I knew this was going to be a great day as soon as I woke up and saw sun was shining ☼ I've missed the sun so much... I guess Helen was right when she suggested I'm suffering from the lack of sun light. Anyway, as soon as I saw the sun was shining, I knew it was a good day and I was entitled to have fun.
Not even a glance at the termometer slowed me down. Well... -32•C xD That's the crazy thing about winter. If the sun is shining, it means it's insanely cold! Doesn't really make sense, does it? I decided it's only a matter of clothing, and wore the warmest clothes I own:
...I felt like a Michelin Man but I was right - I wasn't even cold when I got out there! :-) L0L and note - I wasn't wearing my glasses (if you don't have glasses, you will never understand how absolutely annoying it is when your glasses fog/freeze up). The thing is that I have so-called refractive error in my eyes, which in plain English means I can actually see pretty clearly but I'm a little cross-eyed, and I wear glasses to fix it. So, I can survive without glasses, but it makes me feel like I've had a few beers and after four or five hours I get a headache (actually I'm starting to feel that headache now, ugh). LMAO it was actually pretty hilarious - I stumbled in stairs, felt like it wasn't so easy to walk straight and even bumped into one door in downtown! xD Oh well... it was worth of it.
First I had a massage, like I do almost every Monday. I started having massages last winter when my back was in such a bad condition it made me dizzy and caused me terrible headaches. Nowadays my back is just fine, and I mainly go to massage therapy just because it feels sooooo good (and because my massagist pretty much doubles as my psychologist too, HA). It was lovely as always.
I didn't feel like going home straight from the massage, so stayed in downtown for a while. I realized Valentine's Day is on the way, so I had some shopping to do. I think Valentine's Day is like Christmas - people hate it or love it. I hate Christmas but love Valentine's Day. In Finland we call Valentine's Day "ystävänpäivä" which translates into Friends' Day. So, for me (or us) it's not so much about lovers, but all about friends. I love my friends, and I love having this special day to celebrate my friendships. This year Abby will come to Joensuu to celebrate Valentine's Day with me, and I have some awesome plans (but not telling any of that here - Abby is reading my blog anyway and I want to surprise her) ^^ Cannot wait. I'm also going to write some letters and send cards to my long-distance friends... yes, like I said, I love Valentine's Day.
Aaaaand in the end I made my typical mistake: visited TopTen. It's a known fact I cannot visit TopTen without buying something... but for once I actually needed something. I love my Nikon D3100, but the thing is it's quite big and heavy to carry around and sometimes a smaller camera would get handy (mainly thinking the US roadtrip here). And surprise surprise, TopTen had some January Sale thing going on, and I found a perfect little Nikon (in Nikon we trust, always)! And look look, it matches my mp3 player and laptop! :D
Awww<3 I'm such a girl sometimes, but at least my electronics aren't pink! ;-)
Well, of course I did not make it out of TopTen without buying some DVDs... I got Studio Ghibli's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Tales from Earthsea for 12€. I simply love Studio Ghibli movies, and I haven't seen these. I bet I'll have a movie night tonight :-)
Now I'm thinking... hot chocolate with marshmallows and chocolate chip cookies. Maybe a few episodes of Supernatural... and getting started with those Valentine's Day letters... Lovely. It seems I was right when I wrote I still have time to have a good time in January -- this day was so great it pretty much paid back those not-so-great earlier days of the month.
Have a nice week & see you around xxo
yours truly-
7 comments:
TopTen is awesome. They got all the Ghibli movies and some other a bit "more rare" series like Dr. Who & Torchwood in-stock (:
I'm glad that you're feeling better now that you've seen the sunlight is slowly coming back! And yes, I do know what you mean. Sometimes you feel like you need to wear sunglasses because the sun is that piercing - or it is here - but yet you're bundled up like you're living in the Arctic or summat! So weird.
N'aw that's a much better way to view Valentine's Day. I'd prefer it if we saw it as "Friends Day" rather than just a day solely for lovers. This year, however, I am spending it with my friends so I'm not alone and because they're all single for the first time ever so I thought I'd show them how the singles live it up!
The camera is so cuuuuute! I love red cameras for some reason. I know the colour has no effect but... I always have a red one too.
Please send me some coco and cookies because that sounds perfect! Enjoy your day!
@ Jussi
TopTen is great! Like I said, I pretty much can't visit it without buying something... And hey, I'm a Doctor Who fan as well! But I've got my dvd boxes from the UK, never seen more than season 1 in any Finnish shop :/
@ Helennn
Haha, I don't know why, but I have some weird addiction to dark red electronics x) I was so pissed when I noticed there's a dark red Nikon D3100 out there too AFTER I had bought mine (boring black)...
(~*3*)~ Dr. Who <3 Have you seen Torchwood?
@ incd
I've only seen the pilot of Torchwood so far... and I'm not 100% sure if I like it. Haha, so far I still have enough to watch in Doctor Who, I'm just getting started with 5th :-) Maybe once I run out of new DW episodes, I'll give Torchwood another chance to get me addicted ;-)
Thumbs up for color coding. Must take lots of warm clothes with me ^^ (Only -19 here but still *shivers*)
new DW episodes next autumn. Have to wait for a long time. :(
I wonder who's gonna be the next doctor? People have speculated that it would be Benedict Cumberbatch (he were awesome in Sherlock). He actually was asked once before too, but he refused.
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