Pinteresting

Marimekko scandal is almost behind us. I’m still waiting for news about Isola but it seems like she’s allowed to continue to work at Marimekko. Grrrr. Very disappointing.

Anyhoo, pinning new things has been a welcome distraction from all this hardcore journalism stuff I’ve been doing and I have few good ones to share:

 Vintage soda poster Jaffa by Erik Bruun. He did quite a few ads for Hartwall Jaffa back in the day and one of them was even made into fabric and other home decor products recently. They were/are a HUGE hit and even I wouldn’t say no to the shower curtain.

 From my board “Beautiful People”. I don’t have any information about this photo. All I know it’s young Jack Nicholson hot and ready to bother and that’s all I need to know. Which is a nice build up to:

But in my defense, I just think them.

Ah, these shoes!!! Maybe I could balance the little evil in my heart with some sweetness on my feet. These shoes are a Disney-princess musical scene waiting to happen. And no, no one is too old to have a Disney-princess moment. Just ask Penny, Amy and Bernadette.

 Talking about suitable for princess…Now this is what I call, call, call…Well let’s just call it PRETTY! I wouldn’t mind having patterned computer. I think it would bring certain je ne sais quoi to my life. Or at least make my mornings little bit less boring/mundane/soul sucking. And if I could have one of these:

 I’d never, ever be sad. I mean look at that belly! Gah! I’m bursting with inability to handle this cuteness. I want to squeeze him so hard! Sniff it’s head and then squeeze some more!

Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze and one more squeeze! Seriously this is just too much for one woman to bear.

Last but not least, some words of wisdom to live by:

Hear, hear.

Thrifty Finn- Pinmeister and Blogger Extraordinaire

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Tears of Joy

Disk Utility (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

This morning I woke up feeling extremely depressed. After three and half days of trying to re-install my operating system, I was still without working computer and thought that all my work and blogging would be stopped till indefinitely. I spoke on the phone with my friend Niko and I bawled my eyes out. (I don’t know how he was able to listen to my sobbing and waah-waahing, but once again he pulled through like a good friends do).

 

When the phone call was over. I curled up in a ball and lied under my duvet, staring mindlessly at some daytime TV.  Then suddenly I got all mad. I got up and dug up my newer installation DVD and decided to try one more time.

 

Computer started up, installation instructions popped up. First I tried to do the installation like you would when you get a new computer out of package, just couple of clicks, select destination etc…But there was just one problem, HD couldn’t be found. I opened Disk Utility where I could see the new hard drive even if it didn’t show up in the installation screen. I tried formatting as that’s what I’d been instructed to do. Didn’t work. I kept getting input/output error. (Like I had got past 3 days).

 

Then I remembered something I had seen last night at the library where I had googled my problem. Apparently there can be such thing as TOO big hard drive. Yeaaahhh. That would be the first I thought. All the instructions had said I should do partitioning. What partitioning? I had opened the tab in disk utility before and nothing was clickable!!!

 

More frustration ensued.

 

So today, when I’d inserted the newer DVD, I decided to see IF this partitioning thing was possible. It was! I have no idea what I really did when I selected to partition my hard drive into 4 parts BUT after that, I could format the hard drive AND the installation started by itself!

 

So here I am. With functioning computer once again.

 

I’m all kinds of awesome.

 

Thrifty Finn- expecting an award and a speech and a banquet.

 

For Crying Out Loud

One of the few remaining pictures that I have left.

Last Friday, the worst thing imaginable happened to me. I knew my luck was running out, that I had to go to someone else for my needs but I kind of had hoped that I’d still have few months of time to get things fixed. But no. Last Friday, I was in the middle of chatting, uploading new selling pictures, listening to music and browsing Netflix when I got it.

Some sparks and then…

The blue screen of death.

My Anders is dead.

Gone.

Goner.

For good.

I still had hope, you know. For two days I managed to tell myself that this is something that I can fix. Or at least I could get someone else to fix. But this morning I received the dreaded message over the phone: “Your hard drive is fried”.

First there was desperation and disbelief which was quickly replaced by hollow feeling in one’s stomach before moving on to accepting that this, in fact, has happened. TO ME!!!

How can I ever get past this? We were together for so long! Since 2006! True, I had to buy more RAM and upgrade the operating system but I could get past all that! I still liked you! You were there when times got tough and you were there when I wanted to blast “Born This Way” as loud as possible and make the neighbours crazy! You are the one who knows all my secrets and internet things!

YOU HAVE MY PHOTOGRAPHS!

How could you do this to me, Anders? How could you? I thought we had a good thing going on! You betrayed me like no one has ever betrayed me before. You knew it and you still went ahead with this! You disgust me.

I’m now going to take your empty hull and replace you with someone else and no, I’m not going to ask them to recover your data. You brought this upon yourself.

Best,

Thrifty Finn or as you know, the Saddo Internet Single.

 

 

 

 

Pinteresting

This week I found these things pinteresting:

 I fell in love with this fabulous tutu, made by HandLondon. I like it so much that I asked the girls of HandLondon where to get patterned tulle. Pink I think would be too girly for me but navy, that I could rock. Combined with neon pink pumps and white crispy shirt and voila: one hot chick! Too bad I’m going to have to pester a friend of mine, who lives in London, to go to get the fabric for me. But hey, that’s what friends who live abroad are for! Right?!?

More beautiful people…Young Martha Stewart. Yeah, let that sink in for a moment.

Red Poppies by Vincent van Gogh. I have no academic arguments behind my statement but I think this one beats Sunflowers hands down. Full of life and energy. Side note: check out Wikipaintings.org. It’s awesome.

Well who can resist that adorable little snout? Not me! So cute, I can’t handle it. At all. Or maybe I’m just trying to distract myself from the fact that I’m a horrible human being. Why? Because…

 I posted that on my friend’s Facebook-wall. On his birthday.

Thrifty Finn. The scumbag friend.

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A Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in My Life pt.2

You know, I got my first ever smartphone last week. For a past few years I’ve been getting my phones used from my friend. It was an economical decision based on how many phones I had managed to break in a very, very short period of time.

Anyhoo, of course I’ve already fully embraced the possibilities smartphones offer but I didn’t actually get to USE it fully until today. Why, you may ask? Well, thank you for asking. Because today I got around to buying:

Which was immediately followed by instragramming this:

My brand new clothes. See! I totally get this social media thing.

Thrifty Finn. Hip and happening.

 

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