Happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear Henna,
happy birthday to you!

Yaaaaay! <3

O hai! Long time, no blog!

I haven’t read any Harry Potters, I find him to be teh sux. I tend to read bit “easy” literature these days, some detective books, and now I finished the Icelandic one Draining Lake (Mýrin). It was actually quite good, and it was funky to read a detective book located on my old neighborhood.

Our new neighborhood is not really exciting, except for the freaky, freaky thing that we have twins living next door. And the creepy part is that they’re two ladies, two old (cirka 70yo) ladies, who look the same and live together.

I haven’t seen any good movies lately, only really bad ones, in our bad movies club. Last ones we watched with Japa were Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans, and I do have to say, they are the worst ones I’ve ever seen in my life. Take my word, do not watch them.

We got bit of a busy month, a lot of birthdays, fathersday and one wedding (before you ask, no, not ours).
Other than that it’s just work and chilling for me. Oh, and Wrath of the Lich King soon!

Take care! Be safe and warm!

I’ve finished the Harry Potter books. It didn’t take too long really, I was expecting more books, more of the wonderful adventures of Harry and his red-haired and ill-tempered friends.
Overall the story was decent and entertaining and even though it’s meant for a slightly younger audience, it kept me quite entertained. That might also be my simple brain.
Now I’m in a bit of a trouble though since I’ve finished all of the Terry Pratchett books and all of the Harry Potter books, what happens now?
I really don’t like to read books that are not a part of a series, mainly because I like to get to know the characters and I don’t want to meet new main characters in every book, bit similar to the real life

If you have any suggestions for a book-series to read, please do share!

The work-hunt is still going without any real results, but with the money I get for studying Finnish I think we should be able to get by. At least until I find a job.
In other news is that there are no news. Things here are going rather well except for the work thing, which just has to sort out one day.
We live our quiet lives, in our quiet neighborhood with our quiet neighbors. It’s quite quiet Which is a welcomed change from 101 Reykjavík.

For now, I’m out.. But I shall return!

Hi!
I was supposed to start in a day-time Finnish course today so I woke up before the birds and went to the school, only to find out that my class does not start until next month because they want to put me to speedy-course.. Let’s hope they are right and I can keep up!
It’s kind of a shame that I couldn’t start today because it can get quite boring and restless when I have nothing to do except wait for answers about job-applications and refreshing the local job-hunting websites. Even Olga sleeps like 18 hours a day now.
Maybe I should start writing a book in my spare-time!

We went to Vääksy over the weekend which was extremely nice. Good food, good sauna, good people, good weather, good town, good moose-crossing-the-road-that-almost-killed-us-all (but thanks to Kristian’s excellent reflex and driving skills we are still alive and kicking today).
At least I got to see a moose

I haven’t been very active in the blog-world lately, mostly because life is pretty uneventful at the moment. I’m just applying for alot of jobs and getting less responses than I hoped for, which is getting a bit on my nerves at the moment, since our savings in Iceland are running lower.

Although, I _did_ go play basketball last weekend which was pretty cool.
Then I’ve been doing a little programming, but nothing fancy and only for myself so the code is all badly commented (not really) and badly written (true up to a point).
I’m planning to go on a picture-taking trip around Lahti sometime soon and I’ll post some new pictures for you. I’m just waiting for the right weather, the past few days have been pretty gray not unlike Iceland but the difference is.. there’s no wind!

Until next time, be safe and don’t let the bedbugs bite!

I’m getting a little bit restless these days. I think it might have something to do with the fact that the job-hunt is going slow and the economy in Iceland is going bonkers.
We still have some savings there that we’re going to need soonish and I’ve been thinking if we should withdraw them and keep them as cash with relatives in Iceland, since I don’t really trust that the government will ensure the savings.. Well, at least it’s better to be safe than sorry,  right?

I went out to take some pictures yesterday, nothing special but it was nice to have a bit of a walk and think about something else than “what could go wrong”

Also, I’m using this as an excuse to try out this gallery plugin that I got from the wide wide world of web.

Goodbye for now!

The job in Espoo didn’t work out after all, apparently they had some candidates with some fancy university degrees applying as well

Oh well, I’m not going to let that drag me down. I’m just going to keep looking and maybe I’ll even find something a little bit closer to Lahti

Other than that, not much news. Olga is sleeping, guinea’s are eating and we’re generally happy.

I went to the psychological test on monday, all alone in the big city of Helsinki! I went by train too!
It was a 6 hour test and consisted of measuring logical thinking, mathematical thinking, understanding written stuff, an interview and a ink blot test.

All in all it went good, except for the mathematical part.. I had some sort of a blockage there. In the inkblot test I saw a bat, a dragon, a flower, a dress, a fat lady on a mopet and lots of insects.
The lady who was taking down the inkblot test laughed a little, I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing

The result will be mailed to me on friday or on monday and they’re going to mail it to the company as well and after that the company will decide if they want to hire me or not. So, fingers crossed!

Bai for now!

We went to the big city for the job-interview and we made it out alive!
The interview itself went quite good I think and they told me that they would have to discuss things and then they would contact me this week.
The very next day I got an email from them telling that they would like to have me working for them, but before I can do that I have to pass a psychological test Probably to make sure I won’t go postal in there.
I was just thinking how shocking it would be if that would come out bad, “Yea, you are mental.. Oh, and you don’t get the job”
So, now I have to book an appointment with the head-doctor and then I have to return to the big city. Apparently the  test takes around 6 hours and from what I’ve heard they ask you all kinds of weird questions, like “Would you like to sail around the world, alone?” and “Do you like it when you have water on your toes?”.
It’s going to be quite interesting.

And the day after I got home from the interview, another company contacted me and wants me for an interview, but to be honest it’s not nearly as exciting as the place I’ve just been to!

Voi hyvin, nääkemin!

There’s not awfully much happening right now, I’m having a job interview in Espoo later today and I’ll post how that went a bit later on
But I’ve added some pictures that we took in Lahti over the weekend. You can see them here