It's only three nights until Christmas (yes, here in Finland we celebrate it already on Christmas Eve), but if some of Santa's helpers doesn't have a clue on what to give me for Christmas, here is my wish list number two :)
- A Bamix Wand mixer
- Tefal's Raclette "grill", model Ovation
- Candle "extinguisher" (don't know what the real English word for that is, i.e. the picture in the right upper corner)
- Tefal's Fondue pot, model Ovation
- Iittala glasses; Tapio and Verna (light blue)
- A flat screen TV with cable and antenna reception and preferably Full HD (size 26" or 32")
Just wanted to let you guys know that it's cold like in a freezer outside. Has been for a couple of days now and there doesn't seem to be an end to it. But I'm not complaining, as I do have warm clothes that I can wear to stay warm. It's only the fact that there is hardly any snow here. The snow would make the weather feel a bit warmer and it would be so dark all the time.
The meterologists are though forecasting that it will snow on sunday, which would mean that we'll have a white christmas. I'm so hoping that it will happen!
...if you're reading this, here is a list of what I want for Christmas. I promise I've been a really good girl this year.
- I'm collecting pieces to the Alt Luxembourg dinner set made by Villeroy & Boch, so any addition to that dinner set is very welcome.
- A trip to somewhere warm, sunny and with a beach is very needed at the moment.
- I will not say no to money either, as that is always needed.
- As I have started jogging I would like the Suunto t4c or the Polar ft60 heart rate monitor.
- I love shoes, so it's needless to say that I want shoes for Christmas. The ones I really would like are Hush Puppies Annika ballerinas and Hush Puppies Noella Patent court shoes in black or red.
I was supposed to post this already a week ago together with some pictures. Today I realised I haven't published this post and that I still don't have any pictures to go with it, but I will publish this any way. I might edit this with some pictures later or I might not...let's see :)
Yesterday was my first day back at work after 6 weeks of "vacation" due to layoffs. It felt a bit strange being back, but the day went by quite fast.
I had loads of unread e-mails (197 to be exact) to go trough and it took me about 4,5 hours to do it. The remaining 3 hours of my workday I spent doing marketing plans to cover the rest of this year and the beginning of next. This due to the fact that I still have 6 weeks of this "vacation" left due to these freaking layoffs and my boss needs to see a schedule of marketing tasks that still NEEDS to be done (in my opinion that is) during this year, so that he MIGHT cancel some of my planned layoffs.
Today I continued with the schedule and started with the budget for 2010 and a preliminary budget for 2011. Happyhappyjoyjoy. NOT. But never the less, I like being back at work as there are some nice people working here (not all, but most) and me sitting at my desk at work means that I'll get some money at the end of the month. Wohoo! \o/
But that's all I'm going to tell you about work. I have some even more interesting things to tell you guys about, and that is about the weekend :)
Dad came to pick me and Emma up from my place on Thursday afternoon and took me to my parents' place. I needed a car on Friday and the only way to get a car was to borrow one from my parents. The reason to why I needed the car was that I had an appoint ment with my hairdresser on Friday at 11 am and her shop is located in a village that isn't very close to where I live. I don't want to change my hairdresser to one that would be next door to where I live, as I'm so pleased with the work she has done so far with my hair. She really knows what suits me and knows how my hair acts. If I would go to some stranger that I'd have start from scrtach with, it would take years to build up the some trust I have with my current one. I'm now a brunette.
I was out of the hairdressers chair at approx. 13:30 and drove back to my parents place to return the car and have a qiuck lunch. I also had to put some make up on, as my next destination would be Helsinki.
My dad took me to the train station at Riihimäki and the train to Helsinki departed at 15:09. I arrived at Helsinki train station at 15:52 and the ever so lovely Jenni was there to meet me. From the train station we went to Amarillo, which is a restaurant close to the train station. We had a nice dinner and it was so nice to catch up on things, even thoug it was only twoo weeks since we last met :) After dinner we took a stroll around some of the shops waiting for the clock to turn 7 pm.
I guess you all already know what happened at 7 pm on Friday night; The Jimmy Choo for H&M VIP-launch! We went for coffee at a nearby café of the event at 6:30 pm and at that time there was already people queueing for the event! If you get an invatiation that say that a party starts at 7 pm, then you go at 7 pm and not 30 minutes earlier. Some people just are a bit stupid. Me and Jenni had our coffees and just befor 7 pm we started making our way to the event. And at that time there was already an enourmous queue outside the venue. At that time we thought with Jenni that we would be glad if we even saw a glimps of the collection.
Slowly the queue moved and we got in. They served Moët champagne, some small salty bits and chocolate. At this time we had no chance on trying to get some of the items from the collcetions as the shopping of Jimmy Choo started only at 7:45 pm. But belive me, when the clock hit 7:45 pm the crowd of people at the venue just vent mad. Me and Jenni still got what we wanted to try on :) though jenni couldn't try any of the dresses on due to her belly, so I tried them on for her. And she bought both of the dresses. I tried on two dresses as well, but didn't go for any of them. Instead I bought two pairs of shoes and a wallet.
We were ready with our shopping at 8:30 pm and headed home, Jenni to hers and I gor a ride with my mom to my parents' place. We arrived there at 10 pm and dad had made some really delicious cheese sufflé. And to top it off we had some really good red wine to go with it.
On Saturday we (me, my dad, my mom and my sister) went to and Antique's fair that was held in Hämeenlinna. The most of the day was spent there.
On Sundayit was time for my sister to go back to Turku. My mom and dad decided that they would take her and I decided to go with them. I had an hidden agenda. On Thursday I received and text message saying that the lamp that I had ordered had arrived and could be collected at Stockmann in Turku. So I finally got the lamp of my dreams and I even bought something else that I'm going to post about later this month :)
So, all in all the weekend was perfect! I got the Jimmy Choos that I wanted, I got my lamp and I got to spend some quality time with a dear friend and with my family :)
Hahaa! Here I am again posting about the Jimmy Choo for H&M launch :)
I just realised that I forgot a couple of things from my 'Jimmy Choo for H&M' -wish list, so I just have to post those missing things :)
Pictures are form the H&M website.
As probably all of you know the Jimmy Choo for H&M will be launched this week. On Saturday to be precise. Bellow you can find a quote from H&M's website regarding the launch:
"H&M is launching Jimmy Choo for H&M on November 14th. Since the collection is in very high demand, we’re expecting a crowd.
WHAT DO I DO IF I ARRIVE BEFORE OPENING HOURS?
If there is a line, please wait in line and H&M store staff will
inform you about how to shop.
HOW DOES THE QUEUING SYSTEM WORK?
The first 160 people in line will receive a bracelet; on the bracelet you will be given a specific time for shopping in our designated area. The bracelets are only needed for the women’s shoes, bags and accessories. Customers shopping the men’s collection or the women’s garments will not require a bracelet.
When your time has come, we will let you into the designated area to shop. Our goal is to create a better shopping experience for
all of our customers.
If you are not one of the 160 first in line, you will of course have the opportunity to shop from the rest of the collection or within H&M. After about two hours we will also open up the designated area for all of our customers.
To make sure as many customers as possible are able to buy from the Jimmy Choo for H&M collection, we have a limitation. Every customer can buy the whole collection but with a limitation of buying maximum one per product, i.e. not more than one size (shoes/garments) or piece (accessories) per product per customer. The limitation covers the whole Jimmy Choo for H&M Collection. Your place in line does not guarantee any items from the Jimmy Choo for H&M collection.
WHICH STORE WILL HAVE THE ITEMS I’M LOOKING FOR?
Please see the full collection under “Collection Overview” in the navigation below. Each item will have a “Find a store” button that will reveal where you can find that specific item."
In a way, I can see the point with this queuing system, but still I think it sucks. Gladly I don't have to be an early bird on Saturday morning and stand in the queue, as I got an invitation to the VIP-launch of the collection. And that VIP-launch is on Friday night.
The invitation is for me and an avec, and as my avec I chose my best friend Jenni. I'm so looking forward to Friday night and the opportunity to shop Jimmy Choo for H&M shoes and accessories before those who didn't get an invitation to this VIP-launch.
There is a slight chance that I will write about this VIP-launch a couple of times still befor the actual event, but I hope you bare with me. I'm just so excited about the whole thing!
Here are some of my favourites from the collection.
Photos from the above pictures are from H&M's website.
...for at least few days.
It began snowing for real on Thursday and it snowed until yesterday evening. We have a little less than 10 cm of snow now and I am so happy, 'cause it is now so much lighter as the snow on the ground takes away little of the darkness that has been around lately.
Yesterday was nice, as it was just below zero degrees Celsius, which equals no wet snow. Today is a bit different; its about +2 degrees Celsius and the snow is wet...and heavy. I found this out while trying to do some paths around my parents house in order for the dogs to have it a bit more easier to run around. The garden at my parents house isn't small, it's huge so it took me a good 2 hours to get the work done. To have the paths and the drive way clear from snow. And I did all by hand. Well, OK, I had a snow pusher...but you know what I mean.
My dad has a snow blower as well, but surprise surprise, I can't use that bloody thing. So I had no other choice than to do all the work the hard way. And man was I exhausted after all the work was done...I think I've done my exercises for the next couple of weeks in advance today...that is at least how I feel at the moment.
I think I have now earned some hot chocolate with whipped cream on top, don't you think?
I should be writing on the big T, but instead I'm writing my blog. Hmmm...where did I go wrong?!
The thesis writing has been going quite well lately, but still I sometimes feel like I don't know what the hell I'm writing about. I had a meeting with the dean, who is my mentor on this big T project, a week ago and he was quite pleased with the work I had done so far. Of course he had to criticize on some things, but that's just who he is...the criticising dean. Apparently I'm not the clever student as I haven't reflected my own thoughts enough on the theories that my thesis bases on, but hey I thought I would present my own thoughts in the empirical part and in the conclusions. I was wrong. So now I have been trying to make the theoretical part more discussing, but it's not easy let me tell you. I suck at it. And I'm planning on giving up on that and moving on to the next part in the big T.
But that's enough about the big T.
Yesterday it was snowing! And Emma was the little happy puppy about that. Unfortunately the snow did not stay on the ground at all...it melted away the second it landed on the ground. Today it was also snowing. I went to the doctor to have my stitches removed from my back, and as I walked to the doctor's it was snowing. But again, it melted away as soon as it hit the ground. Which made me a bit sad. I'd like to have snow so that the mornings and evenings would be even a bit lighter than they are at the moment. It's so depressing with all the blackness around.
And I'm so waiting for Christmas. I just want to decorate my home with Christmas decorations and put lanterns in the window. And change the curtains for the kitchen. Christmas' red curtains.
Perhaps I should continue with the big T...
I finally got myself to upload the pictures I've been taking with my mobile.
Here are some of the pictures including the desserts that we had with Miss A-H and Miss Z awhile back :) Enjoy!
