Living with hypothyroidism.

Someone might remember my post about living with anxiety and depression. Well since that's not the only illness I actually battle with daily, I thought I'd write about something else that affects my life quite a lot. And to "celebrate" the fact that I had to go for blood tests once again :D

Long post once again, so read more under the cut!

Whoa, okay.

My cousin reminded me the other day that I haven't posted anything here for a LONG time. So this is an "I'm okay and this is what has happened since the last time"-post. This might get long, so bear with me.

Last time (aka last two posts before this one) I wrote about wanting to cosplay again and that I was getting an apartment.

So yeah...

Well first of all last year was kind of a clusterfuck for me. In the beginning of the year I lost my mummi (grandma from mother's side in this case), was super heartbroken about it for a long time, since she was really important to me. I applied to Theatre Academy, but didn't even get invited to the entrance examination, since I "didn't have enough work experiene in theatre". Mind you, I had graduated at the end of the previous year. I had a hard time getting an apartment and generally a big amount of people were making my life harder one way or another. Different parties (not political ones) wanted money from me all the time and I just had none.

Then magic happened. I was informed I was getting an apartment, and I also decided to adopt a dog from Kulkurit Ry (a group that rescues dogs from the streets in Romania and Estonia). She is the most adorable thing ever, even she is a bit... special sometimes.

Her name is Aurica and she saves my life every day. She is mixed with who know how many breeds and is approximately 1,5 years now. Since she's a rescue, we don't know what her real age is. Nor what breeds she has in her. She arrived to Finland from Romania on the night between 27th and 28th of June. That's also when we celebrate her birthday :D

In the beginning of June I went to Desucon, which revived my urge to cosplay. Soon enough I had my own cosplay page on FB x) But we'll get back to that later.

Quite soon after Desucon I started dating... well "dating". Okay, I got myself a boy. By the end of June we were "officially dating". We're still together, which is surprising since I usually last for only 5 months in a relationship...

So things were going okay. I went to Birmingham for a Teen Wolf event, met my friends there, had fun, got told I look like Natalie Dormer, came back. Went to Ropecon, had an amazing time as usual. Went to Tubecon and met some really cool people and made new friends. Went to Mikkeli with Rafiki, had a blast.
In September I went to Tracon where I was a judge in a cosplay skit competition, had fun and made new friends. Still wanted to cosplay, but had no money. But then I got a job as a youth leader!?!?

Okay, at this point things were going a bit too well for me, so something had to come and mess up my life, right?

And it did. I was supposed to start working in the beginning of November, but got informed that it wasn't possible. For a week or two I was angry and disappointed, but somehowe I got a message saying that hey, I can start working in December! I was to become a youth leader with children's theatre group. And everything was good again. I even decided to do Sailor Pluto for a convention and started the cosplay page I mentioned earlier.
So things are going well, I have an apartment, I have a god, I have a job, I have a boyfriend, and I have hobbies that I like (parapara, cosplay and games)... so what could possibly go wrong?
Well, since you've probably noticed, I can't do well or be happy for a long time without something shitty happening. Well, in the beginning of December I lost my mummu (grandma from father's side in this case). And of course I got sad and a lot of random things started making me anxious (especially people).

I did continue my life and kept doing things I liked. I liked my work (still do!), got into cosplay and making Sailor Pluto and one day in late December as I was on a walk with Aurica, I realised that it's completely okay to let go of the "shitty" people in my life. If they are not good for me, if they always make me feel more bad than good, I can just leave them behind and say no to them.

Since the beginning of this year, things have been quite okay. I do get depressed every now and then, but that's how the illness works, and I'm doing my best on those days.
I went to Yukicon in January, where I wore my Sailor Pluto costume on stage, as I hosted Nordic Cosplay Championship preliminaries and the photoshoot contest.We even held a panel about cosplay skit making with Elina and Miro.

Photo by Santtu Pajukanta.

Once again I met some really cool people, made new friends and had a blast.

I've been working a lot, but good thing is that it's fun and I get to do a lot of different stuff. I also found out that I kinda own land in Pelkosenniemi x) Though I am going to sell it as soon as I get all the papers sorted out, since I don't really do anything with it, and don't have money to keep it in the long run.

Anyway, that's pretty much the past... eight (?) months. I actually have to work tomorrow (TODAY), so I gotta go to bed now. 

I'll try to be more active here, but I don't have much time or energy after work so I'll see what I can do x)

Stay human! Blog ya later~

UPDATE. FINALLY. YES.

Okay, I've been a very, very bad person and I have no excuses.
The truth is our internet actually was down for like 5 days or something but then it got fixed on Tuesday (16th) and since then, instead of updating, I've been just watching The X-Files, The Mentalist and going through tumblr, A LOT.

But here we go. Have my attempt of making things okay by throwing a bunch of pictures and small stories of the previous weeks.

So right BEFORE I flew back to England I went to Ropecon, where I larped, had tons of fun with my friends and made some new friends.
I got new badges and other school stuff:

Badges in Finnish would translate as:
The green - Jailbaitaxe (does NOT make sense in English, I know, but it's kind of a word play in Finnish)
The blue - Early cougar (HAHAHA. Inside joke that I'll try to explain a bit soon)
The violet - You're 16, I hope? (kinda hard to translate because of the double meaning :D)

Before Ropecon, I spent a week at a summer camp with my ninja friends and during that we somehow established that I'm an early cougar who just happens to like people under 18 :'''D
Mostly weird jokes, but I couldn't resist getting those badges (I custom made the 'Early cougar'), ESPECIALLY after becoming friends with a 15-year old at Ropecon x))

I even got a cool t-shirt from Ropecon (TRADITION!) :3

Anyhow. Like I said earlier, soon after Ropecon I flew back to England.
After I had dyed my hair blonde, of course.

(Picture taken in England so I am cheating here a bit.)

After being surrounded by people 24/7 for two months in Finland AND getting settled to the new house in nearly a day I spent a week of nonexistent privacy and lone time during which I also hunted for jobs.

My very "tidy" room during that week. (Stuff on that pile... obviously NOT mine.)

I did see Super 8 during that week so I guess I got something NOT stressfull out of that.

Oh, btw, you'll be getting a nice slice of my life- post where I'm gonna be introducing my room in the new house as soon as I manage to decorate it and take more photos :3

Let's see... after the first week of being back in England I spent time hunting for more jobs and going around shops with my nonexistent money.

First when I saw these I got really happy and then really sad 'cause I had no money ;__;

I did get these new shoes just because I'll be needing them when Uni kicks off again.

I also spent my nonexistent money on movies. But maaaan, I could NOT not see Captain America and Harry Potter 8!!!


My reactions to:
Captain America - Excited before, during AND after the movie?? Only EXTREMELY! I even cried a bit, especially when they showed trailer for Avengers AFTER the movie.
Harry Potter - I knew I was going to cry so I didn't put any make up on. Thank goodness I didn't. I cried for at least half an hour straight. And my gosh how they have grown up and ASASSDASDD ;__;
So yeah, I'm emotional and get, easily, emotionally attached to fictional characters. Shoot me.

Now, I'm not gonna lie, but I was in a big money trouble which also caused me a huge rent problem and then Kela was being a beeetch (like always) and so I had to... take a study loan. And quite a big amount of that too.

And then, for some IDIOTIC reason, I decided it'd be a great idea to spend some of that money to something else than living. Like...


a black top (I had a good reason for buying it!)
a black cardigan vest thingy (also a very good reason)
Gosh trio eye shadow TR20 Tropic Fever (a good reason)
Gosh Velvet Touch eye primer (not that good reason, for of a "Ooh, wanna try.")
Kick-Ass (not any reason)
Sherlock Holmes (not any reason)
Tron & Tron: Legacy (not any reason, but turned out one of these is 100th movie on DVD I own)
AND...

Perry the Platypus- chocolate lollipop! (My reason for this: It's Perry.)

So yeah... My defence on buying the movies is the fact they were "only" 24 pounds all together!!!
And the good reason for everything else was my friend's Star Wars-themed birthday party for which I had no proper costume... so I kinda made one up myself. LOL.

My make up and hair for the night. See, I actually used the Gosh I got! :D

And my faithful, awesome, self-made lightsaber.

It was a fun night. I loved when Claire, dressed as Darth Vader, attacked a random Scot (at least I think he was a Scot) with a lightsaber. Priceless.
I also found one of the funniest street/place names in Worcester that night:

LET ME LOL.

I think that's about it... yeah, next time I'll let you know what my room looks like and some other funny facts/things about our new house.
Till then, take care and stay human.

Take a look a these rubber ducks.

These three duckies, which I named (from left) Dean, John and Sam btw, are (hopefully) on their way to Canada now.

A Sunday in the life of Sarumi... on a tuesday!!! :D

As I said in the last post, here's my "one day in a life of"-post. Late, I know, but you'll soon understand why.

Warning! A hevy load of pictures ahead! Clicking them might make them grow in size!

So Sunday is usually my laundry day.
In St. John's campus, where I live, the laundry is pretty expensive so I always go over to my friends' place in city centre to do my laundry... for free.
Aaaanyway, my Sunday mornings start with...

me waking up. This time I woke up around 9.30.

After getting up I usually take a shower. Unless I've already showered the evening/night before.
(The shampoo bottles here are HUGE!)


After shower I smear myself with lotion. Or in this case, with emolient cream x)

Face, hands and feet. Those usually dry the most, so it's good to smear them often.
Especially face if you're planning to put some make up on.



The cream takes some time to "absorb" into the body, so meanwhile I like to make my bed. I hide my nightshirt under my pillows.




Then I try to decide what to wear... NOT easy.
I usually turn to Ranzuki for help if it gets way too hard...




Then the problem seems to be tights. Which ones to wear!?!

I can tell you, this Sunday I went for...

the purple ones!

I get very bored if I don't listen to music while dressing and putting make up on.
Honestly, I just get so blank and... monotone if I dress and make up in silence when I have time!


Sooo... I switch the plug on and then my lovely laptop, Daniel.


When Daniel's all up I execute Winamp
and start listening to whatever music Daniel and Winnie decide to play.

Usually I have to skip every other song, because I just want to listen to SOMETHING, but I don't really know what xD

Make up time!

The tools I used this time. Sorry, forgot the M.A.C's mascara and lipstick from the picture!

Lot's of Lumene and M.A.C. again :D
There's also Rimmel's white eyeshadow and Wet n' Wild's black eyeliner.

Make up done!
I apologise again, I forgot to take pictures of the process since I was trying to hurry up.

On to the hair!


Which turned out like this!
I have my extensions on and then all of it put up with a hair clip I bought from Japan 3 years ago :'D

My clip-on extensions are a bit lighter than my own hair, so I always try to fix my hair in a way that it's harder to realise it's not my own hair x)

Outfit for the day~

That happened to be purple tights from Seppälä, Rosebullet's waist skirt (from SpiritStore) and grey, long-sleeved shirt from GinaTricot.
Simple but cute, if you ask me :3
I also wore one of my favourite trainers, they go together so well with the skirt ♥

Now on with the story we go! This was, and still is, the story about a Sunday in my life xD
After I was ready, I looked outside my window...


to see it was raining. Again.

That's pretty much how it goes around here and I'm getting used to it :D


So I grabbed my umbrella and headed to Students' Union's bus stop to check if there was a bus coming in the near future.

Luckily enough my mp3 told me that the time was about 11.46 and the timetable said "There should be a bus 11.46.".
So I waited.
Comfortably under my fancy umbrella.

Waiting for the bus in the rain makes me go DERP.

And the bus comes!
Yay!

There were two Chinese girls out, waiting for the bus with me. They must've thought I was weird since I was hanging out with a laptop bag, Bank-bag full of something, holding an umbrella and taking pictures of random things and myself x)


The bus tickets here are so kind x3


Bus journeys are usually a bit boring so took a bunch of needless pictures... -_-'
I'll share a few of them with you anyway.

Like this one where I'm all constipatedly excited about my little trip that I do every Sunday.


I had so much stuff with me xD I usually leave Daniel at home, but this time I made an exception.






Bored.


This is why I usually walk...





ALMOST THERE!

(I think it takes about 15 minutes for the bus to get from campus to the town)





There!
Yes, the bus ends up infront of the biggest (?) nightclub in Worcester :D


Then I have to walk... 'cause frankly enough, my friends' DON'T live in Tramps :D

Follow the arrows!



Walk some more and still follow the arrows!

And then I finally arrive at the Sansome Halls! To get in, I have to press the buzzer.

Of course the day I have some heavy-ish load with me, the elevators out of order, thanks to a power cut that happened 2-3 DAYS before :D


So I walked upstairs and was, luckily, greeted by a smiling Monica who kindly opened the door for me ♥

(Random fact: I've now posted 30 pictures in this blogpost and I've been writing this for over an hour!)

So I dropped my stuff, put some teatowels and potholders in the washing machine, chatted with the guys and then headed out to buy some breakfast.


Breakfast from Co-op. I also bought something else, but that I'll reveal a bit later x)



Oh! Did I tell you what the kitchen looked like when I arrived?

No I didn't, but don't worry! I took a picture!

Yeah.

This of course makes me sad.
But I started on my breakfast anyway.


So I pulled out all that stuff I bought from Co-op. And Superdrug and Boots x)
Detergent, cosmetics and breakfast!






OMNOMNOMNOM.

Breakfast at 2 o'clock 'cause that's how I roll.


I also played some Super Mario Bros. 3,
'cause I also roll like that!

Do not approve of the pile of dishes.


So I worked my magic and soon the pile was gone!



With nothing to do, while waiting for my laundry to wash and dry I:


Polished my nails...





Watched Sam cooking...





Watched telly...

but hey! Baftas' red carpet was on and later in the evening they'd have the awards on BBC one!!!
We decided to watch them but we still had two hours to go...


So I finished my laundry...




We watched some TV (more)...

We even played some games on our laptops...

We went to Tesco to get some food and laugh at the huge crisp bags.
We got food from McDonald's but I forgot to take a picture in there. Damn.

While in McDonald's, we realised that it was already about 9 o'clock so we hurried back to the flat and started watching Baftas immediately...

I, of course, forgot to take pictures. Again xDDD

After Baftas we played...

Mario Kart on Wii!

Everyone wanted to play with Yoshi, but in the end the other Sam got him so I decided to go, against all my nature, with Peach :'D
Strangely enough, I won a few times even though it was my first time playing Mario Kart Wii and with a character riding a bike!

We finished playing around 2. SOMETHING... yes, in the night. So it was Monday already.

After checking I had everything packed and with me we headed out.


We, as in Monica and me. She usually walks me back halfway (= Sabrina Bridge) and if we get one of the guys to come with us, they might walk me walk all the way back to St. John's (takes about 25-30 minutes).



It was nearly 3 o'clock in the night when we got to Sabrina Bridge so I pretended to be a swan whisperer.

They actually answered me a few times.
Probably tried to tell me to "F*ck off!" :D


Nevertheless, it made me happy and so I continued my journey back home.



I must've arrived at home around 3.15, so you can guess how tired I was.

You can't? Well, let me show you:

THIS tired.

I just flopped down on my bed... got up a few minutes later to remove my hair and make up and to change into my nightshirt... just to flop down on the bed again.

So, how do you like my Sunday!? xD

I wanted to post this already on Monday, but I had a LOOONG morning... and when I woke up I just couldn't be assed to do anything before leaving to Leicester to see Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Of course we got back from there so late, that I headed straight to bed.
Today (I'll just pretend it's still Tuesday) I had two lectures and dance (who knew even the smallest amount of "ballet" would be so hard ;__;) so... that's why I'm posting this LATE.

And NOW... I'm going to ceremoniously... ceremonially (?) flop on my bed and FALL ASLEEP. Good night!