For the love of stats

6.1.20246.1.2024 MarilkaLeave a comment

Numbers have always been my friends. Numbers are unambiguous, straigtforward and no-nonsense. They have clear relationships that form easy mnemonics. You can count with them and have absolute solutions. Numbers don’t lie, they just are what they are.

Now math, on the other hand. While it was still straightforward and dealt with mainly crunching numbers, I loved it. My grandma used to put me to calculating things like “We are driving 100km/h, we have 60 km to go, when will we be home?”on our drives (mostly back and forth between home and summer cottage) when I wasn’t even in school yet. She always claimed that solving math problems is the key to a sharp mind. I will never know (since she was dead before I thought to question) if it really was to shut my motor-mouth up for a minute, but I do know I got my number and math affinity from her.

I did good in math in school, all through highschool too, though I got extremely tired of it when all those letters and LIMs and such stuff (that I mercifully can’t even recall anymore) got mixed into the pot. It took the absolute out of math and numbers. I especially have never been one for statistical math, probabilities and all that shifty crap that calls itself math. I mean, sure, it too is based on calculations and whatnot, but what to I do with the knowledge that the probability of me NOT falling under the bus is 90% when there’s still the 10% and it can hit me any day (and knowing ME, it probably does – but how do I calculate THAT?).

So even though I really don’t like or do statistical MATH, I love statistics themselves. They are simply numbers in the end. I don’t even attempt to calculate mathematical relations or probabilities according to them, I just like to LOOK at them, UNDERSTAND them, CRUNCH them. To understand myself, my life, my *whatever* better just by studying them. I compare them, and I think to myself, that

“this year I posted only 11 blog posts (to SFFM), but I read 105 books – clearly my interest lies more in reading than writing right now
“then again, that was 5 more posts and 22 more books than the previous year – clearly I’ve taken more time for both reading AND writing this year”
only 6% of the books I read this year were non-fiction, while roughly 50% of the books were fantasy – clearly I’m more into escapism through adventure currently, than understanding this life and world”
“I listened to 10490 minutes of music in Spotify, which is roughly the same as year before, while in the roughish year of 2021 it was double – clearly I retreat to music when the going gets tough”
“my main genre this year (too) was Rock, with Rush, Disturbed and Foo Fighters the top three – how did the Foos fall down to the third place?! In 2021 it was #1 with Rush holding the second place, then in 2022 the Foos were #2 with Rush at the top – I’ll blame it on the Spotify random generator, since I mostly played Liked Songs in shuffle mode”

That kind of stuff.

What do I do with the information? Absolutely nothing. I just find it highly interesting, intriguing, insightful. So, just for the sake of all of that, let’s look at some of the stats from last year.

SFFM stats

I wrote 11 posts with a total of 18 400 words, had 743 visitors and 1778 views. Half of the viewers found their way through search engines – which explains why certain old old posts still hold fast in my top viewed posts – roughly the other half came from Facebook, and there were some other random refers, with the WordPress reader being the least random.

May had the most views, for whatever reason, since I didn’t even write anything in May, May 18 being the most popular day with 342 views. October, on the other hand, had the most visitors, while only a moderate amount of views. Makes you wonder if there’s been some bot activity in May (maybe starting in April?). December had the most posts, with 4 posts published.

Out of the top five posts only two were published last year: My body, my positive and 9y ANniversary. The most viewed post was Elämää pikkusiskon kanssa (from 2015). Kuus-nolla lumierä (from 2010!) keeps on keeping on in the top 5 year after year.

Most of my readers are from Finland – quite logically, being that the majority of my posts over time are in Finnish, as are most of my friends. There are, however, always some readers from here and there, apparently one even from China.

Blogger stats

Out of all my different topic blogs in Blogger, the only ones I posted in last year were From Kitchen, with Love (4 posts), The Happy Dogs Diary (one post), and Artzy Bunny (8 posts).

From Kitchen, with Love had a total of 22 200 views last year, March 15 having the interesting spike of 1767 views (bots, again?) when nothing new was even posted. Out of the top five posts none were published last year, though the most viewed one, Perinteinen lohipiirakka with 683 views, was published closest to last year, in December of 2022. The most viewed post from last year was the Polpottone Proibito – Kielletty lihamuereke with 22 views, making it #12 on the most viewed list.

The Happy Dogs Diary has seen very little activity on my side since I started the hdd_doggos Instagram account (with 106 followers). It had a bit of a comeback in the summer of 2020 when Ace was a pups, but then I started the FB page Mama Loves Bully (with 37 followers), and again, the blog was forgotten in favor of the easier, faster methods of posting stuff. Last year I posted one article, the first one since July, 2020: 10 vuotta omassa kodissa, featuring Meggie’s 10 years in our home, her very own home at the end of November, 2023.

The HDD doesn’t see nearly as much traffic per year as the Kitchen blog, but it does see some, 6990 views last year, mostly of older posts. The top viewed one, Sukulaisissa ja keppileikkiä (15 views), is actually the last one I posted before the 1,5 year gap in posting. That only post from last year is not even on the list with all of 2 views.

Artzy Bunny is fully dependent and thus also reflective of my painting activity, showing that I actually painted a lot last year, while before that there was a 2-3 year gap in my artistic endeavors. My artowrk is also featured on the related FB page, Artzy Bunny (with 28 followers).

Last year Artzy Bunny (the blog) gathered 7430 views, June 23 being the spike day with 200 views. Again, nothing new was even posted that day. Also, again, none of the top five viewed posts were published last year. My painting of Ace as a puppy, Ace (Agent of Chaos) 6 weeks old (Acrylics on canvas) from May 2020 was the most viewed last year with 59 views. The #2, I’ll Be Watching You, from August 2020, was the last one posted before the gap of 2,5 years or so. Portrait of a Bull Terrier (Ace), my most recent painting (published in October, 2023), is #7 on the list with 13 views.

Music (Spotify) stats

As already stated above, I listened to music for 10490 minutes last year (or the first 11 months of it, since Spotify actually gives the stats at the end of November, oddly enough). My top five artists were Rush, Disturbed, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, and Seether. Rush and Foo Fighters are always in top 5, the three other ones vary from year to year. My top genre was Rock, as usual. The variations are Rock, Alt Rock, Alt Metal.

Photo stats

I took (or rather stored) 2636 photos last year, which is only a third of the more common amount of photos per year.

I made 218 posts in sannamarilka Instagram, with 1100 likes, and 110 posts in hdd_doggos, with 392 likes, at least according to the Best Nine app. It’s a bit annoying to me that IG and FB don’t really offer much in the way of stats to us normal peeps.

Flickr is another platform with very poor stats abilities. I mean, they do offer them, but but it’s either for all time orthe Daily Stats, which displays a month at a time. But nothing in between, like getting the stats for a year, as I would like, without way too much effort. So who knows how many photos I uploaded last year, or how many views they got, but the total of photos in my Flickr photostream is now 13931 photos, 0 videos, 415 852 views of my photos.

The most viewed photos of all time are the Maspalomas beach (from 2014) with 5821 views and 4 likes, and My nice new leather jacket (from 2008) with 5149 views and 3 faves and 3 comments. The most faved photo is Denim shoes (from 2011) with 6 faves (and 1161 views). Most viewers seem to find their way to my photos by searching stuff in Flickr (but this info is included only in the Daily Stats view).

Book stats

Actually my favorite stats, naturally! And since Goodreads offers a very meager amount of stats, basically just the amount of books and pages per year, I decided to start using StoryGraph for my reading tracking, too. I even got last year’s stats nice and neat after exporting-importing all my book data from Goodreads to StoryGraph. Unfortunately StoryGraph is missing three books from my last year’s reads, probably because they’re Finnish books not found in their database (I actually requested the add of two Finnish books to Goodreads last year, so not surprised if they’re not found in StoryGraph either).

So, the Goodreads stats tell me that I read 105 books last year, a total of 40 382 pages (what?! Year in books says 40 671! Someone is lying here now!). With the publication date stats I can conclude that the oldest book I read last year was Wutherin Heights (Emily Brontë), published in 1847. I read most pages last year in July, while not most books; those months would be March and November, 11 books each. Won’t even bother with the annoyingly difficult to read or non-informative stat pictures here.

StoryGraph, on the other hand, offers all sorts of cool stats. So disregarding the three missing books (no, I havent’ attempted to figure out which ones they are), here’s my reading-crunch-up for 2023:

My most read genre was fantasy, 55 books, so about half
Half of the fantasy was YA, 27 books – since I know that’s the only kind of YA I read
I read 21 romance books (many of them also fantasy), nearly half of them LGBTQA+ (9 books)
I even read two kids’ books, The Old Possums Book of Practical Cats (T.S. Eliot) and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland #1-2 (Lewis Carroll)
The biggest part of the books I read were adventurous in mood – which is no surprise when reading all that fantasy, but also emotional, funny, mysterious, and lighthearted take up rather big shares of the mood pie (book moods are set by reader feedback)
59% of the books were medium paced, 27% fast, and 15% slow (book pace is set by reader feedback)

60% of my books were of average length (300-499 pages), 16% were 500+ pages, 24% less than 300 pages
Only 6% of my read books were non-fiction (mostly autobios) the rest obviously fiction. I do prefer fiction mostly, while enjoying the occasional non-fic in the mix
12% of my books were in Finnish, the rest in English. This 12% seems to be rather the average when looking back a few years
My most read authors of the year were Claudine Marcin (though actually only 4 books, don’t know why it states 6), Elizabeth Lim (6 books), Liz Braswell (6 books), Terry Pratchett (5 books), Tessonja Odette (4 books, though actually 6 since one was a trilogy bunched into one), and Walter Moers (4 books).

The sweet thing about these StoryGraph stats is that I can easily bore into any one detail or segment to get more info. Also, I can easily get the stats for all time; my all time (mainly 2016 onward, but for books in our library, also some from the 1990’s and -80’s even) most read genres are mystery (230 books) and fantasy (218 books), with romance (152 books, 35 of which LBTQA+) and thrillers (151 books) being the runners-up. Maybe mention historical here still, with 133 books. After that we plunge below 100 books.

My most read author of all time, by far, is Janet Evanovich 💜 with 71 books. Next come James Patterson (30 books) and Tess Gerritsen (27 books), both mostly from years long gone, then Cassandra Clare (20 books) and T.J Klune (19 books). Leon Uris, Astrid Lindgren, John Grisham, and Patricia Cornwell are all authors from the past for me, mainly 1980’s and 1990’s.

In the future, I can also get the format stats – digital vs. paper – but the editions for all imported books aren’t correct, so the stats aren’t correct; the editions will be correct from now on, as I track my reading in StoryGraph book by book,

Oh, how statisfying! Probably of no interest to anyone else, but simply going through these, writing about them, arranging them into an informative format, gives me such satisfaction! Until next year!

Lapsuus/Childhood – Q&A

5.2.20235.2.2023 MarilkaLeave a comment

Tämä on taas näitä Facebookin kysymyspattereita. Ja koska minusta on hauska näihin vastata, vastaan. Ja vein tietenkin tämänkin askeleen pitemmälle, kuvin.

**This is one of those Facebook Q&A thingys, and because I find them fun, I answer. And of course I had to take this one step further and add pics.

1. Missä synnyit?
**Where were you born?

– Naistenklinikalla Helsingissä.
**In Helsinki, at Naistenklinikka

2. Onko sinulla sisaruksia?
**Do you have siblings?

– 6v nuorempi pikkusisko
**a sister, 6 years my junior

Ihmettelen siinä vastasyntynyttä siskoani – Looking at my newborn sister with bewilderment

3. Olitko päivähoidossa?
**Were you in daycare

– En, mutsi teki freelancerina töitä himassa
**No, my mom worked as a freelancer from home

4. Oliko teillä lemmikkejä?
**Did you have pets

– Yhteensä kolme kania; yksi kun olin ala-astella, kaksi ollessani lukiossa
**3 bunnies altogether; one when I was in elementary school, 2 when I was in highschool

5. Muistatko aikaa, kun ei vielä ollut lapsilla turvaistuimia?
**Do you still remeber a time before kiddie seats in cars?

– Toki, minua nukutettiin auton takapenkillä skidinä, kun olin huono nukahtamaan sänkyyn. Takapenkillä ei tainnut siinä Minissä olla edes turvavöitä.
**Sure, I was not good at falling asleep and my parents used to put me on the backseat of the car, lying there under a blanket. I don’t think that Mini even had seatbelts in the back

6. Oliko sinulla mielilelua?
**Did you have a favorite toy

– Jose-koira, ehkä. Jose kävi jopa eläinlääkärissä, missä ell Ilves tutki myös Josen tutkittuaan ensin isoäidin koiran Dellan. Tai ehkä nukke nimeltä Jerry, jolle isoäiti ompeli samanlaisia asuja kuin minulle. Tai ehkä nalle tai apina tai mutsin tekemä kummajainen, kuka enää tietää
**A dog called Jose, maybe. Jose even went to the vet where the Vet Ilves examined Jose after first examining my grandma’s dog Della. Or maybe a doll called Jerry, for whom my grandma made similar outfits as for me. Or maybe the teddy or monkey or this oddity made by my mom, who knows anymore

Leluja, Jenny saa maitoa – Toys, Jenny is getting some milk

7. Muistatko mitä sinusta piti tulla isona?
**Do you remeber what you were supposed to be when you grew up?

– Aika pitkään meinasin että lääkäri. Siinä teini-iän kynnyksellä haaveena oli eläintenhoitaja-tanssija-näyttelijä-kirjailija-kombo
**For a long time I wanted to be a doctor. Then at pre-teen or so I dreamed of becoming a combo of animal carer-dancer-actress-athor

8. Olitko ns. näkymätön kiltti lapsi vai jokapaikan apina?
**Were you a so called good invisible child or a rambunctious monkey?

– Sekä että. Jokapaikan apina, joka oppi jo nuorena vetämään ylleen kiltin tytön kaavun
**Both. A rambunctious monkey who learned early on to pull on the good girl cape

Se oon minä tuolla puussa – That’s me in the tree

9. Kuljitko pihalla kotiavain kaulassa roikkuen?
**Did you have a key hanging from your neck when playing outside?

– En, mutsi oli himassa kunnes olin 9 ja siinä vaiheessa avain oli taskussa kasarityyliin vaaleanpunaisella kierreketjulla vai mikä se oli
**No, mom was at home until I was 9, and at that point my keys were in my pocket attached to a pink eighties style twirly phone chain or whatsitcalled

11. Lempilastenohjelmasi?
**Your favorite kids’ TV show?

– Pätkis eli Smurffit
**Pätkis, i.e. The Smurfs

12. Muistatko ensimmäistä koulupäivääsi?
**Do you remeber your first day in school

– Jep. Valitettavasti. Olin potenut kipeää mahaa (jännityksestä) niin että aloitin koulun varsinaisesti pari päivää myöhässä, kesken koulupäivän. Olin siis outolintu alusta saakka.
**Yup. Unfortunately. I had been sick with a stomach ache (from anxiety) so I actually started school a couple days late, in the middle of the day. I was an oddball fron the very beginning.

Ensimmäisenä koulupäivänä – First day of school

13. Keräilitkö jotain?
**Did you collect something?

– Kiiltokuvia, pyyhekumeja (kasari…), tarroja
**Kiiltokuvas (the best translation I found was “die cut scrap”, but can’t very well imagine any kids using that; anyhow, definition: glossy and usually embossed little pictures, kinda like pre-stickers, that usually came in a sheet, and girls collected them in their scrap books), erasers (oh, the eighties…), stickers

Kiiltokuva-arkki – A sheet of kiiltokuvat

14. Mikä oli lempiaineesi alaluokilla?
**What was your favorite subject in elementary school?

– Oliko mulla lempiainetta? Lukutunneista tykkäsin, ja kuviksesta varmaan.
**Did I have one? I liked reading and art classes, I suppose.

15. Olitko koulukiusaaja?
**Were you a bully

– En. Olin se kiusattu
**No. I was the one bullied

16. Harrastitko jotain? Mitä?
**Did you have hobbies? What?

– Kuuden vanhana yleisurheilua VU:n väreissä, partiota ala-asteen ajan, about. Pianoa soitin pari vuotta. Lukemista, kirja tai pari päivässä parhaina aikoina.
**At six years old I was part of the VU track and field team for a year or so. I was a girl scout for a few years while in elementary school. I played piano for a coupole years. I read books, lots of books. A book or two a day at best.

Pieni Viipurin Urheilija – Little athlete

17. Ystäväsi
**Your friends

Aina niitä jokunen oli, kirjekavereita enemmän kuin livekavereita
**I always had some. More pen pals that IRL friends

18. Mieluisin muistosi jostain ensiluokkien tapahtumasta?
**Your favorite memory of something during the first school years

– Ensi-pusu: ekaluokkalaisena ihastukseni asui samassa talossa ja leikittiin usein pihalla yhdessä. Erään kerran leikittiin tuijotusta ja ihastukseni pussasi minua saadakseen minut nauramaan. Onnistuikin.
**First kiss: when we were on first grade my crush lived in the same appartment building as me and we often played together in the yard. Once we were playing stare and he gave me a smooch to make me laugh. And succeeded.

19. Minkälainen oli ensimmäinen opettajasi?
**What was your first teacher like?

– Tiukka nunna, varmaan liki kuusikymppinen. En tykännyt
**A strict nun, probably almost sixty years old. I didn’t like her.

20. Oliko vanhemmillasi tiukka kuri?
**Were your parents strict?

– Oli. Siksi kiltin tytön kaapu.
**Yes. That’s the reason for the good girl cape

21. Miten perheesi lomaili?
**How did your family spend vacations?

– Enimmäkseen isovanhempieni mökeillä (järvenrannalla toinen, Nauvossa saaressa toinen)
**Mostly at my grandparents’ summer places (one by a lake, one in an island at sea)

22. Lempiruokaasi natiaisena oli?
**What was your favorite food as a kiddo?

– Siskonmakkarakeitto
**Sausage soup

23. Tupakoitiinko teillä vielä sisätiloissa?
**Did your parents smoke indoors?

– Jep, mutsi poltti töitä tehdessään kun olin skidi, mutta lopetti ollesani varmaan neljän vanha
**Yeah, mom was smoking indoors while working when I was small, but stopped entirely when I was maybe four years old

Just a bit of annual stats

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I used to be active in my blogging, but not so much anymore. I write the occasional post here in SFFM, sometimes some recipes in From Kitchen, with Love. I post photos in Instagram, but not daily, and really am no influencer 😉 Still, the stats are kinda cool at the end of the year, so let’s have a look.

SFFM

I wrote all of 5 posts this year (I suppose this would be number 6 then), with a total of 8312 words in them. What would that make? Like 1662 words per post in average. That’s like an average high school essay there. No WordPress likes, no comments. Not that I expect any; they’re usually spam anyway 😂 I seem to have 10 followers, though.

However little I posted this year, there’s plenty of content in my blog, 1302 post spanning over almost two decades (starting with the stuff that was in Live Spaces looong ago), so there’s always more views than the just the new posts would bring, this year a total of 915 views by 625 visitors.

Disregarding the home page views (333), my six most popular posts this year were:

E lämää pikkusiskon kanssa 56 views (2015)
Kuus-nolla lumierä 53 views (2010)
Tarinat tatuointien takana 37 views (2018)
100 kirjaa 24 views (2022 – my most viewed post of the year)
Take-aways from the tales of Dave Grohl’s life and music 23 views (2021)
R.I.P. OBHNordica blender 23 views (2013)

Of the pages, The Healing Diary had 25 views, and The Quote Collection 16 views (most my own probably 😂).

It’s a pity search terms aren’t available anymore; I always had such a ball looking at what searches brought people to my blog!

From Kitchen, with Love

This food blog of mine has way less posts, all of 308, 5 of which were posted this year. The views, however were a bit more than SFFM: 11200.

Top 5 posts all had over 100 views this year, and out of the top 10, only numbers 9 and 10 had less views than the top post of SFFM. And I don’t think I’ve checked out any of these top 10 posts this year myself. Oh, maybe that feta spinach pie. Possibly. At least I made on earlier in the autumn.

Flickr

Hunh. Flicker still doesn’t really offer any yearly stats. There’s all time (Pro since 2008) and then there’s the most recent month.

Past month. In the amount of photos you can see that I uploaded a bunch (since July) only yesterday.

My most viewed photos of all time:

Somehow those leather jackets and boots keep on keeping on in the top, still gaining new views. And I can’t help thinking that people who looked at my pussy willow photos were actually looking for pussy pics (yes, those exist in Flickr too).

Instagram

I shared 213 photos in @sannamarilka, and got a total of 1498 likes. Here’s the top 9 photos of the year:

In the dogstagram, @hdd_doggos, I shared 193 photos and got 658 likes all in all. Top 9 of the doggos 2022:

Outolintu

30.1.2021 MarilkaLeave a comment

Elämäni on taas vähintäänkin mielenkiintoista, outoa ja hämmentävää. On asioita, jotka vievät henkisen energiani pretty much kokonaan, sen mitä ei vie työ. Kirjoittamisesta ei siis oikein taaskaan tule mitään, taitaa tulla jälleen aika blogihiljainen vuosi. Kyselyitä en voi kuitenkaan vastustaa, joten tässä vaihteeksi yksi, naamakirjasta tietenkin poimittu.

Pidätkö sinihomejuustosta? Aura on best. Muista tykkään pienellä varauksella.
Cola vai Pepsi? Aito Coca Cola. Sitä kai tuolla Colalla tarkoitetaan, eikä esim. Lidlin Colaa?
Onko sinulla asetta? Muuta kuin terävä kieli? Ei. Tai no, onhan meillä BB-gun, hevosjousi, ja kaikenlaisia puukkoja ja veitsiä.
Viskiä, tequilaa vai vodkaa? Viski, sikäli kun noista pitää valita. Tequila lyhentää iltaa puoli tuntia per shotti. Just nyt en tosin joisi noista mitään, sillä pian puoleen vuoteen en ole alkoholiin koskenut, enkä ajatellut ihan hetkeen koskeakaan. Ehken enää ikinä.
Hot Dog vai Juustohampurilainen? Juustohamppari, itse grillattu.
Suosikkiruoka? Sushi. Tai fettunicine al fredo. Tai ehkä joku ihan muu kuten vaikka puoliraaka entrecôte ja smetana-ruusukaalit. Tough choice.
Mitä juot aamulla? Cappucinoa ja itsepuristetun hedelmäshotin (juuen todellakaan tee mitään sellaisia aamulla vaan teen mehua noin kerran parissa kuukaudessa monta litraa, pakastan ja sieltä sitten täytellään pieniä shottipulloja jääkaappiin)
Voitko tehdä 100 punnerrusta? En enää. En ehkä edes riittävän ajan kanssa.
Kesä, talvi, kevät vai syksy? Kesä. Kesäkesäkesä!
Onko sinulla silmälaseja? On 😒 Taas. Juuri jouduin hankkimaan monitehot ja päätelasit. Tai no, ei mulla niitä vielä ole, mutta ehkä viikon päästä.
Fobiaa? Trypofobia eli reikäpelko, suljetun paikan kammo (hissit ei ahdista, mutta esim. magneettikuvaus kyllä, samoin ihmismassat eli oisko kuitenkin vaan joku “paikkojen joista ei pääse milloin tahansa pois -kammo”?)
Viikon suosikkipäivä? Lauantai, tai jos pitää valita arkipäivä, torstai. Go figure.
Uskotko kummituksiin? Toki! Siis silleen kieli poskessa 😉
Vesisadetta vai lunta? Lunta (talvella, kesällä ois kiva jos ei päiväsaikaan ainakaan satais kumpaakaan mut jos valita pitää niin vettä 😉 )
Lävistyksiä? Korvissa kolme (kolmia “normireikiä” laskematta), ja ensi viikolla jälleen napaläväri (olen kaivannut sitä, sen menettäminen AN-leikkauksen myötä harmitti melkein yhtä paljon kuin kuulon menetys 😛 )
Ranskalaiset vai sipulirenkaat? Ranskikset, tai jos on tarjolla kunnon olutsipulirenkaan niin ne
Tekeekö 6 kaveria tämän? Joo, eri foorumeilla
Lapsia? Kaksi ja puoli, jo aikuisia
Lempiväri? Violetti, jos musta ei oo väri
Suosikkimusiikki? Hard/Alt Rock (Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, ja Rush tällä hetkellä eniten kuuntelussa)
Osaatko viheltää? Juu, mutten mikään mestari ole
Missä olet syntynyt? Stadissa, tarkemmin Naistenklinikalla, kuten ekalla luokalla johonkin lomakkeeseenkin rustasin 😋
Onko sinulla veljeä/siskoa? Pikkusisko, joka asuu Atlantin toisella puolen perheineen
Onko sinua koskaan pidätetty? Eipä ole
Onko sinua koskaan leikattu? Kolme kertaa: kitarisat kun olin 9v, akustikusneurinooma tammikuussa 2014, kyynärpää syyskuussa 2020
Oletko uskonnollinen? Ehdottomasti en.
Suihku vai kylpy? Yleensä suihku, mutta joskus kylpy tuntuu hyvältä
Lempivaatteet? Farkut ja huppari tai teepaita, mutta ihan mieluiten keikuin bikineissä (pitkä kuuma kesä kiitos!)
Oletko hyvä ystävä? En tiedä. Toivon niin. Ei minulla tosin mitenkään kovin paljon ole ystäviä, joten ehkä en?
Onko luita murtunut? Kerran. Viime syyskuussa kun värttinäluu murtui.
Kuinka monta telkkaria talossasi on? Kaksi, yksi kummassakin kerroksessa
Pahin kipu? Sisäinen. Joo, ne fyysisetkin kivut voi olla aika karmeita, mutta kyllä pahiten runtelee särkyneet tunteet.
Tykkäätkö? Usein, paitsi jos en
Ovatko vanhempasi vielä elossa? Isä on, äiti kuoli pian 7 vuotta sitten
Tykkäätkö retkeilystä? Päiväseltään joo, mutten missään nimessä halua enää koskaan nukkua teltassa!
Oletko sinä outo? Ehdottomasti. Normaali on pelkkää illuusiota anyway.

ADHD alphabet

22.3.202022.3.2020 MarilkaLeave a comment

Just because it’s fun. This thing was in my Facebook memories on Friday. Here we go, first word that comes to mind for each letter – and the first thoughts said word inspires. Here we go:

A – ape – Distant relative, who might well get to test a vaccine before people
B – basic – When all else is ripped from life, back to basics it is.
C – champagne – My favorite drink.
D – dude – Dude, dudette, whatever.
E – evening – Sun goes down and it’s time to chill.
F – funny – …as a heart attack. Life is.
G – garage – We have one, full of stuff. In our previous home it was H’s mancave.
H – hair – I really need a haircut. I really need to at least snip my bangs.
I – irony – The irony is that there’s nothing ironic in Alanis’ “Ironic”.
J – joke – As long as we have a sense of humor, we’ll be fine.
K – keeper – I just finished Kate Morton’s The Secret Keeper a few days ago.
L – laugh – It’s good to laugh, it helps your mind stay healthy.
M – manhole – Learned this word some seven years ago and it became a favorite.
N – novel – Well, I do love reading.
O – ornament – I like peculiar ornaments.
P – paramount – Pictures? Also one of those words I really like.
Q – quarantine – Really, was there any other option here?
R – rice – H keeps telling me that soon we’ll all be just eating rice.
S – sushi – Not eating this favorite food of mine while avoiding fast carbs.
T – tornado – None of them generally here in Finland.
U – usher – Another favorite word, but I myself don’t like to be ushered.
V – variety – It’s good. Because we’re different and like different things.
W – water – Clean water is the most important thing for life.
X – X-ray – no xylophones, ok!
Y – youth – …is stupid. Like those students in Florida despite Corona.
Z – zebra – In Finnish it’s spelled with an S and double E, seepra.

Bonus track – the scandic letters (and obviously Finnish words):

Å – åsikt – Opinion (in Swedish). We all have one.
Really, this is a totally Swedish letter, even called “the Swedish O” in Finnish. I don’t think there are any Finnish words containing, let alone starting, with Å.
Ä – äiti – Mother. Me.
Ö – ötökkä – Bug. Soon it’s summer and all sorts of bugs are out again.