my tv day

today was a tv day, i decided. i wanted a a brain free day. although when i started with Larry Charles' Dangerous Word of Comedy, it was pretty heavy pretty quick. its really good though, gave me a lot to think about.

Larry Charles' Dangerous Word of Comedy 3eps
The Breaker Upperers 1ep
Dating Around  2ep
Proven Innocent 0.5ep
Big Bang Theory 1ep
Dating Around 1ep
Ken Jeong: You Complete Me Ho

Dating Around was interesting, looked like a reality show but wasnt. somehow relatable. Ken Jeong was so-so, semi-funny. but the theme was his career and name dropping, it seemed, and the "fanny shaming" joke was in poor taste. its 2019, the audience needs a bit more than that. 

i was in finland for little over a week. work. but party too. there was one work related party, and Arttu and me celebrated our YYA Treaty 10 year renewal. we'd invited some of the people we did 10 years ago and it was nice to celebrate amongst old friends, very small get together though. i also saw a couple friends, but managed to have a lot of free evenings, just chilling. i bought rye bread and Lumene foundation to bring back with me, and lonkero and sausage for doctor. something weeeeird happened at work. not objectively out-of-this-world weird, but for me personally, im still flabbergasted. so i was at the clients office, where i visit every time i go to helsinki. although its been several times now, its still a bit odd and i still occasionally meet people ive only seen in email threads or heard on calls. anyway so im sitting there working away when the IT lead and some others come around and i realise they want to talk to me. in so many words they thanked me for the work i have done and do for them and ...i dont even remember exactly, i was just so shocked and frozen and wanted to cry. they gave me some branded stuff as a token of their gratitude, and then i was just sitting there like an idiot. could barely work for the next hour or so cos i was still fighting to keep tears at bay! i think i can maybe blame my therapy for me becoming softer? but it was emotional because i would just never expect anything like that. i also really like working for and with them and i really want to do a good job at it.

one evening i proceeded to pull the stitches from my calf, it was time! like, what else was i gonna do with them, i was not in London? they were bloody tight and the procedure was not bloodless. one of them was hiding and got stuck and i couldnt get it out. i felt failed. so the next day i went to the health station to see a nurse about it. she wasnt able to remove it either. so while it wasnt fun, she had to poke around quite a bit, at least i felt like it wasnt just "my failure", it was just a tough one. she said i can let it be, it will come out some day. doctor, over whatsapp, said he thinks the same, so i'm just ignoring it now. it looks ok, or like, its gonna be ok once the dryness subsides;

while im at it, my toe is progressing too. bruising is going away and its feeling less and less sore. and that tape needs changing.

at the airport, it s interesting to see which newspapers and magazines are pushing themselves by giving out free copies like this. Catholic Herald lol?

from a magazine (Stylist). i grinned... 

 Helsinki and people going to work (me included).

A Health Station in Helsinki (the new one in Kalasatama)

always happy to come back home. to doctor. to my own bed. the comfort of everything, ah...