Those small things, those small words

At least in the movies American people always seem to eat hot chicken soup whenever they are sick. Right?! Or their friends bring them the soup if they are sick enough and not able to get up from the bed. So I tried it too.. not helping. I bet the lunch I had yesterday (in the picture) would have been better choice.. My nose has been running and I've been sneezing all day long. The chicken soup seemed like a good idea.. but eating soup and sneezing.. not working together.. The lovely smell from the soup made me sneeze even more... But I have to brag about my lunch yesterday. I made on Wednesday rice and pork and added to the pork Uncle Ben's Mexican chili sauce, you know the one with kidney beans and all... I ate it happily two days and still something was left in my pots and pans.. I took french toast and put the rest of the sauce on them and IT WAS GOOOOOOOOD! Should've had as good food today as well but unfortunately I'll have chicken soup for two more days...

Anyway, enough tea and painkillers are keeping me up pretty good although I'm feeling quite tired. I also got some nice words from a friend of mine, he thanked me for some things that I've done. It made me feel good. It isn't really a big thing that I've done, just added some information to certain pages in the internet.. I'm hanging by the computer anyway, so it's not a problem. But that someone actually thanks me for doing such a thing and has trusted and noticed that I keep doing it even though it ain't really my "job" to do.. A simple "thank you" really does make a difference.. It made my day more than nice even though the running nose and all the sneezing..

If you could make your friend, your loved one or even a stranger to smile just by saying "thank you" or "hey handsome" or "I love you"... why wouldn't you say those words?!? You might save their day..

Hot in here

Yesterday I was fine, more than fine actually. Nothing wrong with me, I felt a bit bored but that's it. And today morning my nose was running. Flu, regular flu.. Off to work and sitting the whole day in cold office freezing and I came home with fever. I've stayed under my blanket ever since. Actually at the moment I wear two long pants, pullover and a fleece jacket, woolen socks, two blankets and I have my hot water bottle under the blankets. I absolutely love my hot water bottle!!! I got my hot water bottle from my job in Rauma. I spent my last summer there working as a sales person in optician's store. The hot water bottle is hidden in a husky dog, soft toy, not a real one. Nowadays I couldn't live without it. In summer I fill the bottle with cold water when I'll go to sleep because when the summer is warm my studio gets so sweaty after the sun shines in from my windows all day long. And I truely appreciate that bottle in moments like this, when having fever and freeeeeeeeezing. And it helps too. My fever is probably going down because I'm starting to sweat soon, already feeling nice and warm. And having the laptop, well.. on my lap.. it gets even warmer. Now I'm only hoping it passes by as soon as it came.. If I'm being so lucky, I can promise you update to my project blog tomorrow.. but we'll see that tomorrow then. Now I'm just too tired and trying to watch a film from TV... 'Til later!!

Basket case

So went by the weekend at my dad's. I went there on Thursday and came back home yesterday. And tomorrow starts my practice. I got to spend the weekend with my nephew again. He was mostly happy and smiling, at some point being tired brought some tears to his eyes and he wanted everybody to stay in the same room.. But we had fun, anyway, you can see it in the pictures.

He liked sitting in the basket. :D I was scratching the basket from the outside and he listened for awhile and then he scratched the basket from the inside. All in all he tried to imitate me when doing different things. When I was tapping my fingers against the table, he put his hand on my hand and tried to feel the movement and then he tried it himself. He learns fast now, after a month he'll turn 1 year old!! Otherwise everything went alright but it's a bit difficult to babysit him at my dad's because there's so many places where he's not allowed or where he can hurt himself. But as said everything went quite alright. I even got one pair of woolen socks done and started the next pair.

My cousin's daughter, to whom I am a godmother, turned 4 years old on the 17th. I remembered the birthday but since I went to my dad to babysit my nephew I totally forgot to send the birthday present.. I guess I'll have to send it today. If I remember correctly, she likes Hello Kitty -stuff.. I'm a bad godmother in that sence because I absolutely hate Hello Kitty. But as I said I'm the rock godmother who will take her to concerts and her first tattoo when she grows older... My first present to that little girl was a black and red body that had a text on it saying something like "Rock my cradle"..

Appreciating art

I don't know how many of you have been following the TV serie LA Ink where they follow Kat von D's tattoo studio in work. I'm not following the serie that actively either because I happen to like Miami Ink much, much more but not so long ago I once again watched LA Ink. They had an artist there as their client. And one other client who had decided to take a tattoo with a picture from that same artist. That one picture got stuck in to my head and I had to find out more about this artist. That artist was Derek Hess. Awesome artwork!!!

Beautiful operation

http://www.operationbeautiful.com

Manic Monday

Seems like I got the place.. :) Still need to do some paperwork so I'll get all the money available and then it starts.

Ready - steady - go?

Preparing myself for the interview tomorrow.. Breathe.... breathe... Breathing ain't that easy when every deeper inhale feels on my right shoulder, hurts... but still.. breathe. I'm not nervous, yet. My adrenaline rush comes five minutes before the interview. Now I'm just trying to relax, by breathing, obviously. Might have to get lying on the floor for a moment, to relax my back. Close my eyes and feel every muscle one by one.. and breathe. Stretch a little and then relax again. And breathe. So simple. But so often we ignore it.

Breathe.