Yippiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!

This morning I woke up at 9 pm to a text message from mom: my name was in the newspaper at the "graduated" section. Now it's official, 7 years of college is finally over. Thank goodness!

This was a good morning in other ways too. I woke up next to my viking and woke him up by kissing and cuddling him. He always tries to stop me and shove me away playfully and I attack him and kiss him more and try to get my head somewhere close to his face or neck. It's a perfect way to wake up. ^_^

Mom bought me a new dress and some jewellery, pantihose and stuff for my graduation party with my family next week. I wanted a small party but our "little" family has grown so much in a few years that now there are 25 people coming to celebrate. Hahaha. Still, cannot wait to see all of them though I don't really want to be the center of attention, hiiih. ^___^

Almost summer

Two days and I get my graduation papers out from school and never have to return there.
Two days from then I am going on a cruise with my mom, Helsinki-Stockholm, I cannot wait. We have reserved the buffet dinners both ways and breakfast too. And I get to go to the huge bookstore Science-fiction bokhandeln in Stockholm.
Two days from the trip I have my graduation party with my family. We just reserved the caked from a bakery and dad is buying all the drinks. It's gonna be fun.

And life is rather busy again. =) Tomorrow I get to see my viking, today I met my new psychiatrist and she was really great and gave me a lot of advices for the summer and getting a job. I am hopeful and feeling positive. ^_^

I promised photos from our trip to the nature reserve area, so here are a few:

The Erakkomurju Lean-to (laavu) from the inside)

The view from the cliff where the lean-to and fireplace were.

The sky from the fireplace.

My brother and the view to the lake and the peer (and boat we arrived with).

We made loimu-lohta/smoked salmon. YUM!

The beautiful fire. ♥

This is where we left with the boat when we rowed across the lake to the cabin. Beautiful!

Random

About a year ago a phonesales-woman phoned me. I HATE talking on the phone, but almost always answer if I don't know the number, because it might be something important (my doctor/psychiatrist/someone at the social services office...).
Me: Anna (with my usual voice)
saleswoman: Hello, may I speak to an adult of the household
Me: Um... I'm 30 years old... is that enough?
Saleswoman: *deeeeeeeeep silence* Uh, you sound a lot younger. Anyways-

HAHAHA! XD

That aside, we were in the wilderness today, I swam for the first time this spring, we ate smoked salmon (that we made ourselves), drank tons of wine, celebrated my brothers birthday, I slept on a cliff, we rowed a boat to the "lean-to" and back, it was an awesome adventure! =D =D Photos will follow. ^_^

Babies.

Just 3 years ago I was afraid of babies. They were just scary, I was afraid to touch them and when I did get to hold one, they always burst out crying. But during this last year or so, I've gotten rid of that fear. My sisters beautiful daughter helped a lot with that. Last sunday I spent hours playing with her, carried her around and got the dress her socks, and she smiled at me a lot, hihii, those little things made me so happy.

And today I saw two of my childhood friends who both have about year-old babies, a boy and a girl. We played with them and I took over 100 photos of them. Teehehee, it was really fun. 17 of my friends have gotten kids during this year. And I am so happy for them. During this time I have also realized that I want kids. One day. I hope I'm not too old when I want to make it happen. ♥

This week has been nice, not anything special, but nice and relaxing. I've seen friends and visited our anime/mangaclub Bakanat, it's been months since I visited there. I realized it's almost summer. I want Gay Pride to come soon. =D

I am still so very tired all the time. I sleep about 9-10 hours every night and an hour nap in the afternoon, and sometimes another nap at night. Then I can't get to bed before 2 am. It's not good, but I cannot help it, if I don't rest, I don't have any energy. It's really frustrating. =/ But I have been drawing a little again. Several sketches. ^_^

My Viking's roleplay character. He's still not completely happy with it, but I really like this painting. ;P

Spring 5

I had another psychiatrist appointment yesterday, the last one with this person, it seems. I am transferring to another psychiatrist, who is specialized on depression and rehabilitating. I have an opportunity to get in some sort of class to help me get a job and rehabilitate myself for a shape that I can work. The psychiatrist also said that the perfect job for me right now would be something easy, 4-6 hours a day. That would be so nice! I just wish it was that easy to get a job, which is isn't.

Oh well, I have all summer time to try to find a job. Maybe I will, you never know. Sometimes miracles happen. ;D Then last night my Viking came to my place and we made sushi. It was the first time I made sushi for him and he really liked it, a lot. We watched the movie "Wilde" with Stephen Fry on the lead, we're both huuuge fans. ^_^

Today I haven't really done anything, just hung around at home. I got my period and my stomach has been really achy for the past 3 days. Waylan called me and asked me and Ktiraam for a movie night tomorrow, that's gonna be fun. ^_^ A girls night. And they have a sauna too, yayyy! Now I just have to watch out that I don't start eating unhealthily again, this last week has gone so well, I have to make it a little longer. =D

Thor

I had an incredibly nice time with my viking last night. ♥ And today I got to see another Viking on the big screen. Haha. We went to see Thor with my friend Ktiraam. ^__^

The movie was awesome. The effects were great, especially in 3D. The landscapes and buildings in Asgard were magnificent and the main character Thor was great. A new actor, who I wish to see a lot more of. And he's so handsome that we had to fan ourselves every now and then with Ktiraam, mraurrrr. ;D~

Natalie Portman is also in the movie and I love her, she's great. The storyline is exciting and nicely built, it works though it's not the most surprising one. There are a few surprises that you wouldn't expect to see. ^_^ There is humour and romance and excitement. It's not a Viking mythology story although the names would suggest so, but there are still some nice Viking elements to spice things up. I'm not a big Marvel fan, it's just never really been my thing, though I've liked a lot of the Marvel movies that have come out lately. This movie I do recommend, full heartedly.

Though of all the new films that have come out this year, the best one so far has been Black Swan. ♥ Thor didn't quite get there, but it was great nonetheless (and very different). And I loved Tangled. The animation was great and the story so... Disney. They always make you smile. ^_^
Battle Los Angeles was okay too, though a little too "war" for me. Too macho and bloody.

Now I'm really waiting for
1) The last Harry Potter
2) Transformers 3
3) Sherlock Holmes 2
4) X-Men first class
5) First Avenger: Captain America
6) Green Lantern
7) Pirates of the Caribbean

=D There are way too many good ones coming out this year! =D

Mothersday

 We went to a traditional mothersday drive with my mom and brother today. Visited the semetery, ate at a grill and visited the wonderfully beautiful Hollola's church. These photos are taken from a tower on a hill behind the Hollola church. The view is to Vesijärvi lake. There in the horizon of the second photo, is my hometown. ^_^

Spring 4

I spent my first free day as en engineer cleaning my flat. XD I did the dishes and cleaned the kitchen cabinets. I vacuumed the whole place and washed the floors and wiped the dust. I still need to tidy up the balcony, wash the floor and bring two chairs from the attic so I can eat my breakfast outside.

The weather has been incredibly wonderful, sunny and warm for the last few days, so I've been out a lot, taking really long walks. And tomorrow is Mothers day, so we're gonna drive to a local semetery and put flowers to the graves of my grandmoms, grandads and aunt.

I've also been on a non-sugar diet for a few days now. I still grave for chocolate and I'm a little worried how this diet is gonna work next week when I get my period, I go crazy without chocolate then. ^^; The reason for this diet is, that I want to lose weight and my blood sugar levels might be too high. I don't actually know yet, since I get the results only next weeks wednesday. I hate to wait for such a thing, but it's been a good reason to start this diet.

I bought some really pretty red black&white dotted fabric and sewed a dress out of it today. It's really nice, though a little tight at the waist. Another reason to lose some weight. Hahaha. XD I'll take pictures of it when I find a shirt that goes with it. ^_^ I also painted tonight. It's been more than a month since I last painted, it felt good. And I couldn't stop until the picture was done. I wanted to draw a portrait of someone who I've never drawn before. And then I started to plan my Pain and Pleasure story ahead. She is a member of the tribe that Sajore & Xir'ag will meet on the next chapter (that I am still writing, urrrrr writers block is a horrible thing! Everything I write turns to shit.).

This picture also explains why Salvador, my vampire elf, has dreadlocks. He's living with the tribe and has learnt their ways. I might still add some tattoos on her. Maybe. ^^ Hmmm, I think this is enough babble for one night. I think I should go to bed so I'm all wake and ready for the mothers day celebration tomorrow! :D

Engineer!

The rest of it went to quickly that it still feels unreal. I graduated!

I got the rest of my math exercises done on Monday and Tuesday, I worked like a madwoman, haha! I wrote email to my teachers telling them that I will return them on Wednesday and got a reply from my professor in the middle of the night that I should go to the office and take care of the graduation things too, check the points and that sort of stuff.

I couldn't sleep at night and woke up at 7, I was so anxious. I walked to the school as soon as it was 8 am. I returned the math exercises, printed out a form that you need to return to the office when you want to graduate and checked the student points with the office staff.

When I got home, I got an email from my math teacher that I've received my last missing student points from the math course and so was graduated. Tadah. Just like that. I'm done. 7 years of work behind. Blood, sweat and tears. Sickness, one nervous breakdown and a lot of depression, fun parties, meeting absolutely wonderful people and lot of sleepless nights studying and worrying.

So now I have a fresh bachelors degree on Visualization engineering, which means I'm a Media Technology Engineer. Yayyyh!

I've been studying for 25 years without a stop so I think I'm gonna do something else for a change, haha! XDD I want to find a job that wont make me have a new nervous breakdown and that I don't have to worry about constantly. Something that I don't hate. But that can wait until summer.

Now it's time to relax, rest and party! =D

Spring 3

Today has been a good day. I've done some school stuff, the last of school stuffs I have. And I got two difficult math exercises done... now I've done 5/10 and I still have over half of the time left. When I return these assignments next week, I have everything done. I'm ready!

I went to buy some foods and drinks today for tomorrow's Vappu day (a big spring celebration in Finland) and bought a six-back of long drinks (4,7 % alcohol), which should have cost over 10 €'s. The cashier made some sort of mistake, because I got the six-back with 1,83 €! WOAH! =D

If I ever get a car (which I doubt because I don't need one), I want one like this. Well, coloured like this, but something smaller. ;P

I went to the movies yesterday with my Viking. Our first movie date ever, because he doesn't really like going to movies. We went to see Howl and both really really liked it. It was perfectly psychedelic and homoerotic. And James Franco was awesome, of course. ^_^