Cleaning, cooking, organising, paying bills and remembering stuff can be hard when you live on your own. Luckily for you, I am a very creative person and have come up with lots of easy solutions for every day tasks. Here’s a few pointers which will save you money and time!
1. Use the paper bags you get from fast food restaurants for your organic waste. Those biodegradable plastic bags just don’t degrade properly in most cases AND they’re expensive.
2. Make a list where you can mark for instance the last time you washed the toilet and vacuumed the living room. Put it on your fridge door and it will motivate you to clean every time you’re bored (you might even avoid gaining weight, because you will be cleaning instead of raiding the fridge).
3. Open a savings account and transfer some money every pay day. Think about how much money you really need for spending. If you’re not sure how much you spend, keep a list for a month about everything you buy and spend money on. The sooner you transfer the money, the less time you have to spend it on something you don’t even need.
4. Don’t have a lot of storage space? Go through your stuff and decide what you actually need. If you have clothes that don’t fit or that you never wear (just admit it, there isn’t going to be a time when you might want to wear it) put them in a plastic bag and throw it in the clothes recycling. The same applies to books and dishes. If you take a bag full of books to the antiquarian, you might even get a couple of euros per book. Recycling is the key. Do this every three months though, because every time you do it, you always end up keeping a whole bunch of unnecessary stuff anyway, and the next time you see it you wonder what the hell you were thinking and why you ever wanted to keep it.
5. Think about how you store your food. An open cheese packet will start to dry out and eventually grow mold. Get an air-tight container for it and it will last a lot longer, and you won’t have to throw half of it away. I keep pretty much everything in the fridge: eggs, ketchup, jam, soy sauce, and even my bread. No point keeping it in room temperature, where it will start to decay much faster.
I’m always like the last person to figure everything out. Only today did I learn how to scrobble my spotify songs onto Last.fm. Oh well. I don’t really know how useful it is, but I guess it’s fun to see some stats on what you’ve been listening to.
Now playing: Abc from the Stripped Mixes.
Things I should do:
-Watch Lost season 5 with Lauri and Heili
-Buy some yeast so I can make bread rolls
-Get a new hoover (and bags for it)
-Take some pictures of the snow
I’m sitting at my table, which I often do, and am looking out the window (which is impossible to avoid). I see the moon and a second ago there was a plane flying over. The lights on the street are flashing and that one window I can always see into, is lit up, as usual. Just saving this little memory. Listening to young Micheal for a change- mourning the fact that This is It never came to be.
Sigh. Life’s hard.
1. I decided to open a savings account. Because I’m responsible.
2. My neighbor is listening to weird music.. again.. and it’s almost midnight..
3. I read up on Jamaican English and Patois today, and found out I was very fascinated by the subject. Maybe there’s a future for me??
4. TWYMMF came on Metro fm when we had closed at work today, and it cheered me up so much! Oh the party that went on inside my head.. <3
5. I dreamt that Michael Jackson had sex with Janet and that’s why she had to have an abortion (even though, if I recall correctly, it was La toya who had an abortion…?).. STRANGE.. OBSESSIVE..?!
6. I need to buy a closet. This apartment is too small for all my clothes. Speaking of buying stuff, I also need to buy a sofa. Currently my guests have to sit on the floor and on the bed.
7. I’m waiting for my awesome MJ t-shirt, which I ordered from Bravado USA a couple of weeks ago. And for Lips.
8. I miss my sister, Helena. She’s visiting our grandparents in Huittinen. Boring..
9. I should start to exercise more, because I really don’t want to die of like obesity or something. I also should use sun block and avoid sun bathing and especially burning, because I don’t want to have ugly, wrinkly skin when I am old. Plus I should get some calcium tabs cause I don’t want osteoporosis. And I shouldn’t drink too much soda cause that’s bad for my teeth and God knows how many cancers you can get from all those E-somethings!
10. I should blog about something interesting.
I am trying to decide if I have a favourite MJ album or not. Lately I have been listening to Off the Wall a lot. I really like the Jazz in it, and the rhythms are just amazing. There is not a single song on OTW that I don’t like. So it definitely ranks high up in any case.
Then there’s Thriller of course- which includes WBSS, Billie Jean, Thriller, Beat it, Human Nature… you can’t down look this album.. But then Bad has Bad, Man in the Mirror, TWYMMF, IJSCSLY, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal, Leave me Alone.. all great songs! Dangerous has Jam, Why you wanna trip on me, In the Closet, Heal the world, B/W, Who is it, Keep the faith to name a few great songs. Seriously this guy just couldn’t make a bad album (ha ha). And History.. don’t even get me started… They don’t care about us, Stranger in Moscow, Earth Song, You are not Alone… I just can’t choose. Except I can outrule Invincible because it just doesn’t get me the same way- even though it is a really good album too. So the conclusion: I have no favourite because that would be impossible. He made great music throughout the decades and it can’t really be compared with anything else.
I love Michael Jackson.
How can one feel so crap? Deprivation of sleep and boyfriend might be a start. Plus I think I’m just going through some self-crisis.
Gah. I just don’t have the energy to deal with myself right now. MJ can help.
Almost one month on my own. I have been entertained and bored, safe and scared, lonely and loved, forgotten and remembered, normal and weird and lately a bit meaning of life -less. It struck me a couple of days ago, that some people achieve big things by the age of 20 and are remembered throughout history. I’m not implying that I want to become famous, just that I feel like I haven’t actually done anything in my life. I mean come on, I blog about the effect Michael Jackson has on me and contemplate how sucky everything is.
What have I done in these 19 years? I went to school and graduated with alright grades. I got a job at Hesburger. I applied to uni and didn’t get in. I have started hobbies and quit them- figure skating, badminton and drums to name a few. I have not devoted myself to any one thing, so that I could be proud of myself and know that I am really good at it. Being average at everything is hardly useful.
I need to decide what I want to do in my life, and then figure out how to achieve it. I know that the doors are open in pretty much every direction, but I want to be passionate about what I do- not like frying burgers which is no more than alright as a job.
Someone help me.
I swear, there’s something magical in Michael Jackson. I just cannot get enough of him! I’m watching the Motown 25 video with the Jacksons again and it just blows me away every time. I could watch the part with “and know he’d better be good to you” over and over and over again.. sigh..
I have also started a new hobby: drawing pictures of Michael Jackson. It’s so much fun! :P
I have no washing machine. But I wear a lot of clothes and use lots of towels so I had to come over to my parents’ to wash them. I am going to buy my own machine, but haven’t really found a nice priced one yet. I ordered broadband yesterday and I will receive it in the mail on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning :) 12M for 34 euros a month. The first four months are only 14e though, so that makes it (34×8)+(14×4)=328/12=27e, which is not bad!
My move went smoothly. We actually moved on Monday already, cause I got the keys then. :) Helena slept over the first night, but other than that I have slept well on my own!
I finally got all my stuff into their places, except for my clothes which are all in one closet and they have to be organized. I heard Beat it and Thriller on Nova at work today, again, btw. :)
Anssi is coming over and I have to get an internet thingy but they’re so expensive….. :(
