The holiday so far has been rather uneventful, which isn’t such a bad quality for a holiday I suppose. I have managed to sort my taxes out and Stu has managed to have a nervous breakdown with the car business, which is still not sorted. Looks like it’ll happen next week. Which means we do have a car for now then, and can go to Rayleigh for Easter Sunday.

The bits for my new computer were supposed to come today but that got delayed as they couldn’t find the motherboard in the warehouse. After switching the motherboard to a different model the computer should be arriving tomorrow. Hopefully that’ll happen early in the day so the whole day won’t be wasted.

Other than that we have also managed to laze around on the sofa a little bit as well, after all that is something we are both quite talented at.

To kill the time, while waiting for the computer that didn’t come, I dyed my hair today. The very expensive colour (courtesy of Toni&Guy;) had faded quite horribly in just a month and a bit, especially the orangey bits looked awful, so I had to do something about it. And since finding a decent hairdresser seems like a challenge in itself I decided to go back to ‘plain’ brown to at least forgo the task of finding a colourist as well. I originally wanted it a bit darker than it turned out, but all the blond bits meant that there are lighter/redder areas in there which takes away from the darkness of the brown. The colour that I used was L’oreal Feria Colour 3D in Espresso. It’s been ages since I’ve coloured my hair myself, I forgot what a messy job it is! :O

Now I’ll just have to wait for the hair to grow a bit so I can have it ‘connected’ back at the back. It’s a bit of a case of business in front, party at the back for the moment.

Hyvää Syntymäpäivää Äitille! :D

It’s been a whirlwind of a couple of weeks! Haven’t had any time to write anything earlier, nor do I have much time right now either. The wedding went ok; we remembered to say ‘I do’ in the right bits and people seemed to enjoy the party (and the punch). It was lovely to see some people I haven’t seen for a long time, like my brothers, again. I’ll tell you all about it later.

Nikki and Ian are still here (the rest of the English contingent left on Sunday), and tonight we’re going out to celebrate my birthday, as this is their last night in Finland.

Well, the hairdresser refused to cut it much shorter as apparently I’ll need the length for any bridal do. But at least the colour makes up for it! Loving having lively colours in my hair again. It feels so much more me. I suppose I can even try to live with the length for another month now… :)

And also, as promised, midsummer pictures. Enjoy! I’m missing it all already. *sigh*

I’m just about to leave for the hairdresser’s. Finally! I’m well and truly sick of my hair at the moment, it’s awful. The length, the cut (what cut), the colour – everything’s just blah. The thing is, I’ve been trying to grow it for the wedding in order to have some options for up-do’s and such. But now, three weeks before, I’ve just had enough! :P Hmm. We’ll see… even if I feel like chopping it all of right now, just some new fresh colour might help as well and maybe enable me to put up with the length until after the wedding… Anyways, here’s how it’s grown.

I’ll show you the results when I get back.

We got back home from Miikka’s cottage last night. Midsummer was lovely. Hot, sunny and relaxing. I really didn’t want to return to the city. I’ll get some pictures off my camera and show you when I have some time.

I’ve finally got new hair. :D Whee. You can see the colour better here. It’s not short short but definitely a lot shorter, which is lovely in this heat. My god the hairdresser’s was an endurance test though, their air conditioning was broken and sitting under a plastic cape on a plastic chair for two hours was NOT fun. :|

When I came back from the UK I thought it was so pleasantly cool here… not anymore. It’s been +30C since last friday, and especially the nights are so uncomfortable that I don’t quite know what to do with myself. The air feels so thick and immobile it’s really horrible. The forecast keeps on promising rain but every day that gets pushed a day forward. :| Currently it’s showing rain for friday… which is when we’re driving to Tampere to the Suzanne Vega concert… Oh well, I don’t even mind, just as the rain does come at some point. Thankyouplease.

Yay for Italy. I hope there’s a party going on still when we get there in exactly a week. :D I so should have put money on them. Oh well. What about that Zidane though. :| Such a stupid way to end a career.

I so need a haircut. :| There is nothing ‘lovely’ about it Susie. :P

So I’ve been pricing up old crap (that I’m gonna sell at the flea market next week) most of the night. And organised stuff in the office. Then I read some and saw a friend’s flat in an interior magazine. And when I was finished with that, I tidied up the office a bit more. Ohh the joy of lovely neat rows of folders and things. <3 And then I decided to try out my webcam as I moved it on the other side of the monitor (how exciting). So there I am, right now. Not that anyone's gonna read this right now but that’s your loss. :P It’s a plastic cover for a usb connector in my mouth by the way (jealous much S?). Anyways, the point of the matter is that… well that it’s 3am and I don’t feel like sleeping at all. I’m feeling strangely hyper and keep on contemplating about tidying up something else. Hmm.

I think I mentioned it before (a couple of million times) but I’m getting truly fed up with winter now. Not that I go out that much, but it’s depressing that I don’t even want to. Bleugh.

Need a haircut quite badly.

Shit. I really thought I’d have something to write about. Never mind.

See, I’ve got a new haircut! I can’t remember the last time my hair was this short. And also, for someone who’s as obsessed with symmetry as I am, it’s a bit radical. :D I’m torn between loving it and having a horrible urge to move that wispy top bit to the side so it would be more even. I will resist. I do really like it. *nod*

The only downside about going to the hairdressers was that after they washed my hair, they put this chocolate treatment in it, which smelled soo yummy. And I went straight to the shop to buy chocolate afterwards. :| Well, it’s friday after all isn’t it…