I'm a father

Long time, no blogging: Sorry for the lack of updates but I've been busy elsewhere. On the 8th of October at 3.28 AM our daughter was born. So I guess I've been busy being a parent since then =).

I got 4 weeks off from work. The birth of our daughter was born at the right time so besides my usual 6 days off in between shift tours I got two weeks off as autumn vacation and 8 days paternal leave and my last two night shifts off before all that when our daughter was born. I'll return back to work 3rd November.

Besides being a parent I'll also been busy going to the dentist and I got no more amalgam in my teeth anymore. After all it contains mainly mercury and it's dark grey in colour, not for nice looking teeth…

Our psychedelic corner

You asked for pictures and here you got one of a very pregnant Nina(10 days left) and a corner full of wall stickers. Anyway the wallpaper as you see has a good color but after we moved the cabinet that used to be in that corner there where some cracks in the wallpaper.

We (Nina) had ordered the wall stickers you see to decorate the wall in our children's room. Putting them all in one corner seemed like a good idea. I would look stylish and conceal the cracks in the wallpaper. I think it look stylish, sort of.

However I have two objections. These wall stickers are made for children's rooms but if you look closer at them you begin to wonder how high the designer was when he/she designed them. My second objection is that putting them all in one corner is that it sort of look psychedelic. So now we have a psychedelic corner in our children's room =).

Last night

I got my last night shift tonight. It's these days my girlfriend can give birth at any moment so being here all alone at work is a bit nervy. My workplace can never be unmanned so before I can leave I have to call someone and wake them up and get them here. So the plan is, she calls a cab, then she calls me and I go to the hospital when I'm able to leave.

Children's room

Since we are finished with redecorating the house, well the stairs are still undone but it’s no hurry with them, we moved all the stuff where it’s supposed to be. The baby is coming in early October so we made a children’s room.

Unfortunately the children’s rooms is popular among the dogs especially the cradle from 1848. We have caught two of the dogs sleeping in it and a yellow stain on the covering, yes a dog has peed in the cradle.

We are buying another pet gate on Monday. We have a pet gate to the entry hall, another to our new bedroom (future extra bedroom) and two baby gates not yet installed at the top and bottom of the stairs. Anyone interested in a dog or two?

Old profile

I just realized that my profile is old. We moved in a long time ago,we are almost finished with the redecoration and where having a baby in October. I think I should do something about it...

I'm lazy

I know I haven't posted anything on this blog for the last three weeks. I'm sorry, I'm lazy. But life is great, life goes on. It's about 5-6 weeks until we become parents so life is very good =)

Good Morning

My first night shift is about to end in a few minutes so good morning to you and good night to me...

Summer

It's finally summer. The sun is shining and the temperature is just above 20 C. According to the weather report this weather will continue for the next few weeks =).

Warm and sunny weather means that I can paint the dog fence. It rained most of July up until this week and painting wet wood is not a good idea. We borrowed an air compressor from my father-in-law which means that I can spray paint the fence in a couple of days which would have taken weeks with a brush. Anyway I ran out of paint yesterday with about 3/4 of the fence painted so today we bought another can of paint. When it's painted I'll do a second coating as long as the new can of paint lasts.

The reason I'm not out their painting right now is that I'm doing my second evening shift. Two more to go before I get one day off...

Mamma Mia!

It's my last night shift before my 6 days off. We are actually having summer weather here right now. The temperature is around and above 20 C during the day and there's a bit of sunshine and a few rain showers every now and then. It's nice =).

Earlier this evening we were at the movies and we saw "Mamma Mia!". It's sort of a musical movie with a lot of great actors and a lot of Abba songs. However I have one complaint. Pierce Brosnan is a great actor and he performs his role in the movie very well . But this is a musical movie and singing is not one of his best qualities. The final verdict is that I liked the movie and I would recommend anyone to see it.

Last evening shift

I'm doing my last evening shift out of four. Tomorrow is my day off which means that I'll spend part of it renovating our home. Well it's not actually much left, one room to change the wallpaper in and make a staircase child safe. I'm still removing the old wallpaper. There are at least three layers of wallpaper, partly removed and layers of putty here and there in between. I understand why people only remove the outer layer of wallpaper and repair dents with putty because it's a lot of job to remove the old wallpaper entirely before putting up new wallpaper.

When I (we) have removed the old wallpaper, which will be sometime around next week I'll fill the dents and the gaps between the actual wallboards, not the old wallpaper which will all be in the garbage can outside. A layer of paint and a bit of grinding and after that comes the easiest part of the work, putting up new wallpaper.

Apart from playing Mr. Handyman we are going to a concert tomorrow and my mom's elderly home is on the way so we'll stop for a short visit there too.

Friday morning I'm going back to work, my first morning shift out of four starts 7:00.

Home sweet home

Milan was fun, in a different way. It's not a tourist city. It's for business and shopping ann shopping in Milan is very expensive. Fortunately there was an outlet store about 100 km south of Milan. There were daily bus tours from Milan and on Thursday we took that tour. I'm not lying when I say that the prices where about half of what they are at home and compared to Milan extremely cheap. And you fit right in walking into a Prada store with the other tourists wearing shorts, sandals and brightly colored shirts. I actually felt well dressed, wearing black Levi's jeans and shoes and a semi white t-shirt.

I have one complaint about Milan though. The weather was hot and humid. With an afternoon temperature of 30-32 C it was difficult to be outside.

We're now back home. The temperature outside is 10 C, there's a chilly wind and it will probably start raining any minute now. I love it, it's absolutely wonderful, a cold Finnish summer day.

It's a girl

...or actually will be. Public health care is good but can be very basic sometimes. So in order to find out if it is a girl or a boy and if everything is really alright (we are first time parents, we worry, ok?) we or rather my girlfriend did (well I was present in the room) a 4-d ultrasound in a private clinic. So it's a girl and everything is alright. We even have a 20 minute video and a 3d picture in color. But since my girlfriend already has posted that picture in her secret blog I'm not putting it up here. You'll have to wait three months ;-).