Late birthday party for a cousin!

It has been crazy busy lately... At least kind of. My winter holiday began on Friday. So how can it have been busy? Well on Saturday I went to pick someone from train station. My lovely cousin dragged herself here, which I was super happy about.

I was finally able to give her a birthday present! Her birthday was already 8. February and I had refused to sent the present to her since I really wanted to see her face when she opened it... Well still didn't see it since she hide her face! But she was really excited about it. I got her favorite actors, Keiko Kitagawa's, photobook for her. I knew she had wished for it, and I just wanted to get her something special.

So yesterday We were really celebrating her birthday! I toured her around the town, showing some good places, like this one great flea market. We also ate well and went to movies... 

I wonder why always we go to movies we end up watching children's movies? But anyways the Lego movie was really funny. We were really laughing half of the time. The tickets weren't expensive either so it was nice way to spent some time.

In the past two evenings we ended up watching Hetalia... After really long time. It felt nice. It really had been a while and I remembered why I like the series. It's just so much fun. I think I'll try to catch up the series and watch the episodes I haven't seen yet. 

I was surprised that this time, as I re-watched the two first seasons I grown to like Belarus. It's not like  I had hated her or everything. I had thought she is okay, but now I actually really like her. Which brings me lot of great ideas again...

Also little something I found from one Asian store... Pineapple ramune! I had never tasted it before, of course I had to buy it and try it. The pineapple's happy face is so cute!

The ramune smelled and tasted really good, so I'm pretty glad I bought it. Still nothing beats melon ramune.

At today afternoon I had to say good bye to my cousin, when she left back to home. I really hope we get to see each other soon again. 

I hope everyone has had awesome past week!

Until next time, bye~

New obsession: Pastel colors

My obsession towards to pastel colors have started to grow. I mean it look's super cute right? I found awesome pastel rainbow colored jumper on Saturday and decided to buy it. One it's pastel colored, two I don't own enough jumpers. So today I of course made sure to wear that jumper! I love it how my outfit actually looked good, but still was so simple as jeans and jumper. Conclusion I need more jumpers... In pastel colors.

I don't know what there is that is so irresistible for me in the pastel colors. They just look so soft, happy, cute and sweet. It's everything I would love to look like! (lol)

So in the future if I find anything pastel colored and adorable that fits me, I will make sure to buy it. 

Also ended up coloring my hair again on weekend. Can't say it's much different from the last color... It's probably just more stable and little bit darker color. The previous one was hard to say what color it even was. I would call this milk chocolate brown. I really like it! I think I'll be coloring with this color again when my roots start to show. 

It has been nice start of a week. Is it weird to say I liked this Monday? No I really did. We got to act our classic theater scenes at school, my new courses started and everything seems going well. 

I hope everyone has had great start in their week too!

Mari

Happy Valentines!

Happy Valentine's day everyone! I hope you are having nice day, with your friends, family or maybe girlfriend or boyfriend.

This year I spent Valentines with my mom.

I wanted to dress up all girly and cute. Sorry such a bad photos of the outfit. 

Well first me and mum went out to shopping. Sadly I really didn't find anything. Only a hair dye on the way home. I bought some since I'm planning on coloring my hair on the weekend. My hair is growing surprisingly fast and I already have darker roots. 

After shopping we had lovely meal... Which we had to wait quite long, since there were lots of people out. I didn't mind really. It was nice to sit and talk with mum.

Also I got new sheets to my bed as a Valentines gift from mom! It's the Tove 100 years celebration sheets. It's really cute one, I got choose which I liked best and that's the one I choose.

I bout mom a little book, that was full of Moomin moms thoughts. It's cute little book and I really hope mom likes it.

Oh what a Moomin girl I have become. Well they are really cute. 

Now I'm feeling myself super tired, not sure why is that. Maybe because I have got so much fresh air today. 

In the end... I was thinking what would be perfect Valentine's day song and  I end up to Heavy Rotation by AKB48! 

I want you~!

I need you~!

I love you~!

Happy Valentines everyone!

Mari

Finally a break~

 

Fewh! Had the last test in a while today. Relief! That certainly is what I'm feeling right now.

Funny thing happened couple days ago. Girl in our school asked me why I looked so good? "It's test week! You are supposed to look like this" she said and pointed her hoody and  sweatpants. I really didn't know what to say. In the past year I have grown to like to really choose something nice to wear always when I can and do my hair and make up. So I just thought, because test week feels already bad, I want to even try to look good, then I don't feel so bad and stressed out. Another thing that I do at test week, is try to smile as much as normally. It makes my mood so much better already.

Enough with the chit chat. I finally got my  awesome Moomin paintings to the walls!

"Map over Moominvalley"

The whole room looks completely different now and feels more like a place to hang out. 

I'm so happy that they are finally on the walls. But these aren't the only new things I have got lately.

New headphones! These are pretty awesome wireless headphones. Isn't it cool? They use Bluetooth to connect with phone or computer or whatever you want to connect them with it. The sound is good. I really like the color too (white lol). My concern with these are that on longer journey they will probably run my phones battery low too early. But there is no problem when I'm going to school or store, it doesn't like use my phones battery fully in two hours. It probably would take four hours can't be sure haven't tested  that long yet... 

These are handy when I need to get something from bed or other table while I'm on computer. I don't need to stop the music cause the wire isn't long enough. Also there is no problems with scarf and jacket when I come to school. Usually I would need to think carefully what to take off first so I won't get messed up with the wire. Yeah, I really like these. Super handy actually!

 Also got this new blue dress! I have gone crazy about dresses. After America trip I have just loved to wear dresses. So this new one got to added to my "collection". It looks cool. It's pretty simple, but the zipper is nice detail.

I'm currently waiting to hear about my couple friends who are in dance practices. We were supposed to watch some Sherlock Holmes at the evening. I hope the date is still on! I would love to just watch something and talk with friends after the busy test week.

I hope you all are doing well!

Mari

3,2,1... Fight!

I feel like it has been really energetic day!  It's just one of those days that I feel like I have got lot of things to do. Well it's mainly because the school day was so easy today. Almost every other second year student was at the final rehearsal of the dance. Since I'm not attending I had several lessons free.

So at morning I arrived to stage-work lesson to find out that there was only three of us there. Everyone else had those rehearsals. Our teacher said we can just go home or something because the others are at the rehearsals. It felt silly to leave away cause I had next lesson in the classroom that was at the same floor.  I actually staid with the other two and cleaned the place up. Teacher was really happy of our help. I just had fun looking trough all the props. 

In the middle of day I had two free lessons so I decided to go to my apartment. And what I ended up doing... I cleaned my half of the closet. I don't think that closet has ever been that tidy. Except maybe when it was empty. Besides that I have been cooking, doing laundry and studying. That last one I should do more, cause tomorrow my test weeks starts. I can already feel the stress coming on. Luckily it will be over shortly. I already had one test on Monday so I only have three more to go.

Awesome news here are that I got some cool Moomin drawings/paintings that I can put the wall. I'm so happy since my rooms walls are completely empty and they really need something on them. These paintings are super cute I really need to remember share a photos of them when I get them to wall. I just need to get some frames first. 

Lately I have been listening lots of Berryz Koubou's new song Otona na no yo. Ohh I so enjoy the song it's really good. I'm happy that everyone gets to sing and the dance is cool too. The music video was better than some of the last year, still the music video isn't even close to my favorite ones from them. Still I really love the song! 

I just really like to watch the live version too~

Also I saw these today for the first time! The covers for Berryz Koubou Special Best Vol.2. I'm really thinking that I would love to get this album. There is lot of songs that I love from Berryz, like Motto Zutto Issho ni Itakatta, cha cha SING, Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda! and others too. 

Since it's coming already 26th day of this month I don't think I will be able to buy it right away. Hopefully I don't need to wait all the way to my birthday, but we will have to see. 

I hope everyone's week is being a good one!

I have some math to study so until next time, stay well!

Mari

Curly hair~

Lately I have been working hard at home. Now I'm taking care of both of my own clothes washing up and my mom's clothes too. Also I worked hard at outside at our yard at Saturday. So when mom came home from store on Saturday she brought me this! Hair curler! My old one broke completely probably year ago. Before that it was just in bad shape. I just haven't really had time to get new one and some point I actually forget it completely.

I just to curl my hair all the time. It was just part of my everyday life. I woke up really early (cause the curler didn't work well. Sometimes it got too hot and I had to wait it to cool down) and did my hair for day. I have kind of missed my curly hair look. I have always liked the way how my hair looks when it's curled. Well of course I had to try the hair curler as a first thing today morning.

Oh you don't see my lashes, cause I left my make ups at the apartment...

My hair looked even better than I thought! I guess the old curler didn't even create proper curls, but this one made perfect ones. My phones camera makes my hair look different colored, but I wanted show how it looks with hat. So that's why that one weird photo. My French friend told me that it looks really fancy like this. I laughed. She also told me I should do my hair like this more often. I think I will do that. 

Oh and from these photos you can see how the color of my hair has settled up. I'm so happy about that. It looks pretty good.

What do you think? Does it look good? 

Mari