I hope this message finds everyone okay. Things with me have been okay. Very busy but that is just like everyone else I imagine. The last 2 weeks have been crazy for reasons that I can’t go into here. I have fell off the wagon a couple of time in terms of some personal goals, but at the same time I am making progress in other areas of my life.

I’ve had both really good news ans really sad news in the last week. But I’ll get through it all…both good and bad.

In the meantime, I hope that everyone is doing well with lots of hugs! 🙂

I just have to say…even though it is 02.00 in local Helsinki time, by hotel room has a sauna included and I decided to experience it. Man, more than ever, I am convinced that my summertime renovations will include expanding the bathroom to include both the sauna, and the bathtub with the jacuzzi jets (I already have this) and shower nozzles built into the walls so that it feels more like rain than a shower.

I just have to save the money for this all…

but an in-room sauna is the perfect treat along with the nespresso maker they leave in the room. 🙂

So now I am on the train to the airport. Going to Paris. Matt has graciously offered to let me stay at his place so I don’t need to worry about hotel.

This weekend will be fun 🙂 Even if I have a ton of work to doon the plane. 🙁

This weekend was a waste.Did not accomplish much I must admit. Managed to work on my e-mail. This week will be busy as well. Will be in Paris, Oslo, and Copenhagen this week. But I am happy at the momentso I guess that is what counts.

And I hadanother great workout yesterday too 🙂

Time to start up with dinner party season soon. This year I will try and have 2 dinners a month. I already had one yesterday…invited Sait over for dinner. We had a really thick pea soup and then salmon and asparagus for the main course…needed to keep dinner kind of light.

After dinner I was coaxed into going out to Connection and that was okay actually…they have stopped playing schlager all night long so it is better now. Met a couple of people when I was out…and that was nice too.

Overall the night went okay 🙂

Today I went and bought a new blender since the old one is destroyed. I also bought a toaster for all of the bread that I never eat. Tonight Markus & Thomas have invited me over for dinner…so I will have to repay the favour later in the month of in February. 🙂

I am guilty of being a really bad LJ poster in December. You would think that December would have been the time when I made most of the effort. But life was so crazy and so busy that I did not make the time to post entries. Or at least not very many. I am going to try and correct that this year. I keep on thinking to myself it only takes 10 minutes to post an entry, why is this so hard? There are plenty of things I waste time on that take a lot more than 10 minutes. So I am going to make a effort to post at least 3 times a week. And I personally would like to start adding more pictures into my post as well.

In some immediate news, my tooth hurts. A lot. It seems that the filling that they have put into my tooth has cracked, so I need to make an appointment for the dentist this week or else it will just get worse and all of the good work and money that I have spent onimproving my dental situation will be for nothing.

Went to the gym today for the first time in a long time. And you know what? My headache is gone and I can say I feel a whole lot better than I have in days. I forgot why I went to the gym…to relax and focus on me…exercising is the one thing I do where all of the work that I put in benefits me and me only…a get all of the reward. So I like that 🙂

I’ll be back at it on New Years Day 🙂

I finally decided to get my Tungsten T3 device working again. Everytime I get it to play along with my PC, I always ask myself why don’t I use it more. At this point, I am too low on the food chain for a corporate Blackberry. And it doesn’t make much sense to me to invest in a Treo when my seperate mobile phone and Palm device are “good enough.” So I think I will wait until I feel that my Palm device is really old and then upgrade to something else. Anyway, it all works again now so that is cool 🙂