tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19393210629364283892011-04-22T03:54:07.016+03:00Mikaela, a Finnish writer in her thirties, blogs about her everyday life and strange phenomena.Mikaelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03613935639449003289noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939321062936428389.post-84211242659120424532009-01-25T14:16:00.005+02:002009-01-25T15:26:19.343+02:00

The title describes my overall feelings these days - oh yes, I am h-a-p-p-y! :)We finally got to start with Juudit's new nanny last week, but due to several little reasons I didn't feel comfortable to leave her there in the end, so after two days we decided to look for a new place again... It could be I was overreacting, but when it comes to your own children, you just really have to trust your

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It's been a trying week for me mentally, and I'm so happy it's Friday now. Juudit has been throwing tantrums on daytime and having night terrors at nights, so I've been exhausted. Last night, however, she slept soundly all through the night, so I'm not tired today and have immediately felt a little better.We were supposed to go and meet one nanny candidate yesterday, but the family at whose house

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Juudit still won't nap and we still haven't found a new nanny for her, so I'm still short of online time... I just wanted to add a detail photo of our New Year's Eve table setting, so here it is:Flowers and everything as you can see. :) Nice, eh?As last week was wearing me out with spending so much time just at home, and alone with Juudit, I decided yesterday I need to get out a little, and went

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Wow, it has been a while, again. Sorry about that. And I wish everyone a happy, happy 2009! The holidays are mostly over now. We're going for an Epiphany dinner over at Karlo's parents next week, but all we have to do is go, so it won't take any organising. Pheew.Christmas was - once again - super lovely! I can't but love it enormously, and it's great to see Juudit's and her cousin's excitement

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I know I've been very very absent, naughty me, but all these Christmas preparations have kept me busy. I'm not stressed out because of Christmas (or Solstice or Yuletide, as we pagans like to call it, tehehe), because I love it, but this time of year it still keeps me away from many other activities.Life is good. Tomorrow we'll drive in a car packed with family and presents to my native eastern

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Another week has passed, and I've still enjoyed this new lifestyle. I've always been an avid reader (ever since childhood - our parents read a lot to us, and I learned how to myself already when I was 3!), but after youth it's been difficult to find enough time to read books. When I was in University, I felt "reading-tired" after so much academical non-fiction, and preferred newspapers and

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This has been my first week working as a freelancer. So far I've liked it enormously! I've been busy, but in a good way. Juudit's old nanny is taking care of her for now, because of the mess we got in to after the new daycare place was cancelled, or actually put on hold. (Juudit will probably start there in January, if we see the new nanny fit.) But anyway, for now I have to take Juudit to

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Tehehehe, I spent hours yesterday creating that new avatar at www.meez.com. When I was ready it was already 1.30 am and I simply couldn't make myself to post an entry anymore, but I want to now both acknowledge and apologise from Dori, who has a very nice blog called From A Yellow House In England. For the moment it's the only blog I follow, because I seem to be very picky and haven't had enough

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I haven't been blogging in many days, but last week was crazy busy in many respects. Like I posted the last time, it was my last week working in publishing, and getting ready to leave plus making preparations for this new phase in my life took a lot of time. Also, Juudit was supposed to start with a new nanny at another family's home this week, but due to sudden and unexpected changes in that

Mikaelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03613935639449003289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1939321062936428389.post-42467256249690621462008-11-24T13:32:00.003+02:002008-11-24T13:56:23.841+02:00

This is my last week working for this company. I've worked in publishing for around 18 months now, but starting next Monday I'll be a free writer, yay! I was actually shocked at first, when I heard they wouldn't renew my contract here anymore, but soon I realised I can get enough money to get by working as a freelancer - and I will probably enjoy myself more.I know I'll miss having a work

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Tehehe, I know I should probably do something about it myself - learn what I should do - but I've been amusinlgy annoyed to notice nobody's visiting this blog. I have always loved journaling just for myself and keeping archives of everything - documenting my life, so to speak - so I shouldn't care that much, but I have to admit that I do.Maybe when time will allow and I have taught myself more

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I was so happy to wake up this morning and see the temperature was well below freezing, and there was even a little snow on the ground! So far this "winter" has been so depressingly warm, rainy and dark, I've really enjoyed the dryness, coldness and sunshine of this day. I hope this winter will be better than the last two ones. You never know with the climate changes these days.Oh, I ended up

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I don't know much about blogs, but I've still wanted to start my own for a long time. You'll have to forgive my cluelessness about blogging, and also my bad English, as it's not my own language.It was very difficult to decide whether I should write in English or Finnish. The latter is my mother tongue, so I naturally express myself better in it, and it would be easier and faster to write in

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