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I was so effective here at home yesterday! I baked joulutorttus (!), got the renovation of our entrance hall a step forward and scrubbed the bathroom from ceiling to floor. And cooked food and washed the dishes and did some cleaning in the kitchen too. And made the christmas cookie dough ready for today (it needs to stay in the fridge overnight before baking).

Today I’ve been more lazy. But I got the cookies baked! All in all I’m very happy about this weekend. Some of the stuff I’ve done has been bugging me for a while.. and getting those things finally done makes me feel good. Of course there’s lots of stuff on the to-do list, but I’m not thinking about those now :)

Miikka is working this weekend. It’s been rather nice to do stuff alone, there’s no hassling or anything. It’s been calming after so many busy weekends. Hmmmh.. Even though I say it’s been nice being home alone right now I’m waiting for Miikka to come home.. I miss him when his not here. And I’m getting hungry :D I’d rather eat with him than alone.

I had some ice cream on the balcony just a while ago. Sun was shining and I thought that it would be nice and warm to sit there but it was rather cold instead – the ice cream didn’t make me feel any warmer either :D

I had a shooting gig today after work. I don’t know what I was thinking (probably nothing) when shooting! I really didn’t have my brains with me there. I got some that I like myself, but I’m not sure if they’re what the paper is looking for. It’s harder to take shots when you don’t have the reporter with you and you can’t hear him/her talking to the person in the story or read the actual story. Or even meet the reporter. Anyway, I think that there were lots of image opportunities that I just didn’t take. Stupid stupid me. But it’s no use crying about it now.. and I do believe I’ve got enough for the story.

Choosing images is pretty hard too. Well sometimes you just know which are the ones to send to the paper, but when going out there alone with minimum knowledge of the actual story or the people or anything it’s really hard. Now for example I’ve got two images from this spot with the same people. The one I like more is actually a pretty good picture, and it has all the key elements I think there should be (gathered from my very short worded brief), and a surprise element that hides part of one of the key elements. It’s a nice picture, somehow alive. The other shot shows one of the key elements a lot better but is otherwise more boring and not really alive. Might be a tad confusing explanation, but I don’t know how to say it better right now. My brains are still missing I guess!

I know I could send both of the images, but I’m afraid that they’d be stupid and use the boring one. Some photographers have said to me not to give forward those shots you don’t like yourself because they always pick the wrong ones to be published. I don’t know if I buy that entirely, but the mag I shot for today isn’t exactly the hottest star in the photojournalism sky :D Oh well, I don’t have to make the decision today.. Actually I don’t have to do anything today – except brush my teeth and go to bed!

What a nice Sunday :) We had those herb-butter-baguettes that are bought half baked and frozen and than put to the oven at home. Lovely stuff. To go with that I bought some potato salad and made simple fresh salad myself. I just love feta cheese. I tried some that is flavored with basilica and oregano. Went really well with my salad – and only 3% fat :) And we ate it all while watching a good movie. Nice way to spent the afternoon.

After that we went to Miikka’s parents’ place. Sauna was heavenly. Too bad that I ate too much at home because they had some delicious stuff to eat too.

The sky looks so beautiful right now. I wish I had one more day off of work so I could drive somewhere to shoot the sunset. I did that last night, but the sunset wasn’t as beautiful. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed it, it just wasn’t as photogenic as tonight seems to be. Anyway, it was wonderful to just drive around aimlessly and take a few shots when a good spot came up. Midsummer, midnight, no hurry, open road. Gives a girl a nice feeling of freedom :) I’m posting more shots later :)

Yesterday before going for my mini road trip I sat in our balcony and enjoyed a magazine and the evening sun that shines in there. These shots I took earlier. The chairs look a little weird in the picture, but they’re nice and comfy and they go into surprisingly small space easily when needed. And they were cheap :P

I’d love to get some wooden thingies for the floor, but they’re too expensive. We’re looking for a nice cheap (not so easy combination to find) balcony mattress that would cover the whole floor instead. Now it all looks still rather bleak, but it’s slowly getting better. On Friday I got that little white thingie for the flowers. And as for my pic, well I’m getting bored of the red haircolor.. it fades so fast. I’m thinking of some shade of brown instead :)