The new secret weapon

I'm really lazy in washing my hair, even though I only have to wash it every four days. It takes so much time with all the haircare products and blow-drying with a big round brush that it's actually sometimes hard to find time for the whole process :D So in the last days when I can still somehow manage without washing my hair, I usually just wear it up or put on a headband or something. Wearing the hair down is usually not an option anymore, but with this miraculous product that I discovered last week, I'm able to wear the hair down even if it was ages ago since the last time that I washed it :D Haha I know, gross, but this stuff really rocks! :D

Lost my efffin phone - again!

I have this beige trench coat I always wear with dresses so I usually have it on when I go clubbing. I know that there are huge holes in the pockets (lol) and I try to avoid putting anything in them, but sometimes I simply forget that. And this has had its consequences before.

On Saturday I had the jacket on again and of course I kept putting my celly in the jacket pockets. When I remembered the holes I quickly grabbed the celly and put it in my clutch, but it found its way to the pocket time and time again. Anyway, when I got back home later on that night, I noticed that I didn't have the celly with me anymore!! :'( ugh. I had taken some pictures and now they're lost too and since I don't have a camera, there's no way to take pictures anymore. At least not before buying a new celly..

Exams ahead - messing with my hair again

Why oh why do I always get this sudden urge to do something new with my hair when I should be sitting still and focus on studying?? The exam on business law that I had a month or two ago made me cut my hair (a lot!) on my own and the exam I'm gonna have on Friday apparently had a similar effect on me yesterday.

I decided to stay at home instead of wasting time on moving my bum to the university, and I was supposed to get a lot done here. I had such good plans! Actually, I was quite productive in the morning and finished this final report for another course, but in the afternoon when I was supposed to open up my books and start studying for my exam, I ended up doing highlights AND cut my hair instead. It was so hard to do that alone and somehow in the middle of everything I got this huge knot in the back of my hair and with the hair dye.. ohh, it got stuck big time. I had to rip the whole god damn thing off and it really hurt!! :D But I survived and I don't think you can see that there's some hair missing in the back.. :D

Haha, I think I have to put myself in handcuffs and chains in the beginning of December when I have the rest of my exams, or else I'm gonna end up bold or something.. Soon there's gonna be nothing left to cut or rip! :D

Copy-cats by accident

We've had quite a few skype sessions with L this fall that have ended up in hysterical laughter because of shoes. We both have such a good taste in shoes that we've bought at least 3 similar pairs in like 2 months or so ;)

Hehe, do you remember when you were so thrilled to show me the new flurry leopard print pumps? Right when I saw them I had to go grab mine - 'look look look I have similar ones but with zebra stripes!!' :D And the ballerinas! Yours were black and mine dark brown, but both had this similar decoration in the front of the shoe. Haha, and now the boots. The same color, casual style and round shape in the front, and they both have heels! I guess the only difference is that mine are just a little bit higher? :P

Yup, there you go ;)

Girls at the Helsinki food and countryside show

What a random Friday. Me and my friends had to go to this fair yesterday for a project, and gosh we got surprised when we got there. We had thought that we're just gonna quickly go in and get the hell out of there as soon as we can, cause we thought it would be really boring and just full of exhibition stands that are all the same. But there were so many things to see there!!

So when we walked in, we all went to different directions and were supposed to meet once we were done with our business ;) I headed straight to the hall of handicrafts and immediately forgot what I was supposed to do there. I saw so many beautiful handmade jewelry that I just had to stop every 2 meters and try the prettiest things on. Most of the pieces weren't even that expensive but seemed to be of high quality. Some even reminded me of Lapponia jewelry because of the design, even though they were nothing like the ones I've seen in Lapponia's collection. Anyway, I was impressed of the exhibitions there and was so proud of myself for not spending any money on the pretty jewelry :D

Fair purchases

So many nice colors :)

Next, I met my friends at the outlet hall and we went to see the beauty section. There were make-up, cremes,  hair care products, nail polish, perfumes... Ohh we bought so many nice things at a ridiculous price there- I have 4 new lipsticks now! :D I actually bought only 3 of them but the cashier gave me one extra, third from the left (the darkest one). I tried it on yesterday and fell completely in love with it. We'll see if I have the balls to really put in on some day ;) hehe.

Me and a horse that likes eating purses

I tried to pet it but the horse wasn't a fan of mine :D

When we we're done with shopping, we went to see farm animals :D God it smelled bad there but the animals were so cute!! :D I can't stop laughing when I look at these pictures.. Gosh we had a.. random day :D I'll just post some more pics of what we saw there ;)

We missed the goat agility show!!

The kids were all excited to see the sheep

My absolute favorite - the llama!! :D

You can't even see how big these dudes were!!

The sheep dog doing his thing

...chasing the herd around the arena...

The chubby little pony

So, who would have guessed that this is how we spent our Friday night... :D

Thoughts from today

I remember reading lots and lots of articles on social media marketing when I was working on my bachelor thesis. I was excited to learn about new, trendy things that they didn’t talk about on the lectures yet or ask to elaborate on in case assignments or exams. This was finally something that I was truly interested on and sometimes I even enjoyed studying on the material that I had found on my own. Even though I wasn't that happy with the final version and would do a lot of things differently now if I could, I have to say that I learned a lot during the process.

I miss that feeling. That I get to do exactly what I want to do.

I realized that I’ve been on a really bad mood lately and I think that this is a part of the reason. I haven’t felt too excited about the things that I’ve been working on lately and I feel like I’m wasting time unless I get to do something that I’m actually keen on. I need to feel enthusiastic about the things that I do!

It's not that I don't like what I’m studying or don't appreciate my work, I’m just missing that spark somewhere.

Actually, just writing about this weird feeling makes me feel better. I just need to find an inspiration and get that spark back. I don’t know what it is and where I could find it, but I know that I will find it. But it has to happen soon.

I came across with an article on social media marketing today and it really caught my attention. It argues on some of the key findings of the research studies that I got familiar with when I was writing my bachelor thesis, and I just realized how perishable some information actually is. It’s kind of like canned food in your cupboard; yeah, you can store it there for a really long time, even years, but it has an expiration date on the bottom. Same thing goes for the new things that you learn, the new theories that they develop - they’re all good until somebody proves them wrong or presents better and more accurate findings.


http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/02/15/facebook-marketing/

I think I should check my cupboard and replace some older cans with new ones - maybe that would lead to the inspiration that I'm seeking after ;) The key idea in that article is that getting engaged and active in the social media is no longer the thing - being too active and overwhelming or having nothing special to say can turn the audience against you. Providing people with value-adding content, on the other hand, can keep them interested, but is a work of art.

Last days of my beloved 'leather' jacket

Bahh, where did all the pretty and colorful leaves go? And the bright and sunny days? Grrrr, the fall is passing by and the weather's getting uglier and uglier so it seems that I also need to start packing my favorite fall stuff in cardboard boxes and take them back to the basement. I still haven't let go of my leather jacket and I've tried to wear it with warmer stuff, like these boots, but yesterday I almost froze to the bones so I think I'm finally giving up :D

I have done a complete inventory on my wardrobe during the fall and thrown a lot of older stuff away. Jackets and coats, however, are all still there, but I don't like much any of those that I could wear during the coldest seasons. There is a red one that I'm in love with but still, there's a desperate need of new ones.. I've been looking for a new winter coat  but I haven't found anything nice yet..

In Flames or not?

A friend has been asking me to go see In Flames with her at the Helsinki Ice Arena on the 16^th of November. I listen to a lot of that type of heavier music but I’m not too familiar with the band itself, so I’m not sure what to do. I heard about the band in 2009 when a Finnish exchange friend introduced me with a couple of their songs and I remember listening to them non-stop for a while. I guess In Flames is categorized into death metal or heavy metal but their music is a lot more melodic compared to many others. I still have those songs ‘Alias’ and ‘Come Clarity’ in my playlists and even though I still like them I’ve been too lazy to find out more about their production.

I know the feeling that you get when you just absolutely love a band and get to see it playing live - it’s something unbelievably awesome! If it was HIM, I would have already bought the tickets!! ;) But now I’m not sure if I want to go or not. What if I realize there and then that meh, I don’t like this, and I stand in the crowd and everybody else except for me is just rocking their ass off? :D

This friend just told me that she’s gonna compile a Spotify playlist for us, ‘all time greatest of In Flames’, so that we can learn the lyrics by heart, buy tickets to the concert and scream our hearts out there :D Haha, I got all excited and had to google their latest album, and it seems that I already found something new that I liked! Maybe I should just take the chance and go..? ;) hehe.

In Flames - Deliver Us / Sounds of a Playground, 2011