Found It Online!!!

In relation to my earlier post, last night I browsed for Dean Koontz' books online and found one paperback book in Finnish that cost only around €7, so I'm going to order it for my hubby as a Christmas gift. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!! I'm SO HAPPY HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE...

Yesterday hubby came home and I realized he wasn't as jovial as usual. Turned out he wasn't feeling too good, and I think I've caught some of his viruses. Last night I decided to sleep longer than usual to gain more strength as I had begun to feel a slight headache during the night. Now headache's gone but I'm still going to drink my vitamin C.

Good news is that there's a group of people interested in opening a project for immigrants in this village. They're going to interview us to find out about our situation, our future plans, problems, and what they expect from the project. I honestly don't know what to expect from them, but since they're interested in interviewing foreigners, then I contacted them yesterday. They said that they'd call me to set up an interview later on. We'll see how it goes.

I've got some bad news about the full-time Finnish course. I THOUGHT it would be for sure that they'd open it. Turned out that it wasn't 100% sure yet...it depends on lots of factors. I don't know yet if they're expecting to get a certain number of students or not, but the fact that it's full-time means that some of us can't do it after all. It seems to me that there are only about 3 people so far who can make it full-time. My Brit friend can't do it full-time as she has her own home business to take care of.

I asked my closest friends to pray for this...one of them said this, "I will, but just remember that sometimes when God closes one door, it's for your own good. He will make everything work out for your own good." Ahhhh...such a breath of fresh air. Sometimes I'm too caught up with my own plans so that I forget that His plans are MUCH MUCH MUCH better than mine, whatever they are. Sometimes I wish for something too much that I forget that He can open different doors for me, too, and that maybe He chooses to open other doors for me instead of the one I'm praying for. MANY times I forget to thank Him for closed doors. I'm SO glad I have friends who remind me of these things. ;-D

Okie dokie...now it's time for me to study and in the afternoon I'll bake the apple cake. I'll take a pic of it if it turns out well HI HI HI HI HI HI HI...Have a WONDERFUL weekend, everybody!!!

Winter Wonderland

This afternoon I went out to buy some grocery, including some apples as tomorrow I'm going to bake the apple cake for my father-in-law. I dropped by a bookstore downtown, as well. I wanted to find out if they had a Finnish version of the latest Dean Koontz novel, Odd Thomas. Even though hubby's English is good, he wants to read the Finnish version. He's a HUGE fan of Dean Koontz. He says that he likes reading Koontz better than Stephen King. I thought that I could buy him the book as a Christmas gift from me. ;-D

Anyway, turned out that the bookstore had a Finnish version, but they didn't have a paperback one. The paperback one was in English (€10.90). The bad news was that the price of the hard-cover Finnish version of Odd Thomas cost €35.00. YIKES!!! I told them that I'd wait for the paperback version. There's NO way I'm going to buy a novel THAT expensive no matter how good it is. They said that it might be that expensive since it was brand new.

Tomorrow hubby's planning to have another game night with his cousin, Pirita's Dad. Next Friday there'll be a pikkujoulu (office Christmas party) and he's going away to Rovaniemi with his coworkers and boss. This year they didn't let the employees' wives to go with them, so I'm gonna be home alone from Friday till Saturday. Hmmmm...maybe I should plan a party or something. Too bad you blogger friends of mine live SO FAR away from me. Otherwise I could organize a pyjama party for us girls or something he he he...

At first I was SO sad about his going away to Rovaniemi. I was sad not because he was going away to have a party with his coworkers, but because I WANTED SO MUCH to go back to Rovaniemi and browse around the city. I also wanted to go back to the hotel where we stayed in back in 2004 as they served VERY TASTY steaks. I WANT to eat that steak again he he he...But my hubby, the ever pragmatic guy, said this when I wailed about the steak, "But maybe they don't serve that kind of steak anymore." GRRRRRRRR!!!!! I DO NOT CARE. I WANT to go back there again someday. Period. HE HE HE HE...

I want to go back to Santa Claus Village and take some pics with Santa and also I want to roam around the city a bit to see what they have in store there (esp. to a big bookstore!!!) he he he...

Oh yeah...let me teach you some Finnish words/phrases:

1. Joulu = Christmas
2. Pikku = small
3. Hyvää Joulua! = Merry Christmas! or Seasons Greetings!
4. Joulukuusi = Christmas tree
5. Kuusi = fir or spruce tree
6. Jouluaatto = Christmas eve
7. Kiitos = thank you

OK, I'm gonna try to study Finnish now! ;-D