Love is...

...sharing the daily routines with someone.

Waiting for Christmas #3

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There are some things that only increase
when you share them.

Wednesday's wish

I wish I were taller.

Black and WTF

I am not a short woman. And I've still got problems getting books from upper shelves. Even with a kickstool. And I can't use the ladder anymore cause last time I did, I fell off it and now it has been removed from the library as a safety risk.
(I guess I should have told my colleagues it wasn't the first time I fell off somewhere. As the Dresden Dolls put it: "I'm not the carefullest of girls.")

Waiting for Christmas #2

This is a good day to listen to the things said without words.
(My tummy says it wants some breakfast right now.)

My favourite sounds

• sound of a typewriter when you write with it
• laughter
  
• small jingle bells
• old-fashioned telephones ringing
• sounds of an old train, both whistling and clanking
• rain on a roof
• cat's miaow

Waiting for Christmas #1

Searching all those advent calendars when writing the previous post (did you know there are ones where you get a new Lego brick every morning?) got me inspired. I just don't wanna use calendars, I wanna make one. This isn't the first time this happens to me, and in the past I've made some as presents for my friends. But cause it's too late to do that now (a little plan for next year...), I'm gonna put up one in my blog. Yes, right here. One post per day, dedicated and tagged as a Christmas calendar door. So, have a peek every morning for the next 23 days. I don't know yet what you are gonna find, but I'm sure it's gonna be awesome.

This will be my contribution for celebrating Christmas this year, as moving from London back to Finland just a few days before the eve doesn't leave me that much time to get prepared. (And my boyfriend wants to eat spaghetti anyway, and I'm too tired of arguing about a proper Christmas dinner...)

And hey, If you like it, please show me your love.
If you don't, just try to live with it, cause I'm gonna do it anyway.

So, here we go. The first one:

It's never too early to start wishing for a white Christmas.

This is the first day of the rest of your December

This morning I got up and tried to get dressed as quickly and quietly as possible so my boyfriend could continue sleeping while I'm on my way to work. Well, it's not possible to succeed in such a small room so he woke up, asked me to give him his iPhone from the other side of the room and then pulled the blanket over his head. When handing the phone I saw the date of today in the enlightened screen. "Is it really the first of December today?", I asked. "Seems to be", he answered sounding a bit impatient. "So I can open the first window of the advent calender?" The eager sound of my voice made him laugh. Well, in my opinion it's a reason good enough to get out of bed. But that lazy boy just crawled back under the blanket.

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My mum sent me an advent calendar a month ago. It's the traditional Finnish Scout's one, basically cause my cousin always sells them as a scout-member. I'm used to have one from Unicef, cause they are big and colorful, but this one is also very nice. Anyway, I've always preferred those pictured ones, cause the chocolate in chocolate calendars is never tasty, and once you've eaten it, that's that for the day. But you can look the pics as many times as you want, and in my opinion the best calendars are the ones that complete the big picture a bit more with every little window you open.

I bought my boyfriend one as well. He doesn't like advent calendars that much, but couldn't resist this one. Well, who could resist a pop up-one that promises you 365 penguins before Christmas? It still didn't get him out of bed at 7 o'clock to open the first hatch, but I'll make sure he does it today. And it has nothing to do with the fact that I wanna know how many penguins are in there today.

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I you don't have one yet, this is your day to get it. If you do, please tell me what does it look like! Yes, I am a bit too eager for a twenty two-year-old, but in my opinion advent calendars just are one of the best things about Christmas-time.