Meh got lazy to blog :P

I know I know I was suppose to put up some recipes but I got über lazy. Since I have most of the recipes written by hand on my very torn notebook I'm too lazy to copy write them over to the blog. I'm super tired these days thanks to carrying a mardi gras baby that doesn't know that party's over it's time to go to bed!

I haven't much time for housework as well...Damn...I've been so frustrated with the tiny kitchen the past year that I've been thinking of burning it down... :P (Hence almost set the apartment on fire) I couldn't care less what happens to this apartment... I simply don't know my neighbors here so well except for the electric guitar playing moron next door <__<. I don't like half of them I walk pass daily and for some reason this area although in good location doesn't agree with me. I still reminisce good times when I came the first year even living in a smaller apartment in Leppävaara was better than here. I think I'm not very made for Helsinki but just the suburbs of it...I hated living in the center for all the drunks and hobos keep me awake at night! <__< For some reason Vuosaari has an eerie I cannot wrap my fingers around feeling...also it didn't bring bad memories but not good ones either....Then this place this...horrid little place which I thought we'd get rid off in one year but noooo...not possible now that I'm pregnant...sigh....

Lahti was dead boring to me. I found nothing interesting except the lake opposite our apartment and mum-in-laws place. I don't mind visiting Lahti but I cannot phatom what to do there. The cottage which is about 100 + km from Lahti was idyllic little getaway for me. I love the nature there and the idea that there are almost no neighbours is pleasent! I know I can be a hermit sometimes and I like people but sometimes if you live close to them all the time (neighbors) it can be somewhat a familiar stranger. You know nothing about them but yet you keep seeing them...You are curious about them but you don't want to share you life with them but still they can hear almost everything you do or say when you're in your confined space.

I'll help them if they need my help that's what neighbors do but...I'd like to not get involve if it's even possible :P. I'm just mentally counting down the days when I can kick this apartment goodbye... Now I have to get back to some documentations and prepare for tomorrow's neverending meetings. Another day and more experience to come... Can't wait to go to Frankfurt...happy to have short visits if not I'll be dead tire....

More recipes coming...

I know that my recipe blog is a bit boring but today I got my Darling Hubby to take pictures of the process of making Gyoza. It wasn't easy -___- as he was busy engaging a battle with Persia on CIV IV. So some pictures are rather dodgy but you get an idea. I will make the pineapple jam again one of these days as well as the tart now that I have this cool cookie dough presser. I had some pics of making the sambal for Nasi Lemak. However I am freaking lazy to do more... My kitchen is just a holy mess and it's demotivating to do anything...I'm still waiting for my king size kitchen with a real gas stove before I start actively blogging some of my favorite recipes...HOORAY! One way I can keep all my recipes in one place without losing them as when they were a form of scrappy notebooks that tear to pieces... <__<..Back to the kitchen...wouldn't want to burn my Gyozas!!!!

Baby 'Jyri and Tiina' is born!

My dearest 'baka' friend had a baby this afternoon. According to the message a sweet baby girl, weighing 3,44 kg at the length of 51 cm. This is such an exciting day! I'm sure they are thrilled. I would like to visit the family but I think I'll wait until they have settled in with their newborn. I can understand the need of privacy and getting bonded with the child. I'd like to have that with my newborn as well. I don't need someone in the background nagging me and wanting to hold the baby every now and then...I guess it's fine in the hospital but when we get home we just want to be alone for a while...at least 2 weeks :).

For me the bonding process is important. Your baby is never a baby forever so this is the best time for new parents to reflect the moment. Get it into their heads that there is a new person in the family...new adventures and frustrations of trying to get things right. I keep hearing that perfection isn't everything with a baby, you just need to do your best. Let's see what kind of a control freakazoid mumsy I'll be! :D

Holidays are over

I admit I might have overdone myself during the holidays. As soon as the guests have left I started to break down. Parts of my body would not co-operate anymore and I slept throughout the whole afternoon. I tried to keep awake to watch Sahara with my dear hubby but fell asleep 3/4 way through so don't ask me about the ending :P.

I also tried to play CIV IV with him but in between turns kept dozing off. :-/ I almost fell asleep on my frying pan while waiting for it to heat up since my dearest hubby wanted me to make spaghetti bolognese after eating all the Neo-Chinese food I've been making the past week has been a real disappointment for him. Not because he didn't like Chinese food but he doesn't fancy it as much as Italian. The only thing that got him happy was when I made Tiramisu. My poor hubby got depressed at the thought of having to go back to work tomorrow, I just wanted to make it all go away. He hasn't had much of holiday while the guests are here. I wasn't too sure what he wanted to do during his vacation besides playing CIV IV. I do know that driving around and always on the move is not being his thing. Neither is it mine since I'm 14 weeks pregnant, I get mega tired at doing 1/4 what I use to do. I could say I'm over exerting myself during my 'vacation'. I do love cooking, heck if my kitchen was bigger it would make things a hell-o-lot easier. I'll just have to make do with the kitchen that I have for now ^___^.

I'm looking forward to the new home we will have end of 2009/beginning of 2010. It won't be 100% ready as it has to be built over winter and have another coat of paint in Spring. The most important thing to get ready are the bathrooms and toilets, the fireplace, master bedroom, baby room and of course MY KITCHEN! :D. Ah but there is just one more thing missing, we're still waiting for the land so it may still be a dream....With the finance crisis and all who'd know what to expect. Okay dearest hubby had a midnight snack and I just wanted to accompany him because I felt strangely alone. Maybe I'll brew myself some Milo and hot milk NAM!!!!