Come What May

Hi bellas! ♥ Here's my week in a nutshell.

♠ Cut my hair. The ends were a horrible mess and kept falling off anyway every time I brushed or straightened my hair, so I figured that what the heck, I'll try something different, and sat down in front of a mirror and started snapping away... with nail scissors. Yeah, did it myself. Pretty damn proud of it, too, considering my previous attempts at cutting my own hair have been................. less than flattering. XD

The change is pretty radical, especially since I haven't really posted any pictures of my hair without extensions or wigs, but... what do you guys think? :3


♠ Last Sunday marked five (5!!) months that I've actually managed to stay in a relationship, which is pretty fucking HUGE by my standards. :o For that, I tried to do my new hair nicely (not very expertly, I admit, but damn, it's so much better than the last time I cut my hair short 'cause back then I couldn't work a freaking flatiron XD), dressed up, and had Aleksi moping and brooding because he'd come to meet me right after work and hadn't had the chance to freshen up. I thought he looked good. D:

What did we do, then? Well, Aleksi, the sweetest boyfriend on earth, told me I could pick the movie AND the place we'd go to eat before it. And I, the most romantic girlfriend on earth, picked The Rise of the Planet of the Apes (instead of Friends With Benefits, which was also an option), and Mc-fucking-Donald's.

... Seriously, sometimes I wonder what's wrong with me. XD

But then there was this amazing moment when Aleksi pointed out the difference between our dates five months ago (no food, just tea, or latte with soy milk, chocolate uneaten) and our five-month anniversary (Big freaking Bacon burgers and fries - admittedly, with diet coke, but still). I was like, wow, and went all silent and stunned for a moment, and he was like, "I'm so proud of you.", and I grinned like crazy and thought about how proud I was of the both of us. Because if that wasn't us kicking some major eating disorder-ass, I don't know what is.


♠ My left shoulder has been acting up lately, and on Tuesday it just totally exploded. (Not literally. Thank God.) I left in the middle of my Spanish class, in so much pain that I nearly cried, and went home, downed several different pills and went to sleep at 10 am. Obviously I couldn't meet up with Aleksi like I had planned, so what does he do? He turns up at my door, bearing food and candy and wine (that we had to leave for later because of my meds) and flowers and a freaking teddy bear and then proceeds to mother-hen over me for the rest of the night. ;____; I'm sure it's entirely because of him that I was back in action the day after. ♥

Teddy and the flowers. He said he'd specifically asked for something pink and something that's hard to kill because his confidence in my ability to take care of flowers is overwhelming like that. XD I thought it was adorable.


♠ It's been all fall-y! *w* I love fall when it's beautiful like this, and even if it's rainy and cold it's okay if I get to stay indoors, burn candles and drink tea. The weather has been horrible for the past two days, but Wednesday was gorgeous. ♥






♠ Nursed back to health by my kick-ass bf, I was able to join my uni friends at Limeksen Appro - that is, a major bar crawling event. Had a wonderful time, remembered to drink water and soda at reasonable intervals, and didn't detect even a shade of a hangover the day after - pretty much perfect, if you ask me. ♥



It was also the first time I showed up with my short hair in front of all my friends. I was freaking nervous about it, but the response was overwhelmingly positive and left me feeling all giddy and warm! :3 This time, I managed to do some styling, too.


I guess that's about it (so far). I'm ridiculously behind on my school work due to my shoulder and other stuff, but I'm confident that I can handle whatever the world throws at me. This year, I'm not facing it alone, after all. :3

Chocolate Is the Answer

What I wore to go see the new Harry Potter movie~~

Slowly but surely I'm climbing up from the Angst Pit I fell into a while ago~ Sorry I'm so slow, but I've also been really busy... X___x

Anyways, some photos from my birthday party a week ago and SUB's Christmas party yesterday! Once again, I didn't really have the time to get properly dolled up (and yesterday I was pretty glad I hadn't curled my hair or put on too much make up, because the weather was horrible and nothing would have lasted for five minutes...)


How I looked at the b-day party & a demonstration of my incredible photoshopping skillz XD ♥



Emma came hours before others to help me bake (= to bake for me) and to gossip some. This picture is evidence that she eats at least once a year - at my b-day party. (She should have worn an apron saying "Kiss the Cook" 8D)



The party was quiet and pretty short, so I don't have a lot of pics... Jonas, Rikkis and Milla.



Inkabeibs ;___; She stayed after others had left, helped me clean up, and then we sat and just talked for two or three hours and she totally saved my night. ♥



Milla, Jonas, Inka, Pihla and Nea playing Tekken or Crash Team Racing.



I was so happy Vesa came too *w* ♥



Post-party look..... My lashes totally failed me D: You can barely even see them! I'm not too sure about the glasses, either, but I had just bought them and my look seemed to lack something so I just put them on anyways.


Then SUB's Christmas party!


Mirka and I~



Maria and Saara






Essi and Jukke ♥ Even their choreographies match XDD



Sari has Mickey ears XD And I can't help loving Maria's expression~



Hot women keep falling into my lap all the time! Really now, and in a public place!!

I left pretty early because I was tired and feeling a little ill, but even before I left we had some drunk-angsting (not from me, this time - luckily!!), a Tequila Strike-Force attack to the bar, and Ari had switched shirts with some other dude (....................) and found a new hat which he firmly believed was his... At some point he returned wearing his own shirt, though, so I guess it's fine. XD

Today my alarm went off at 5:30, and I got up, blinked my eyes, and decided that I was dead tired and needed some more sleep, and back to sleep I went. After waking up again I immediately proceeded to rolling in self-loathing and guilt for skipping my Spanish class, then checked my email and found out that the class had been canceled anyway... This is the second time this happens to me in TWO WEEKS. XD What?! Not that I'm complaining!

Still stressed, still tired, still miserable. Feeling slightly better now, though, and I even felt pretty good earlier today. ♥

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead!

(3 awesome Halloween parties later...) [pretty much copied from my LJ entry because I'm lazy like that XD]

A MAJOR photo spam of my Halloween!! I was hideously busy yesterday, first with a Halloween-themed Gal meetup and then a Halloween party at Milla's place~ (not to mention organizing a Halloween-themed Christmas party for the people at my workplace on Friday!) but I had such a great time!! I seriously don't remember the last time I enjoyed my life as much as I did yesterday.

Apparently my outfit was successful too!! My self-confidence went from six feet under right through the roof because everyone was so nice to me and I got a lot of compliments! o3o I've been so down lately, this was exactly what I needed ;___;




This is how I looked at the party on Friday! I'm so bummed I couldn't find a nice jacket so my outfit was kinda lame... But I really like how the military hat + eye-patch thing worked out 8) I don't have any photos because I left my camera at home... I'm hoping my co-workers will upload some later, if they're any good I'll show them then ♥


The Gal Meetup @ Happi

I was the Wicked Witch of the North ♥ XD

On Saturday, 12:30 pm, we met up at the Helsinki Central Railway Station as usual, took a subway and headed to have a Halloween gal party! I'm too tired to write a full account (and what would you do with one, really?), but let's just say I enjoyed it even more than last time because now I got to know some girls better. ♥

Emma braved the lions' den and came with me, this time~ But she had to leave in the middle for work, so she couldn't do a Halloween costume

"Hey baby did you hurt yourself when you fell from Heaven? ;D"
"Bitch, PLEASE! Remove yourself from my personal space, I'm not interested!"

Great minds think alike, so it's no surprise our costumes were alike as well! We had feather boas...


... cats (and a mouse!)...


... and of course, witches!!

I had a great time and I was so sad I had to leave so early D: But I hope I'll be free for the next meetup! ♥


The Party @ TilQ's


So, after the flight with my fellow witches of the West, the East and the South, I headed out on a heroic adventure to find my way to TilQ's place in the dark! I was successful until near the end, where the evil night made me take a wrong turn and get lost lol XD After walking back and forth for a while, I found a familiar crossroad, promptly walked to the wrong door and retreated before ringing the doorbell because there wasn't enough noise coming from behind the door... Milla lived in the house next to that one. XD

Having finally gotten to the next level, I was now faced with another challenge: monsters were pouring on me from all around! This is what greeted me when I came in:




The food was really gourmet: brain muffins, a hand-shaped pizza-kinda-thing and candy worms (below)!

After a while, this is what the pizza-hand-thing looked like...

Waterfall!!

The most intense moment of the night: the Terminator slays the innocent maiden!

That's about it ♥ Meetup pictures are taken by me, Satu and several others who we trusted our cameras with (including Emma and Ella). Party photos taken by me, Milla or... well one of our guests. XD