Here in Finland we haven’t that nice weather now. It’s quite windy and cloudy so it might start to rain soon. I wonder if we will have similar weather like last year but hopefully not. Although I will be working the whole summer so it won’t bother me that much. Over weekends it could be very warm and sunny because then I will have better possibilities to enjoy the nice weather.
Tomorrow I will go to Härmä. It’s a small village what is about 100 km from Vaasa. I will go there to meet few customers. I will go through the software with them. It’s always nice to travel little and these customers are quite nice so it will be fun to train them to use the software. Here in Finlad the summer vacation started today and many people are at home or in their own cottage or they might even travels somewhere, it will be interesting to see how it affect on my work when people are on vacation for the whole month. I think it might be a very slow month...

I just hearing music from radio what brings me back to childhood. It’s rock song from late 1970’s. I remember that I heard is first time when my family was traveling and my father was driving the car. It’s very interesting to see how music can bring you memories what you don’t even know you had. Now in summer time it comes a lot of old music from radio and it’s so fun to listening and I always sing a long (although I don’t have a nice singing voice… I feel very sorry for my co-workers who have to hear… ). It’s very therapeutic I think, at least I feel happy when I am singing; I don’t think my co-workers think the same…

In last blog I forget to say that all my email friends who read my blog, please write to me either to my own email address (I have to old one still left) or to this one what I have here. I have had major problems with my computer at home and I have lost all my friends email address . It’s very sad and I don’t know how I will get them back so please write to me a short note so that I will get in touch with you again.

Have a great day

I hope everyone is feeling as wonderful as me. Sorry that you haven´t heard from me for a very long time but I have so much to do with my study and my new work so I didn´t have any more energy or time to write this blog and I feel little sad about it but now it´s summer again and I have little more time because I don´t need to study for one whole month, yes. I will be at work the whole summer because I started this job in Marsh so I only have two vocation days and I will spend one of them in August and the second I don´t even know yet .

Where will I start with telling about my life now? Maybe the best way is to start with my study. I have already made my baccalaureate and on autumn I start with MSc so my studying is going well. I plant to get my MSc ready for Christmas 2008 and after that I will apply to a other university because I will also do Teacher and Psychological studies so I still have many years ahead before I can says I am finally ready with my studies .

On 10th March I got a now job at Serimo Oy (www.serimo.fi). I am an educator of Lemonsoft software. The company is still quite small and here is only four persons working. Two of them are owners. I am the only woman so that´s great and all the guys are nice and very helpful with everything. Serimo Oy is a dealer of lemonsoft software so we work very closely with Company Lemonsoft (www.lemonsoft.fi) too and there works seven persons (six men and one woman). They are all nice and we even sit in the same room with three of them and once of the week two coders come to our office too so we see them often. This company where I work is taking part of the development of the software too so we test the program whole time when we are not meeting the customers. My work is mostly to educate the different companies (who pay the software from Serimo Oy) to use the software. I need to know a lot of the program so that I know how it might behave in all kinds of situations. I even need to travel a lot too (in whole Finland) because the customers might be in very different places and Lemonsoft use my service every time they need a educator somewhere (there are other dealers of this software too, actually quite many even and they have also customers who needs training but they can´t educate when they don´t have enough of resource because they work alone or they don´t have enough of knowledge of the program like I have so then they call me and ask if I can do it ). I like the job but of course sometimes I feel like it´s too much for me . The customers are usually very nice but not always and they don´t understand why they had to pay at once I leave the office to come and train them so there are many times quite hard arguments of it . I also takes care of the customer support and there customers sometimes asks very difficult questions and of course they need the answer right always and they don´t understand that I am not that often at office because I am training some other company to start to use the software. Most times I like the job and even the customers . I also love the feeling when I can help because it´s so rewarding when they thank me and says that I gave them very good ideas . The hardest thing is for me to understand all the technical things of computer and software and everything like that but I start to know little about it already and little by little I feel like I start to be a professional with my duties . Of course there is still a lot to learn and I am working hard with it . I have only been here for 4 months so no wonder I sometimes still feels like I am "a snowman whos in the courtyard" (Finnish saying, it means "very lost") . Although of everything I do hope I can be here for a very long time so hold your fingers crossed for me .

What else have happened here? Not much. I lost my dear cat Kissen on winter time so I now only have two cats left; Jasmin and Siina. They are both ok now. There was few times where I already though I will lose them too but now Siina have started to eat again and she feels now ok. Jasmin went through a major operation few weeks ago but now she start to be better and I am trying to clean her big wound on the stomach every day and it looks very good and healthy. She had many big knots in her stomach and the Vet operated her many hours. She was so sick the days after the operation that it felt really bad on everyone and we tried to help her so good we only could . Now thankfully it´s over and she will leave a long and great life with us. Next week we know if the knots was cancer or not. My fish are ok. I still have 8 of them in live and they all are very lively but one of them suddenly changed the color. She was very cold almost red but now she is very white. It looks like I might have soaked her in the chlorine water but I promise I havent done it . I don´t know why she has tuned white almost like albino suddenly and it took only few days . She is still well and everything other things are ok so... We even have a wild brown hare on our yard what is not afraid of us so that´s nice and we also have quite many bird nests too so we can every day wake up with bird concert (what is not always that nice... ) .

We have also started to paint our house and garage to red (its the cheapest color here in Finland ). It looks very weird in my eyes but maybe after a while I start to even like it . The funny thing is that this is a color what farmers here in Finland usually use on barns around the fields . So now it looks like we also living in a own big barn . I shall take a photo of it when the house is painted. I have never lived in a red house so this is very new for me too but maybe it´s a lucky color (hopefully ) so after a while we have so much of luck that we don´t even know what to do with it in the end .

Here in Finland it haven´t really happened anything special. We fight about the very expensive gasoline and oil like every other country . We also fight over many different taxis which are very big here and we fight about salary that is not growing like all other things are . We have now the summer time here and next month will be the time when almost everyone is on vocation so everything will be very slow . Here in Vaasa we will have a Residence trade show and it´s quite close to our place so we might even go and see it.

Here are few pictures what I found of Vaasa. The last one, what have two buildings, is a picture of the place where I work at. The company have only small room on the third floor but I wanted to show you the place because it looks very nice in this picture . I hope you will enjoy the photos as much I do.

Have a wonderful day .

I hope you all are ok and the New Year 2008 has begun with huge amount of luck .

I am so sorry that I haven’t bee writing here but I have had so much to do. My study is going ok and I am already doing my bachelor’s degree so I have been writing it instead. I have already made 38 pages of my thesis so it’s 3 to go before I can read it through and make all the fixing before I can leave it to my teacher. I have also made quite many study credit units and I am still doing many for me Master's degree. I also took a new longer course for my secondary subject even if I don’t need it but now I had a possibility take the course after all and I have always been very interesting in psychology. I notice that they had 25 credit units course of it in Summer University so I took my change even that I have already many other courses to do also but....

I am still working at ABB Oy but only for 1.5 months, so it’s coming to end finally. I haven’t yet found anything else but I am still searching and I have applied for few. I do hope I’ll find something else very soon because I need the salary and I have to work although I am studying in the same time but otherwise we can’t pay the house loan. I hope this time I’ll finally get a very interesting and nice work where I want to be for a longer time and what gives me challenge in many ways, even in a creative way what I don’t get now going through hundreds of invoices daily. It’s very boring work and not for me who is not that fastidious.

I had a wonderful course in December where I got to know my MBTI personality type and the whole course was so interesting that I started to want to know more of physiology and pedagogic. Now I know what I want to be when I grow up. I want to be psychologist, therapist, trainer, teacher or research worker in these subject matter. I know it will take a lot of time before I am there but little by little and maybe when I am something like 50 I am finally there .

I made a New years promise to try to find my self and be me in every situation. I will try to find where I am good at and what I need to develop in to become me. I am already trying to be more creative in all kind of ways and I am writing on evenings of my childhood and of everything what have been problem in my life. I also try to meditate so that I’ll find the peace and harmony to get the guts to be me. I have always been quite adapting of everything but maybe now when I am already in this age I finally will get the guts to be me and stand for what I believe in. I have also been quite afraid to show my creative work for other people (I don’t like negative critic. I usually stop if someone says I am not that good in it although I know that every one have different matter of opinion in everything so someone might like my work and someone not…) so even in that I will try find courage in. I already made huge decision last year when I started to write here and put some of my photos to the media page. I will keep doing what and I hope you all still want to read my blog, even that it might sometimes be too personal with all kind of happenings, complaining, planning of my life and enthusiastic of something what I found out.

Ok, here was little of what have happened to me in these few months what you haven’t heard anything of me. I am still ok, little stressed of everything but otherwise my life is a lot like what it was in autumn. I let you know how it goes with my job search, study and of course with finding my self, that will be very interesting journey for me. It will start with physiology credit units in this months where we have to write about our self and investigate behaving. Maybe even I start finally like my self or not….

I hope you all have a wonderful day and I will keep in contact even that it might sometimes take few weeks or even months before you here of me again but it’s only because I have now little bit too much to do.

Love Anneli

I hope you all are feeling well and have a nice autumn . My life has been quite busy lately. I have quite much to do at work so I usually work something like 10 hours daily and then on evenings I go to university because my study began for this term and now I have bookkeeping courses and English. I also will make so many courses I only can now this term because I planed that next term I’ll start with my thesis finally. It will be something with HR to do but I don’t know yet of what I will do it from, maybe of the recruit
system or something like that. I talked with the Human Resource Manager last week and she said I can do it to this company (ABB Oy) where I work.

My dear cat Kissen died on Thursday evening last week so I feel very sorry about it but I know she is in better place now and I hope she is very happy and met my other cat Nessu in heaven and now they are playing together and chasing birds and mice .

Last week I also had to make a big decision of my future plans and I hope I made the right one although I know the other one should have fitted me better. Okay I shall start from the begin, the boss from my last workplace (Real Estate Company) called me and asked if I want to come and work for them again and now I would even get a permanent workplace. I felt like OH NO, not now when I have already left the place . Well I though hard and well on the decision and I end up saying NO after all although I know I might have liked to be there more but I have a principle that I never look back when I change the workplace . Okay here actually the bigger issues what govern in my decision was that I can make my thesis here at ABB and I might have here better possibilities to end up at the Human resource unit if I work hard and try to apply everything what they have open there. At my old workplace I would never have possibilities to these things. My job would only to be to rent apartments but okay I know I would enjoy more that job than this what I have now, go through invoices but hey I can’t wave goodbye to the opportunity that I might some day have the possibility to end up at working in HR unit so I need to stay here and try no matter what.

When I talked with the Human Resource Manager here at ABB of my plans to do the thesis on HR side she said that there will come a workplace open at this unit soon and It came already so I applied for it and now I am hopping I’ll get it too. So please keep your fingers crossed for me so that I will now get this HR assistant job here at ABB. It would be a real and right job for me and I know I would enjoy it because this person who gets the job will take care of the recruitment of new employers and also devise the system too so it would be very interesting and I already have some experience of it too so..... Hold you fingers crossed for me, I need it now.

Otherwise it haven’t happen that much here. The autumn is here and we have something like 10-15 C degrees in Vaasa and the nature looks very wet and the leaves start to change colors little by little. Over the weekends I have only relaxed, cleaned the house, read to my next exam and watched TV. I also have made some homework’s from my bookkeeping course, what sounds little fanny because I am at university and I still get homework’s and I bet we will get lot more homework’s from my English course too so this week will go there doing them.

Okay Now I shall continue with my work. I only wanted to wish you all good and sunny autumn. I also wanted to notify that I am still alive and kicking although I don’t have that much of time to write anymore because of my study but I will do it always when I have few minutes over from my work tasks.

Here is a photo of the university campus here in Vaasa.

I hope you are all feeling great. I have been sick with hard flue the whole last week. I had fever and sore through, cough and my nose was running. I have still the flue but I start to feel much better now. On last Monday I was already planning to write a testament because I was feeling so bad that I thought I won’t survive this one but thankfully I did. This flue bug is very hard one and the doctor says that it will take something like 3 weeks before you will get rid of the flue. I have still two weeks to go but I do hope I will get rid of it little sooner after all.

My week otherwise was quite ok. I tried to relax a lot and I was at home on Monday and Tuesday. I slept much but I also made a translation work from Swedish to Finnish on Tuesday evening to my last workplace. It was a certificate of incorporation so I had to work really hard to get it right but hopefully I did and I hope the man who I made the duty for was happy too. On Wednesday I came back to work, still feeling quite sick but I knew there would be so much of invoices to go through so I had to come and go through them as soon as possible so that day went with posting over 300 invoices. I was quite tired on evening and went to bed very early. On Thursday and Friday I was at work like usually and went through all the duties I had left from Monday to Wednesday.

Over the weekend I still relaxed a lot and started a new diet because I have always been very interesting of raw vegan food and now will I give it a try even that I know it will be a very hard one and maybe not that suitable for cold climates what we will have here in Finland over the winter time but I shall see how it goes and my desire for a healthier life is bigger than the freezing feeling so that’s why I now will try it and see how it goes. On Sunday I “ate” two different green smoothies and a lot of fruits. I also still ate little cooked fish and potatoes (I change my diet little by little everyday so that the detox feelings won’t be that bad). Now today on morning I ate green smoothies with banana, spinach and purging thorn. I tasted ok but quite bitter too. Now on before noon I have been eating fruits and now on lunch I drank smoothies what was made of Soya protein but I know that this one was cooked so now rest of the day I can only eat fruits or raw vegetables. I feel quite ok but I have a headache and my stomach is little weird so now I know that my body is cleaning it self quite hard.

The fall has come to Finland and everything looks so brown and wet. We have quite cold weather already although we shouldn’t have it yet. Now we have about 12 C degrees middle of the days and on mornings it might be between 0-8 C degrees. The days here in Vaasa have already shorten little and now it’s getting dark already 9 pm and on mornings it gets to 6.30 am before the sun rises so little by little we soon will have only few hours daylight on the day. At Christmas time we usually have daylight only between 11 am to 2 pm.

The change to digital television went well here in Finland and they whom belonged to the cable network didn’t get need a digital box so even we got few more months time, until end of February, before we need to get a digital box. This is good because we would want to buy a better one with where you can tape TV program with too so we need to check how much they cost and everything like that so now we got the time after all.

Please hold you fingers crossed for me because the period for applying ended on Friday for the few of jobs I applied for few weeks ago so I now hope they will soon contact me and ask on interview…

Okay now I need to work again. Have a lovely day.

The fall has come to Finland already. Now it’s quite cold on mornings and it’s raining more again. Even the nights get darker every day and now we have dark outside already 9.30 pm. There are a lot of vegetables at super markets and fresh fish. It’s so wonderful with all there tasty vegetables and I am buying a lot of them. Sadly, that they won’t be this fresh the whole winter time, after few months there will only be potatoes, Swedish turnips and beetroots at the market and maybe few onions too.

I met my study adviser yesterday and she said to me that my study is in very good situation because I can already start to do my bachelor's degree thesis and take all the courses for the master's degree. The only courses what I need to concentrate at now are the one on finance side (the worse ones, I have left them behind me only because I know they are very difficult ones) and on language side. I also can start to take my own major subjects for the master’s degree and courses for that thesis too. I feel very proud of me but okay there will still be a lot to do before I get my examination. There will also be little difficult to get them done because most of courses are going on day time and then I am at work so I need to plan everything little better and take from the Open University everything I only can. Okay of course there will not be that much of what I can take from the Open University so that’s why I need to take few from the usually University too and be away from my workplace then.

Over the coming weekend will Finland also link up with a group who belongs to digital television so we will see how it goes. Many people have already bought the digital recorder but there are still many who wait and see how it goes next week because there are few different advices of how everything will go. Like they say that these people who belong to cable network will see the programs because the cable television will change the digital canals to normal analogical interpretation for a while. Then we will see everything like usually. Only the one who have the antenna network needs the digital recorder for now but actually we don’t know how everything goes and if anything of this is for sure right so there are many like us who waits and see. There are also many who don’t have paid the television license fee anymore because of this digital television change. I wonder how many stop paying after next week if the cable network don’t send the programs like they promised .

I hope you all are ok . Our weekend was nice and I didn’t really do anything special. I just relaxed, watched TV and read a book. On Sunday I cleaned our house and water all my plants. Even the one was is outside although soon I have to take them inside because the nights start to be cold here in Finland. Today when we wake up I notice that the temperature was only 3 C degrees. I felt like I am freezing already and it’s not even winter yet .

Today I have been to a SAP training the whole day. That’s been fun and it have helped me to understand my work little bit better and it have been so fun to do something else than go through hundreds of invoices. When I came back from the SAP training there was many weird emails waiting for me and what I have to do something to. I felt so sad of it and my desire to do some other work grew even more .

Today I got a good massage to my neck and back but now I feel even weirder because I have a headache and stomach pain but I think it was because my blood started to circulate better so that’s why I got so weird feeling. Last time I didn’t feel like this although it was my first massage in years but now after two weeks I feel very weird and also my throat is sore after that she massage really hard on the muscles in my neck and close to my throat area so I think that’s why I feel so weird because the blood started to circulate to the ears so maybe I lost my balance sensation for few minutes so that’s why my stomachache started because I always get nausea if I loose my balance (in car and boat). I try now to drink a lot of water now to get all the waste product away from my body what the masseuse put on move. I hope that will help and tomorrow I feel like a new person like I did last time. Weird that every massage is unique happening, I never even though it might be like that. I feel so much cleverer now when I figure out this .

Tomorrow I will meet my study adviser. That’s fun and I hope she have good advices to give me so that I can start my study as soon as possible. I do hope I can do so much courses I only can now because I have so little left anymore and I might even get my examination little faster than what I first thought. I counted that this education takes about 5 years if you can study the whole time but when I am doing it besides my job it might take like 6 years but now when I have already done little bit over the half in 2,5 years I might do the rest in the same time so then I am in the same as the usually students so I feel very proud of my self but okay I don’t yet even know of where I will do my thesis so that might take some time after all . We will see what the study adviser says tomorrow. Then I know more.

Now I have to work little before I can go home.

All the weeks go so fast now. I am doing little longer days at work because I try to get so much of overtime I can. I shall take them when I start to study so then I won’t go so much on minus with my work hours. On evenings I have only cleaned the house, watched TV and read feng shui books. Yesterday evening we spend few hours on a big car stripper bay because my hubby wanted to find some cheap repair parts for his Rally car. It was actually quite fun to be there and watch all the old and damaged cars . It felt like I was on a car graveyard where the cars have been put to rest and I felt like they could tell they own story of their life to me. I thought many time like what have this car been up to in life and who owned it when it was a brand new car. I bet if the car could tell there would be a lot of wonderful stories.

Yesterday I saw that they was a again searching for more personnel here in this company so I applied (of course) for the job although it might be little bit too technical for me . The title for the job is Purchase and the person who gets it will buy all the things for the major projects what ABB will do and visit the places also so that will be nice. I even saw one other work but that job would cause some problem for me because the job require that you’ll spend one whole year in Zambia so I think I might not apply for this one although I am now applying for everything what seams interesting or is away from this unit where I am now . Now I have applied for 4 different jobs but I haven’t yet heard of them. Of one I might hear on next week (I hope that) because the application due date was yesterday so I hope they will contact me soon and ask to come on interview.

The weather is still nice here in my home town. The nights and mornings start to be colder but otherwise we still have little bit over 20 C degrees at midday. They said on weather report that now in coming weekend we start to get autumn weather so it gets colder and rainier again. That’s little sad but hopefully the fall will be warm and long after all. Last night I wake up middle of the night because it was so cold and I had left the window open so I got up to close it. I notice that the nights start to be quite dark here in Finland again because I had to put on lights before I could close the window. After that the room was much nicer . They had major thunderstorms in Helsinki again last night so I am very glad of not living there anymore. The storm came because of the warm weather what they had in Estonia over the week and it came to Helsinki after first doing some damage in Tallinn.

Today here at job we will have a cake and coffee party for the summer workers so the whole finance unit will go and sit together and talk about the summer and say goodbye to these summer workers what we had here. It’s very nice gesture and I bet the summer workers will like it . In my youth there was nothing like this or in the companies I worked in. Maybe it has always been like this here but not in other companies here in Vaasa. I shall save some room in my stomach for the cake because party will be after lunch and I want to take a big piece .

Okay now I have to work little again .

Here haven’t actually happened anything special but I thought I shall after all write something down so that when I sometimes read my own blogs I remember this day. After all this blog is all about my journal so I try to write so much of my life I can. The day started nicely with feeding my fish and eating breakfast . The weather was quite cold on morning when we wake up. We had only 8 C degrees but the sun was shining and there was a light fog so it tells me that the day will come quite warm after all and we will have nice weather the whole day. Middle of the day we might have something like 22 C degrees so that’s very nice and warm for me. Sadly I will be working the whole day so I can’t enjoy the nice weather. They said on the weather report that over the weekend it will get colder and it will rain again so that’s little boring .

Yesterday evening I made some minor Feng Shui changes in our house so we will see how far it will take us. I will keep cleaning our house the whole this week (maybe even next too) on evenings and I also try to solve out these Feng Shui cures what we should do to get better life with a lot of luck, longevity, good health and life would be little easier. I know, I know I can’t believe in this so hard but I want to see how it goes and what might happen if I really try. I some how believe in Feng shui and that it might help us to change our life little or although make us more harmonically too.

I just heard that I shall meet my university study adviser on Tuesday next week. We will plan my study for this coming academic term because I will be working like usually so now I need some help to plan how I will study so that I get so much done I only can. I shall still take a lot of courses from the Open University but I have to take some from the real university too so that’s why I need to plan what/when/how to do it. This will be fun I am already waiting early to study. My next course will start on 3rd September but it will be quite difficult course and something what I don’t like. All my evenings on the whole September will go with management accounting, yeah fun . I hope I can take some other courses also what might be little bit more interesting after all.

On news they told on morning that our gas and diesel taxes will get higher again and so will do the electricity too so the normal living here in Finland will get more expensive every year . I am glad that we just bought new cars what consume less of gas and diesel so that will help but the electricity is bad because we warm up the whole house with that and we have a big house so there the invoices will get more bloody from now on. Bugger .

Okay now I have to work little again. I have 150 invoices what waits for me .

We have lovely weather here in Finland today. It’s not too warm anymore, we have something like 20 C degrees and the sun is shining. I notice that the nights get quite cold already because on the morning we only had 8 C degrees. Soon I have to put a jacket on me when I go to work. The summer it’s coming to it’s end soon. The fall will be already in next month. I hope we don’t get that much of snow this coming winter because it have been raining so much the whole summer so the fall might actually be quite nice and warm. I do hope that .

On evenings now this week and coming weeks I try to clean our house and try to go through it with the Feng Shui eye. I have read now a lot of books of Feng Shui (mostly of the author Lillian Too because I think she is the best after all) and I shall try to get little bit more harmonical life with it. I have already many years been doing a little but now I shall clear away all the clutter what we have got in all the years we have lived in our house and then I will try to effective my career, wealth, love, education and why not all the corners when I now start . I have put some items already there for many years ago but they don’t seem to be that powerful or I might have wrong items so now I go through everything and will throw away all what I don’t need anymore or don’t feel for. The ones what I still want to keep I shall put in boxes and carry in to our warehouse. Maybe after that we will see some changes in our life what will make us more happy and healthy. Maybe we even will get little better luck because now it looks like we don’t have anything left of that . I let you know how it goes. I shall do this as a research . My dear hubby don’t believe in Feng Shui so I shall even to him show that these are very important things in life too. It’s little difficult to get some of the items from Finland but I am trying to use my imaginary to find items what is quite similar or might mean here in Finland the same as the items the author use in Asia. Of course I could buy the items from Ebay too but I feel like I can’t buy all the stuff only to get happy so that’s why I sometimes want to use my imaginary too and only buy the stuff what really could make differences and I need to see the result first before I buy more stuff.

Here at my work there are happening weird things because I heard that one of my workmate had to change unit without any premonition . They came to her yesterday and said that tomorrow morning you will be doing these things in this unit. She was like yeah sure… . But it was for real and today she started at the new unit and on her place there will come someone new from some other totally different area of this company . My workmate have been crying the whole yesterday evening and today so it’s not good behave of my boss . In my eyes she did loose her points and I don’t appreciate her that much anymore. She never told my workmate why she did do this or what was the reason why everything went like this. This was very weird thing I have to say .