Movie time

I just wanted to recommend a movie to all of you who have Sub-TV. It’s called Järntrean/Rautakolmonen/3-iron and airs tomorrow at 9pm. And don’t worry about it being on Finnish TV – they don’t say that much, in fact I don’t think the main character says anything at all.
It’s a Korean movie about a homeless guy [...]

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Thinking by yourself

A guy at work is presenting his dissertation this upcoming month and he is now looking for a place to have the traditional karonkka or party. When checking out different restaurants online he suddenly exclaims:
- Listen to this; vinaigrette, parfait! Why can’t they just write it in Finnish, this is just snobisms from some chefs that want their food to [...]

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…vi tar det på svenska

det kommer ner stora snöflingor där ute och jag sitter framför datorn och har kollat in fluggener hela dagen å e lite sur på chefen eftersom jag har kollat fenotypen för brinker, eller egentligen inte jag utan Evely, men stor skillnad för liksom varför ska vi göra helt onödiga saker som att kolla hur en [...]

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Saturday in Pictures

Wonderful and very tiring day.
Spent the morning at our church’s Women’s brunch. And the afternoon washing up after the brunch, together with the lovely Mikaela and Sofie – and some other women as well
The evening was spent at Tiina and Marie’s place, discussing the importance of doing research, the pain of giving birth [...]

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Male vs Female

Thursday mornings are reserved for pulla and Journal club. JC is a seminar where a PhD student have to present a resent article that they find interesting. The pulla is just there to make people show up on time – if you’re late = no pulla (bun).
Today’s presentation was about mammary gland development. A very [...]

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Something occured to me…

(Something that might not be so interesting for anyone else but me, and perhaps my mother)
Ah, I realised something yesterday! We were talking about washing dishes and one of my colleagues came out with this statement:
“It’s such hard work to fill up the dish-washer but even worse to empty it!”
Now, I would ordinarily think of [...]

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But the day got better

And then you can become so happy when you come home and find an invitation card to your cousin’s wedding! And what a sweet card it was, even better than the engagement card I got a couple of months back. If I ever marry I think I have to copy the idea
So, Andreas, [...]

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My morning

Facts about diabetes #1:
My mood swings are to 80% dependant on my sugar levels. If I wake up in the morning with values over 8, as I did today, I feel like total shit. The day is crap and I just want to go back to sleep. If, however, I would wake up with normal levels, [...]

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Challenge

I challenge Anna-Karin, Johanna and Ulrika to answer these questions (and if anyone felt left out by this; feel free to answer them as well!)
Three jobs I’ve had:
selling ice-cream, measuring enzyme quality in animal feed, doing research on fruit flies
Three places where I’ve lived:
Sollentuna/Sweden, Kuusamo/Finland, Hong Kong/China 
Three things I like to watch on TV:
Pushing Dasies, American Idol, [...]

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What I’ve been eating lately

All good things come in threes, so here are 3 wonderful things I recommend:
Lasagna with nuts and blue-cheese (lasagne med nötter och blåmögelost)

8 plates of lasagna (preferably fresh)
100 g blue-cheese
100 g cottage cheese
100 g  walnuts
50 g shredded cheese

Bechamel sauce:

1 tbsp butter
1.5 tbsp flour
2.5 dl milk
salt
white pepper

Cook the pasta al dente (if you are using dry plates [...]

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Nightly exercise

Since I started exercising more regularly I’ve been having some troubles with my sugar levels. I tend to take too much insulin in the evening with the result that I wake up in the middle of the night with levels around 3. Tonight was no exception, and I had the urge to say:
- Honey, isn’t [...]

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Laugh of the day

This is so my kind of humour. Don’t even ask me how I found this:
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