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!