Quest for the Ultimate Orgasmic Wings pt. 1

Annalan Kioski

The local grill had an ad in the post today saying they were doing wings now. So, of course I had to go down and test them out right away. Sam got kebab and fries and I got 10 wings with medium sauce a total of 11,50e. We had them while watching NCIS, which by the way is an awesome show!

Sam said his kebab wasn't as good as at Jalopeno (which is not saying much as Jalopeno is one of those 'only when wasted' eateries). My wings were OK. The sauce was really good as was the cheese dip. The chicken pieces on the other hand were kinda small compared to those at Speakeasy. Also there was less crunch and well can't say there was quite the ultimate orgasmic taste explosion I have experienced... But they just started doing them so maybe they'll improve. Oh I do hope so, seeing as they're just down the road from us.

Still, it looks like the quest for wings continues...

Mänttiharju

Dented Egg-Car

First an update on my brothers deer accident. We actually saw the skid marks when we were driving up to Farmer Country. It's weird because when my brother called Sam at 3am right after the crash he said he had no idea where they were but when we drove past the place there was a road sign maybe 50m away so I guess it really was misty/foggy. As you can see the egg-car did get a little dented, although not so clear from the picture. Still it wasn't as bad as I expected.

Fixing Dishwasher

Sam's parents dishwasher was busted so he had to fix that, other than that it was a regular no thrills weekend.

About to Fix the Car from Hell

Sam decided to fix something in the Car from Hell and managed to break the gearbox. Now he can't get half the gears to work or something. So driving home was fun.

Sam vs. Tiuhti

Wings and Ice Cream

Lately I've really been craving hot wings again. There is this place down town called Speakeasy and they just do the most delicious wings I have ever had. They are so crunchy and covered in this unbelievable hot sauce. I mean goddamn awesomness orgasm on my tongue!!! Ah. *sigh* Plus the reason I'm probably craving wings is because I'm so hungry.

The funny thing is the ice cream car (or whatever you call it) came by on Tuesday and we went and got 25e worth of ice cream and we've been slowly eating our way through them. I'm having one right now. LOL I think I've had like 5 already today. Oh and Sam had one for breakfast yesterday! Like there is nothing wrong with having ice cream for breakfast, I had ice cream for breakfast... but Sam had breakfast at 3 am. I mean how can you wake up that early and have something that cold! Brrr.

Happy Smile Ice Cream

I've been so lazy with making food this week! We've been living on ice cream and microwave Thai food. LOL. So much for becoming a good housewife.

Accidents in the Night

You know how I was talking about my brother driving to Farmer Country with Emma instead of coming with us last night. Well, this morning when Sam was leaving to work (around 3am) he came over and said "your brothers been in an accident. He hit a reindeer." It took me a while to sort of wake up and go "wh... WHAT? Is he OK" Sam assured me that he was. The egg-car had the front dented and the reindeer was... not so lucky.

Stupid Cute Reindeer R.I.P.

When I woke up this morning I panicked because I'd had weird dreams all night about my brother getting into accidents of varying severity and didn't know what was reality. When I called him they were already at Farmer Country and he seemed pretty OK. The police had come and been like, "yep, it's dead alright. A dead reindeer." And then some hunter had come and said he would take the animal and do an autopsy on it and then bury it. I thought this was kinda funny and somewhat disturbing. Perhaps he's watched too much C.S.I. LOL C.S.I. Bumblefuck "we investigate road kill"...

Stupid Hideous Moose

So, all in all I think they were lucky that the reindeer was small not a full grown ugly one or a moose. By the way I just read that Tycho Brahe (1546–1601), a famous physicist and astronomer, had a pet elk that once got drunk and got killed when it fell down the stairs in his castle. That cracked me up. Anyway I do feel bad for the reindeer, they're cute.

The Drive

I think that they were pretty much asking for it though. Firstly, who drives 500 km in the middle of the night! Plus they were in a moose warning area! Just no. No! Bad!

Future Unemployed

Yesterday kinda sucked. I decided to go and have a talk with the people at the local employment office hoping to get some ideas and answers in finding a job. Of course at the moment all I want is a job and so almost any job will do. However I was interested in finding out how I might get a job in the future (when I get my degree) in my actual field. So, I was all positive hoping to get some great tips and some assurance on the fact that I haven't wasted 3 years of my life studying something I will do jack shit with. Boy was I dissapointed.

This I got probably THE most irritating guy in the whole employment office. He didn't listen to a word I said, in fact all he did was repeat "you'll find a job" and "just keep looking". When I asked him how I could find a job later on specializing in my field and told him I was majoring in sociology he clicked on the "social work" section. Which of course came up with results like psychologist, social worker, assistants for people with disability etc... and I was thinking, "my God you idiot social work and sociology aren't the same!" And when I tried to tell him that he seemed to think that it didn't matter as they almost sounded the same so they couldn't be that far off. When I persisted that they really weren't I was like "FINE! Did you know that there is a search field here and we can search for jobs to do with sociology." I told him that yes I knew there was a search but I hadn't exactly done a search with the term "sociology" but that I thought that it wouldn't do much good. He was like, "HA! I bet there will be MANY results just you see and just to show you how many opportunities there are in the whole country I will search all the jobs to do with sociology in Finland!" And guess what, results 1. HAHA! Plus that place was looking for a sociology professor. MUAHAHHA. So, I guess I'll be ending up a bum.

I have to say that I wasn't so annoyed by the fact that he didn't know what sociology is, although it was a little bit disconcerting considering his job, what really pissed me off was the fact that he wouldn't listen to me. He wouldn't let me explain what sociology was which just might have helped him to point me in the right direction. Grrr. What a waste of my time.

Heart Attack Rabbit

We're going to Farmer Country again this weekend. Tom and Emma (my brother's girlfriend) will be there too. Should be interesting. They were going to come up there in our car but then had to go get some things from Vasa (Emma's parents live there) so they'll be coming in the egg-car. Incidentally this was a bit of a relief for me because the Car from Hell isn't the most family friendly car in the world and with those rabbits it would have been really cramped. Plus my brother is convinced that listening to music will give the rabbits a heart attack and I on the other hand will go insane if I have to sit in a car for 3 hours and listen to my brother (I do love him and we get along great but honestly not 3 hours). Plus I just bought a new (O.K. used) iPod video and it is just kick ass (although Sam doesn't think so since I now have 26 gigabytes more of bad music than I did before).

Woohoo it's almost Friday!

Weekend in Farmer Country

Friday afternoon we packed the Car from Hell (with super glued back light) and headed of on a road trip to Farmer Country a.k.a. Mäntyharju. For those who don't know, Mäntyharju (this place that I make so much fun of) is actually the reason why Sam and I are together. See, a long time ago, say in the summer of 2002, my parents decided it was high time they began the slow, but steady, move back to Finland. This process began with the purchase of an old sheep farm and as it so happened this seemingly remote dead middle of nowhere bumblefuck looservile came with kick ass neighbors. These neighbors were 'luomu' (I think the translation is organic) potato farmers with three weird kids who had many weird cousins. And so five years later these funny neighbors are now my future in-laws. So, even though I do poke a lot of fun about Farmer Country I do owe this 'town' a heck of a lot.

Cottage Garden Heartsease

On a side note I think my choice in in-law geography was pretty crummy. I mean they are really sweet and all and my parents get along with them just fine, but you know. No one really wants to live 500m away from the in-laws. Really. No matter how sweet. But then again it could be worse. Seeing as they live on a farm passed down from Sam's late grandfather my (future) mother-in-law has lived her whole married life within eyesight of her in-laws. Now that is hardcore!

Sam in Makeshift Jeans Straitjacket

Anyway, I needed some holiday from Sam. I mean don't get me wrong we didn't fight or anything but you know seeing each other everyday for the past five months does make you want to see other people too. My mum was there for the weekend planting and plowing so I escaped to our cottage for most of Saturday.

No Fields of Gold for me. I Prefer Sea of Blue.

Sunday we had to leave earlier than we usually do because we had to make two stops on the way home. Stop one was Sam's grandparents (not the across the garden ones). His scarily diligent crafts making grandmother wanted us to pick the color for our cream and sugar set (yes, I know, scary). She also loaded us with various home made handy crafts such as a painted porcelain teabag holder.

*sigh* Isn't that Just so my Color *sigh*

Stop two was this legendary guy who Sam spent his year of military service with. I had been hearing about this famous Jokinen for over a year now and finally I got to meet him! I wasn't so impressed, but then again I am renown for being the suckiest first impression person. I never make friends the first time. I'm so anti-social! Still, I can see why my boyfriend likes the guy.

Back home... or not...

We came back from Switzerland Wednesday evening. Thursday was a holiday so Sam didn't have to do any deliveries so we spent the day recovering from our holiday. I'm a firm believer in a recovery holiday after a holiday.

Lazy Thursday Underneath the Power Lines watching the Grass Grow

We went for a walk to the forest next to us and found a nice warm rock in the sun under the power lines. It was a really neat place but apparently we can't go there often because I wont be able to have children if I get too much electric magnetism from the power lines. This is of course what Sam told me and he based this theory on the effect power lines have on cows... hmm...

Car From Hell with No Right Back Light

The rest of the day was spent fixing the Car from Hell and listening to awesome Eurovision tunes!

NOTE: Car from Hell now has back light on again attached by super glue... hmm...

Switzerland

Term pretty much finished on the 14th and since Sam somehow managed to get time of from his "gulag for truck drivers" we decided to use our engagement present... i.e. go to Switzerland. I used to not like living there. I didn't feel like I fit in at all... but it turned out to be fun.

It's the first time I can say that I ran out of time during my stay in Switzerland since I moved away from home. Before it felt more like going back home and that was kinda sucky... you know that movie Garden State when Andrew Largeman goes back home. OK, minus the controlling father, mothers funeral... oh and the lithium. Um, but you get the idea (maybe). Aaaanyway point is that this was the first time I went to Switzerland on a holiday! Firstly, it's only my dad there now and secondly I had a Switzerland-virgin with my who had to see all the touristy things. Because of this my time was spent between the stove and touristy places. Woohoo. Downside was that I didn't have time to see people *cough* Sandra *cough* which really sucked since I already missed seeing a lot of people at Christmas. However I promise that I will be back... soon enough!

Spiral Snail

So, what does a tourist do in Switzerland? In fact what does an ex-resident-turned-tourist do in Switzerland? One word. Gardens. Yes, gardens with perfect specimens and finger clipped grass was our poison. I know that some of your are shitting yourselves laughing but yes I don't care... or perhaps you are finally convinced of my transformation into a boring housewife. Ha! That may be but I still have some of my old self left. Anyway the reason we did a lot of gardens and parks was because the weather was so nice so obviously we wanted to be outside and secondly my Sam is the son of a farmer. He gets orgasmic when he finds a nice plant (I kid you not!). Plus I did enjoy taking photos of the darn things. Here are some:

Swan with Head in own Arse

Magnolia

Snail on Tree

Happy Opium Plant

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Inside the Cathedral de St-Pierre

Back to topic. It's funny how you never do touristy things when you live somewhere. Like I don't think I have ever been to the Cathedral de St-Pierre (shock!) or really looked at any of the statues of Jardin Anglais in detail or gone to see the Jet d'Eau with a total newbie. To be honest it was quite thrilling, like being there for the first time (corny I know). The only down side to our day out in Geneva was that it was raining pretty hardcore and we got totally soaked.

Geneva from under an Umbrella Darkly

All in all it was a fun holiday. A little short but fun while it lasted. Switzerland you no longer intimidate me, so HA!

Bought from Train Station Vending Machine