Well, it's been a hectic couple of weeks...last week I spent a long weekend in Skanör, Sweden, visiting Karin for her birthday. She (and I) hosted a dinner party there :) which was great! We put in a great deal of hard work preparing the food (Tjällknöl a.o.t!) and the house for the guests! It went really well and we deservedly chilled out afterwards. Apart from the party, we just caught up with one another, chatted a lot, spent 3 days doing the local newspapers' korsord (crossword)!, sleeping a lot and pretty much relaxing. The weather varied from being exceptionally windy and stormy to being calm, sunny and reasonably warm! It reminded me a bit of Scotland...It was actually the perfect time to visit Karin and to relax and sleep a lot because the day after I got back from Sweden, MindTrek started in Tampere....
MindTrek aka organised chaos ;) No, really, it was grand. It's a 3-day annual conference (attended by 700 people!) organised by some folks from our company. I actually attended it last year for 1 day, it was during my first ever week of work in Finland and I was so amazed by such a big event. That time I got to see some of the presentations, even though it all went a bit over my head then. One year on, I was fully engaged, working at the conference and all caught a quick peep at the very end of one of the sessions! It was a big success and the organisers can feel very proud I think :D Needless to say, in the end, we were all totally knackered, having worked long days, slept very little and been standing the whole time! The official party on Wed night was fun too, we got a limousine ride, arranged my Mahtava (one of the conference sponsors) to the venue (Yö-talo in Tampere) and enjoyed a nice buffet, free bar (!), a cool DJ (whose tunes I was most definitely appreciating!) and great company! Until next year!
This weekend is being spent chilling out, being a bit domestic and generally replenishing my energy for the rest of the month ;) Need ot get back into my exercise routine too, it seems to have suffered of late. On Monday we'll head back to the climbing wall, Thursday will yoga and tomorrow I'm planning to go swimming. I'm considering, despite my break from thai at the moment, to begin hitting the bag again. There's one in the gym at work and it could be a good start...provided my back is holding up ok.
