Lately my diet has been a little … well, you could say that I took a little vacation. A hectic lifestyle isn´t a good excuse not to cook healthy, but there´s a little hedonist living in my head – especially when life is stressful. So I have allowed myself to be a little more relaxed […]

Last weekend we decided to escape the hectic city life and head up to the Mountains. We always manage to make it feel relaxing and action-packed at the same time, that´s what I love about the outdoors. Our incredibly hospitable hosts fed us such extravagant meals that we needed to make up for that somehow […]

Hi there! These past days have been so busy that I simply haven´t had a chance to even think about my blog. I have been applying for jobs, lecturing about bullying, practising with my orchestra and scheduling interviews. Oh yeah, and did I have a family to take care of as well? Hopefully things will […]

  Today was one of those days. You know, when all plans just fall apart, kids fight and your husband forgets to do his share of household chores. And the coffee maker broke – okay, temporarily, but those minutes were pretty long in the morning. 😉 On top of everything else my computer refused to cooperate. […]

  As I´ve told you before, I´ve totally been bit by a serious workout fly. I´ve been going to the gym (or not just going, but seriously working my butt off) for a couple months now, but now we really started to hit it hard. In Finland I usually went to the classes, and my […]

      Today I came across this blogpost that Ville Lahtinen wrote about the differences between the work mentality of Finns and Australians. For English click here! (His free translation gives you an idea what the original text was about.) These thoughts resemble my observations about the differences between Americans and Finns as well. The point […]

Hello there! Currently my life is revolving around food, more or less. Both me and my husband started a new diet on Saturday after our Italian personal trainer gave us some recommendations. Basically we have the opposite goals: I´m trying to lose 10 kilos (about 22 pounds) and my husband is trying to gain the […]

First things first: I finally decided to start blogging in two languages. I´ve been getting friendly complaints from my English-speaking friends about the fact that they can´t understand anything in my blog – as fun as it is to look at pictures. And according to the statistics, 25 % of my readers are from the […]

  Eilen saimme vihdoin aikaiseksi lähteä Phoenixin eläintarhaan. Sain ilmaisliput eläintarhaan kirjastosta, jossa jaetaan joka päivä nopeimmille kulttuuripasseja, joita voi käyttää esimerkiksi museoissa, taidenäyttelyissä tai eläintarhassa käymiseen. Säästyipä siis 45 dollaria, ja alle 2-vuotiaat pääsivät ilmaiseksi muutenkin. Vielä elokuussa eläintarhan aukioloajat olivat polttavan kuumuuden vuoksi aamuseitsemästä kello kahteen iltapäivällä, nyt ovet sentään ovat avoinna yhdeksästä […]

  Jos eilinen asu oli vähän oman mukavuusalueeni ulkopuolelta, tämä sen sijaan on hyvin lähellä tavanomaisempaa pukeutumistani. Tyyliäni on ehkä hankalaa lokeroida mihinkään yhteen muottiin, mutta minimalisti en ainakaan ole. Rakastan vanhanajan glamouria ja eleganssia, johon liittyvät keskeisesti mekot, näyttävät kaulakorut, rusetit ja muut naiselliset tilpehöörit. (Jollekin on tainnut iskeä myöhäinen prinsessakausi…)  Minulle sopivat voimakkaat värit, pastelleissa […]