"Let me see you Stripped down to the bone"

It would seem that I don't have a specific trail of thought with this post. Just a stream of thoughts.

My small precious home is coming together. I now have a table, and in the weekend I will get chairs for the table. It will be great to eat at a table. So that's the last piece of furniture I needed - and what fits my small yet cozy apartment. I feel really attached to my new home, since it's been a safe haven from all the bad things that have happened to me in the past year. This is my home now. I hope I can stay here at least as long as I feel this need to put my roots into the ground and just stay put and heal until I can deal with the world again.

(Copyrights belongs to yours truly)

It seems that all the photographs I have now are several years old. I have only a handful of year old pictures. Sigh.

(Copyrights belongs to yours truly)

Since I've been so patient with only few coins in my bank account and using my imagination to feed myself, I shall gift myself with a bottle of red wine this weekend, since I'm getting my paycheck. Finally. 
The red wine "Versus" is probably my favourite, yet I'm the kind of guy who enjoys any kind of wine - especially any red wine.
Versus is a very smooth flavoured red wine without any strong flavours - it's not (too) sweet and there's no spicy taste to it. It's just very smooth and pleasant. It's delicious.

Versus Red

So I should pick something new again. Tasting different kinds of wines for finding a wine I like doesn't apply to me, but just tasting different types of wine stops me from drinking the same kind time after time.

I've never been the kind of guy who gets excited by eating or drinking or just excited by any kind of food or drink. I could - and I can - eat the same kind of food from year after year. I don't invest in the quality of food. I have no idea what the world of gourmet is like. I just eat to live. Although some foods and drinks do have an affect on my mood, yet the time for each of them varies greatly. Sometimes I get a craving for something, yet after a while, the craving ceases. 

Yet in other ways I am a hedonist. I feed my soul with music, art and great stories - in literature or movies or anything at all. That's why I sometimes can spend too much money on things that feed my soul but not my physical self. It's sometimes a tricky way of life, because in this world, I have to choose between feeding myself spiritually or feeding myself physically. Food is expensive as are the arts. At times it's not an easy decision. Although I'm not a starving artist just yet.

Greed is one of the seven sins

Oh, I'm so taken by the spam websites that "watch" my blog 100 times a month. I feel so special...

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And now I have to admit, that if I don't stop buying things and pay the already bought things, I might get into trouble, if something would happen to my current financial situation. So now I won't buy anything except couple cheap things per month and pay the already bought purchases, so I won't have to feel stressed.

I have a rule, that if I buy something expensive or several things, and I start to get a teensy bit worried how the rest of the month will go after I've spent a lot of money, I can't regret it. I have to enjoy the things I have already bought. Stressing or regretting is just waste of time and takes the joy out of the gift you've given yourself. Life's hard, things can get hellish, so why not enjoy the little things.

Or as one wise man once said: 

"Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee."

Since I don't have a camera, which is one of the expensive things I should get, and I really need one, I have to copy these purchases from the webshop, I bought them from: http://www.pulju.net/shop/
I can recommend that shop to my countrymen. There's a lot of interesting stuff there.

I also bought brain-icemould, but I couldn't find it from the webshop anymore. Maybe it's still there somewhere.

I also wanted something luxurious so I bought myself a bathrobe. I have never owned a bathrobe. This will come in handy.
And it seems my cat likes how soft it is, since he's been sleeping on my lap for quite some time now.

And the most expensive and luxurious item I got was a modern gramophone designed to be used also as a cd-player.

(EDIT 9.12.2013: I had to change the picture since the webshop seemed to not appreciate free commercializing and the pictures don't work no more. So here's way too dark picture of my gramophone, so I will someday share a better picture of it.)

I have to admit, that this gramophone is now one of my most precious treasures. I have always wanted a gramophone, but at first I thought about getting antique one, but since this is modern and plays cd's, it's in many ways a lot better.  

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I used to think that I'm not a materialist. I didn't have much possessions, mostly because I was poor, and I was so used to it, that I didn't realistically thought that I could get anything I sometimes thought I would want.

But with these several years I have collected many things that I have always wanted to have, but didn't think I could ever have them or even really want to have them.

And now I find a lot of interesting objects; books, movies, decor, that I find fascinating.

>> http://www.potterybarn.com/shop/dinnerware-entertaining/halloween-entertaining/?cm_type=gnav <<

The American Pottery Barn. Heard a lot about it in tv-shows and whatnot, but accidentally ran into their website: awesome Halloween stuff.

"After a gruesome murder in a small town, a fun-loving FBI agent drinks many cups of coffee and has strange dreams."

Rated G - cartoons of popular movies & TV shows - Imgur

Rated G - cartoons of popular movies & TV shows

Funny as hell!

http://www.jublin.com/

Go check this out.

"Hear, speak, breathe, eat, crave, pour, drink, need"

The amazing brain.

(Phrenology Brain Model)

The nervous system can be so easily manipulated by medicine. If something doesn't work, you just intercept the nonworking parts with certain chemicals, and they change the way your brain is working. It's amazing when you think about it.

For unmentioned reasons, but very accurate for the ponderings of today, here's a test for my countrymen - and women - about which side of your brain is the most dominate; left side or the right side.

It was not surprise I got the "right side" as the result.
And here's what it means to get the right side and what it means to get the left side. We all know that it's said, that the left side of the brain is more calculating and the right side is artistic.

LEFT	RIGHT
Logical	Emotional
Concentrates on details	Sees the whole picture
Factual	Imaginative
Words and speech	Symbols and images
Present and past	Present and future
Math and science	Philosophy and religion
Knowledge	Emotion
Awknowledge	Appreciation
Order/Percieving patterns	Spatial perceiving
Knows the objects name	Knows the objects function
Based on reality	Based on fantasy
Forms strategies	Presents possibilities
Rational	Reckless
Reliable	Takes risks

http://www.teknolelu.fi/tiede/kumpi-aivopuolisko-hallitsee-sinua/

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/brainblogger/3137589099)

Also this talk about brains fits well for something I have been recently doing. For not sounding too ominous, I'll reveal this much: it's studying. Not Frankenstein-type of studying, just the ordinary kind of studying.