New year, new tricks

Time for an update: IT'S SNOWING!!!!, and that is a great reason to get motivated to write in the blog. (I would try to take pics and put them up here, BUT my laptop is so shit so I can't be bothered)

All my friends in SE Asia are probably looking at me like "so what, what's the big deal with some white powder?". All my friends in Finland will understand...
Short lesson in Finnish mentality: Most of us have been suicidal since October-November because it's been so f*ckin' dark. You wake up at 7am, it's dark. You go to work and while you sit inside from 9am to 5pm, it gets just a tad lighter (not noticeably). You're bitter coz you have to sit inside. When you finally leave work at 5pm(ish) to go home, guess what, it's dark! :-) Doesn't really inspire you to achieve great things... but keeps the sales figures for IKEAs tealights rising. Hooray for Ingvar.
But now our lives are smiling again, it's nice and light outside. When you wake up in the morning you can look at all the nice beautiful trees and have happy thoughts (without pills). It's actually really really nice!! Soon the first rays of the spring sun will start warming our hearts and we start looking forward to the summer and sitting in the parks with some bubbly... :)

So what else is new, oh yeah, great news (for me, for you it's probably nothing). We got our dishwasher fixed after approx 18 months of bitching about it not working. This morning the kind little dishwasher-fixer-guy came round to the flat and changed the thing that sprays water around the upper part of the dishwasher (HEY, I'm not supposed to know this vocabulary, so I won't even try :) ). So now we should be able to eat form clean dishes...
Maybe it's time to try it out and invite someone over for dinner :)
Oh yeah, moral of the story: it's expensive to fix a dishwasher. We got a bill for the hefty sum of 131€!!! for a piece of plastic from Italy....

Well, while I'm on a roll here. Big plans for 2007. January has been mostly keeping off the booze and the red meat... and taking up swimming, new sport, new challenges. I have also taken a new approach to going to the gym (i.e. actually even going there).
March is for skiing in Åre.
April might bring along a trip to Brussels (and Rome).
August we've been (or will hopefully be) invited to a wedding in Canada.
End of the year? who knows... suggestions? more invitations? ;)

I'm currently looking at some job ops in the UK and/or Ireland, we'll see what happens with those.

Big hugs all around!!