School, work and job fulfilment

Today in class we were talking about innovation and motivation. How these two lets you enjoy your work. Then someone said that they need to find a new place because he pretty much hates his job. Then I agreed. Then third one said she is already out :). Then I remembered that today is the last day to apply for a Marketing Assistant job. So I applied. Still am going to go to Toronto next year...

Business casual

My business casual look. Still need to find some accesories and shoes. Probably will borrow from my sister.

Formal shirt

Tubetop (maybe not so businessy)

Baking with niece and nephew

To help my sister I decided to bake with my niece. Since it didn't work out the day I had planned, my sister asked me to do it yesterday.  Well I started to bake with my niece but then my nephew wanted to join as well. So instead of letting my niece do everything by herself and just helping her a little, I would also let my nephew take part and do some of the measurements myself. 

So we started with the pies dough, my niece mixed the butter with sugar. Then my nephew wanted to mix as well and dipped his finger tops in the dough. He didn't really mix much so my niece continued mixing. After all ingredients were mixed with rotating the mixer (my niece or nephew) the dough was put the fridge. 

Then we started to do the Mocha thingy (too lazy to google what it is really called). This was also done partly rotating the doer, but as we used real mixer first my niece would do it all by herself. My nephew didn't quite like the sound of the mixer. 

Due to all this mixing taking so much time, I did the rest (the toppings) with little help from my sister.

Mocha thingy

Apple-cinnamon-white chocolate pie

School et al

So... What can I say. Been really busy bee (work and school and work and school)(also with niece and nephew). I have already met with my group members twice so far. I do have to say that it is really good to change opinions irl and not just via email. It has been helpful with the school tasks. Out of which today I needed to return one paper in. I have two to be done by 8th of November. The real return day is 11th, but I will be in (travelling to) Canada by that time, so I need to have the papers ready before I leave. This means that I really need to step on it! 

I already know the company I am going to use as a case company. I will use Rovio because they are pop at the moment and it is about in the same field with me. I was thinking of doing it about Energia Production, but they website wasn't quite up to par (yes I wanted to use them because of the business day). But yes I need to do some research of the company compared if I would do it of where I work. Not panicking (yet). I have already started the second paper and the fact that I have chosen the company of which to write is a big step (huge). All I now need to remember is to write academically...

I got email from Canada today. They sent a dress code (recommendations on what to wear)... Yes I was already planning on picking up some warm clothes, but it was very nice to be reminded that around this time it can be quite cold... (well they say between -1C and -10C which is not that cold if you ask me.) One thing that was new to me was the sweat lodge. It sounds like sauna, but we need to wear clothes. After little extra research, I am not sure I can take part. It is usually a small hut, that is dark (no problem), hot (no problem per se) and moist (ah, not a fan). I am not sure if there will be enough air. I am not sure they would appreciate if I fainted there.  I have fainted in sauna before and I still need to have wet hair when I go to sauna. So I need to think about it. 

In the end we are having a Gala Dinner, where the dress code is business casual. So not quite sure what that means. They say that no jeans, nothing wrinkled or ripped... Right I am travelling for a day before I am there! Then I will not stay in one place for the whole time so that I could leave what I am going to wear to unwrinkle. Oh, and we are going to share rooms. No problem, I just hope I will have good roommate.  But now I will need to go google some casual business wear.

Btw I just heard from the radio the Chemical Brothers - Galvanize. Man, it is a good song.

Business day in my school

I am not sure if I was the right target audience, but I went there anyway because my sister asked me to and because the director of the Iron Sky was there. The whole idea behind this event was to show the current students what opportunities the school has to provide. It showed how succesful some projects had been and it also introduced all different areas of the scholl (it's not just a business school). Then there were graduated students who described how they were using the skills they learned from this school in the real life.

They also had a special guest of the day. Last year they had the Madventure guys (my sister told me so) and this year, as I mentioned earlier, the director of the Iron Sky movie Timo Vuorensola. This part was really interesting to me. He told how the Star Wreck series was created and what was the process of creating Iron Sky. It was really innovating to hear how a dream could become a movie and all about how they used the internet to their advantage. Maybe the word used is wrong. It was co-operation where both got something in return. Very innovating indeed.

I have to apologizes now, the business day was almost a week ago. I have been writing this along this whole time, but haven't had enough time to really finish it. So the point I had in my mind has gone away. But if you ever have a chance to go hear him or other people who made Iron Sky (or Star Wreck) I would recommend you to go. It might give you new ideas!

How not to pack a car

Cont.

So where was I? Oh, yes I have told you about my Monday, so now it is time to tackle the rest of the week. So on Tuesday morning my sister and brother in law (and my nephew) left to take my stuff to Tornio. They weren't able to take as much stuff as first planned (and was evident in my last post) so this let me with some extra stuff that I needed to get rid off. I tried to pack already as much as I could and made few more bags available to be taken to UFF. I packed and worked and packed the rest of the Tuesday.

On Wednesday, a friend of mine came over with two (small) children to help me clean. She was able to clean the upstairs so that all I needed to take care of was the floors (I already vacuumed them while she was cleaning there), windows and the toilet. I took care of one of the bedrooms after my friend had gone home. As I also had packed my bed away, I went to sleep over at my brothers place. I spent some quality time with my nephew as his sister went to movies with her mother. In middle of the night, I got a visitor when he came to sleep next to me. All I am going to say is that he moves quite a lot during the night (so no sleep for me). 

On Thursday, I went quite early to the appartment so that I would be able to tackle the bathroom and the other bedroom before picking up another friend from the railway station. I had given one of my keys to my friend the day before in case she wants to pick up some stuff that I had decided to give her. I was glad to see that she indeed had picked up the stuff and left the key :) I had some clothes that I needed to take to the UFF box which I did before picking up my friend. I also took my old medicine to the pharmacist. When my friend got there, she cleaned the rest of the upstairs and some of my kitchen. We also packed my car as full as we dared to put it (if the police would have stopped me they probably would have fined me). Then we went to eat out some pizza, because we were crazy hungry. She then left home and my other friend came back to help me with cleaning and packing. We cleaned for an hour or so, before deciding to quit for the day. I again left for my brothers place to go Sauna and get a place to stay.

On Friday morning I remembered to leave my key to my brothers place before leaving there, so I did not need to make an extra round back there. Back in the appartment, I was able to vacuum the floors before my friend came over. Luckily her children were asleep and we were able to finish the cleaning quite fast. My car was now really, really full. I wasn't able to fit all in I have to admit. I informed my cousin that all that is left is his, if he comes and picks it up right now. After a small detour he came and picked up the items. (It was his first time at my place.) Then I left to drop off my keys and have a snack brake at my friends place.

From Lahti I went to Pieksämäki (to my granny's neighbour) and spent a night there. I also went with her to feed her son's cats and had a lovely time in Sauna. Then on Saturday I drove really slowly (slower than normal) to Tornio. In the evening we unpacked most of my car and went to sauna. Sunday I did half of one school paper and one UArctic paper that was supposed to be done the day before. I also listened to my sister's father in law talk for about an hour or so. (No papers written during that time :/ )

So there. That is what I have done this last week. Been really busy, and I am supposed to be sleeping right now, but I thought I better get this blog post done before I forget it for few months.

Party, packing and moving

Last weekend I had my Bday and farewell party at the same time. I had made lots of food (as you could see from the picture update) and given an open invitation to come over via facebook. I know that you are all eager to know how it all went. I had total of 8 adults and 3 children as guests. Success or not, I'll let you decide.

My sister and brother-in-law came down and were able to take part in the celebrations (that's 2/1). The real reason they were down here, was that they were going to pick up some of my stuff. Well one problem was that they hadn't been able to borrow a big trailer. So Monday morning, after few minutes of thinking about things my brother in law said that we won't be able to fit them all in. So we decided to take some stuff to the recycling center. One full load was taken there (bookshelves, clothes, TV and videos) and later few more to UFF boxes.

Then we fitted my sofa bed and bed to the trailer. First we took the sofa bed and put it in. Then I helped my sister to carry the bed downstairs and at the same time helped my brother in law with the sofa bed. This meant that my sister was holding the bed in mid stairs by herself once in a while. Then we managed to have them both in the trailer, but the canopy (?) did not close. So we took the bed away and change the sofa bed to be flat and tried again. No go this time either. So we took all out and put the bed at the bottom. Then we lifted the sofa bed and turned it 180 degrees on top of the bed while it trying to open up at the same time. But we were successful this time! My nephew was on his nap at this time so we were able to do all this.

Then me and my sister went shopping (needed another box for kitchenware)(she bought some xmas gifts) and one person came to pick up the table so we didn't have to take it to the recycling center. After that we packed hurrily as we went to see our brother and sister-in-law. 

Got to work now, so I'll continue about tuesday some other time.

Bday/bon voyage party food edition

Wheat free buns

Wheat free pies (ham, chicken, cranberry and red currant)

Very, very tasty

Chicken pie...

Ham pies and rices and meat pastries

Upside down cake (first try)

Cranberry-white choclate-mascarpone pie

Updates on moving

I had to depart my way with my granny's freezer yesterday. It was not easy. I really liked to keep it, but as the bookshelves have not gone, I am afraid something else has to go. I talked with my sis yesterday about how her hubby had asked if he needed the trailer aka if I had such little stuff to take back. Right... All I have is the sofa, bed, computer desk, bookshelves, night table and... So lots of stuff still. I have been able to get rid of quite a bunch of stuff. I have donated to goodwill; I have donated to friends and to foreign students who are coming to live here. 

I did a rough calculation that if I would have sold the items, I probably would be about 400 euros richer now. If the people would have to buy the items from the store (that I have donated to them) then the value of it would be over 1000 euros. So I think I have done my good deed for the year. Of course I would rather have the money. I am not that rich that I could say that it doesn't make any difference. But I rather give the items away than through it away. I have sold some, so I am not giving it all to the charity.  Also if you believe in Karma, this means that there should be some good Karma coming my way. I am all for that!

Multitasking

I am in class and also trying to do an assignment for accounting and finance class. Also as you can see I am writing my blog. All at the same time... This assignment will be soo good. I need to do this soon as I have another paper waiting to be done also and the due date is the same. I still have about a month to do both of these, but I'd like to do these in time. It is just that I am having difficulties to wrap my brain around the issues. 

I also was able to get rid of one sofa. Yay!

I got it!

Today it finally came! I have received my last criminal record paper. I am happy to say there were no surprises. I have no criminal records in any country that I have lived in. So what next... I am getting rid of my stuff, although one person did not turn up today to pick up a lamp. Here's hoping that the person picking up the sofa will. I have also emptied my big freezer. Need to ask my friend if she wants it or shall I try to sell it too.