My mummy is coming to Finland! We’re on our way to pick her, her boyfriend and my little sister right now. The car journey is a bit dull.. I was working today and then on my way back my friends scooter (which I was borrowing) decided to die so that was a bit freaky, turns out it was just the battery though so no biggie. I have Thursday and Friday off which will be a nice break. I think i’ll eat one of the tangerines I brought with me.. Bye for now ;p~

As for what I’ve been doing.. well I’ve been working full-time and family has been over here and it’s been rather hellish for a while. Am looking forward to my mum, her boyfriend and my sister coming over (they’re arriving on the 21st) and am simply trying to cope till then cos I’ll get four days off!

I have also been working on some new ideas and a new theme for this site. I’d like to get my plugins into Wordpress Extend so that I can deal with support requests/bugs easier but so far it’s been headaches all the way. Also I sort of made content for this site so that people would visit.. so if people don’t come for the plugins then why will they come? :S It’s a no-win situation, and I’ve just realised that yet again I’ve gone back to the geeky talk pfft.

Lauri got into uni! Well technically he got into two uni’s but he got into the one nearest here which is brilliant cos he doesn’t have to go live in student dorms and come home and weekends.. so he’s stuck with me, nae luck Lauri.

The dog is on a diet. The vet said he’s got too much weight on his bones so the poor wee bugger is out getting a lot more exercise and a lot less nice things. He turned two this year but he was neutered at six months so the vet says that has a lot to do with it also. Anyway poor Scamp, gets nothing fine.

Well I’ve rambled on for long enough me thinks, any longer and I’ll have to page it. I really hope someone gets in contact either through email or through comments or something. Ta-taaaa for now!

P.S We’ve got a paid gig next Saturday! Yayyyy.

Well.. Here I am again testing mobile blogging. It’s much better this time around cos I have a data package and a nifty phone…

I have decided…

I’m buying a new phone and new package. The phone I have currently is alright but it has weird text prediction and the heat sensitive buttons are forever closing things that I didn’t want closed. Also my bills are insane for calling (its not that I phone that much but the connection charge blah blah all adds up :S). So.. I’m gonna get a cool phone, pay an arm and a leg every month and with a bit of luck that’ll be the only charge cos I’ll get a free minutes package as well as a text one. I’ve decided on the Nokia E90. It’s over a year old but I reckon with all those features I’ll never be lacking again. It’s also got good connectivity support as well as synch support and hell.. it’s Nokia, much better than this Samsung crap. So.. tomorrow I’m gonna nip off to the city to go to the shop, sort it out and hopefully have a new phone.. if they don’t have them in stock then I’ll order it online and wait just like everyone else.. with a bit of luck I’ll be writing blogs on my new phone by this time tomorrow night.

In other news.. I graduated on the 31st of May. It was a rather nifty affair (see the photo above) in which I got a sailor hat and a nice wee hardback folder proving that I’m a brainy bugger. The school also found my missing AICE paper (not the final diploma but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick) and bundled it all in there. So I am officially free from school and exams etc. etc.

Just before school finished I had a few essays and things to write up to get courses and stuff and I also started a nifty new job. After school ended I started my summer job which is the same job really only 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, instead of a few hours a day a few days a week. The job is being a personal assistant to a disabled person which is challenging, interesting and highly amusing. It’s good that my employer has a dark sense of humour or we’d never get through the day :)

I must be a real massochist. Despite all previous knowledge on the evils of forums these days, I still go there and post on occassion. Why oh why do people feel the need to bring everyone down? You post one damn little thing and it’s stretched and skewed beyond recognition and you’re flamed so much that a cold shower just isn’t going to put out the flames and your arse is scorched. People are mean online..

I bought three ivy plants (two little one huge), one big brown spider plant type thing and I got a nice green houseplant that has red growth which goes green when the leaves grow which is pretty nice. My citris tree is considering giving up the ghost but I have some of it’s seeds and leaves planted and with any luck (no chance) something will sprout. My little ivys ivies?? are doing really well but the big one has decided that it doesn’t like its conditions and the leaves at the top have browned and died. I re-potted tonight and gave it some fertiliser so hopefully it won’t die like every other ivy I’ve ever had.. oh and I moved it into a sunnier spot..

Everytime I blog these days it’s about my plants.. sad sad sad. Scamp and Muhi are adjusting to their new home nicely and the budgies and Tortuga couldn’t care less where they are as long as there’s food.

I kind of have a new job. It’s as a personal assistant to a disabled girl. She’s got a wicked sense of humour so I think we’re getting along well. It’s really interesting. I’d never thought about doing this kind of work mainly cos I thought you’d need 7 years of uni education in this country to even be considered for it. Turns out, you don’t.. so that’s nice.

Still no word on my AICE diploma although the lawyer was supposed to be writing an email, that was a few weeks ago and haven’t heard anything.. also I still have some unfinished courses at school and the headmaster was supposed to call me three weeks ago and… haven’t heard anything. Think I’ll give him a call tomorrow. I hate when people say they’ll call or email and then don’t, although I realise they’re busy people but you’d think that after three weeks.. well.

So.. all in all life is on the up albeit slowly going up. We recently got our printed demo’s sent and it’s very exciting to see all our names in proper print. We had a gig last week in a secondary school and that went alright apart from me screwing up a few times, I really should practice. Yeahh and my grandparents are coming here soon, that’s exciting too. We have a gig while they’re here so it’ll have to be good.

A double bed was ordered today for us so soon we won’t have to sleep elbow to back anymore and even then it’s only elbow to back when the dog’s not on the bed.. when he’s there it’s more cold wet nose and lanky legs to back. I also ordered paint today to paint the kitchen and hopefully the living room cos it’s a bit mank.

My scooter Beryl is back in for repairs under her guarantee. Bloody indicators stopped working :S not good. The guarantee is only for a year and this is the second time already. Apparently there’s a queue at the mechanics so it could take another few weeks.

I should go to bed now.. almost 2am and I’m rambling like a boy scout in autumn. Anyhoo good night and stay away from cider and spirits!

Spring is in the air (sort of) but snow is still on the ground so technically I suppose it’s still winter :S Anyway.. I like watching things grow and with any luck all of my plants will start that growing business soon.

I have a psychology exam tomorrow which I’ll probably fail. Too many stupid words and I’m too stupid and this isn’t an exam I can just blab my way out of cos it’s in Finnish and blabbering in Finnish is reserved for native Finns once they get drunk. Sober you can’t get a word out of them. At least it’ll all be over this time tomorrow. No more exams.. no more proper school. I may have to do a few courses but they’re not even on offer next school period. Well.. booger it. I think an early night and early start is in order. Shower… PJ’s… bed. Yep.