10/30 My pet.
18.01.2012 - 21:10 / emmi.
You know this thing when girls are a bit like this: “Mmmm…” “Oh boy…” “Hmmm…” / So may I present you: / …My dachshund-pillow! / Dachshund-pillow is the best! With it you can adjust any position into a comfortable one! / It doesn’t have a name, although I had a dream that I named it ‘Pea’. …’Cos it’s green.
9/30 Today in my kitchen…
17.01.2012 - 21:27 / emmi.
RAISINLESS. (This one seemed like really boring every-day-diary -stuff, until I started translating it. It suddenly got this slightly disgusting exotic twist. You should maybe know that in Finland the whole ‘with raisins or without them’ -thing is really a big deal.)
“I’ll start cooking my self as soon as I get those moving-boxes cleaned away…” “Luckily there are ready-made-meals.” Liver casserole, beetroot & mayonnaise -salad. / “…hmm… Something is missing…” “Ha! Raisins!” / “THAT’S why this was so cheap!” “Hoax! If the liver casserole is raisinless, they should MENTION IT ON THE PACKAGING!” “Written on with large letters!” / “Larger than the ‘liver casserole’.” “THAT you can tell from the picture.” /”…No other dish looks as much like dog vomit.”
.Small Talk
11.01.2012 - 14:29 / emmi.
I must say that this one was hard to translate. My vocabulary around the theme is wider in Finnish, than in English.
“So,I suppose no ‘steel-ice’ this year.” “I doubt.” “It will probably snow before that.” / “There the river freezes.” “It’s about time.” / “Hiii! What’s up?” “I was just going to watch the debacle and ice floes at the terrace.” “So are we! But this place was full, let’s go to the Cellar Cafe, there’s a better view anyways.”
“Now the big floe at the river complex is going to brake!” / “Wooo!” “Cheers!” / “I wonder if the water is going to rise up to the street-level…” “Nah. Don’t think so. The flood is settling already.” “In the year ’99-” “-I remember.” / “I always tell people, that I don’t really handle small talk.” / “And it’s true. I only talk about truly meaningful things.”
It’s been lovely but I have to scream now.
10.01.2012 - 11:29 / emmi.
Civilised Nervous Breakdown. “Watch and learn, kiddos!”
I knew this was coming. “At the beginning of January? Can’t make it. I’ll be having a nervous breakdown.” / So. Here we are. Staring out the window, wearing the same flannel shirt, for god knows how many days on a row. “…I did turned this inside out just the other day.”
There’s been some clear development. “This week I once listened Nina Simone instead of Ella Fitzgerald.” / “…And yesterday I put pants on.” “…I think they are laughing at me on that balcony.”
I’m not going strictly by the plan, tough. “…Wait? Only the SECOND time I cried?” “And not that much either…” / “This may mean that the ‘big wave’ won’t hit until next week…” “…And by then I should already be wearing clean clothes and start working again… Oh how inconvenient.”
Today I nearly took a walk. / “Naah. I’m going back home. ” “…I could try to organize some things…”
“…for the next week. It can be rough, if I have to freak out and pull it together at the same time.” “Hello? Is this The Ministry of Bureaucracy? It’s just that I…”
And then, the week after that, I should already more or less have my shit together. / “What? You had some nervous breakdown? I couldn’t even tell!” / “Oh shoot! I wish I could handle my nervous breakdowns with that same ELEGANCE. …But no, It’s always just that same crying and yelling.” “Don’t beat your self for that. It takes years of dedication, to get at this level!” / “They don’t call me the QUEEN OF CRISES for nothing!”
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8/30 What comforts me.
8.01.2012 - 12:02 / emmi.
About the beauty of an egg.
“One of my favorite foods is an omelet.” “Because it can make you happy.” / For some reason, when you are depressed… …there’s only depressed food in your fridge too.
BUT! All you need is 2 eggs, to make those sad outkasts into something awesome! / / “You and you! On the frying pan!” “I’m so old.” “And you two! Turn your selves into a salad!”
Making an omelet, I try to keep these two things in mind : / “Whip it well! Lighten with some milk or something!” “Oh how I’m fluffy!” / & Fry on a MILD heat, for a LONG time, fully cooked. (No need for flipping here!) (Oh, use a lid! There’s a lid missing in this picture, but it gives a wrong idea about an omelet anyways.)
Things that go well in to an omelet: potato & dill, horseradish, peas, seasame seeds & wild mushrooms, soya, lax, tabasco. / And of course: ( I <3 Olive oil!) ” “Fridge’s Final’s – side salad!”
And this is how an omelet can affect your life: / “Buhuu. I suck at everything! Everything sucks!” / “…But …but …It’s…” “…Perfect!” / “I made THIS!” “sob!”
/ ” Oh, sweet, reliable omelet! Always ready to spread your everyday-beauty!” / It is also possible, that if you google the word “omelet”, you’ll end up at my facebook-profile. ” I <3 Omeletti!” ” Stupid day, but I can always make an omelet!” “Oh Dear God how perfect omelets I can make!” “I wish that every person in the world would have something as deep and comforting in their lives, than my relationship with an egg!” “Cried a little, luckily breaking few eggs helped 
!!!11″ “I’m defriending you this moment!” ” …okay, okay, we got the point!”
Back on the Blog-Pony.
7.01.2012 - 21:01 / emmi.
“Oh, It’s starting to rain!” “…and it appears to be shit!”
/ “This is nothing. This is just some ‘northern melancholy’.” / THIS was depression: “Emmi. Come and take your medications.” “You could also get up soon for your occupational therapy.” / “THIS will get better just by …reading in the bathtub… and… eatting vegetables…” / And this will be over by may anyways. …Then I can start being all “Fuck! All this light and warmth! I can’t take it, I’ll getsome tilt or something soon!”
“Dear Diary!”
7/30 Today I screwed up…
14.11.2011 - 21:37 / emmi.
Blogihaaste 30-30 Blog challenge.
Fusillis.
Salmon pasta. / “What’s that smell?” “Did I left the stove on?” / “Oh shit!” / “Blah!” “I don’t do stuff like this!”
…This would be more like me: “Escargots á la herbs de sauvage! (Look, I made up French!)” (In made-up-French I said “Snails with wild herbs!”) / “But nooo! This time I had to burn the macaronis!” “…Well, fusillis actually. Atleast.” / Apparently it is possible to learn something just by reading menus.’ Escargots avec herbs sauvages’ would’ve been correct. I give my self 8/10 points!
Päiväkirjasta / From diary :
“I can hear your heart growl.”
6/30 What shocks me.
13.11.2011 - 9:50 / emmi.
I get freaked out on daily bases just by the fact, that these kind of people REALLY exist: / “Because I’m a white, middle-aged male, I get to decide who gets to get married and have kids.” / “Stop whining!” “When Islam takes over Finland, then it really sucks to be a woman here!” / “Sow me your pussy!” / “I don’t care wahat they do in their own bedroom!” ” Just as long as they don’t push them selves in to my awareness!” / “Feminist-Cunt.” “Nigger.” “Butt-Boy.” “Towel-Head.” / “52kg is the top limit!” “Giggle!” “Yew! A hair!” “These are important things you know!” “Shame on you!” / “How about if everybody just reports their physical, ethnic and personal qualities for me, and then I either approve them, or disapprove them, and that way we’ll finally have some sort of an order in this world.”
5/30 My first time.
12.11.2011 - 9:10 / emmi.
Blogihaate 30-30 Blog challenge.
MY FIRST REAL DATE. I was 18.
I don’t remember the young man’s name. I my self had some confusing hair crisis going on. “Hi.” “Hi.” *Nervous.* / The start wasn’t promising. ” I must say I was surprised that you called!” “But you know, it’s always flattering when someone asks you out!” / “Umm… YOU asked ME out! ” “He doesn’t remember!” / Still: “Well… I am studying, but I’m about to drop out from high school as soon as I come up with something else…” “I like arts. I’d like to do something that has something to do with that…” “I’m going to be an engineer.” “You should study technology as well. That’s where the money is.” “…Do you like travelling?”
“I mean I love traveling!” “This summer I traveled all over Europe. I go trough cat-shows.” “I’m heading to Lisbon in few weeks with my cats!” “…Or not really MY cats. More like my ex’s cats actually.” / “…uh. …Oh really?” “WTF?” “Oh! Yeah…” / “It was really hard to find a hotel in Paris that allows cats.” “In Hamburg the hotel offered even the food-bowls.” “Of course there really isn’t time for anything else than hotels, fair-halls and cats. …But not really energy for anything else either.”
“You should quit smoking. It’s a disgusting habit.” “I don’t want to.” / “Then you should study extended math. It will really pay of when you apply to polytechnics.” “No, I’m serious about my place being in arts and culture.” “Don’t worry, you’ll life will come around.” “…Come around?” / “Yeah, well you ought to keep that stuff as a nice hobby.” “…I should go now.” “I’m quite into karaoke, and we are about to sing today.”
“Phew!” “Phew!” I think it is clear to everybody, that we didn’t met again!
4/30 What I regret.
11.11.2011 - 21:09 / emmi.
Blogihaaste 30-30 Blog challenge.
I can like right away admit that I regret all kind of things in this life. / But the winner is a timeless classic, from which I have learned my lesson (?) and want to share this piece of advice with you: / “Tell people what they mean to you, because soon it can be too late!” “Besides love is a powerful tool, and you can’t over use it!” / ” What do you mean do I live like I reach? For sure. Any day now. …I mean, nobody’s dying right NOW, right?…” “…It’s just… …Scary.”
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