Careless and young, free as the birds that fly

I just had the best five days off ever! The weather was perfect and the best people to spend the days with! Ahh. Finally we've got some heat up here! I've had so much fun, here are the days in pictures!

Friday 27.07

On Friday barbecued with Sara and other mates and went out!

The must-take-ladies-room-pic

 Saturday 28.07.

Chilling, chilling and chilling.

Aaah this is what I call summer

Sunday 29.07

Spent the day with my mate Katja. Had a picnic on the dock, swimming, drinking, eating, girl talk of course! A perfect summer day. The heat was like a slap in the face. It was so stifling hot! No complaining though, this is what we've been waiting for! To have the real summer!

On the menú, sparkling wine, cider, strawberries with chocolate and grapes! yummyy

Katja's cat Timo

Monday 30.07

Had some quality time with my almost-Swiss friend Raija. We randomly decided to do a little roadtrip to this other town Lahti, which is like an hour away? Anyway, had a greeat time, took some pictures and just walked around talking about eeeverything! When we got back gome, we cooked and then had a real English five a clock's tea and right on England's time. ;) Baked cupcakes and all! Well.. actually Raija did all the work and I read the instructions. :D Thanks for the perfect day girl! Gonna miss you a lot!

Raija and me

I love this pic I took of her!

YUMMY

I know they look delicious.

Raija really made on effort to make the atmosphere just right! I love it how I have a friend I can do this kind of things with. :) The combination: Tea + a cupcake, there's nothing better!

After these days off I have plenty of energy to get back to work! Gosh I'm in high spirits! These days made me realize how wonderful and amazing people I have in my life. Plus, tomorrow is AUGUST 1th!!! Tomorrow, only 19 days and I'm going home! Next week is Madonna's gig! My insides are  throbbing with excitement! :))) 

In the end, a song that I found last week. English singer-songwriter Ben Howard's Old Pine. It's a perfect summer song that's why so suitable to attach here. The simple happiness in life. The beauty of summer. The beauty of life. You can feel it all in the song. There's also something so bittersweet in the lyrics. It always makes me smile though. It's so beautiful. I love the video!

"We slept like dogs down by the fire side
Awoke to the fog where all around us
The bloom of summertime

We stood
Steady as the stars in the woods
So happy-hearted
And the warmth rang true inside these bones
As the old pine fell we sang
Just to bless the morning.

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags,
I've come to know the friends around you
Are all you'll always have
Smoke in my lungs, or the echoed stone
Careless and young, free as the birds that fly
With weightless souls now."

- Ben Howard - Old Pine

The part in the song "Careless and young, free as the birds that fly With weightless souls now" is my favorite. It makes me think of my friend Raija, me and other young people like us. 

Living the period of life where you can do anything you want with your lives. 

So careless, young and free. 

So eager to inhale the life, 

to find the dreams you want to make come true, 

to find the place where you belong to. 

To find the adventures you're supposed to encounter 

and the loves that are meant to be.

To find the life you want to live. 

The world is calling us.

That's what it brings to my mind. The beauty of summer, the beauty of life and what it's like to be young in the world. We are like these birds that fly forward in their lives, young, wild and free.

That's all for now. Enjoy the beauty of summer and being young!

- lovesme xx

Bizarre sleepwalking

The most bizarre thing in a while happened last night! I was very weary so went to bed early, fell asleep quickly. Next, I gradually woke up standing in my room, in a pile of my stuff that used to be on my bookcase. My mom and brother came to my room panicking that what the hell happened. I had no clue! I just stood there still somewhere in between sleeping and being awake. I came to a conclusion though, that apparently I must have tried to turn over my bookcase in my sleep. Pretty well succeeded also, because of all the stuff piled on the floor.

Still thinking that how am I able to do that? The bookcase is not the lightest thing to turn over, and only thing I remember about my dream I saw while all this happened is that there was this handle I needed to pull, so I guess I pulled the bookcase in reality? Somehow? :D It's frightening that you do something in your sleep and then you wake up and you have no idea what happened. Why am I standing and not lying in my bed? Why all the stuff from bookshelves are on the floor? The subconscious living its' own life clearly. :D The most bizarre feeling. This is how it all looked liked.

The bookcase yesterday night after the bizarre sleep walking, some stuff already back on the shelves but as you can see still lot's of it on the floor. In the pile there's nearly 140 DVDs, dozens of books, two boxes of stuff and to my lovely surprise also my systems camera under EVERYTHING. Fortunately no damage happened to it or anything else.

The bookcase this morning after cleaning everything up. This is how it looked before as well.

I've done sleepwalking before. One time I was at Sara's. We were sleeping and suddenly I'm shaking her to wake up and just say panicking and checking the mattress. "Sara Sara Sara there's something wrong with the mattress." That time too, I gradually started realising that I'm up and talking nonsense. :D The kind of bizarre unconciousness that you don't know are you in your sleep or in reality is not fun. The last night's walking though was the most extreme thing I've ever done in my sleep. Hopefully anything more extreme won't happen ever! :D

Maybe tonight I can sleep properly through the night.

lovesme xx

A movie euphoria

The feeling after the end when you see the end credits rolling down and ýou just sit there. Your mind has gone blank. You just feel the happy tears running down your face. You can't help it. You're smiling and crying because the movie was just so bloody phenomenal. You're just so happy. You might also want to stand up and clap your hands until they hurt, no matter were you in your living room or movie theater. The movie gave you millions of shivers. Dozens of oh wow moments. Couple of moments of surprise. These are the most precious movie moments. When they did it all right. You're in movie euphoria.

Only three movies have made such a powerful impact in me. First time was when watching Titanic for the first time, the second was watching The Lord of the Rings the Return of the King. Last Saturday I had the third time after watching this:

The Dark Knight Rises

Why do I get so emotional by a movie? I just love movies. I'ts the same when you're listening to your favorite song that means a lot to you, for example. You might get shivers, or cry, or just smile because it's so good and it makes you feel so much. It's the same thing with great films. Ok, some people might think that I'm weird, but I'm sure at least true movie geeks gets this. I can't explain it. When there's so many people from different areas of art such as directors, writers, composers and actors etc. and they make everything right, together. The story, the world, the characters, the visual effects, the music and so on, it all goes perfectly together. They got all the parts together to build a perfect puzzle. To build a masterpiece. After seeing such brilliant work being made, you're just happy because it was so great. You're speechless. You're in movie euphoria.

In my opinion, Titanic, The Return of The King and now The Dark Knight Rises are perfect examples of this. It makes me so happy that in the world where so many horrible things happen, there's still people who can make something so beautiful and spectacular to the world. And they just make them just for the love's sake, the love for films.

Of course this is only my opinion. I'm crazy about films. I love love love loooove them. These movies got me in movie euphoria. I think they're masterpieces. I think those three are now the best I've seen on the screen. I'm sure there's others who think so too, but some people might not. I have to say though, Titanic and The Return of The King both won 11 Oscars, that tells something.

Ok, and now I have to say something about the source of my latest movie euphoria: The Dark Knight Rises. If you haven't seen it yet, don't read forward. Ok, The Dark Knight was just brilliant, we all know that. We will never forget Heath Ledger's thorough performance as Joker.

I was afraid The Dark Knight Rises would be bad. I had waited for it so long. My hopes were so high so I was scared I would be disappointed. I didn't think I could ever say this, but I think the Dark Knight Rises was at least as good as The Dark Knight. OH MY GOD IT WAS PHENOMENAL. A huge thank you for Christopher Nolan for making the best conclusion for the trilogy ever. Thank you thank you thank you. They could have not done it better. Despite the small details that bothered me a little, it was perfect, P-E-R-F-E-C-T.

I don't remember when was the last time that I would have been moving so nervously in my chair that much. The suspense grew stronger and stronger and lasted till the end.The characters, wow. Firstly, The Batman. Can it be possible that I was attracted to him? That costume looked so HOT. And the big black thing he was flying, there's nothing cooler! :D Secondly, Bane. OH MY GOD, he's to most brutal and ruthless character ever and I mean really. I'm sure the biggest bodybuilders would have been afraid of him! Tom Hardy did great. Thirdly, the Catwoman, usually looking so innocent with her bambi eyes, Anne Hathaway got the foxy, seductive twist in the character. Respect for Catwoman doing all the jumps and fights with high heels! Haha ;D Also Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Blake, he was the only hope we had! He was great. Everything was great. Sorry about this, just lost for words. :D

Bane

Catwoman

Simply, the Dark Knight Rises met my exceptations and more. It might be the movie of the year. It looked great. It sounded great ( Hans Zimmer<3). It was just WOW. This is film making at its' best. This is a great example of the building all the parts together to make a perfect puzzle. Promise me each and every one of you who reads this, go and see it, if you still haven't. You have to see it. I'm still high in this.

I love the part in the trailer when Catwoman says "My mother warned me about getting in the cars with strange men." And Batman says: "This isn't a car" :D COOL OR WHAT.

Enough of this perfection,

lovesme xx

Work, waiting and some celebrating!

My life currently: work and waiting

Well it feels like it! Seriously, in a long while there hasn't been a morning without thinking "one day closer to my trip to England" Today exactly one month and I'm going to Oxford <3 ONE MONTH, FOUR WEEKS, 31 DAYS!!! I HATE WAITING. I'm the most impatient person ever. Could it just be August 1th  already? Then my trip is only couple of weeks away. Well actually, when it's August 1th I start counting down the days to the Madonna gig first. The gig is August 12th. When the gig is over only one more week!!!! This waiting is killing meeeeeee.

It's an awful thing to wait for something this much, because then I can't truly focus on the present much. We should enjoy the moment we're living and not the moments that will happen in near future. BUT I CAN'T HELP IT. I'm going HOME, after months and months of waiting and waiting and WAITING. I can't think about anything else! :D (Ok, I'm also thinking about that Madonna gig. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT EITHER!) But I'll promise one thing, on August 20th, when I sit in that plane to London Heathrow, I promise you guys from that moment on, this girl is only living in the moment. ;)

The other thing why it's afwul to wait for something this much. You know what they say, when you wait for something fun, the time goes so slow. INDEED!

I just had two days off. Yesterday we celebrated Kisu's 20th birthday a bit! The weather was perfect, food was good and best of all I had the most fabulous people to hang out with. I guess there's no better way of spending a day off. Check out the pictures of the day.

 Typical me

Birthday girl! <3 love you

As you can see, the weather was perfect! This is what I call summer!

We had dinner at Gastropub Alex!

The pub looked like a real English pub! Me likey

Laura, me and Sara, my ladies <3 love you

LOOK WHAT STUNNERS I BOUGHT! It was love at first sight

I enjoyed my days off but now it's time to get ready for work. The next six days I'm going to spend working. So my life is pretty much just work and waiting for the next six days. Well days will go faster at least when working. Hopefully.

Until next time,

lovesme xxxx

PS: Tomorrow one waiting will come to an end, going to see The Dark Night Rises in cinema. The Dark Knight was and still is bloody spectacular, let's see is the sequel going to be too.

Summer chilling

I'm having five days off now, still one and a half to go, and I just had the best three days in a while. Nothing huge or mindblowing happened, just had some quality time with Sara. It's been a long while that I've had this relaxing but fun days! Laughed my head off millions of times. Ate good. Shopped. Took many pictures. Enjoyed summer. Just summer chilling chilling chilling. Ah.

Sunday 8.7

There's no better way of spending Sunday morning than lying on the beach with your best friend, getting tanned and doing some girl talk!

One of the best things in summer: strawberries with melted white chocolate <3 FOODGASM + watching a film This Means War where man candys Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are dressing like below. AAAH and for the record, Tom Hardy is mine. haha

Monday 9.7

On Monday we went to Helsinki to do some bargain hunting! ;)

 

Monday's outfit: the very much loved high-waisted shorts and the top GinaTricot, the belt Primark, the apple of my eye watch DKNY

I LOOOVED THAT ZARA DRESS, but.. in the picture it looks like that it fits perfectly, but surprisingly me being A-cup kinda girl, the strapless dress didn't stay on properly. Pity. Cause as you can see, that dress was a stunner!

We grabbed a bite at Vapiano. Sara had read about it in a blog so we decided to try it out! Vapiano is a German fresh casual restaurant chain offering Italian food. There are 97 restaurants all over the world, so go and find out whether there's one nearby you http://www.vapiano.com/ ! The biggest difference to other casual restaurants is that at Vapiano they have pasta and pizza bar, where you go and order the food. Then you wait and watch when the food is being made, like drinks in a normal bar! That was something new but definitely worth going! The chicken pasta we had was muy muy delicioso and the bill wasn't too heavy for our wallets either.

It was fun while it lasted. The day didn't go as we planned. It was around 3 p.m at H&M on the way to the counter when Sara couldn't find her wallet and we never found it! The pic above was taken at Lindex like 15 minutes earlier when she couldn't find it and in the pic the creme-white wallet is still in her bag! So we came into a conclusion that someone must haven taken it. Sara's bank cards, driver's license etc. all gone. So naturally we lost our mood for shopping and went back home. WHOEVER IT WAS WHO TOOK IT, THANKS FOR RUINING OUR DAY! asshole... Who does that? Seriously, I just don't get it why someone would do that. Well life's a bitch and the world is full of crack maniacs who need money and other desperate poor people so no can do. I still hope the wallet would have dropped or something and some descent citizen would take it to the police station. Never going to happen? Who knows, I always try to stay positive and hope for the best.

Tuesday 10.7

After sleeping in we just spent couple of hours taking photos and chilling at a terrace.
I love these two I took of Sara!

Tuesday's outfit: the shirt was bargain find from Helsinki Lindex, denim shorts River Island, gladiators Tapas Shoes

I have still one and a half days off left. So I'll go and... CHILL. It's pretty dull weather so I think I'll just go and start Candace Bushnell's latest Summer in the City. You never get tired of reading about the most famous New Yorkers! See ya later xxx

- lovesme

PS: I'm sure you noticed the change in the blog's look again. This one is going to last, I promise. Simple but stylish and girly, that's how I like it. ;)

Stumbling blocks in small talk and fluent flirts

First of all, a question, why on earth is it so hard Finnish guys to ask girls out, or even ask their phone numbers? Seriously. For example, in England guys just spit out the question after chatting like five minutes. "Hey can I get your phone number?" Piece of cake. Not that hard. Well, you would think so.. I also heard from my lovely Finnish friend who lives in Switzerland that a guy over there once just took her phone and called his own number and said, "Thanks for your phone number!" That's how you do it! Well, that's how I like it. A bit edge is always good! ;) Finnish guys never do such thing. A normal Finnish guy doesn't ask your phone number, not until his friend comes by while you're chatting with the guy, and asks him "hey dude, you already asked her phone number?" It happened to me one weekend. I almost burst into laughing but I hold it. Well, I don't know why, but I gave him my number and left.

Finnish guys are just stumbling blocks when it comes to approaching a girl. They are clumsy and reserved almost incapable of small talk and flirting. It's common among Finnish people, not just guys. Again, I'm not in this pattern. I'm the if-i-see-something-tempting-I-have-to-go-and-get it kind of girl. I've learned by living in Finland that you have to do something yourself to make something happen. Ok, I'm generalizing badly, of course there's exceptions. I've met guys here who have asked me out without hardly any stumbling...after all. What I'm trying to say is that Finnish guys usually needs more time to be able to flirt and be with a girl without any nervousness. They take more time to ask a girl out, when guys from Southern Europe just go for it right away without doing much thinking. They are fluent flirts. What is there to think anyway? For example, what if she doesn't fancy me? What if I'm just gonna embarrass myself? WHY WHY WHY DO YOU NEED TO THINK SO MUCH?! Ok, did I just say that? I'm the biggest over-thinker ever, so I think I should take my words back... :D Back to the point, I think life is too short to think such things. It's like you're going to die or something, if you ask someone out. There's nothing to lose. That's how I think right before I go and ask a guy out. So bashful men in general, I know this isn't just about Finnish guys, be men and go ask a girl out on a date, so we women don't need to do all the work. Haha

However, after couple of drinks, in the beginning so bashful and sweet guy changes. Suddenly, no more awkward silences, compliments are flying out of his mouth and his flirt is not that clumsy anymore! I'm sure each of you fabulous ladies have met one guy like this. That can happen every where with every kind of guys. It just how it works. Alcohol gives more confidence and makes you feel good about yourself. Then you can do things you wouldn't usually do. It happens to us girls too! Too way often though, guys become too friendly. They are stucking their tongues in your mouth and pinching your bumm and so on. Not so attractive, suddenly we notice ourselves to wish that bashful and sweet guy to come back. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

What's bad about sweet guys who are not good with girls anyway? They are just nervous around you, that's pretty cute, huh? Ok, confident guys are just irresistible, they know how to make you sweep off your feet and in the best cases they can make you blush, even though you never ever blush! Umm.. what was I saying? Oh, but sweet shy guys, why not? We just get prejudiced too early. They can surprise you. Like the guy with the friend "dude you asked her number yet?" He called me one night. "Just wondered would you like to meet up tomorrow?" I was stunned. Didn't have courage to ask my number by himself but did have courage to call me. Usually guys text here. Being so positively surprised I said "Why not."
Like I already said, there's nothing to lose.

Until next time,

lovesme xxx

PS: I was thinking Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe would have been perfect to attach here, but I've noticed people have started to be annoyed by the song, so instead of being annoyed, enjoy Adam Levine's exceptional male voice.