I'm almost done. All the exams are now behind, I just need to wait for the results for my thesis and for my last exam. The thesis evaluation is a bit late, I already returned it a month ago! And I need all the grades so that I can compose my courses and I need to compose my courses to get my degree out.
We're moving to Kuopio next Tuesday and I'm excited! We're almost packed up, major things are already in boxes and bags. We also have the car and some friends to help us.
We had one friends farewell party yesterday, she's leaving back to Germany. We're also having our farewell party tomorrow. I should do some laundry and clean our balcony. And pack the things in there and then pack our linens. But this just feels like a slow morning.
But now I need to get up from this chair and start doing!
Friday, June 06, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Week and two days
Long time no see. Still I'm not in the mood to write all the new things that has happened. But I feel like writing a bit.
I'll have my last exam in nine days. I still have 400 pages to read though... I also should write a report of my internship and look at the results. But I'm not in the mood for that. So I'll just be lazy today. Just washing some laundry, that's all.
I bought PS3 (!!!) and will play that today :> Though Tarmo is playing now, my turn comes later. I've been playing it more than he, so it's his turn :) I also bought a sewing machine but it has some problems so I can't sew anything. Have to wait for a friend to look at it tomorrow. But that's okay, I'm not in the mood for sewing much either...
But now I need to go to do some laundry. Just wanted to say hi, I'm still here...
I'll have my last exam in nine days. I still have 400 pages to read though... I also should write a report of my internship and look at the results. But I'm not in the mood for that. So I'll just be lazy today. Just washing some laundry, that's all.
I bought PS3 (!!!) and will play that today :> Though Tarmo is playing now, my turn comes later. I've been playing it more than he, so it's his turn :) I also bought a sewing machine but it has some problems so I can't sew anything. Have to wait for a friend to look at it tomorrow. But that's okay, I'm not in the mood for sewing much either...
But now I need to go to do some laundry. Just wanted to say hi, I'm still here...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
New Plans
Eastern was peaceful, nice and needed holiday. On Saturday we visited my parents as my Mom turned 60. We got loads of food with us and ate a lot. We also went for walking too so I wasn't just being lazy, though I did almost nothing for my Thesis. Yesterday I broke my back when we went to play kids, i.e. went to slide down. And there was a huge space where to slide and we managed to find the only ice cube and bumbed to it. And now my back muscles ache.
I also had to redo my plans. As I can't read for the exam I was supposed to have in three weeks (the book hasn't arrived yet), I need to write my thesis and start reading next week and do the exam three weeks later that I was supposed to do it. At the same time I'm having a seminar (luckily it's only for two weeks) and I need to read for other exam too as I'm doing the internship at the same time I should read for the exam. An instead of six weeks I'll have only three weeks time to read for that if I don't start earlier. So, so much of my relaxing Spring.
But it's okay. I just want to graduate. In June. Please.
I also had to redo my plans. As I can't read for the exam I was supposed to have in three weeks (the book hasn't arrived yet), I need to write my thesis and start reading next week and do the exam three weeks later that I was supposed to do it. At the same time I'm having a seminar (luckily it's only for two weeks) and I need to read for other exam too as I'm doing the internship at the same time I should read for the exam. An instead of six weeks I'll have only three weeks time to read for that if I don't start earlier. So, so much of my relaxing Spring.
But it's okay. I just want to graduate. In June. Please.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Boring Everyday
Still there's nothing much else in my life than Tarmo, kitties and The Thesis. Oh yeah, and taekwondo and gym. And all of those are in order :)
I still have deficiency of Tarmo and I love spending my time with him. I seek the warmth of his hugs all the time and I spend a lot just having company of him. I play with our kitties and build nests to them (see the cat blog I made, though it's in Finnish, but you can at least see the pics ^^), go to the gym, and love taekwondo more and more every time. I even won a challenge in there! Though no-one knew that there was a competition going on but even still, I WON! HA! It felt so good :) I've learned something! The point was that I made "the most pure" movements. I did mistakes, noticed a lot of them and corrected my moves and even got corrected by our teacher. But as they said, I concentrated a lot and my moves were in balance. And I really did concentrate, I was short of breath and sweaty after the poomsae, even though it really isn't that hard :D
I did nothing last week and this week I got half of my Thesis back from the first correction round, been doing that and been fixing some things for the internship I'm doing in May. And that's that. I've played role playing games too (once, finally).
And honestly, that's my life.
I've been missing a bit Iowa City. When I see pictures of familiar streets and people, I miss them. I miss especially the summer time there. Everything was new and exciting, I didn't miss Tarmo so badly and things were better than later (I mean the death, water damage etc). I partied and went to all events and didn't worry about school. But all fun ends in good time. But I MISS YOU GUYS! <3
I hope to get the corrections done by Eastern Holidays so that I can read and relax. Then I need to read for one exam, then I write The Thesis (and try to finish it), go to the seminar, do the internship and at the same time read for the final exam. And that's it.
I want to move! I dream of the bigger apartment (I hope so much that we get the student apartment!) and decorating it. I already found the first thing I'm going to buy when I get my first pay check:
I love it! And I know our kitties will love it too ^^ Me wanna!
I still have deficiency of Tarmo and I love spending my time with him. I seek the warmth of his hugs all the time and I spend a lot just having company of him. I play with our kitties and build nests to them (see the cat blog I made, though it's in Finnish, but you can at least see the pics ^^), go to the gym, and love taekwondo more and more every time. I even won a challenge in there! Though no-one knew that there was a competition going on but even still, I WON! HA! It felt so good :) I've learned something! The point was that I made "the most pure" movements. I did mistakes, noticed a lot of them and corrected my moves and even got corrected by our teacher. But as they said, I concentrated a lot and my moves were in balance. And I really did concentrate, I was short of breath and sweaty after the poomsae, even though it really isn't that hard :D
I did nothing last week and this week I got half of my Thesis back from the first correction round, been doing that and been fixing some things for the internship I'm doing in May. And that's that. I've played role playing games too (once, finally).
And honestly, that's my life.
I've been missing a bit Iowa City. When I see pictures of familiar streets and people, I miss them. I miss especially the summer time there. Everything was new and exciting, I didn't miss Tarmo so badly and things were better than later (I mean the death, water damage etc). I partied and went to all events and didn't worry about school. But all fun ends in good time. But I MISS YOU GUYS! <3
I hope to get the corrections done by Eastern Holidays so that I can read and relax. Then I need to read for one exam, then I write The Thesis (and try to finish it), go to the seminar, do the internship and at the same time read for the final exam. And that's it.
I want to move! I dream of the bigger apartment (I hope so much that we get the student apartment!) and decorating it. I already found the first thing I'm going to buy when I get my first pay check:
I love it! And I know our kitties will love it too ^^ Me wanna!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
To Doll:
People don't worry. I'm quite happy with myself, I just need some irony once in a while :) I still think there's something to loose but if it doesn't leave with this excercise I'm doing, then it's supposed to be there. I'm woman with some curves :>
(And those who know me should imagine the tone I'm saying this phrase
(And those who know me should imagine the tone I'm saying this phrase
I'm not perfect;) )
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
A Doll
I just did something horrible. I edited myself. I could have so nica body if I wasn't shaped like this and if I was thin :P And if my face would be shaped in a different way, I could be beautiful. Too bad that most of the editing I did to myself, there's nothing I really can do to change those features. I have already lost aroung 5 kg since I came back and all there is left now is to firm up my body. And I can say I'm doing good job in trying to do so.
Here's one edit:
Quite obvious what I have done. If you can't see those, compare my jawline, forehead, shoulder, nose, lips and eyes. Well. That was alomost there is in this pic :D
Just had to share this horrifying truth. I'm not perfect.
Been through a very stressful course which is now over and done some pages for my thesis. Trying to read some more articles. Been in gym, weight has stuck in the same though during weekends I almost always gain one kilogram. And that's because I allow some goods for myself which aren't allowed during the week (candy and chips) and I don't do any exercise. But I always lose that kilogram in the week... I'm starting to have by abs back in shape too and that makes me really happy. Still should get my arms thinner... But I'm doing pretty good progress in there too. I don't want impossible things and I know my limits. I also won't ever give up food, chips or candy 'cause I love eating and food! :P
Well. That's quite all what there is. I love taekwondo and I almost can do the first poomse right.
Here's one edit:
Quite obvious what I have done. If you can't see those, compare my jawline, forehead, shoulder, nose, lips and eyes. Well. That was alomost there is in this pic :D
Just had to share this horrifying truth. I'm not perfect.
Been through a very stressful course which is now over and done some pages for my thesis. Trying to read some more articles. Been in gym, weight has stuck in the same though during weekends I almost always gain one kilogram. And that's because I allow some goods for myself which aren't allowed during the week (candy and chips) and I don't do any exercise. But I always lose that kilogram in the week... I'm starting to have by abs back in shape too and that makes me really happy. Still should get my arms thinner... But I'm doing pretty good progress in there too. I don't want impossible things and I know my limits. I also won't ever give up food, chips or candy 'cause I love eating and food! :P
Well. That's quite all what there is. I love taekwondo and I almost can do the first poomse right.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Bah.
I'm sorry, I've been lazy. I have had the time to write but I haven't been in the mood.
There's nothing much new going on. I have one lab course that bursts my neuronal cells. Flow cytometry, where we have three lab times and need to write three reports AND we have practical exam after those three times. And I really didn't understand those graphs we got out (I did know what they ment but I couldn't wrtie a thing about them), I needed to stare at those pics for hours and hours and now I need to write a the second report today. I also should get my theisis to a point that I could give it to the first check. But as the lab course needed so much of my time and made my head ache, I haven't been able to write it. I'll try to do something during next week after I'm done with the third lab report. Though it does look quite good already, there's enough pages, lots of results and some new things too, and I have some ideas...
I'm still being most of the time lazy during the weekends. We do some laundry, clean the house and cook. Then I watch Tarmo playing or play Sims2, sometimes go to my friends place to sing Singstars or have party. Though I haven't been drinking much. I got another phone bill and now I can't afford to eat at the university. Luckily I don't have such a courses that I had to be 8 h at the university, if I have long day (ie 6 h) I do something to eat at home and take it with me. I already got bored (after almost two months, not a surprise...) to the food I made (pasta/noodels with crushed soy and dried mushrooms with some random sauce) and I bought potatoes and made soup. I also found some very cheap fish rissoles (yummy!) that had their last date but I put them in the freezer. So that's my food for the next two weeks, after that I need to make something else... But I don't mind cooking. I love it. And now I can be at home (most of the time) and decide my own rythm. It's nice. Though I do go to do some sports almost every day (except during weekends) and sometimes I go to see my friends at the university (and drink coffee with them). So, nothing new.
I had a really bad day at the beginning of this week. Or evening to be proper. After a long day at the university I got home and there was the bill waiting for me. That got me in the bad mood because I realized then that now I can't afford to go and get my driving licence this Spring/Summer. That was my dream as long as I had the money but now I don't have it anymore... I don't know if I have time to go and do the lisence later, as the PhD studies will take so much time and I'm going to continue the taekwondo. It makes me sad because I would've wanted to be a driver too so that Tarmo wouldn't always need to drive, as we need to buy a car this year. Anyway, because of this bill I was getting really mad at myself and snapped to our kitties :( Then I felt so bad because really they didn't do anything THAT bad, went to bed and soon Tarmo joined me. He noticed immediately that I was miserable and just hugged me for few hours and I cried. (It made me feel even worse as it didn't make me feel better, I just kept Tarmo awake too...) Finally he fell asleep. I slept for few hours and felt miserable the next day too. Then I made some desicions and I felt better.
It's always money that makes me sad. I'm so used to deal with my things in a way that I have money to eat. And I've always had some savings to use if my other money isn't enough. Now I had made so much savings that I could go and get my drivings lisence and then I had to take money from there. I could continue to save money there but now there's no money I could save from as I need every penny of the money I get in order to eat. And after I get the paycheck, I need to pay my student loan and we need to buy few new furnitures and the car. And after we have all that, I'll start saving to a new computer (as this one is getting in the point that it will break soon) and then I'm going to start to save for our own apartment. And then it's what, 2012?? And at least then we need to move to a new (hopefully our own) apartment and need to start paying apartment loan back. Argh loans make me feel like I didn't have money at all! I hate when I need to loan money. But I understand that I need to get the loans if I ever want to live in an apartment of my own. And me want to!
Yeah, big problems again. See, this is why I don't write, I start brain storming and then I have a book. Bah. And I'm not in money problems. As I said, I have savings. I just don't want to use them :D But I will, I love food and eating too much to stop it ;)
I really need to get some clothes on and finish my breakfast and start writing the damned report. Oh yeah! One really good thing has happened, I've lost some weight! And I'm starting to get back in shape, yey!
ps. Sorry for the misspellings, I'm too lazy to check...
There's nothing much new going on. I have one lab course that bursts my neuronal cells. Flow cytometry, where we have three lab times and need to write three reports AND we have practical exam after those three times. And I really didn't understand those graphs we got out (I did know what they ment but I couldn't wrtie a thing about them), I needed to stare at those pics for hours and hours and now I need to write a the second report today. I also should get my theisis to a point that I could give it to the first check. But as the lab course needed so much of my time and made my head ache, I haven't been able to write it. I'll try to do something during next week after I'm done with the third lab report. Though it does look quite good already, there's enough pages, lots of results and some new things too, and I have some ideas...
I'm still being most of the time lazy during the weekends. We do some laundry, clean the house and cook. Then I watch Tarmo playing or play Sims2, sometimes go to my friends place to sing Singstars or have party. Though I haven't been drinking much. I got another phone bill and now I can't afford to eat at the university. Luckily I don't have such a courses that I had to be 8 h at the university, if I have long day (ie 6 h) I do something to eat at home and take it with me. I already got bored (after almost two months, not a surprise...) to the food I made (pasta/noodels with crushed soy and dried mushrooms with some random sauce) and I bought potatoes and made soup. I also found some very cheap fish rissoles (yummy!) that had their last date but I put them in the freezer. So that's my food for the next two weeks, after that I need to make something else... But I don't mind cooking. I love it. And now I can be at home (most of the time) and decide my own rythm. It's nice. Though I do go to do some sports almost every day (except during weekends) and sometimes I go to see my friends at the university (and drink coffee with them). So, nothing new.
I had a really bad day at the beginning of this week. Or evening to be proper. After a long day at the university I got home and there was the bill waiting for me. That got me in the bad mood because I realized then that now I can't afford to go and get my driving licence this Spring/Summer. That was my dream as long as I had the money but now I don't have it anymore... I don't know if I have time to go and do the lisence later, as the PhD studies will take so much time and I'm going to continue the taekwondo. It makes me sad because I would've wanted to be a driver too so that Tarmo wouldn't always need to drive, as we need to buy a car this year. Anyway, because of this bill I was getting really mad at myself and snapped to our kitties :( Then I felt so bad because really they didn't do anything THAT bad, went to bed and soon Tarmo joined me. He noticed immediately that I was miserable and just hugged me for few hours and I cried. (It made me feel even worse as it didn't make me feel better, I just kept Tarmo awake too...) Finally he fell asleep. I slept for few hours and felt miserable the next day too. Then I made some desicions and I felt better.
It's always money that makes me sad. I'm so used to deal with my things in a way that I have money to eat. And I've always had some savings to use if my other money isn't enough. Now I had made so much savings that I could go and get my drivings lisence and then I had to take money from there. I could continue to save money there but now there's no money I could save from as I need every penny of the money I get in order to eat. And after I get the paycheck, I need to pay my student loan and we need to buy few new furnitures and the car. And after we have all that, I'll start saving to a new computer (as this one is getting in the point that it will break soon) and then I'm going to start to save for our own apartment. And then it's what, 2012?? And at least then we need to move to a new (hopefully our own) apartment and need to start paying apartment loan back. Argh loans make me feel like I didn't have money at all! I hate when I need to loan money. But I understand that I need to get the loans if I ever want to live in an apartment of my own. And me want to!
Yeah, big problems again. See, this is why I don't write, I start brain storming and then I have a book. Bah. And I'm not in money problems. As I said, I have savings. I just don't want to use them :D But I will, I love food and eating too much to stop it ;)
I really need to get some clothes on and finish my breakfast and start writing the damned report. Oh yeah! One really good thing has happened, I've lost some weight! And I'm starting to get back in shape, yey!
ps. Sorry for the misspellings, I'm too lazy to check...
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Blah.
I know it's been ages, I've just been too "busy" meaning that I've been too lazy... I have done some work for my thesis, of course. But not too much yet... I'm still not in the mood for writing, so I'll just tell shortly what's going on.
I've done one essay for one course to get the points and done things to get my courses from Iowa to my degree. And on Thursday we went to a bar with Tarmo to have some drinks with couple of professors from our university, that was fun!
We also visited Kuopio again to see Tarmo's possible future boss. Though it was really weird from the beginning. First in the morning Tarmo wrote an e-mail to him asking when could they meet and he answered that he's there the same day. Tarmo replied and said what time we'll be there (we went by train) and asked where should he go. He just replied that give me a call. We had to leave soon after that and he never told where to go. So on our way to Kuopio Tarmo tried to call him but he didn't answer. When we arrived to Kuopio, still no answer. We thought that we need to eat something quickly if Tarmo needs to be soon somewhere else. But again, even though Tarmo called every half an hour to him, he never answered. Tarmo even tried to check his e-mail with my phone but it didn't work out. We started looking the center of Kuopio, browsing in the shops. Finally around three he callet to Tarmo, said an address and didn't even answer when Tarmo asked the name of the company. So at four they met (I was with Kaisa) and in five minutes it was over. He didn't even take Tarmo inside but talked with him outside! He didn't remember where Tarmo was from (he graduated from the same university and Tarmo had said that before) and his answer was "we don't take graduated people"!!! WHAT?? And Tarmo very clearly said that he's graduating and his reply was "we always need physichist".
I said to Tarmo that good that he didn't take Tarmo, he seems to be way too weird to be a good boss. But it still pisses me off, this all could've been figured out by e-mail, it cost us some money to go to Kuopio all for nothing, and it cost us a work day AND we didn't even have time to go to taekwondo since it was already too late when we got back home. So stupid...
So, this weekend we've just relaxed, cleaned the house, played with kitties etc etc. Feels good to do nothing, for a change. Though I need to do some work for the thesis to get my results done, I've finished Matherials and Methods, almost done with Results, and started to read articles for the introduction and to do some research... So I'm not in panic and my thesis has already some pages done...
But that's how things are here. No deeper analysis about my daily life. :P
I've done one essay for one course to get the points and done things to get my courses from Iowa to my degree. And on Thursday we went to a bar with Tarmo to have some drinks with couple of professors from our university, that was fun!
We also visited Kuopio again to see Tarmo's possible future boss. Though it was really weird from the beginning. First in the morning Tarmo wrote an e-mail to him asking when could they meet and he answered that he's there the same day. Tarmo replied and said what time we'll be there (we went by train) and asked where should he go. He just replied that give me a call. We had to leave soon after that and he never told where to go. So on our way to Kuopio Tarmo tried to call him but he didn't answer. When we arrived to Kuopio, still no answer. We thought that we need to eat something quickly if Tarmo needs to be soon somewhere else. But again, even though Tarmo called every half an hour to him, he never answered. Tarmo even tried to check his e-mail with my phone but it didn't work out. We started looking the center of Kuopio, browsing in the shops. Finally around three he callet to Tarmo, said an address and didn't even answer when Tarmo asked the name of the company. So at four they met (I was with Kaisa) and in five minutes it was over. He didn't even take Tarmo inside but talked with him outside! He didn't remember where Tarmo was from (he graduated from the same university and Tarmo had said that before) and his answer was "we don't take graduated people"!!! WHAT?? And Tarmo very clearly said that he's graduating and his reply was "we always need physichist".
I said to Tarmo that good that he didn't take Tarmo, he seems to be way too weird to be a good boss. But it still pisses me off, this all could've been figured out by e-mail, it cost us some money to go to Kuopio all for nothing, and it cost us a work day AND we didn't even have time to go to taekwondo since it was already too late when we got back home. So stupid...
So, this weekend we've just relaxed, cleaned the house, played with kitties etc etc. Feels good to do nothing, for a change. Though I need to do some work for the thesis to get my results done, I've finished Matherials and Methods, almost done with Results, and started to read articles for the introduction and to do some research... So I'm not in panic and my thesis has already some pages done...
But that's how things are here. No deeper analysis about my daily life. :P
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Baby is (are) Back
So, I'm back in here.
I've gotten myself in order, no more waking up at 2 am, no rash and I have been doing few things for my future too! Life in Finland is easy. I don't feel weird, I love being back home. We got our babies back yesterday too and I love the feeling when someone comes and wipes his/hers tail against my leg ^^ Though they've grown up so much!
I'm having tomorrow my welcome back party, my friends arranget everything and it feels so weird because I don't know what's been planned and what should I do...
But as I'm not in the mood for writing much today, I'll just briefly tell what's going on.
I'm writing an essay for one course I couldn't do before but which I need to do for my degree. After that's done I'll return for my results and try to make some kind of picture of my work in my head and after that I'll start writing. I also should go to nurse to get last of my hepatite vaccination done, get my courses from Iowa in my degree and send some flights to insurance company. My first course is beginning only next month so I have some time to do all these little things though I've planned to get my Introduction mostly done by the time the course begins. Luckily it's only two weeks and labs, after that I'll return to writing and I should get my thesis done as soon as possible, as I need to do two book exams after that (one is exam about the literature I used and one is THE final examination in cell biology). I'll have my other course on April-May I think and I hope that by that time my thesis would be quite ready as I'm having the seminar course and I need to give a representation of my work by then. And after that I should find a place to do a short internship so that I could get all the needed courses for my degree and then I'd be kind of ready!
And the reason for horrying things up is that I'm moving to Kuopio with Tarmo next Summer!!! I GOT THE PLACE! I mean in the research group and I'll start as soon as I'm done in here. I'm quite happy ^^ They promised that there would be a place for me for the next 4-5 years!
And as Tarmo is graduating too, there's no problem moving away. And he has his things almost in order too...
But as I finally updated my stuff in here, I can go sleeping soon...
Oh how I love having our kitties back!!!
I've gotten myself in order, no more waking up at 2 am, no rash and I have been doing few things for my future too! Life in Finland is easy. I don't feel weird, I love being back home. We got our babies back yesterday too and I love the feeling when someone comes and wipes his/hers tail against my leg ^^ Though they've grown up so much!
I'm having tomorrow my welcome back party, my friends arranget everything and it feels so weird because I don't know what's been planned and what should I do...
But as I'm not in the mood for writing much today, I'll just briefly tell what's going on.
I'm writing an essay for one course I couldn't do before but which I need to do for my degree. After that's done I'll return for my results and try to make some kind of picture of my work in my head and after that I'll start writing. I also should go to nurse to get last of my hepatite vaccination done, get my courses from Iowa in my degree and send some flights to insurance company. My first course is beginning only next month so I have some time to do all these little things though I've planned to get my Introduction mostly done by the time the course begins. Luckily it's only two weeks and labs, after that I'll return to writing and I should get my thesis done as soon as possible, as I need to do two book exams after that (one is exam about the literature I used and one is THE final examination in cell biology). I'll have my other course on April-May I think and I hope that by that time my thesis would be quite ready as I'm having the seminar course and I need to give a representation of my work by then. And after that I should find a place to do a short internship so that I could get all the needed courses for my degree and then I'd be kind of ready!
And the reason for horrying things up is that I'm moving to Kuopio with Tarmo next Summer!!! I GOT THE PLACE! I mean in the research group and I'll start as soon as I'm done in here. I'm quite happy ^^ They promised that there would be a place for me for the next 4-5 years!
And as Tarmo is graduating too, there's no problem moving away. And he has his things almost in order too...
But as I finally updated my stuff in here, I can go sleeping soon...
Oh how I love having our kitties back!!!
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