Birthday DS

I got a Nintendo DS lite and two games for my birthday today from my boyfriend! Yay! And we're going to see Golden Compass later today!

Now if the DS would just finish charging, I could test it out!

Finnish stuff

Want to see some Finnish stuff? kioskkiosk.com is now focusing on Finland, and there's a lot of Finnish stuff for sale, with information about everything. There were things even I didn't know about! Like, what, that darts set is only used in Finland???

What's up?

Hi! How's everyone doing?

I recently got my hair cut (short), bought a cool new winter coat (black, to my knees), visited the Moomin museum with my sisters (learned that Snorkmaiden and Mymble think pirates are cool), visited the Korkeasaari/Helsinki zoo with my sisters and Juri (I loved the red pandas) and... what else? Not much, I guess!

I'm going to go to a job interview this week, just for an office/warehouse type of job. I thought I could spend a few months there, just to get some money from somewhere, and then later search for a job in my field (perhaps next year). I need to practice pixel graphics for a while, first.

I'm planning to redesign my website, since I feel bad for not updating it for such a long time. I just don't like the design, so I upload to DeviantArt instead. But I should really start using my own web space more!

So, what's up with you? Everyone cozy in their little holes?

(I'm having trouble adding my comments back to this new version, hope to fix it soon.)



My new hair (with the patented Fish Expression)!

Jobless

I realized I hadn't yet mentioned here that I am currently looking for a new job. The company I worked for went bankrupt. I have send an application to one place where some of my work friends know people.

Nothing else much going on. How are you?

Creatively challenged

Mainly a copy-paste from my DeviantArt journal.

I'm feeling creatively challenged, and have actually felt so for the longest time. I upload to my DA gallery every piece that I have finished, so you can see that I really don't draw much (sketches I mostly keep to myself, though). If you take a look at my gallery, you can see that I've mainly drawn gift art/requests of other people's characters, illustrations for other people's short stories, and then fan art. The original art in my gallery consists of my graduation project and then there's some really old drawings. So I haven't really drawn anything strictly for *me* for the longest time.

I'm proud of my graduation project, it is something I entirely thought up. But there was that *must*, that I must do it to graduate, that made me do it. When I don't have that necessity, it feels like I can come up with nothing.

I started the 100 themes challenge, but then decided to make it about fan art, too... So, that didn't help (and I really want to see fan art of those games, so I'm not taking it back).

And it's not only drawing. It's my writing, too. I LOVE to write. But the things I've written consist of the graduation project, and then my almost yearly Nanowrimos (and last year I didn't write that, either). So Nanowrimo takes the month of November. Outside of that I haven't really written anything NEW, just a few posts for this online writing group of my existing characters there, not even new ones.

I used to come up with my own stories and then draw the characters from them. Or I just came up with a character to draw out of nowhere. I don't know what's happened, I can't seem to come up with anything anymore.

It doesn't help that last October I moved here to Helsinki and I have no friends here. Of course I have my boyfriend and my sister here, and they are darlings and help much to fill my social needs, but I want some friends, dammit. Friends that draw, and who I could draw with. I have never been that social, I like to be by myself, so I don't need to have that busy a life outside my home, but I have always had one or two good friends, and then acquaintances. School helped with these things, but I'm not in school anymore.

So, briefly: Why can't I come up with anything? Where has my creativity disappeared? And HOW can I get it back? These are the things I wonder.

Nine Inch Nails!

Today is Nine Inch Nails day! NIN at the Old Ice Hall, Helsinki!

After this I'll start waiting for Placebo. They're here on May 27th, after 10 years of avoiding this place.

From placeboworld.co.uk:

"Thanks to all the Finnish fans who've bought tickets to our show on 27th May at the Ice Hall, Helsinki. The show, 7000 tickets, sold out in an hour!!"

What happened on my birthday?

A quick little thing.

** Find your birthday from Wikipedia. Find three events, three births and three deaths that happened, plus all the holidays held that day. **

5th of December

Events
1484- Pope Innocent VII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the severest witch hunts in European history.
1492 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.
1951- The first issue of Aku Ankka (Donald Duck) -magazine comes out in Finland. :P

Births
1890- Fritz Lang
1901- Walt Disney
1976- Amy Acker
(I'm so cool.)

Deaths
1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1870- Alexandre Dumas (senior)
1926- Claude Monet
(These guys I like keep dying?)

Holidays
Roman festivals - Faunalia celebrated in honor of Faunus
Thailand - The King's Birthday, National Day, Father's Day
Netherlands - Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas' Eve)
UN - the International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
Austria - Krampus (in Schladming over 1200 "Krampus" gather from all over Austria wearing goat-hair costumes and carved masks, carrying bundles of sticks used as switches, and swinging cowbells to warn of their approach - I think the Finnish equivalent is nuutipukki)
Saint Sabas (the feast day of Sabbas the Sanctified)

Spam for Vampires

Today I got spam mail with an interesting subject line:

"Return sunrise to your life".

50 books, 50 movies

I tried out my LJ account at evemaykill.livejournal.com . I started this list of 50 books and 50 movies I will try to read/watch this year. So go there and give me suggestions! No friend locks or anything are on.