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[20 Nov 2009|03:45am] |
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Oh hay this going back to school messed me up. Got home from work, ate a salad and pretty much passed out on my armchair. A woke me up when he got home and I crawled to bed. At 6.30. And now it's 3.30am and I've been up for a couple of hours. It's gonna suck being at work until 6pm, but fortunately coffee exists.
Work was great actually, people had taken care of my work (=bills) and both next week's shifts and the shifts for the weekend's Christmas Fair are covered. Awesomesauce. And school was fine too, I got into the swing of things pretty quick. Although there was one disturbing thing. I finally realized who our teacher reminds me of. Joanna from Green Wing. She physically looks a lot like a red-headed Pippa Haywood. She's not quite as... insane as Joanna, but she's got that same vibe. It's hilarious, but disturbing. Good thing she doesn't walk like Joanna, that would kill me.
It's kinda funny to freak people out by telling them I had swine flu. There have been quite a few wide-as-plates eyes. But I'm polite and make sure not to cough on people or my hands. Still, every time someone in my class coughs I feel like apologizing.
Fucking Silent Hill. It's so foggy I can barely see the building across the street. Seriously kinda scary. (Of course I might have just read SH stuff and am sitting in the dark by myself...)
Killing time with Lady GaGa. The new Fame Monster songs are amazing. Once A gets up I'll take a shower and attempt to do something to my gross hair.
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[18 Nov 2009|10:28pm] |
I hate my hair and want it to die, so therefore I'm thinking up a cunning plan to make Mom pay for a hairdresser to poop some magic on my head. I want bangs because I'm masochistic like that and want to make my morning routine a bazillion hours longer by adding extra bazillion hours for taming said, naturally curly bangs. But damn it I want bangs, I haven't had them since I was 7 and A says my forehead is huge. I agree and therefore, BANGS. Also they look really cute and I want the same cut as Kari from Mythbusters has/had so BANGS.
Also for once, I want someone who isn't me to dye my hair. For once, I want to sit back, read a silly magazine and make small talk.
I'm kinda scared of tomorrow, mostly because I'm sure my lungs will explode on my way to school and I will infect everyone and thus fuck up the project we're doing for the next two weeks, and also blah, school. Can't I just graduate already?
Luckily I only have four hours of school tomorrow, after which I'm going to stop by work for a couple of hours to pay the bills (which are plenty, I suspect) and make a fancy list of things that need to be done, and then I'm going to go spend a few euros on something frivolous. Like a new pair of tights because all my old ones are falling apart. I haven't been properly outside and around non-sick people since Tuesday a week ago.
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[17 Nov 2009|10:10pm] |
I really want to cut someone from my Twitter follows, since they are annoying the hell out of me. There's a definite Nice Guy vibe that's making me Hulk smash things, and the inspirational quotes, oh god... And I have no clue who this person is, I just always follow people with locked entries (who follow me first) because I'm curious. But I also feel really rude un-following people, just like I feel rude doing f-cuts on LJ.
My sick leave ends today, but I already told my teacher I'm staying at home for one more day. Maybe by Thursday I'll feel like I can actually make the walk to school.
And A's sick too now. There's some construction designers or whatever coming tomorrow to see our heaters, and I guess I should probably inform them that we're sick and they shouldn't really stay for long.
Ugh. I think I might burn these sweatpants once I actually feel it's worthwhile to put on actual clothes.
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[13 Nov 2009|10:46pm] |
So awesome, I got hamthrax. It's just like every flu I've ever had, except nothing like them and a thousand times suckier. Had to go see a doctor last night because I couldn't breathe properly, and they basically said what my Mom had been saying for two days already. Gave me five days of sick leave and pretty much told me to sleep it off, there's nothing he could do except prescribe an asthma pipe for the breathing problems. It does help, although it conflicts with my other meds and is making my heart feel like a drunken conga line. But as long as I can breathe while lying down, I'm happy.
The biggest problem is the aching and the fact that I can hardly drag myself to the kitchen and back to where I started. Every muscle in my body aches a bit and I'm just so exhausted. It's pretty obvious that this isn't just a normal flu, since I'm sick several times a year and I've NEVER felt like this. Seriously, not even when I first had the flu and hallucinated for a couple of days, and once the fever went down I was left with pharyngitis and spent another week sick as fuck.
Because all of my energy goes toward getting better, I have no energy left for anything else. I don't think I did anything yesterday. Except took a bunch of showers and talked to my parents on the phone a lot. That's pretty much all I remember doing before asking A to call a cab so we could go to the hospital. I want to knit but even the thought of it is exhausting, but at the same time I'm pretty restless. So, my only options are reading about funny/gross cases seen at ERs (animals up butts are disturbingly common), browsing Shana Logic for cute earrings I can't get because I hate having credit card debt, and obsessively refreshing ONTD in hope of silly celeb news.
Though I've been having some weird dreams about dresses I want to make and should probably try to draw them before I forget. But, exhausted, agh. (Also had a dream about Catty hosting a show or something, wearing a red dreadlock wig and possibly one of those Haruhi bunny costumes, while speaking some sort of pig Japanese in a high-pitched voice and laughing in a cackle-like manner. Weird.)
(Oh and Mau-mau, I can make a dress for you at some point!)
So yeah, sick sick sick, exhausted, but today is a thousand times better than yesterday. Today I'm not too exhausted to speak.
And now, to block out the sounds of A playing Modern Warfare 2, I'm going to watch Veronica Mars. I know all the episodes by heart. Comfort TV, yay.
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[09 Nov 2009|10:35pm] |
Oh hay I got a new baby today.
( Pictures of my new baby and my new dress! )
Had a nice time yesterday with the "in-laws". And today didn't suck either. The intern showed up with an acceptable excuse (that still didn't get him out of a stern talking-to and some cold-shouldering that I predict will go on for at least a few days) but I sent him home because he was sick as hell and I did not need him scaring the customers with his coughing. Hell, I was scared to breathe around him. So, without him around, I got a lot of my own work done, and got to go home early. Yay.
I got a late morning tomorrow, so why the hell am I so bored I just want to go to bed? I probably should. I'm also cold, but the bed sure as hell isn't.
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[08 Nov 2009|12:43am] |
Microblogging and status updates are too much fun, therefore no actual blogging for a while. Oops.
( Long-ass entry about what's up. )
We were supposed to have a photoshoot today, but our photographer is sick and the weather was crap so we canceled. So we spent the entire weekend watching movies and being lazy. Best Saturday evening.
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[16 Oct 2009|07:07pm] |
I had a funny weird dream. I was in what seemed to be a fashion boarding school. We had a few violent bullies that beat everyone up but we weren't scared, more like "dude please, you're so lame". But then I discovered the embroidery machines were possessed, and every student had to re-thread one of them and embroider something. If they didn't, they died. I tried letting everyone know so they wouldn't die, but the school administration found out and tried to stop me. They chased me down to the bunker-like basement (I was leaping down the stairs, all parkour ninja style) and I ended up at a dead end with nothing but a locked door and the bathrooms. I hid in the men's bathroom. Dream-me was a smart cookie, I left the stall door slightly ajar because all the others were. And then my alarm went off and I was pissed off 'cause man, awesome dream!
And I had a busy day and almost starrrved. Well, nowhere near, but I was so damn hungry when I got home. So, yum, noodles and chickpeas.
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[11 Oct 2009|08:45pm] |
Ahh, home is nice. Our apartment is home, too, but this is Home. This home is the place where everything's alright, always. Though it kinda feels like Christmas, since usually I only visit once during fall/winter/spring, and that's Christmas. Kinda weird, but really comforting.
Spoke to my brother yesterday, first on the landline and then on Skype, and he may be hooking me up with some work. His old friend just started a theater group in this town, and he's gonna let them know that if they need someone to dress their plays, I'm both willing and able. Probably won't get paid much if at all, but considering my sewing-related dream job is in theater, this might be a good step.
Been catching up on TV, trying to fix my laptop which is about to die, and knitting. Dad tried stuff on the laptop, my bro sent some links, but nothing seems to work. I still keep getting slammed with bluescreen, although it has gotten less frequent (=not every five minutes). If all else fails, I'll just reinstall XP and hope it makes this thing run a bit smoother. Hopefully that'll fix it, and the problem isn't in the hardware.
Went to buy some socks yesterday with Mom, and found a cute sweater that has been haunting me ever since. Mom said it looked good on me, but I'm unsure because it has bat sleeves that kinda widen me. I'm a bread-oven made for five round loaves as it is, so anything that widens my hips is not good. But I'm gonna go try it on again tomorrow. Just for shits and giggles.
And on the same vein, I'm sick of my hair. It grows so fast and looks like crap, so I wear it in a ponytail most of the time, which I do not like. But I can neither afford or really want to get it cut every month. I want easy breezy hair! So, I'm going to bear with ponytails for another month, and then slap on some dreads. This is the time, since there are plenty of months ahead with no cons and therefore no need for wigs.
Kinda restless. Tomorrow, I'm gonna draft a pattern for Mom's skirts, and go check out the flea markets (there are two now! There were never two back in my day!). Tonight, more knitting, and quality TV.
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[08 Oct 2009|07:24pm] |
Heading up north tomorrow for a little break from everything. I finally have a legitimate autumn break, at least for a few days, so it's the perfect moment to make the trip. I start full days of work on Wed/Thur, and that lasts for the next four weeks so I want a break before that. Although one could argue that the little trip to Helsinki for what will probably be our last WCS-related events is a mini-vacation too. We're performing at a tourism reception with Yuri and Rie, and then there's the preliminary for next year on Saturday. Kind of an awesome ending for the year of craziness.
Oh and we're in Mitä Missä Milloin Junior 2010. It's an encyclopedia of sorts, for kids. Yuri & Rie and India & Elizabeth are on the cover, too. All sorts of hilarious. There's a pretty crappy picture of A and me on page 66, and like two sentences about the WCS (and they made sure to mention we didn't win, although they made it sound like we ALMOST did, which is about as far from the truth as possible). Had to buy it, of course, haha.
Everything has been so hectic! I'm making costumes and school assignments and working and oh lord. But after the Book Fair, it'll ease up since there are no cons until the spring/summer, and I have tons of time to work on stuff slowly. Because dear lord, we move so slowly at school that I just need more stuff to sew.
A's pants are giving me grief. I can't find a pattern for mens pants, so I cut out one for womens, and I'm just worried there's some HUGE DIFFERENCE in crotches for men and women. I can't ask my teacher because she gets that look that says "why are you asking, I haven't taught you how to make pants yet!" and it makes me uncomfortable.
But it's cold and amazing and I love it yay.
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[15 Sep 2009|12:00am] |
I'm pretty sure I can safely say I've seen every costume that was at Anime Expo 2006. I went through roughly a thousand photos to find one pair, only to realize it really was Assassins Inc all along. Then I felt silly. But at least I finally got to see that Cardcaptor Sakura/Captain Planet skit again!
Made a delicious potato curry. So delicious in fact I ate a ton of it even though I wasn't supposed to. Oops.
Today was atrocious and tomorrow will be even more so and oh god I just want to stay home and sleep.
(Mira, mittailen vähän että kuinka paljon mulla on sitä nahkaa jäljellä, saatan tarvita lisää riippuen siitä joudunko tekemään sekä housut että paidan. Onko sulla millasia määriä sitä?)
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[08 Sep 2009|09:00pm] |
Today sucked SO MUCH. We didn't do anything worthwhile today in school. Spending two hours on a freaking sheet of paper with pictures and samples of stitches on it was not worthwhile NOW. We should have done that crap three weeks ago during "orientation". Let's just finish the goddamn patterning theory and move on!
I feel like I'm bitching about school all the time, but seriously, all the people in my class do the same (except for the ones who are there for their third year - they're used to everything).
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kata_chan was here for the weekend, and we had fuunnnn. Hadn't seen her since June, so it was about time too. Went to see District 9, and oh my fucking hell, it was so good. Definitely one of the best movies in quite a while. Sure it got kinda over-action-y towards the end, but since I do like me some rough rumbling, I didn't mind so much. There's just so much to say about this movie I don't even know where to start. (Except maybe bitch about the lady who laughed extra loud EVERY. TIME. someone got shot with that alien gun that basically vaporized them.)
On Saturday, we had something to drink and A's little brother and friend came over, and we sang some karaoke on Lips and then headed to Inferno across the street to meet people. It was awesome and fun, until I got super tired and the loud music sorta made me feel sick. And Sunday was spent doing nothing, like it should. Fun altogether.
This week is kinda rough, since on top of school and work, Mom is staying over for a few days because she has school too. It's nice, but it still kinda stresses me, since I have stuff to do but I want to spend time with her too.
But, once I get through Mom's visit and A's Mom's visit (she and his littlest brother are gonna visit on Friday), I will spend the weekend doing nothing but stuff I want. I have some writing to do, and once I finish that I'll just watch some crappy horror and sew. A can do whatever he wants, except play the Xbox. He's been doing that for two weeks now, and I want some time with the flatscreen.
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[05 Sep 2009|03:04pm] |
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Ohh crap, I did it, I'm exploring the final frontier of social media. I joined Facebook. So, erm, friend me! And I'm not the Swedish Iris Rönkkö, don't friend her by accident. You'll know me by my profile picture.
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[30 Aug 2009|10:52pm] |
For not having done anything all weekend, I got a lot done. Cosplay-wise, mostly, but also got some writing done. Last chapter of Koukussa!! is nearly done, I just want to work on the pacing a little bit. Also I need a couple of Scooter song titles, to top it off. It's kind of... action-packed. And incredibly silly. Spiral of the gods, fuck yeah!
This making-a-costume-just-for-fun and not for any specific event is kinda... fun. Instead of "must sew" I have "I want to sew" and it's refreshing. Though I should get started on another costume (or two, one for me and one for A) but right now, I just want to chillax with this shit. Though I sorta can't wait to get started on the uniform...
Also, the bra I got a while ago? Best 15 euros I ever spent. Epic shelf boob with no discomfort. Awesome, and perfect for what I got planned. Though I will probably have to stuff my bra anyway for the costume I haven't started.
(Sort of related, Finns, can anyone deal me some good pleather (or recommend online stores that have something good)? Preferably the stuff Mira sold me ages ago and I made my Amy jacket out of, but any kind that is suited for garments is fine. The stores here do not have anything suitable for what I'm making for A.)
School tomorrow. Yay. Unless our teacher decides to bore us to tears with theory. We're making a case for knitting needles and such, and we keep getting interrupted with other stuff, like hockey badges. We just want to finish what we're doing and then move on to actual garments. Skirts, we wants to make them.
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[29 Aug 2009|11:37am] |
Holy crap. I knew life would get easier once KELA finally processed my student aid papers, and I knew I'd get the aid for August as well since I started school in the beginning of the month, but DAMN. A's on unpaid forced leave for two weeks because of budget cuts, and it couldn't have come at a better time. We might actually pull through this relatively easy, without me having to owe the school for fabrics and supplies and having to eat nothing but noodles.
Holy crap, I'm so relieved. So, so relieved.
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[27 Aug 2009|10:21pm] |
So glad it's Friday tomorrow. It hasn't been that bad, but I'm glad it's almost over. Just six more hours of school and four of work and then I'll come home and enjoy some alone time. A's going to go help his friend fix his yard, and he'll stay there for the night. I'll miss him, since I last saw him last night (seeing him sleep doesn't count; he's been knocked out since about 5pm) and he's going to work before I wake up. But I get to watch whatever I want (horror and crappy TV shows) and basically take over the living room with my fabrics and patterns since the sewing room is still too small to lay stuff out in.
We've been sewing sponsor badges on hockey shirts for two days. Annoying as hell, but a nice break from making work plans and staring at the patterns. I think we're also kinda bonding over the sucky material lessons (sucky not because of the teacher but the annoying teens that think their very loud commentary during class is SUPERFUNNY OMG!!1) and having a shitty deadline with the shirts (we had them on Monday, didn't get shown how to do them until Wednesday, and they have to be done by tomorrow afternoon) and it's nice.
And today I thought someone had stolen by pinstripe velvet but it turns out I'm a doofus and just misplaced the bag it was in.
Oh crap, bedtime.
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[23 Aug 2009|08:55pm] |
That was the saddest weekend ever. It started out fun but turned super ugly and ended up with a friendship broken. Seriously sucks, but I think we should just cool off for a while before attempting to fix things. Everyone's at fault so it's not easy.
So today was full of suck, mostly because I couldn't even hold water in and couldn't find any painkillers that weren't expired. But it got progressively better when A got us pizza. And in the evening, Mom and Dad stopped by on their way home from my cousin's wedding. Mom ended up cleaning because she's like that, and Dad fixed my computer and my bike. He told the story of the bike and turns out Captain Kulta Mokka is actually from '75, making it ten years older than I thought. It's butt ugly and damn old but now I can actually ride it!
These ten-hour work days are kinda hard on me, at least for now. On Thursday I actually went to bed an hour after I got home because I was so exhausted. But then again, we're finally doing stuff at school (I made a really nice pillowcase on Friday) so it's cool. I have a feeling we might actually get to start our skirts next week. And I'll get used to this schedule soon and can actually start doing stuff in the evenings. I really need to start writing the final chapter of Koukussa!! and the next project. And I want to knit.
Time to eat the rest of my hangover pizza and watch Slumdog Millionare, FINALLY.
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[17 Aug 2009|11:21pm] |
We really need to do a photoshoot before it gets too rainy and gloomy. I have no pictures of Meg. We just need a location. Too bad all construction sites are pretty off-limits, they'd be appropriate for BakuTen. I'm planning a Maetel photoshoot once it snows, because there's a children's park nearby with a small train cart that I want to take pictures in.
I finally got my sewing room cleaned! All it needs is sheets on the bed, curtains on the window and pictures on the walls and it's 100% done. Next up is the bedroom, which is a much smaller task, thankfully. Might have to ask A to bring some boxes from work, since we need to pack up some old clothes to take to the attic and I want to put my fabrics in boxes. The plastic bags I have them in are not the ideal storing vessel. And boxes are much more stackable. OR, I could invest in some see-through storage boxes. Hmm. Better go check out the department store tomorrow. And get some eyelets so I can finish this corset and get started on those patterns. I did manage to take the measurements needed. Hmm, a roll of paper wouldn't hurt either.
A's a sweetheart. He's been fixing my bike for three days now. It's a simple thing, patching up the tires, but unfortunately they're so tight that he managed to break two of his (plastic) tire irons getting them back on. He's pretty much at the end of his rope, though, and will probably end up taking the damn tires to the bike shop. And he still needs to fix his own bike, which also has a blown tire.
Oh, and I think my teacher dislikes me. She's not as nice to me as she is to the others, and she gets that look in her eyes when I ask her about something. It bothers me. I'd hate for this to be just like in middle school, when my textile work teacher hated my guts. That was a mutual feeling, this time I just find this teacher kinda rambly. But I can't help it if I really do want to sew and therefore ask stuff about bringing in my own projects to work on during either breaks or after school. I'm not an empty slate anymore.
I should probably go to bed too. Before that, everyone, check out Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?, especially if you know anythng about MMOs or The Guild. Vork and Zaboo rapping is some hilarious shit.
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[14 Aug 2009|09:59pm] |
Fusion jazz night at the cocktail bar across the street. Open door + open window = jazzy fun for me.
Whoo what a week. I'm pretty glad to be back in school, but damn, getting used to it is pretty hard. The school itself isn't too rough, but extending my days with the extra hours of work is not that fun. I kinda need to figure out how to make it easier on myself. Might start working only every other day for a few more hours at a time, so I can just go home on some days. And I do not want to work weekends, and I'm kicking myself for promising to work tomorrow. It's only a few hours, but A and I barely see each other during the week so I really want to spend time with him. So glad we moved in together, because I'm pretty sure we'd never see each other if we still lived apart.
We haven't done much in school, but we're slowly starting to get started on the basics. We did some seams today, which was boring but at least it was something. Still no actual clothes until September, but oh well. That just means I have to make stuff on my own. Like right now I'm making a corset and will start drafting patterns for Thage this weekend. Got the fabric for Thage already, no thanks to the cranky lady at the fabric store. She said there was no stretchy satin aside from the horrifying shiny stuff, when the bolt was in fact right under her nose. I just snatched it up after she left me and got someone else to cut it for me.
Annnd I'm pretty sure our teacher thinks I suck, because I keep asking her can I bring my own stuff in to sew. But I can't help it, they have machines way superior to my ancient, barely electronic Brother and I'm making an unlined dress that needs to look perfect inside and out!
A's out with his friends at a reggae fest, and I really hope he's going to keep his promise and come home on time and not completely wasted, because he promised to fix my bike tomorrow while I'm at work.
I think I'm gonna go rip up some old cottons for the corset. Not gonna spend money on bias tape when I can make my own strips of fabric.
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[11 Aug 2009|09:34pm] |
Strange day. In a good way. So glad I didn't go to work after school.
School was oddly cool today, since we finally got out schedules and got to test the sewing machines. And I love them. The older ones are especially awesome. They run so smoothly and quietly. Ohh can't wait to sew something other than paper.
Though after that we started one more group assignment and that really sucks. I can't draw and I hate it because I suck at it, so it was kind of torturous. And we're continuing tomorrow. Crapsticks.
After school, I walked home and noticed my car parked around the corner from our apartment. It was kind of a WTF moment until I remembered Dad talked about coming to get the car today or tomorrow. So when I got home, he was here, boxing up berries for the freezer. He bought a ton of raspberries, blueberries and strawberries for us. Looks like we're gonna eat a lot of berries this winter! And I do not mind.
We got the berries cleaned and he took me grocery shopping, and after that he left and took the big suitcases with him. So yay, less crap taking up space in the bedroom!
A's coming home in about 30 minutes. I think I'll read Reiko the Zombie Shop until then.
EDIT: Oh hey, anyone in Finland know where to get sock glue or something similar? Tired of droopy socks. Or is there an online shop with easy ordering and cheap shipping fees?
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[10 Aug 2009|09:28pm] |
Guess what this post is all about?
Japan!
I finally got this stuff typed up and pic uploaded. If you don't want a bunch of words, go see the pictures at my Flickr here!
The thousands of words will probably interest very few, as they are some wordy words (and I'm not kidding, seriously). But here they are!
( Team Finland's adventures in Tokyo and Nagoya )
Crossposted to teamfinland09
Yeah, school kinda sucked today. We did even less than last week. Tomorrow we're going to try out the sewing machines so we'll hopefully get to work soon!
And there's this tiny little dude in the neighboring class who wears a bright pink cap, like the one I wore back when I was seven. Although mine read Kotipizza on it, and he's just a cool little hipster. So darling, he is.
I just wish the heatwave would let up already. Sucks being in school when it's so hot.
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