What's my age again?

I visited my parents again. My godson has his birthday party and I actually took part twice. So maybe next year I can skip his birthday. They are always giving him so noisy toys, they make my head ache. Don't the toy makers think about the parents at all? Or the hearing? Anyway. The cake was decent.

I also visited my big sister who's in a hospital. She's been there over a week now. She had encephalitis but she's so much better now. And she's going to be fine, she just can't remember certain things. It's really weird actually since she seems so normal. She told us that the doctor said she might never remember again the things she had forgotten. But luckily she had only forgotten small things. She remembered us, her family, her boyfriend and all her friends, perfectly well. She remembered a lot about her life in general. But then the little things were a bit lost. For example she remembered having Facebook friends even though she couldn't remember what Facebook was. And she remembered that In Flames used to be her favorite band but when she listened to it, she couldn't recognize the songs. So she was really lucky. There was another girl in the same room with encephalitis and she couldn't even remember where she lived and she had completely forgotten her boyfriend. That's like serious memory loss.

Fairy godmother... in the future maybe

Today is my official birthday. I'm getting old, for real. Soon I'll be like thirty and then I could be dead as well. I'm not so keen on this whole aging thing. Anyway. I'm really happy that I have gotten myself a younger boyfriend. Older boyfriend would keep me only younger-looking, but younger boyfriend will keep me young. Though J.R. is not that much younger and I'm not so much older either. He turned 20 years old earlier this year.

My godson's birthday is on Saturday and his family is having a small party. They have thrown him a birthday party every year, but this is the first time I'm actually going to be there. I guess I have been a very bad godmother. But I hope that in the future I will be the cool aunt who lives in the city and takes them, my godson and my niece, to the zoo and let them live at my place if they want to go to a bigger high school. My own aunt did all that for me, but unlike her, I actually have quite likable personality. So I guess my godson and niece could actually like spending time with me when they're older.

"No colors anymore, I want them to turn black"

My favorite color is black and I wear it on a daily basis. Pretty much all my tops are black; I have black t-shirts, black tank tops, black jerseys, black long-sleeved shirts... Only my jeans are blue. And J.R. likes to wear black too. Even more than I do, I guess, since he's wearing it head to toe. Sometimes I think that wearing black is like some kind of uniform for nerds.

Anyway. On a laundry day our bathroom looks like this:



It looks like a funeral procession of clothes. Depressing.

Amoena's birthday party

Yesterday we celebrated my 22th birthday (my real birthday is not until Wednesday). Ossi was the first guest to come and he wanted to give his present to me right away. He gave me new stuffed animal to put in our refrigerator. Yes. We have stuffed animals on our fridge.


Last Christmas I got a stuffed toy cow from my work and I didn't knew where to put it. My fridge looked empty so I put it in there. And it's been living in our fridge ever since.


And now he can chat with the panda when the door is closed. He's no longer lonely.

I got other presents as well. Hannes gave me a puzzle game in case of we get bored of crocheting. It was a really difficult one, with skyscrapers and a big blue sky. I'm not sure if Hannes is a good friend or not... Julia gave me Irish Coffee set for four, but she said that she thought they would be perfect for glögg too. And I like glögg. And J.R. gave me a book I have been wanting to read.

And we ate some chocolate cake that J.R. had baked the day before. He was really excited about the cake and I think he did a really good job. I'm not an expert on chocolate cakes but it was delicious for sure. He also baked banana cake but that was not as big of a project as the chocolate cake. And I made some feta-olive muffins but I think I put too much salt in them.


My boyfriend cooks and crochets... and bakes chocolate cakes. Are you like envious?

I'm running out of words now. I surely had fun and I think the others were enjoying as well. But since we mostly just goofed around, there is not much to blog about.

Introducing some new amigurumis

Say "hello" to my new amigurumi friend! His name is Bärtil the Bear and I just got him finished. The inspiration came from Imaginary Wardrobe; Riikkael mixed two patterns and I did the same. The body pattern is from Crochetville forum and the head is from Animeko pattern. Riikkael crocheted a cute red hoodie for his bear, but since I'm not that talented, I decided to crochet some autumn accessories instead.

Hmm... I think I did well with the body, but the face could be better. It sucks that I don't have any big plastic doll eyes. I only have small ones and they were way too small for this bear. Plastic eyes would have made the difference. I'm quite happy with the beret too since I crocheted it without a pattern. And I'm not good at improvising, especially when it comes to crocheting.


He looks a bit stiff. Maybe he could relax a bit.


The tail is my own creation. I wanted my bear to have one.


My bear is like me, always wearing a scarf.


I could wear this beret too. Maybe I should crochet one for myself?

J.R. crocheted a hippo. It looks quite small in the picture, but don't get fooled. He's climbing on a very big book. The pattern is from BitterSweet.


This hippo is doing some heavy reading.