February 29th

This day only comes along once in every 4 years and if you follow traditions, it's the only day when women proposing is acceptable. So in light of the day...Will you marry me?

Being a lesbian/in a lesbian relationship, this can be exceptionally tricky. What if you want to propose to your girlfriend? Do you go against the grain and propose when you're ready or do you wait for this day to come around? And what if you wait the 4 years and she says no?

And if she says no, and you are not a dress wearing lesbian, nor do you know how to make a dress, can you request something else, other than fabric for a new dress? Since times have changed, can you maybe expect an iPad or GPS, or some other technology for the rejection?

Someone needs to write an etiquette book for lesbians regarding this issue!

Kitten outing

I took the kittens outside to snow today. It was a sunny day and it was either getting the 3rd cat out of the sheets (getting the fur out of them before washing them) or taking the kittens outside and introducing them to snow and since cleaning is really not high on my favorite things to do, I decided that a little drive and walk was in order.

Getting the cats to the carrier was a little more difficult than usual since now DD especially associates the carrier with vet appointments but once I got them into it it was fine. Ybi helped me get them outside and he took Brooklyn's leash and I took DD's, since DD is a bit more shy than BK.



After we got back inside DD wanted to hide and this was her solution

Dunkin Donuts' super powers

Either the vaccination Dunkin Donuts received today was spiked with some pretty powerful stuff or she was implanted with some sort of kitten super power last week during her surgery because...

This was Dunkin Donuts last week after she woke up from her surgery



And this was her today



Seriously, mama's not happy! She broke one of my kitty figurines but more importantly, she can now get up all the way up high and I'm not sure how she'll get down! Plus now I have to move my breakables to another place! I can't have any nick nacks on display because soon they'll all be broken!

Way to over achieve DD!

Kittens and smells

Dunkin Donuts and Brooklyn don't like catnip. They can't even smell it, to my eternal disappointment. They don't react to it at all. But do you know what they do react to? My lotions and perfumes! To ALL of my good smelling lotions and perfumes. To the point where I can't even per them because they run the other way! This is Dunkin Donuts' "I don't like that smell"-face

She squints her eyes and backs away. Her "I smell food"-face is kind of similar but instead of backing away she follows me. Brooklyn doesn't really have this strong of a facial reactions so I don't have pictures of him doing this. I do, however, have pictures of him looking all pathetic and kitten-ly from Thursday night when he was nodding off next to the radiator.

And he usually looks so big and majestic!

The whole thing was so much more traumatic for me than it was for them. I'm still shaking when thinking about it. They are jumping as high up in the book shelf as they were before hand and running around in the apartment like there's no tomorrow. Thankfully that was it for surgeries. We're done now. And I don't have to worry about kittens. Phew!

Mug shots

Dunkin Donuts

 Sox

Sisterly semblance when drugged up!

My week

a) Got a job.

b) Cats are being neutered tomorrow.

Story telling

You know when you're telling a story to someone and they try to guess what you're saying next and they guess completely wrong each time? I hate that.

Perspective

Wow! So I have been living in quite the bubble here. Like seriously, can you spell delusional? Remember that scale I bought to see how much DD and BK weigh? Well, they are doing good, at least by my standards. BK was 3,3kg today so he's growing like a healthy kitten. DD was sleeping at the time so I wasn't gonna disturb her.

I have gained 4kg (~10 lb.) since I've been back to Finland, so in 1,5 years. And I even know where it all has gone, I look at it every day. It's in my stomach. The life preserver around my mid section is hard to miss. But there is nothing, NOTHING, NOTHING like trying on your interview clothes to see just how much you've actually gained and SEEING it! Like wow...if I didn't know better I'd say I was preggers! Holy shit! That is some fugly ass bulge I have going on there. I think it's time to make those new years resolutions and add "loose weight, gain a 6-pack" to it!

I think I'm gonna have a snack of cheese puffs and for dessert I'll eat a chocolate pudding. And maybe have a beer to chase it down!

Hope you have a thinner 2012 than I do!

Life's little mysteries

Why is it that when I speak to people or write, I speak my local dialect but when I coo at my kittens it comes out as Finnish? I, for the life of me, cannot speak proper Finnish to people without sounding like an idiot. And I would sound even bigger an idiot if I started cooing at people in order to speak Finnish. I guess you can't have it all.

Yesterday I struck out 2/2. Pekka Haavisto did not win the presidential election to become the 12th President of Finland and Patriots lost to the Giants. Oddly enough I'm not too bumped out about either. It would be unbearable to be in NYC right now but other than that I can't muster the hatred for Giants. And yesterday as I was watching the Super Bowl and seeing all these emotional people cheering for and living for their favorite team  I thought that the only team evoking such a strong emotions on me is Leijonat, Finnish mens national hockey team. That makes me a proud Finn. No single team is that important to me in any sports.

Gays, elections and Super Bowl

We didn't get a gay president.That's ok, maybe next time. It was clear before the campaigning even started that Sauli Niinistö was going to be the new president and he dominated the polls as well as the first round so it wasn't a surprise. 30% of the eligible voters chose not to vote on second round making them unable to whine for the next 6 years. You don't use your civil right to vote? You don't get to complain! I am proud of the 37% of Finns who voted for Pekka Haavisto. Since not all of them are gay, there is a clear movement for more tolerable Finland and people can see beyond sexual orientation.

If you are looking for positive sides for this result, the future president's wife is my name sake so hopefully this will mean that people around the word will learn to pronounce my name properly. "Jenni" will never be the same again! Make sure they say your name correctly!!!

Now that the first election is over we can move on to the next exciting event of the day: Super Bowl!

Brooklyn and TJ (which one is which?) are ready for it and so am I! I am wearing one of my many Eagles jerseys and have compiled every Eagles merchandise I own into my living room. Which isn't many as some/most of them never found their way back to me. But since Eagles, despite their "dream teamyness" never made it this far, we are cheering for the Patriots. Which probably means they'll lose since all the teams I've cheered for in these play offs have lost. But I'd rather cheer for the losers than the Giants so there you go.

Enjoy the Super Bowl and I'll see ya on Tuesday! Will probably sleep through Monday.

What the hell?

So if you know me and have been to my place, you'd know that I'm not the most cleanest person. I don't have trash lying around or major dust bunnies ready to attack you or anything like that but my things have a tendency to not find their way back to where they belong and the dishes do pile up more often than not. But now that I have kittens who explore and chew and play with everything they can get their claws on, I've made an effort to keep my stuff where it belongs and I have even dusted more often. Twice in the past 2 weeks, if you can believe it! And yesterday I took the rugs out, I dusted and vacuumed, even moved the 5 ton couch to get underneath it so you'd think that this place is clean, right? I thought so. I mean it can obviously never be totally cat hair free and with 2 mid long haired kittens it's virtually impossible but I tried.  So why is it that Brooklyn's tail looks like this?

And I didn't use him to dust so there's no reason why his tail should be covered with dust, or dust-like particles!

Ever since I moved here I've wanted black sheets! I didn't have any under sheets that fit my bed so I had to buy some but they didn't have black ones then so I had to settle with other colors. Last week I went and got that black sheet and put them on. And boy are they great! But...it might not be the bestest of ideas to have black sheets when you have 2 black and white cats! Let's just say that after a week the sheets are less than black. But I still love them! The problem is, It's sometimes hard to spot DD from the black ground but thankfully she usually has her paws up!

You can spot Brooklyn easily though

Brooklyn's also a fan of sleeping under covers. 

 He will burrow himself by my feet and get cozy and warm.

It's dark and blurry but Dunkin Donuts has taken over over half the bed in width. And yes, that's how she sleeps sometimes. 

 Whereas BK likes to have covers, DD likes pillows. Middle of the bed between the pillows is her favorite place. The sheets have the fur to prove it!

I'm still not sleeping through the night but when I do have to kick them out it's usually closer to 6 than 4am. DD has learned to not bite me to show her affection and BK is not licking my face as often as he used to so we are definitely making progress. If I had to wake up early it would not be a problem as I have 2 living alarm clocks ready to wake me up before dawn. Now I wake up to Brooklyn positioning himself on or next to my chest and purring as loud as he can with the occasional licks for good measure. He has not learned what NO means so sometimes if it's early I get up, get outside the bedroom and have the cats follow me. When we're outside, I quickly come back inside and close the door on them. I dread the day when they realize what I'm doing and it will stop working on them. But until then... The good thing is, in these 3 months I have learned to not fully wake up when getting them out. I'm kind of sleep walking. If I awoke fully, I wouldn't be able to fall back to sleep and there's just no reason to be up at 6 or 7 am now is there?

Enjoy this beautiful winter day and bundle up! Forecast predicted -27 degrees Celsius for tomorrow few days ago. If that happens it'll be colder than the coldest from last winter in Forssa which was about -20-22 degrees C.

Oh yeah, almost forgot! Got my T-shirt for Pride in the mail today! YES! so excited! Thanks Candice!