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Sticky post: Books and Movies 2009

Movies:

( long list cut )

Books:

Stephen King: Cell - a common S. King, definitely not as scary as most of them, but kept my interest (and sometimes it's good to be not too scary, when I read it alone in the dark etc)

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - a very funny book made of Shauna Reed's blog entries during 6 years of weight losing.

Stephenie Meyer: The Host - Liked it a lot! I was so happy to see Meyer move on from Twilight so quickly and loking forward to her other books. I love her stories.

Promised to share my opinions, so:

Watchmen receives ***1/2 or even **** from me. Two minus stars because of the few boring minutes. Plus one star of the amazing soundtrack, hot sex and hot Jeffrey Dean Morgan :) And the very cute Matthew Goode. AND not to be forgotten, the blue penis :P In general a very positive watching experience. Only about 10 minutes of boredom, maybe 15, and otherwise quite, hmm.. smashing. And did I mention the soundtrack. When Requiem started playing, I was totally sold :) And 99 luft balloons!!!1 <3 I even liked Malin Akerman. Seen her in 27 dresses, didn't like her much then. Not as good as Underworld III, about the same with Australia.

In other news, Josh Duhamel is my fantasy honey of the month. Milo Ventimiglia is a runner up. I've had romantic dreams every night, so I guess my hormones are waking up and the spring is coming.

I'll add them to the list in the sticky post, it's quite long already :)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (***1/2) - Well, it was good and interesting and touching. But in the middle, I didn't really like Cate's character and I didn't think there was chemistry between them. Maybe because I think Brad and Cate are good friends. I loved the beginning, the adventures and the touching ending.

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (****) - seriously, I thought this was one of the best movies I've seen this year. It's probably the best of the three. I just love Lucian. There's just something relaxing in watching werewolfs and vampires fight like hell. It's very, hmm, detaching (probably not a real word).

Töissä olisi paljonkin valittamisen aihetta mutten jaksa.. kaikkea inhottavista asiakkaista firman omiin huoltomiehiin.. Pistin jo Mikalle valituspostin ja huomenna meillä on kehityskeskustelu, jossa varmaan voidaan asiasta jutella.

On ollut tässä pitkät työputket, kuusi päivää, sitten maanantai vapaa ja nyt onneksi vain neljä päivää. Ihmetyttää taas tuo oma unentarve. Maanantaina olin päivällä hereillä neljä tuntia, sitten menin sänkyyn lueskelemaan ja nukahdin kolmeksi tunniksi. Heräsin pariksi tunniksi ja menin nukkumaan ja sain koko yön nukuttua, pitkälle tiistaihin. Huh huh.

Eilen varattiin Tukholman risteily ensi viikon ke-pe. Jee! 60 euroa A-hytti (olis ollut C-hytit 30 euroa mutta halusin merinäkymät :)). Jos on kiinnostusta, niin Siljalla on tunnuksella FRIEND noita tarjouksia. Eli on tässä pitkiä vapaitakin tulossa, onneksi ei enää kovin montaa päivää.

Finland!!

Ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel peace prize, so congratulations to him!

There's something wrong with the world today, I don't know what it is.. something's wrong with our eyes. Seeing things in a different way, and God knows it ain't his, it sure ain't no surprise..

There has been another school shooting in Finland. CNN posted about it here. It was very shocking to read the news. And almost unbearable to even imagine the pain that this has caused to so many people.

Riikka recommended me the book Twilight, she thought that I would probably love it. And as the movie is coming out, I wanted to read it before that. I finally found the translated version from my nearby book shop on Thursday. I've read half now. I still have two more night shifts, so it's very likely that I'll have it read by Monday. I guess all the most exciting parts are still yet to come. For now I have liked it a lot, although at some short moments it's a bit too childish. And don't any of you spoil it for me or I will never ever speak to you again!!!

I didn't like the news about Half-Blood Prince postponed. I was so looking forward to seeing it before Christmas! And now, almost another year! How can they even do that this late. But I'm sure I'll be excited about the Twilight movie as well, so at least there's something.

I'm not very happy with this weekend. I knew I had to work, so no plans or anything, but I didn't get enough sleep today and I have ten hours before I can go to bed again. I also haven't eaten well. I watched The Bridge to Terabithia before work, I had had it on my digibox for ages - it was ok, different from what I expected and sad, too. Renny Harlin's Cleaner was a pleasant surprise earlier this week.

It seems that booking a trip to Portugal was a very good idea - the forecast shows only rain and cooler temperatures from now on :/ This summer has been very bad. I guess it doesn't matter as much now that I didn't have any summer vacation. Jori and I are going to Portugal in two weeks. I can't wait, sun, sea, drinks, swimming, relaxing..!

A young seagul has settled in the parking lot of my workplace and me and my collagues have watched over his adventures from one water puddle to another. He's quite big already, but for some reason he doesn't want to learn how to fly so he just lives in the parking lot, walks around, and yells for food. His mother comes by every three hours or so, trying to get the young one to fly away with him. It's kind of funny to watch. The seagul, I named Rami, doesn't mind all the cars and people, he just sits in his puddle and cries. Me and my collague took him some bread yesterday, although we know we probably shouldn't.. but he's just so pitiful. Our collagues says that that's exactly what the seagul wants. To look as pitiful as he can so somebody feeds him. And that he's just plain lazy. He has taken short flights around the parking lot when his mother was there, but that's it. He's too scared, poor thing.

Because I have a longer break from work soon, I have to work more now, so this is my fourth evening at work and two more to go. It's been okay. It doesn't matter when you know you'll have some vacation soon.

Kaisa and I went to see Sex and the City-movie yesterday before my night shift. The movie was a very pleasant surprise. I didn't expect anything, I liked the show when I grew older and understood more about the characters feelings and sex and everything. I was never a fan. I liked the show finale very much. And the movie was good! It was 2,5 hours long, but I wasn't bored at all! It was funny and touching and it was so much more about relationship and friendship than I would have thought.

( possible spoilers )

In other news. I have tried a few online games here at work tonight and I lost a few euros.. But hey, it was almost as fun as playing them in a nightclub or a boat. I feel so tired right now, it's 5.30am, 2,5 hours left. Then I leave to Parikkala, to meet my family at my grandmother's. I hope I make it to the train before I fall asleep. I have to pack before that, because I didn't have time yesterday between waking up after night shift and going to the movies and then back to work.

I started a new finnish blog for myself. You can find it here.

My weekend is spent at work mainly. Yesterday was quite busy actually. 10 hours and I was at home at 22.45. Eurovision song contest had started at 22 so I missed a few performances. I had it on here at work, but of course everybody decided to call then. When I got home, Jori had bought us cider and I drank a bottle and enjoyed the rest of the show. I never thought that Finland would win, but I was hoping we would be in the top 10 or even top 15. But on the other hand, it was great that we got in the finals at all! My favourites included Bosnia & Hertzegovina, Georgia and Portugal. I was hoping that Russia wouldn't win because I didn't like their song and performance at all.

I came to work at 7.45 again after four hours sleep. I was so tired, but I'm ok now, and workmates start coming at 11. I hope this Sunday will be a peaceful one. Although 10 hours at work is too boring if nothing happens. But it just has to be in the best amount possible, not too much, not too few. I get off at 6pm so I have free evening and that's great! Although there's much to do, FinBuffy 2008 is in two weeks! Yaiks! I'm getting so nervous about it. I already have butterflies in my stomach.

Life has been okay. Going to work is nice again although three of my nice collagues have left. There are still a few great guys in here and it's enjoyable being here. Last weekend was spent at Kotka with Paula. It was very important that we spent some time together in a long time. We had a nice time. I bought new white trousers and a top with flowers.

It's Eurovision semifinals today, I get off from work at 22, but I think I'll get home before anything serious happens :) We'll have some cider and watch it. I have no idea how Finland will do this year, I'm not a big fan of the song or the band.

What's up with this April? It seems that many people have had some bad luck. I've had some bad luck as well, because we had borrowed my parents' Saab for this week to go to Turku on Wednesday but the car broke down on Tuesday while Jori was driving home from school. It was some technical problem that was bound to happen, just bad luck that it happened when we had it. We took a train (Jori and I) to Turku on Wednesday just to find out that our boat had had an electricity problem and would be 2,5 hours late. It was supposed to leave at 9 pm so we were quite annoyed that our evening on the boat would be so much shorter. We cancelled our buffet, ate well in Turku with Olli and Saija and went to the docks at 10 pm. The boat left at 23.30.

Otherwise the cruise was very nice! We enjoyed our time together just the two of us, had drinks, played some games, danced in the disco and walked on the decks. On Thursday we slept late and booked another buffet where we spent two hours eating well and drinking wine. I'll post some pictures later.

The cruise was just too short. I would have loved to spend another two days with Jori on the sea. But now we have some alcohol and chocolate we bought tax free. We both also bought new watches. Jori bought me a Muumi-coffee mug, orange with "Hattiwattis". I was admiring them but didn't want to spend money on them, so Jori surprised me while I was resting in the cabin.

My Easter plans:

Thursday, day off from work. First sleep late, then maybe clean up a bit, go to groceries to buy everything I need until Monday and then finally in the evening a girls' night out! I'm very excited about that, because Piksa, Anna-Leena and I haven't spent one in over a year together. And I'll see Piksa's new place. It's very exciting.

Friday, day off from work. Hopefully don't feel too hungover. Will eat pizza and drink lots of coke and in the evening watch Fellowship of The Ring from tv. I'd say it's a perfect timing for airing the trilogy again.

Saturday, 10 hours at work. Get off from 7pm, so I'll be at home for Two Towers.

Sunday, 10 hours at work. Get off from 5pm, so I'll be at home for Return of the King.

Jori will be away whole Easter. At the moment I actually feel pretty good about it. I feel good about tomorrow night and about the movies and pretty good about going to work on weekend, as well, because I am very fond of my workmates :)

I had three night shifts last weekend. I've had difficulties with sleep after that. Not so much with the amount of sleep, just the timing. My last shift ended on Monday at 8am. I slept until 5pm. Then stayed awake for four hours and fell asleep again, and woke up at midnight. Then Jori and I watched some telly and went to bed and I didn't fall asleep until maybe 3 or 4 am. Slept till 3.45pm again on Tuesday.. and on Wednesday.. and then last night I woke up at 3am and laid awake in bed for two or three hours before falling asleep again. Now I'm back at work, feeling a bit better (I was feeling a bit blue earlier this week, because of my daily rhytm and because I was confused of what day it was etc. You know.) because Kaisa and I are working in same shift today. It's also nice to be at work because I feel like I'm doing something. It is quite common to have small after-night-shift-depression sometimes. And I had that for the first time this week.

On happier note, I have done something else beside just sleeping and being blue. On Sunday, before my shift, Piksa and I went to see Sweeney Todd. I didn't love it very much though. It was visually great, the actors were amazing, but I didn't like the songs much and maybe the main plot was just a bit too dark for me. I'm not saying I didn't like the film at all. I wasn't disappointed. I just like musicals like Hairspray and Enchanted more.. that's just me :)

On Tuesday Jori and I had free tickets for 10 000 BC. It was ok. Nothing that special or spectacular. Liked the music.

Sunshine really is a beautiful film. Grandma gave me 50 euros for my birthday and I went and bought dvd's with all of it: Sunshine, Death Proof, Wolf, Cry Baby, Edward Scissorhands and The Stand by Stephen King. I've seen the latter only once in the 90's. And all the others are my old favourites (beside Death Proof, which is quite new, heh). I'm in Hameenlinna now, came this afternoon and will go back on Wednesday for a night shift. Rekku has to stay here, because Jori and I will go to Kuopio on Friday.

"Only dream I ever have... is the surface of the sun... everytime I shut my eyes... it's always the same."

Scores that touch Marjo very deep:

John Murphy - Sunshine

Steve Jablonsky - The Island

Danny Elfman - Edward Scissorhands

Hans Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean

Harald Kloser and Thomas Wanker - The Day After Tomorrow

Other favourites include:

28 days/weeks later

Star Wars

Da Vinci code

Would you like to vote for Rekku in the Human Society-page. We just entered a competition - just for fun - if you'd like to vote, you can do it here :)