Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on...

I've been writing less in my blog lately. I think it's because I've got more work at work. See I've been writing at work. Like now. Well I'll get going home soon.

I've been feeling almost sick today. Like my throat almost aches and I almost have a headache and a flu sort of thing. Almost but not really. It's weird. If nothing else then it's been bothering my concentration. Thus I am blaming feeling kind of sick for not getting much proper work done today. I did get loads of useful things done yesterday so maybe that compensates.

I had a really nice and lazy weekend. Friday with Chinese food and Dr. Who and a bit too much to drink. But all in good fun. The time passed really quickly since I wasn't looking at the time and as I was bicycling home I was wondering why this bar was closed. When I got home it was like half to four so I was like "oh, that explains it". Oh and I bought a new bicycle on Friday. Then on Saturday I started using it since I had to put the lock and a light on it and I didn't have time on Friday. It was funny at the store how the salesman started explaining to the bnd how to put on the lock and stuff and I was like "excuse me, I was planning on doing that myself...". That's what one gets for taking a boy as company to stores like that. And yes, I did do it by myself though the bnd was present though only for company. So now I have a lovely new bicycle. It works great and should work great even in the winter.

On Saturday me and the bnd went to buy winter tires for our bicycles and to finally get my bouldering pad. The weather was great so bicycling around the city with my new bike was fun. The company was fun too. Even went out for lunch to this nice restaurant on to of this hill. It had a nice view and food. The waiters might have wondered a bit about the bouldering pad but I do like seeming sort of weird.

Sunday was like a "regular" Sunday. I cleaned the aquariums. Even took out some extra plants that I now have to send to someone in Helsinki. It now actually looks again like the fish and frogs can fit in the tanks and they can be seen better. "And everybody is happier."

So yeah. I'm having a great time right now. (Well not presently with the almost sickness but in general.) I just need to grow up a bit in some respects and do what I have to do, work wise and otherwise. Planning my party, getting hooked on facebook, trying to find time to clean my apartment, go climbing and see my friends in addition to working, my other hobbies and hanging out with the bnd, i.e life goes on as it does.

Good food, better mood

I had a rather tasty lunch just a few minutes ago. That doesn't happen so very often at the university diner but now it did. They had one of my favorites - spinach and nut sauce with pasta. It's one of those foods that looks a bit funny but is actually quite tasty. They actually haven't had it in ages but now they did. I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that a couple of weeks back these people came to give me a carrot and ask me things about the diners and I told them that I was missing this particular food. Seems like it would be sort of weird if it was really because of that but who knows. And it wasn't only the main course that was good. The salad was also quite nice. Nothing special really but they had carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes in addition to the normal salad. And to top it all off they had this great bread - white with cheese on top. Yummy. So I was most likely moving around while eating and looking sort of silly. But I can't help it. Good food gets me in a good mood and in a good mood I move around possibly looking sort of silly.

I'm planning on going to buy a new bicycle today. I had to check that I have enough money on my account. I do even though it seems I spend more money each month than I actually make. I will have to look at my situation in a while but for now it's all fine and dandy. I make money so I can spend it doing what I want.

I give up

I'm giving up on getting any actual work done this afternoon. Well it is Friday after all and I have had a rather busy week and the next one should be one too. At least hopefully since I'm planning on doing loads in the lab. I had demonstrations this week so I haven't really been able to get to the lab at all. And I am really excited about setting up new crystallizations and analyzing the rest of the one's I have since getting a new structure last week.

The tire on my bike is still/again flat. I haven't had time to fix it so I've been walking to work. This afternoon however I should have time to do it properly and I'm hoping it will work. I went and bought a new inner tube and I just have to see that the original cause is not still on the outer tire. Oh I sort of like getting my hands dirty doing these sorts of fixing things so it's not so bad. Oh actually last time as I was fixing the thing originally, the bnd just served me tee. :) It was sort of fun. (Ok, he did help just a little bit, I have to admit.)

I'm hoping on having a sort of lazy weekend but it seems I may have to have Sunday on Saturday since Ive booked things on Sunday. (Sunday = clean the aquariums and the apartment and so on.) But I'll see what I'll do when I do it. I'm really looking forward to sleeping late. Should be fun.

A new structure, climbing and the weekend

Firstly I have to mention that on Friday I solved this structure and it was new. Like just what we've been wanting for the past year! Very great. I'm way excited about it. I'm quite sure there will be a publication on it in time. It's like finally something...:) And I've only just started. I hope there's more interesting results soon.

I climbed higher again. I'm sure I've mentioned this one wall I've been working on. Well I only have like a bit more than a meter to go. The problem with getting all the way up is that I just haven't got enough power to hold myself up once I get high. But I'm working on getting my hands to get me there. Remembering the moves also helps save strength and get me higher. Some of the other walls now feel like climbing a ladder. Easy. But I'm no way any good yet. I still have a long way to go to get good and then better. I'm trying to go twice a week now that I have more climbing friends.

Oh on Friday as I was bicycling back from climbing, I got a flat tire on my bike. And we'd taken like the long way home and I was like at least 6 km from home at like half past nine in the evening. But no matter really since we were just by the lake and they had this nice lighting on the path where I always skated too. And the company was nice. And it was a Friday so I did not stress about having to be home and asleep. I had arranged to see the bnd for tee later so only that was going to be a bit later. Or actually a lot later. So me and my new climbing friend walked for a few kilometers to where he lives and then I walked home with my bike. I was in good spirits even though it was a bit annoying. But what can one do. So I got home at eleven and then took a shower and went for tee. It was sort of funny explaining to the bnd how "this time" I was late because my tire broke. See last week I was late home from climbing for tee because my climbing friend had said the magic words - "chocolate cake", while we were bicycling back. See it does seem a bit suspicious, doesn't it. But no worries in that department apparently.

Saturday my sister had an engagement party and it was great. I had tons of fun and got to see my brothers and all but one sister. Even saw a cousin. The atmosphere was really great, I had fun conversations with people and some very good home-made cheese crackers. Yummy. I need me some more of those.

But I best get back to work now. I've been working on the upcoming demonstrations. I want the first group to go better this time so they don't think I'm a complete mess of a teacher. Though I'm not really a teacher and so on but they don't know that. I also want them to actually learn the stuff and it would be great if I could actually be of some assistance in that department.

Work and weekends

I was supposed to finish this application for money today but I'd totally forgotten to copy my CV on to my USB-stick and thus I have to work on my CV at home today. I really have to get the application done. But since I haven't been working much on the application I've been doing other things. I've solved a structure that I've already got, I've cleaned up my desk, sorted the papers from last weeks demonstrations, done so playing around with this parking info sheet for like my residents' association in which I am now the secretary and I talked with my boss from Germany and got new chemicals. All in a days work.

I had a really nice weekend. Spent loads of time with the bnd but also got to see other friends. I even went climbing on Friday. Bicycled over there so it took like all night. See I was supposed to go play badminton with this friend I've been playing badminton with for the last couple of weeks but since there was this religious thing where we go play, we couldn't. So we went climbing instead. It was fun showing a new person something I really like doing and even more fun when he actually enjoyed it. I think I may be getting a new climbing friend. :) And spending Friday night climbing is like way great. No need to go out drinking or anything and loads of fun. Uh oh, I got higher up this wall I'd just gotten up higher on Tuesday of last week. I'm getting there - to the top.

And I actually cooked some food on Saturday. It was fun. See I was just supposed to have a friend over for coffee but since I was getting hungry I changed it into a "light lunch" and coffee. Then I got this idea to bake this tuna quiche thing so I did. Then since I had this banana that needed eating and some ice cream, we had dessert with the coffee and since I've had this bottle of cognac since like spring and no-one ever seems to want any, we had some cognac with the coffee. Oh it was hilarious how just having coffee can sort of turn into a proper meal with aperitifs and everything. The problem was of course that I was going for dinner with the bnd and ended up not being very hungry when we did. But it didn't matter much. Mind you, I only had very little cognac so I wasn't tipsy or anything like that. Well at least not until I had some wine with the food.

But it's past four. I best get home so that I still have energy to work on my CV. I'm wanting to have a friend over for coffee too and I don't want that to go too late.