It's been a long time..

..how have you been? As heard in Portal 2. I've been so busy lately, lots of things to take care of and especially now, that my blogging is about to move into youtube for a week, I had to get my channel ready. So from next sunday, I'll be vlogging on my channel; She's So EPIC! @ YouTube. I'm still gonna update this blog from time to time, but for 7th of August to 14th, I will mostly be vlogging. Oh, why is this week so special? 

Because I will be vlogging from Athens, Greece! (Like that didn't clear up in previous blogs when I gave picture hints..) I'm traveling to the other side of the Europe to have awesome week with some friends, and yes, my trip will be filmed and posted on youtube as soon as possible. 

I've been shopping like crazy, since this trip actually required little bit more preparations than I originally thought.

1. Clothing

Most of my clothes are black, especially tops and shirts, which happens to be a problem when it's over 30°C and sunny, I might die. So I've been shopping light colors, like white, nude, yellow.. basically anything but black. I might have bought new dress for evenings ;)

2. Appearance

As a girl who uses make up everyday, I needed to get make up that lasts even if I get little bit sweaty (since it' not like I can sit in the shower 24/7), and also something that makes my problematic skin to look a lot smoother. ^_^ With that, I also bought new make up removing products, skin scrub and basically stuff that takes care that even tho it's gonna get hot and sweaty, my skin will hopefully stay under control instead of me going thru another teenage period when I get back from Greece.

3. Protection

Sun is gonna be high up all day (at least I hope that I don't hit sudden raining season), and me who's skin is probably most pale ever, since I haven't met anyone in 20 years that has lighter skin tone, so I'll mostly like burn and die. To avoid this, I bought suncream with 30 protection. That probably will not save my ass, I just have to take care that I don't burn myself couple first days and be unable to go outside at all for the rest of the week. That would suck.

Besides all of this, lots and lots of planning what to pack, lists of what I need to take with me.. it's all stressing at this point, so that my week in Athens would be perfect.

About my hotel.. I'll be staying in Athens Imperial, 5-star hotel. I booked standard double room with american breakfast included. Booking.com had really nice offer for the period I'm staying there; 656,25€ for a week (normally 889€) so I thought, why not? Originally I was planning to find 4-star hotel with free wifi, but why go with four when you can upgrade your plans and get five? Photos of the hotel in this post.

Can't wait! Six days left ;) See you in my youtube channel! Subscribe!

Going girly

Yesterday was one of those nice days that you need from time to time, just to get a small break and let it all out to a friend that actually listens to you. I went out with my girl, and I'm not gonna lie, we did do some shopping. We also took our traditional visit to Wayne's Coffee, to have some yummy smoothies and blueberry-white chocolatecake & cheesecake. Jealous much? It's a good thing I did workout with my sportsbike earlier, and walked to the city center and back so I don't even feel bad for eating these treats ;)

Instead of buying clothes I actually bought something extra girly, nail polish. It's never really been my thing, but lately I've been trying to bring up my girly side that I so much used to avoid few years back. And I have to say, this is the most epic nail polish ever, this is the kind of girl-thing I can put up with. Graffiti, best thing ever.

Now it's time to take care of some details for August, hopefully get out at some point and get some cleaning done too.. And hot summer days are back, just when yesterday seemed decently nice and cool, now we're back to the whole melting mode. Tho I shouldn't be complaining, at least not yet, because I will see worse than this ;)

Walk at the beach

This was definitely a nice day, went for a long walk with one of my best friends and had talk about stuff that's happening in my life and got chance to ask how his trip to New York went. So we started out by getting Starbucks Qandi Lattes at the store near to my place and headed to the beach. Even tho it's not perfectly clear and sunny day, it's nice and cool, just the perfect temperature for a walk. It was really nice to get to update how we've been, after all, it's been a while since last time and lot of changes has happened since then. 

It was nice to get to talk to someone, now only if rest of the day was as good as how it started..  I highly doubt that, but this was definitely awesome day just because of those 1,5 hours we spend walking and talking. It's always nice to be reminded that there is at least one person that you can truly call a friend, even when it takes months before you get to see that person again.

I have to give some credit to that yummy Qandi Caramel Latte, it was the perfect breakfast (if you can call coffee at 1.30 pm a breakfast). I seriously thought I wouldn't like it but now it's probably my definite favorite out of Starbucks coffees that you can get from finnish stores. I do find the story of this coffee's origin very ironic, and those who know anything about my life, probably know why. Others, you'll just have to wait and see. 

"Starbucks Qandi Latte (Caramel Flavour)
Long ago, Arab candymakers on the Greek island they called "Qandi," meaning "crystallised sugar," introduced caramel to the world. In their honour we blended the sweet flavour of caramel with our signature Fairtrade certified Espresso Roast."

It's definitely yummy, and if you haven't tried it out, check if your local stores have it and give it a try. Now it's time for me to get something to eat and probably figure out what I'm gonna do rest of the day, now that I'm actually on a good mood and have high chances to actually get something done. Tho I have to admit, I haven't played Need For Speed Hot Pursuit in weeks, so I might just get stuck with my PS3 for couple hours ;)

It's here!

Let me introduce you to my new best friend! 

Canon IXUS 220 HS
12.1-megapixel sensor 
HDMI output
Full-HD video capture
Stainless steel body
5x optical zoom

I finally decided to go and get it, so here we are! It cost me 189€, totally worth it. All ready to vlog and save memories as pictures. Ok I have to admit, I was kinda thinking about getting it black, but there was no black cameras in Helsinki area! After five stores, that only had silver version which was definite no-no, I was so done that I just didn't have the willpower to go and find black one. Though, this one is absolutely cute and delicious looking camera. We shall see how long this one stays alive. Not that my last camera was totally wrecked or anything, but it just wasn't enough. No auto-focus, no full-HD video, nothing. And only 8.0 megapixels. It was definitely good time to update.

Baby got bling!

Remember when I mentioned about a roadtrip I took sometime ago? Reason for this was simply that ReXie (Mazda RX-7) needed new rims and here we are, all nice and shiny!

How do I look?

Midsummer Eve

Gotta love some finnish holidays, midsummer eve gives national day-off for everyone and looks that even tho saturday seems to be rainy, today we get to enjoy warm day and evening. I'm not doing anything too interesting today, one of the biggest reasons is that I just need painkillers and peace because my mouth really hurts and bugs me. So instead of getting stressed, I started my morning with painkillers and went to have coffee to the beach with my friend. Cold Starbucks Frappuccinos, sun, beach, sea and nice company.. perfect start for a morning. 

Sure it would be nice to go out some more, but I highly doub I would find someone who is not getting drunk or is calm enough so that my already stressed brain won't have total flip out. Continuos pain that my mouth gives me now is really such a bother that it's easy to lose nerves with something uncomfortable, and my temper is known for being short and fiery.  So I'm taking things easy, we shall see if I end up going out after all, or just enjoy some treats and good movies at home. 

I found one cool option for a new camera, Fujifilm FinePix XP30, waterproof, shockproof, freezeproof, dustproof.. pretty much anything you could wish for. I'm kinda skeptic tho, it sounds too good to be true because the price isn't too bad either (179,90€).

Nice, clean, modern looking design with good features and working platform, this might be good company for my vacation.. 

I'm so excited! And my mouth hurts.. oww.

Wrong kind of toothfairy

Today has been exhausting.. the reason why I haven't been blogging is very simple, I've been so busy, stressed out and literally out of inspiration to come and dump my life here. But I'm still keeping my blog alive, now that thing are starting to turn better.. or so I thought.

I had to go see my dentist today because I wanted to take care of one teeth problem I've had for a while now. Instead of doing simple fix, she went and decided to rip the whole damn tooth off! Conversation went pretty much like this:
Me: Can you do something about it because it's really starting to bug me?
Mean lady: Yep, I'm gonna remove it.
Me: WHAT?!
Mean lady: Yes, here's some local anesthesia.
Me: son of a b....

And this is the part when I fainted, lights out and woke up without one of my wild cat teeth. Just kidding, after three anesthesias I couldn't really feel anything except someone raping my mouth while trying to rip it off.. 

For the sake of young or sensible people we're gonna move to the next topic before blog turns to be about sex, drugs and violence. And actually my dentist lady was very nice, when you don't include the thought that she's the reason why my mouth hurts like ... and I can't even take the third set of painkillers yet.

There's also some good news today, I finally got to do my bookings.. where? Check the previous post ;) And if you're too lazy to do that, just have a look at these pics that are going to warm me up and keep me excited until the d-day. 

Oh yes.

And for this I also did something I haven't done in a loooong time.. something kinda girly but also very useful. I bought a new bag. I have one that I love, which is designer bag from the days where labels ruled my wardrobe, but it's really not the kind of bag you take out for a vacation or something like that. So I'm very happy that I took a girly moment and actually used it well, this is my new best friend that will hold my life inside it, when I'm somewhere far away ;)

100% leather, 29,95€ (down from 59,95€)
Cute, functional, simple, good quality and good sale price!
What more can you ask from a bag?

Sorry for the girly moment.. I'm not really enjoying myself right now because my mouth hurts pretty bad, and I'm only waiting to get another doze of painkillers, so I think I'm just gonna watch Beauty & The Geek season 3, and hopefully forget about the pain.