God, I always do this with journals.

I make them, update them for a while, then I let them rot. 

Ugh.



Long story short;

I'm fine. As in alive, dying because of the HEATWAVE, got vaccine-shot yesterday and I'm PMSing.

And I've been playing WoW again since....May, I guess.

I had forgotten how fun it is! Guess where all my time has went. 



Also, I'm leaving for Japan in the end of August!

I'll be there till June 2011, as in I'll be studying Japanese language and culture for whole 9 months!

Dunno if I should be excited or horrified, I keep switching between the two every two seconds....



My first year in university went pretty nicely as well, could have done better job with couple of exams, though.

Still, I'm pretty happy with my GPA, all in all.



And, yeah. No more whining about my gallstones. Me has gallbladder no more.

The surgery went well, except for the fact I got an allergic reaction (red...spots on my skin, nothing painful) from one of the medicines I was in while on surgery table. The thing is, there were about five of them, and we have no way of knowing which one gave me those spots.

Also, I was told that my gallbladder was actually infected, though my doctors had not been sure. They just said that if it keeps giving me pains, let's get rid of it. Good thing I kept my head in the end, which wasn't easy easy for weak old me.

Oh well, all is well that ends well, and that's it for whining.



Let's hope I remember to update this AND my travel journal....

A quick drive-by update before heading to THE exam. 
After getting only two hours of sleep last night.
Why is it that my nervousness always has to take away my ability to sleep....
....not that it was very good in the first place. Sigh~

Also, got letter from the hospital. My surgery will be on 29th, if everything goes well.

Oh god. So nervous. And for some reason I have this feeling that my bus is gonna be late/not gonna come at all.... LET'S HOPE I'M WRONG.

pffff- I'm late with this. But.
....... Happy New Year! May it be a year to remember (in a positive way)!

Since everyone seems to be blogging about 2009 vs. 2010, I guess I could, too.
After all, when was the last time I used this thing....? October? I was sure it was something like September....


2009
- The first quarter was spent with awesome people in Liminka doing all kinds of....interesting things. Not a bad way to start a year. Not at all. :D
- My little brother got out of high school! Though it was kind of close call.....
- Summer was....uneventful? I think? Because I can't remember a thing about summer??? Didn't go to swim even once, though. And fought with Dad too many times about same things over and over again. : /
- Gallstones. Pfff. I have complained about them enough many times already.
- Discovered I - like the rest of the family - have lactose intolerance. Bye bye cream ice-cream.... D:
- Got in to university!!! 
--> Moved!!!
---> Met even more awesome people!!! :D

...and that's all I can recall about 2009. I really should update LJ more often....because I'm horrible at remembering stuff I should.


2010
- The Test that will decide my 'fate'. On Friday. PANIC.
- Surgery to get the ffffing gallstones out of my system! At last! Don't know the exact date yet, though. Are you sick of my stone-talk yet? :D
- Two possible trips loom in the horizon! Whether I will attend them or not depends about the thing written above (in the case of the first one) and timing/school (in the case of the second one). But still! EXCITED! Especially since my trips last year were all just sitting in trains going south-north-south. Though I do like that kind of traveling, too. :)
- A Thing Which I Won't Talk About Aloud Since I'm Superstitious (ATWIWTAASIS). I'll be getting more info about this...thing this month or the next. ONE MORE THING TO PANIC ABOUT it is, anyway.

...and that's about it. 

I came back to my apartment today since I wanted to have some me-time before uni starts again. Neither one of my roommates has returned yet, which means I can sing aloud with my strange voice and babble to myself nervously since the exam on Friday is going to kill me. D:
On the positive side of things, our shower's tap has been changed! The old one was...dieing, so I'm really happy we got rid of it before it actually died. I do like to take hot showers DAILY.  The new tap actually works nicely (I got to be the first one to try it out), though it looks a bit UFO-like and works a bit like it, too. 

I have neglected this thing again......
No good reasons as for why, except school has kept me somewhat busy and so has traveling between two cities that are 350 kilometers apart.

And now I've managed to get myself sick. First, I had a bit sour throat. Then it got better and my nose started running instead. After that went away, I started to cough. All this in span of one week. And now I've got sour throat, coughing and a slight fever. Also, it seems like I've got no appetite what so ever, which is no good since not eating regularly makes my gallstones angry. Ffffffff.

I think I should just go skip school this week, especially since my attendance has been 99% meaning teachers might show me some mercy.... Some more sleep might also do me good. Not that I didn't just sleep for 12 hours.

Uh.

I guess university has kinda eaten my time a lot?
And I didn't remember that I hadn't updated this since....late August?  
 .... 
 
Whoops.

 Anyway, uni is going somewhat fine, my roommates are ok and I've had only one small flu.  
However, it moved quickly from summer to autumn to winter here. Or, well, it's trying to become winter soon, but for a while it seems we are getting sleet, or the mix of snow and rain if you will. And we are supposed to get an a nice small storm tomorrow. 
...thank god I bought the monthly bus ticket today.
But since it seems I'm running out of bread, it looks like I have to stick my nose outside for a quick trip to the grocery store. 
...nice. 
And the scarf I started knitting some time ago is not yet even close to finishing. 
Yup, good going. 

 
 
And the REAL reason why I decided to post today?

 THIS.

Oh good, I want it so. Besides, I need one more shelf for the books I'll eventually gather.
...except that if I have to move next year and the year after, a huge bookshelf would be Pain in the Ass.
But I can always dream, right? And no, I won't look at the price tag. I won't.

Today was The Moving Day no. 2, which means me and Mom (who works purely on coffee, I've no idea how on earth she does it) drove the long 350 kilometers with over five bags and a bicycle to "my new hometown". We left little after 9AM and arrived around 2PM. The trip felt so different from what it had been like with Dad.
More like....picnic? Since we kept chatting and stopping to buy coffee for Mom and snacking the food she made for us. I'm not complaining. :D

And this time around Mom went, or, well.... is going back home by herself.
Yup, I'm all alone in my room at the dorm.
Haven't met my new roommates yet, though.
Seems like neither of the two is here, unlike the people upstairs.
.....
But it's so damn quiet. I can only hear some noise from the upper floor.
Makes me feel really uneasy.
....
........
Hope I'll get used to this soon.

I'm not sure whether this is gross or interesting, but check it anyway!


...uh, sorry for spamming?

.....but the small biologist in me found this so fascinating.....orz

( Sick dogs whine a lot... )

Uhhh, too much whining, feel free to ignore....

- First bunch of stuff has been taken to my new apartment.
...
IN OTHER WORDS, WE LEFT HOME AT 4:30 AM TO TRAVEL 330 KM.
TWICE!

-Ugh..... TWO HOURS OF SLEEP LAST NIGHT. lllorz

-My stomach isn't agreeing with me about anything today. Ffffing gallstones, shut the fff up, I know this kind of eat-this-and-that-irregularly-with-no-sleep isn't good for the body. FFFFFFF.
....it's not hurting that bad, but just enough to irritate me. D:<

- ......but on the bright side, my apartment has now all the essential furniture on place. No curtains, though. Makes the room look like a display window. :/


Oooooh yeah, my new apartment! Pluses and cons! Um, I'm gonna try to put up pluses first, though that ain't easy when you feel a bit like a zombie. But need to cheer up!
+ the area is FABULOUS. Not some shady corner of the city, like in my home town, but  in GREEN and PRETTY area! And there are all kinds of houses in the area, even some modern Finnish style mansions! Or well, maybe they're a tiny bit too small to be called that. But only tiny bit. And they're only, what, 200-300 meters away from my house?! O:
+ SOME ONE IN THE HOUSE LIKES DONALD DUCK/COMICS IN GENERAL?! Uh, I didn't meet either of my two roommates, but there were small comic strips put on the walls, including Donald Duck poster in the toilet. :D
+ ...there were also tons of ice tea cans in the kitchen, which I kinda approve. :D
- And piles and piles of magazines on the kitchen table, though in somewhat neet piles. And a pudding that had started grow mold in the toilet??? Uh, I don't approve. D:
- Also, why on earth isn't there a bin in the toilet? This is household of three women, for god's sake!
- the place is a lot older/dirtier looking than I though...
- AND WHAT'S WITH THE TINY KITCHEN??? D:
- ...it doesn't feel like home yet. Everything just screams that there are other people living in there AND I'M THE INTRUDER. I'll probably get over it after some time, butbutbutwhinewhine.

I'm now back home, and will be until around the 20th.
But until then! Enjoining the food someone else cooks for me! :D
Which reminds me....hungry! D:
Need food!

Went into light panic today when I realized that my iPod wasn't working properly.
MY CHERISHED LIBRARY. DON'T EVEN LET ME GET STARTED ON THIS. D:
I was already having withdrawal symptoms after about couple of hours, when my brother told me just boot the effing machine.
...
AND NOW IT WORKS LIKE DREAM.
Uuuuuugh, sometimes machines just love to make your heart skip a beat or two.
And I'm pretty sure the damn iPod is such as vain/narcissistic as the name I gave it makes it sound.
(it was pretty and shiny when I got it, thus Shiny. yeah, I'm simple, I KNOW.)
But I'm THIS grateful it wasn't anything serious (this time....).
Nothing else, but the nearest repair shop of Apple is in the capital, and repairs ALWAYS cost as much as buying a brand new thing. D:

And I still haven't started packing. Crap. I've got one week. Crap. Aagh. Panic, no panic, panic....