Memeee ♥random

So I was bored and waiting for the next good concert thingy at the maritime days and then I was on, like, facebook and Neon had just put up this note that he stole from Liz and I just figured I might as well answer to it too but instead of facebook, I'll do it here.

WHO WERE YOU NAMED AFTER? Nobody, really. My sisters asked all the girls in their class to write the prettiest girl names down and then my parents chose from them. Apparently Kelly stood out.
Thank goodness I'm not named Mari or anything like that. Think how awful my username would look. Maritalv. Nothanks.

DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Heh... not yet.

HOW LONG IS THE LONGEST YOU EVER STAYED AWAKE? A bit over 24 hours, I think? Not sure.

HOW LONG IS THE LONGEST YOU EVER SLEPT? Hum... 14 hours perhaps? not sure-

RED OR PINK? Red

WOULD YOU CLIFF DIVE? Water? Swimming? Diving? Not really my thing.

WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? Nothing, didn't watch TV last night. But the last time I watched something on the TV was last week and it was Ace Ventura.

ARE YOU A GOOD SINGER? Unfortunately, no.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Cini Minis I think. sort of little squares covered in cinnamon. It's good.

ROCK OR COUNTRY? Rock.

DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? I think so.

DO YOU BUTTON YOUR SHIRTS WHEN YOU PUT THEM ON A HANGER? Nope.

IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Sell if I say no I sound like I have some issues so I'm going to go with yeshhh. But it depends and everything.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? vanilla with chocolate bits in it.

IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND, WHAT ONE BOOK WOULD YOU TAKE WITH YOU? Neons answer was too good so I'm going to steal that, too: "Getting Rescued from Desert(Deserted?) Islands for Dummies, obviously."

DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Sometimes I'm ready to marry it and sometimes I hate it with passion. Depends on what I'm writing.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Does that count that yesterday some bug flew into my eye and it started watering and it took me a while to get it out?

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? OMFG Stargate rulez.

CATS OR DOGS? Can I choose both? If no then a caog. It's a half dog-half cat.

HAVE YOU EVER HITCH-HIKED? No

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX? Their face I think.

FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Figure skating

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The hum of my computer. And kittys rapid breathing.

FAVORITE SMELLS? Freshly cut grass~

WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Black pants and grey tunic top

HAIR COLOR? Dark brown

WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? Lots of things. Like shyness and anti-socialness and stuff.

WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Classmate.

FAVORITE SOUND(S)? Music, obv.

EYE COLOR? Sort of really boring gray.

LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Ace Ventura. For the 4th time. maybe 5th.

WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Stephen King - mobla. I think it's like Impulse in english. dunno.

WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Greece.

DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No

DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Not really.

FAVORITE FOOD? Pasta maybe. or like Cotton candy

HUGS OR KISSES? idk. Both?

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Funny movies? Heh... Happy endings I s'pose.

SUMMER OR WINTER? Summersummersummersummersummersummersummersummersummer*gaaaaasp*
summersummersummersummersummer*faints*

WHERE WERE YOU BORN? A hospital

HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER? N/A

WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? My... mouse? What else? If this question is about the design then mine is all blue. No design.

WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Right now? Katjaaaa~

And that's it. Bunch of stuff you never wanted to know.

--Kelly

Where did the quotes go? Nowhere, too lazy to look for something cool.

~Meeeeeee

Lohetätoveeringuga tüdruk

That is the name of the book I just read.
A damn fine book, if you are asking my opinion, what else could have held my attention for 500 pages in one day?



So basically at first I was thinking of writing what I think of the book here, but I realised that honestly, I'm no critic and I'm also not very good at describing such books, so I'll just use the help of wikipedia.

I'll just bring out the important stuff, if you are interested then you can find more information here (english) and here (estonian)

The author of the book is Stieg Larsson, who was a Swedish journalist and writer, best known for the Millenium trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest) Larsson wrote about three quarters of a fourth novel before his sudden death in November 2004, wich was, incidentally a heart attack, a topic which he touched, at least in his first book, several times.

The genre of the book is a Crime/Mystery novel, quite an interesting one at that.

It was pulicated in 2005, translated to Estonian in 2009, if anyone happens to care.

Basically the primary characters in the series are Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Lisbeth is an intelligent, eccentric woman in her twenties with a photographic memory whose social skills are rather poor. Blomkvist is an investigative journalist, a celebrity in his own right, and has a history not totally dissimilar to Larsson's own.
The book is written in a format that is rather confusing at first. Namely it jumps from one characters point of view to another while they are in different cities and dealing with diffeent problems, in the middle of the book they finally unite and things get slightly less confusing.
Personally, I didn't find it too problematic to keep track.

I tried to make some short summary out of wikipedias 4-paragraphs long essay so sorry if something seems odd or out of order:

A middle-aged journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, publishes the magazine Millennium in Stockholm. Facing jail time and professional disgrace, Blomkvist steps down from his position on the Board of Millennium in order to protect what reputation remains to the magazine.

While Blomkvist considers the bleak prospect of jail-time and time away from the Magazine he helped to create, he is offered an unlikely freelance assignment by Henrik Vanger, the elderly former CEO of Vanger Enterprises. Blomkvist visits Vanger on his estate on the tiny island of Hedeby, several hours from Stockholm. The old man draws Blomkvist in by promising not only financial reward for the assignment, but also promises that at the end of the contracted year, he will furnish Blomkvist with solid evidence that Wennerström is truly the scoundrel Blomkvist suspects him to be. On this basis, Blomkvist agrees to spend a year writing the Vanger family history as a cover for the real assignment which is to solve a "cold case"—the disappearance of Vanger's great niece Harriet some 40 years earlier, when she was sixteen. Blomkvist soon becomes acquainted with the members of the extended Vanger family who are variously mad, uninterested, concerned, hostile, or aloof. Blomkvist is resigned to being unlikely to solve the riddle of Harriet's murder given that the police were unable to do so, but he fulfills his contractual obligations by immersing himself in the case. Despite following endless dead leads, eventually a series of serendipitous new lines of evidence arise.

Then he is introduced to Lisbeth, a very talented computer hacker and the rest you are going to have to read for yourself.

The novel is focusing on violence and crimes against women, there are a couple of pretty graphic scenes of violece in the book and quite a few brutal murders. Also there is violence against pets and animals. Like a very brutal murder and dismemberment of a cat. So if you are a bit faint-hearted, don't read the end of chapter 21. Just saying.

Three movies have also been made.

And just for the record, here are the book titles in Estonian:
Lohetätoveeringuga tüdruk
Tüdruk, kes mängis tulega
Purustatud õhuloss.

That's it for today, Kelly over and out.
--Kelly

Okay so Blogger is being a bitch again (actually I'm starting to think the problem is my computer not blogger since I didn't have these problems at Kajas) pictures may arrive tomorrow. No promises.

*clingz*

Just to make it perfectly clear to everyone: I love it here. I love it, I love it, I love it and I reallyreallyreally don't want to go back, kay?
No, I don't miss home and why should I? I hate it there, mkay?
The only thing that I miss are friends, Bambs, my computer and Ella.
That's it.
Geddit, dad? I know you won't read my blog because you don't even know it exist and even if you did know you wouldn't understand it but I just need to rant somewhere right now.
I sosososo don't want to go back. It's so nice and clean in here, I'd never have to worry about sub-zero temperatures inside the house during winter, no need to worry about creepy-crawlies all around me and I just KNOW that my room will be filled with Forficulas (I think that's the right name for them in english) just like every fucking year, and yes it has turned into a phobia already. I hate those things, they disgust me, the are everywhere in late summer / early autumn.
Gah, I don't want to go back.
And yes, I'm totally freaking out about the fact that in 5 days I have to go back.
*shudder*



--Kelly

Abby: Jethro is fine. I'm taking up a collection for flowers.

McGee: Why would I give flowers to a dog who attacked me?

Abby: Maybe because dog is man's best friend. Or maybe because I am a forensic scientist and I can boil you from the inside out and never leave a trace.

[McGee quickly puts money in the container]

~NCIS season 5, episode 13 "Dog tags"

Books, books, books. I NEED MORE BOOKS!

So what is the one thing I've been doing those past two weeks?
Reeeeaaaadddd. I've read and read and read.
It's such a nice thing to sit outside on the porch, reading some great book.
Anyway, when we were in Kuressaare Kaja bought three books from the department store. (Yes we do have a bookstore... I mean book corner... I mean shelf.)

Hercule Poirot: Meisterlikud mõrvad

In this book are 2 longer stories and 3 or 4 shorter stories, all incredibly compelling and with very unexpected solutions. It didn't take me too long to read even tough there are almost 600 pages. The whole thing is just so interesting that you have to finish it before putting it down.
Must read if you are into crime investigation and such. Sometimes action isn't needed.

A song of Ice and Fire: A game of Thrones 1
& A Clash of the Kings 2

As you see, it makes sense that those are the books 1 and 2 of the series, but what we found out later, was that they are actually 1 and 4. Ohwell.
I tried reading it, It seems really intetresting, but a bit too heavy for summer. It was pretty dark and dramatic. Kaja read both of them, though I must ashamedly tell you that I didn't get past chapter 1.
Of course if you are looking for hours of reading and a very deep, interesting, dramatic story then definitely read this.
The only thing Kaja told me was annoying about that book was the fact that it has so many characters it's a bit tough to keep up with who's whose niece and whose sister and whose dog and so on.
There are 8? books in the series, 4 are translated (game of thrones 1&2; clash of the kings 1&2.)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
When we went to Tartu Bambs bought Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and I bought the Titan's Curse. Those are books 1 and 3 in the series. Before I came to Finland I lent book 1 from Bambs and I hoped to find book to (The Sea of Monsters) from a bookstore here, but I never did find it in english and quite frankly I doubt that buying that in finnish would be any good.
The Lightning Thief is beyond my expectations. If you have seen the movie then know, that the book is about a billion times better (in my humble opinion)
Some knowledge in greek gods and stuff would be nice, but not neccessary.
The book is funny, there is lots of action and the whole thing will keep you guessing till the very last pages. Everything you would expect from a good book.

And the most recent books I bought are these:

I have the first two. I just wish I had bought the third aswell.
All three are 300+ pages, so they keep you occupied for quite a while and since I haven't actually finished either yet (halfwah through first) then I'mma just copy the summary wiki gives us of Wicked lovely

Wicked Lovely is the first novel in a series about a world where faeries and mortals intermingle. The story introduces Aislinn, a teen who can see the faeries around her, but who has been taught all her life to pretend not to see them. She is struggling to cope with the faeries when Keenan, the faery Summer King, enters her life and takes away her mortality, asking her to become the Summer Queen and defeat his mother, the Winter Queen. If she refuses, Winter will take over and kill all the summer faeries and mortals alike. However, Aislinn has no desire to become part of the faerie world, and is already in love with her best friend, Seth. In the end, she cannot avoid becoming the Summer Queen, and reigns alongside Keenan over the creatures she once feared. Upon defeating the Winter Queen, Aislinn brings peace to the world of fey. She also sticks with her best friend and new lover, Seth.

So basically there is romance, there is the dark, interesting side... So far I've loved that book, I hope that the ending is as interesting as the first half has been.

And I think that's about it. yeah, probably.

Well, doodles!

--Kelly

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

~Charles W. Eliot in The Happy Life (1896)

Willkommen!

Hahaaa! I gots TWO new flaggies onto my flaggiecounter. German and Belgian.
Dang I'm awesome.

Anyway. Yesterday Kaja&Ken took me to this reeeaaallly fancy restaurant/Golf/mansion/hotel thingy for a lunch. I WANNA LIVE THERE, kthx.

It was GORGEUS. The inside was even prettier than the outside. But this isnt where we ate. The mansion part is apparently a hotel during summer and then only the hotel guests eat there so we had to go across the street to the golf club.
Dear Lord, it was awesome. The food was good too.
I mean the restaurant had a view to the golf courses and if you have ever seen a golf course, you know it's amazing.
We have one in Kuressaare too, if you are pondering.

So all in all the place was amazing. If you want to see the rest of the pictures, you should already know where to look, but I'mma help you out.
Clicky here.

In other news, Bambi brought my attention to the fact that I still hadn't watched that trailer for vampires suck movie and so I watched it.
*insert hysterical laughter here*

And guess what? It has already leaked to the internet. I saw it like an hour ago.
Geesh, it's epic. epic-epic-epic.

The actors are great, there are lots of hilarious moments, and it pretty much sums up the first two Twilight movies. Also the ending is hilarious.
So as soon as you can - watch it, it's worth it.

--Kelly

One thing vampire children are taught is, never run with a wooden stake.

~Jack Handey

Shopping! Planes! Fiskars!

Soooo... I was supposed to make a blog post yesterday but, again, I was so tired that I just sorta went *poof* and fell asleep. My bad.
anyway.
First of all.

Our very own chatgroup had a 1-year birthday a couple of days ago so...


Now up until yesterday nothing much happened. We read, we watched TV and we whined about the 34 degree heat outside. Cept yesterday we went to this adorable little Fiskars village.

Absolutely beautiful red brick houses, tiny country roads and well lots of souvenires. It was fun. I gots meself a cute glass fishy and Kaja got a pair of iron candle holders.

As you might have figured out already, in that village was the original Fiskars knife factory and stuffs. Now it's a major tourist attraction.

As a proof that I actually did go there and didn't just save those pictures from some random persons album...
It was really hot outside and Kajas partner, who had previously went there aswell told us that there were lots of walking in the sun, so it was only fitting that both Kaja and I wore pretty much all black. I mean it makes sense, no?
This, believe it or not, was a phone booth. Make what you will of that.

That pretty much concludes yesterday. Kaja and I took a walk later on and watched the trins go by and stuffs. Was fun.
But anyway. On to todayyy.
Today we went shopping to a big Store called Jumbo.
I gots meself this awesomesauce dress that I loved from the moment I tried it on.
At first when I saw it I didn't think much of it but thankfully my sisters persuaded me to try it on. DAYUM it's an awesome dress.
Ignore the awkwardness and Katjas ear. I LOVE THAT DRESS.
Anyway. After we went to the store where we bought the dress, we went to H&M. When I walked through the security gates, the alarm went off. I didn't think much of it as there was a bunch of other people walking through the gates at the same time so I figured it was because of them.
So we looked through the store, found nothing of interest and walked out again. As I walked through, the alarm went off again. This time it was only us three (Kaida was with us, too) so it was quite obvious that it was me who triggered the alarm. So I walked into the store and back again to check.
So basically I triggered the dang alarm 4 times and no-one even blinked. I must say that even thoug it's a big store, the security there is pretttttty loose.
Anyway we went back to the previous store (the security gates to that store didn't even blink, so to speak) and they found some security thingy was forgotten and well, after showing the receit we got some gift certificate as a refund for our... troubles.
In the next store, Kaja triggered the bloody alarm. That time it was probably just like the keys or the mobile or something because she hadn't bought anything yet.
After that, it became quite uneventful.

Also, I went to the bookstore in there aswell but it didn't have the book I was looking for, Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters.
Dannng I want that book.

Aaaaanyway, today there's Lord of the Rings on TV so we are going to watch that soon.
That's it for now.
Hopefully something interesting will happen soon so that I can make another blog post. I must say that compared to last month I have made wayyy too few blog posts.
Soyeah. Bye.

--Kelly

P.S: More pictures here.

I wonder how could he have been able to invent all this stuff. It feels more like Tolkien discovered some sort of long-lost scrolls.

~Peter Jackson Morning Edition, National Public Radio, 17 December 2001

Movie review-ish thingy. Twilight: Eclipse

Kay, so me, Kaja and Kaida went to the cinema today. AND IT. WAS. EPIC!!!!

The cinema, not the movie.

So let me tell you bout the movie. First of all, the beginning? Hilarious. I was so sure I'm going to burst out laughing and they are going to kick me out but thankfully I didn't. But cometh the ending, cometh the boredom. About halfway through I was ready to walk out because I was booooreeed.

Anyway since there was pretty uch no plot in the movie I might as well tell you my vision of the characters.

Also, apparently I'm not taking over Kajas laptop for the difficult job that is blogging, because it only has Internet Explorer and even that's in /Finnish/ I mean geesh...
So I'm going to have to use this pink excuse for a laptop. At least it has firefox and itäs in estonian.

Anywho, here goes...

Isabella Swan

She is, in short, a suicidal teenager who also indulges in necrophilia and zoophilia. If that doesn't sound like a lead character for some horror movie, I don't know who will...
Also, has masochistic tendencies.

Edward Cullen

A creepy stalker and an abusing boyfriend. Obsessed with Bella. Should probably be put in a straightjacket and locked away in a room with soft walls. Also suicidal even though he's dead. Complete lunatic. Also, he sparkles in the sun. Probably as a result of too much time playing with the glitter. I'm not even going to go into the fact that he's a pedophile.

Jacob Black.

Another weirdo, obsessed with Bella. Again, suicidal. It's becoming a pattern, don't you think?
Belongs to some kind of pack of lychanthropes. And, apparently, is made of rubber. You'll know what I mean when you hear what sound it makes when Bella hits Jacob in the face. Rubber.

Carlisle Cullen

The sadistic doctor, who likes to re-break peoples bones with no anesthetic. Scary stuff.

Alice Cullen

The Luna Lovegood-ish girl, who believes herself to be the Oracle and tends to black out at random times.

Jasper Hale

Believes hiself to have fought in the Civil War. Obsessed with Alice. Believes himself to be able to control other peoples emotions.

Rosalie Hale

One of the more normal people from the mental hospital that is Forks. Not as retarded as the others, but still enough to be there in the first place.

Esme Cullen? Not important enough to be shown more than once.

I could go on, but I think I have offended enough people for one time. Might as well quit while I'm ahead.

Anyway, the movie was probably awesome for all Twilight fans, lots of pretty scenes and of course, the reason they are as popular as they are, lots of kissy scenes.
And some actionscene wannabe.

Ohwell. On with stuff about me.
me, me, ME

Some odd posts ago, I told you that I haven't got any good pictures of Katja because she's always running around and stuff. Well in here, I have a perfect scenery for the perfect model. So here it is. FIRST TIME IN PORTRAIT, KATJAA!!! *applause*

I absolutely ADORE this picture. Click to enlarge, obviously. And my gosh she's pretty. Everything from her Yellow-golden eyes (If anyone dares to even think about Twilight, I'mma let her eat you.) to her awesome fur just screames beautiful dog. *sigh*

Now, at some point Pat asked me where was I on all the pictures. You want to see me?
meh, I guess I'll have to show you then.

Me, in all my glory. Taken on the Sõrve Säär, where we went a day before coming to Finland. Lots of pretty pictures from there are here.

What else should I talk about?

Ooh, right. One thing that I love taking pictures of?
Sleeping Lucky. He's always so completely cute I just can't pass the opportunity.

Talk about squee. This was taken on the ship to Helsingi.

Mosquito apartment at Kajas flowerbed. I'll refrain from commenting.

Soyeah. That's about it for today. Just check out the album here and as if you want to know anything else, kay?

--Kelly

"Ei elämästä selviä hengissä."

~Finnish proverb