Normal people

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I’m watching the tv-serie Normal people which is based on a novel by Sally Rooney. I haven’t read the book and I doubt I will even thou the tv-serie is good.

It tells about a young couple, Marianne and Connell, who start dating in the high school and then their on-off relationship through college years. It’s been a bit of a task to watch because

  • it’s kind of too artsy. I mean the high art when you try to pretend to understand all the nuances and it gets a bit boring to reflect everything through the Deep Meanings (you know what I mean here).
  • there is too many sex scenes. I don’t know why but we are back to the 80’s now with all the official sex scenes in movies and tv-series. Sometimes less is more you know, it gets boring pretty quickly.
  • it hits too close to the young girl I once was, just as unsure and doing what I was told by my boyfriend. And I don’t want to remember the time nor the boy nor the girl I was back then. Of course I’ve changed and people do, they grow up but it’s hard to watch. I guess we’ve all been there.

So yeah.. just two eps to go. And a button strip to knit.

On to other things. We’re having middlest son’s graduation party next Saturday and I’ve counted that all together we’ll make about 30 adults including us.I’ve been cleaning the house and baking all weekend. I washed the kitchen windows today and I don’t think I’ll wash any others during this week. I still need to wash the floors before Saturday.

Yesterday I baked a bundt cake which my sister loves, it’s called Sandcake since it’s very dry and today I did some ’gentry cookies’, they are a traditional small cookie in weddings and other kin parties. Here you can see a pic of them, I cut them heart-shaped because I like it more.

Hubby has been cleaning our garden furniture and finished painting them today. One of our neighbours came to inquire where we bought them 🙂

At my work we’re waiting for our work desks to arrive. If we’re lucky we’ll get them this week which would be great since we’re off to our summer holidays on June 18th and come back on early August just as the clients arrive too. On Friday I got rid of all the music class books the teachers had decided they didn’t need anymore and it took me all day to shred the books off the covers. I was quite done afterwards.

Here are some pics. The music class pics show the state of Friday morning before and after lunch. Then there’s some Rhododendrons from my yard and the last pic is of a Finnish actor Jasper Pääkkönen, whom you might know from the Vikings and the BlacKkKlansMan. This pic was in an article and I was just thinking how here in Helsinki our (famous) actors can just casually bike around the city, nobody bothers you (much).

Now I need to get my beauty sleep 🙂

 

School’s out

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Yesterday was quite different than I expected in January. We were supposed to have a big graduation party for middlest son but now we only had nice dinner with all of us here and it was okay too. Some of our relatives and friends are coming here on June 13th to celebrate him so it’s all right.

I did a test-cake of rhubarb and strawberry filled cake with meringue-cream icing and it turned out pretty good. I’ve never made meringue icing so it was interesting to learn that too.

Youngest son begun his summer holiday yesterday and he got good grades too. Both of them went to school to get the paper and later in the evening middlest son went to his friends house and came home in the afternoon.

As I said to Rachel we have my MIL’s old recipe booklet for pizza from the early 80’s. It’s got recipes for all kinds of pizza’s, i.e. one with liver and another with kidneys or anchovies and European cisco (fish). Eww. Here is a pic of Pizza with Sardines, the lack of other pics is due the fact the booklets didn’t have nice pics. They looked more just mushy and were not clear enough for photographing.

There’s a bonus pic of Sirius. I was reading on our balcony and she came to sleep on me. I love when she does that because our old kitty Sysi was much more reserved after being in a shelter as a small kitten and hardly ever slept on or with anyone. Sirius was born on an pony farm which had puppies born at the same time and she is a bit like a dog, i.e. she comes when you pat your knee and some other small things too.  I really loved Sysi too, don’t get me wrong, she was an awesome kitty and was very protective of our boys when they were babies but she was shy. Only when she was old (18-y-o and forward) she slept on my lap in the evenings. But as a cat-person I love being a cat-mattress.

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Crush Challenge Day 10

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Took this from Zee. 10 days, 10 fictional crushes
Post an image of a fictional character who has been or still is your crush.
No names or explanations needed. TV, movie, book, comic, cartoon characters are valid.

Day 10 THE FINAL DAY

..aand I’ll give you John Porter from Strike Back origins! I’ve never watched the rest of the series because I couldn’t care less what’s happening to the other guys when John drives towards the sunset. For me he’s always somewhere in there trying to do good in a hard world. He also cleans up nicely.

There’s quite a many other fictional men too I’d have chosen for my ten crushes but this is what I thought now. Maybe some other time it’d have been other guys, who knows.

Crush challenge day 9

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Took this from Zee. 10 days, 10 fictional crushes
Post an image of a fictional character who has been or still is your crush.
No names or explanations needed. TV, movie, book, comic, cartoon characters are valid.

Day 9

Today I’ll give you my favorite outlaw. I’ve loved Robin Hood since little girl when I first read the novel by John Finnemore. For me he’s the ultimate hero and has nothing to do with the snivelling rat we see in BBC’s version (in which a certain Guy draws all the attention..). Also I’m not including the 80’s mullet-version of Robin (even thou I really like Kevin).

 

..and then there’s of course Robin and his merry men in Shrek..

Crush challenge day 6

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Took this from Zee.

10 days, 10 fictional crushes
Post an image of a fictional character who has been or still is your crush.
No names or explanations needed. TV, movie, book, comic, cartoon characters are valid.

Day 6

So yeah.. I effing love Chris Evans, I’ve watched Captain America quite many times and that’s why I decided to have old Nick Vaughn here today. The movie ’Before we go’ was also his directorial debut and it’s pretty good imo. It’s one of those movies where not actually happens a lot but still there’s a lot of things.

Oh! There’s one thing I dislike in him. His perfect teeth 😀

(..and I’m still not going to put my fics out on Ao3..)

Crush challenge

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Took this from Zee.

10 days, 10 fictional crushes
Post an image of a fictional character who has been or still is your crush.
No names or explanations needed. TV, movie, book, comic, cartoon characters are valid.

Day 3

Karl as Woodrow Call in the Lonesome Dove. Just one of his memorable roles. Awesome series too.