Mañana

Grant Management, the owner and renter of my current room/house, sure has this mañana attitude well down.. I called them last night about the raining in my room and today they inform me they never got that message. So nobody to fix it today. They'll try tomorrow but possibly not before Wednesday. It's always tomorrow, tomorrow.. Alvaro's window that got broken two weeks ago still hasn't been fixed.

So yea, I'm doubtful as to when I'm going to sleep in my own room again.

Waterfall

Drip. Drip. Drip. I come after a 10 hour shift, make some food and relax in my room. But then I notice a dripping sound and I turn to look what's causing it. And tadaa, there's a huge crack in my ceiling that's leaking water into my room, including my bed. I call our landlord's emergency line and they tell me they can't get a person in before tomorrow.

So yeah, now I'm in our living room which I hope is just a temporary arrangement and the roof will actually get fixed. Toivossa on hyvä elää.

Evil eye from the cows

The title is not a bitchy metaphor, I seriously got some murderous looks from cows today. I decided to walk to uni today, even though it was raining a bit. But I was in no hurry and it wasn't too cold today. And on my way there is this field, the city moor I believe, in which there's a bunch of cows. Being the city girl I am, I find them fascinating so I stop to have a little chat with them in Finnish.

They didn't seem to appreciate it though. The one I was talking to - pictured above - gave me some nasty looks and as I was into the conversation, I looked at the others and they were all staring at me with looks that could kill. Maybe they don't like people or are just xenophobic, I'm telling you those cows aren't as cutesy as they seem. They're evil.

It's been a good day

After a crappy week, it feels like all the good things came back to me at once. I had a stellar day at uni, the EU-simulation course is as fun as ever. Also got feedback from a lecturer about my performance so far and frankly couldn't have been better. After 15min of discussing why I'm so good, I felt pretty confident. ;)

Then booked the venue for Eurovision party though it's still conditional, will have to wait for their confirmation. But hopefully it will work out and that's sorted.

And then was a really nice day at work as well. Despite the possible evacuation alerts, for the life of me I can't keep my composure. I don't do panic situations well. I tend to panic.

But yey, it's all good again. Now I only need to get some sleep, and then tomorrow is a whole day full of leisurely activities before work.

Talk about a bad week...

It doesn't seem like this week was bad but in retrospect, it was hardly a good one. First, I was sick a lot. My pillow was so crappy that it was making me wake up with a headache, then Grant Management pulls this little trick of theirs. Then I get some sort of thing at work, felt so dizzy and nauseous that I had to leave early. Then go to the gym after some recovery time but get too excited and work out a bit too much and get ill from that.

The worst is last night when somebody threw rocks at our windows and managed to break Alvaro's window. His room is already minuscule so it got really cold. Anyway, the police came over, called Grant Management who won't be here to fix till who knows when and all that.

And then hörhilö pulls another one of his tricks. Won't go into details, that would reveal the identity, but good old times sprung to mind.

I'm left to hope happier times are ahead of me. Tomorrow uni starts and also am working until late every evening until Wednesday (when I'm going to Maastricht!). So at least I've got that to look forward to. And Jenny will be back as well, will meet her on Wednesday and get to eat proper food! I've lost my appetite recently, I'm suspecting it's more of a cause of my poor cooking skill than anything else.

Problem Solving

Today I woke up with a headache and it was pretty easy to figure out where I got it from. No, it wasn't a hangover like my dad thought (cheers for that though daddy) but because of my crappy pillow. I'm a very mobile sleeper. I twist and turn so much and now that I've got a big bed I do it even more. And then my pillow is just so flat and hard that I tend to put my head under my arms and whatnot so no wonder I've got a stiff neck in the morning.

So the headache remains with me the whole day and I decide to splurge out on a proper pillow and as I'm heading out, I see a letter from the company that owns and rents the flat. The idiots have once again claimed that I haven't paid my rent. I've gotten that letter every month now, the amount changes (I don't know what's up with that) and the name changes (it's a variation of my name, the previous tenants name or our names combined) but the point is that someone that seems like me, hasn't paid the rent. But, like I phone to tell them every month, I pay by direct debit and every time I've called them they've said it's a mistake on their side and they're going to fix it. I've been living here since January and it's April... not very quick on their feet now are they?

Anyway, so I fix things. I get a new pillow to prevent the headache, I buy ibuprofein (as weird as this sounds, I love ibuprofein) to help the symptons, call the idiots to fix their problems and to make myself feel better, I buy a tub of ice cream. Problem solved! I feel happy again.

Little things in life

Today it's snowing. I don't usually talk about weather when I'm in Newcastle simply because I rarely leave my room. I have a window but I keep the blind down all the time because a) the window is mouldy and b) it gets drafty and blind keeps it a bit warmer. So I don't really see the weather action that much. But today I went to get something to eat, one those occasions that require me to go outside the house - delivery would be too much like fatty-action, and it's proper blizzard outside. And of course today being Sunday, busses go very rarely and the one I'm aiming for is always early so it's gone by the time I get there and the next one is always late. Murphy's law. But the point being I got soaked.

But then I get to shop, my feet are wet and am cold all over, get my stuff and suddenly chocolate chip cookies seem tempting. So I buy them, get home after getting a bit more wet on the way and open that bag of cookies and the whole thing was worth it.

Now I start work in about 3.5 hours so I've got a few more hours of bliss ahead of me. Project Runway is calling...

My fallback plan

Minna and Jenna were in Newcastle for 5 days and we had loads of fun. We even booked a make-up lesson at a salon to get all glammed up one day. One thing I noted was that I actually already do my make-up the way she instructed, if slightly better. And I also quite often do the hair and make up for my friends. In ylä-aste (upper comprehensive school, grades 7-9) I was told that I could start a nail salon because I was quite interested in nails back then and now I was thinking of branching out to hair and make-up as well.

I can't really cut hair but I can do fabulous dos and glamorous evening make-up. And proper nice nails as well. So if the whole politics stuff doesn't work out, I know I have a back-up plan. I have done Jenna's hair and the make-up was created in collaboration with Savannah Salon & Spa.

Other than that, Triin's back from Peru and took loads of happy and amazing pictures of llamas! And they are all dedicated for me, could I ask for a better friend? There's much love there, llamas all the way.