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I just came from an afternoon Sunday lunch with my parents where we met my mum's cousin by mistake. He's an ex-Blue Helmet and he had with him the type of woman I'd want to be. She has on a howling wolf T-shirt, a leather vest with her ex-insignia, khakis and leather booth reaching mid calf; her hair was back in a black and salt ponytail and she had large blue eyes and strong arms. I fell instantly in love with her as she let my parents catch up as she drank whiskey by the bar.

Sometimes, it just happens to me, I'm smitten with someone and I want to instantly know everything about them. I like the expression falling in love, because it implies something sudden happened. I am a talented in the art of love falling. You can fall in love in so many ways. My love isn't always romantic of course, more often platonic, but to tune down my attraction to a person would be insulting just because it isn't love as it's 'supposed to be'.

It's raining hard. I already miss her and now I'll imagine her whole life.

I have been on the road again and what happens when I come online? An inbox of messages!

I'm at our summer house by a river; having a summer cottage is very common in Finland. I swam today and grilled lovely veggies with some cheese I made myself. This week has been an extravaganza of baking and food making, which is always fun. Rhubarb's now in season, so I've made it three different ways.

Tomorrow we're trimming the forest with my family. That's why I can be online; my mum let me take her portable internet stick for the night. We're going to hack down trees that have fallen during winter and chop them up so they'll dry in time for winter. My parents live in an old, old wooden house where there's a stove/chimney in every room. When I still lived with them, I had to make sure to warm up my room every night with wood or I'd wake up with frost on the inside of my windows.

The closest 'proper' neighbours are about a mile away and 2 kms from here there's a sort of 'holiday center' (bwahaha) where there's tiny houses to rent. They're all huddled around a two story building that's a sort of hotel, but what it really looks like something out of Twin Peaks. I kid you not; the foyer has old poorly taxidermed animals. In summer, there's a ferry leaving from there every other weekend for a 'Romantic Evening' named something like 'Rosy Ship of Dreams'. I've never been on this boat, but I can guess the only thing rosy are the cheeks of the drunk captain.

How the ever loving fuck do I navigate this thing?! Ok, I can do this, this has been designed by people after all, how hard can it be?

Edit: there! I have an icon. Good start.