I'm a Swedish-speaking Finn that live with my Spanish-French boyfriend and our Novascotia Duck Tolling Retreiver. I have another blog here http://rulesofgreen.blogspot.com/
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The lilacs smelled super nice yesterday when I was walking Faro to agility. If I wouldn't have been going there I would have picked some to put in the balcony.
After work today we are going to check out a possible place for the wedding dinner next year. If this is THE place I guess we are booking it. If it is not the place we might consider having the wedding in Sweden or perhaps later or a cheap & quick solution. Let's see what we'll find! Exciting :)
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Haven't been out in ages and even if we are only going to a sports bar I had some dilemmas on what to put on.
Since we're trying to save for the Uppsala adventure I have not been to the hairdresser in a while but it will have to do. I washed my hair with some silver shampoo and hoped my real colour that is growing out won't show too much and put some left in conditioner in the dry hair ends.
Luckily my friend promised she'll cut the ends in a couple of weeks.
Haven't slept this long in the morning for looong time, now I feel so much better! One of Stefan's friends are staying at our place at the moment and he has some jet-lag I think from travelling in South-America. (still sleeping) But the weather is not fantastic today so at 9 I just turn around in bed and kept sleeping with a good conscious (I always feel bad staying in bed if it is sunny outside), Stefan was nice enough to take Faro out a bit later and I still stayed in bed reading HBL. Luckily Faro is not a super early bird either anymore so until 9:30 he didn't bother us at all.
Now I'm gonna prepare a bacon and egg breakfast I think.
I wrote that we had been on tracking training with Faro on the weekend. After we came back he laid himself down in the first spot he found and there he took a well deserved nap.
How come he was this tired yesterday tough I don't know:
Sonja who is guestblogging for papper.fi this week blogged about a swedish-finnish band called Stilla. I checked them out and indeed their music was nice.
When I looked at the thermometer this morning I got images of complete darkness made by ashes from Icelandic volcanos and such things in my head.
Luckily the sun was still shining and we had 14 degrees on the balcony. Now the question that remains is: Is our thermometer broken or is there a spot outside our window that is -65?
Stefan tells me the voting in Spain yesterday was a bit of a disappointment as the votes went to mostly right wing. Apparently left and right are the two parties that have been big in Spain and younger generation had maybe hoped for some new parties to get some power.
Haven't had time to read up on the news yet myself but I understand from this that there will be no more Mr Bean after some time? ( Zapatero who is prime minister of Spain has some similar looks of Mr Bean). Seems lefties that has been in power now made a huge loss in the elections.
Otherwise it's been a busy weekend-we've been in Liljendal, cinema in Lovisa and back to Helsinki for dog training.
Faro was this happy during blood tracking training:
In Lovisa we saw Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides. I wonder how many more Pirates movies they're planning to make. Well, I think they will be entertaining enough as long as good old Jack Sparrow is in them. This movie left me contemplating though on a man's faith related to a mermaid, it's bugging me that they leave loose ends like that. They better tell the full story in the next movie!
Now I guess I can go public about our plans on the blogg as people at work also know.
I got accepted to master studies in Uppsala for the autumn so we are planning to move there for two years, if we can only find an apartment. It seems to be nearly impossible so if anyone can help us it would be very welcome! Otherwise I guess we'll find ourselves in a tent in September-let's just hope it will be a warm and not-so-rainy autumn!
As blogger has had some problems I haven't been able to upload anything for some time so let's hope it works now :-)
Eurovision came and went- Finland's nor Spain's points are really worth mentioning, so everything is normal on that front. I am personally a bit disappointed that such a boring ballad won. From the top three I would have preferred Italy's song that was second.
My personal favorite was surprisingly Serbia's song even if I don't understand what they sing-but it was catchy.
Another exciting happening on the weekend was the Ice Hockey World Championship finals. Finland won Russia in semi finals and then Sweden in the finals. Not bad at all! I guess, like Stefan said it was time to break our bad luck in hockey...this hasn't happened since 1995-so imagine the national party as the match finished 1-6. Although somehow it feels like Sweden was too crushed to even play properly in the end. So it wasn't that funny to watch the two last goals-it was just too easy.
Something that is nice to watch though is the opening goal Finland made in the match against Russia.
As for us we played some Finish baseball on the weekend and ou my it was fun! I forgot to bring both my phone and camera so unfortunately I have no pics. It's been aaages since I played Finnish baseball last time but we had a blast, Stefan got the hang of it pretty fast and 2 and a half hour went super quick in nice company. Let's hope we have the opportunity to play soon again:-)
There is an area just outside Helsinki called "koirametsä", dog forest. We went there for a walk today with Faro's friend Arttu. Faro was super happy running along, getting muddy and enjoying spring.
Spot the dog:
These spingflowers are called blåsippor in Swedish.
Soxxy posted this YouTube video and I thought it was so spot on. A slap in the face sometimes to get back to reality wouldn't be completely out of line for some of us...
Apparently there is some hype going on in the star wars nerd world. Unfortunately I never saw more than 10 min of star wars, my sister was a big fan and when she watched it sometimes I used to try and follow but I had too many question and my sis was too hooked to take the time to explain. Nevertheless my interest was never that high that I would take the time to watch it properly from beginning to end.
Thank God for YouTube though, now I have it all covered.
When going to work this morning I noticed that in our side of the corridor in the building there's a trail of hair from the elevator to our door. A few weeks ago still it was a trail o mud.
Faro's fur is usually very easy to handle, which is good because I would be too lazy to have a dog that needs trimming and stuff. Luckily we have also managed to cut his nails by ourselves, only once I cut a bit too much and it bled a bit but no harm done.
For a certain time though every spring and autumn he loses sooo much hair and it feels hopeless to do any cleaning at home because he leaves a trail of hair only by moving and if he shakes once, well you can imagine.
So when I made the effort before Vappu and vacuum cleaned and swiped the floored I sent Stefan and Faro back outside with three dog brushes when they returned from their walk.
I think as during the rest of the year we really don't have to use them we sort of forget to brush him during these times as well. I think I've noticed a difference though since the so I'll try to keep in mind to bring them for tonight's walk.
It's probably the first year that we have not gone to Havis Amanda on Vappu. I didn't miss it at all-maybe I am getting old or I have just seen it too many times already. We spent most of the time with lovely Ida who we haven't seen in ages, whenever the sun was out we were trying to catch a bit of it on our balcony:
For a short while we went to Hannas place but we couldn't leave the coolest party-dog at home alone for long:
The next morning he decided that Ida's lap was the best place for breakfast:
And since he had been such a good dog we took him swimming at Ida's place for the first time this year. He was such a happy dog!
We also took the opportunity to train some retrieving in their backyard. Back at home Faro enjoyed just relaxing in the sofa-and even if we didn't party much the day before that was pretty much all the action for us as well the rest of the day. Sometimes you need a Sunday like this:
