Saturday morning weirdness

It's been a very busy week. I haven't had any free days during the whole week. But today is gonna be great! ♥ We're going out to eat with the girls, to Santa Fe, to celebrate Ktiraam's late birthday! And straight from there I am coming home to spend the night with my viking. ♥ We have some wine and I'm gonna make some sushi. ^___^

Today started a little sticky though. XD I woke up and made the bed, realizing after I had put everything in place, that actually everything was not in place: I had forgotten the pad mattresses from under the sheet. UGH! I had to rip everything off and start from the beginning. XD
Then I went to the shower and decided not to wash my hair because it was clean, I had just washed it yesterday. The next thing I realized; I was lathering my hair with shampoo! UGH2! XD So now my hair is extra clean. ^^;
Then I went to make breakfast, lifting the cheese, butter and other stuff out of the refrigerator to make my breakfast bread. But I couldn't find the turkey-clippings from anywhere, I emptied the whole refrigerator and cursed aloud when I realized I had taken the turkey out from there at the beginning and it was in front of me the whole time! UGH3! X3

I ate and watched some TV and tired as I still was, decided to take a little nap. I drifted off to sleep, dreaming I was still living in my childhood home (I dream of it almost nightly), then I woke up, but soon realized I was still dreaming, because I was still in my old room. I woke up as I realized I was dreaming, but it was all very confusing, I was still in my old room, which, for a moment, seemed completely normal.
And then I woke up for the third time, realizing it was still all a dream, and when I had woken up, it had actually been within the dream. UGH4!
When I was actually awake, I was so bleary and out of it that it took almost half an hour to get up. And now I have to hurry to go to meet the girls. Now I'm just wondering... what next? ;P

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! XD

My new course started. The one for depressed and anxious people. We've had it two times now (friday and monday) and I'm getting excited. There are 7 other "pupils" (aged 26-60) and the teacher/leader. All the people there are suffering from depression and different kind of anxiety disorders and stuff. All have different backgrounds and some are recovering alcoholics/drug addicts.

We do all kind of really weird assignments, like introducing ourselves by selecting toys that we can identify with, drawing our emotions with coloured crayons and acting out scenes from our childhood. I am constantly scared, even horrified, because you have to talk about your deepest secrets in front of 7 other people... but at the same time, the course seems really fun! You get to know new people and do things you never dreamed you would do.

The teacher is a little hippyish, but I don't really mind. The rest of the group works well and so far I get along with everyone there. The issue, once again is, that I am the shyest one. But it doesn't seem to be a problem, not so far. There are other quiet ones too.

Later on the fall we'll get to go to the theater and a concert for free too! So I'm gonna stick with the group even though sometimes it feels just too exhausting. Last time we spent the last hour just sitting in a circle and staring at the floor in a quiet room, everyone was so tired. XD

... I also met my lifestyle change guide today and she was really happy with my results. So far I've lost 6 kg's (13,2 Lbs) in 1,5 months. Which is Cooooooooooool! :D :D :D Tomorrow I'm meeting my psychiatrist and I have a lot of good news for her too. I feel good. ^_^

Now to cook and then a nap, a walk and some good reading. Wheeeee! ^_^
New pics? I got one to show:

My punk faery! ^_^
... this might make a rather nice tattoo.
Oh I want a new tattoooo!

Autumn fun!

(Wow this new look of blogger is confusing! ^^;)

Anyways, let's get to the point! :D My dear friend Ktiraam had her 30th birthday (!!!) this weekend and for the occasion, we had reserved a cruise to Stockholm! :D

A girls trip to a foreign country... okay, a neighbor we've already visited twice, this was our third trip to Stockholm together. ^_^ And we had funnn! And of course I took loads of photos too. Here are a few.

At Lahti railway station, we're about to go, yayyy! The adventure starts here.

We visited Stockmann in Helsinki to eat at a hamburger place "Carolls"
and saw these adorable goldfish (koi) in a  pool

I "heart" you. ;P This was at the harbor on our way to the Viking Line terminal. ^_^

And then we stepped into the ship. It's always such a great feeling to go there, even the smell of the ship makes me happy. And there were tons of people and the atmosphere was really happy. We had our cabin on the 5th floor, far from the ship's motors and the dance place so it was really calm too. ^_^

We went to eat soon after the ship left the harbor. I ate a shrimp sandwich...
like I always do there. :P Irish coffee with it. Yum yum yum!

Ktiraam is fighting with her long hair. XD It was really windy at the deck. ^_^

At night we went to the nightclub and bought drinks. With the drinks we got these light-wand
thingies and of course we had to do weird stuff with them. Here are a few pics of our "art" XDD

And then already morning it was and off to Stockholm we went! We roamed around the old town
and saw this tiny cute window, of course I had to take a photo of it. ^_^

And as our tradition is, we went to drink cups of Chococcino in Chocoladkoppe,
this cute little gay-cafe. We love that place! Our waitress was really nice to us so we
rewarded him with a drawing we drew while drinking our drinks. ^_^

Lucky us! We came to the Royal castle just in time of the changing of the
guards. It was great to see! Lots of handsome soldiers in uniforms with
guns in their hands. ^_^ 

It was raining all morning and there was a lot of water on the streets. So the
birds decided to take a bath. It was so much fun to watch them play in the water. ^_^

And then we went around the town taking photos. We had so much time that we ventured to roads
where we've never been before. And it stopped raining too, yayy!

This handsome guy greeted us in front of this gorgeous building,
which I still don't know what it is...? =P

A little house. A very little house. XD

There was a Mapplethorpe show in a museum on the way to the ship.
If we had had more time, I would
have dragged Ktiraam there. :D

Water on the deck. It was so brilliantly bright and pretty! ^_^

And of course, since I had my iPod with me, we had to check our mail and
facebooks during the night- they had a really good net connection at the
ships cafe. ^_^

Mooooonlight. It was so pretty! ^_^

So pretty that I took tons of photos. :P

When we came back to Finland, we went to eat breakfast to our favourite cafe (Cafe Esplanad) and I
ate this yuuuuuummmmmyyyy roast beef sandwich. ^_^

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