Here he is. The newcomer. :)



Nikki and Ian arrived safely. We manage to cram in some local sightseeing, films, a photoshoot (ya-ah :P), a sauna and way too much pizza last night. Just woke up to bright sunshine, which is rather nice. Going to go do some shopping and then start serious partying (erm... I say serious just for effect here ok, I am old after all). I think it's gonna be a good day. :D

Happy May Day to everyone!

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So, everything is done. The flat is clean, the fridge is stocked and the holiday has started. Going to go pick up Nikki and Ian from the airport in an hour, and then the May Day festivities can commence. :) Well, the actual party is tomorrow, but I have a suspicion we might have a few drinks tonight whilst catching up... All that is left for me to do is to wind down. It's been so hectic all week that it feels absolutely impossible for me to just sit still and relax now... I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon enough though.

Couldn't get to sleep last night as I started feeling so guilty about not having the chance to go to the hospital to see Johanna and the baby. But after talking to her today I feel a lot better. And she said it might be nice for them to get to know eachother in peace first as well. So, I'm seeing him next week. :) Hopefully Pasi will mail me some pictures before that though. Will put them up here if he will.

Oh and Eve is moving into the same building as me! :D It's kinda cool. We can do photoshoots and stuff when ever the inspiration strikes. Yay.

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Ohhhh. Johanna has given birth to a baby boy at 6am this morning. He has dark curly hair and blue eyes. The mother sounded happy but very tired and the dad just dizzy with excitement. It's so weird and also absolutely amazing! I can't believe she's a mom now... Can't wait to meet the newcomer. Congratulations to Johanna and Pasi, from the bottom of my heart.

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My toes are freezing (yes again). Weird, I've done so much today and it's only 2pm. I'm on this strange energy-high where I feel I can get *everything* done in a day. It's good in a way I guess, but I also suddenly have lots of inspiration for new shots and stuff and there's no way I have time to shoot anything at the moment.

Things I have done today: took sheets off the bed and washed them, washed all towels, put clean clothes into the closet, put pictures in album, layed out two features and fixed other ones, found illustrations for some features, made pdf's for Chris, messed about with my site, put a shitty shot up on DA, put clean dishes in the cupboard, prepared some prints to be sent to a friend, tried to mail Mike, but all his addresses seem to bounce mail back (hmm...), made some charts for a feature... and then some.

Still to do today: lay out two features, wash one more machine-full of stuff, put pictures in frames, make the bed after washing the sheets, clean balcony and perhaps wash the windows, cut Stu's hair, hoover, catch up with DA comments, stop messing with my website... at least. Will probably come up with more stuff no doubt.

I've tried to make the links and stuff more logical here. If anyone wants their site added or (*gasp*) be taken off, let me know.

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Look look! New commenting system thing! Go on, you know you wanna. :D

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It is done. The bedroom wall is finished. It never did dry to resemble a nice and even colour, but it doesn't look too bad I suppose. And I really really like the way the actual shade of colour turned out. Perfect.



Now it's time to start cleaning frantically as Nikki and Ian will be arriving on Thursday. Eek. And it probably would be an idea to do some work at some point as well. Oh and the new frames need to go on the wall and and... uuuh. Too many things for my little brain to handle.

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Hey ya'll. Lots of changes here huh. This site is finally starting to look consistent. Thanks for that goes mostly to Paul, couldn't have done it without him. I can't believe how patient he is with my whining and how he starts working on my every whim instantly when I mention it. Thank you so much (over and over again).

As some of you know, I spent most of yesterday painting the bedroom wall purple. The colour is rather yummy, but it refuses to dry evenly, which is a bit annoying. Still, at least the wall's not a boring white anymore and I can't wait to start using it as a background for photoshoots. :)



Today I left Stu cleaning the kitchen and went to see mom. Found some of my old oil painting in her shed and took pictures of them. Just in case they rotten completely in there. Will probably be putting the pictures up in my DA doodling account later on.

Oh and you should all join Chris and Amy's new forums, even if all they ever talk about is food...

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Work in progress!

Welcome to the new home of my blog. It probably looks a bit funny at the moment as I was stupid enough to delete the 'images' directory from my old server, while all the links here still point to there. Ho hum. :)

Dunno how actively I will be writing, but I reckoned I could at least copy all my DA journal entries here, for those people who find coming to DA to find me a bit confusing.

Anyways, I'm gonna go continue painting the bedroom wall now. Piccies will most likely follow.

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Oh my god I had so much trouble getting out of bed today. Consequently, I was half an hour late from work. Never mind, I was still the first in. Story of my life. I always manage to be too early, just in time, or the first everywhere, even when I'm trying my hardest to be fashionably late. It's especially not a nice trait to possess when it's raining.

My plan is to get this magazine off today, finish all the preliminary work for the next issue, have my haircut at 2pm and then just sneak off... I know it's a bit daring. Well I might be gracious enough to take a half a days holiday if the Editor looks too badly on my plans. I did however work on Easter sunday so I'm hoping she'll cut me some slack. It seems like all the stress of the last couple of weeks has really paid off as this week has gone so smoothly and now that the end is near I'm starting to feel really relieved and happy. And also, I'll be going home on a friday so neither of us has to go straight to bed, we can make a proper evening of it. Yay.

Got ambushed by E while checking DA. She didn't notice though, too busy talking. Apparently I have to write down new stuff for my job description as she wants to push me to a higher bracket. Coolness. I'm liking this day.

Rachel came in at 11am, and as I'd gotten all last minute corrections approved by E in the morning, we started to wrap things up.

Got a strange phonecall from bf's nan. She wanted to bring an easter egg for me to take home. I thought she'd already given us one. Anyways, told her I wouldn't be in the office on friday and that Nikki could bring it over in two weeks. She is nuts (but lovely).

Whee! All done. Off to get a (hopefully) wonderful haircut and I might even consider some light shopping afterwards, well it is pay day after all. Feeling... fantastic. And I get to go home tomorrow. :D

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Waking up was extremely difficult. The bed was feeling sooo warm and soft.

Very uneventful journey to work. Bought a magazine to keep me awake and was very annoyed by strories of lottery winners. Especially by a woman who'd obviously gotten dangerously addicted to fake tan and was bragging how she just threw out 80 pairs of shoes to make room for new ones or something. Still, she seemed to buy her shoes from ShoeXpress so no great loss there.

Was first in the office again. I like the silence when no-one's around. Rachel texted that she was feeling rough and wouldn't be in before lunch time. Great. Proceeded to work like I was possessed.

While getting lunch I bought Brita water filter capsule thingies. I think I'm a lunatic. Why can I only remember to buy these while I'm in england? Makes no sense to import water filters from another country. Oh well. Back to working like a madman.

For some weird and wonderful reason all that over-achieving worked and at the end of the day we only had 4 pages left to finish the next day. Which means... if I was to be optimistic... that I might not have to come in on friday at all... just go straight to the airport. What a sweet week that would make this. Happiness.

Quick peek in DA told me I had 200 deviations waiting for attention. Out out as quickly as possible.

Dinner was a double whammy: cold turkey *and* turkey pie. Lord have mercy.

Had a text from Nikki asking if there's still snow in finland and telling me how excited she was getting about coming over in two weeks. I got excited as well, realising it was so close. :D

Got annoyed at bf on the phone because he was trying to blackmail me. I don't like that. Oh yeah and I don't like being told what to do either. =P

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Spent the night feeling hot under the cover and cold without it. Woke up feeling very groggy.

Fell asleep on the train to work, which is always bad. Woke up at Liverpool Street absolutely disoriented and couldn't feel my legs. Luckily most people seemed to still be on holiday so the central line wasn't as bad as usual. I even got a seat. Very peculiar.

My brain has some sort of glitch when it comes to remembering the door codes at work. For some reason during the 3 weeks I'm out of the office all numbers relating to accessing the office just disappear from my head completely. The receptionist must think I'm retarded asking her what the code is every time.

I was first in the office, so after copying all my files across, I had some time to browse through the messages on DA. Had no time to comment and got a bit panicky seeing my pile of deviations steadily growing, so logged out.

Started clearing the huge pile of work on my desk.

Texted happy birthday to Johanna. She replyed saying she got my card and that the doctor said the baby might come any time now, even though the estimated date is 9.5. I told her to keep her legs crossed until after the May Day party she promised to come to.

Infernally busy. Almost didn't notice lunch time arriving. Good job I got a nudge from someone else. :) Bought hair dye and booked a hairdresser for thursday. Time to get this mess sorted out.

Quarter to five I just sat there, in the silence. Waiting to go home, trying to clear my thoughts. Started writing this diary thingie. Why, I don't know. Just felt like it.

When I got home I dyed my hair (and the duvet cover.. erm). Turned out a bit too red but at least it's not so peculiarly blonde anymore.

Turkey pie for dinner. Have a feeling I will be well and truly fed up with turkey by the end of this week. Then I finished reading Mill Millington's A Certain Chemistry. Albeit being very amusing and even hilariously funny at times, it left me feeling deflated. It's too a depressing thought that all our biggest decisions/mistakes are just down to chemicals in us reacting to things. Hmm. Seems like infidelity is being shoved in my face from all directions, what with the Beckham's all over the papers etc. When bf called I asked him not to be unfaithful, even if the chemicals make him do it. He promised. Well that's ok then eh. And I suppose the book did finish on a promise... that no matter what mess biology gets us in, it's still up to ourselves to try to sort it out.

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Woke up feeling a bit woozy and disoriented. Had a dream I threw a party at the wrong time and wondered why no-one came until I noticed it was two weeks too early. Oh well.

Felt a bit more organised as I did some work on sunday. Ready to face the chaos at the office.

Was strange leaving for england on a monday *and* during the day. First of all bf was awake and came to the airport, which made the whole affair seem like more of a dramatic event. Usually I just sneak out before 6am and we sort of miss all the going away drama. Anyways, him coming to the airport was nice, but also made me feel unusually sad.

Flight was absolutely packed, everyone returning from their easter break I presume. Had a pregnant woman next to me who drank 2 bottles (well airplane sized) of red wine and two whiskeys during the flight. I'm confused, I didn't think pregnant women are supposed to do that. Reminded me that it's Johanna's birthday on tuesday.

Weather in England was quite humid and warm. Obviously it started to rain the minute I got off the plane, but still, it was quite nice and spring-like. Was very strange not having to go straight to work. Felt a bit disconnected, like the safety of my normal routine had been taken away from me. Still, was very nice just to get home and have a shower. Bf phoned in the evening and it made me wonder what we were doing in different countries. Like it always does.

Cold turkey for dinner. Absolutely fuck-all on TV.

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The cruise was a nice break, even if I was ill. Still managed to spend an obscene amount of money and eat too much. Got back at 10am and got a lift home from mum, which was nice.

Felt crummy so went straight to bed. After I woke up, had a sauna and then did some work. Then unpacked and packed again for england.

The rest of the day is a bit of a blur.

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