hate and love for food

I startred thinking the other day that so much has changed since childhood - friends, home, fav food ect. Actually I mostly meant the food. I remember how I hated some particular foods when I was younger and I swore I'd never like them. But at some point it all changed. When? How? Why? Interesting. I really heated corn, crabs, crabsticks, fish, mushrooms, beans, boiled carrot, paprika, buckwheat, maybe something more. But now I love these all :) I don't just like them, but I love them!!! There are of course still two things from my childhood that I don't like so much, I can eat them, but I don't enjoy them - jelly and liver. It's funny I have never liked liver (in a sauce for example), but I love liver pate and liver sausage. It's weird how you taste something and you don't like the taste. And over years you start loving it. I think if I have children one day and they don't want to eat something because it's not tasteful for them, then I'll just tell them my story and I don't ask for them to eat the food they don't like.. One day when they grow up they might start loving it anyway! :)

Marathon

A couple of days ago Jay and I saw an episode of The Walking Dead. I think it was on Christmas Eve. I actually saw only the last five minutes of its end. But it seemed so interesting. I remember I once wanted to watch it, I was home alone and I just couldn't watch it more than a minute. I just had to change the channel because I was afraid not being able to sleep at night. Anyway, Jay and I decided to watch all the epsiodes together, starting with season one. So, that's what we have been doing at nights when nothing interesting is on tv. We connect my laptop with the tv, turn the lights off, have some snacks and have marathon of The Walking Dead. To be honest I haven't been scared yet. I think now that the show isn't supposed to be scary at all. It's actually very interesting and has a deep storyline. I really enjoy watching it. Jay of course wants to scare me whenever we watch it, but he always fails. It's just not scary enough for me. But who knows, maybe it'll change when we start with the season two tomorrow ;)

Christmas joy

It's all about Christmas! So, where do I begin? Jay and I opened out presents on 24th Dec night, just after midnight! I was so excited to open my gifts and to discover what was hidden in these giftbags. I got amazingly cute and thoughful presents from Jay! Quick overview: Joik candle, a book "Christmas at cupcake cafe", The Body Shop showergel, leggings, pajama, dressing gown, three bras. 

 Jay also opened his present. He got a Black ops II computer game, a T-shirt and a perfume. You can see him showing off his Christmas presents!

 On 24th December we went to Kohila to my parent's place. The first photo I took was next to the fire place :) It was so warm there!!!!

 Then we had a very delicious and lovely Christmas dinner. We talked, we laughed, took a lot of photos and enjoyed the Christmas that was in the air :)

 As I mentioned we took pretty many photos. Here is one where I pose with my older and younger sister!

My parents and sisters!

 All the guests on our Christmas party. One big family. I was taking the photo, so you don't find me on the photo.

 Me and my life! So so happy together!

I cannot believe that Christmas 2012 is over. On 25th Dec Jay and I went to visit his grandmother and today, on 26th, we went to visit my greatgrandmother and my grandfather and his wife. It was very lovely there. I must say that I have been eating sooo much Christmas food, that I am happy that I don't have to eat it till next year! 

Anyway, Jay went to visit his mom and he should be home any minute. We are going to watch some episodes of The Walking Dead. We wacthed the first episode together last night and decided to watch the all the episodes together..so it'll be a fun marathon of The Walking Dead! We are off to Finland tomorrow :) 

Christmas is in the air!

Jay and I went out today for lunch and shoppin for last minute Christmas presents. Well, he wanted to buy me something and I have no idea what he bought. It'sa surprise. We decided to open the Christmas present tonight at midnight! So few more hours of waiting and then I can open my presents :) Yay!

I took some photos of our Christmas decorations around the apartment. 

Presents under our Christmas tree!

Little star on our kitchen window!

Our two Christmas stockings. You can see Jay from the mirror!

Christmas feeling in our bedroom!

I also made delicious healthy dinner tonight. I made chicken and salad of tomatoes and different salad leaves. Plus Ceasar salad dressing. Of course Jay does not like that much green stuff for dinner. For him I made rice and chicken sauce and I served that with a bit of salad (I want him to eat something healthy too!). 

My dinner :)

Home for Christmas

When we were going to the harbor in Helsinki yesterday then we had quite a bit time and we decided to go to that elecronics shop next to harbor. I bought a new laptop case and a laptop bag and Jay found himself a laptop case also :) It's great because now I can travel with my laptop without damaging it! 

It's 23rd of Decmber today. Jay and I arrived home yesterday around 9pm. Before heading home we went to the foodshop to buy some food. Jay also wanted some cheese burgers from McDonald's and I wanted a tunafish wrap from Deli Express. I love their wraps and sandwishes! Whenever I am hungry while I am out and I want something quick and delicious, I buy a tunafish wrap :) Can't get enough of it!

It feels so good to be at home. It's Christmas Eve tomorrow. Wow! It's my last day to take a chocolate from my advent calender and there's only one item on my stocking left. Today I got a Daim chocolate. 

I charged my camera's batteries last night so today I got to put photos to my laptop and took some more. I will take some photos of the Christmas decorations today later when it's a bit darker, so the lights will look prettier. And I also plan to make a delicious dinner today. I just want to be at home :) I'm so excited for tomorrow. We'll open presents in the morning before we leave to my parent's place. I can't wait till Jay opens his present tomorrow :) I hope he likes what he gets!

I think Jay and I will head out for lunch soon. I am craving for soup. Jay doesn't like soup so I don't make it at home very often because it's hard to make a soup just for one serving :P But yeah, I want hot and delicious soup today!

Easiest healty cookies

I came across on youtube with one very easy and delicious cookie recipe. To make the cookies you only needs two different incredients: 1 banana and 1 cup of oats (aprox 237 ml). I had both of the ingredients at home and so I decided to make these healthy cookies. They were so delicious and they are perfect for snack because they make your stomach full pretty quickly.
Here are the final cookies:

And here's the video that shows how to make these banana oatmeal cookies :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe25ikI_MWU

It's winter here!

I just realized that it's winter now! Oh yeah! Winter started yesterday, 21st December at 8 o'clock in the morning :) It makes me happy! It has been cold and snowy for pretty long already, but now I can officially say that it's winter and true winter weather! And I cannot believe it's Chrsitmas Eve in two days! How exciting!

I love these snowflake Christmas decorations! So fragile and pretty!

21st Dec - a normal day!

After my digicamera's batteries went low yesterday I tried to charge them through USB cable, but for some reason it won't charge through it. So, it means I have no camera to use right now. I do have my cellphone so I have been taking some photos with it, but the quality is not the same. Plus, I don't have my cellphone cable with me and it means I am not able to post any photos to my blog until I go back to Estonia (which is already tomorrow night!)!!!

Anyway, today is 21st December - the end of Maias calender and there was said that it's the end of the world (different predictions: Sun is going to explode, no electricity, ect). But it's almost 10pm already and nothing has changed so far. To be honest, I was a bit worried. I usually don't believe these kind of predictions, but this time even very reliable sorces were writing about it, scientists were talking about it and so on. Media was full of news of the end of the world. I tried not to pay attention to it and not think about it, but the more the day came closer people around me asked what I am going to do that day, if I am alone, do I have candles ect. Crazy how naive people are. And I admit I was probably one of them. Jay said I am stupid to believe it and he promised that nothing is going to happen. He kept his promise :) But yeah, I am so glad this day is almost over!!! If the end ever comes I choose not to know when it's going to happen!

I went to Helsinki with my dad today because he needed to buy a ship ticket for tomorrow morning. He's going back to Estonia. So, I decided to go with him since Jay was at work and I had no other plans anyway. We also went to the big electronics shop just next to the harbor. There were sooo many good stuff. I will ask Jay if we have time to go there on 27th Dec when we come back to Finland because I saw there so many laptop bags and I am currently looking for one. But my laptop is pretty big and so far I haven't found a nice laptop bag with a reasonable price that will actually suit my laptop. But at that shop the choice was pretty big, so I wanna go there with Jay so he would help me choose a good one :)

I spent some more time with dad when we came back to Hyvinkää. Then I went to Jay's place, cleaned a bit, made him dinner and since I had dinner with dad I didn't want to eat anything heavy anymore. I had three-kiwi-salad instead :) Yum!

gifts that warm your heart and bones!

It's a holiday season and for those who love simple gifts and for those who get cold easily I have choosen two simple and affordable gift ideas. You can either make the gift for yourself or someone who you think would enjoy it :)

1. Warm socks for cold winter time. Christmas is perfect time to give them to someone whose toes need extra warmth! I know I need these!!!

2. Christmas themes mugs for tea, coffee or hot chocolate. At winter time we all need hot drinks. Why not to enjoy your drink from a lovely, funny or cute mug. I love mugs that are red inside..it gives even more a holiday feeling :) Look at that snowman mug, isn't that cute?

You can always put some teabags or hot chocolate stick to the mug so it makes the gift even sweeter!

               

 

Maybe the cold that's still between my bones is the reason why I needed to blog about these warm gifts :)

I am planning on posting a holiday gift guide and I'll post photos of the gifts  gifts that I gave to my friends and family this year. I will also write a blog post of the gifts that I got :)

brrr...it's cold outside!

I walked to Jay's work today again. It was so cold outside, but I enjoyed walking. The weather is actually very nice - a real winter day! When he went to work, I walked back. I had taken my camera with me, so I stopped several times to take photos. Because of this I walked home pretty long. It would have taken even more, but my camera batteries died and I couldn't take as many photos as I wanted. One thing that sucks is that it's hard to take photos when it's so cold outside. My fingers just don't work that well when they are frozen. Anyway, when I finally arrived home after an hour walk from Jay's work my legs, nose and fingers were totally frozen. At home I first put one more sweater on and ate marzipan that I got from my Christmas stocking today morning. I would like to say that all this coldness is gone from my body and I feel warm again, but I would be lying. I'm still so cold!!! I think I wll have a lunch soon - French fries with fish and salad. That should heat me up! :)

Sun was setting at 2.45 pm. It's a sign that we live in North Europe!

Few berries are still hunging on a snowy branch.

 

Oh, I just have to mention what really annoys me. Jay ahve some analyses done last week and he was told to call his doctor today. He tried to call several times, but no-one answered. And then he had to go to work. So, he asked me to call. And I did. I am his fiance you know. But they didn't give me any information. I know it's their work etics, but it still annoys me because these analyses weren't anything serious, and I am his fiance. HE asked me to call. But yeah, I know this is how it works..I have seen it from the movies, but I always thought it was about more serious cases. So stupid of me to think I would call and get the results so easily. Well, he can call tomorrow again, I hope they'll asnwer before he must go to work.