I just changed 5/6 of my user pics. I couldn't help myself: I found too many gorgeous icons.♥ Especially raven_ink  and padabee  have some amazing pieces of art. I warmly recommend for you to check them out.
But I'm still searching for some outstanding Christian Bale icons, so if you know a genious who makes them please give me a hint. :)

Only two weeks + the exam week of school and I can begin studying full-time for the entrance exams. I have Big Plans for the forthcoming months. For starters I've decided to move in to the local library - if I stay at home I'll never get any reading done (look at me now, I'm posting here even though I should be writing some important school stuff about holding up an ice cream stand...). I've also thought of bicycling there once the weather gets a bit more tolerable (my bike's been hanging on the garage wall for years now, so we'll see).
I'm a little worried about beome a total hermit but I figured that I could eat at school every now and then just to see my friends. I have a few rather good girlfriends there and I know I'd miss them a lot. They're just so much fun: last night we all did the above-mentioned ice cream stand assignment together and had a blast - drank tea, ate muffins, gossiped - the clock was over 8 pm. before we even noticed! Both of them also have a dog/s so once I'll get mine he/she will have some dog-buddies. :D

I'm also feeling very confident about the summer. I was stressing my ass off for a summer job or more like the lack of it. Last summer was so horrible when I was stuck doing something I loathed for the entire time that I don't want to repeat it any time soon. Don't get me wrong, the people at the gas station were great and the salary wasn't too bad either but it was the work itself that got me so depressed: there was too much of it for a one person. You had to do everything and usually simultaniously. It gets rough within time. Besides, if I do get a dog this summer (it's a little bit of a question mark still) of course I want to spend time with him/her when he/she arrives and there aren't that many work places that give you a few weeks "maternity leave" for bonding and taking care of a puppy...
So my dad agreed to hire me to work at our piggery once again. :) The salary probably isn't too high but that's not really the point (though it should be since my financial situation isn't too good - especially after the dog...). But the piggery has been the only place where I've ever enjoyed working and that seems like the most important thing right now.
More about the upcoming summer: me and Arttu are going to the Sonisphere Music Festival held at Pori in July. LINKIN PARK \,,/ Also Metallica will be performing there and some other bands not yet confirmed/not so interesting. But c'mon, Pori is practically at our backyard, of course we're going (although I hate that town)! The tickets were excruciatingly expensive (89 frecking euros! D:) but hey, I'll finally get to see LInkin Park so it's worth it - hopefully...
I also dream about going somewhere abroad. I've been trying to convince my dad that if they're going somewhere they just have to take me with them (Arttu can stay home and take care of the dog, he's working all summer anyway xD). I think dad's getting warm towards the idea. After all I'm he's darling little girl so he really wouldn't deny anything from me...
I'm a bit spoiled, I know.♥ And I like it. Blame dad. :D
I'd like to go to Slovenia. It'd seem like a beautiful place.

Now I seriously need to back on the ice cream stand thing. :S How deeply uninteresting.

I've had it.
I've really, truly, deeply had it.
I have to get out of that school.

I decided during Christmas break that I'm definitely leaving SAMK; no matter what, nothing could make me go back next fall. You know all the stuff people talk about that place: poor teaching, miserable place. I was naive (stupid) enough to think it's just people trashing the local school like they trash everything local here. Well, I was wrong.
SAMK is the kind of place where you don't wish to go - it's where you'll end up. Everyone there is either desperately trying to stay in Huittinen or couldn't get in anywhere else (anybody can get in there, trust me). So I'm sure you can imagine how high the general motivation level is: depressing. And it gets worse: when coming from a high school that, let's all face it, is rather high-class (I've come to realize that now) it's undescribably frustrating to attend classes you know are no use for you or anyone for that matter. For example the teaching of languages is pathetic: in English class you can't even hear the teacher, you don't know what's going on, the teacher certainly doesn't care about anything and she can spontaniously strat writing answers to a listening comprehension we never listened to; in German class, well, my mom mistaked the teacher for a hobo, I've learned nothing new, two courses and seven studypoints(?) later we haven't gotten as far as perfect tense and our test consists of questions like "name all the days of the week in german" and the sad part is that those who've never studied the language before can't even do that.
I always thought I can study any crap as long as I get to study languages on the side, Apparently you can't even do that there.
(Now you didn't really think I give a rat's ass about business economics? It's boring as hell. xD)

And if I hadn't made up my mind a while ago I would have made the same decission today, for sure. Why? Because I learned that one of the few qualified teachers (they can be counted with one hand, trust me) begins her maternuty leave on April. I'm very happy for her of course but this doesn't excatly improve my situation here.
I'm so outta here.

Now I'm trying to get into Tampere Uni and this time I'm taking it seriously. I've ordered the books for both history and general literature and I have to say I'm rather excited about this. Actually, the history book sounds interesting: it's a about contagious diseases in pre-industrial Finland ("Rutto ja Rukous" xD;;) And I was being serious, it really does sound interesting, now how sad is that? Wish me luck! :)

P.S. I think the fact that I'd rather get up God knows how early and sit on a bus for almost two hours every morning just to get to school and then travel back home (I can't move to Tampere just yet) rather than stay in SAMK says pretty much everything you need to know about that school.

OMG less than a week for Christmas, I can't wait! ♥ Christimas is by far my favourite holiday, it has everything you could ask for: a beautiful meaning, good food, family and presents. I absolutely adore the scent Christmas, you know, how at Christmas it smells good all around the house. :) (Except in our flat it smells like crap coz there's a dead mouse or something in the wall and you can't get it out adn it's rotting there. I'm sure you can imagina. We've been burnong a lot of candels lately... And I can't even buy hyaciths coz Arttu's allergic to them! D:)
But Arttu promised he'll get us a small tree for me to decorate. ♥ I bought these really cool, shiny decorationballthingys in the colours of gold, brown and orange. I thought they look a lot nicer than the traditional reds and greenes. :>
I also bought lots of choolates and cheese. We'll be eating elsewhere during all the holidays so there's no point in me making tons og Christmas food. So I just got all the goodies. ♥

After you've realized how much Christmas means to me you'll probably understand why  I got so unbeliveably sad when I heard Arttu will be working at Christmas eve at least as long that he won't even make it to church with me. :''''(  He'll also be working during the entire holilday so I'm so sure if I'll even see him that much.
Stupid work. >.<
What am I supposed to do all that time? School stuff? (I've got tons of it.) No thanks.
(And now my little brother's Playstation is here and Arrtu does nothing but plays some dumb car game. >.< Girls: never let your guy get anything like that unless you're really into it yourself....!)

But I've gotten some really cool presents to people - very few though, I'm not getting too much money at the moment. ^^' I only hope the people reciving the gifts think they're equally cool. xD

I'm gonna go open my Moomin-chocolate calendar now. ♥

Totoro's theme song is irreversible stuck in head.
I finally got my hand's on the above-mentioned film - I've been trying for a long time - and couldn't help but to fall head over heals in love with it. It was so fairytale-like, colorful and jouyful it gave you that warm, child-like feeling like everything in this world could be nothing but beautiful. Seriously, these kinds are the movies worth watching, I mean, who really wants to watch horror movies or similar stuff - just turning on the news does the trick.
Now I just have to find a bus stop where I'll go and wait for him. ♥ And the Catbus! xD

I know I update rather rarely, so here's what's going on in a nutshell: school's a bore, the English teacher's a frecking joke, I'm not into student festivities coz at least here they tend to be lame and dumb, but at least I like my class, me and Arttu went to see Quantum of Solace and I hearted it (and Daniel Craig of course), I promised myself to eat more healthy and excercise more but it's not really taking off, I wanna get bangs, I buy too much clothes, I've managed to figure out what I'll buy for Christmas presents, I going to sort out my bank-things next week (account control and stuff), I'm going to church on Sunday and feeling very happy about it and I can't wait for Christmas! ♥ It's above all my favourite holiday: good food and good company, message of love and maybe a few presents? ^o^

Now I have to go to be mean and wake up my man coz he has to go to work.
And I have to go to sleep alone. It really sucks. :<

Ok, I was finally going to do a proper entry but I couldn't really figure out what to say. I had two messed up exams this week and today I made lasagnea for the first time ever. It turned out gooood. ♥ Tomorrow I plan to bake. That's pretty much all that's happened lately.

So, what I'm going to write about today is... Television proggrams! Yay!
I've had the feeling that I don't watch half as much TV as I used to, so I began listing all the shows I'm fallowing and why...

America's Next Top Model: This is only like the best reality-show ever! IT's got drama, luxury and pretty pictures - besides deep, very deep inside almost every girls has once dreamed of being a model. Besides eating chocolate and watching sickenly thin people is extremely satisfyong in a very twisted way. XD Although this season has been very confusing since I haven't really had a favourite at any time. O.o Brooke was funny but... I don't know. Melrose pisses me off by being oh-so-perfect but if she doesn't win, then who does? It would be crappy reality-TV though if you could tell the winner right from the start.
Cycle 1 is the only season I haven't seen and that annoys me.

Big Bang Theory: I have to record this one coz it's aired simultaniously with ANTM but it's definitely worth it - it's hilarious!  Especially when you get all the nerd-jokes etc. Sheldon is my absolute favourite: he's so hateable you just have to love him. x) I rarely watch sit-coms coz usually they're plain dumb, but this one's really witty and highly entertaining.

Desperate Housewives: I have to admit I was a bit bored with this but now that they're skipped five years... I'm all in again! It was an extremely bold move from the producers but it paid out. I'm so curious about what has happened, why are things like this, what will happen... This is one of the few proggrams I actually wait throughout the week. It's so captivating and suprising.

The Black Donnellys: Monday really is the day to watch TV, aye? I must say at first I wasn't too crazy about this one coz it's aired so late and pretty violent but since Arttu kept watching it... I kinda got into it. My inner enthusiasm for all mob-things got the best of me. And now I love it. ♥ It's truly high-class drama and the actors are really convincing. And if there's nothing else you can always drool over Tommy (Jonathan Tucker♥. But seriously, the plot surrounding personal growth and choices is fasicnating: can we really choose who we become or is destiny something you can't avoid? Can good intentions make you a bad person? I can't wait to see how it continues.

Prison Break: At first when this season began I wasn't excited at all. It felt like the whole thing had gotten worn out and when Arttu watched it I was only paying attention with my left eye. But now, I don't know, it has gotten more interesting? I was all eyes and ears last Tuesday waiting to see how they'll get out of this mess. It simply is such a brilliant show you can't resist it. (They killed Sara I can't believe it! ;;_______;;)

House: Who wouldn't love grumpy old Hugh Laurie dispising everyone? I hated the House-will-go-to-jail -plotline but now that we're done with it maybe this show'll get more interesting again. His sarcasm and cynicism are surprisingly entertaining though sometimes I'm bored with the episodes: mystery, can't solve, can't solve, can't solve... someone comes up with the mastersolution just before it's too late. This show could do with something new and exciting. But I'll watch it anyway, I need my weekly doze of House.

Hotel Babylon: This is the kind of show I love but if I miss a couple of episodes, it's not the end of teh world. Saturday night isn't excatly the best possible time to air a show of this quality. Brits rarely make good comedy/drama but this is a positive surprise. The characters are definitely the main attraction: they're so amazing and well played. They're like a bunch of you're old friends getting together once a week. I highly recommend this to everyone, especially the ones like me who just love hotels.


These are probably the most important proggrams for me now. I watched Idols as long as the harsh eliminations by the judges were on but now I just don't want to listen to people sing (badly) - mostly coz I have no favourite and those over-the-top-wannabe-rockers annoy me. I like Coop. he seems sincere and can pronounce (don't sing in English if you simply can't!) but there's no way he'll win. This seems more and more like a show for kids.
The other show I watch when I have absolutely nothing better to do is Big Brother. I know, probably the worst kind on television ever but when you're really bored it's nice to know some people are doing even worse. It was somewhat entertaining when Niko and Andreas wre still there but now it's just pathetically boring. They just sit on the couch angsting aroud. Blah.
I watched the first episode of Mad Men and it seemed rather promising but we'll see... I'm thrilled about the era but hopefully the show'll live up to it.

This was a half an hour well spent. ^o^

Tagged by both elffingqueen  and kasumi24 .

Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, goals, or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged, listing their names & why you chose them. You can't tag a person who has tagged you.

01. I have a fobia of not looking good or being called fat. Gaining weight causes me unbeareble stress and I've planned to start running to get in shape. I've also began to shop more nice clothes and make-up. And this is all because I've once been called fat and ugly and that really hurt. Ok, so it was just people being mean - I was even thinner back then - but it's something I just never wanna hear again.

02. I drink ridiculous amounts of tea, especilly when I'm home alone. Every morning, sometimes at school, at home various times... I just like it. (Emperor's Bride is my favourite♥) And I drink it with milk and sugar. ^__^ Sriously, I prefer a nice cup of hot tea to a sweet snack.

03. I have a lot of nightmares, especially lately and they're really scary. :( Usually I'm being chased or people are dying or they're just unpleasant memories of unpleasant people. And the worst part is that I usually remember those for days and feel really crappy. Mom said that adults aren't supposed to have nightmares but I don't believe her.... 

04. THE LOCAL MOVIE THEATER QUIT AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I'm totally crushed. ;;______;;

05. I bought a box that has all three old Indiana Jones - movies! And I'm completely in love with the young(er) Harrison Ford lol. *__* I've always been a fan of those movies (except the second one is, err, not-so-good) and I used borrow them from the library tens of times when I was a kid. xD The new one was hilarious. xD

06. I really truly hate it that sometimes when people find out that I believe in God, first they tell me I'm an idiot to believe in something you can't scientificly prove and then try to overrule everything that Christianity is based on. Like, excuse me but do you hear me trying to convert you when I hear you're a Big Bang -fan?! No, you won't, coz I think everyone has a right to believe in what they want, it's none of my business. I believe in what I believe for my own personal reasons and experiences nobody could probably relate to. But it feels like some people are seriously offended by faith and that's odd.

07. I'm beginning to like vegetarian food. :) Mainly coz at school that's usually the best alternative when it comes to lunch. x) Seriously, it can be really tasty compared to some undefined piece of wannabe-meatloaf.

08. I've never really dated before my current relationship. Most people say I lack an experience or something but I actually see it as a positive thing. I mean, I don't have annoying jerk-exes to worry about and seeing what it can be, I'm truly happy about the way things are. Besides, you don't have to have dated anyone to get your heart in-a-way-broken.

09. I want to read more novels but I lack the time or the energy. ;__;  Usually when I do read something, it's something light. I'm so ashamed. *headdesk*

10. OMG I hate Big Brother. X____X It's so annoying and the people are just dumb and it's boring and it's frigging everywhere. And still if someone happens to turn it on, I'll watch it although I should be runnning away screaming in pain.


Not tagging anyone, but if you haven't done this yet and it looks fun, consider yourself tagged! :D

You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-word answers seldom help anyone out.

1. First Name: Johanna
2. Age: 20, gosh I feel old. D:
3. Location: Huittinen, Finland, at least for the next three years. Living with my fiancé (OMG big word) in an aparment build in my parents' upstairs. :D (Yes, it's a big house. This is an old farmhouse.)
4. Occupation: I was a gas station worker until last Saturday when my contract came to an end, so now I guess I'm a student.
5. Partner: Arttu, we got engaged about a month ago. ♥
6. Kids: I guess my parents' dog Viivi counts as a big. hairy, stubborn kid. O.o
7. Brothers/Sisters: A little brother Juho, 16 years old, just began high school and spends his days cruising around with his light motorcycle.
8. Pets: We've been talking about getting a dog once Arttu's through with his army service (after something like two years here) but before that we're fooling around with Viivi. x) And then there's those pigs in the piggery, love 'em. ^^
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
- Living together here with Arttu - seriously, the things that come along when living with a man never stop to amaze me.
- School starts on Thursday and to my huge surprise I feel highly motivated. O.o I'd like to study more languages.
- My cousin Antti from Parainen also comes to study here and I'm superexcited! x) He's the best.
- Reuniting with Rii. ♥ (elffingqueen) Can't wait to get my students' card so I can go to see her in Turku. ^__^
10. Where and for what did you go to school for?: As mentioned above, I'm beginning school on Thursday in Satakunta's Universty of Applied Sciences, Huittinen's unit. I'm supposed to study business economics OMG. For a long time I dreamt of studying history but I abandoned that when I realized that I'd have to read some heavy stuff that has began to make me extremely distressed (knowledge does increase pain). So I decided that numbers haunt no one and I'll keep history as a hobby instead.
11. Parents: Mom and dad (both aged 46) live right downstairs. :D I get along with both of them and I'm really happy having them there especially coz when Arttu's away in the army I wan't have to be alone. :3
12. Who are some of your closest friends?: Rii and Kata and Imppa and so many others! ♥ Also Arttu's friends, like Mika and Jonttu and Teemu, are quite close to me since I see them a lot. :)


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(I stole both of these from elffingqueen, she finds all the cool stuff. :3)

This time I haven't updated this in a while coz nothing has happened. No, I haven't updated this in a while coz so much has happened! Let's see if I can sort things out...

* Okay, the Big Stuff first: on my birthday (15.7) Arttu was working a night shift and I had an early morning shift so at 4.00 am. when I was eating breakfast, he came home. Naturally I went to the door t greet him. Then, in the middle of our living room floor he went down on one knee and asked me to marry him! I just stared at him for a minute - I was barely awake, barely dressed, my hair was a mess; I pretty much looked like a troll in a bad morning. Well, of course I said yes! And nearly cried tears of joy, I was just so happy. :')
We went to buy the rings the next day from Raisio -you can't buy them here, small town --> half of the people here would know before we even get home. And my parents were on a holiday and I was dying to tell them myself so we kept our engagement kind of a secret for a few days. Ans about the rings: they're white golden, a little thick coz a slim one would've looked ridiculous on Arttu's gigantic hand. And I wanted our rings to be alike, something nice and symbolic about that. ^__^ The weird thing about the ring though is that first it felt kinda heavy and I was incrdibly concious of it all the time, but now I barely feel it -at least daily I have to check that it hasn't dropped off! O.o
Everyone have been really great about this, no nasty comments or bad reactions so far. Thank you all. ♥

* Like you might have concluded from the previous: yes, I had a burthday, I turned twenty and I feel old. T__T Think about it, I'm on my thrid decade, before I know it I'll be frigging thrity! *age crisis*

* Naturally we had an egagement party (/hausewarming). Relatives earlier and friends in the evening. Got a lot of kettles and tupperware (omg...) and booze. And a foundue-set that looks like a minityre time-machine. O.o Th party was a hit -at least I had fun! :D Though I was wasted and had a two-day hangover...... But who cares? ^__^' The only bad thing is that some brainiac broke our stove and we're gonna have to buy a new adn Arttu's furious, so no big parties in this apartment anymore. :S

* I've had a lot of fun with Rii (elffingqueen) (I even lured her to join the IRC-gallery! XD) It's good to be back together with her. ^__^ (Omg I make us sound like an old married couple *headdesk*)

* I got into SAMK to study business economies. I have no idea what will become of this.... At least you can study a lot of languages there, like Russian. I'm actually looking forward to it mostly coz I hate my job, the irregular long hours. >.< Scholl will do good for me, I hope. Thumbs up!

* My prolife layout was a grand failure, I somehow messed up the codes nad lost my temper. Maybe I'll try again when I have the time and the energy... I'll spend the next three days at work (14-22.15) So yu won't see much of me then. X__X

* Besied these events my summer's been a bore. All the time either I or Arttu is at work so we hadn't had the chance to really do anything fun. :/ I hate it. I've been begging him to go to the movies with me next week but we'll see. I'm dying to see the Dark Knight!!  Everyone says it's so awesome...!

I'll be memeing soon, thanks to Rii :D. Well, "soon" being when I can find the time... ^__^'