Coffee Break

Pomegranate test and photos.

Kaisa — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:41:47 +0000

Okay. I have never ever tasted pomegranate before. Unless you count pomegranate flavoured tea (which is awesome) or juice (which is disgusting). So. Today, my youngest sister splurged on one (over 2 euros for ONE fruit is splurging, is it not?) and asked me to eat it with her (because she’s super allergic to most fruit and veggies).

So I tasted this:

And was terribly let down. It doesn’t taste that great, so the reason why many food bloggers I follow are going nuts about it is still a mystery to me (and I could totally sing this song to pomegranate).

Not only was the taste a bit of a let down, but now I have slightly itchy eyes and gums. Great. So effing great.

Also, January is NOT the best time of the year to start a photography challenge. It’s dark and cold and too snowy and shit. It looks like this:

And it’s icky.

And this is so random.

Resolution musings.

Kaisa — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:23:35 +0000

I make the same resolutions at the beginning of every year. Really, I cannot remember a year I haven’t sworn to myself that I will exercise more and eat healthier foods and consequently, lose weight. I never do that. Never. Which is why making those promises this year (again) makes me feel like a hugely giant hypocriteliarloserlamearse.

Nevertheless, my New Year’s resolutions are the bog standard ones (in list form, yo!)

Eat like a normal person. As in, breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks. At the moment I eat (normal food) once a day. The rest of the day is filled with crap like crisps and chocolate and Coke.
Go out and walk for at least 30 minutes and on at least 3 days a week. It’s not that time consuming and yes, it’s freaking cold outside, but warm showers afterwards have been invented, you idiot!
Lose weight. I don’t really a time limit by which I want to achieve my goal weight which is 60 kilos (about 132 pounds, and is at normal range for someone my height). I have 37 kilos (81.5 pounds) to lose. That’s hell of a lot of extra weight on me.
Take 365 photos. Meaning, a photo day. It’s a Flickr project, but one that is not limited to 365 self portraits. That one I could never do.
With the Project 365, take a self portrait on the 1st of every month. I really, really hate taking pictures of myself, or letting anyone else take pictures of me, but I’m going to try. (Mind you, taking that picture of me you can see above this post took like 23456 takes before I was satisfied with the result.)

I was on standby.

Kaisa — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:42:03 +0000

Oh wow. I have neglected this little blog of mine for nearly a year! A lot of things have changed, some quite drastically. I applied for several universities, got called for an entrance exam and consequently got accepted to a University of Applied Sciences, and the particular school I’m currently enrolled in is one the more appreciated ones in Finland. So, I deserve a pat on my back, don’t I? *pats*

I’m trying to remember the last time I blogged and whether it was before I moved to my current home. Anyway, before I lived with one of my little sisters but as life tends to throws us around, in good and bad, my sister and I are now “separated”. She met a boy, fell in love and moved to another town. I didn’t meet a boy, didn’t fall in love and didn’t move to a different town. I did, however, move to a small flat right in the middle of this little town and yeah, almost next door to my parents. Which I suppose is both good and bad. Good because I can eat their food and bad because my Mother can pop in at any given time and complain about that one mug I haven’t washed yet and why haven’t I hoovered since two hours ago because it’s so dusty here and I really should hoover more often than every hour.

I was planning on turning Coffee Break to a food blog but decided against it as it felt too constricting. And eating pasta and beans and pasta and tomatoes and just pasta is hardly food blog worthy material. Which means, this will continue as it started: my personal, randomness filled blog that serves no greater purpose and probably isn’t even that interesting. And man, do I have a lot to do in order to get back in the blogging world! Feel free to suggest interesting blogs for me to read, by the way. Now, I’m going to try to get myself reacquainted with commenting etc. Daunting.