Laura täällä hei: What a fine day! And a week!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

What a fine day! And a week!

I'm feeling great! For no reason and for all the reasons. Most likely it's a combination of all the good things in the past week, such as:

Monday: 1 hour volleyball game, first game in at least 6 months. Plenty of good spikes, and no back pain. Hooray!

Tuesday: Kettlebell class and sauna - sweating like hell in both, sleeping like a baby in the night and feeling nicely sore muscles the next day.

Wednesday: Walked home (45 min in -20c) and gave a 10$ Tim Horton's gift card to a homeless man.

Thursday: Voted for a better Finland. Go Haavisto Go!

Friday: Dinner at a Mexican restaurant and a brisk 30 min walk in -20c.

Saturday: An afternoon nap on a sunbeam on the sofa after a great kettlebell class and a delicious lunch.

Sunday: Homemade salmon soup and Finnish rye bread (with cheese - guilty me!) from an Ukrainian store.

1 comment:

AnonymousJanuary 16, 2012 at 4:06 AM
kiva että löysit sitä leipää! oliko hyvää? :) T:N
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Simply living

I created this blog in 2009 after immigrating to Canada to force myself to write creatively in English. Unfortunately, it didn't force me enough to write in the first place, let alone to be very creative.

2.5 years later, a badly needed one week stress leave with lots of biking in beautiful autumn colours, plenty of tea, hours of chats with old and new friends encouraged me to try writing again. This time it's not about learning English, but it's about finding balance and to stress less. It's about living simply; eating and sleeping well, enjoying the beauty of the nature, sweating in the sauna and laughing with friends.

Getting rid of stress -resolutions 2011 - adopted to 2012 as well

Laugh out loud every day.
Smile to other people when walking on the street.
Think the weather is always perfect, no matter whether it is wet, frozen, sunny or muggy.
Stop feeling guilty when people are just being nice to you.
Admire pretty tea cups, jars, vases and glasses at fleamarkets (and buy some when absolutely necessary).
Sleep at least 7 hours a night, and have a nap every weekend.
Walk or bike to work and observe; see the little details of life (while avoiding accidents).
Sweat the stress out in kettlebells class, pilates or yoga every week.
Have a cold beer, but not every night.
Enjoy red wine with chocolate and cheese, moderately.
Celebrate the in-the-building-sauna and use if often.
Eat beautiful and healthy food, and occasionally some so-much-needed-chickenwings-or-nachos-or-a-burger.
Work 9-5 and nothing more.
Have a one hour lunch break every day.