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Which is nice. Even if there is no food like the one Made By Mom, there's also no place like home. But I did enjoy the food. And the wine. And the dessert.

Multiple times.

And on saturday I was invited to Nina's place to open up the summer season! Technically it's been summer for a while now, but it has still been raining a lot, so I guess it's anyone's game from here.

I was a bit tired beforehand, but I ended up having a real good time. Nina and Miriam even gave me a gift, and I totally embarrased myself. Once again.

Nina opened up with "Since one of our friends recently graduated to be an M.Sc., we'd like to mark the occasion with a little sumthn' sumthn'..."

And because my thesis is still with the language advisors, and I noticed both of the girls looking my way, so I gazed to my sides to see this miracle of a person who had gotten her thesis through.

Duh.

Apparently, they were confident enough in my swedish to wanna celebrate it right now, and even if I wasn't, and still aren't, and am going to be incredibly embarrassed when it crashes and burns, I was always up for celebrations! And from there on it was good times for everyone! Mainly for the Hostess with the Mostest, since all the guests used the drinking game we played to get her liquored up. We did very, very well.

The gift, you ask?

*insert evil plan laughter here*

Because as all my friends know, I wouldn't die alone in the woods in anything pink, they got me this:

Ugly As Duck

These might be the ugliest socks I've ever seen, but alarmingly, they are also, hands down, the most comfortable thing that has ever hugged my feet.

I am seriously thinking about going pink just because of these amazing socks.

And that feathery thing? That would be a pen they got me. For work. Which I promised to use until my boss do us part.

They also gave me a comic book, called "kiroileva siili", or "the cursing hedgehog" for those less talented in the elfish language of this country. It's a little pissed off hedgehog, and even though it sounds completely bonkers, the book immediately topped the top ten-lists of every book store in Finland when it came out. Sadly, I couldn't find any strips in english, and it might be that excessive amounts of explicit words is something that only finns relate to. Anyhow, I've loved this comic back when it was underground, and I bought an early copy of it years ago directly from the author who was printing them out and punching them together herself at the time. I gave it to Joni as a birthday-present and he loved it. And I love mine.

Apart from being showered with gifts, I spent a lot of time chatting with Miriam. We've been study-buddies for a year or so, but we've never really talked that much, so it was a fun to really get to know her a bit better. We share a few areas in our life too, so it's always nice to have someone to relate to.

Of course there were other people at the party too, but I thought I'd post a pic of the 3 prettiest ladies there. Neighborhood only because I don't (yet) have their permission to post this.