"W"stands for Weird

I am in a training thing today for work, and next door to this training place, which is kinda out in the landfill of the south bay, where there is not much else around except birds and rushes, bu right next to the training center is a HUGE hotel type thing called simply "W". I was thinking, maybe it's Cheney's secret bunker?

Nah.

all we are saying...

Time for some anti war blogging already!

So, I've been out of the activist loop for a month and look what people are up to!

There are these brave folks who amaze me, and for the less brave and free of us, there are events coming up in the city (click on "Current Campaigns") and there's always Peace Friday, scroll down, check out the interview with my friend Susan, and join us, every friday, 4:30-6 at Ocean and Water, right here in SC. Apparently there's some sort of a thing happening right now (Wednesday 6pm) down at the clock tower, too. I am still at work though, suks to be me.

I was feeling alone and down today, back at work for the evil man and sending free software to nasty military types in order to pay the damned mortgage.

Then, someone sent me these pics from Jan 18th march in SF:







Someone has to listen to that. They have to.

I guess if they don't, well, we'll have to try something else. What alternatives do we have?

wild ride

So, it has been a pretty intense 2 days. Yesterday, having been awakened at 4am by CrazyJetLagBaby, we dragged ourselves to work and left early to attend a memorial for a friend who died suddenly while we were gone. Then off to pregnancy information night (that was a wild ride through the circle of life) to see BlueRoses and BigC and grrls, then home to CRASH, Rose woke us at 5, went to her 18 month check up (she's *97th* % height and weight, big girl! Only scary thing is she still has the umbilical hernia, so we have to keep an eye on that) then worked, then went and collected a dog, now more work, drop off dog, and then I have have have to make a lot of Babe o stuff to fill orders!

Phew.

My life.

Home Sweet Home

Of course getting home is wonderful and insane and we can't find anything but it is still sweet.

Life in Albertslund

(suburb of Copenhagen)is great so far. Our friends have a lovely place and Rose basks in the adoration of their sweet seven year old daughter. The trip was wonderful though tiring with the train to Helsinki, overnight at our friend's place in Helsinki, overnight boat to Stockholm (which was sooooooo fun) and another long train to copenhagen. We met up with our three dear Danish friends last night and that was a really wonderful reunion, the very very best thing about this trip has been the wonderful reunions with our dear dear friends here and of course in Kuopio.

Sled Pics! and...

So, here we are, finally the sled pics!!

All of us together by the snowpile outside S & K's apartment

The girl and her pulkka

This is my favorite!

OK, I want to write more but we have to catch a bus. We leave Kuopio tomorrow and I am sad to go, I really love this city and of course I can't even say how I will miss S, K and the twins. We have had such a wonderful time.

so, Finland has been really wonderful, and I am sorry I have not written more. We have been very busy having fun!

We are heading to Helsinki Friday and then we spend the night with our friend and have a party with Finnish OTO folks before getting on the Silja Symphony the next night for an overnight party boat cruise to Stockholm, where we take the train to Copenhagen to meet our friends there for another week of fun!

I am out of time on the internet cafe machine, so the rest of my musings will have to wait.

Pics soon, i promise

love

Larissa

I can't believe it.

Rose is 1 and 1/2 today. 18 months ago I got the best present ever, and it has been a wild 18 months! So happy 1/2 birthday little girl, mama loves you more than I ever knew I could love a person.

Here's Rose, a couple of weeks old:

Here's Rose today:

I am still here and promise more pics tomorrow I hope. It warmed up for a day and we went on a sleigh ride and saw Santa which made Rose cry.

We are having a great time though despite cold. we are following Finnish subtitled version of "The Young and The Restless" fairly religiously however which might showq that in fact our brains are frozen!

lots of love to everyone

Larissa

Happy Birthday to Us...

S and I got our birthday cake yesterday!

It was a Sacher Torte, a yummmmmmmmmy Austrian chocolate-mocha-apricot-strawberry-cream yumaliciousness.

Yay!

And, Mr Mo and I successfully navigated the Finnish Bus System today! We are proud.

Now, if only it would warm up to say, -10 or so.

(thanks for the reassuring words on the house. I know it will all be okay)

love to all,

Larissa (and family)