Thanks Oscar!

Yesterday when I got home there was a gift bag waiting for me/us. On Saturday we had told Oscar and his family that we didn't have any Halloween decorations so they went and got us some! We now have trick or treat door mat, a hand towel and a drink mixer (shaken, not stirred) and shot glasses with pictures of spiders on them and best of all...skull straws! T made up this whole thing about me not letting any straws in the house because I was afraid or something (which OBVIOUSLY I'm not) so they got us straws with skulls in them. As a retaliation I told them that T is afraid of bugs and spiders so they got us shot glasses and a mixer with spiders! It's a win-win situation! So thanks Oscar, Bernadette, Jeremy and Elizabeth for our gifts! They will be used!

I like Wednesdays. I can stay home until 6:10pm when I need to start making my way to the bus stop. I can sleep late if I want to, take it easy for few hours, have few cups of coffee and catch up with my shows. I can be kicked by the cats and do some homework if needed.T says I'm a pushover when it comes to the cats...well when it comes to Sox anyway. Bailey is easy to handle, any loud(er) noise or movement towards her and she leaves/follows...Sox...Sox is the queen. If she doesn't want to move, she doesn't move. If she doesn't want to follow, she doesn't follow. If she want to lick the couch, that's what she's gonna do. Nothing you can do or say except remove her from the spot.

Yesterday I settled on the couch, my feet up on the table, a computer in my lap and started watching my shows. At this point Sox was on her OWN couch, the one that she hogs all the time. I got up and when I came back Sox was right on the spot where I had sat. Her head was resting next to the mouse and remote like she was surfing the net and controlling the TV. We had a little discussion as to whose place it actually was and it ended up with me having to pick her up and moving her a little. Which made her stay next to me in a smaller than small place and kicking me...Sox is very good at showing her emotions when she doesn't get her way. She was probably just mad that I put the computer back on my lap and she couldn't sit/lay there.

Finland lost 3-0 yesterday to Russia in football WC qualifying. 2 own goals doesn't really help the cause. After few better games when we were given little hope that maybe we still can make the qualifying happen, it was taken away once again. Good thing is the under 21's made it to the EC-games next summer so hopefully some new young blood can come out and help the team. The core of the team is getting old. We need new Jari Litmanen or even someone better. Chances of that happening: very small. Will I see Finland in EC or WC games in my lifetime? I doubt it. Thankfully there's always ice hockey.

We have a surprisingly low key weekend coming up. T's spending Saturday visiting her mom, they're having a mother-daughter day while I'll be home doing homework and research for my presentations and papers. I don't really like all the work academia throws my way. It's great I'll only have one exam this semester but there's so many papers to write and read and presentations. I don't like presenting. Yuk! Saturday evening we have tickets for Red Bulls game but we are not yet sure if we will go. For Sunday we have nothing. It's awesome. We'll just stay home, watch football and possible cook like couple of crazy people again! It's great we can now do what we want. All the obligations are behind us we can focus on what we want to do. If it's nothing, even better!