Cats already better

I'm so relieved. Neko feels a lot better now. Pollo was already playing on the same day (night) the operation was but Neko was tired still yesterday. Pollo didn't get that Neko didn't want to play with him so we had to put Pollo in the bedroom few times to calm down so that Neko could be in peace. We played also yesterday in our house and Pollo came to sleep on my lap. Cutie. And boys played with him which was good, because Neko could sleep. We put a "socksuit" on Neko, which was first like a diaper because Neko took her front legs away from it. It protected her wound so she or Pollo wouldn't lick it too much.

Poor Neko and the "socksuit"

We put it back on her for the night. On the morning when we woke up (well actually when Pollo came to wake us up) Neko was still having the suit on her, but soon after she took it away. Tarmo thought I had taken it away and I thought Tarmo had taken it away. And now she is playing with Pollo, but luckily she's careful still. She doesn't lick her wound too much (I believe it's so clean and neatly done so she doesn't have to lick it all the time) and neither does Pollo. So we dare to keep her without the suit. But of course we keep our eyes on them all the time.

Here is a picture when they were still sleeping (when they tottered to the bathroom).

Catnest

We'll (hopefully) continue our yesterdays game in noon if Tomppeli just wakes up. He and Apen are allergic to our kitties and took drugs for it yesterday but still both got some symptoms at the evenoig (we had already played several hours no it's no wonder). We cleaned the house today so it would be easier to them to be here today. I still won't let the kitties to be alone too many hours. I have to keep my on them.

And I realized yesterday that I really was panicking on Friday. I forgot our laundry on the machine for the night (which I have never done before) and I forgot to get a packet from the Post office (and I've been waiting that packet for a week). Funny. I thought I was quite normal, only worried about the kitties. Maybe I just focused all my thoughts on them.

Poor babies

Oh my poor kitties! We were in the vet today and we sterilized both of them. And I could be watching the process! It was really nice! The vet told all the time what she was doing and what everything was and in the end she gave me the balls and ovary and some instruments so I could research them closely! So nice! But I didn't dare to watch and cut them too much because the room was needed. But everything went well. Neko threw up and was so ashamed before she fell asleep. Poor thing. And Pollo needed more drugs to fall asleep. And kicked the nurse when she tried to pull Pollo's hairs off from his balls. Muaha.

It took half an hour and we came home right away of course. They woke up for the first time only few moments ago. I heard a thump and run to watch witch of them had wakened. It was Neko and she was lying in the middle of the floor (I put the baskets in the bedroom and put a blanket on them so it would be warmer). I covered Neko with her blanket and Pollo started to wake up also. He started to totter away from the bedroom and I thought he had to pee so I took him to the bathroom. He just wanted to go to sleep in there (we have a floor warmup there) and Neko tried to go there too, so I lifted her too there and took her blanket under her and took Pollo's blanket too, which I put over the poor kitties. (Sentence long enough?)
Neko tried to get on my lap but fell asleep before she could get there. I stroke them for a while to be sure that they both fell asleep. My mother instincts woke up! Tarmo just laughed at me, but also looked me nicely. It felt good. He didn't think that I'm a lunatic women. Muaha! (I am.)

I tried to read for my next exam but I can't concentrate now, I have to watch the kitties. Luckily my table is in such a way so that I can see the kitties all the time. My poor babies <3

But some new information for me! First: I had to give a CV in English and a study plan for Tuula today so that she can put them in the Academy application and maybe get me some money! And reagents and maybe even equipment. And that study plan will also be my Master thesis plan!!! And now to the second thing: Some entrepreneur had called Tuula. He had read my candidate thesis from the internet (I put it in my web pages when it was finished) and was interested about it. His company (I assume so) makes pipes for the water and they had done some analysis what elements and in what concentrations they have found in different areas. And they said that Finland doesn't have any limits for manganese concentrations but WHO has put some limits. And Tuula said that he could be interested ME doing some tests with the manganese and he could pay something for me. And I could also use the information I get to my thesis. Which would be really grate!

But Pollo just woke up, threw up under Tarmo's desk and peed in the kitchen and finally fell asleep again under our chair (I stroke him so he calmed down). He's so poor thing!

TOEFL and other things

The TOEFL is over. It was harder than I expected but I believe it still went ok. I didn't first realize that the time was for the reading AND answering the questions so I was out of time when I had to answer but I was rushing and made it but I hadn't much time to think. And the speaking section was hard. There wasn't enough time to think what to say. I lost my thought in one question and mumbled. And I didn't understand some of the texts fully (they were considering history and business) and when I was supposed to listen and then speak I heard other people talking and it disturbed me. It was hard to concentrate when others were speaking and you could hear it and you should've been thinking what to say or write. But still I hope it went well enough. I always have after all exams my doubts but I quickly stop depressing my self and stop thinking such a things. Instead I start being disappointed in my self when I get results. Or proud. It works that way too.

So it was really quick visit in Helsinki. My mom came with me and we got some coffee after we arrived, I did the test (it really took the four hours), we went to pizza and left back to Tampere. The whole trip took almost 12 hours if one counts the traveling to the railwaystation too. I was tired after that. Especially my eyes were. They didn't have flat screens there so my eyes started hurting after the first hour. The screen kept flashing all the time. Not so nice. And as I already mentioned the headphones let all the voices in so I heard what other people were talking about. Moan moan moan. Just excuses if I fail it. But of course I don't think such a things. And of course I'll success. I hope.

On Wednesday we went to Ideapark and it was nice once again. Mom bought new book shelves and a bed for her. She has planned for a while new book shelves to their livingroom because she hates the ones they have now. And since dad and mom sleep now in different rooms and the bed she (used to be mine) doesn't fit for her back, she bought a traditional bed for herself. She already had a good mattress from the twinbed. And dad got a motorized bed from Olavi. His shoulder was operated last week so it's better for him. And mothers back doesn't like that bed either. It first felted odd that they sleep in different rooms but why not. They both snore BADLY and mom can always push dad to be quiet but if dad pushes mom, she wakes and gets angry and doesn't sleep anymore on that night. And dad still needs to go to work early on the morning so he really needs his sleep. And there was one sparse room left.
I felt how they had both slept better than for a while. They were happy. And dad haven't been drinking this year. Maybe he will keep his promise. It felt good to be there. They spoke to each other and joked around. It's amazing what good night sleep can do to people.

I came back home early. Tarmo had been drinking yesterday and I messed my thoughts and said I'd come half twelve but I meant I'd be in Jyväskylä 12.30. So he was in a hurry and was in the station an hour before I was there! I felt bad about it but he said it was ok, he had something to do there anyway and he had a ride from his friend since it was really cold and that the driver was also supposed to come to city anyway. He said that he knows that I'd start feeling bad and he knows that I didn't mean it. He said that he knows that I hate when people need to do thongs for me and I don't like to bother people. And a tear almost came to my eye when he said that. Once again I realized how well he knows me and how much I love him. And of course I told it to him.
And we had to walk to home. Tarmo didn't have his bike with him and my bikes lock had been frozen and I couldn't open it. We'll get it on Monday.

Ah, and on Tuesday we had a girls night again. It was fun as usual. We gossiped, healed the world and did all the other usual things.

And I got new shoes! Boots!!! They're really nice! I would've had my mothers brown shoes with heals (they didn't for for her) but I walked with them two hours in the Ideapark and my feet started to hurt so much that I almost couldn't walk. So we went to buy new ones (she promised she would've anyway got me new shoes). And I tried these boots I've always wanted to try but I've always doubted if I'd like them. And I love them! They look good on me and feel good! And they have heals! Not THE Heals but that kind of heals I can walk with. And they weren't expensive. I also found a new jacket. It's original price was 70€ but we got it in 15€! It's nice too.

Tarmo has a hangover and I feel sympathy hangover too. I'm tired and I don't feel like doing anything. Tomorrow I have to finish my application and on Monday I have to get some documents for it. And on Tuesday my courses will begin.

I believe I've written enough (if not too much) and I'm going to sleep.

But before that, here's a picture on our Pimp My Lab Team. Sira took this picture so I had to edit her to be in this too (I did it really quickly and I don't have a proper program to do it, sorry Sira!)

Riikka, Reija, Sira, Piia, Saara, Emilia and me
The Pimp My Lab Team

Muaha! I still need to tell why we have this Team. During our laboratory courses we've came up few ideas we'll do if we don't succeed in our own field. We'll start this enterprise and start to Pimp Labs. We are already started to develop the piko-pipette and we're thinking to start cooperation with Marimekko. We'll print their flower patterns on the objective glasses (so one can invidualize ones own things) and on the microscopes, of course. We have also developed a color coding for the pipettes (baby blue and pink for the smallest and adult colors for the biggest) and for the microscopes (if you roll this purple button it will do this and that, no-one has to learn difficult names for the microscope parts!). And these are only the few ideas we've come up with. SO THESE WERE OUR IDEAS, IF SOMEONE IS USING THEM BEFORE US, WE'LL SUE YOU!

Feelin' good

Uah. It's over. The neurobiology's exam was quite easy. But I'm not sure if I found everything crucial for the questions. Or if I picked up the right things. I really hope I did so. I also returned the book and went to x-ray my teeth. I'll have an appointment next week with the hygienist, she/he will take away my toothstones. And the same time she/he will say if my wisdom teeth will need something to do.

Yesterday it was snowing. A lot. I had some difficulties to go to school on the morning since I really couldn't ride a bike well since I had the book with me and the bag I was carrying it was so big that I had to keep it on the handlebar and it hit all the time to my knee. I bet I'll get huge bruises for that. And there was so much snow that it was hard to ride a bike even though there had been ploughed already. But it's really nice weather now. Sun is shining, it's white and few degrees below zero. And I feel fine since the exam is over and I can do the exchange applications and rehearse for the TOEFL (it's on Friday!). I just hope I can get to their webpages since they haven't been working so well... And maybe Tarmo would loan me his headphones so that it would be easier to practice.

But I'm now so hungry that I have to go to do something to eat (pasta with tuna) and then I'll start to write my personal statements and other exchange stuff. Tomorrow I'll go to some kind of course meeting (about courses I've already done a year ago) with a friend (who asked me to go to there) and on the evening we'll have a girls night! We'll eat and gossip and have fun. Though I can't go to bar, I drunk my money already last Tuesday... And on Wednesday I'll go to Tampere and on Thursday I'll go to Ideapark with Mom (she said there could be some sales which means I can get new clothes and maybe new shoes!) and on Friday I'll go to Helsinki to the TOEFL test. Mom will come there with me too, so I have some company and she'll take my phones etc since one can't have them with you there! And we'll go to eat there and maybe shop more (the test takes about four hours so one really gets hungry there).

But now I'm really hungry. I feel like listening music loud, making food and enjoying the freedom I feel right now. Luckily my courses will start only just next week.

Inspiration

Still 50 pages to go. Though I really haven't learned anything from the last chapters but I know coarsely what's in them. Luckily I can have the book with me!

We went to pizza today. It was nice. Then we coated Tarmo's physics books. He could have done it by himself but it was easier end nicer to do it together. And I had nothing else to do anyway. We were supposed to clean today but I'm not inspired at all. Tomorrow we have to clean... There is dirt on the floor! The kitties spread it all over because I gave them grass. So they liked the dirt on it.

We're going to watch Babylon 5 tonight. I haven't ever seen them. And Tarmo has almost all the dvds.

I have to start to eat iron again. I've been tired all the time even though I sleep well.

I was in Bodycircuit with Dooris on Thursday and Saana was there too. It was so nice!

But I'm not inspired about anything right now and I can't keep my thoughts in my head.

Neck

My neck was like a hell two days ago. I woke up in the morning and I couldn't move. Everything hurt, even when Tarmo moved a bit. I put several liters of Mobilat there and treated it with cold and hot. When I went to sleep I took some painkillers so I could sleep. The next day it was already better. I still put Mobilat to it and treated it with hot and tried to stretch it to every direction. Yesterday evening we went to Rentukka and Dooris rubbed my shoulders and neck and now it's almost OK. It just pissed me off on Monday because there would have been Bodycircuit and I couldn't go there. But it's tomorrow again and I'll go there. Next week all the other sports will start too.
I have no idea why my neck went like that. Maybe I've been reading and watching Desperate Housewives too much.

So yesterday we went to Rentukka because it was Vepa's real birthday. I took cider, maybe more and got drunk. But not too much. I invented a really good way to keep me drinking in limits. After few ciders I bought also a glass of water when I bought new drink and didn't buy new one before I had drunk the water too. After the bar closed we came to our house and I stopped drinking. I listened Tomppeli and his problems. I'm happy it helped him to talk to someone. And Dooris bought some clothes from me I've been selling.

I ordered new clothes from H&M yesterday. I'll spend too much money on that but I haven't been buying new clothes for 5 years (if one doesn't count fleamarket clothes). And my drawer has been looking like a rainbow and all the clothes didn't fit me anymore. I've been dreaming long time that I'd have more harmonious clothes and I could wear almost anything with anything. And I'm going to work on that.

We're going to Vepa's and Jonne's house in a minute to play a game they started last Monday. I was supposed to be with it too since I didn't go to gym but I couldn't move anywhere so I stayed home. But I'll play today too.

It was nice to drink yesterday, I don't have hangover (thanks to my invention, muaha) but I feel like I really have been drinking. And now I can be another few months sober. Muaha.

Need to go.

Weekend

We had nice weekend. On Friday we had Vepa's birthday and on Saturday Halliz's birthday. Though there was boring so we came to our house to drink a glass of wine. Today was supposed to be Tomppeli's birthday but he's sick.

And Neko has a heat. I first wondered why she's so in need of affection and then I noticed she lifts her tail when I stroke her. Pollo did not get what was happening until today. He has tried to mate with her today, but luckily she doesn't allow him to do it. We have to watch them all the time. We are going to sterilize both of them in the end of this month. Hope that her heat will go over soon and that Pollo won't succeed. If it looks bad, we have to separate them in to different rooms and that won't be nice. Our bedroom is too small for a cat.

I went to barber on Friday and got myself bangs. I swore ten years ago that I won't do it never ever again since my mom always got it for me and I hated it. I've been secretly wishing it for a while now. But it's not a real bangs, it's that kind that I can get it to side and away from my eyes.


And Vepa cut my hair a bit more since the barber didn't do as much cutting as I hopes and I didn't realize it then. But I like my hair now.

I'm hungry so I'm going to eat food and watch Friends. I bought the 7th season for us.

And still 450 pages to go and a week time to read it.

New Year

Now, it's 2007. In case you didn't know that.

We had a nice party at Lillukka, a place we rented. We made food and some of it wasn't eaten (though there were almost ten eaters). After that we sang Singstars and Sami had bought a new game for it which had Finnish songs. I sang PMMP´s Pikkuveli and it was really nice. We sang a lot with Vepa and I even sang songs that don't fit to my voice. I can't sing songs that go too low. My voice doesn't reach there.
But still, I won't sing karaoke in front of too many people. I'm too ashamed.

Before

After

Actually there was two times more of them that it shows in here. (And the kettle was full.) And we spent two liters oil. Yum.

I was too slow to renew my book loan. So now i have to return my neurobiology book next week and I have the exam week after that! And I need the book there (since it can be with me). But I booked other book. The same book but from the main library. I hope I get that day before I have to return this book. I can have that book only two weeks but it's enough. Hope the person who has it now won't be asshole and keep it too long. Though one have to pay if one keeps the books over time but still it happens. Though not very often.
Still 700 pages to go.

I cleaned our toiled today, I washed it throughout. There was a lot of kitten hair there. I've always wondered where it all goes since we don't have kitten hair all over. I also washed the dishes (though I've said to Tarmo that my hands are in bad shape so I don't wash them eagerly). But there was a lot of them and Tarmo went to university today and I hate complaining so I put gloves and did them my self. And it's not that big deal. He vacuumed when he came home.


The kitties are so cute (yes, still). They always run under the bedspread and only one can is one big clump shivering. And when I read they always come to look me and purr and aww aww. But I'll go and do something if Tarmo would think something to do. I'm too tired to read anymore, maybe I'll play Sims. I'm too addicted to it.