I really want to write something...

But there's not much to write about!

Actually I have been ill for the past week and all I've done is play The Sims 3 or watch tv-series. Netflix has been in much use in our household and I watch Friends whenever I'm feeling bored. When it was on-going I was never that interested in Friends despite the pressure from some of my friends. I did watch it, not much though and to be honest I never thought it was funny. Now I have an entirely different perspective and I think the series is quite entertaining. I have just started season 2 and if I'm not entirely wrong I have over 200 episodes to go. Phew, that's gonna take me years!

I've had some shifts at the grocery store and I must say that I haven't been this well off during my adult years. I have some spare money which helps me sleep at night (figuratively, really I don't sleep much) because if something were to happen I know I'd be able to pay for the costs. Or would I? Anyways I haven't had this much money in a long time and I think it's a good time to start saving. First of all I have to save a bit to be able to pay back my student loan once I graduate. I still have a long way to go but once I start working I don't think it's gonna be a problem.

On top of that I was able to get a new internship at our local university. I'm going in one of their many offices as a PC support kind of person. All I know is that it's going to be more about customer service than technical stuff, even though there's going to be some of that as well. That was actually my personal wish. So far all my part-time jobs have been about customer service so why not further practice my skills in the field? I'm really excited but at the same time I'm terrified! Well, I was terrified the last time as well but it'll get easier after I meet the staff and get to know the place. Anyways, wish me luck!

 Johan Falk

Are you a fan of Swedish crime? If you are, you better look up Johan Falk. It has a total of 20 films starting from 1999, but the first one I saw was produced in 2009. According to Wikipedia that's supposed to be the fourth film. I borrowed 12 films from my father and so far we've watched two of them. All I can say is that I'm hooked! The themes are somewhat dark and violent but there is some humour as well. The story is basically about this police officer Johan Falk who is transferred from Europol to a Swedish police group GSI (Gruppen för Särkskilda Insatser) with unconventional ways of handling things. In the first film we are also introduced to a young lad involved in a dangerous gang but it is not clear whether he's a bad guy or not... I won't tell anything else since that would be spoiling already! Since it's Friday night I'm really looking forward to continuing the film series.

 

A bit of this and that

Hey all!

This time I'm going to write about this and that. Nothing much has been going around really. I work two to three times a week and on my free time I try to spend time with friends and hobbies. Also I'm looking for places where to do my internship. Seriously I could be so close to graduating if not for the internship... It also appears that I'm missing a single credit after I get everything else done so I was thinking about taking a language course of some sort. Preferably Japanese or French, or Russian.

  

Starbound!

So this is a game that I played very enthusiastically a couple years back. In fact me and my brother and a couple friends of his were waiting for its release and the second it came out we started downloading and installing! It's still in development so it's getting updates every once in a while, but I think it's in very good shape right now. On top of that it's very pretty to look at and I think the creatures you're fighting in the game are very cute... For instance some of the creatures aren't hostile at all and tend to be super cute and sometimes I kill one by accident and wail in agony for doing so... Silly me. Anyways I played for 15 hours or so after almost a two year break and well, it started to get very boring quickly. I'm looking forward to playing co-op with my brother though, perhaps that's more fun.

 Tuuttimörkö!

 

Even though I had to work on Sunday, we went to see a gig at a local bar. When I listened to Tuuttimörkö at home I wasn't sure if I'd like their music, but live they were amazing. I really had a great time and even though we were supposed to leave afterwards we stayed for a few drinks to chat with out friends. Even though I didn't have much to drink I was pretty tired at work... But definitely worth it!

 Something I wasn't gonna share but here goes...

I am so sick and tired of a friend couple that I'm slowly starting to lose my mind. I've tried to be helpful and supportive but I don't think that anything I say or do is going to work. This mess has been going on for as long as I've known them, which is almost three years so I don't think there's any point to going to the start of their problems. But anyways, their marriage is a mess. The husband is a complete mad man and my friend is too kind and blinded by her love that she won't leave him. He beats her, abuses her verbally and cheats on her. The reason why I'm so fucking pissed is that he straight on told me that he wants to have sex with other women and after telling me that he went on trying to hit on me. And the bastard really thought I'd rather have sex with a disgusting, filthy animal rather than my own loving fiance? Fucking swine. Fucking idiot, piece of shit. And my friend just laughs and says, oh, I don't know what to do with him. What you do is you leave his good for nothing ass as you've tried to do gazillion times before. Nothing's gonna change, he isn't gonna change so what's the point? Oh, the last time she was going to leave him he "changed" for a couple of weeks and returned to normal right afterwards. Even though their relationship has got nothing to do with me they've somehow dragged me right in the middle of it and I don't like it one bit. And now my friend has slowly started to drag other people into their problems. Jeez I am just so mad. Well I already told my friend I don't want to have anything to do with her husband so that's surely gonna complicate things a bit between us all.

Sorry for opening up like that but I just had to get it off my chest. I don't give a damn at this point who reads this since everybody involved already knows about their goddamn problems. Fuckity fuck.

Anyways, to lighten up the mood enjoy this cute picture of a piggy from an anime I recently started watching.

I saw Ghost!

Ghost @ The Circus, Helsinki 9.11.2015

 I think I had the most interesting Monday in my life this week! Me, my fiance and two of our friends went to Helsinki to see Ghost! I can tell it was an amazing concert since after a good gig I can't stop thinking about the band. I mean even now all I can think about is Ghost. I listen to their music, watch their interviews and live performances, and I just can't get enough of them. So now, all I need is Ghost ;-)

So how did I get into this band? Last summer I went to Provinssi Rock with the same group of friends as last Monday in Helsinki. We were staying at a friend's friend's place who was so kind to let us sleep on his couches. So before even going to the festival site we were listening to different kinds of bands and our host told us about a band called Ghost. The whole concept felt a bit funny at first since they're a metal band with heavy satanic references. But once we heard a couple of songs, we were all hooked! Our host told us that Ghost was going to play at a festival in Finland that summer but we didn't know the band so well at that time so we turned the idea down. Once we got back to our hometown, I looked the band up and that's how the love story begun... Not long after we heard that Ghost is coming to Finland again in November so we got tickets immediately! Even though it was only around three months the waiting felt like ages.

Unfortunately you can't really see anything from the photos I took. I took videos from nearly every song but my damn Huawei ruined the sound. Oh well, at least I have the experience in my memory.

What we were surprised about was how talkative Papa Emeritus was. We expected him to stay quiet and only influence the audience with his presence. In fact he was absolutely charming and at times I could feel my cheeks heat up a bit. He was funny in his own way and I was constantly snickering at his remarks. I hadn't paid much attention to their US tour so I had no idea what their show was going to be like. When Papa changed clothes and took off the priest's robes I was absolutely stunned... and charmed!

The night was amazing up until we left the venue. It was raining and after 30 minutes of wandering around we had no idea how to get to our car. We parked in a parking hall underneath Kamppi and Forum, two shopping malls located in the center of Helsinki. There were dozens of entrances to the place but of course in the middle of the night most of them were closed. Finally, we found a number we could call and we were helped into the right direction. But jeez, door after door and closed elevator after another I really started to freak out. Thankfully we were back home at around 3AM.

 

Anyways, all the thanks go to Ghost and the whole crew. In an Instagram picture showing their no. 1 Finnish record and a bottle of Finlandia vodka, they mention that those who didn't make it to their November gig will have a chance next summer... Hell yes! We'll be there for sure.

Thanks for reading and if you're at all curious, go to Youtube and search for songs Cirice, He Is and Jigolo Har Meggido.

 

A couple of games

It's been a while, hasn't it?

The main reason is that I haven't had much to write about. I started my apprenticeship at the city's IT-services a few weeks ago and that's pretty much all I've been thinking about lately... that and games actually. So I have tons of (not quite, 169 in my steam library) games but sometimes I feel like I've got nothing to play. Familiar feeling? That goes for clothes too... But now, I've picked random Steam games that I've been meaning to play but haven't gotten to it until now. There are quite a lot of them so I'll try to be brief.

Mutant Mudds Deluxe

So the first game is an old school platformer with a twist; you can travel from dimension to another, e.g. from the background to the foreground. The game really has hours of gameplay because the stages get extremely difficult as you progress, at least for me... You have regular stages and from those you can enter extra ones. On top of that you have so called 'ghost stages' that are similar to the regular ones, only they are more difficult and you can't hurt the enemies. I've played it some buuuuut, it just gets so frustrating when you enter the extra stages.

 Data Hacker: Reboot

 Data Hacker: Reboot is a role-playing game made with RPGmaker and it has a special kind of Japanese vibe. Perhaps its the characters. Oh and they even have voice acting! Anyways I haven't really understood the story yet but what I've figured is that the worlds are collapsing and people are being dropped into this virtual reality that's also being attacked by some virus-like monsters. The main character, who's also in the picture above, is looking for his sister by using these so called world shards to enter different worlds. Really, I have no clue. That's where all the cool stuff ends. I need to grind so much that I constantly feel like I'm not making any progress. Grinding can be fun, I love grinding in some games, but in Data Hacker it just feels like I've been playing for 20 hours instead of four... I'll get back to it when I can but playing it now feels too heavy.

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

This is a tower defense game so it requires some strategy, which I usually lack. Somehow, I've still managed and I love this game! At times it becomes very stressful but most of the times I triumph in battle! I even like the story; it's original and a classic battle against evil. So the main character is a librarian of a royal court, and she gets thrown into a huge pit or valley where all plague victims end up. The twist here, is that all plague victims in this story end up turning into zombie-like creatures. Our main character is about to turn into one as well, but instead she magically finds a way to battle these 'revenant'. She meets friends from different fighting classes on her journey to discover what is going on. I've enjoyed the game immensely, seriously, play it. I suck at strategy games but Defender's Quest is a lot of fun!

 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

Gotta love anime-styled RPGs, right? Recettear tells the story of a young girl who is left behind by his adventure-crazed father. All is good, until a fairy-loanshark comes along and tells our heroine to pay his father's debts! So, Recette opens up her own store! Your task is to get enough money at the end of every week, by buying low and selling high! You can also go dungeon looting, which requires the company of an adventurer. I played this game a long time ago and I remember having huge problems meeting the deadline every week. I decided to try again and now it's going smoothly! I really like this game but it can get a little repetitive quickly.

Hero Siege

 Yet another game that can get a little repetitive but more about that later. Hero Siege is a rogue-styled adventure game. Your mission is to hack enemies into pieces, level up and loot all kinds of riches. And of course to kill Satan's son, that is probably the final boss of the game. I've had fun with it, but like I said it gets a bit boring at some point. For instance I went into this secret level with hundreds of killer-sheep in it, I had probably all the possible bonuses on and I rocked the level. Oh, and leveled up quite a bit. The next levels were all rainbows and kisses instead of harsh blows and bloodied grass, well not quite but you get my point. You're supposed to start every level very helpless, but you can cheat that by grinding earlier levels. And what's the point of that...

Long Live The Queen

I am so addicted to this game! But it's so darn difficult... In this raising simulator your task is to aid a young princess on her way to coronation. Her mother has just died so she's feeling depressed and lonely. In fact, the mood she's in affects what bonuses and penalties she gets while studying. For instance when she's feeling happy, she's best at conversation and athletics. On top of that, every skill has three subskills that you can level up to 100%. If I counted correctly, there are in total 42 skills!! For instance, on my first gameplay I concentrated on military skills and Intrigue (internal/foreign affairs, ciphering) and thought that no one can hurt us now! Then I embarrass myself at a ball, since my character doesn't know anything about dancing, royal manners, flattery, decoration and the list goes on... And then she dies of a poisoned chocolate because she doesn't know anything about medicine! Oh, she only knows how to crypt secret messages and command an army... So frustrating, but I have to keep playing!

So sorry for the long post but yeah, I've been gaming a lot lately. I'll have a break on Saturday because some of our relatives are coming over. I'm baking and I hope everybody's going to have a good time.

Thank you for reading and see you next time!

What Our Weekend Was Like

So what's been happening?

This entry isn't going to have a certain theme but instead I'm just going to tell a little about our weekend. Nothing too exciting, but I do have some pictures to show!

FRIDAY

On Wednesday I went to the so called "Crazy Days" that a big Finnish retail chain holds every once in a while. I could've been in and out in less than 2 hours but since I went there with Rami's two older sisters, it took us more than five hours... God I wore the worst shoes possible for shopping so my legs were in terrible pain the time I got home. Anyways I don't think the prices actually go crazy low, but I did make some cool finds. I bought a yoga mat for around 12€, a nice cardigan for 20€, some spices 1€ per shaker, 450g of goat cheese for 5€ and the reason I'm telling all this, I bought 500g of salmon for around 5€. Since fresh fish is terribly expensive most of the time I've made all these excuses for why I haven't made sushi before, but now I got the inspiration to do some Japanese cooking!

 So here they are, my very first homemade sushi! I used specially made sushi vinegar that I mixed with the rice, and for the fillings I used salmon, cucumber, avocado and cream cheese. I must say that they were very delicious. All the ingredients cost me around 30€. That's quite expensive but since we had to purchase EVERYTHING, it does cost a bit. Next time it'll be a bit cheaper though.

On Friday we were supposed to eat lots of sushi, drink a bit of wine and relax with Rami. We did that, yeah, but we also had a little company. Our good friend Saija used to live close by with her boyfriend Antti, but they moved last spring and we haven't seen each other that often anymore. So that's why it was so wonderful she called and asked if she could come by. We listened to music, ate sushi and drank wine the whole night. We were supposed to stay in but we ended up going in one of the local pubs. It was nice though, I got to dance a little bit and sing karaoke. We even had a conversation with this Romanian guy that we seem to see everywhere, and we got to know a little about his life despite the language barrier. I don't think he understood my English at all...

 

I almost forgot about this photo! We're all going into different Halloween parties this year and the big question is, what are we going as? So in my drunkenness I realized that I once bought a Cookie Monster costume from eBay. The only problem is that it's too small. I'm 176cm tall and I purposely bought a suit that's for 180cm tall, and I thought that'd be enough but no... It's probably just fine for a 165cm tall person. I'll come up with something else, but since I was a bit tipsy I decided to try on the costume anyways and take a selfie. Yeah...

SATURDAY

Terrible, terrible hangover... I've been going low carb for over a week now and despite Friday being a bit of a cheat day, I got drunk so fast. Even at the pub I was only drinking water, in the beginning... So me and Rami took it easy really. We were invited to go barbecuing with two friends on a lake, but what the heck it's less than 10 degrees outside?? Obviously we didn't go since walking 4km felt like too much at the time. Even our friends didn't spend that much time there at the lake. But in the evening they decided to visit and brought a little meat with them. It was yummy and in return we offered them some sushi. Once they left we went to sleep almost immediately.

SUNDAY

There's not much to tell about today. It's been more of a cleaning day, doing laundry and dishes and so on. We visited my grandma shortly and went grocery shopping. Rami's actually cooking right now and I was supposed to help but this is taking more time than it should. Anyways, I'm just waiting for tomorrow and I'm freaking out a bit. My three-month apprenticeship is going to begin and I'm terrified since one of my tasks is going to be educating city employees on information security. I am not a presentation-giving-type of person at all... But I'm just going to think that it's only three months and if 3 years can fly by like "where the heck did the time go", then so will the freaking three months. Hopefully I will learn a lot from the experience.

Thank you for reading again and I shall leave you with this picture of Lilla My!

 

 

Food and music

Good morning!

I actually feel a lot better now that I've slept a little longer. A whopping seven hours instead of just four! Anyways I've already made some arrangements and I'm finally going low carb again (but not high fat). In high school I lost over 10 kilos by cutting on carbs and exercising regularly. Back then I was normal weight and proportional and I hated my body, but now I actually have a reason to lose weight. I've known it for a while now but on the weekend I tried to take one of my rings of and it wouldn't come off. We tried olive oil, cold water and all things slippery to make it come off but all I got were awful burns. So yeah, that's when I decided I need to do something. I have no idea how much I weigh because our scale can't make up it's mind. For instance before we moved I weighed myself and the result was what I expected. A week later I tried again and it showed 5 kilos less. I was happy but then it started showing 10 kilos more! Today I weighed myself and I was again in the starting point where I was before we moved. So no trusting the scale!

 This was my breakfast today + coffee. The bread is delicious but it was a pain in the ass to make. It contains some carrots, seeds, two eggs and spices. I boiled the carrots and I thought that why not try the old blender I got from my stepmom. And nothing, the carrots just lay there in one piece and nothing happened. I decide to do it by hand but I realize that the only thing I can smash the carrots with is a fucking fork. I do that for two minutes and go FUUCK this shit, Rami is looking a bit worried over my sudden mood swing, but I then proceed to trying a mixer. That goes a little better but in the end the mixture's not smooth at all and I was a bit worried. In the end it turned out alright even though I made a horrible mess in my anger. But tasty breakfast nevertheless, even though I have no idea what to eat for the rest of the day!

The real reason I'm writing

Since k-pop has become very popular recently you may know the band I'm about to talk about. It's BIGBANG, or just Big Bang like it was back when I listened to them a lot. I remember paying a crazy amount of money for two of their albums, that also contained cool stuff like messages in Korean, stickers and whatnot. The album covers were huge and funnily shaped and they had holograms! How awesome is that... I even wanted a t-shirt but back then it was crazy expensive like I mentioned. I listened to BIGBANG in middle and high school but since then I've kept a small break. I've listened to some new songs afterwards, I really liked Fantastic Baby, but that is nothing compared to what I discovered yesterday.

 Hoooly moly! These guys are killing it and I love it! I will definitely continue listening to them more often in the future. I went absolutely crazy about this song yesterday and I couldn't go to sleep since I needed to watch the video over and over and over again. The dance version is very cool as well and I was planning on showing it to my Zumba instructor. It has a few zumbaish moves so it would be kick ass to dance to this song! The first thing I did when I woke up was turn on this song and DANCE!

From left to right: T.O.P, Seungri, G-Dragon, Daesung, Taeyang. (So you know who I'm talking about)

And wow. My favourite was always T.O.P and he is still handsome, but dang what happened to Seungri and Taeyang!? Especially Taeyang, damn he is hot if I may say so! That all goes for everyone but Daesung... He makes that cool head bang at the end but still not as cool as the rest of the band. And cut your hair young man! I don't need to mention G-Dragon, since he is amazing, a true mastermind and super hot in his own quirky way. Love you Gee.

Shortly said, BIGBANG is back and I am effin' excited. Perhaps I'm a bit late as usual, but I'm happy I found this great song that has inspired me to stay tuned.

Thanks for reading again and I'll be back with new stuff soon in the future!

 

Time for some photos!

Good morning all!

Do you ever leave your bedroom in the morning, enter the darkness groggily but somehow satisfied after a good sleep? Your first thought is water, but suddenly there in the darkness a microsecond later your next thoughts include boogieman or bughuul from Sinister, that creepy girl from Grudge, possessed Regan from the Exorcist, Michael Myers and the list goes on... It's funny how the brain works. I then proceeded cautiously into the kitchen, turned on the lights and turned around to see if something or someone was lurking behind me. Most of these stories end happily and you laugh at yourself a bit afterwards, and that's exactly what happened to me for the millionth of time. Seriously, I'm still a bit freaked out by Sinister 2 even though it's been a couple of weeks since we saw it in the theater. I watched the trailer again and it wasn't as terrible as the rest of the film, because they included cheerful music in it! I think I'm more traumatized by the music in the film than the jump scares and disturbing images.

Got a bit sidetracked...

So I took some photos yesterday. I usually take pictures, mostly for Instagram and Facebook with my Huawei phone, but recently I've started to use my good old Panasonic pocket camera. The pictures aren't that great but decent enough for me and my budget!

 So these two pictures of my cat Lilla My (Little My from the Moomins) are really funny in my opinion. I actually tried to record her snoring because it sounds so cute but I failed dramatically. She then woke up, looked at me and the camera and as usual started to moan or groan in this terrible sound you wouldn't imagine a cute lady cat making. Seriously, everybody who meets her tells me how weird or terrible she sounds! But it's normal, she always reacts to the camera this way. MEEEOOOOO What is that? Why point it at me? What's it do? MEOOOO Tell me right now!! Notice how her mouth is just a bit open? She's just stopped meowing! Such a talkative cat sometimes.

 I nearly missed the chance of taking this photo. Me and Rami were out on the balcony smoking (even though we shouldn't, our families don't know we still smoke a bit) when we noticed how lovely the skyline looked that evening. I decided to smoke my cigarette, grab my camera and take the picture. That only took around three minutes but meanwhile the pink had nearly faded away. Thankfully I do have photo editing tools (crappy online ones, don't have a license to Photoshop at the moment...) so I was able to make the colors pop up a bit. The tool I'm using doesn't have the option to emphasize a certain color scheme, like blue and pink in this picture, so I had to use curves.Thankfully the rest of the photo was dark, otherwise it wouldn't have looked natural. I was missing some other useful tools I would've liked to use but perhaps in the future I'm going to have Photoshop. Dad mentioned something about not using his Photoshop license and giving it off to me...

That's it for now! I'm fully awake now and it's 5AM (woke up little before 4) but I'm going to have a long day so I should probably sleep a bit more at some point. We are going to Rami's sisters place today and those evenings always stretch into the wee hours of the night. I have to work on Sunday so I definitely need to sleep some more today. And as always (sounding like MatPat from Game Theory...) thanks for watch... reading. 

Food entry!

Hello all! 

I've had an incredibly boring day. I woke up quite early, 5:30AM to be exact and since then I've switched from one activity to another every 30 minutes or so. It's a frustrating feeling when you have lots of time at your hands but don't know what activities you'd enjoy at that moment. I've tried playing The Sims 3, going through my Steam library, reading and watching Netflix. Nothing felt enjoyable so I decided to write a bit. Writing has suddenly become extremely fun!

Sooo, food!

Me and Rami have lived together for two months now and cooking has become an enjoyable every day activity that we share together. While living alone I rarely made any effort in cooking my meals and most of the time I was content with my instant noodles... But now that I cook together with someone I'm willing to try different kinds of recipes. Also, my cooking has a meaning now since I know that someone else is going to share the food with me and I definitely want them to enjoy it as much as possible! Like during the time I didn't have a laundry machine so I had to use my dad's; I was washing laundry at his and his fiance´s place when they decided to go grocery shopping and left the cooking to me. So, pasta and sauce. I was so nervous about cooking a good meal that I ended up overdoing it a bit but at the same time I probably made the best pasta sauce to day. To be honest it was a lucky experiment and they had just the correct ingredients in the fridge. My step-mum frequently asks me when I'm going to cook for them again, which is nice!

What I've also noted is that our cooking needs variety. I was partly vegetarian for five years meaning that I sometimes ate fish and chicken, but I avoided red meat. It wasn't a moral choice, I just felt like we ate so much meat at home that after meals I felt ill and tired. During the time I mostly ate food consisting of soy and veggies. I haven't cooked meals out of soy in a long time, until now. And I fell in love with the ingredient, again. When I suggested that let's use soy in our pasta sauce, just for variety, Rami was a bit unsure at first. He said he'd never liked the taste of soy but with proper seasoning I made him change his mind! I don't think he's lying either, since he's eaten my soy-filled meals with such ferocity! On top of that using soy is extremely cheap. Using cheap ground meat in our meals, like in pasta sauce costs between 2 and 3 euros. We eat that pasta sauce for two days and the package contains 400g of meat, a combination of pork and cow. 2-3€ doesn't sound that expensive but wait 'til you hear about soy. I bought a 500g pack of soy and so far I've made 4 meals using soy and it's taken aroung 130g. This package cost me 3,50€. So what do I choose? Red meat that is more expensive, or soy that is cheaper and equally tasty? I think you know the answer.

Picture time!

 

So the pot full of vegetables was actually going to be a 5 litre soup! It contained cabbage, carrots, paprika, celery, onions, tomato mash and spices. Unfortunately I think that no matter how much flavoring I added it didn't taste that good. If the ingredients sound familiar, this recipe is actually for a diet soup! My grandmother was talking about it so I decided to give it a try, but I must say that on the third day I told Rami that enough, we are getting a pizza!

 Here is a pasta sauce made out of soy. I still remember how incredibly good that meal tasted... The vegetables were especially tasty! Even though I'm always talking about pasta sauce we never eat pasta. We eat a lot of rice. I tried to eat brown rice for about a year since I thought it could be healthier, but I hate the taste of it so much that I decided to change back to white rice when we moved in together. I don't regret my choice since white rice is so amazing... I could eat it bare with only a bit of sriracha sauce on the side (done that a lot when tight on money!).

 It was actually this week that Rami introduced me to an ingredient called 'quinoa'. I was visiting my dad's mother over the weekend (my mum's mum is the one who recommended the soup) and I was positive that Rami isn't going to get any cooking done during that time. I was surprised to hear that he had eaten quinoa and chicken. At that time I had no idea what quinoa was, but after the weekend when he suggested we eat it again, I was introduced to one of my current favourite food ingredients! I don't know how to describe the taste of it, but it needs a bit of flavouring. It's texture is very similar to couscous. I ate this meal yesterday and it had quinoa with a creamy chicken and vegetable sauce. It's incredibly tasty! We already used up our package of quinoa and it's quite expensive to buy here in Finland. I'm not sure if any other company is selling it, but we had 'Go Green' labeled quinoa. We are planning on purchasing quinoa online from iHerb. It must be Rami's favourite site since we are constantly receiving packages from iHerb. And they call me a shopaholic...

Anyways, thank you for reading and I'll be returning with other topics in the future! 

 

A little about the Sims 3

Hiya!

It's only been around 6 hours since I posted my last entry but I couldn't sleep, so I decided to write something. I've had terrible nightmares about my friend's situation and I just couldn't fall back asleep after waking up at 5AM. I could hear Rami's alarm go off just now, so I'm going to have breakfast with him and then I'll continue!

Here I am again! I found a handy little web photo editing app which I tried with a few of my Sims 3 screenshots. So I decided to make a post about my current game. I hadn't played for over two years before I started to play a couple of weeks ago. I tried The Sims 4 during the summer when it was free for a couple of days on Origin, but I didn't like it at all. So I'm definitely going to stick with The Sims 3 until something better comes out.

 I own almost all of the expansion packs as well. I think I'm missing Ambitions, Showtime, Into the Future and Island Paradise. I was planning on buying the latter one from the UK when I have extra money. The only expansion pack that is somewhat worthless I'd say is Night Life. If you don't play with the city that comes with the pack then it's all pretty much useless. Okay, you can be a celebrity, but in my opinion the whole system is a pain in the ass.

 

But anyways, this is the sim I began with, Suzanne Compton. And look at that little pug she's holding! What a sweet heart. Anyways her lifetime wish was to raise 5 children from baby to teenager. She completed her lifetime wish by having two sets of twins and later on an individual one, all of them girls.

And here is the sim she married, Jared Frio, believe it or not. The wonders mods can do... Anyways they had two little dogs that were very good at hunting plus 5 girls and busy jobs, so they were obviously quite occupied all the time. Jared's lifetime wish was to become a 5-star celebrity chef and that's exactly what he became.

 And here's Jacqueline. She was a vampire for some while but then I got tired with the idea that she's going to live for generations... but I got a mod to fix that so actually I could turn her into a vampire again! Anyways she was the younger one of the second set of twins. Her twin sister is also a vampire, so yeah. Her lifetime wish is to become a Forensic Specialist and she's yet to complete that wish in my current game. On the other hand one of her traits is being a genius and I'm trying to achieve the "all uni degrees-achievement". So far she's done well and she already has 5 degrees. So no worries with the lifetime wish, it's a piece of cake!

 I usually play according to what my sims wish for and that includes relationships and romances. When Jacqueline went to college the first person she was attracted to was a girl, namely this girl Joanie in the picture she's kissing! Of course there's the worry of continuing the family line since I don't want to adopt only, but thankfully there are mods! By the way, Joanie wants to master the social networking skill and create a 5-star-blog, and that is incredibly slow and tiring in my opinion!

And here's Jacqueline and Joanie's first born daughter, whose name I'm going to check later. I'm going to be playing with her later on even though she just got an adorable little sister. She already has a lifetime wish, which is to master the alchemy skill and also create and use 50 potions. It sounded interesting and fun, so I decided to go for it! I'm also going to turn her into a witch when I finally find a potion for that.

That's that for now and I hope you weren't too bored. I'll probably write about The Sims 3 every once in a while but I'll try not to do that every second entry! Thank you for reading and see you again!

First entry!

First entry on this new blog

Hello strangers! Nobody probably knows but I've been here on Blogspot ever since 2010, despite being very inactive. I got inspired by a friend today and decided to start blogging again, only to find out I've got 5 year old entries, in Finnish. So, much better to start from scratch, right?

Anyways, I am going to write and post pictures about my life. The main themes are going to be my personal life, my little family consisting of my fiance (Rami) and my cat (Lilla My), nature, video games and films. And probably a whole bunch of other things I come up with in the process.

I just wrote a long story that I decided to delete after reading it through tens of times. My close friend is in a very tough situation which involves domestic violence - physical, mental and social. But instead of concentrating on the problem I thought it would be stupid to reveal everything online - no one probably reads about it or connects the dots, but I want to be on the safe side. What I do want to mention is that I feel sick. I am so worried and stressed for her that I could puke. I'm just going to do everything I can do to make things better for her.

Anyways, I was about to lighten up the mood with an amusing picture of Ethan Bunch from the Sims 3, but apparently my phone decided that my cool, edited photos from Instagram aren't shared on Google photos, I can't transfer them to my PC through bluetooth, neither can I do that manually soooo, fuck it. Instead, have this unedited one. And it's not a square :'-(

 Haha just look at him!! "Dat pie, mmm dat pie I wantz right now." And the other guy's like "Duuude, haven't you heard of gluten-free?"

I wish to keep this little hobby a regular thing and hopefully my ramblings will interest someone, somewhere at some point. Thanks a bunch for reading and hear from you later!