Fact of the Day

Everything looks prettier
when you add some fairy lights.
(Adding some curtains could help too.)

Guilty!

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Oh yes, yes you did.

And I keep you (at least partially)

responsible for all those years I spent

feeling abnormal and ugly

because of my flat, thin hair.

Which, for your information,

is the NORMAL hair type with at least

three-fourths of Finnish ladies.

Because of this I won't be watching or buying

any of your movies, shows or products

before you have a flat-haired, partially bald

heroine that looks AWESOME all the time

with her hairdo.

Or one with a mohawk that won't hold up,

cause that's what happens in a REAL word

with GRAVITY, at least if you're not ready

to put glue in your hair.

I hope you feel guilty and sorry.

And yes, I do have a bad hair day.

Again.

That's what they think...

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Dear Reader

I've now been keeping this blog for almost 200 posts. In time that's not that long, as I started in November and now we are in mid-February. But this has became an important part of my daily routines and my free time activities. A thing I enjoy doing, my own place to fill with stuff. And now, when I'm quite satisfied myself, I'd like to know what you readers think. So please tell me:

What do you like and dislike? What do you enjoy reading, and what you consider as unnecessary crap? Is there enough text, or too much? And what about the pics? Is there something you'd like to read about, that I haven't wrote yet? Any ideas or other feedback?

This time I won't be publishing the comments, so feel free to say what you have to say. If you rather want to email me, go ahead. And I am especially interested of those readers who I can't see, but who I know are out there. So if you aren't a follower or a close friend, but you are still reading this, please share your thoughts. Please remember the easiest way to give feedback is to click the boxes after every post. So if you could do that more often, while reading my blog, you would make me very happy.

I'd like to know all this so I could develop my blog a bit. And of course, cause I'm curious. Most of all I would like to know, who I'm writing to. So if you could tell me something about yourself and why you are reading this, it would be superb. But please, don't expect anything special to happen in here after your feedback. I'll still keep myself the right to choose what I'll blog, and the most important person to please will still be myself. But there's always a change to learn, and I'd like you to help me to do it this time.

More about trees

According to the recent report of Finnish Forest Research Institute (Korhonen & Mäkelä, METLA), there are over 77.1 billion trees in Finland. This figure doesn't cover hedgerows, trees in cities or growing stocks in parks. Counting those would increase the number with roughly 1.3 billion trees. These interesting (and very well worthless) facts made my boyfriend call me on Tuesday, when he was reading the local newspaper at work. They are now saved in our collection of worthless information (he loves worthless facts, I love the fact he loves them) but in my opinion they were worth of sharing. So I wrote them here just to let you know. Some day you may win a quiz with this, or just impress a cute girl with all the things you know.

This fact may also explain why we love real Christmas trees here. We have where to take from, you could say. For me it's the most important thing of the whole holidays. It may sound silly and even a bit brutal: to cut a real, living tree just to decorate it and have it die in your living room. But still, if I don't have a tree, I don't feel like Christmas at all. I love the smell of it, and that's why I can't have a plastic one. I would love to live in a house with a huge tree growing in the middle (Moomins had one in the comics, didn't they?) but cause it's not possible, I love to have one even for a couple of weeks in the winter. It just makes me happy, I can't explain it better.

This year I got our tree (or I maybe should call it my tree, cause my boyfriend just hates it...) from my father, who lives in the middle of the forest. Our Christmas trees have traditionally been ones growing in wrong places in his yard, and that's why they're never the prettiest ones. They are thin and wispy and drop all the needles in a week, but I don't care. I don't even want a perfect tree like in Disney movies. I'm a Finn and know what real trees look like, and believe me, Disney doesn't have a clue. For me buying a perfect tree from the market place would be as bad as having a plastic one. But sadly enough there seems to be just a few of us thinking like this. Most people want a fantasy tree and that's why the ones sold are planted in and imported from Holland and Denmark. Mind you, from countries having a very few trees, even fewer of them firs. To a country with 77.1 billion trees, most of them firs and pines. To me this sounds mind-blowingly stupid. I just sit in our living room and am happy with my crooked one. It may not be the most beautiful tree in Finland, but it's mine. And it creates my Christmas spirit although we are giving a damn of most Christmas traditions and mostly celebrate with sleeping a lot and eating pasta.