After a very long soak in the bath earlier tonight I'm feeling human enough to write! It's been a very long day today, but more about that in a bit.

I'm still (getting just a bit annoying now!) recovering from my hip injury, but just couldn't resist going for a walk yesterday. In a way a bad idea as I did feel a bit of a sting every now and then, but on the upside I felt absolutely amazing afterwards. I've really been careful with my hip for weeks now and it was driving me nuts, I just need my exercise to stay happy and alert.

We've had quite a few storm warnings across the country again, and oh my god it really was windy again! I wanted to sit down at the beach for a while and just take the fresh air in, but it was actually so windy that I got cold after a few minutes! Not fair I say.

I've been pretty active with writing articles since being invited to join the Answers.com team, and my third one has been published! This time I wanted to have a bit of a rant about all the weight loss information that's available to us online and in books, you can read the full article here! Time for a creative break now I feel, I'm trying to come up with some unique ideas to write about and it's not easy!

We spent most of today in Brighton to get some footage for our uni projects. I was expecting it to be quite chilly but chilly was an understatement! The wind was so freezing and standing still for ages really made us all freeze up completely. To make things worse, I only slept for roughly three hours last night due to some rather upsetting stuff going through my head. I was far from awake all afternoon and we didn't even stop for lunch during the day. We only had a chance to eat after getting back to uni around 6pm, by that time I was so hungry I probably would've started eating my own fingers if I had to wait for much longer.


And my plan for the rest of the night includes Revenge, Breaking Bad and bed. Had a long soak in the bath as I mentioned, my back really didn't agree with the cold so I've been quite achy since we left Brighton. The warm water really helped my muscles relax, feeling just a bit more human again. :)

It's amazing how dogs just seem to know when you want to sleep late. Every single time I've got the morning off the dogs just start barking like mad and won't shut up! I did get to sleep until 9 though so not going to complain too much. :)

I've definitely had a busy day! I've mainly been catching up with housework that's been piling up since last week - when you're busy you really don't notice it at the time, but eventually you just start running out of clean clothes. :D


I'm already doing well with my little plan I made yesterday. I was determined to go for a longer walk than I usually do, and by the time I got back home my RunKeeper told me I had walked 7 kilometres in an hour. I wasn't really going too fast, I was just enjoying the nice weather and getting back into it all. It's just been such a long time since I've actually gone for a proper walk so I knew my muscles would feel a bit stiff.


The weather is a bit funny right now, it's not really cold enough to wear a thick winter coat but too cold to just go out in a normal hoodie. Thankfully I've got my Björkvin hoodie to keep me warm on days like this! I really should invest a bit of money into long sleeved shirts and a thin coat so I could layer it up when I go out.

I really fancied something a bit different for dinner tonight so ended up spending a while on Google to try and find an easy recipe to try out. I ended up going for Korean beef, a really easy and tasty dish to make! :) I didn't have any red chillies and I don't like green onions so substituted them with green peppers, but it was still very delicious! I did kinda miss the chillies in there though, it was lacking that kick chillies would give it. I just drowned my food in sweet chilli sauce to try and compensate... :D



I was really craving something sweet after dinner, but there was so little I could actually eat in the house! I'm so happy my other half loves watermelon, there was a slice of it in the fridge so there was something sweet I could have!

And the reason for me being so restricted with food at the moment is quite simple - I think I'm lactose intolerant. I have very little dairy in my diet and for the past two weeks I've had an unusually large amount of dairy in different forms. And ever since I've had incredible stomach pains in the evenings, it's not exactly hard to connect the two. Lactose intolerance is really common in Finland so I really wouldn't be surprised if I've developed it as well now.

It's just really hard to try and avoid dairy in this country. There's dairy in absolutely everything! If it's not actual milk in the ingredients list, it'll be milk powder. Very frustrating as I need to start scanning ingredient lists when I shop if it really turns out that I can't have dairy. I'm doing a milk-free trial for a week or two and then have a day when I just go for everything possible with milk in it and see what happens.

Gotta say, I'm not really looking forward to that day.

I'm not usually the one to say anything about the cold weather (being from northern Europe and all, where we actually have cold winters), but today and yesterday I've just been freezing my bits off! :D We don't have our heating on during the days yet as we are trying to save money on heating and electric bills, so it's time to just suck it up and find millions of layers of clothes when I'm at home during the day.

And that's pretty much what I did! :D T-shirt, hoodie (birthday present from my lovely friend Nils by the way! ♥), slacks and two pairs of socks. And those stripy woolen socks are hand made by my mum! I wish I had the patience and time to relearn how to knit socks and mittens, I'd be sorted for life! I can make hats and scarves but that's it, when it gets more difficult than that I'm just completely lost.


I'm finding it very awkward to go for a walk right now. Not in the sense that I don't have the time or I don't want to, but the weather! It's too cold to go out in just a top or a t-shirt, but wearing a long sleeved shirt on top of it is a bit too much. Noticed that today as well, I really wanted to take my hoodie off halfway through my walk but figured that I'd just catch a cold if I did. And don't really have that much spare money to actually do more shopping right now. First world problems. :p

And I also should go get my eyes checked, I'm really starting to struggle. I've had glasses since I was quite young, I started needing them for reading, looking at a computer screen and so on. My last eye check was 6-7 years ago and it's really starting to be clear that I need to get them checked again. I don't really use my current glasses for that very reason, my eyesight has actually changed so much since then that they don't really help. I'm just finding it very difficult to actually read anything on our white board at uni, I need to go sit close to the screen to be able to read the text.

I actually had a little trial run with my glasses last night. They didn't help. At all. I was only able to wear them for about 10 minutes and just had to take them off, my eyes felt so weird as they were trying to adjust to the lenses. Oh well, something to get sorted out when I finally get my student finance come through. :p