"This pizza deserves a blog post!"

I like making my own pizza when I have a craving for it. It's so simple and quick, and oh my god it tastes so good! I had to improvise today because we didn't have any canned tomatos and the sauce is so amazing! I decided to share my pizza recipe with the few people that actually read my blog haha. x

Preheat your oven to 220°

Base
3 dl water, body temp
1 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of dry yeast / 45g active yeast
3 tablespoons of oil
~9 dl flour (I just add flour until the dough is firm and stops sticking)

Mix water, salt, yeast and oil in a bowl and start adding flour in small portions until the dough stops sticking. Let it rest while you prepare the rest of the pizza.

Topping
500 g mince
garlic
salt
black pepper
paprika
chilli powder
basil, dried or fresh

3 tomatoes
tomato pure and ketchup
~1 tablespoon of sugar (yes, sugar)

cheese

(feel free to add any optional toppings you like to have in a pizza, my personal favourite is pineapple)

Fry the mince and add garlic and the spices (add as much as or little as you want). Chop the tomatoes and add them in the pan. Add roughly four tablespoons of tomato pure and about 1 dl of ketchup, I didn't measure anything but went by the texture. Add a bit of water if needed to turn it all into a sauce and add sugar. It removes the bitterness of the pure and makes the sauce absolutely amazing.

I use baking parchment to cover the oven pans to make cleaning a bit more effortless, but whatever you decide to do simply "build" the pizza like usual on an oven pan. Put the pizza in the oven for 20 minutes. Enjoy. <3

Supersize vs Superskinny

This program is so lethal seriously. Every single time I end up watching it I just start thinking that I never want to eat again. Seeing the amount of food these overweight people consume is just so... insane. I think it's a good kick for me though, I never want to get that bad with food so I always start looking what I put in my mouth. I've had awful slips with my little losing weight project lately that I'm glad I watch this. :D

Then again it got me thinking. This program is about eating disorders and tries to make people think about their unhealthy eating habits. But what about some really really "ill" people, what if they only get even more excited when they see how badly other people eat and what their bodies are like because of it? I sure hope they just get a wakeup call and start working on fixing their eating habits.

I don't want to be skinny, I do quite like having a bit of fat on my bones but I do still want to lose a stone or so. I bumped into this picture ages ago and just had to dig it up again to paste it here. Yes, I do prefer the one on the right. She looks healthy and happy.

My lovely raidleader

I have this friend I play with, he was telling me how I should make every blog post about him the other day. I told him that maybe one day I'll write about his sense of humour. Well, I think I've facepalmed enough to finally write about it. :D

[G] [85:Meeria]: haha nah he went to get his hair cut, hes been waiting for a lift for hours haha
[G] [74:Combatlog]: weird place to get your hair cut
[G] [74:Combatlog]: id look for a barber, not a lift
[G] [85:Meeria]: :DDD
[G] [85:Meeria]: ass <3
[G] [74:Combatlog]: im assthonishing
[G] [74:Combatlog]: asstonishing even
[G] [85:Meeria]: lol oh god... :D

Two bad jokes in one conversation, gotta love him. <3 And he is my guild's raidleader, the amount of bad, AWFUL jokes he makes on some nights.. :D

Random Wednesday morning / early afternoon chats.. :D

I do get worried sometimes. :D Some of my friends are just so random, but at least they manage to make me laugh! <3 :D Name blurred because it's actually his real life full name, RealID displays the person's real name.

And as you can see from the time stamps they're all parts of different conversations. ^^

My slightly disturbed guildies.

Aydah: do the cupcakes live in harmony with the elephants or do they get eaten by the elephants :o
Meeria: and erm ada
Meeria: i dunno :D
Meeria: i think i need to find out someday
Aydah: QUESTIONS! SO MANY QUESTIOSN :o
Meeria: :D
Botixx: D:
Indrani: The cupcakes plot against the elephants
Aydah: it must be :O
Botixx: cupcakes eat the pink elephants !
Indrani: We aren't insane.
Indrani: Not at all :)
Botixx: i know i am not MY NAME IS BOTIXX THE CAMEL-HUMPER !
Aydah: not completely insane, soem parts are missing
Indrani: like my brain
Glow: .....
Indrani: That's not nice to call Glow a camel, botixx
Glow: ................!!!!!
Botixx: i know
Indrani: that line, i went over it
Botixx: but she has nice humps
Indrani: :DDD
Glow: O.o

Gotta love em. xx

100 truths

1. Real name: Piia Maria
2. Nickname: no actual nickname really
3. Zodiac Sign:Libra
4. Male or female: female
5. Elementary School: Mäntysen ala-aste (years 1-5), Sulkavan ala-aste (year 6), Sulkavan yläaste (years 7-9)
6. High School: Sulkavan lukio
7. College: Chichester college
8. Hair color: natural colour is blonde, at the moment it is sort of light brown
9. Tall or short: short! 161 cm / 5ft 3
11. Sweats or Jeans: jeans if I'm stepping a foot outside the house, sweats otherwise
12. Phone or Camera: phone
13. Health freak: not really
14. Orange or Apple: apple
15. Do you have a crush on someone?: nope
16. Eat or Drink: I drink water all the time :D
17. Piercings: only two sets of piercings in both ears
18. Pepsi or Coke: Coke

HAVE YOU EVER?
19. Been in an airplane: yes
20. Been in a relationship: yes
21. Been in a car accident:no
22. Been in a fist fight: no

FIRSTS & LASTS
23. First piercing: ears
24. First best friend: Jenna
25. First award: oh god I don't know :D I was fucking fail in sports, I never was good enough for competitions etc.. :D
26. First crush: haha my friend's brother
27. First word: my parents never told me that
29. Last person you talked to in person: Dan
30. Last person you texted: Dan
31. Last person you watched a movie with: Dan
32. Last food you ate: lasagne
33. Last movie you watched: Dodgeball
34. Last song you listen to: Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
35. Last thing you bought: random bits of food from Tesco
36. Last person you hugged: Dan

FAVE:
37. Food: any sort of chicken will do
38. Drinks: water
39. Bottoms: bottoms? what? :D
40. Flower: rose
41. Animal: dog
42. Colors: green, orange
43. Movies: V for Vendetta, Black Swan, Sucker Punch
44. Subjects: art, music, history, English

(Put an X in the brackets if yes)
45. [x] fallen in love with someone.
46. [x] celebrated Halloween.
47. [x] had your heart broken.
48. [x] went over the minutes/texts on your cell phone.
49. [ ] had someone question my sexual orientation.
51. [ ] got pregnant.
52. [x] danced naked
53. [x] did something I regret.
54. [x] broke a promise.
55. [x] hid a secret.
56. [x] pretended to be happy.
57. [x] met someone who changed your life.
58. [xxxxx] pretended to be sick.
 59.[x] left the country.
60. [x] tried something you normally wouldn't try and liked it.
61. [xxx]cried over the silliest thing.
62. [x] ran a mile.
63. [ ] Went to the beach with your best friend.
64. [x] got into an argument with your friends.
65. [x] hated someone.
66. [x] stayed single for a whole year.

CURRENTLY:
67. Eating: nope
68. Drinking:bottle of water is calling my name
69. Listening: nothing
70. Sitting/Laying: sitting on the bed
71. Plans for today: seeing it's officially Tuesday, I'm going to go filming today
72. Waiting: for summer

YOUR FUTURE:
73. Want kids?: yes
 74. Want to get married?: yes
75. Career: something to do with media, web / graphics designer most likely

WHICH IS MORE ATTRACTIVE?: (CHOOSE ONE)
76. Lips or eyes: eyes
77. Shorter or taller: taller
78. Romantic or spontaneous? romantic
79. Nice stomach or nice arms?: arms
81. Hook-up or relationship?: relationship
82. Looks or personality?: personality

HAVE YOU EVER:
83. Lost glasses/contacts: no
84. Snuck out of a house: yes
85. Held a gun/knife for self defense: no
86. Killed somebody: no
87. Broken someone's heart: yes
88. Been in love: yes
89. Cried when someone died: yes

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
90: Yourself?: haha sometimes
91. Miracles: yes
92. Love at first sight: no
93. Heaven: no
94. Santa Clause: no
95. Sex on the first date: no
96. Kiss on the first date: yes, why not?

TRUTHFULLY:
97. Is there one person you want to be with right now?: yes
98. Do you know who your real friends are?: yes
99. Do you believe in God: not one bit
100. Post as 100 truths?: yes

Making friends ingame

I have this little spot I always park my characters in when I'm on WoW. It is a little roof that is in the middle of everything "important" and keeps idiots away - I can peacefully talk to my friends without people asking for ingame gold or something similar.

That's the roof right there. The amount of good friends I've made on that roof is just insane really. :D Not in a bad way of course, it's nice to have a lot of people to talk to when I'm bored. :) I thought that it would be nice to mention a few of the people I've had the honour to get to know. I'm just going to use their WoW character names, I don't know if they want to have their names all over my blog haha.

Sigals - I think Sigals just randomly parked his shaman on my character's lap one night (he was on his shaman and he could turn into a wolf) and that got us talking. Wasn't anything big or special, just some random smalltalk and such. :) We started talking pretty much every day and I'd say we are pretty close nowadays. ^^ He's just had a funny sleeping pattern for ages, he pretty much woke up when I was getting ready to go to bed so we haven't spoken that much lately. Seems like he's managed to fix that now, thankfully. :D

Frambuesa - We've known for aaaages now! I can't remember who I was talking with but Fram decided to join the conversation and after the conversation dried out we just started whispering and pretty much talked all day. :D I ended up adding him on my RealID list (sort of a friends list that let's you track other people no matter what realm / character they're on) and we've been good friends ever since. :) He has got a funny sense of humour, all his Bear Grylls jokes always make me laugh. We are quite tight knit, I guess you could say that he's my best friend out of the WoW people I've met.

Juggernort - I'm probably gonna regret mentioning him, I bet his ex will come up with some insane stories about me and him again... :P Anyways, Jugger applied to my guild a while back but didn't get accepted because of our full roster at the time. He just randomly parked himself on the roof and we started chatting, we got along and I recommended him when he tried to join my guild as a social member. We talked pretty much every day before his ex wife decided that we are having an affair, we haven't had the chance to talk for a while now. It's a shame to lose a friend because of stuff like that, but what can you do. :/

Keevi - I'm pretty sure I've known him for a lot longer but we got talking on the roof. I've even met him once, we had a small guild meeting in February and I decided to drag him along to make the meeting slightly more interesting. :) He's an interesting person and I quite enjoy talking to him, shame he's a bit on/off with WoW and now he's managed to lose his phone! :D

Fakes - One of those people I've known for a while but only got talking to properly just a few days ago. We honestly spent hours talking nonstop the other night, from bitching about other players to piercings and weird stalker people. :D

I bet I've forgotten someone really important, I'll just add a section for anyone I've missed later on. :)

My musical "history"

Followed by last night's post, I thought that I'd write something about the things I've done in the past.

Singing. Ever since I was a little kid, I've taken part to school plays that involve singing etc. I've got no clue if I'm any good or not, it's just something I enjoy doing when I'm alone. Yes, I don't really like singing in front of other people, I'm just too shy for that haha. I've also been a part of a choir when I was a kid, I started rebelling with my friend at some point and we left - well, the choir leader basically kicked us out. :D

Piano. I'm actually a bit annoyed that I stopped playing, I quite enjoyed it. I just absolutely hated my teacher (what's with me hating my teachers lol..) and didn't want to carry on. I wasn't exactly brilliant but at least it was something to do. Maybe I'll start playing again when I have money (and motivation) for it.

Violin. This was only for a week at a summer camp. I just thought that I could try something new and got my friend to pick violin with me. It was really really basic and I never touched a violin again, but we did perform to the parents at the end of the week. It was a proud moment.

I'd love to learn how to play the guitar, I just think that it is such a beautiful instrument and I think it would just.. make me relaxed you know? My mum used to play the guitar when she was young and had a guitar of her own, I took it home with me but never really got around to it. It was also missing a string.

Andy McKee

A friend linked this to me a few days ago. I thought that ok I'll have a look what it's about and to be completely fair I fell in love with this guy. He is so talented, my jaw honestly dropped when I started listening to this. :D

I can see his music as background music to romantic evenings and other emotionally loaded events. It's just so calm and beautiful, I'd personally love to have something like this played to me.

A mixture of two days of song challenge and random ranting

I went to bed around 4am. I woke up at 8am because we have a builder over today. I am tired! I did have a good reason to stay up so late though, was talking to a friend for hoooours! He is such an interesting person, we haven't really had a chat like that before even though we've known each other for a while now, apparently I'm easy to talk to about things. :3 Made me smile, even had a small "awwww" moment when he said that. It's funny how you can just click with some people like that, life is so weird and wonderful at times. :) x

It looks like it's gonna be a really nice day today. The sun has been shining all morning and I think that I'm going out for a run after lunch. I feel a bit bad for not going swimming though, I sort of got into it but stopped going after my holiday in Finland. Swimming would be so much better for my back than running but I kinda hate the 30 min bus trip to Chichester. Spending that time on a bus on college days is quite enough for me I think. :D

It was quite nice to hear Dan say that I've lost some weight already. I'm on my fourth week now I think but I can't see any difference in myself when I look in the mirror. I guess it's just me being too analysing about my own body and not seeing the little things that other people can. But then again I've always been like that about myself.

day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep

Well, this doesn't actually make me fall asleep but it surely makes me more relaxed if I'm listening to this when I'm in bed. Adema was one of my favourite bands a few years back but I kinda just forgot about it when I started finding new bands. Still like to go back to this band, just for the memories it brings up. :)



day 11 - a song from your favorite band

This is actually a hard one so I'm gonna link to songs. Breaking Benjamin and Volbeat are both bands I absolutely love at the moment so it was impossible to try and pick one song.

30 day song contest: day 09 - a song that you can dance to

Kim Herold was one of the one hit wonders in Finland but it sure doesn't mean that I wouldn't love this song. :D There's probably tons and tons of songs I actually like to dance to but this is the first one that popped in mind, might edit this post later on if I stumble on some other songs.

Stagefright! :(

I was going to rant about this earlier but just didn't have the interest to do so.

We had to talk in front of our fellow coursemates from both groups today. That makes it about 40 people in total. We pitched about our student magazine ideas and got peer assessed by the other students in the classroom. We only heard about both groups being present this morning so I had absolutely no time to adjust to the new situation. I was sort of mentally prepared to have the pitch just to my own classmates, but having complete strangers in the classroom just made me really nervous.

I've never been good at talking in front of an audience. I was feeling quite ok when waiting for my turn but the second I said "I'll go next" I started worrying like anything. When I plugged my USB stick in, stood up and looked at the people in the classroom I just wanted to say that no way, I'm not doing it. I slurred pretty much every other word and I repeated myself a lot, after the pitch I just wanted to turn invisible and go home. I think that if I would've pitched the same stuff in Finnish to Finnish people I would've been fine but I honestly had to think about what to say and that ended up in me having stupid pauses and slurred words.

Never again. :(

Double post of 30 day song challenge

day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event

KoRn gig back in October. <3 Was such a brilliant gig, went there with Dan and a few of his friends.



day 08 - a song that you know all the words to

Nothing to say here really, been a fan of Breaking Benjamin for years so you sort of get to know the lyrics without any effort. :D <3

30 day song challenge: day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere

This blog is just turning into a video spam lol!

I and Dan went to Holland last September to meet up with some of our friends and we just played some silly old stuff all night basically. :D I was taught the "dance" to this song and it was just so brilliant to dance with my friend Karlijn. Absolutely one of the best things that happened last year, can't wait to see her and some other people again. :) <3



And here is actually a video of Dan, me, Karlijn and Brian haha.

Two days of 30 day song challenge

I forgot to post one last night so I'm gonna make a double post this time to catch up. :)

day 04 - a song that makes you sad

Melody Gardot is a rather new artist for me. I just happened to watch a documentary about her and got absolutely hooked to her music straight away. The reason this song makes me sad is the melancholic feeling all the way through the song, it makes me think that she has gone through a bad breakup and simply asks the man to love her.



day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone

I "gave" this song to a person I got really close to a while back. We used to talk a lot every single day, I helped this person over depression and I really thought that this song just fits "us" and the bond between us. Unfortunately things don't always go the way you want them to and listening to this song is a bit.. painful now.

Getting used to this healthy way of life!

I've been losing weight for exactly two weeks now. I'm slowly getting into the rhythm of it and to be completely fair I feel brilliant! Thankfully I have Dan motivating me to carry on and if I keep up with this rate I'll be able to wear a bikini to the beach this summer! *cheers*

Things that I have changed during this two weeks:

• I've stopped drinking coffee. Didn't exactly plan on doing this but I just started making so bad coffee in the mornings that I wanted to drink tea instead. :D I still need to get some flavoured teas as I don't really like the regular black tea.
• Regular excercise. I've gone running a few times already and I do excercises indoors every now and then when I'm bored.
• Stopped eating all the junk! I allow myself to have a bit of something every now and then but instead of getting a pack of crisps for lunch I make something healthier. The only junkfood I can't handle well is prawn cocktail crisps, I absolutely love them and Dan decided it was a good idea to eat some in front of me. The smell of the crisps was heavenly.. 

I decided that once I start getting more money out of our government I'll put like £50 aside every month and once I'm happy with my weight I'll revamp my wardrobe completely. I'm honestly so fed up with my clothes and I bet none of them will even fit after I've lost a stone or two.

Oh just to make myself feel even better, I've lost 3 kilos permanently already! I know it's not a lot but my god it looked good on the scale! :D

Gummybear problems!

[23:32:24] [2] [85:Meeria]: fu youre a clever person, give me a topic to write about on my blog!
[23:33:05] [2] [85:Fú]: you should definitely write about why haribo should make golden bears more accessible

I couldn't come up with anything to write about tonight so I thought that I'd ask a friend to decide for me! :D Personally I am not aware how Haribo is messing things up but I am going to share my thoughts about this urgent matter.

Why should Haribo Gold-Bears be more accessible?

• First of all, they're sweets. Who wouldn't want them?
• Gummybears is a classic, it is a crime not to have them somewhere close by.
• They're perfectly sized, you can either enjoy them one at a time or grab a handful and try to stuff them all in your mouth at the same time.
• A craving for gummybears is an awful feeling, been there myself many many times!
• Having these sweets is mandatory if you want to be cool. This is not negotiable.
• You can make the bears do naughty things, you can bite their heads off or torture them in other ways. Like pierce them with toothpicks. Or melt them. The hours of entertainment you get from these sweets is amazing.
• They must be one of your 5-a-day. 

(corrected a typo at 23:42)

30 day song challenge: day 03 - a song that makes you happy

I'm not exactly a fan of Elvis Presley but this song has been one of those songs that never go out of fashion in my books. It's sort of got a fresh feeling to it even though it is rather old already (I was a kid when I first heard this!) and it makes me want to dance. Just such a brilliant song, epic remix and awesome video! <3

30 day song challenge: day 02 - your least favorite song

I think that today's choice is a bit of a surprise for everyone as I picked Volbeat last night as well.I picked Volbeat's Evelyn mainly because I always skip this song when I'm listening to this album. It just does not fit the theme of the album, it is not the typical Volbeat (if you compare Fallen to this you do know why!) and it just made me go "What the hell is this?!" when I heard it for the first time. It does have some clean parts to it but it just ruined the album a bit. Volbeat has got some heavy metal type intros etc but having somebody scream after a nice sounding intro just killed it.

If this would be from a separate artist on a separate album I would probably like it. But not like this, no way.

Oh and I did try to think of something else than what I listen to normally but I struggled like anything as I don't really listen to the radio anymore (mainly because most of the music played is absolutely AWFUL!).

2012 sillyness

The earthquake / tsunami incident in Japan has made people lose it. They are panicing about the end of the world coming, quoting Wikipedia to look "smart" (honestly, who thinks that quoting Wikipedia is gonna make them look clever) and all that nonsense. The world was supposed to end about ten times already, we were supposed to have an alien invasion a few years back, has that all happened? Nope, still alive and breathing, I haven't been abducted by aliens either. Why won't people just calm down?

I do feel sad for Japan though. Like the tsunami wasn't enough, now they are worried sick because of the radioactive leak at Fukushima. I am just thankful that I have no relatives over there, I'd be worried sick! I am following the news quite intensly right now, I want to know what's going on. The thing that made me interested was the news about Japan moving 2,4m and Earth's axel shifting a bit, though. I don't exactly know how that will affect the climate on Earth or anything, I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

That was one hell of an earthquake.

30 day song challenge: day 01 - your favorite song

There's this cute challenge on FB that asks you to list certain songs each day for 30 days. I decided that I'll give this a go both in FB and here, although I'm gonna write about the song for a bit in my blog.

Volbeat's Fallen is sort of a new song to me but I just absolutely fell in love with it the second I heard it for the first time. It is sad and energetic at the same time and I just could listen to this over and over again without getting fed up with it. And Volbeat in general is just pure gold, how can you not like this one.

Boredom in every way

I can't be bothered to play, can't really focus on the film (Kingdom of Heaven, had to edit that as I had a massive brainfart with the name..) and getting annoyed at my college course once again. I had a chat with a friend about it earlier today and even talked with Dan but Dan just asked me to struggle through the course even though it's not fun for me anymore. Just gotta hold on to it to get at least some qualification. Thankfully this assignment only lasts for this month but by the looks of it our last assignment lasts til July! Oh my god please kill me!

I made awesome food today. In fact I've been cooking quite a bit lately, especially tried new recipes etc. I should become a cook or a pastry chef and start up my own confectionery. I could make some Finnish treats and have like a bread section as well for traditional Finnish breads. I'd make a fortune.

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Why so serious

[00:17:54] [2] [85:Meeria]: LF a mage to make me a portal to Dalaran pretty please :)
[00:19:10] [2] [85:Meeria]: lazy mages
[00:19:54] [2] [Dàchéng]: Yes. Meeria. We're too lazy to figure out where you are starting from, since you are too lazy to tell us.
[00:20:16] [2] [85:Meeria]: not hard to shift click is it :P
[00:20:36] [2] [Dàchéng]: But why would I bother, when you can't be bothered?
[00:21:06] [2] [Daggerine]: You were waiting to say that
[00:21:06] [2] [Daggerine]: Meeria*
[00:21:32] [2] [85:Meeria]: and besides about 90% of people in capital cities are in sw anyways :P
[00:22:05] [2] [85:Daggerine]: And yes calling mages lazy isn't going to help you get  a portal quicker ;S
[00:22:12] [2] [Dàchéng]:  Meeria, nobody cares about your problems.
[00:22:19] [2] [85:Meeria]: lol you people really take everything said on trade so seriously :D
[00:22:59] [2] [Dàchéng]: I see a lazy mage helped you out.
[00:23:00] [2] [85:Daggerine]: Well, You could have considered the reaction your statment would get...

My god, people can't seem to take some humour tonight!! :D

Forever troll

[01:10:04] [2] [80:Pooky]: meeria i've been admiring your beauty for about a year now and i really like to meet you sometime
[01:10:12] [2] [85:Meeria]: lmao
[01:10:14] [2] [80:Pooky]: please give me one chance, just a chance
[01:10:21] [2] [85:Meeria]: youre hilarious
[01:10:28] [2] [Sindragosa]:  /popcorn

Aha. Ha. Ha.

It's a late night kind of a post.

I'm sitting in our bedroom, Dan happily passed out behind my back and Scrubs in the background. I'm following the conversation on WoW on one eye and wandering on the internet on one eye. Multitasking is so awesome.

I am so desperate for new clothes. Unfortunately I have no money to spend on anything nice, thanks to the Finnish government. Even though I live abroad, have to pay for my lunch every day and spend £185 on a bus ticket every term I only get £180 a month to pay for my rent (rent £150, phone bill £10-20). You can guess that I'm not exactly jumping of joy here. And I only get that amount of money because my parents earned too much two years ago. Yeah, I'm 19 so basically my parents don't have to take care of me in any way but still our government decided, that we are dragging my parents' income into this! Thankfully mum loves me too much and gives me about 200€ a month to survive but that money pretty much goes to feeding myself. Mum promised to contact our government again to try and get me some more money every month, I'll just have to wait for about two weeks to hear from them..

Because I'm so skint every month I've taken up the habit of taking part to absolutely every competition I can find. My weekly pleasure is a Sunday morning crossword in Fabulous magazine, they actually have some nice prizes. Last week's prize was a £500 voucher to Store Twenty One, pretty much my favourite shop atm (mainly because the clothes are so cheap). I've really wanted to redo my whole wardrobe as all I've got is saggy and covering clothes I've bought years ago when I wasn't really confident or didn't think highly of myself. And besides spring is coming, I could do with some change! I'm especially looking for some nice, colourful and girly clothes.

I've been in the process losing weight for about 1½ weeks now. I haven't really realised how fast time has gone, I haven't really slipped yet (although I couldn't resist having my strawberry lollipop I got for filling a survey at college) and I'm sort of excercising more now as well. I'm planning on losing a massive 2st, I'm not in a hurry and I'll be pretty happy if I've lost like a stone before July. I've sort of felt like shit about my own body ever since I turned 13, I was bullied partially because I had a bit of extra weight but I have no self control and all the attempts to lose weight ended after about a week. I'm doing great, ain't I. :D ½ week over my average, win win haha.

My lord I was only supposed to rant about clothes..

What will you be when you grow up?

I came home early due to feeling like absolute shit today. On the bus I started thinking about my choice of college course. As much as I enjoy media and the course, I've had my doubts about it since Christmas or so. I'm just not 100% sure if I want to be in the media industry when I'm qualified. My other options were animal care and a course specialized strictly to horses. Why? Simply because I love animals and I think that it would be so rewarding to work in a zoo / vet's office / RSPCA...

I started thinking about the pros and cons of both career choices. I've been into web designing since I was about 11 and it is sort of in my blood, but do I honestly want an office job? Especially on days like this when it's been sunny as anything all day, I'd just rather do something outside instead of rotting inside in my office, dreaming about being able to go outside. Then again I hate rain so I'd probably laugh my ass off seeing somebody having to work outside while I have a nice cup of coffee in my warm, waterproof office.

I'm gonna stick to this course whatever it takes (unless I get booted off after this year, who knows) and most likely go back to studying straight away after I'm done with this one. It would be nice to have a qualification of some sort as I have none (I dropped out from high school after about two years, back problems) but I think it's gonna be a long college year. I have my ups and downs with this course, motivation seems to be hiding under a rock pretty much every other week.

And just to cheer myself up, heres a pretty picture of a pretty pink flower I saw growing in the garden yesterday.

The charm of Bognor Regis

I've always loved Bognor. It is rather quiet, it's right at the coast and it is such a beautiful place in general. I haven't lived over here for so long that I'd have the love/hate relationship towards is as everyone else seems to have. People seem to think that it's the middle of nowhere and that nothing never happens and that most of the population is Polish or old people. Personally I have nothing against those groups so I'm all good. :) Can't really complain about foreigners when I'm one myself, right? :D And besides I do see myself as an open person, I don't pick my friends based on their age or background.

 Bognor Regis pier

Anyways, Bognor is a nice change to my hometown, Sulkava. Sulkava is literally the middle of nowhere, population is around 3000 and the only thing that happens there is the annual rowing festival in July. No traffic lights, the only street lights are in the immediate centre of the town and the whole town is dying slowly. We have about 5 hair salons, 2 grocery stores and 3 or 4 bars. We used to have a nice pizza place but it ran out of business years ago. Shame.

 The seafront

I don't know Bognor that much as I go to college in Chichester, which is about a 15min drive away from where I live. Or, it would be if I'd drive myself instead of taking the bus. The bus takes 30-45mins, depending on the traffic. I've taken the bus to Bognor once and I guess it was just a lucky guess that where I had to get off the bus. Oh well, at least I know the route now! :D Everyone seems to go to Chi to spend a night out around here and to be fair I am not blaming them. Maybe it's just me not paying attention to the bars and clubs but I haven't seen a lot of them in Bognor. Then again I haven't toured all of Bognor (and don't think I will) so they might just be tucked away from the high street.

The high street

Me, sort of in a nutshell.

I go by two names nowadays, depending on which country I am in at the time. Everyone in Finland knows me as Piia, after all it is my first name so it is kind of obvious isn't it. Here in England everyone calls me Maria, simply because I thought that it will just be less hassle for me and everyone else. I am 19, I live in Bognor Regis, happily in a stable relationship and study interactive media at Chichester college. Sounds like a simple life, doesn't it.
edit: just as a note, my name is Piia Maria <insert last name here>, for people who are wondering how I came up with Maria.

I wish my life would've always been this simple. I wasn't the popular kid in school, in fact after splitting up with my first boyfriend all my friends seemed to turn their backs to me. I was bitter, upset, angry at the time but thankfully we've all grown up at least a little now. Thankfully this chain of events that happened back then lead me to the life I am living now, including meeting my boyfriend, Dan.

As I wasn't exactly the most social person in the world when I was younger (drinking outside in the freezing cold when underaged wasn't my thing), I got into World of Warcraft. I must say that I got so hooked to it that I spent almost all my free time on the game - simply because I had somebody to talk to and could just forget about the awful real world I had to live in. Then came August/September 2009, when I joined a guild (sort of a game group) Dan was a part of. I was having a really bad day one day and he noticed it and offered to listen and help, after that we just got into talking more and more and pieces started to fall in place. Believe me, my intention wasn't to find true love on WoW but I guess miracles can happen. Dan flew over to Finland in November 2009 for a week, and we haven't looked back. It was one of the scariest and best moments I've had in my life. I kept thinking that what if he doesn't show up, what if he's just been messing with me? Well, he did show up. It's been about one and a half years now.

I do still play WoW. This game has made me travel to Holland for an amazing weekend with the people I play with, I've spent a weekend with a few fellow guildies in London and now we are thinking of getting together for a BBQ next summer! For me meeting up with these people is like seeing real life friends now, I don't see it as weird or risky in any way. I do after all spend countless hours with them online every day, you sort of get to know people.

Other than WoW, I don't do that much. I like photography but it's been so miserable in England that I haven't really felt the urge to go out and walk for hours to get some nice pics. Spring is on it's way though, you can see tiny leaves in most of the trees now and the sun has been shining for about a week now. I started swimming somewhere before Christmas, but I've had a two week break from it for various reasons. And now that it's been so nice outside I've wanted to go running and walking instead of spending my daily 30 minutes of excercise in a swimming hall, getting annoyed by old ladies blocking up the lanes.

And speaking of spending my 30 minutes, it's time to go for a walk. :)

xx