Puzzle #2, Wasp Nest, and Photo Answer

Last night R2 and I did the puzzle again. Well, he did most of it anyway. He even did it upside down!!! I mean I was sitting down on a stool facing the picture, but he was sitting on the opposite side of me, but still he managed to put so many pieces together! Unbelievable! I just suck big time in doing puzzles ha ha ha ha ha...but we had fun anyway.

Here's a pic of the puzzle 5 days ago (mind you, I did all that in a few days!!! It took me at least one or two hours or even more each day). I did all of this on my own, without R2's help:


Last night we did it for about 2 hours and here's the result. R2 did almost all of the rest. I only contributed to probably 15% of it.


What about the wasp nest on the title, you wonder? Well, when R2 was cutting the grass with a lawnmower the other day, he found out that in our little shed outside the garden, there is a wasp nest. Here's a pic of it:


We browsed around to find out the best way to get rid of it (it's about 15 cm tall), but R2 decided to wait until winter comes before we do anything 'coz they're far away from the house and they're not bothering us anyway.

OK, the last set of pics is the one I put on my previous Picture Time post. Here's the pic that I asked you to guess:


Here's the answer. Ta daaaaa....:-D Did any one of you guessed right? HE HE HE...I don't know what it's called in English, but you can hang pots of flowers on those four "circles" by using hooks.

Winter/Summer Tree

Not going to write anything much today. Just want to share this pic here...a pic of a lovely tree across Kitinen River bridge in downtown Sodankylä. I combined the pic of the tree in winter and summer so that you can see the contrast. The winter pic was taken in November 2008, whereas the summer tree was taken last month.

I should try taking the picture of this tree in autumn and early spring. ;-D

Whose Tracks Are These?

Last night I remembered something. When R2 came to visit for the first time in Indo to marry me, I gave him all my journal books. I also showed him many pics, including my class pics in Elementary School, Junior High School, and High School.

Then I told him that I had a crush on two boys in my Junior High School pic and I asked him to guess who they were. There were about 20 boys in my class at that time. After browsing all the faces for some time, he picked two of them and that made me STUNNED. He got both of them RIGHT!

I said to him, "How did you know? HOW DID YOU KNOW??????"

At this point, I thought he was psychic LOL LOL LOL!!!

He said calmly as usual, "Easy. I just picked the handsome ones."

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I refuse to admit that I only had crushes on cute boys he he he he...Besides, they say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so our views on who is "cute" and who isn't may be TOTALLY different, right? I think he was just lucky in guessing he he he...

Anyway, last Saturday I found which we thought would be a hare's (jänis in Finnish) tracks near my in-laws' place. Here's the pic (my shoe size is 37):


Do you think these could be a hare's tracks?

I'd LOVE to take some pics of the hare. I once had the privilege to see one hare stop in front of me for a second before it run as fast as it could to the forest. I had NO time to prepare my camera at all. :-((((

Well, maybe someday! ;-D

A Weird Habit

R2 has a WEIRD habit and whenever I see him with this "pose", I always cringe as it feels PAINFUL even to see! But he LOVES doing it so much. Let's take a look at this habit of his!



It's VERY weird, don't you think? He can keep this position for a LONG time, you know? Don't you agree that it looks painful? Does anyone of you also do something similar? C'mon, 'fess up, people HE HE HE HE HE...

I've tried doing it the way he does, but no can do, buddy!!! Anyway, Nyumix tagged me to do a meme, so I might just as well do it here:

A. Attached or single? Attached
B. Best friend? Of course.
C. Cake or pie? C-A-K-E!!!
D. Day of choice? Caturday!
E. Essential item? Underwear and bras?
F. Favorite color? Navy blue
G. Gummy bears or worms? Worms??? Real worms? Then I choose Gummy Bears HA HA...
H. Hometown? Sodankylä. Ex-hometown: Bandung, Indonesia!
I. Favorite indulgence? A full-body massage. Yummmyyyyyyy!!! *drool* But no triple price, thank youuuuuu he he he...
J. January or July? Does it matter? Who makes this kind of question? Hmmm...
K. Kids? Not yet.
L. Life isn’t complete without? Sex? LOL LOL LOL!!! KIDDING!!! Life isn't complete without death (yeah, yeah, I'm morbid!).
M. Marriage date? November 3rd.
N. Number of magazine subscriptions: none.
O. Oranges or apples? Oranges.
P. Phobias? FLYING ROACHES! URGHHHH!!!!
Q. Quotes? ??? I'm only one in the world, but I'm the ONLY one HUA HA HA HA...Narcissistic, am I not? ;-D
R. Reasons to smile? Hubby!
S. Season of choice? Season of LOVE he he he he...
T. Tag 5 people. I won't! ;-P
U. Unknown fact about me? Errr...can't think of anything right now...
V. Vegetable? Kale!
W. Worst habit? My obsessive-compulsive disorder.
X. X-ray or ultrasound? Depends on what I need. I don't want to do any of them if I don't need any ha ha ha ha...
Y. Your favorite foods? Mom's food!
Z. Zodiac sign? Sagittarius

A Sample of Coining and Today's Story

Since lots of people are curious about coining, let me just give you a sample of what your back looks like after coining. I can't use my back picture, of course, so I nicked one from flickr and edited it hi hi hi...


So, first of all you rub some balm onto the skin diagonally and then scrape it with a coin. I felt as though I was being held from the back after it was done. My WHOLE back was SO warm he he he he...

Anyway, yesterday our teacher told us that she got a headache when she came home, since she had been trying to think in Finnish, English, Russian, and French in our classroom he he he...So our teacher's brain is as messy as ours are, even though in a FAR different way ha ha ha ha ha...

I've been learning more and more things these days, which is good. However, it takes time to remember everything, but I like the fact that she drills us every day. I'm getting more and more relaxed during the drills and it helps us remember sentence structures better that way.

Today Arttu popped into our classroom to give some mail to our teacher and my heart leapt when I saw him, even though it was only for two seconds HEEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...

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As what normally happens, if you put 9 people together in the same room from Mondays to Fridays from 9 am until 3 pm, there's bound to be friction hi hi hi hi...Different temperaments, different points of view.

I regret to say that one of us has given up mentally, so that person hasn't been focusing on the teacher and her explanation. That person doesn't even bother anymore to ask the teacher if that person doesn't understand the explanation. I'm not going to say whether it's a he or she here since it's fairer that way. But anyway, that person thinks that the teacher is not good, which I think is SO wrong. That person thinks that the teacher skips lessons without any good reasons, even though I KNOW the reason why, but that person is so opinionated, so I won't even bother explaining it. That person went to the employment office to tell them that our teacher wasn't helpful.

My Brit friend and her hubby went to the employment office to tell them that our teacher had been VERY helpful indeed and I'm also going to send a letter to them to confirm about the same thing.

I KNOW it's hard for that person to follow the classes, but still that person doesn't know that all of us who have only been here for a year or less have been VERY lucky to get this full-time course. My Brit friend and her hubby have been waiting for this course for 4 years and they were the ones who kept on pushing the government to open this course. Alas, even though I had mentioned this fact to that person, yet that person was too bull-headed he he he he...

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OK, change of topic. These past few days it's been bright outside already since around 8.15 am and it only gets dark at around 5 pm. It feels a bit odd for me after all those dark months when it was bright outside only from around 10.30 am until 2.30 pm.

Even yesterday when I walked home, I had to put on my sunglasses already HUE HE HE HE HE...Don't get me wrong, though! That DOES NOT mean that I can sunbathe...since it's still cold out there. This morning I woke up and the temperature was -24.5'C. Gladly it went up to -13'C when I walked home. I had to put on my anorak when I walked to the course this morning. ;-D

Tomorrow evening I'm planning to visit my Russian friend (from the evening classes last year) who just gave birth, so I may not be in the blogosphere tomorrow. Don't wonder about it, OK? I'm going to visit her with my Brit friend. Arttu's going to take us there. YIPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEE!!! Girl talk!!! ;-D

OK, time to blog-hop before I start doing my homework and cook for tomorrow!!!!

Smile Tag

Max tagged me to do this tag. I'm supposed to put a picture of a smile he he he he...Here goes then!!!!

Courtesy of LeoLuigi from Flickr

3BT: September 20, 2007

1. Talking to my Mom via Skype and hearing her laugh. Listening to her stories again made me feel OH, SO VERY VERY GOOD! ;-D I LOVE listening to her stories he he he...

2. Seeing the fallen leaves dance with the wind. It was a BEAUTIFUL dance!!!

3. Receiving some pics of my Mom and relatives from my cousin. My Mom went to a wedding party of her uncle or something in Jakarta with her sisters and brother and my cousin. She said they had a WONDERFUL time as she spent a night at her niece's place and they dined out together. Here's the pic. (Since my family don't have a digital camera, this is the first time I've seen my Mom's pic since I left Indonesia!!!!)




Left to Right: Mom's eldest sister, Mom (the shortest), Mom's second eldest sister and her daughter (my cousin). I MISS THEM ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Imagining the taste of berry yoghurt. I just bought some HE HE HE HE...YUM YUM!!! ;-D