The Land of the Midnight Sun

Spring is coming! Even this up north :) We now have 12 hours and 15 minutes of day light and it keeps getting lighter for the next 3 months. By then the sun will rise around 3.40am and set around 11pm. Even after the sunset it won't get dark. 

There's something magical about the summers here. It's such a short period of time and everyone enjoys every last bit of it. We're full of energy, even though the constant light messes up with our sleep (yay for sleeping masks!)

I was looking at some old photos from ten years ago, and realized how much I miss the summer times when I still had summer vacations, when I only had to worry about going back to school in the fall. Summers were our best time. We ran around the neighborhood with other kids and came back home (reluctantly) only when we absolutely had to (when mom was yelling that it was time to come inside). When I was little, it was hard to understand why we had to go to bed when the sun was still up.

After looking at the old photos I promised myself I would visit my favorite childhood places this coming summer. I will make a day (or a week) of it and make sure I have my camera with me. A post will follow :)

xxo 

C.P + Donuts = A Good Day :)

I can't help but gush about my day to you. 

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 ;) 

YUMMY!

Over and out. xxo

What Are the Odds...

I used to be the kind of person, who had to have plans. Not knowing what came next drove me crazy. Luckily, I'm growing out of it now. 

After having to pull myself up from the very bottom of my life a couple of years back, I've been making changes. I no longer feel so stressed, when my plans take a whole new form, and not knowing what lies ahead is now something exciting, rather than a cause of endless worry, sleepless nights and a cranky mood. I still make plans, but I've learned to live with the fact they don't always turn out the way I intended, and I believe it's made me a better person. Such a small thing, I know. To me it's huge. To me it's a relief. 

Right now, I'm 90% sure I'm set for the entire year. I haven't got a clue what I'll be doing in January, 2013, but that doesn't bother me one bit. There are some changes coming up this year in the work front, and in the fall I'll be heading to an adventure. More of that later ;) The reason why I said I'm 90% sure is that there is always the chance things don't work out the way I hope. 10% says I'm set until September. 

Well... I'm confident. When I know more, you know more. 

<3

improvement? me thinks so!

I've never been good at naming anything -my stories, essays... this blog. I always though 'Anything+Everything' was descriptive, but boring. I've been trying to come up with a new name for a long time, and finally I came across the word 'pandemonium'. It's a new word to me, it's extraordinary enough (for me, at least. I bet not a lot of my friends (Finnish ones) know what it means -and now they're opening an online dictionary to check it out ;)), and now I feel like the name really depicts me, and my life. In a positive way. I guess 'pandemonium' can have a negative ring to it as well. 

Anyway, I'm very happy with it, and I hope you like it, too! :) And I swear, I won't touch the design tools anymore. I'm almost positive I won't. 

Thank you for reading! <3

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xxo

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Unique (?)

If you ever happen to find yourself sitting at a café alone, or just walking aimlessly around, take the time to look at the people around you.

Nowadays hardly any kind of style is news. The society has slowly approved all kinds of ways people wish to express themselves with, and seeing a person with their hair dyed in rainbow colors and face stuffed with piercings is just normal. But how do you know who are the ones who truly want to look extraordinary from the ones who just want to fit in?

I once knew someone who was in line to get into a Design Institute, but she was told her appearance was too plain and boring, that she had the kind of look that wasn't going to get noticed. No matter how talented she might have been, she was judged based on what she looked like. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, because I feel that might be the case with me, also. I'm not applying to a Design Institute, even though my art teacher back in high school told me I had real potential for it, but I'm thinking, if I did, I would most likely be laughed out. I guess you could call my personal style conventional. I like comfy clothes, usually I wear jeans and a t-shirt. On my spare time I like to leave my hair open, because at work I have to keep it tied back. I don't wear a lot of make-up, usually just mascara. I look like nothing out of the ordinary. And that's how I've always wanted to be. Up until now.

I know people who are genuine with their style. They may have a weird colored hair and clothes that seem out of this world, but at least they're unique. They're true to themselves. If someone else decides they want to look similar, they don't care. They know it's their thing, no matter how many clones walk the streets with them. Then there are those, who want to look the same, just because it seems cool. These are the people with awkward expressions on their faces when they really want to look like they're in total sync with everything and everyone around them. You might see them tugging their clothes, trying to make them more fitting, and eventually you end up finding them on a public restroom trying on "cat eye" contacts, taking their search for uniqueness just a bit too far. Come on...

I'm not saying it's bad to want to be different, I'm saying people should do it and still try to hold on to what makes them them. You might just look "normal" and still be more different than you could ever know.

As for me... the change has been subtle. Some may have not even noticed anything. It's quietly surfacing, sometimes it pops up for a moment, making me speak up when I'm usually quiet, or helping me to make a decision in a flash when I normally wouldn't make one without careful consideration. Trying on new things, being more sure of myself.

 It'll be a long process, I figure, but one definitely worth seeing through. I realize I haven't shared that much personal stuff about myself in this blog, and I want you to know that I'm working on a post about Yours Truly. Can't tell you when it'll come up, I honestly have no idea. Someday. I know, someday isn't a day of the week, so let's say... on a Tuesday. Maybe a month from now, or maybe a year. But it'll be a Tuesday, are you happy now?

<3