I'm just posting this photo here. I thought it is beautiful. Like a painting. But I can't paint so I took a photo instead. It's easier with a camera. There are trees and the sky in the pic.



And see how awful the weather can get (in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a few days ago).

At home again. I returned from Portugal yesterday after 4½ hour flight. Somehow landings and departures make me emotional. Landing in Portugal made me cry when I saw the sea and the airport with 0 trees and because the place looked like exactly how I had imagined. Before that I had been only to Norway, Sweden and Ahvenanmaa (Åland, that should be sold to Sweden IMHO).. So... I waited to get to south for a long long long long time. I was sad because I got this feeling that if that place is anything I've thought I probably would never want to go home again. And I was happy because I knew I was there at last. And the departure. Yes. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to stay there. Why??? Oh. Why not???? I'm sitting here again. In Finland (fighting with the office assistant robot). The land of thousands of lakes and fucking cold climate that I don't care about that much and tense people drinking beer (yewww).

The first day in Albufeira, Algarve (the southernmost region of Portugal) felt a bit hot but then the 2nd day was just awesome. And all the other days. I didn't know which way to look at. The sun. Sun. Sun. What else do people need? I don't know. And I'm not even a beach person. I just walked around, at least 5-6 hours every day. Albufeira is a total tourist city nowadays (only 30 000 local people) but it used to be a fishing village. The old part of the village is still very beautiful (not that the new part wasnt) and there were small streets. People sitting outside their houses in the night and dogs wandering around. You can go shopping at 11pm at shopping malls (because of tourist masses) or even later. People's working days are longer (including a break from 1pm - 3pm) than here in Finland so they eat dinner after 9pm. I found that a nice habit. Local people did that partly because most of them are working until 7pm or later but tourists of course did that too. Then you don't have to eat breakfast (just coffee or so). I never eat breakfast anyway. I read one book of paleolithic food  and it said that eating in the evening is natural for people contrary to popular belief. Maybe. It makes sense.

Last tuesday we visited Cabo de São Vicente. The southwestern-most tip of Algarve (and Portugal and Europe). Huge cliffs. A bit like North Cape in Norway. The place was nice too but there were also German motorists visiting there. Different kind of tourist attraction. I heard they had some kinda meeting in Faro (capital of Algarve) later.

For me everything was amazing of course. Every orange and almond tree. We have only apples in Finland. So boring. One small gekko liked to stay with us on the balcony every night. Cute. The hardest thing I've done in my life was packing at 1.30 am after drinking 1 liter of sangria. I don't recommend trying. Packing that way, I mean. Sangria was ok. Then I was forced to come home. The worst thing I've done in my life.

Maybe I'll post some photos later. Can't do that now 'cause I had a real film camera as a shooting tool.

The only mystery is how it would be like working and living in the south. Would I get bored and angry there too or what. I'd like to know.

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Sorry. That was a must I watched the game yesterday and was really glad that Italy won. Or.. that France did not. Mostly. If you don't know what I'm talking about.. you're living on some planet far far far far away.

I worked in a sweat shop today. 7 hours. Then I came home and it's almost raining now. And I'm happy. I never thought I'd say that.

I visited Helsinki on Saturday and I don't feel like a tourist anymore. When I visited there alone for the first time, it was weird. I rarely hear people speaking foreign languages in my own town (ok, sometimes Russian,). I love languages... and different cultures. I really hope that American culture won't take over the world. I probably should write this in Finnish too. Buuut...no. Maybe I'll write my next post in Suomish. Because if I dont have anything to say, it really doesn't matter..only 5 million people can read my stupid stories. Haha.

I'm getting old and ugly. Men are so lucky because they never get ugly like women. If I could've chosen my sex when I was born, I would've wanted to be a man. Not that I'd want to change it now. Or then I could've chosen not to born at all. Yes.

My day:

- I met two spiders during the day, I had to move both of them and I have arachnophobia
- When I went to a supermarket, many men were watching Germany-Argentina game there and made noise, also one worker had joined them. I guess they had no money to go to watch the game to a pub or so.
- I went cycling
- I noticed that when I sleep more I'm not so tired at work anymore
- I read from a health magazine (that only women read) that sleeping is good for your brain
- I knew that already but I still don't sleep enough
- I don't even know why I'm writing this stupid blog that nobody reads and I'm so pissed off because I never do anything cool
- I still don't know why I don't have many good friends
- I guess it's because I talk too much and don't listen enough and I'm always at home so I don't meet new people
- I thought I want to change my nationality
- List of countries I could move to: Norway, Iceland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Australia, Brazil
- I added "go to see a shrink" to my to-do -list
- Perkele


Which one do you prefer?