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Archive for September, 2008

I had a discovery last week. As some of you may know, I collect Barbie. I started about 4 years ago, and managed to make a fool enough of myself to kind of bring the hobby to a public audience in Finland after a few newspaper and magazine interviews, TV appearances and even a listing at the IMDB. Despite my enthusiasm, I kind of lost interest in the whole thing for a while. Might be because of the move from Finland to Australia, no more extra money to spend on Barbie. However, last week I was invited to a Barbie-lunch, as it was called, with 3 local collectors. Two of them collects vintage Barbie, one has just started and doesn’t quite know where to go yet, and then me, Read the rest of this entry »

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I haven’t felt like posting since the shooting in Finland. I don’t know if you heard of it, or paid attention. A guy went into a school, shoot 8 women and 2 men dead and then himself. The school happened to be in a town that I have a lot of relatives in, Kauhajoki, and where I used to study pop & jazz music for a year some time back. One of the best years of my life, even though I didn’t learn much.

Fortunately I think nobody I know got hurt. At least I haven’t been told that. The police is finally taking illegal threats more Read the rest of this entry »

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Although I am not planning to have children in the near future, if ever, I often find myself talking to one of my own, in my imagination. Today, I have one of those life lessons to share with all of you.

I was born with talent. Lots of talent, in lots of different things. I’m talented in writing, singing, designing, modelling, arts and even sports as I am very limber and very coordinated. In sports, although nobody would believe this, I have been actually asked to try out to represent my nation Read the rest of this entry »

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I have a bit of an identity crisis. The first three identities I had were easy to swallow, and digest.

Identity 1.0

Child. A calm, good girl, mother’s precious, active, good at school, shy.

Identity 2.0

Teenager. Pimple faced. Awkward, unpopular. Read the rest of this entry »

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A friend of mine just sent me a link to a song asking me to listen to it as it was so lovely. I knew it would not be my kind of music, as our taste is completely different, but I clicked it open nonetheless. It was a Finnish song, called “For real”, and it was about loving someone for real, and not just pretending to. I kept listening to it, mainly out of listening to my own language, but then it suddenly hit me why she loved the song. She spent a good portion of her life with men who pretended to love her, who put her down if she would think “too much” of herself, as in, had some self respect. They would beat her, lie to her, cheat on her, and then blame all of it on her. I remembered what she told me once. She said that with my example I had taught her to value herself, that she mattered. She was worth more than that. Read the rest of this entry »

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Today is our third wedding anniversary. 4 years we’ve been together, this is also the anniversary of our first date. (Unintentional, just happened that way.) I didn’t realize it was today before my husband reminded me. Sometimes I think that the umbilical chord that was wrapped around my neck before my birth must have prevented the oxygen from travelling into my head and I came out a bit bloky. We got married in the autumn, but now it’s spring, odd isn’t it? Funny what the good old globe can do to you. Read the rest of this entry »

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One of my all time favorite bloggers Alex Kay just published a guest post by yours truly. The topic is online dating and how to write the first email – advice for men. Please have a read (around) and post a comment, Alex is a great blogger to talk to – and so am I of course.

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