Hey there! ;)

Hello darling readers!

How are y'all doing? :) I have missed blogging. I've been busy, a little ill and just plain lazy... Plus my internet connection has been on-off these past months. Simply because the iron door to the wifi-box was closed xD lol Seriously, my good old friend asked me: Have you tried opening the door? LOL Of course, he was right, it worked! :) Hallelujah!

Speaking of Hallelujah... We're having a pre-Christmas Christmas Party at the church tonight. I'm going. I just need to buy a little gift and a little something to eat... Everyone is supposed to bring something...

I hate winter. It's so dark in here, my home, that even though it's not even one o'clock in the afternoon, it's so dark, that I need to turn on some lights! This sucks! But of course, it's pretty cloudy :P In the summer it's the opposite. Summer is a crazy time here in Finland. Everyone goes bonkers. Well, we're pretty bonkers anyways... On the L-O-V-E front... Well, it's been pretty quiet but interesting. No comment. My Mom said that there's something in my genes that when I fall in love, I fall really hard. Well, turns out, I didn't know how much it could hurt until it did lol. Being really cryptic here, don't want to spill no beans. lol I'm crazy, I know... Some things are better left unsaid. Eventhough my speech therapist said I need to TALK IT OUT. I just cannot say some things... Maybe that's why my voice isn't working, so that I won't say the wrong things. That was the theory my shrink in Sweden had.

Did I tell you I used to live in Sweden? ... Nice try, Cindy, trying to change the subject: YOU STARTED THIS BLOG WHILE LIVING IN SWEDEN :P lol LOL lol :P

OK. That's enough for today...

BYE BYE!!!

Life, death and best friends.

Dear readers...

This week my best friend, extra grandmother and nanny died. She was 89 years old. She has been my friend since I was a baby. As I grew, I spent almost every Saturday at her home, watching TV, eating good food and talking about life. Oftentimes we took a nap in between TV programmes, we played cards and had fun. I miss her a lot. But I know we will meet again. The thing is, I can't see a reason why we wouldn't meet again. Like a soul could just dissolve into nothing. I'm looking forward to seeing her again. If you think about it, it will be put pretty soon. I have maybe 50-40 years left on earth. One year goes by so fast.

I have spent most of my summer here in Jakobstad, at my parents place. On Monday I'm going back home to Tampere. I have come to realise that my home really is there. It's there I grew up, it's there I've experienced my happiest, most sad, hardest and funniest moments. I really love it, my home town...

I am so lucky, I have the opportunity to live in my childhood home. I've got a bedroom, a library and a living room, a kitchen and bathroom. Not everyone has a library... okay, I'm a grown woman, I'm 37 and independent. But most women my age have a family, I have the luxury of living by myself in a very nice home.

I have truly been blessed.

This summer I have been spending time with my family and friends. I have been very very busy. Almost too busy. I am looking forward to just taking it easy and getting back to the routines and ordinary way of life.

Hi...

Hello there!

Lately I have been so happy that I often think that if I would die now, I would be happy and ready, perfectly in tune with the universe. I think it's a good thing, because I believe we should always be prepared to go at any given moment. We never know when it's our turn. I strive to live in a way that every evening I can say: I am happy right now. Not in the future, not in the past. Right now. I love life. There's no need for anything more. I have everything I need.

Well, this was all for now.

Rainbow connection

Hey there!

Today I went to the gym. To BodyBalance class, with my very favorite instructor. She is really nice. I almost didn't go there tonight but I decided to go, and it was amazing. I was so happy, BodyBalance makes me feel so good. Now I'm at home, listening to soundtracks to some of my favorite movies. I don't know what's "wrong" with me. I feel emotional, blissful and thankful. If I would die during sleep tonight, I would be completely satisfied with my life. I wish I would feel like this every evening. The gym classes have helped me a lot. Fudge, what did I do before going to the gym? LOL..

When I was a teenager, I'm not going to lie, I wanted to marry an American RM. LoL. I was a very silly child. People may say what they want about the States, but it has a very special place in my heart. I have been there only once. To Washington DC and New York city. My dream has been to live in nyc for a few months, just to experience the City. Three days in 2000 isn't quite enough. LoL. I really don't care about Utah etc. I am a different kind of Mormon 😉 My Mom always says I would be happy living in the States. I am not so rich, it's never going to be possible. Well, it's nice to dream.

One thing I would be worried about would be health care. Otherwise everything would be fine and dandy, living in the States. The language... Well, I don't think that would be a problem. LoL. I am so thankful for my teachers who taught me well. Thanks to them, English is my third language, I would say, almost as strong as my native tongues. It's been a long learning experience. I hope my teachers are proud of me, I owe them so much.

Well, that's all for now.

What has been accomplished this year (by me) :P

Hello there!

I just came up with a brilliant idea, if I may say so myself... LOL Now that the New Year is Approaching, I'm going to of course make some promises but also look back on 2016 and look at all the GREAT and WONDERFUL things I've accomplished :) Here they are in a "nutshell" :)

1. I have lost weight: 7-8 kilos to be vaguely accurate :P

2. I've continued to go to the Gym (mainly my favorite class: BodyBalance) <3 p="">
3. I've read 23 books (so far, on the 25th of December)

4. I've gotten my first JOB! As a blogger for Book Riot (I blog about books, duh!)

http://cindersboo.blogspot.fi/

5. I went to my first young single/singles adult convention of the Church, age group 18+... It was FANTABULOUS!!! <3 p="">
6. I started collecting Barbies again and continued collecting MLPs

7. I have started a Bullet Journal

8. I have started to play the piano again (self-taught)

9. I have held a speech twice in Church (once in the second ward, once in the first ward)

10. I have not been at the mental hospital, not even once this year!!! :D

Now, for the "negatives"

1. I have not been on a date

2. I have only been in Scandinavia (Finland and Sweden)

3. I had my first stomach illness in many many many years (on Christmas Eve Eve...)

Well, that's about it :) Not too bad, if you ask me :)

Merry Christmas!!! :)

Hi! Merry Christmas!

This year Christmas has been a little different. On Christmas Eve Eve, I got very ill and ended up at the ER. Good thing my Mom is visiting me so she has been taking care of me. Today my Dad and my Aunt AB arrived from Österbotten, the Swedish-speaking area of Finland. My parents live in Jakobstad and my aunt lives there too. We watched the declaration of Christmas Peace, a Finnish tradition, and ate some riisipuuro with kiisseli. It's a Finnish food for Christmas. Now my Mom is at the drug store getting me some medicine and my Dad is watching TV. My auntie is reading. My cats are... I don't know where they are :P LOL

Oh, I forgot to mention, there's no snow! :( All the lovely snow we had here is gone! All melted away... :'( It sucks. And it's raining. But I'm going to stay inside all day today. There's no way I'm going anywhere today... We're going to watch Disney's Christmas program and open the gifts. First we got to wrap them, of course :P LOL, Christmas is very last minute this year... And the FOOD!!! :) We're going to have so much good food! <3 div="">

Have a great Christmas!

Hello there... I'm back!!! :P

Hiii...

How are you, dear Readers? :)

I'm just fine and dandy, thank you very much ;) I've been busy as a bee. Reading, going to BodyBalance, to Church, taking care of my cats, writing, sleeping, eating :) Life is busy, even when you don't realize that it's busy... People say they "have a life". What the fudge does it mean? To have "a life"? That you're busy? Popular? Pretty? Thin? What IS it? Well, the person who thought of the phrase "Get a life" obviously didn't know him/herself what he/she was saying :) It's not very nice going around, saying they're better than others, that their life matters MORE than someone else's... Even if a person would have the most "boring" life one could imagine, it does not mean they don't have one. I'm a bit fed up with these people who are sooo fashionable, busy busy, while flashing a "beautiful" smile, who think that the only way to be someone is to look down on others, complain and be bitter. I really feel sorry for these people. People who think they are better than others. They don't have time to love. To take care of each other, To be kind... I watched a movie yesterday with my Mom, it was "Cinderella" from 2015. Cinderella's Mom had two words of advice for her daughter: Be brave and kind. We should be brave, dare to be ourselves, dare to say "I have a life", even if we are sitting at home with our cats, listening to Diana Ross and doing "nerdy stuff". (lol, I'm just doing that as I write this... ) Well, this is some kind of personal rant-thingy, I'm sorry :P Anyways... Also, it's important to be kind. Some people think that one is stupid and simple if one is kind. What a joke! :) It's much more complicated to be nice. It takes no effort at all to be mean to the people who are mean to us. It's so easy to judge and be bitter and resentful. It takes true character to be kind. That's why I'm not a good character ;) I get easily offended. But I've become a little better at not being offended. I have tried to think, that what everyone is saying about me, is none of my business. They might think I'm for example: Fat, Old, Childish and Weird... What they think about me says a lot more about them than about me... Beauty and also Fault, is in the eye of the beholder.

Well, this was a bit of a different text this time! Sorry, there was a lot of steam I had to "let loose" LoL

Have a great Weekend with a capital W... :)