fridge. It had very little carbs and it was super good! Just thought i´d share what all i put in it, so you can try it too. So this is what i had mixed up and cut to little pieces:
cucumber, zucchini, tomatoes, salad (any will do), red pepper, olives, mozarella cheese, onions and chicken. As a salad dressing i used red vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. It was simple but very good, and i realized you can put mozarella in different salads, not only eat it with tomatoes and onion, which is the way its mostly served.

I kinda want to go get another plate.. Well to be honest, a third one. But I wont. Im saving the rest for tomorrow morning, before we leave out for the away game at 10am.

If you make it, hope you enjoy it!

xxoo

Read me!

Hey whoever is reading this! I decided that from now on, every now and then at least, i will be writing my blogs in English. Whenever i travel back to the US, my friends and family understand and can read English but my American friends dont know a word of Finnish (well maybe one or two words..), so its just easier for everyone if  i change my blogs language into something, lets say, more international.

Today i went SALE shopping! I remember i used to wait for the sales after Christmas. Mom and Dad always promised to get us some new clothes from the sales, and thats why we got alot of everything else on Christmas and clothes after Christmas. Even though i havent gone sale shopping with my parents for years, somehow i still wait for the sales like a child and cant wait to go. Well, i ended up finding one pair of shoes. Luckily these shoes i been looking at for a long time, had went down from 60 euros to 29.90 and now, today 24.90€. So i got them! Yay for the shoes! They are regular black winter heels, but exactly what i was looking for and needed (even though my boyfriend probably disagrees on this). Thats all i found, i dont know have the sales got worse, or am i just too picky nowadays but everything just seemed..well, not so interesting.

Like i said, i didnt go with my parents but who i did go with, is my Auntie. My dad has an older sister, who never married, never had kids and has always been really close to my family. She is over 65 years old but definitely young at heart. She can spend hours and hours at H&M, and she´s the best shopping company ever. So shout out to my Auntie, she rocks and will keep on rocking for years and years!!

Tomorrow i have a meeting at 11am, after that coffee with my friend from school and then, at 4.40pm, im taking the bus back to my man and our doggy. Cant wait, even though 3,5hrs in a bus is not the most fun thing to do. I also decided to go on this low carb diet, its not a New Years resolution or anything like that, i just feel like eating less carbs, cause they make me feel blowded. Lets see how this goes, im excited! Does anyone have experiences about a low carb diet? I´ve been on it now for 2 days, many many more to come, hopefully.

xxoo

Ikävä

Palasin kotikaupunkiin eilen illalla myöhään. Kotikaupungiksi kutsun siksi, että home is where your heart is - ja se on kyllä siellä missä mieskin. On minulla täällä tällainen pieni vuokrakoti tällä hetkellä, ihan vain siksi koska tulin itse Yhdysvalloista paljon, paljon aiemmin kuin mies tuli. Ja lähdinkin sinne muutamaa kuukautta sen jälkeen kun mies oli jo perhesyistä lähtenyt. Ja pidän tämän asunnon nyt ainakin siihen asti, kun selviää taas kesän ja ensi kauden suunnitelmat. Huvittaa miten meillä mennään kausittain, ei vuosittain. Ikävä tulee aina aika pian kun lähtee toisen luota pois, ollaan sitten Suomessa tai Jenkeissä. Ja varsinkin nyt, kun pikkuinen hauvavauvamme jäi myös miehen luo, on niin outoa olla yksin. Tällä kertaa kyse on kuitenkin ONNEKSI vain muutamasta hassusta päivästä. Menen taas perässä keskiviikkona, tällä kertaa express bus vie, jotta voin olla kauemmin. Omaa autoahan minulla ei ole, ja viikonloppu matkoihin saan lähes aina lainaksi ihanien vanhempieni auton.

On niin huvittavaa ajatella, että tässä vaiheessa kun ollaan taas saatu olla yhdessä, tulee ikävä jo muutamassa päivässä. Mutta syksyisin ja keväisin olemme useimmiten erossa kuukauden, kaksi tai kolmekin, kaukana kaukana eri maissa ja hengissä siitä ollaan joka vuosi selvitty. Kai siihen ikävään tottuu, vai tottuuko? Voiko ikävään tottua? Vai katoaako se kenties vain taka-alalle kun aikaa menee eteenpäin.

Mietin tässä kirjoittaessa koko ajan, että täytyy muistaa keskiviikkona ottaa mukaan koiran juoksuhousut, raukka kun sai toiset ikinä juoksunsa toissapäivänä. Oli muuten hieman rauhallisempi ja nukkui enemmän, kärsiikö koiratkin kuukautiskivuista? Siltä tuntuu. Niin, ja SAKSET. Pakko muistaa ottaa sakset mukaan. Ihmettelette varmaan missä ihmeen asunnossa mies asuu, kun ei edes saksia ole. No, näillä koripallo vahvistuksilla kun on aina asunto, jonka joukkue maksaa ja kalustaa. Joskus saattaa jotain unohtua, tässä tapauksessa sakset. Oli muuten aika hauskaa yrittää tehdä miehen sukasta koiralle juoksuhousuja ilman saksia... Tosiaan koira on vain 2,5 kiloinen pikkuinen, miehelläni ei sentään ole susikoiralle kalsareiksi sopivia kalosseja.

Ärsyttää kun odotin niin kovin jotain kivaa maanantai elokuvaa, ja ainoa mitä tulee on Tappava Ase 2. Joku romanttinen tyhjäpää leffa olisi vain ollut niin unelma tähän yksinäiseen iltaani.

xxoo