Another week, another fading memory

15.2 Monday - I woke up to the alarm clock at around 7. After a quick breakfast I met the electrician at the apartment. He was done in 2 hours. I went back home and took a shower, had a meeting at home and walk to the office. Time for another meeting and then Joni arrived to record another podcast episode. After recording I started editing. Late in the evening I was done and walked home. 

Will be hidden

16.2 Tuesday - We woke up and went to the office. We worked most of the day in the office and around for I walked to the apartment to renovate. I was mentally paralysed and didn't get much done. I was done at around 6-7 and walked home. Food and TV I presume.

17.2 Wednesday - I went to the apartment at 9-10. I renovated the whole day, had lunch at 14:30 Döner Kebab, continued working and walked home at around 7. Good progress. Maria had made pasta.

Royal nepal

18.2 Thursday - After breakfast we walked to office and worked the day. At 4 Ricke arrived and we worked on a new concept. At about 7 we were done an walked home. Maria made the same pasta as the day before.

Dry wall is up

19.2 Friday - I met Titus at the apartment and we attached the dry wall on the living room side. Then we chipped of tiles and boards. At around 3:30 we were done. I walked home and had some sandwiches. I picked up Titus by car and then Maria. We shopped groceries and drove to Isak's place where we had pizza and sauna. We were back after midnight.

Dinner time

Evening

Isak showing his stuff

Titus looking at stuff

20.2 Saturday - Woke up around 8 and had breakfast. Bread, cheese, cucumber. Among other things. We cleaned the house and I walked to the apartment to see I have all gear I need. Back home I ate soup Maria had made and then we drove to Ikea to look at kitchend and storage solutions.

Random Ikea kitchen

Ikea was packed and we tried to escape as soon as our business was done. Steak and fries and a documentary about Kurt Cobain. I watched until 1:30 Youtube clips. It was fun.  

Walls are flat, reporting for duty

21.2 Sunday. Woke up at 9 and made coffee and took out dates. It's about plus two or three. Now is now. I am going to renovate after breakfast. So I renovated for six hours. Actually, scratched the whole time. Now to concrete walls in the bedroom are ready for painting. Yeahs! I bought some pasta ingredients coming back. Maria had soup. We watched cool stuff on Youtube. Youtube has so cool stuff.

Mopping 3x

The man

Walls flat

A timely update

Improvised dinner

11.2 Thursday

On Thursday I woke up at around 8. After coffee and an egg sandwich I walked to the apartment under renovation. I started preparing for the arrival of Isak, my older brother. Titus arrived and he arrived and we started building the frame for the wall. At 15 we went for lunch: pita kebab with fries. We bought some buns and coffee at the bakery. We put up the boards and were done around 17. It was a great feeling to see the progress of the wall. 

I felt like going to the sauna but it was booked so I took a shower instead. The rest of the day I rested, if I recall correctly. 

 12.2 Friday 

I woke up early - at 7:15. At 8 I was at Titus back door. We drove to the office and packed film gear. We drove to our parents and had breakfast. Titus helped our mom with her new phone. I was thinking of the weeks comic. It can be stressful to come up with a good comic. No excuses help if the idea is crap. We drove to Porkala, our parents cottage, to put on the heating for Titus who was going to spend the week-end there. We drove back and rigged the camera on the roof of the car. Just before arriving to Kirkkonummi centre. We shot for the documentary we are working on about two rappers from Kirkkonummi. It was freezing. When we drove to Kirkkonummi it was -22.5. 

Porkala 1

Porkala 2

We drove back to Helsinki and I dropped of Titus. I drove to the office and carried the gear to the office. Maria and I did some administration and the day was done. 

Camera on roof

We walked from work to Lidl and bought ingredients for Tortillas. It was busy in the Lidl. It's a nasty Lidl and the milk we bought had a best before date of the following day. Infuriating. A drunk bought a couple of cans of beer for his last coins. We walked home and prepared the food. We ate in front of the TV and chilled until we were fed up with that. We thought we have to do something different. We made some music with guitar and then yoga. Then sleeping and 

13.2 Saturday

It was not an egg sandwich

We had egg sandwiches and coffee for breakfast. I read. We went for a walk. We walked to the new mall "Redi" and got on the ice there. We walked a good 2,5 hours over the ice to "Arabia" where we had hot chocolate and something savory and sweet. While I say in the café I felt: the life in Finland remains the same and you cannot avoid it. 

We walked back but only shortly after leaving the café I could feel the trembles of an urgent case of diarrea. Something turned in my stomach but a couple of farts provided relief. We went to Lidl on the way back to get some groceries. At home Maria made soup. I read the lovely book "The Psycholgy of Money" - warmly recommended. 

Maria on ice

After food I started drawing on the weekly comic for the pocast that is published by the Finnish broadcasting company. I was done with the line art at 19. We went to sauna. Someone had been smoking in the sauna and left it dirty. Disgusting people! 

After sauna I colored the comic. I had two tortillas from the left overs from the day before. I laid in the sofa and planned the Sunday and coming days in the sofa until I went to bed at 15 minutes to midnight.

14.2 Sunday

We woke up naturally exceptionally early today, at 8:00. I made a valentine day's brekfast for Maria. Mango, red grapes, orange, strawberry jam, honey, cheese, butter, light bread, dark bread and coffee. 

After breakfast we went skiing. We walked 2 km to the tracks that start almost in the middle of Helsinki. You can easily ski tracks that are over 50 km. We were again out exceptionally early, at 10. We skied 5.75 km and it took 1 h 12 min. 

Skiing in the central park

We walked back home and bought some ravioli on the way back. Expensive 250 grams for 3,70 euros. They were made in Italy. So they MUST be great. Maria blended walnuts, cheese, spinach and olive oil and mixed with the boiled ravioli. Also a tomatoe mozzarella salad. It was delicious. 

After lunch I continued my Sunday to do list. It feels great to have a Sunday todo list. Updating the blog is one of the things. My plan is to hang up a curtain, write a podcast episode and prepare everything in the apartment for the electrician's visit tomorrow. Now is now and it has been a sunny day. 

A slightly delayed post stressing my brain

26.1 Tuesday. Mum called and said the cover over the boat had collapsed under the weight of the snow. We decided to rectify the issue at once. We drove from the office to the hardware store and bought the necessary supplies to build a wooden frame. 

Shopping metal

Shopping wood

Childhood home

We arrived to out parents place and they served casserole with potatoe and anchovies. After food we went out and rebuild the cover. A good 2-3 hours later we were wet and went to sauna. Then we drove back to Helsinki to sleep.

Cover mission completed

27.1 Wednesday

We slept longer in the morning.

Resting in the morning with coffee

28.1 Thursday. 

We woke and went to a secret meeting. After that we walked to the resturant Alice Italy and had brunch. People were not wearing masks and it was as busy as if everything was normal. After we went back to the office and participated in a big meeting with the national broadcasting company. After that I watched some documentary footage. 

Bad news

Buffet lunch

meeting

tired

29.1 Friday

We had a lateish arrival to the office. We had a party to celebrate the completion of our kids show Lekisdagis.

The table is served

Speech

30.1 Saturday

We drove to our parents place. There was a non dangerous accident on the way.

Stuck for a very short while

We skied in the afternoon and ate lindströms biff.

Late skiing

31.1 Sunday 

Pekka fav webcam

I made small dip

Winter

Nocomment

Going down

Mother

Fringe cut

Woke up in Jorvas. We went skiing and playing icehockey. Food was verdura gratinata and then we went to sauna and drove back to Helsinki.

1.2 Monday

I recorded podcast with Joni and edited until 21:00. 

2.2 Tuesday

It was snowing a lot. 

3.2 Wednesday

We slept a bit longer and after breakfast we bought pastries called "Runebergs tårta" and brought them to the office. We had baguettes with hummus, tomato and salad. We had the first office get together with our fellow co-office inhabitants and talked about our movie making dreams. 

After that I went to our apartment and started renovating.

4.2 Thursday

I woke up quite early with alarm clock and walked to the apartment. I met Titus on the way and got his drill. It was super cold, close to -20.

Cold morning

At the apartment I started fixing and fixed the whole day until about 17:00. During the day I picked up some bits from Titus place and went home to eat soup that Maria made. 

5.2 Friday - Woke up a bit earlier to get to the office on time. We drove by car to office and picked up Titus on the way. The engine showed a malfunctioning warning but was gone when we restarted the engine. At office quick work on podcast script, producing next days shoot. Then the committee got in the car and we drove first to Mikrofonikauppa and from there to topshot. We saw an icy truck.

Icy truck

We drove back to Kallio and gave the car to Ellen. We walked to Mc Donalds and had a big meal. From there I walked to the apartment to renovate. I talked with Isak about the renovation and then I started renovating. I made a lot of paste so I was patching until 22:00.

Titus vloggin with his new camera

Fixing the ceiling

I walked home and Maria had made a salad and it was tasty. Then sleeping.

6.2 Saturday

Woke up around 8:15-8:30 and didnt want to leave the warm bed. Breakfast, going to toilet and dressing up and then ready for a day of shooting. I picked up Titus, drove to the office, packed the car and picked up the first rapper from the duo Likanen Etelä. We drove to Kirkkonummi and pick up the other member Rambo. We rolled in Kirkkonummi, went to our old school, ate pizza, walked around in the centre and the day was done. We drove back to Helsinki. The hot car and cold outside was exhausting. We unloaded the car and I drove home. Maria made steak and then I went to sauna. 

Likanen Etelä

7.2 Sunday. Woke up at around 8:30. Breakfast with sweet rye bread, dates and coffee. Then updating this. We met Petteri and Anna and went sliding for a bit. They invited us for coffee and then we walked home. Maria made couscous salad. I drew on the weekly comic and then I went to the apartment and renovated one bit. It went well. I came back and made bruscetta and salad. Maria had made pasta. I watched a part of the movie The Dig. Then I finished the comic and now is now. This writing was a pure squeeze. No inspiration.  

8.2 Monday. Woke up at around 8 and came to office at 10. At 15 we recorded a podcast episode and I stayed and edited it until 21:00.  I bought some -60 % groceries after 21 in the supermarket. It was cold outside. 

9.2 Tuesday. After egg sandwiches and coffee we drove to office. At office we had a couple of meetings and lunch. Then Titus and I drove to Bauhaus and bought construction materials for the wall in the apartment I am renovating. We got a trailer borrowed for free. We carried the supplies up to the apartment and returned the trailer. Via the horrible and expensive second hand store Kontti by the red cross. Drove back to Helsinki and ate Maria's delicious salmon in lemon-butter sauce and watched one hour of American Hustle. Then sleeping.

The man who always keeps me waiting

10.2 Wednesday Today I woke up having slept a bit bad. Previous nights I had slept well. We had egg sandwiches, coffee and oranges for breakfast. We had a meeting with CHP and Ricke at home about an idea. From there we continued to a restaurant to have lunch. And meetings. We walked to the office and have been here since then.  

A new week

Sub in snow

19.1 Tuesday - Woke up 8-9 with no alarm clock. Around 9-10 we drove to Telefoto and picked up some goose necks, then to Verkkokauppa to get a sub woofer to our office and then to Mall of Tripla to pick up the speakers that Titus had ordered from Germany. We bought some lunch supplies to make sandwiches and drove to the office. At the office we attached lists and drilled holes for the new speakers. I drove home to pick up my skies and then drove Espoo. I met Kai in Oittans.

Skiing with Kai

He had rented skies and I had my own. My boots had been eaten by mice on one shaft, so now I know that the boots have been swapped with my fathers. He has mine and I need to get them back. We went skiing for at least 5 km. It was so pleasant. We got back before 6 so that Kai could return his rental skies. I drove back to Helsinki.    

20.1 Wednesday - The morning is hazy - I cannot remember what was going on. At the office we attached lists to the walls. We went for lunch to Royal Nepal in Vallila. 

Lunch time

We drove from the office to our storage place at Kaarlenkatu and carried down the last junk from the office. First I was angry, then Titus. 

It's not about what you do - it's how you do it

Renovation completed

I had pressed the whole day to go skiing. I reached the track at around 8. I skied about 25 km. It was fun and the tracks were so good I felt I was skiing in Lapland. 

Skiing landscape 1

Skiing landscape 2

My fathers boot was clamping and I got a chafed back foot. I could ski all the way to Töölö Bay and from there I walked back home. I bought some milk on the way and it was about 23:00 when I reached home. I took a shower. 

21.1 Thursday - we woke up and had the standard coffee and dates. Clayhill met at our old apartment at 10 and started tearing down the last bits of the decor for the kids show Lekisdagis that we shot at the apartment.

3D printed from Kiva films

We carried everything down to the cellar where we have a small room. From there we drove to Tripla and had lunch at Tortilla house. 

Tortilla lunch

From there we drove to a 2nd hand sports shop. Maria and Titus bought skies. It was snowing hard. Then we drove to the same ski tracks from yesterday and Titus and I skied 15 km. Now my back foot was seriously chafed. 

Me skiing, photo by Titus

We drove back home and went to sauna. After that some improvised tomato-tuna pasta. Good exercise.

22.1 Friday - On Friday we attached the lids to the lists after having pulled the last cables. Finally the office was done and it was neat! We walked home and bought some pike-pearch. We ate it with oven veggies. I stayed up for a bit too long and didn't sleep to well.  

These are the mornings

A flower

23.1 Saturday - We started cleaning after a slow breakfast. We started the cleaning of the whole house- Sauna at around 4:45. I played some railroad tycoon 3 on my old computer but when I tried to merge by railway company with a competitor the computer crashed and I quit. More than this, I struggle to remember.  

Time for hair cut and weight loss

Warmer days

24.1 Sunday - Slow breakfast. I continued the cleaning by a complete scrub of the whole bathroom. Floor tile by floor tile. Then I mopped the floor and we went through our most cluttered closet. Now it's in perfect order. Then I went through my administration. All papers are in folders, mostly in chronological order. Feels good even though I didn't get anal with it. I will look at very few of the documents ever in the future. That concluded the 2 day cleaning. 

Cleaning up

We went for a latish walk. The city is covered in sleet and we made sure not to walk too close to our office. On the way back we stopped in Lidl and bought some groceries to enable our sub-sequential sandwich making. We watched something on TV and ate our sandwiches. 

Rue difficile

25.1 Monday - On Mondays you go back to work. No alarm clock but woke up at around 8. I started the day by working on the cartoon for our podcast. The concept and most of the line art was ready so it was mostly polishing the final drawing and coloring it. With a cup of coffee and a smoothie. After that a light breakfast - two slices of bread with German salami sausage. 

Onwards! To work!

Then we walked to work and there I rigged the podcast recording studio. Joni arrived and we had our weekly meeting with the national broadcaster and then we recorded an episode about status and money. Joni left after we went trough some administration. 

Arrival of podcast host

I started slowly editing the episode and had some lunch, coffee and fastlagsbulle (bun with whipped cream and almond paste). I was done with chopping the structure at around 21:30. I walked home via buying groceries. I sat on a Persian mat, brushed my teeth and went to sleep.   

Late at work

26.1 Tuesday - I woke up exceptionally early. 4:45. I got up 5:30. Since then I have been sitting in our blue sofa and writing. The city hasn't still woken up and it is 6:25. I just read an article about a report on how our political systems are unable to deal with climate change. Feels like I've been there. 

Now it's 14:20 and I have edited the podcast episode ready and read through a contract.