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Whoops a homeless umbrella

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Whoops a homeless umbrella
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Answering the phone is the most terrible thing I know. If it’s someone I know, it’s different. I don’t answer unknown numbers because who would call anyway. Only frauds and telemarketing people. But this time I should have. Someone from work tried to get in touch about when work would continue. So I didn’t know it would start this Monday. So whoops. I went on Tuesday. All that matters is that I did go and now I’m back at work. Tomorrow it’s Friday so the week has gone fast. I’m soon getting hang of work again. It’s also nice to see my colleagues again. Without them, work wouldn’t be fun. It’s not something I want to continue with but it’s nice to say, I’m going to work. At least I have a job so I don’t need to be afraid about becoming homeless.

In Finland, you don’t get homeless unless you have some mental issues or an addiction. Or something worse. In a way, I’ve been lucky to have a home and I can afford to buy food. My parents have also been there to help when I needed it. Not everyone has that. But I can’t carry other people’s problems on my shoulders. I have an umbrella to cover myself from things I can’t do anything about but I can sympathise. It really is a shame some have to suffer no matter how they try to change things. Sometimes you just feel helpless because you can’t help other people all by yourself. If people would be less greedy, then things could be better. People with more money than you do should make more effort but politics complicates things which is the reason why I hate it.

So it was back to work and holiday over. There is no time to keep up at night because I have to wake up early in the morning. The weekend doesn’t come soon enough. It’s easy to get lazy when you don’t have a job to go to. When you do naps after work is boss. On Saturday I’m gonna sleep until the afternoon so I have the strength to go back after the weekend.

Dreamy dreams of late

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dreamy butterfly
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I’ve been a bit dreamy lately. The heat, things on TV and just laziness has been on my agenda lately. And writing fan fiction. Sometimes I don’t feel like doing things. But it’s summer and who have time to stay inside to read blogs. Or write them in this case. At least write decent blog posts. I also sleep late so I don’t have the time to do anything during the day. Besides, cooking dinner and sitting on the balcony because it’s too hot to sit inside, has taken all my time so I have been too tired to write any blog posts. Heat just makes me tired altogether.

Also, the movies theatres were opened again. I won 2 movies tickets earlier this year so I used them both. I went to see Star Wars: The empire strikes back and Bad Boys For life again. I’ve only seen the Star Wars movie on TV so it was nice to see it on the big screen. The safe distance in the theatre was 2 benches apart so you didn’t need to worry about the coronavirus. They don’t let in the same amount of customers inside the theatre as they normally do. I actually like this safe distance thing. I don’t like sitting close to someone else. You always only get one armrest and then you sit there feeling uncomfortably the whole movie. I usually go to the movies when there aren’t many people there. I buy my movie tickets online so I can choose where to sit. Or I get tickets for free. It’s not cheap to go to the movies. I belong to a movie club where you can get tickets a little cheaper from time to time. I also take part in a movie panel where you answer surveys and then you get money. They’re small amounts. Mostly under 1 euro. When you have at least 10 euros, you get a movie ticket. That’s how I got to go to the movies more often. I only watch movies I’m interested in.

And the last update of what I’ve been doing lately. I’ve been twice on a bike trip to pick up blueberries from the forest. They say there are a lot of blueberries but I didn’t find that many. It’s much harder to pick up berries than you would think. It would be easier to go to the store or the market to buy them. But when you pick them up yourself, you feel you’ve accomplished something. I got enough to put blueberries with vanilla ice cream though. When you walk around in the forest and try to search for berries, it takes time. Especially when you do it with your bare hand. The berries were quite small so I didn’t take them. It was like searching for a needle in a haystack. You almost need to crawl on all four because the berries are hidden under the leaves in the blueberry plant. There is a lot of bending down and then you’re not really alone. You get to fight off flies and mosquitos flying close to your ear. Then there is no wind in the deepest forest so you get sweaty as well. It’s totally exhausting to pick up berries. Somehow blueberries taste better when you picked them up yourself. I might go tomorrow for blueberry “hunting” to another place. Maybe they’ve already been picked. You won’t know if you don’t go and have a look.