Boredom hit me on Friday. Now, off to study geology...

Psychology exam is now behind me and I'm currently trying to kill time at our school's computer class. Preparation class for the geology exam on Monday starts at 12.15pm and I've been sitting here since... Well, 10-something. Riku just left since he had to talk to a teacher about some thing, I don't know what.

I'm so, so glad that the weekend is coming and this hell on Earth that somebody once named "exam week" will be over on Monday. I have a day off in Tuesday, whooo!

I have no idea what my grades from these courses are going to be, except for music. I got a 10 from it, which I'm really happy about. My teacher said that I've been the most active student there, always singing or playing and all that. AWESOME!

Psychology went well today, I think. Probably that'll be a 9 like last course - at least I hope it well. I studied well and I really put time and energy to the projects, so I *might* have a shot at 10 but I'm not going to get my hopes up about that.

Biology went semi-decently. I hope to get an 8 for the course but a 7 will do too, since there's one more course of that next year and I'll have the chance to get a higher grade then.

Chemistry went surprisingly semi-okay. I would love to get a 7 from it. I'm not sure at all about what I'll get from it though, but we'll see.

Maths... Well, I'll probably fail that. I desperately hope to get at least a 6 from the course but it's not looking too shabby. I might redo the exam if I completely fail it.

I have no idea how I'll do at the geology exam. It's going to be hard, but I'll have three days to study for it instead the 1 day I've had for every other subject... I've been staying up until the little hours to study since I've been lazy around the day, and I desperately need sleep. Also, other things have kept me awake for the past... What is it, almost two weeks. *grin*

I have no real plans for this weekend except studying. I might be going somewhere on Sunday, but my parents won't like that idea too much. I've been out and about for the whole exam week, heh...

Other stuff: PLACEBO IS COMING TO PROVINSSIROCK THIS YEAR! Fuck yes! I'm really excited about it. I've seen them once before in 2007 I think and they were pretty good. I had the crappiest seat possible though, so I'm looking forward to now actually SEEING them...

Ah, I've got to go now. More later, maybe.

Toodles!

First of all, I fucking love Franz Ferdinand. I've heard two songs from the newest album (which I'll probably be getting by mail tomorrow or the day after that, whooooo!) and they're AWESOME. Ulysses is made of so much win, seriously.

Exam week sucks major donkey balls, by the way. So far I've had only one exam, chemistry, which went okay I think. I didn't have high hopes for it but I really, really would like to get at least a 6 or 7 from it. I can't stand mom's screaming anymore...
Tomorrow is biology, and I seriously have no idea how that will go. Either I'll suck at it or it'll be okay. Dunno. Then, maths, psychology and geology. I have a day off in Tuesday, fuck yeah!
I also have to do the 10-page psychology essay by Thursday and it's not looking too good. I really don't feel like doing it but I will, since I really want to get a good grade from psychology. *sigh* It's just, well, boring as hell. I have to type up my whole life from birth to this point and then analyze how I've gone through all the different phases and whatnot. UGH.

All I would like to do right now is spend time with a person and forget everything.

Okay, I have to read more biology now. Toodles.

Topi was at our place today, since we needed to do a little presentation for biology. Making that took about... 5 minutes, but he was here for 5 hours... Oh well, we had a bunch of fun and we talked so, so long about different things. He's absolutely awesome, and he's the nicest person I've ever met. Seriously, he's just amazing. I'm really glad Riku introduced us, because in the past 6 months he has become a really dear friend of mine.

I also was at the hairdresser's today. The colour is pretty much the same, though it has a purple hue in it. It's nice.

I need to do a fuckload of homework so I have to run now. Brief entry just telling hi, I'm alive!

I stole this from sigelfire:

Let's start the new year off right; the problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. More than one question is allowed.
Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

You can ask as many questions as you'd like. Go ahead, me mateys!

Oh yeah, by the way. I'm completely addicted to the Sookie Stackhouse books. I'm now reading part five I think, and I'm going to raid the bookstores next week to go see if they have the ones that I'm missing... Also, the TV series is AWESOME.

Off to continue reading --->

So, I made it home in one piece, living and breathing. I haven't slept since what seems uh, forever... I didn't sleep during the whole flight and I'm no absolutely exhausted. My feet were crammed and I had no space at all, and I was so uncomfortable that I couldn't even think about getting some sleep on the plane.

Tomorrow at school is going to be hell for so, so many reasons. First of all, my luggage didn't make it home. It's still somewhere in New York, Paris or I don't know where the fuck it is. My clothes, makeup, other cosmetic products, shoes, bags, hairdryer etc are in the bag and I'm going to look really, really awful tomorrow at school. I feel like putting on a bathrobe and a paper bag over my head. *shudders*

The trip, in its entirety, was about 50% disappointment and 50% awesomeness. We didn't make it to the Statue of Liberty after all, and I'm really sad about it - we missed it the last time we were there in 2004 because of some construction or something, and now it was pouring small animals from the sky so there was no going to the sea in the freezing rain.
Also, no bass. No New Year of my dreams.

I might seem childish, complaining about this stuff when I got a vacation in New York for fuck's sake, but I don't care about that. I'm disappointed and I damn sure am going to show it if I want to.
Mom, of course, is mad at me for about a million reasons I can't be bothered to count.

Apparently, she thinks I'm the most selfish person on earth. That kind of... Left a bad taste in my mouth. Seriously, what the FUCK?

Ah, I'm too pissed and tired to rant anymore. I don't even have my fucking toothbrush. I want to sleep ans get my fucking luggage back.

Another super, super quick entry (internet time runs out in 15 minutes). Today has been fun, though now mom has some kind of stomach problems - so our plan of going to the Statue of Liberty (didn't make it yesterday, tickets were sold out) didn't work.

I hung out with Riikka and Sonia today, it was fun to see them both again. We went to see Twilight (finally) and it was awesome! There were a lot of things that could've been better, but oh well, it was still a really good movie. I can't wait for the next one...
After that we went to eat and did some shopping. I bought an AC/DC t-shirt for the gig and two Kill Hannah CD's. :)

Tomorrow we're going to Washington D.C. I'm pretty excited about it, though I'm not that enthusiastic about waking up at the crack of dawn *shudders* The train there takes 3 hours.

We went to see Spamalot yesterday and oh my GOD it was so hilarious and absolutely awesome! I laughed my ass off in there (a bit of that was just lol'ing at the fact Clay Aiken was there, and later at myself because damn, he really was good) and bought some kickass killer rabbit slippers. They're so cool!

I've bought so much stuff here already, I don't know how the hell I'm going to get them home from here... We might have to buy an extra suitcase or something, LOL!

A little more than 3 days left here. This has been a nice vacation so far, though the setbacks we've been experiencing have left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

Ah, got to go now - toodles!

All is well here right now. We've been doing some shopping and I've bought a lot of stuff, including a new iPod classic which is awesome. I'll post all the picspams etc when I get home, since I'm too lazy to start doing all of that right now.

Today we were supposed to go to the Statue of Liberty, but all the tickets were sold out so we're going to do that tomorrow. We went to Times Square and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe.
At 8pm we're finally going to see the Monty Python musical Spamalot - we were supposed to go see that when we were on London, but since I got the lovely food poisoning...

Tomorrow is the day when I'm going to see Sonia and Riikka and we're going to go see Twilight. I really hope it's still running here...

Currently, I'm watching Spongebob from Nickelodeon and eating some candy. I'm feeling a lot better now, though I haven't eaten much these past days. (these Maltesers though, they're lovely lol)

Oh yeah, and I probably forgot to mention that I got the Folie à Deux-pre order pack a day before we left Finland. It's so, so, SO COOL and super awesome. I love it so much, and the CD is amazing too.

Now, I'm going to concentrate on Spongebob. Toodles.

This is just fucking unbelievable. I managed to get a food poisoning. Yes, AGAIN.

I have the worst luck ever, seriously. I can't believe this.

After I got off the plane, I started feeling nauseous and absolutely horrible. When we arrived at the hotel and were ready to go see the ball drop and all the NYE stuff, I threw up. We decided to go anyway, since I really didn't want to miss it.

When we almost made it to Times Square, I started feeling even worse. After an internal fight about whether to risk it and stay or go back to the hotel, I felt to bad that we had to go. I puked for 7 hours straight and didn't sleep at all. Also, the joys of diarrhoea...

I've never been this sick in my life, seriously. The food poisoning combined with this flu (I can't even keep the medicine down, I feel so bad) is just lovely.

I missed all the celebrations for the New Year. I'm fucking disappointed and I feel so, so sad about it. New Year in here has been my dream for so long and now that I'm here it all comes crumbling down because of some stupid aeroplane food.

Mom emailed the airline company about it. I hope we'll at least get our money back or something.

Today has been spent in the hotel room, feeling a little bit better but still really weak. I've managed to eat an apple and drink some Orangina, but I won't dare to try anything else.

Tomorrow our plan is to go shopping or something. I really hope that I'll feel better soon, I don't want to spent the whole vacation being sick.

Also, the guy from Guitar Center still hasn't answered me. So, I won't be getting that bass. Another disappointment, yay!

Happy new year everybody. Hope yours was better than mine.

Howdy. Amsterdam was awesome but absolutely fucking freezing. It was fun though, I even bought a new pair of shoes - I'll post pictures later. They're awesome.
I also got a Spongebob pin set and a magazine.

Our flight leaves pretty soon, though. Not looking forward to it - I hate long flights. I hope we'll get to see a movie or something...

Now, gotta run. Lots to do and too little time!

See ya.

Quick, quick entry from Amsterdam. We arrived at the airport at about 7pm. I grabbed a raspberry blackcurrant drink thingy from Starbucks (love, love, LOVE) and we're now at the hotel, which is fucking COOOL. Super modern and seriously, really, really awesome. I'm going to snap about a million pictures of it.

I'm not as pissed as I was earlier, but I'm still a bit disappointed. Also, the plane ride was pretty much hell for my head - the pressure hurt my nose and sinuses really bad. I'm okay now though. At least the headache stopped with the Burana 600mg I took.

Mom and I are going to grab something to drink and maybe some food as soon as I finish this. I'm pretty hungry, so... Toodles!

Probably, my next entry will be from New York. Whoo!

for a while. Today we'll be flying to Amsterdam, then to New York tomorrow.

We've already had a couple of setbacks. Apparently, mom didn't remember to check the time differences and now we won't make it to Times Square to see all the NYE stuff. Or, well, we will, but we won't get into the middle of it and all that. I've been super pissed about it for the whole day since it was the thing I was looking forward to the most. I'm super disappointed about it. I told mom to fucking make sure that we would be there early because spending the New Year in NYC has been my dream for so damn long. This sucks.

Also, the guy I've been emailing about the bass hasn't answered for the past week or so. I most likely won't get it, then.
That's another thing I'm so disappointed about. They don't sell those basses about anywhere, not in the color I want it. They guy hasn't been helpful at all, and now it seems I won't even get an answer from him if the bass is in stock or not.

Mom has been pissy the whole day, too. I kinda snapped at her in the morning because she fucking scared me, barging in on my room when I was watching the last True Blood episode with my headphones on. Because of that, she went in to the whole lecture about me not being polite enough toward her and I couldn't be bothered to say anything more to it. I feel fucking awful and I felt even worse in the morning, and she knows I've asked her to knock and I hate it when she or dad won't knock.

Ah well, whatever. I have to go now, I have a flight to catch.

Quite frankly, right now, I don't feel like going at all. This will probably change when we arrive in Amsterdam (if mom decides to behave and not bug me anymore).

See ya.

Christmas came and Christmas went. I had a pretty good one, though of course, at least 3 cases of family drama were included. One from mom, one from dad and one from my sister. All of them pretty much expected.

Anyway. It was good, Grandpa was here and my other grandparents also came here on Boxing Day. It was pleasant and all.

The drama happened before and on Christmas Eve. I'm too pissed about it to even write it down and go through it again... it wasn't anything major, just the usual dad snapping at me about everything, mom getting pissed about something she misunderstood and my sister being just plain jealous and bitter.

Blah, now to the good stuff.

I got some pretty kickass presents this Christmas. Let me show them to you!

First, from my friends:

Hello Kitty pillowcase from Peppi. This was an inside joke of sorts, and lol, I just laughed at it for so long. It is cute though, and it matches really well with my red/black Rammstein bedsheets... When I called Peppi about it, she said that "yeah, I just thought of all of your skeleton/Rammstein bedsheets and thought that it was the perfect match". Lol.
Octopus plush toy from Riku. It's both damn ugly and hilarious, it's awesome. It looks like a blow up doll gone octopus... I named it Ockto. The 'k' being the key letter...
Hello Kitty pencil case, Mars patch and The Thin Red Line-DVD from Ellu. I knew there had to be at least one Mars related thing, but there was two of them! The patch goes straight to my red Mars bag (mom is sewing it on right now, actually), it's pretty. I watched the DVD two days ago and the material of Jared was pretty... Lol-worthy. About three minutes of him making hasty handmovements, looking nervous as hell, saying exactly one line (Yeah) and getting kabooshed by a grenade/mine/something that explodes. Yay!
The pencil case is apparently, part of the inside joke, too. I guess I have to explain it to you now...
Well, you all know Pexi (from Stam1na and from my fangirl-y ramblings and picspams). He plays guitar (really fucking well) and he had a guitar strap that was lovely pink and had a Hello Kitty head in it (for reference, check my Flickr - the Provinssirock & Ruisrock pictures) and I thought it was hilarious.
Pexi has graduated as a psychologist and he works for the Finnish army - I don't know the exact terms for it, but basically, he checks if the people are not crazy and can be given a gun and not go berserk with them.
And how does the Hello Kitty thing have to do with anything? Well, since I'm a total tool I got a Hello Kitty notebook for my psychology class. *laughs at herself* Peppi and Ellu both thought it was super funny and I don't know if they have some weird Hello Kitty-conspiracy going on, but yeah.
Little voodoo keyring character and an ID-badge of sorts to put on my luggage from Claire. They're both absolutely AWESOME, the voodoo doll is super cute and I love the badge so much. Thank you! *hugs*

Then, presents from my family:

freaky swamp plant that I think is already dead from my godfather. It has the weirdest name ever in Finnish, mähkä. It's kinda... Funky-lookin'.
Purple Guess bag from, well, 50/50 from me and my grandparents. I absolutely love it. It's purple and shiny and it has chains! Whooooo!
CD's from my parents: Mokoma - Luihin ja Ytimiin, YUP - Vapauden Kaupungit and Ismo Alanko Teholla - Blanco Spirituals. Mom also ordered another YUP one, but it didn't arrive yet.
Iittala Taika-mug from my parents. I absolutely love the black/white one - I bought mom one in white last year and dad one in blue this year.
one piece to my Nomination wristband + a gift card to Stockmann from my cousins (dad's side). My aunt Kaisa always gets me a gift card to Stockmann and a piece or two to the wristband, but I think they're both really nice. This year I got a piece with a tiny Statue of Liberty in it, which is really cool. Close-up:

a cool package of Lindt chocolate, a candy cane and money (for the bag) from my grandparents.
movie tickets from my parents.

That picture is missing a few things that hadn't arrived yet: my FOB pre-order package that was supposed to come ages ago (I'm so pissed about it, seriously), Spongebob Squarepants hoodie from my sister, the beforementioned YUP CD and two magazine subscriptions.
Also, the biggest present of my all, partly from my grandpa and partly from my parents: the mighty TV!

It is beautiful. (pls to be ignoring the South Park episode in it...)

That was it. Now, moving on to my decorations, random cookies + lights from my room-spam:

My little Christmas tree. The most clever ones amongst you can notice a part of my Rammstein wall and a piece of my Mars gig poster from Helsinki... (I still have 7 or so of them left, what the hell? Wasn't I supposed to give them to somebody? Oh well)

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And now, since I think I promised somebody I'd show her a pic or two of the lovely gingerbread cookies:




Alrighty. That was it for my Christmas spammings.

Wow, it's the 29th already - TOMORROW WE'LL BE GOING TO AMSTERDAM AND THEN NEW YOOOOOOORK!

I'm so, so excited about the trip. The only things that are making me kind of anxious though are that a) I'm sick, really, really sick. I've been sneezing and coughing for the whole Christmas stuff which sucks and b) I don't know if I'll get the bass of my dreams, since they probably won't have it in stock and.. Yeah. I'm really disappointed about that, since I want that bass so terribly bad. *sigh*

I think it's time for me to go to bed now, though. Tomorrow, I'll be going to the doctors' to see what the hell is wrong with my throat, nose and head yet again. This shit is getting so old, seriously.

I pretty much am not liking dad right now. He's been a bit of a prick the whole day, and I just escaped him to my room. He's been a downright racist and I seriously loathe that. He's also been an asshole towards me the whole day, and there is a limit on how much I can and am willing to take. No more, seriously.

We got the tree today and Grandpa's here right now. I also was with Riku today, had fun.

Now though, I'm seriously super exhausted. I've been up since too-early-AM and I have to wake up at 8.30am tomorrow to run around and please everybody. Being the only child can get a bit old, I'm telling you.
I just want to sleep and get this whole Christmas thing over with.

Anyway, here's a meme. I'll post some picspams of christmasy things tomorrow or something.
( MEME )

I think I'm going to sleep now. Good night, merry Christmas to all!

Today hasn't actually been that busy, but I've still done a lot.

1. Went to Helsinki with Ellu to exchange gifts and enjoy something sugary sweet. We weren't there long, but it was still a nice time. I haven't seen Ellu since the Kotiteollisuus gig (Nov 29th) because she moved to Turku, which kind of sucks. I probably won't see her until I get back home from NY...

2. I cleaned up my room. Or well, moved various things from my tables to the closets, but that's cleaning, right? Lol. At least my room now looks clean...
Now I just need to decorate it with sparkly and shiny stuff, yay! Currently waiting for mom to come dig them up, since I have no idea where she's hid my lovely lights and all the sparkliness.

3. Decorated about a million gingerbread cookies. Pink, green and white. They look pretty amazing, though after and hour and a half of squeezing the sticky sugary stuff I got bored and started 'decorating' the cookies by just throwing the stuff around. It's very modern art-ish..

Tomorrow I'm going to go grab some coffee and talk with Riku, since I have absolutely nothing to do besides mooch around. Might as well do it somewhere else than home, since I think that most of my Christmas vacation that isn't spent in New York will be spent in my bed, watching crap from TV.

Also, Grandpa comes tomorrow and him, dad and I are going to get the Christmas three when he arrives. I'll probably snapsnapsnap pictures of that and then spam them here. As well as the soon-to-be decorations in my room. Mooooom, come on!

*wipes sweat* Whoah, another day filled with running around and just doing a lot of stuff.

First, when I woke up at around noon, dad and I went to buy me a new TV. The plan, according to dad, was that we'd buy a 20-something inch plasma/LCD.
...Well. When we got to the store, walked around looking at several twentysomethings, I found this absolutely beautiful, LG black/red LCD one, a 32".
I don't know what happened - I totally was going to just say "oh, that's a beautiful one" and move back to the smaller ones. But lol, my dad. Of course he went to the clerk to ask about technicalities and all that. The clerk told us that this was the only one there is, he himself had put it together about 30 minutes earlier. Dad asked if we still could buy it, and he said that of course, it's possible. At this point my head was going WHAT? but oh well, I'm not complaining. Now I have a beautiful, HUGE LCD TV about a meter away from my left hand.

After that we went home to put it together and plug it in, then quickly to dinner, then to my scout Christmas thingy where we ate some more. It was fun though, and I got a lot of good feedback from this autumn and me organizing the camp in January. I was really glad about it, since I've been stressing out like fuck because of scouts, mostly.
We ate some porrigde and cookies and yeah, it was fun. Too bad neither Riku or Eero were there.

When I got home I baked gingerbread cookies with mom for a long time, then went to watch an Apocalyptica live DVD that Topi loaned to me from the new, gorgeus TV and now I've just been relaxing and slowly but surely, starting to clean up my room. I also made grandpa's Christmas card and put Ellu's present to a gift bag. Now I just need to figure out where the fuck I'm going to put her card, because it's ENORMOUS.

Tomorrow is going to be another hectic day. I'm going to wake up early so I'll get at least a little bit of cleaning done before I go to meet Ellu in Helsinki at about 2pm. Then, back to home to decorate the cookies, clean up everything and decorate my room with Christmas lights and ornaments. I'll probably take pictures of all of that since sparkly stuff is always WIN.

Oh man, I can't wait for Christmas Eve, I really want to open my presents now! *jumps* Though, I've already gotten most of my presents/I know what they are, it's still fun. And I have the gifts from my friends to open, yay!

Now I think I'll continue a bit with the cleaning/typing the reviews, which I still haven't done. Bad, bad Johanna...

Another awesome day. Whooooooooo!

And guess what guys, I'M ON VACATION! Fuck yes. Finally some rest, CHRISTMAS and NEW YORK. Awesome.

Today started with the traditional school church, which was nice. I actually like the scholl churches, it calms me down. Then, to school to get our report cards, glögi and Christmas cookies. My report card was pretty much like expected, it went well:
English 10
Music 10
Psychology 9
Finnish 9
P.E. 8

English and music didn't surprise me, nor did Finnish. P.E. and psychology did though - I got an 8 from the psych exam so I was expecting that. Not complaining though, I'm really happy about it! I was expecting a 7 from P.E. too, so an another nice surprise.
My average (these numbers + the ones from period 1) is 8,45. Last spring it was 8,6 so I'm trying to get there now... :)

After the school stuff Riku, Topi, Hanna, Aurora (from my geology class) and I went to the train station and all of us minus Topi to Helsinki. Topi loaned me a bag full of CD's and two Apocalyptica live DVD's which is awesome. There was one CD by Diablo, then some random ska CD's and a CD from Topi's old band. Can't wait to hear it - apparently he used to be a black metal guy waaay back.
We parted ways at Helsinki, and I made my way to Stockmann. Mom told me this morning that my present from my grandparents will me some money, and I should go buy something for myself with it. I already had one lovely purple Guess bag in mind, and I really wanted it. When I arrived at Stockmann, though... It wasn't there. It had already been bought, and I was pissed. I really, really wanted that bag, so I made my way to Kämp Galleria to Guess' own store to see if they had it in there.

They didn't, but they had some bags from the same series. The saleswoman was really nice and somehow persuaded me to buy a bigger bag in the same colour, but about twice the size of the one I had in mind in the first place...
It's lovely though, and she put it in a really cool, silver-coloured Guess paper bag and put some ribbon in there since it was a present for myself. I was really happy that I got that bag - I can't wait to open the wrappings! I decided to do that on Christmas.

After getting that done, I was supposed to meet Peppi to go for lunch and coffee. We met at Stockmann, went to a Pizza Hut (we were supposed to go to this cool Italian place but it was packed) and exchanged presents. We had a great time, as usual, ate well and then, after a while, walked to the Fazer cake shop (erialcgrove, the place with the absolutely delicious cakes, remember it?). We bought coffee, chocolate and a highly overpriced but super delicious cake. I think it was some kind of a chocolate mousse/raspberry-kind of thing. Absolutely amazing, mmmm.

We spent a long time at the café, just talking. It was a lot of fun and we both were in a Christmas-y mood.

When we had sat in there for about 2 hours, we decided to go window shopping in the most expensive stores and boutiques in Helsinki. We also went into the luxurious Louis Vuitton store, and oh my god, why in the fuck are the bags so expensive? They're so beautiful but... Bleeeh.

After that we went home and well, here I am. Tomorrow we're going to buy the new TV for me, which I still can't believe to be true. What the hell...

Oh well. I'm going to go now, I still have a lot of writing to do for the reviews...

Today has been an extremely random day.

First, school started with some kind of a lecture/information gathering-excercise, where a part of our geology glass went to the library to learn how to get information from there and from the internet. The whole thing was useless and fucking boring, I used the time to play Solitaire on the computer. Lol.

I had a lot of stuff with me at school, since I planned on giving the guys their Christmas cards and Riku his present today, which I did. I also got a gift from Riku, which was awesome. I won't open it until Christmas, though. :)
Riku laughed at the card and liked it, Topi sighed heavily and said "where am I going to put this? It's HUGE" and he seemed a bit pissed about it, actually. What the hell?
Niko loved the card and he was really happy and touched that I made him one. He even hugged me twice, lol. Have I mentioned how awesome and cool he is?

Chemistry was okay. It's so weird that I finally understand the stuff and actually, I'm thinking about maybe, maybe taking some more Chemistry courses. That's a teeny weeny possibility, but I'm considering it. Our teacher is really good, she's nice and knows how to teach.

Music class was pretty fun also. We sang some Christmas songs and some old, legendary Finnish songs so everybody sang along. The only minus was the girl who played bass for the whole lesson - she absolutely sucked, couldn't play anything correctly. Sorry for the harshness, but it really was painful to listen to...

Class ended early so I waited around for Riku in the lobby, hanging out with Mirka, Niko, Topi and a few more guys. When Riku arrived, we went to the library again because he had to get a book for his Finnish class and I wanted to get some AC/DC albums. Sadly, neither of us got the stuff we came for. Bleh.

Riku was going to get Christmas presents for Hanna and I was going to Sello, so we took the same train and parted ways.
At Sello I had to drop by Ginatricot since the saleswoman forgot to take the alarm off of the mittens I bought. It didn't beep when I passed the gates though, weird...
The cashier who took it off was apoloziging a lot and she gave me a 15€ bonus coupon to the store. LOL! Win, win, win. The mittens didn't even cost that much. Not complaining though, because free clothes are always awesome. Lol.

After I had done that, I went to Sello's library to, once again, look for some AC/DC stuff. Didn't find any though, so I ended up getting 5 Don Huonot CD's. Heh, another win!

I also bought the newest Rock Sound and then went home. Currently, I'm trying to write the RRF review. I plan on getting both of the reviews done by Christmas. These few days before Christmas are going to be really, really busy.

Tomorrow I have the church thing at school at 11am, then we get our report cards at 12am. I'll be going to Helsinki straight from there to eat and get some coffee with Peppi, then to home to clean up and decorate my room.
On Sunday - and now we go to the most random part - we're going to buy a new TV for me with my dad. Seriously, what the fuck?
This morning, when I was eating breakfast with dad, he said: "So, I've been thinking... We're going to buy a new plasm TV for you on Sunday." I said: "YOU'VE BEEN THINKING?!" and he told me that yes, he was thinking about a 20-something-inch plasm/LCD TV for me.
Well, sure, but... just, what? I actually like my TV, it works and it's big enough, but now he just decided that I need a new one? Works for me, heh...
So, that on Sunday. After that, more cleaning, baking cookies and other Christmas stuff, more cleaning and decorating because I most likely won't get it all done on Saturday. Sometime in between that or after that or before that - haven't decided yet - I have a two-hour scout meeting, a Christmas party kind of thing.
On Monday I'll be getting coffee with Ellu, exchanging presents and that stuff. And maybe a bit more cleaning/decorating/baking. Tuesday, much of the same. Doing things that I have been putting off or have forgotten to do, lol.

I really need to continue writing the review though, so toodles.

GUESS WHO GOT A STANDING TICKET TO THE AC/DC GIG?

Oh my fucking god, I'm so, so SO EXCITED about that. Sara, the girl who got the ticket for me queued for I think 15 hours or something. Oh man, I'm so thankful for her! I absolutely love AC/DC and seriously, it's going to be awesome. I mean, Angus Young, people? So cool.

(just had to...)

Today has been absolutely awesome. School was actually fun - since it's almost Christmas, we had a special Christmas surprise; two of our school's band played for us in the middle of the day. It was pretty good, at least it took about 15 minutes off of our Maths lesson. Whooo! Biology was okay, geology was okay, even maths was okay and psychology was interesting, as always.

After school Riku and I waited around for Hanna and Topi to arrive, and then walked to the station - well, Topi and I did, Riku and Hanna went to buy something from the mall. The train was really late though, but that didn't matter. Topi and I were discussing about YUP - I loaned 7 of their CD's for him today so he could see if it's any good in his opinion. :)

When we parted ways, I went to Leppävaara. I bought a cool scarf and mittens from Sello - here's a picture of the scarf:

Very blue, isn't it? I love the colour.

After that I went to the library to pick up some CD's I had made reservations for. Four YUP ones (well, two of them are EP's) and three Mokoma ones. I plan on going there tomorrow too - I need to get some more AC/DC :)
I also bought a cool-ass waterbottle, or well, a donut-shaped container called Plup. It's a charity thing, they give 0,10€ from every bottle to some organization helping the Baltic Sea.
(You guys who are into HIM, Bam or VAM - Remember the commercial Bam did here in Finland, dressed completely in white and playing tick tack toe with a person dressed in black? That one. www.plup.com, check out the commercial. Also, there's a video clip of Ville explaining what the bottle is all about.)

When I got home, I made Topi's Christmas card which is HUGE and all glittery. Whoo! I'll give the guys their cards tomorrow, plus Riku his present. I'll be seeing Peppi on Saturday for coffee or something, so she'll get her present+card then. We haven't totally decided on what to do then - I'm currently SMSing her about it, though.
Ellu I will see on Monday and give her stuff then.

....OKAY, RANDOM. Peppi just came over, what the hell? She doesn't even live near us, nor does her boyfriend. LOL. I was so confused that our conversation kind of sucked, lol, seriously, that was so random. We're going to get something to eat on Saturday, then coffee.

Now that I have all the present+card stuff covered, the only things I need to do before Christmas is clean up my room, decorate my room and... Clean up some more.

That I'll do during the weekend or something. Not right now, anyway... I need to start writing the reviews, so I think I'll start with the Radio Rock Finlandia one now.

Ta-ta.

Another really, really busy day is almost behind me.

Today has been a lot of running around, just like yesterday.

School was okay, nothing really special happened. Although I got a lot of comments about my skirt + red stockings combo, since I usually don't go even near skirts. I had to put my concert outfit on though, since I wouldn't have had any time to change clothes when I got home.
Biology class was pretty hilarious though, since both Topi and I were really tired and our jokes... Well, let's say that I've heard better ones.

I had some really cool conversations with Niko and pretty random people about YUP today, which was awesome. I finally got to hype about everything and man, Niko is just so cool.

After school was the running bit. I had to speedwalk/run to catch the first train, and then run again to catch the second one. I was pretty pissed though, since I missed my bus by a minute and had to wait for 15 minutes at Leppävaara, which really sucked. I was in a big hurry.

When I got home, I had to mingle a bit with mom's coworker and their boss - they were having a business meeting of some sorts at our place. I ate really quickly and then, more running to the bus stop to get to the church where the concert was.

We had a rehearsal for 2,5 hours and my feet were already hurting like hell - I really fucking hate high heels, and to make it even better, they were a little bit too small for me. So, a total of about 4 hours of standing around with them... Yay!

While I was at the rehearsal, my godfather + his wife and my grandparents (mom's side) were at our place for coffee and then they came to the concert. Riku also came, which was really cool of him. I was happy that he came, it cheered me up a lot.
The concert itself went pretty well, though my feet went totally numb during the third song and my throat was hurting really bad too. Besides that, I didn't screw anything up, didn't fall from the podium and it sounded great too. Awesome!

Mom took a couple of pictures at the concert, here's one:

I'm the second one from the left, middle row. Notice my stockings ;)

It was cool to sing for a full church, since the acoustics are always great and well, we're good! Everybody was saying how well it went, so I'm happy with that.

We took Riku home after it and then I came here to fool around with the computer, do my massive piles of homework and also, to choose some more courses for this year. I took Psychology 3 - Riku persuaded me - and a photography course, which I'm really excited about. So I now have a total of 32 courses to do this year. You have to get through at least 75 so you can graduate.
I'm planning on taking a bit more courses on my second year so I won't be that far behind when I get home from the US in 2010. We'll see what I'll do though, I might've changed all of my opinions by the time I get back, heh.

About the exchange student stuff. I got a call from AFS today, reminding me about the application papers. Which I need to fill... I still have to get some papers back from our principal - I really hope she got the papers I put to the mailbox. I might have to go ask from the teachers' room if she has gotten them, since I need them pretty quickly. Whoooops...

So, the AC/DC gig tickets are going on sale tomorrow! Riku's classmate, a girl in my music class called Sara is currently queuing for them (has been for a while, too) and she'll get a ticket for me too. Awesome! She said that there are 6 people in front of her in the line but they're doing a sort of a name list so nobody will go past her. I really hope she'll manage to get me a standing ticket, because sitting sucks at gigs.

Now though, I'm going to grab some cake and a certain cola beverage, curl up on the sofa and watch Mad Men.

Toodles!