Alright. No slacking.

I'm so sorrrrrryyyyyyyy. It's been so long since I last wrote anything here. I could say that won't happen again but the thing is I know me and it probably will happen again. So, no promises but I'm trying my best to update more frequently.

Time for a quick catch up, eh? I'm making it a photo edition. So prepare your connections, it's about to get heavy!

So I went to Ylläs. So it was the highlight of the year. Or, as I was going to find out, one of them.

I'd kill to be able to wake up to this every day.

I made a Hawks shirt. And my hair started to look like Jesus hair all over again.

MY LABOR DAY WAS THE GREATEST EVER BECAUSE I GOT THE BEST NEWS EVER. For those of you who can't read Finnish, I won two tickets to the Ice Hockey World Championships game Russia vs Finland that was in Helsinki. Yes. Omg. I did. I still can't quite believe it?

But it's true. It happened. I took my dad with me because seeing a World Championships game has been his dream since, I don't even know, and he was the reason I started watching hockey in the first place, so it was only fitting (and sadly none of my friends could come with me so I was left with no choice) (no offense dad) (if you see this tho, WHY ARE YOU HERE DON'T COME HERE). These were our seats. I was so excited I forgot to take a picture of me at the arena, though. The biggest regret. (I could have gotten one when Kontiola was stretching on the blue line right under my nose but no am I stupid or stupid)

I've been working... (Almost 400k behind with our old lady! Don't ever stop working you are the best car I can ask for please)

... two jobs. This was a break. And a test piece. I can fit three scoops in a cup. Good. (Fazerina, mango-melon and mint chocolate with chocolate sauce and chocolate and tutti frutti sprinkles. Yum).

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!1!!1111!!!!!!111111111!!!!!!!!!

(I got accepted to study electric engineering in the university based on my grades, no entrance exams)

(actually I got accepted to study nano science, maths and finnish language and literature too but who cares?! This I'm gonna take yes please)

Me and my best friend still ended up going to entrance exams (she in medicine, I in medical engineering). I found the comfiest chair in the building. My new school starting on August. Oh my god.

(yes I am not sure which one of the places I'm gonna take if I got into the med engineering program too. But I'm not gonna worry about that right now)

I also visited the hairdresser's because I needed to dye my hair in order for... well. You'll see and read all about that. I'll end this post with a little tease here:

What was that about? Watch out for the next post to find out ;)

Lazyctionist

I'm a shitty writer. All of you who have ever read anything I've written know this is true.

That's why I don't get why I feel the need to rub it in my own face by taking part in NaNoWriMo or as currently, Camp NaNoWriMo, even though I know I'll get bored with my plot after two days (it'd help if I had a plot to begin with, though) and I'll never finish the story (let's be honest, like I'd manage to say everything I have on the matter in 50,000 words which is the goal? Or had the energy to keep on writing once I'm past that?)

For those who are not familiar with the concept, it's National Novel Writing Month, basically meaning your goal is to plan and write a 50,000 word novel in a month. The main event is in November but there are two camps, in April and July, too, where you can get sorted into a cabin with fellow NaNo people and you can talk about writing and give pep talks and stuff. It's my first year camping, and my second time ever taking part in this.

Well, also second time writing anything fictional that's longer than two pages, because I have these amazing ideas but never get them right on the paper, so I don't really want to try and fail, because I'm a perfectionist. 

This time the problem is I've told way too many people about this project to  back down. It'd be embarrassing to be like "oh, I quit. I gave up. I didn't complete it". And you know why? Because I'm a perfectionist.

I'm also freaking lazy, and that's a killer combo for a person. Can't concentrate if room's not clean, but too lazy to do it. Don't want to do badly in an exam, but too lazy to start revising sooner than two nights before. Trying to get everything right with the first try.

I know it's not healthy and that I have a lot to learn in this world. That's why I write. It helps me realize things about myself, because usually I have no sense of when we're browsing the vast areas of TMI, and there's no point in lying to yourself on your own blog where the content's totally up to you, so.

Yeah.

Learning.

No April fools here. Because they suck. Brool story, co.

BLACKHAWKS BACK ALRIGHT

I don't know if you know but I'm an avid knitter. Like, I knit when I'm stressed, I knit when I'm happy, I knit when I wake up, I wish I could learn how to knit when I'm asleep. My room is filled with balls of yarn, and not just once or twice have I stabbed myself with a knitting needle - accidentally of course (stepped on one that's vertically sticking in a pile of clothes? check. Gotten one stuck on your thigh because it was on the sofa/bed? gaziiillliiiooon times check). But yeah. Long story short - I knit. Not a lot maybe, because I'm a freaking perfectionist and I like to start projects and never finish them, but anyway.

Not like my ravelry has anything on it, yet, so there's no proof of my skills anywhere. Except on some of my friends. Mainly on their feet.

I just love socks.

BUT THAT'S NOT THE REASON WHY I'M WRITING THIS NOW okay. It's this. Which leads us to another thing you might not have been aware of.

I've been recently watching a lot of ice hockey, as I may have mentioned on my last post (I think I mentioned only once? Good. Because I have a tendency to mention hockey in like, every other sentence nowadays). I've been a hockey fan since I was a kid, but I didn't start watching the games before this season. I've known what's my team in the Finnish league before I knew I knew it (does that make sense?), because people up North root for people from up North, and that's the rule, dare to break it and....... yeah. But NHL, man. There are 30 teams and I had no pre-feeling bonds with any of those. Except maybe with the ones with lots of Finnish players.

And Flyers. I knew already I hated them.

And Canucks and Kings and Rangers, too.

So that left me with 26 teams from which to pick one to root for. Tough job, eh? Not the case. It was the first game of the season, and I already knew I had found them.

Chicago Blackhawks. Ah. Love from the first sight.

So, me being a knitting addict, I just could help myself. And it all came down to this.

je suis super awkward

art of taking selfies with a webcam: master's degree achieved.

And that's just the beginning. I already have socks almost ready, and mittens coming right up. A friend also ordered a Phoenix Coyotes beanie so I think I need to get onto that right on. Heh. That's what happens when you're a poor student with lots of free time and yarn in your house.

All the credit for the pattern goes to this amazing person on Ravelry. I needed to make some changes to make it more fit, but it's still a bit too loose for me. Maybe I'll sew in a fleece lining, I don't know yet. I also took the liberty to change "Chicago" to "Blackhawks" using the alphabet chart I found from this site.

And I guess I need to mention I knitted that pullover last fall. It is my first ever full-length pullover I managed to finish and I'm pretty satisfied with it. I might make a post about it later, if I manage to arse myself to it.

I found these super cute mittens knitted by my grandma when I was looking for the pompom I had made beforehand. It runs in our family. Knitting, I mean. It's just gonna take me years to get the handiwork to be as flawless as granny's is. I don't know how she does that. Or my mom. They're too good.

What else did I do today? Applied for schools (I'll tell ya later), deleted a bunch of tweets (the old ones from 2011 are so embarrassing I want to cry), watched Once Upon a Time (why do I even bother? Augustus turned into a little boy again, Huntsman is dead and Hook is nowhere to be seen), aanndd.... that's about it? Oh. I did go outside. And almost tried putting the dirt bag into our mail box. I really need this break.

Hasta luego!

FINNISHED

So.

My high school's now over. Done. Finished. And I still can't quite believe it - has it really been four years? Well technically it hasn't, just a bit over three and a half, but... you know. Four years. It's a long time for a teenager. Feels like a little forever.

And now it's... over? Excuse me, I need a moment.

Anyway, I didn't get one.  Not a sleeping one, at least, as it is 7:45 am the morning after my last exam and I'm in the middle of nowhere, almost literally, on my way to our cabin which is.... even more in the middle of nowhere. But its okay. I like it there. I love it there.

Yeah. I look exactly like a person who's been sleep deprived for the last two months because she's been waking up in the middle of the night to watch ice hockey who's had four six-hour-long exams in the last twelve days AND who's woken up 5:15 am after 5-hour-ish sleep.

But it's okaaayyy. It's all okay. I'm going to Ylläs and it's going to be awesome. Then I'm going home and I'm going to sleep. And read. And write, because Camp NaNo is here (not like I have a plot or anything planned, though. It's scary. But I didn't have one last November when the actual NaNoWriMo was, so I  guess that's okay, too?). And I'm going to knit, and go out, and take photos, and not think about school for... At least a month.

But I still can't believe it's all over. Wow.

Now I think I gots to go, they promised there'd be electricity in the train, but I don't see a plug anywhere. So my battery's kind of dying. Liars. They're all liars.

Expect a photo spam of irrelevant, lame-ish Canada lookalike scenarios in the following posts. I don't care. It's okaay. And I love it.

Hey. I'm back.

After a complete do-over including new URL (I can't believe this wasn't taken! Now I'm convinced there's a typo somewhere and people are laughing at me) and layout (I love maps I love love love maps aaahh maps I want to cover my walls with MAPS) and deleting all my previous posts (not that there were that many of them to begin with), I'm back, and this time hopefully for good.

On the other hand we are talking about me so nothing is certain.

So I hope to see you around. After my final final exam, that is. Who am I kidding though, I'll probably redo everything here just to avoid revising, because that's just the kind of procrastinator I am.

I'm so lame.