Allright!
I'd say it's right about time for some updates! I haven't really yearned for doing some blogging in ages, but today it just... felt right.

Current status:
HAPPY ♥

Current occupation:
-travelling student and the happy fiancé of the worlds best man.

I have spent the last month or so doing a lot of flying. I find this so fantastic, because less than a year ago, ten wild horses and a lot of energy had to be spent for me to even consider to use the plane to get anywhere. No, I was under the belief that the means of travel was in land and sea vehicles, even if it took me more than 24 hours to reach my destination. I considered it a better way to spend my sanity and energy, than to sit locked in a tin can for 2-3 hours. Ridiculous, I know. And I also knew this before, too, but unable to do something with it.

Sunset from the air.

However, now I have done something with it. I have during the last 9 months flown to Budapest, Trondheim (twice), London, Stockholm (also twice, and there is a third time coming up too) and even Östersund. And most of these flights were done alone even. I am so proud of myself that they can see my pride all the way to Trondheim, people take sunbaths in my sunshine in London, that's how proud I am. Mortal sin they say, pride is, good thing I am not one to believe in the bible.

How did I do this? With the help of Nina Rope, a Finnish hypnotherapist and former Finnair pilot. I'm not going to explicate at length here about how we managed to put me into the flying tin can without any fear, because it is both a rather personal experience, and I believe it to be a very individual course of events - no hypnosis is ever routine or the same from person to person (and it also varies how and where the problem in question has manifested, and even what the problem is).

We had complete clear sky on my last return,
all the beautiful cities below were like precious
stones - I only wish I'd brought a real camera.

Point is, I am free now, and I have a bright future ahead of me, together with my future husband. I can finally go to the places I have only dared dream about, and I have a long list of places that was locked off from me before. The experience has made me a very positive and happy person, and I know a hell of a lot more about myself now, than before.

Most important of all, I could meet my (then)5 weeks old nephew within the same weekend that I had a mandatory gathering at my university in Stockholm. There is no chains to control the choice of profession, I can now study what ever it is that I want to become when I grow up!

If you think this post has quite the undertone of "loco, born again christian/evangelist/druid/hippie", but so be it. I am a happy person, and I am just so damned lucky to have found this way without the help of some religious security blanket.

Some snapshots from recent travels:

A crisp winter morning in Östersund, perfect to clear the head
before holding a presentation for 40 strangers.

Mittuniversitetet, campus Östersund

From campus Östersund, formerly the military stables.

The view from a lecture hall

The escape pod at Karolinska Instituten.
(it just had to be said hihi)

And what awaits me when returning home to Finland? These little goodies! Thank you honey!

I'll never run out of mana again.

15. 16. 17. and 18. December

It seems to be so that with exams two Fridays in a row, the Christmas calendar have to wait on the sideline.

Well, here is my four days in a bunch.
Thursday 15. december.
Salary! Gift shopping! Gift planning! Haircut! Alas, there has to be limits of the time spent to this, as there is an exam the next day. But I got to go to Toys r'us and the hairdresser, where I got the longest head massage in ages. Everyone should have one of these around christmas time. No picture of the hairdo yet.

Friday 16. December.
Exam! Plenty of writing, a zumba lesson and plenty of writing more. I hope I get a good grade, because this I felt good about delivering. A whole lot of good came out from taking that 15 credits course in anatomy and physiology last spring. This exam today was mainly about the human digestive and endocrine system, with the angle towards nutrients.


Saturday 17. December.
We go celebrate Mattis birthday. I learn again that I suck at pool, and that Janne is expert. A fun evening where we actually danced to mid- ninety's hits in a bar. OMG.

Sunday 18. December.
Gift wrapping, gift delivering and receiving. The cat helped again this year of course. I have pondered about next weeks travel, and mused about how the weather will be.... I really hope the wind is quiet when we are on the boat....

14. December

One day before salary, two days till the next take-at-home exam. So, quite busy still with the reading. I guess it's just as well that its now, so I have the money and time to go shopping afterwards! Can't wait till its over for now. How is it that deadlines from more courses than one end up on the same week always.... Ant that its those deadlines you cant avoid this "last minute feeling" by planning your reading/writing in advance....hmh!

We got christmas cards in the mail! Here's one! Thank you Laura!

12. December

As this day (and several more of them to come...) revolves around nutrition, food and energy intake, I figured a picture of my cats eating habits would be fitting. We have wondered at times if she is supposed to be a pig.

Study, study, study! Four days till next exam!  Nutrition physiology FTW! yeee..

7. 8. and 9. December

I just had to bulk-post these, as the last part of this week got a bit filled up with technical problems(new motherboard, ram and no functioning card-reader + internets fancy to turn on and off at will), preparations for exam, and the actual exam. So now we have it here!

7. December:
Day filled with reading, reading, reading.
This is not my actual study-table, but wouldn't it be fun if it were? Instead I have several 1000+ pages books and online lectures.

8. December:
Arne Alligator visited my workplace and held a concert for the kids! Thank you to the helpful and kind people that helped finance it! It was majorly popular for both kids and us bigger kids (="adults"). Oh and my phones camera sucks, hence the poor quality.

9. December:
I have a take-at-home-exam, straight after work. It was about immunology and food intolerance and allergies, so the fitting image of a evil looking snake from this summers visit to the zoo seems appropriate? (as no pictures of a write-frenzied Lisa was taken).

6. December

Today Finns celebrate their independence day. Most of them nursing a colorful hangover...

Me, however, have used my day off work to study prions and antimocribial peptides, been to a lecture online and gotten restless feet. And apparently, its fully acceptable to wait 1.5 hrs for two lukewarm pizzas to be delivered to your home (even if the kitchen making them are situated not 500 m from here), without any cut in price. Food hygene and quality customer service on its best.

And in the spirit of the day, I picked a picture with fitting theme in the colours. This prettyness was on my car roof the other day, natures wonders of beauty in crystalised water.

welcome spring

Yes I know it was snowing today, and yes I know its still slippery and cold outside... its just... its about time this winter lets go. King Winter, would you so kindly take mr snow and miss ice with you, and go to the place santa claus goes to for the summer-half of the year!
And I haven't even been the one to complain about the minus 25 degrees freaky cold for lengths of time, or the piles and tonnes of snow... not even the darkness of winter time has been a big complaining topic of mine this time around. But now its enough. I want to get that feeling that I have tried to create in my hallway (the picture), and your coldness majesty can't be part of it, sorry.

Oh and by the way, grats to me for feeling very satisfied with my Basic medicine: anatomy and physiology Exam/mid term.

studying

I've been busy!
Im currently taking a distance- study course in anatomy and physiology! AND I'm finally taking my driver's license. YEY!
So, hence not much blogging.
I'm trying to catch up with the little falling behind that I have managed to do already (in the course, not the blogging...). It's incredible, really, that with only few days of doing something else important business, I've managed to fall back on a few subjects. This course is actually half-speed, so it SHOULD be possible with some stuff in between, like actually cleaning the house properly. Or concentrating on learning how to operate a vehicle a couple of hours in the week...
But then again, seems I have to double back this weekend, and read up on how the nervoussystem functions on a detailed level. And not to forget how sensatory reactions work. yeeey....and then at the same time be updated on what this weeks topic actually was...
So! *pushing self back to reading*

...or dreaming about travelling?
(pictures are from the super ultrafast Tallinn trip we took in august. Speed photography, anyone?)

crazy happy about mowing the lawn?