Inner Peace

I have to admit I am a super messy person in the sense that I leave stuff around on the apartment. Stefan is sometimes better than me putting things in place, especially clothes. Mine are a bit of everywhere and before guests are coming over I just throw them in a wardrobe. Sometimes I think it is because our apartment is so small and we do not have enough wardrobe space, but I let you know if I improve if we ever have a bigger place :-P

I discussed this phenomenon with my workmate the other day and she had a theory I liked. She said she read somewhere that people with a messy home have inner peace and people with a lot of order in their house and shining kitchens feel very chaotic inside and that's why they have seek order in their surroundings. So we have lot's of inner peace in this family :-D

Also Faro has inner peace:

This is how we found him one day after work when he was 11 weeks old.

The Surprise

This year I didn't know what to get Stefan for his birthday so I decided to make him a suprise and take him to Chez Dominique. Usually that is not the sort of restaurant I would go to but I thought, what the heck, once in a lifetime it has to be experienced.

We took a suprise menú and I have to say the food was superyammmiii (too bad some of the yammiest food were the smallest portions) and the first wine we had was heavenly. I also enjoyed being spoiled for a night, the service was really good, I felt like a princess :-)



The picture is from their website: http://www.chezdominique.fi/press_cd2_en

At the moment Finland is losing ice hockey badly against USA in the Olympics, luckily I went out with Faro so I didn't see the disaster. Outside it was sooo calm and nice as everybody else is indeed watching the game :-D I noticed USA has a Jack Johnson in their team, too bad it is not this wonderful Jack:



Wonderful Kiira however ended up as 11th in the figure skating and the other Finn Laura as 6th. Very well done both of them :-) I wish I could do the same as them when I skate! :-D

Curious Cute Animals

This video is so sweet, Natinal Geographic put some cameras in the jungle to get material of the chimpanzees. This cutie noticed the camera and took a look, I love the part where she pokes the lens.

Watch it here.

Faro is also enjoying watching TV sometimes when there is other animals, I think "the Police Dog Rex" is one of his favorites, but he also got mesmerized when we watched the documentary "Earth".



He got absolutely nuts when the ice bear growled in the documentary.

This is how much he's grown in 5 months:




He's become such a big strong boy! He's not completely recovered yet from the Aspirin overdose though :-( We have to give another urine sample tomorrow because his kidney values were low on Monday.

On time and out of time

Pheeew, I'm lucky Stefan is not a typical stereotypical Spanish in the sense that he likes to be on time.

Nevertheless sometimes I have to cope people that are not on time. Nowadays I'm pretty used to waiting for some time for some friends and even expect it and it is not so bad. I can even do one hour of waiting without getting stressed if we are at home.

However today I met an extreme case, the time of arrival was set at "around 18", which was fine for me and I naturally thought that that is sometime after 18 maybe even closer to seven. But after finishing making the food, and the table ready and playing singstar and watching a TV program and starving we decided that it was time for filling at least our tummies. In the end the couple arrived almost 3 hours late and they had to leave pretty fast to make it to the next place. At that point my openmindnessness for this other culture is difficult to dig after and my politnessness is reaching limits :-P

Well it's all a good experience I guess.


On another subject: Finland won their first medal (silver) in the Olympic games today, in snowboarding.

I would love to see the figure skating of the women, I think it is next week but unfortunelty in the middle of the night. The Finnish girls are really good and Kiira is so gracious abd beautiful:-)

Happy Valentine's Day!

I just got the best news! Our baby puppy has been in hospital tonight because he ate aspirin yesterday while we were in the store and that's poisonous for dogs :-( But now they called from the hospital and said everything is fine and we can take him home. Next week we'll have to go for a check-up though and from now on we will for sure not leave any pills on the table, even if he shouldn't be able to reach for them because obviously he somehow was :-S

It's crazy what a strong bound we already have with him, we were both worried sick the whole time. The aspirin could have cost him serious damage on the kidneys.

Happy Valentin's Day to everyone, take care of your loved ones as you never know what will happen!

Best Friends

I know someone who's gonna like this pic:

I just have to upload these too, we were sledging in Paloheinä and Faro enjoyed the top of the hill:

Visit from France

Stefan's cousin's visit was a success! We had still lots of snow the whole week but a bit warmer weather which was great:-)

Stefan's cousin and Faro:


The boys spent time at Suomenlinna and took a day cruise to Tallinn, they also went to see an ice hockey game, which apperently contained some tension:-P. Stefan's cousin also loved the sauna and all the food we made him try ( at least he said so) also he kept telling us he liked the Finnish beer. Good boy ;-) The weekend we spent time at the countryside. He tried crosscontry skiing and we ate some elk meat for dinner.

On wednesday we went to a consert that the radio X3m does every month. Last month we saw Asha Ali. This time they had Fibes oh Fibes! there. Not bad either! I always get in a good mood when I hear their music:)

And I won a X3m black the coffee mug!

For doing this pic with the radio guy:

The pic is from the radio x3m home pages: http://www.yle.fi/extrem/audiovideofoto/foto.php?id=2782

huh, I didn't realize I look so ugly, but that was the point, an ugly pic.

It was funny but I got supernervous talking in the radio but I convince myself everybody gets nervous.

This Sunday it will be both Valentine's day and sledging day (Fastlagssöndag or Laskiaissunnuntai) let's see which occasion we'll celebrate, if any.