I am ashamed to admit that it took me this long to watch the movie Up in the Air. Have you seen it? If not, watch it, it's great!! It's about a man (Clooney!!), who spends more time on an airplane than on the ground, and who has to face new challenges with his work, but to me the work stuff was secondary. I focused on the traveling part, as you may have already guessed :)
When I say that I travel a lot, I mean, like, once or twice a year. To me, it's a lot. But there are other people who travel once a month (like my mom has done this year), people who travel for work, people who travel just because they can. They have the resources. As for me, all my extra money is spent on traveling... something I learned from my parents from very early on.
I can't even be compared to the people who practically live up in the air. It's their way of life.
I don't want that. I would love to be able to travel whenever and wherever I wanted, but to do it all the time, switching destination every five minutes... No thank you.
I love to fly, but it's not the time spent on an aircraft that I love. It's the feeling of going somewhere, of being able to go somewhere. I love circling around airports, I lovelovelove it when the airplane speeds up and takes off. I also love the landing. Sometimes. Not always, when I land to Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport. That's the one place I love it the most, when I take off.
There are a lot of things you learn, when you travel much. You learn to pack only what's necessary. You learn to ask the right questions when checking in, you learn to have the necessary documents ready at hand, you learn to read people. The latter may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but it's true. Especially if you're traveling alone and end up sitting next to a stranger. After the first couple of minutes you pick up signs of whether or not they're talkative, social or if they want to enjoy their flight (or train-ride or whatever) uninterrupted. But mostly... you learn about yourself. Cliché, but very true.
I only have a little over a month left until I get to enjoy all of this again. I'm flying with Delta Airlines and I joined their Skymiles -program. After doing so, I wondered why I hadn't joined into these things before... Well, I fly with a different airline almost every time I travel (I just pick the cheapest flights when I book them, without looking into what airline it is), so maybe that's the main factor. But maybe I should join. Can't do any harm, right?
And finally, I wanted to link this song for all of you to listen. One of my favorites, it's somehow very beautiful.
Heyy :) Been MIA for a couple of days, sorry. I'm back!
There's this annual music festival in my hometown that takes place in July. It lasts for four days and this year was my third time. I never go for more than one day, and usually it's the last day, when there's an international star performing. Mainly the performers are Finnish. Two years ago the international star was Boney M, last year The Village People (ahahah, so much fun!) and this year it was Bonnie Tyler!
Ah! An amazing night! One of my favorite singers. Lovelovelovestrong!
I have videos of her singing Jar of Hearts, Arms and A Thousand Years, but I won't add them here. I tried emailing the videos to my friend and it completely jammed my laptop... so no videos, sorry. But the show was great! I can tell you that :)
I'd seen on Facebook how the band takes pictures of every show from the stage, and I knew they were going to take the picture in Helsinki as well, with all our hands raised up in the air. I was right. They took the picture. And I'm not in it!!! Well, my feet are, if you know where to look.
Ok, so the guy on stage has his right hand by my feet. I'm standing up there. Great spot, but bad for the photo :(
Haven't been blogging that much this month... I have my reasons.
1. More work
2. No topics
I haven't made any progress on the alphabet posts either. V is a very tricky letter, please help me. And while you're at it, give me ideas for an X, too.
In the lack of better things to write about, here are some things that have crossed my mind lately:
-I hate mosquitos -WRITE -Blog -I'll have four wonderful days off this week. In a row. -Christina Perri's concert is next week! -I should finish the last book of the Hunger Games trilogy. -I should cook more. I have pesto and garlic that won't last forever.
I once told you there's only one song that has ever hit me as the kind of song that describes my life.
Don't think too badly of me. It's not the easiest thing to share this, but I'm doing it because sometimes I still feel like that. There's a difference between the person I was back then and the person I am now, though.
I just cleansed my glasses. I forgot how clearly I can really see. Didn't even realize how smudgy the lenses were! Now I'm prepared to watch the Eurovision Song Contest tonight! It's fun, yet shameful to watch. And Finland didn't even make it to finals this year. Not that I ever thought it would. I have only heard Sweden's song, and I think I'm voting for them. In my mind.
By the way, there was a bee inside the house today. I almost got a heart attack. I'm home alone, so I had to kill it. Now I'm paranoid and I swear I hear buzzing every now and then. Fortunately, I'm having two friends over in a few. They will slaughter the other bees that dare to invade this house. And you know.. I get to scream like a girl and hide in the bathroom.
Here's my favorite song of all times. Brings back memories from my vacation to Africa a few years back, and just reminds me of good times <3
I had a good day today. I slept in, worked an evening shift and came home. A good feeling about everything throughout the day. That doesn't happen every day, so I cherish it.
So I wake up and check Facebook on my phone (in bed of course), and I see something that makes me jump right up and open my laptop, so I can have a closer look. Now, please know that I'm the kind of person who gets happy over simple things, so don't expect anything groundbreaking. Here it is:
Christina Perri is performing in Helsinki in June!
And what did I do?
I GOT TICKETS!
You have my permission to be jealous.
I heard the song 'Jar of Hearts' for the first time when it wasn't such a big hit yet, and I immediately loved it. I started listening to Christina Perri and am sooo thrilled I get to see her performing live! YAY! And I love the fact I didn't have to wait half a decade to catch her concert, like I did with Celine Dion. I've been a huge fan of her since I was 12, and she didn't come to Finland until I was 19.
After purchasing the tickets I went to see my friend downtown and ended up doing some (necessary) shopping. We circled around the mall and before going home we wen't to Arnold's for some donuts ;)
I think that question kicks "To be, or not to be?"'s a**, and that's saying a lot... at least that's what I think, but hey, it's almost 1am, I can't sleep and I'm writing this because I suddenly got this need to pour my inner feelings into internet, so really... what do I know?
I know what makes me happy, and I guess I should be proud of myself for knowing that. Some people don't know. But even though I do, it doesn't mean it's a bed of roses, 'cause trust me, it sure ain't. Those of you who have read my blog for a while know that my happiness can be summarized into two words: writing and traveling. And you may also know that I'm taking an online journalism course. I received my 9th tutorial today (there are 12 in total) and I'm sooo stressed! I won't bore you with details but let's just say I haven't even finished my 7th tutorial (no assignment with tutorial 8, so no, I do not have three incomplete assignments... just two) and it feels like everything's snowballing... I know all the assignments aren't a piece of cake and I'll get through this but man, talk about resenting what you love. Still standing firm on the whole "writer's blog does not exist" -thing btw. I'll get the assignments done.
In the mean time I've been satisfying my need to write by writing completely fictional stuff, putting ideas on paper and working on old ones in my head. That's been fun :D I hate the fact that I can't talk about any of my ideas with anyone though... Sometimes it sucks being the kind of person who doesn't know how to express themselves by speaking the words. Plus I always get the feeling that if I tell someone it'll ruin it.
Well, anyhoo.. I'm kinda tired now and will go to bed. Here's a song that's been bugging me for the last few hours. I watched the movie Easy A with my friend and if you've heard this before you know it's catchy. That's the only reason I'm posting it, because obviously it's got nothing to do with what I've just written here.
