I love my crazy family ( Read more... )

..you do NOT write to-do lists for Christmas, even if they mostly involve cooking and baking! Lay off already!

On Wednesday I wrote my last exam for my major. Now I'm only missing one comparative literature essay and one exam and I'll have a BA, even if I didn't originally intend to get any sort of degree from the Faculty of Arts ( Read more... )

This morning I got dressed up in my vintage 50s Sunday finery for Miss I's Sunday club brunch. Perfect amber October sunshine, fresh air, yellow crunchy leaves under my heels and swing music in my headphones (my only concession to modernity today ( Read more... )

Tänään oli kiva päivä ( Read more... )

last week i had post-work drinks that morphed into an all-out dinner with A, a girl who's a friend-of-a-friend, outer-rim-of-my-social-circle sort of an acquaintance. it was one of those serendipitous dates that you go to expecting nothing much, but which turn into greatness in the laughing and waving your hands and finishing each other's sentences ( Read more... )

one of the things that make me the happiest right now is hanging out with O, the oldest-of-old friends ( Read more... )

..are for biking through the town with a big bunch of sunflowers bought on a whim at the market ( Read more... )

It's a right old Aino/Una weekend, one of those you can spend napping and lying in wicker chairs drinking tea and watching old movies, wearing PJ pants and fuzzy pink socks, only leaving the house to get gelato and for midnight walks around Solln. Today, though, we're going dancing and we're not coming back before it's light out.

Having always been drawn to danger and daring escapades, I've picked up a new hobby started a clandestine operation. My apartment has become a hotbed of insurgent activity, a guerrilla cell of one, transforming boring flowerbeds into herb gardens one at a time ( Read more... )