Annamariah
Wandering Child

I can understand that feeling. I think I often contain myself too much. At least, you have experienced the felling of freeing yourself no matter the public , surely because of your direct exposition to art, which gives you the courage, and which I don't actually have

Totally agreed I often make faces to make my parents laugh, but my parents are used to me doing it I don't have the courage to make faces in front of unknown people I'd feel so ridiculous

I bet you have a great voice I can't imagine how a choir leader can embarrass herself by singing in public, but if you insist

I envy you
You can sing along with other singers... I CAN'T, I AM SUCH A CONDEMNED BOY

Mostly, I'm doing the usual thing. That is, being in front of my PC striking the keyboard Listening to music too, but without singing myself, as I don't want to turn off really beautiful voices with... you know... mine

If Santa is running out of reindeer, I swear I didn't steal any How's my dear Finn today?

Let me rephrase it: a "Merry Christmas" from you IS HIGHLY WORTH celebration and this is an absolutely final statement because I say so.

It is for me and MY OPINION IS ALL THAT COUNTS. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OTHERS HAVE MADE YOU BELIEVE.

And don't you dare say the opposite. I'll keep repeating it until I can get you to believe it

Thank you for the Wiki link. I have to read more about these dwellings. I may need one if I ever visit Lappi (I'll need a shelter to comfortably stay until I can convince the Sami to give me a reindeer )

Your parents have dogs too? You have allergy issues also with them?

Another Xmas greeting to you, WORTH ANNIE!

I couldn't easily hate your favourites. We are too similar for that to ever occur. Maybe if one of us were the villain and the other one were the hero, well, there could be some rivalry of taste, but we perfectly resemble almost the same perfect kind... we are unique... we should be ruling the world by now... why aren't we? Because we're busy doing our homework?

And talking about dogs again, my allergies are mainly teeth-oriented. Most dogs I've met seem eager to bite me, thus I fill my pockets with heavy ammo (big rocks). If I just gave you an account of my epic fights

Have a Very Merry Christmas Annie!!

I knew I wouldn't be forgotten on Xmas! ........ was that an overdose of happiness?

Being Suomi the home of Santa, a countrywide celebration is no surprise at all One question: I found the beautiful video Romantic Rovaniemi and I'm seeing a tipi from approx. 3:03 to 3:08, so I wondered, oh I wondered ()... is it usual to find tipis in Finland? As an off-topic, and since you have Santa nearer than I do, can you tell him to bring me a reindeer? Oh please, I want a reindeer and he has so many!

Are Finns fond of fireworks? Here, Christmas and new year eves both turn into simulations of battlefields and the noise is so loud that dogs get terrified.

Okay, I'm back. I had the opportunity to listen to Dobbin's Flowery Vale and to Butterfly, both of which I liked a lot. I'll move to the other links in short, very likely tonight, to do something useful in a Christmas eve... for a change

Do you remember where the Butterfly video was shot? I can't stop staring at the landscape.

How are you, dear? Is everything more or less in order? I know Europe is having one of the coldest seasons ever. I figure you must be at your family's place... is that far from Helsinki? I hope you're coping well with the extreme cold. Take good care and don't walk too far from the fire