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Sunday, October 14, 2007
celebrations and globe trotterings
Before, when I was still together with Gregoire, late September and October was always a time of celebrations. We had an anniversary at the end of September and both our birthdays in the middle of October. All that made the first cold days of autumn less painfull and brought some candle lit joy to the countdown towards winter. Last year I had a pretty depressing lonely birthday, but it was really how most of the year had passed. But this time, following a year of generally higher spirits, I got to start off my 29th trip around the sun with a great night with good food, good music, cake with candles, shampagne and just the right amount of drinks. And some of the lovelies people I know in London. I've never had a cake carried out for me at a restaurant before. And never even imagined drinking shampagne (or bubly wine...) from tall glasses at a East- London gig venue. Wouldn't
want neither on a regular basis, but I think everybody should have a cake carried
for them at least once in their lifetime. Too bad I don't have photos...And on top of everything I received the greatest parcel ever from Johanna (althoug the fact that it arrived on the day after my birtday was a pure coincidence. That kinda makes it even greater...) with scarf in the perfect shade of red, some patterns, buttons, patches and pins and a little buddha. And a giant microbe. Like she said "what to give a girl who likes to travel light? A virus!"
And then.... I'm going to Berlin tomorrow! I can't wait. I've never done this much research or planning for a trip and am very very exited. It worries me a little bacause i might
A. be disappointed. I've never had much expectations about any place that I've visited and, as a result, have never been let down. Or
B. Want to live there. What if it's all that I think it will be and I won't want to leave? Don't know if I have it in me to move to a country and start learning a language and start everything from scratch again though. When I did that in France and in Spain I was young and in love and didn't know how nice it is to have a regular paycheck that actually covers rent and food and a few new clothes and gigs and holidays every once in a while too....
've started to gather moss.
Posted at 11:48 am by Jonna
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I'm having some kind of mysterious boost of energy this week and am coming out of my social slump, even though normally around October I'm already starting my yearly hibernation, taking out my knitting pins and wools and commencing the winter hat projects....
So I'm using the energy well and seeing live music again. I saw Youngblood Brass Band yesterday at Cargo and the bouncy One Taste Collective at the Jazz Cafe tonight. Loved loved loved Portico Quartet. Youngblood Brass Band was energetic, agressive and raw (after the show someone described them as "Brass Asian Dub Foundation") and the One Taste Collective gig was sweet and happy and laid back and airy.
And tomorrow I'm having birthday dinner/snack and live music outing with a bunch of lovely people. Time to reflect back on the past year and to take count of the life lived? I think this year I'll just try to enjoy myself.
Posted at 11:50 pm by Jonna
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Sunday, October 07, 2007
- bying a thicker duvet for winter
- clearing out my room after a visit from a friend from Finland
- pulling something in my back while climbing... ouch
- having to work ahead before going on holiday (again! To Berlin!)
Posted at 10:39 pm by Jonna
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
more good (mostly) stuff today
- the pleasure of icing an aching wrist (the horror of having a body part that's not working as it should)
- discovering the hidden eco - warrior in a co-worker
- boys with really really awkward attempts to start a conversation
Posted at 11:17 pm by Jonna
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Good stuff or bad stuff? Good stuff?
- being evacuated from a tube station and arriving 45 min late to work- a massive spider calmly walking across my bedroom floor- a song on my ipod making me want to cry- coming back from holiday
Posted at 12:15 am by Jonna
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
I was tagged by Cheap Opulence to tell seven things about myself and tag seven other people to do the same... because I love Mrs Opulence with all my heart, here goes with seven random facts :1. I've worked as a receptionist in Spain, but I don't like talking on the phone at all. But I still liked the job.2. I'm not religious, but I like churches and find all religious imagery really fascinating.
3. Once someone told me that my short
hair makes me look like a lesbian. I got quite offended even though the
person who said this was very drunk (and a hairdresser...), I've had
short hair for years, I'm quite sure of my own orientation, don't have anything against lesbians and know
that you really can't tell someone's sexual preferences by their
appearance.
4. I'm trying to improve my french and actually like studying grammar5. I just found out that when we were in high school almost all the girls in our "gang" of friends at some point had a crush on one of the boys of the same group. The same boy.6. I've recently started sleeping with my cover pulled completely over my head.7. I now find a beard to be attractive on a man. This has never happened before.I would like to tag the whole gang of Pintaliitodesign to tell seven things about themselves...
Posted at 10:56 pm by Jonna
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
It's midsummer this weekend. Although in the UK you couldn't tell. It's the weekend of Glastonbury festival and the druids and hippies did their celebrating at Stonehenge on the day of the summer solstice, but there's nothing like the Finnish "juhannus". No bank holiday, no bonfires, no mass evacuation from the cities to the countryside to have saunas, swim in the lakes and get drunk. No post juhannus body count in the media, but no midnigth sun neither!On the night of the 21st I was looking for a webcam from Finland to give someone an idea of what the light nights out there are like (although they most likely already knew... it was probably more for me...) and ended up looking at the sun come up in Rovaniemi at 2:30 am. In London it was just past midnight and the night outside my window was as dark as ever, with clouds cathering for another rain. Wholy s*** how I felt homesick! Sometimes it's hard to live far away from home, roots and family, but there's also something good in being away from where you're from. It's fairly easy to divide your heart between two places (or more!). Every time I have fallen in love with somewhere, I've gotten richer and smarter. You always take something with you from the places that you've known. (I guess it's the same as with people. Only less painful. Yey for geographic promiscuity! But I'm not for any other type of promiscuity. Just to make it clear...) And I know home will always be waiting for me, in some shape or form if I want to go back. Atleast the midnight sun.There's a picture of the hearbreaking sunrise in the previous post.
Posted at 01:52 pm by Jonna
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Friday, June 22, 2007
Keskiyön aurinko nettikameran välityksellä...
Posted at 08:24 pm by Jonna
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- Finnish, live in London, like my job,
climb walls, have loads of flatmates, cry at weddings, miss my family, like coffee (but get a bit hyper from caffeine), love music, miss winter, speak spanish, like flowers...
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