Holidays!

happyhappy Holidays!
We went to Stockholm with Ktiraam just before christmas. Here are a few photos:

And the trip starts! Ktiraam's
drink called Hulk! XD

The view out of the ship window at
breakfast... ;_;

My mascot, the twirping tentaclemonster. X3

And finally the sun rose at about 9 am,
Swedish waters. ^_^

It's a dick on a road. XD

And a... ball. Ahaha, ^^;

Yeah, meeeee. =P

A picture on a wall behind our favourite
cafe: chokladkoppe. ♥

A weeping angel, OMG!

A gorgeous door into a viking restaurant.
Must visit there one day! *_*

A creepy santa.

This is where they store their gods. XD

A poster on the way back to the ship.

My x-mas presents for myself:
Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy (SO MUCH
better than fifty shades!!!), Torchwood Season 4
DVD box, The one ring.

YUMM

Me at night, ready to go out...
of the cabin. XD

Meee...

And uhh... me? X3

Sunrise the next day, before arriving back to Finland.

My winter decorations. ^_^

More winter decorations. ^_^

One ring to rule them all...

My precioussssss. ;D

X-mas lights. ^_^

=) is not as easy as it should be.

I've decided to try to live as positively as I can, thinking everything good and nothing bad. When I'm anxious about something, I try to think what good will happen, not what bad will happen and so on.

This hasn't exactly worked out. ^^; I am so very tired at work because I've gotten one extra day (an art class) and my own art class started at the same week. Usually today would have been the end of my workweek but now I got to wake up early tomorrow too and trot to work. ^^;
I am pretty sure it's gonna be a fun day and I would be looking forward to it, if I had any more energy.

I was just feeling a little more uplifted, after taking a quick walk outside when I walked past the pizzeria where the guy asked me out on a date. Last week he said that it was his last week there and next week he was gonna return to his real job. Well, he was there again today. Looking as sad and disappointed as he could, when he spotted me from the window.
Now I feel rotten. ;_;

But I don't want to go out with him, because I just know he's not the guy for me. I know this from the times we talked outside. And I had decided on Monday not to answer if he texts me... he did and I didn't answer, feeling relieved that I'm not gonna see him again. Aaaand...
well, things never go the way you plan them, do they. Urgh! >,<

I have some really good and happy things to look forward to though:
- Me and Ktiraam booked our annual christmas shopping trip and we are going to Stockholm! YAYYYY! We went there the other christmas too... was it last christmas, I think so, or the one before that. Anyways, I cannot wait! \^_^/
- I've been sticking to my diet, so if all goes as planned, I will be a thinner me next summer. Spring is always so much easier time to diet than fall. It's so dark and gloomy outside that I just want to eat chocolate and read books.
- All these art classes are making me a much more inspired artist, I am just sketching out my new painting, my first acrylic painting ever. It's gonna be a woman, a warrior woman. =P

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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