Day 261: Who have visited us?

As mentioned so many times - lot of snow everywhere. One night we were wondering who have visited our back yard and teracce. So many foot prints in the snow! And what they have been doing there?

Day 260: Good bye Nokia mobile?

Well - some might think that this was some how intentional but no - I found my work mobile phone like this: one key missing. Or not missing but loose. And do you know what this means: I had to order new mobile phone and this time it will be iPhone 4S (the model available for us). And that mean that my iFamily will grow.

Day 259: Where is the cat?

Cat is on the table - as you can see. I visited my cousin and as usual in her place cats are where ever they want to be. So there were we - me and cousin drinking tea and eating biscuits, and cat was just sitting there.

Day 258: Old toy and new toy!

I was registering PostCrossing cards. For that I need only my old laptop but as you can see - I couldn't keep my new toy far away.

Day 257: My iToy - next to bed!

Well, now I can say. I need my iPad. As you can see (or most likely not see but please imagine) iPad is next to my bed and I am watching evening news just before my bed time. Yes, I need this new iToy. It is fact. (Or then not...) Oh - what you can't also most likely really see but my old laptop is under my new toy. It has not been forgotten - yet.

Day 256: Do you eat hamburgers?

Do you eat hamburgers? I don't. And reason is that when I was young I was working for couple of years in Hesburger - Finnish version of McDonald. I have not eaten many hamburgers after that. When working 8 hours in the smell of hamburgers you want to eat something else.

I don't eat even one hamburger per year, or per two year. I can't even remember when I have eaten hamburger last time!

Day 255: Helsinki-Chicago-Tokyo?

Now when I bought iPad I can't afford to travel anywhere for a while. So this is my trip Helsinki-Chicago-Tokyo and inside of it is my work mobile. This is my life!

Day 254: My new toy!

There it is - my new toy. My own iPad! I couldn't help myself. I just had to buy it. I am not sure whether I really need it but I wanna have it! When you are grownup you can make also foolish decisions  That is called life.

Day 253: Do you have fun at work? We have!

It was Valentine's Day and all of us were in good humor. My colleague was especially playful. Do you have Monopoly, joke book and snow glider in your shelf at your work place? My colleague has.

Day 252: Men in black?

I was walking home from work when I noticed few black men in the roof. They were pushing snow away from the roof. We have too much snow in Finland! We need men in black to do something!

Day 251: My work desk has been cleaned!

I don't know why but I cleaned my work desk. I am not sure whether I actually am able to work in this clean environment. I am used to have lot of books, papers and other stuff on my desk. But colleague sitting next to me is always having so clean work desk that I started to feel that I have to also do something. (But still my colleague's desk is much much cleaner.)

Day 250: Snow!!!!!

Snow, snow, and more snow. My callunas are not feeling okay under the pressure of snow in our wintry teracce.

Day 249: Thumbs up!

In Finland we say "Thumbs up!" when people in English speaking countries are saying "Cross your fingers!" These thumbs belong to mittens I knitted for my youngest daughter for Valentine Day. I will send these to her and there is secret inside these two thumbs. Let's see whether she find the secret immediately or will it take time. If it takes time - then she don't like these.

Day 248: Fire!

This morning there was stable in our neighbor's yard. But not anymore. Afterwards we read on local paper that fire department was practicing and after all hard practice they let it burn down. And reason why I don't have any photos of burning barn -we were not at home at that time.

Day 247: Oh no - more snow!

People around me are complaining "so much snow, too much plowing", but then there are these positive ones saying "yes, more snow - I go skiing as soon as possible". Great that people are different. I like snow.

Today I was travelling by bus from Helsinki to Naantali and I have to say that I was little bit worried how it will go since it was snowing and from time to time quite heavily. And as usual - traffic was quite messy. But luckily bus driver was guy who didn't try to drive according time schedule - instead he drove very carefully in this awful weather. Points for him.

Day 246: Success!

Today we celebrated me and four of my colleagues successfully passing certification exam of Professional Scrum Master. Also our trainer Lare Lekman was invited as well as members of neighbor teams. It was great moment. And the best part was when member of other team said: damn - you are good at celebrating successes. Yes indeed - we are. And we success so often...

Day 245: What a whether!

I left office early - I was not feeling well - symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux. It just had started to snow and it was also quite windy. Lucky me that it takes only about 10 minutes to walk from office to home. To walk out there any more than absolutely must - really.

Day 244: 26!

I have been little lazy with postcrossing lately. But today I was not: I wrote 26 postcard. You have to remember that I have two profiles: soikka in Naantali and soikkis in Helsinki. Tomorrow I have to go and buy some new cards and stamps.

Day 243: Fill the gap!

I love Kakuro. It is more interesting than Sudoku. You have to calculate - for me that means that I have to use my brains. (And I am not saying that you could do Sudoku without brains.) My father having Alzheimer is reason and motivation for me to challange my brains daily basis.

Day 242: Sun is shining!

Today sun was shining at least here in Naantali. Notice the footprints in the teracce - they are my husband's. He has not been dancing there - he checked whether there is still something to eat for birds. Today we saw black bird in our teracce but I didn't have my camera ready.