days 120, 121 & 122 | the life of Joanna Marie

good morning!

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days 115 and 116 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

last weekend, we spent time at the harbor to clean Vaski. when Juhannus is getting closer, i feel stressed. my first Juhannus here wasn't really worth remembering. but that memory keeps coming back to me everytime midsummer is coming. i just want to sleep and wake up when midsummer is over. 

days 112 and 113 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

two gulls tried to attack me this morning. i was just walking my usual route to work at 5 am. two gulls started making angry sounds as i was approaching the lamp post where they were sitting on. i tried to ignore them and just kept on walking.

but then they started to fly really low and down straight to my direction. i got really scared. i covered my head with my canvas bag (as if, it helps 😁). they were still obviously trying to scare me away. at that point, i got super scared and ran the other way. they were still flying over me for a while. when i got to the small tunnel, they disappeared. thank goodness!

i didn't mind walking an extra big round to get to my workplace just to get away from those birds. 

gulls are also scaring the other girls at work. everytime that someone throws the garbage, they come back running with the rubbish that they're supposed to throw away. it's because the gulls are trying to attack them, too! 

our boss said that they don't attack people with black hair. well, her theory has just been proven wrong 😅

day 111 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

i was helping daddy in cleaning the tree branches that they cut in one of their projects. a whole day spent in picking up branches. loading them to the trailer and lifting them again to the dumping area.

my whole body is aching. i need another massage...

at the end of the day, i was grumpy because...who wouldn't?

it's my day off...

instead,

i was working

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days 109 and 110 | the life of Joanna Marie

i cut my bangs last weekend because i wanted to have korean bangs. i watched the youtube tutorial and it seemed easy. so, i was watching the video while trimming my hair. it didn't end up as i wanted it to be, no matter how i tried to cut more here and there. it looked worse. i still went to work last sunday with my new bangs but i just tried to tame it. i even bought curlers yesterday to keep it soft curled. 

after sauna, i curled my bangs and i went to sleep with the curlers on. when i took it off this morning, my bangs is just indescribable 😁

during my break at work, i called to my hairdresser if she has time to fix my hair today. luckily, she did! so i went to her salon after work. when she saw my bangs, she didn't say anything, but her face said it all 😅 and she really fixed my hair. i feel so relieved now. she also cut about 2 inches from my hair. so my old curls are gone. there might be some left but i will deal with it later 😃

day 108 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

as i'm editing this video, i craved for poffertjes. so i searched for the recipe online. the problem is, i don't have the pan for poffertjes. so i will just use a normal frying pan. okay, so basically, i will be making a normal pancake 😁😁😁

my day-off fell on a sunny monday! yahoo! i hope i'll have time to replant my carrots today. they are overgrowing in the small container where i sowed the seeds.

for the first time, we had vegan breakfast buffet at the cafe yesterday. we didn't expect a lot of people because we will be serving different food from what we normally offer. but we were surprised by the number of customers who came. we were so busy and one customer surprised us by coming in to the kitchen and offering to wash the dishes. Somi and i didn't know what to say. but she said that she's a professional kitchen worker and she wants to help us. ohhhh...that was really nice of her. she really helped us a lot! i forgot her name but i will always remember her.

i finally booked a time for massage. i was luckily to get an hour booking today. ahhh...i'm already looking forward to it 😇

day 107 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

the dandelions are out! i'm so happy to see yellow flowers along the way to work. they are like sunshine to me. 

it has been raining for a few days now, though. and yesterday, i stayed home all day. i talked to my sister on the phone and she suggested a new k-drama series to me. well, it's actually a comedy. i watched it right away and my tummy ached for laughing so much! sigh! Koreans are really good in bringing out whatever emotions from their audience 😀

i wore rubber boots to work today. it was raining early in the morning. and when i was leaving from work, the sun was shining. good thing, i have a pair of extra sneakers at work. it would be funny to walk in the sunshine in my rubber boots 🙈

day 106 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

i was editing this video in bed. Amanda is sleeping noisily beside me. she's snores so loud! i hope i'll have a good night's sleep.

i'm feeling ever so tired. the midshift was quite busy today. well, it was a market day, that's understandable. there were a lot of people drinking their coffee at the yard even though it was quite chilly.

the sun was shining when i was walking back home. i carried a bag of cardboards. hehehe. i'm collecting cardboards from the cafe to cover the backyard but i haven't started planting out my seedlings yet. i'm afraid that they might catch cold since it's been raining a lot lately.

day 105 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

i drove to the cafe today to pick up some cardboards. i find it really funny that i had to go there for the cardboards 😸

anyway, i started laying those cardboards in the backyard yesterday. daddy had to push me a little bit to do it because, you know, i'm lazy. hehehe. i'm a procrastinator. a little push made me do some things in the garden and once i start doing things, i really get into it. 

the saturday trip to Suomenlinna went well. it was super nice to spend some relaxing time with daddy. Fasu also had a long walk and went we got to the car, she just slept.

before we drove back to Lahti, we looked for some place to eat. we don't know any restaurants in Helsinki so we just searched online for the nearest food place. we found Luigi's pizzeria. it's a small diner along one of the not so crowded streets in the big city. the pizza was so good! we were really happy with our food. Luigi (we just assumed that was his name) really knows how to make good pizza 👍

oh, and Finland won the ice hockey world championship! congratulations!

day 104 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

i'm still way behind in editing my videos but i'm so happy that i finally get to our first day in Holland!!! 😁 yahoo!!! haahahaha!!

i was planning to finish editing it yesterday, but i watched "the infiltrator" with daddy, instead. a very interesting movie. way more interesting than my videos. hehehe

i was planning to go to Suomenlinna today. actually, i wanted to stay there for the weekend because i have 3 days off from work. which is very rare. but daddy wants to come, too. so, it will just be a day trip then. maybe Fasu will come along. a family day trip to Suomenlinna minus Amanda Panda.

day 102 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

i'm loving the rainy days because i don't have to water the plants

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day 101 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

there was a flood of customers at breakfast time at the cafe this morning. at first, it was manageable. but when customers kept coming, i started to go crazy. i was alone there. thankfully, Somi dropped by.  when she saw that i needed help, she took over the counter so i can add more stuffs for the breakfast table. gosh! i'm so thankful to her!

 Amanda and i took a nap when i got home. when i woke up, i drove to Renkomäki to take Piki out for a walk. surprisingly, he didn't struggle when i put a leash on him. we were walking around Pappa's house for a while. he was following bees. when he found one trunk near the bird's feeding house, he jumped on it and sat there for a long time. he was watching the squirrels while they were eating nuts. i was really amazed at how calm he was. he just struggled when i took him back inside the house. he obviously wanted to spend more time outside 😁

day 99 of 365 | the life of Joanna Marie

watching this video makes me want to eat britakakku right now 

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