Lilacs

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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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.

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Sleeping in

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.

Good morning everybody!

Tracking is Tiring

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:


All the credit for the pics to Stefan :-)

Swedish-Finnish music

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.

http://stilla.bandcamp.com/

Apocalypse

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?

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Photo Challenge

Anne made a photo challenge. Blogg first and last photo taken by your mobile phone.

First photo ever taken with my iPhone, Faro looking sad:




Last photo, also of Faro ( his back though) from last night when he curled up beside me when I went to bed:



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No more Mr Bean

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.

Spain Voting

We're waiting with interest to see how the Spanish elections are gonna turn out.

SPANIEN | Protester skuggar lokalvalet

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!

Plans for the near future

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!

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Retrieving

Yesterday we trained some retrieving with Faro. Very good boys both of them:)






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Eurovision fan

This is how it looked like when we watched Eurovision at our friend's place

Faro is still interested but he didn't like the heartbeat sound between the songs.


Later on he couldn't have cared less and was thinking why we were not going to sleep yet.



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Coolest baby in town

As blogger didn't work last week you missed this:

Some days ago I had a walk with my friend, Faro and the coolest baby in town.






Faro jumped up And kept an eye everytime she started crying:)

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Weekend Wins and Losses

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:-)

How you know someone knows you

This morning our high quality drawer from IKEA broke when I was opening it. Stefan promised to fix it but when I came back it was still broken.



I was a bit surprised because usually he fix those the things he says he will. Until I saw the note



Let's say I'm not gonna mind helping him <3

As this does means he made an effort I should probably vacuum clean and put a laundry for the good spirit.

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Terrace

This was my working lunch today on a terrace. Not bad at all I think I caught some sun tan:)








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Baby Birds

Remember the bird nesting in the bike basket?

Now the eggs hatched and there are baby birds:

Morning walk

Suddenly everything is green and it's warm! Lovely:) Too bad I can' post the birds singing.















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Dog Forest

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.

















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Nice Stuff

Had lunch today with lovely Olesja. Her artwork is fantastic, check out her blogg and more of her work here. This one she posted yesterday:

Spoilt Generation

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...




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Crash Course

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.




May 4th be with you!

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Rip-off

I thought "oh how nice, cheese wrapped in paper for once":



The truth was it was cheese wrapped in plastic wrapped in paper.



What a waste!

Still on the dog hair subject

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.




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Hairy Friend

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.




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A different Vappu

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: