Today I went ice skating with two good friends of mine, Katriina and Anna. I do own a pair of skates, but I probably hadn’t had them on be the past five years or so. Skating is fun and all, but I never really find the proper company for it and end up forgetting the whole thing.

That’s me in the white jacket. Anna didn’t have any skates, but she was happy to join us on the ice anyway. Afterwards we went and bought some groceries, then we returned to Katriina’s apartment and made some gyoza and then some chocolate banana muffins for dessert, yum!

On my way back to my apartment I met a classmate of mine, Miikka, who was also heading back to his place in the opposite direction. We stopped and started to chat some close to a railroad/traffic crossing, and while we were standing there two Chinese guys appeared carrying a bed. They then left the bed at the side of the crossing, pretty close to the railroad track and started to walk away. If this wasn’t strange enough they soon appeared again with a second bed, leaving it on top of the first one, and then left the scene again. While both me and Miikka found this rather peculiar we didn’t think much of it, until we suddenly saw the aforementioned Chinese dudes a bit further away from us sitting on a third bed. All of this combined with a dark and silent Sunday evening in Vaasa, where it had been snowing lightly the whole day. Are the furniture stores of Vaasa being targeted by the Chinese mafia or what?

Reminds me, I was supposed to check out the movie nostalgia critic. This better be good Miikka!

Here’s a Runeberg’s tart Renato told me to draw. He was supposed to draw a penguin on vacation in Egypt, but he totally bailed out on me, lame!

“ Runeberg’s tart (Finnish: Runebergintorttu, Swedish: Runebergstårta) is a Finnish pastry that is seasoned with almonds and rum and it usually weighs about 100 grams. There is usually raspberry jam in a sugar ring on the tart.

The tart got its name from the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) who, according to the legend, enjoyed the tart with punsch on every breakfast. Runeberg’s tarts are typically eaten only in Finland and are generally available from the beginning of January to Runeberg’s birthday on February 5. ”

No, I’m not talking about bras. Pervs.

So a bit less than two weeks ago I started doing push ups to increase my upper body strength and gain some muscle mass. Needless to say my initial test gave pretty pathetic numbers, seven push ups and I was out. Now I’m already doing fifteen (and I’m sure I could manage more, but I follow the set program pretty closely, so no overdoing it).

If anyone wants to join me, do an initial test to see how many push ups you can do, then choose your column accordingly. You train three days a week. Always rest a day in between the training, eg. you train Mon – Wed – Fri.

Since I’m already done with week 1 and 2 here’s both at once. I’ll post week three on Monday.

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