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I just ate too many white peppermint candies. Ugh.

Homesick, I decide, is like being in love with someone. A good love, you know you can’t lose it. Maybe turn it into a warm spot to carry around.

I find myself missing people I don’t even know (yet). Love I don’t own. And don’t have the right to carry with me. (But I do.)

Today I needed distractions from distractions. So ended up reading finnish blogs, or blogs from Finland. They have winter, I have spring.

cabinet of curiosities
bamarik

I’ve been reading the essays at Never Sleep booksite. Good stuff. And making future plans.

Tagged by Nidhi to show the sixth picture in the sixth picture folder. It was Otto on Christmas holiday. I am too lazy to tag, so I am going to skip that part, sorry!

In Finland we don’t traditionally celebrate Valentine’s day, but Friends day, on the same day. Postcards are sent to dearest friends, but otherwise it’s quite noncommercial. So if you don’t have a Valentine, you can always celebrate Friend’s day too. That is what I do. ♥

soundtrack: Sara Bareilles – Any Way the Wind Blows

My spring bag has to wait a while to be worn. Dutch winter seems to mean snow-rain-snot blowing in all directions. Luckily I don’t have to go out today at all, since it’s Wednesday, the Work at Home -day. Tea and calligraphy are on my agenda.

Sketchbooks don’t really work for me, but notebooks I always keep. Love these. (link via Sandra)

A less serious assignment: 27th character for Bodoni and Akzidenz Grotesk. Due to having a fever for a week I only had one day to work on this… Oops, definitely needs more work!

I got another cold, or maybe it was part two to the first cold, but now I am all fine again and having an all work weekend to catch up on everything. Although every weekend is a work weekend around here, of course.

Homesickness comes in many forms. I didn’t think I had any, as it wasn’t about missing anything particular.. (well except having coffee with K., or my mom, or playing with Otto) But my form of homesickness seems to be the kind that makes me want to withdraw, be even more antisocial than I usually am, not wanting to write or take photos. Perhaps it is just tiredness from the colds. This week I’ve been going for walks to connect more with my surroundings. Maybe one day soon I will take my camera.