Day 6 without my TV: Nothing on TV! Nothing must-see anyway. Dad said he’ll call the repair shop on Monday unless they call because they’d told it takes a week.

Today was sister’s junior high graduation (I guess… 9th grade anyhow; and mandatory school is now over and the kids can do whatever they want, or not do) and I was the invited “parent.” I wanted to go cause many of my old teachers were still there and she had been talking to them about me and they had been asking about me (I had to go and set the record straight :) naaah, it was just nice to see them and they like to hear what “their kids” have become).
I had to wake up at 7 am, after 3–4 hours of sleep. I wasn’t tired though; quite the opposite… hysterical. My sister was too so I’m not the only one to blame.
First my German teacher spotted me (before the whole “ceremony”) and we talked a little (had to explain what I study and it’s never an easy job… I *have* to learn some kind of a “sales pitch” by heart…); then after the dances and songs (horrible songs) and diplomas, my handicrafts (? I mean the subject where you make things out of fabric…) teacher spotted me and we chatted — had to explain what I study. She told me she’d seen me walking to the train station many mornings and the next time a tiny red car drives by and honks, it’s her. Then I talked with my English teacher (about dictionaries and thesauri and translating — what else?!) and I had to explain what I study. My maths teacher was always my favourite but I was afraid she wouldn’t remember me. My sister dragged me to see her and she did remember me :) Had to explain again what I study… Well, actually she asked what I had done after leaving that school so I told about senior high (grades 10-12) too.
That was that. When we left it was pouring rain (not as hard as yesterday but not nice in tiny shoes (no boots! :D ) and “better clothes.” I also had to go via the kiosk to get myself 2 months’ bus ticket1 cause Monday morning I don’t want to think about the ticket (1st day at work).

Now, sauna time. To be continued.

I left in such a hurry that I forgot my coffee… (only ½ a mug though)
Anyway, after we’d got home, (we watched CSI:Miami, ate, watched the beginning of another CSI, the good ol’) Dad and I went shopping! :D I bought a Memento DVD and Dad got ink cartridges for his new toy. We were also looking for a non-amplifying indoor antenna (for Dad’s digi-tv cause amplifier makes the picture worse) but didn’t find one in the first store so went to another. From there we found an antenna and left. This was also a sort of “scouting” trip cause we hadn’t been to those gigantic stores before.

Updates: sliced and diced — the blog

1. We have bus cards (like credit cards) where you can either load money or “time.” With “time” you just show the card to the reader in the bus/train/tram/subway, with money you also select the type of ticket you need (tram [valid for only that one ride] / inner city / inter cities [those 2 are valid for 1 hour]).