Here's what I will wear:
(yes those are Inovar scrap circuit boards decorating my wall... so what)
Dressing up for to work at a corporate headquarters is hard. Everyone at Nokia looks so cute and clean and put-together. It is a struggle to keep my clothes ironed, hard combed, face powdered... so not me. I wish I could just wear this:
(except it is too clean... I threw it on the floor for effect, because that is how I most like to choose my daily attire... what is closest on the floor when I wake up. Really there is nothing there because I happened to vacuum recently)
First we got a spare set of keys to her new place at the cobbler downstairs. Yes... I live above a cobbler. How perfect is it?!? There are so many cobblers around town:
(the wooden door to the left is my door)
Anyways, as we were leaving I noticed two of my neighbors who I haven't yet had the pleasure of making their acquaintance:
They are very, very nice.
Then we went to the watch shop, where I showed them the warranty for this lovely (and expensive) watch I bought last summer. One should never buy a cheap watch, coat, shoes or glasses. It quit working, and it turns out that the mechanism broke because water had gotten into it. Now, I don't swim. Nor do I regularly drown people. I never find myself in any situation where my wrist would be submerged in water. But there was always moisture under the crystal on muggy days. And the warranty said that every watch is water-resistant. But they were trying to tell me that it is not water-PROOF therefore the warranty isn't valid. Yeah right. I told them to call the manufacturer to verify that. And if they call me back and say that the manufacturer said so, well... we'll just see about that.
Anywho, next on the list of chorettes was to return some bottles to the wine store. In Finland, every time you buy any beverage from a bottle or can, you pay an extra 20 cents per receptacle. Then, when you are done with it, you take it back to the shop, feed it through the fun recycling machine, then get a receipt for however many bottles you returned and can get your money back from the cashier:
Then we had to go to the post office so I could mail my security clearance and Mallu could return her books to the library in the same building. Right now there are really colorful leaves all over the place in Helsinki. It smells like autumn. Like Ichabod Crane.
When we crossed the street, the sun again turned everything completely golden and it was breathtaking. Here's what the post office looked like:
2 comments:
Glad you shooed the little devil away. Can't wait to hear about the Induction. I loved that jazzy little groove song...
Celia! It is so fun to read about what is going on in your life. I love all the pictures that you post with your blogs. Very fun things! It is a bummer that you had the wrong day. I do stuff like that all the time.
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