Painting the Horizon

I just abruptly cut a lot of sugar and artificial sweeteners from my diet. I stopped putting sugar in my tea and quit eating sweets and drinking soft drinks. I've been having fresh fruit for snacks and I'm working on doing something about the nutritionary values of my meals.

The funny thing is that I only started on Monday and already the fruit seem to taste sweeter than they used to, and what used to be my favourite juice tastes entirely too sweet (technically I quit that juice too, but I had a carton in the fridge that needed finishing).

I'm very interested to see how this goes. I've "quit sweets" before, but never like this and never with this kind of results. So far I've had no cravings for the stuff I've cut out, either, but as I said, it's only been three days.

Huh. Snowfall and thunder. You don't see that every day. :D

And this is no small amount of snow in the air, either; I can barely see across the street from my window.

So way back when I came back from my Christmas vacation in January, I found the room temperature of my apartment to be 17 Celcius (62 F [wow that sounds so warm in Fahrenheit]). My radiators had air in them (again) and weren't heating the place properly. I've been putting off calling the superintendent ever since, opting to instead wrap myself up in blankets. :D

But today I finally got around to making the call, and when I got home from class I could instantly tell it was warmer, and my thermometer says it's now 21 C inside. \o/ It's also oddly quiet now that the ever-present trickling sound is gone.

Voiko tää nyt mitenkään olla oikein, että olen asunnosta pois 2,5 viikkoa, jona aikana ei ole edes jääkaappi seinässä, ja sähkölasku ei ole edellistä pienempi (saattaa jopa olla että on euron kalliimpi)? Etenkin kun tosiaan edellisessä asunnossa en onnistunut kuluttamaan kuin noin puolet tästä sähkömäärästä mitä tän asunnon lukemalaskut väittää.

So I'm back from Alabasta Uldum Egypt. Picspammy post will follow later when I've sorted through my pictures and edited them for posting. I may also post about my time there at some point.

Right now, I've not slept properly in 26 hours, but I got maybe an hour of sleep on the second flight so I don't feel too exhausted.

*sigh* I'm in class and bored out of my mind. The printer is malfunctioning so we can't print, and people are going home because there's not much else to do since we don't have new assignments. I can't, though, because I have a workshop here in the afternoon and I'm not biking all the way home just to come back an hour later. x__x So I'm stuck here killing time by gossiping and listening one of my more techno-phobic classmates freak the fuck out over the printer (I love her, but she gets frustrated over these things oh-so-easily). Haha.

On the up side, I just got a notification that my order of Cataclysm has been shipped! Only I don't know if I should expect it to arrive tomorrow or on the 7th. (Monday is Finland's independece day, so no mail will be arriving then).

WTF.

Okay, so my fridge is, like, really cold. It's so cold I've taken to keeping a water bottle in it because the water just doesn't come out the tap that cold. I've tried fiddling with the thermostat but it doesn't feel like it's doing anything.

So today, I go into the kitchen and open the fridge, and... the opened pepsi bottle looks weird. I look closer and see that it's half-frozen. It's sitting on my desk as I type because I just can't stop WTF-ing at it. There was another, unopened bottle right next to the frozen one, and it was fine. I've got several other liquids in the fridge, such as the aforementioned water bottle and a plastic container full of pineapple chunks in juice. None of those seemed abnormaly cold at all, just this one mostly-full 1,5L bottle sitting in the middle of everything.

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Aaand I'm back at my own place and still waiting for my new modem to arrive (I'm getting my internet through cable now, so my old phone line modem won't work), so still no Internet for me. :(

I guess I'll just surf in class like I'm doing now. I hope the modem arrives today or tomorrow, though. I'm in the middle of an animation course and I like to watch other people's animations for inspiration.

Okay so now I've snagged a new apartment. It's bigger and in better shape than my old one, but also further away from my school. It's not as dreamy as the one I gushed about a while back, but it's cheaper. Also it has a freezer, which is luxury to me.

OMGOMGOMG

So I'm moving out of my current apartment, which is too expensive for its size and condition, though I don't have a new apartment yet.

BUT. I may be able to snag one that's almost twice as big, with a BALCONY, has had some work done on it recently and is even closer to my school than my current one! The rent wouldn't really be any lower, but I'd be getting so much more for my money. *_____*

Course, I haven't even seen it yet and there may be some fatal flaw in it, but on paper it sounds absolutely amazing. Also there's no guarantee I'll be getting it, but at least it hasn't been rented out yet. *___*


ETA: Went to see the aforementioned apartment. The balcony is a joke, but that's not a biggie. All I needed was the door to let fresh air in if I so chose. :D It's pretty much an upgrade from my current one in every possible way, and the bathroom is a DREAM~. Compared to the cramped, gray, dinky one in my current place.

BUT YOU GUYS I am so horrible about interacting with people ;A; I don't want to have to take care of all of this stuff and call places and meet people about business. I get this horrible anxious feeling and I'm usually okay when I get to the part where I'm talking to a person, but contacting them is terrifying.