watashiwa jenni desu

i feel so adult. i finally decided to use a non-paper calendar for personal stuff. actually a wall calendar is perhaps not any less adult, but the reasoning for this is that i would keep better track of birthdays. i find it embarrassing when i notice people remembering each others birthdays (and mine...) and i have no clue. a part of me thinks its fine, i just dont think its important, and while i celebrate my own birthday, i dont expect people to know - i will let them know if i want it to be noticed. when facebook reminds me of birthdays i do congratulate people, but many seem to slip past and ... yeah. it seems i should give google calendar ago.

once a week or so i go get a take away lunch from local italian that has a buffet of a few foods and salads. and on my way i pick up a coffee from the Caffe Nero which is in our building. i could do it more often i suppose but i just dont even think about it, and i dont like to take major breaks during a work day, like going out. its not that i work without breaks but looking at facebook is not as disruptive as going shopping. going out suggest the work day is over. but, the italian is really close and its quick and even though im not big on 'professionally made coffees', its a nice change and cheers me up. 

the government now has the aim to open up travel on May 17th. im not holding up too much hope, but i have to have some, i guess. so i think we should book a holiday for end of May. a holiday package to be exact, so we would get our money back if something happens, again. i had totally forgotten we scheduled some time off in doctors rota for both april and may in the hopes that either would work out pandemic/lockdown wise. the thought of sitting home for a week in april is not inviting. doctors rota cant be changed though so we're trying to figure out what to do.

i started japanese lessons online last week. with a private tutor, its not horribly expensive online. i have no idea where the inspiration came from, its not something ive considered before i think. anyway, im taking it as fun and see how far that will take me, not stressing about it. so far after 4 lessons i find it quite exciting.

i also decided to take some turkish classes to brush up my turkish. and pilates - another brand new thing. im really on a roll now.
 

my browser is lagging a bit today. i considered restarting it, which is when i saw i have 182 tabs open which is about 40% more than normally, so maybe thats the culprit?  i backpedaled on restarting though, i closed 1 though. i'll close some more soon. maybe that will help.

we got a fine for putting the trash put at the wrong time. it was a genuine mistake as when i looked into it, i did not find these timetables. its just shocking cos the fine of 400 (or 250 if you pay right away) is pretty detrimental to many. and i was just personally offended as i had tried my best. its a poor excuse of course, but anyway. it was just a depressing thing in the line of many depressing things last week.there was a bit of a flooding issue with our bathtub, with water doing through the floor, and a missing fire risk assessment for the building that i had to organise in lack of other volunteers.

 

tbh with a schedule like that (mon-sat 5am-8am), and the struggles in getting the acceptable recycling bags from the council, im not sure its reasonable to recycle in this building? i just made 2 phone calls (including all the queuing etc) and an email to get 1 set of bags that will last 2 months i suspect. i dont want to repeat the hassle. there is an online form to order more and they should deliver some automatically but it doesnt work for our high street address, leaving stuff behind the door is leaving things in front of people walking on the street...  no wonder we never get such "deliveries".

whenever i watch british crime shows i fondly remember my grandmom, who introduced me to them. she enjoyed watching Bercerac, Hercule Poirot, Inspector Morse etc - and they were plentiful on finnish tv i suppose - and so when i spent some time with her during summer or such, i watched them with her. then i for the most part didnt watch them much until in the past 5-8 years. its nice to have these "generational memories" and i was asking myself if i feel sad that i wont have them passed on. i wont be creating memories like that down a bloodline. i can see how it would be meaningful and wonderful, but no, its fine. i will create memories with others. maybe younger people too, who knows what i will be doing. but i think im quite ok not having offspring to create memories with and for. 

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this job at the MET looks super interesting. if i wasnt happily employed i'd consider this very much. even though the salary is not that great, i feel like something like that would be my calling.