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My life is better than your vacation

Home sweet home?
Why is it that I always fall into a small post-travel depression when I come home?
The feeling of freedom in my body suddenly transforms into stress. I immediately start thinking about all the thousands of things I have to do. I suddenly feel tired and I ask myself, why do I live here? Why don't I live there?
It usually feels better after a good night sleep and a nice long run by the water. Then I remember how beautiful the archipelago is. How wonderful all my friends are and I start looking forward to all the things I have to do.
I wrote about happiness earlier, about that you can find it just by booking tickets to the paradise closest to you. And it's true. But it's a short cut to happiness and it can't last forever. So when you have unpacked and your'e facing your everyday life, that's when it's important that you can find happiness, wherever you are. Life is not a vacation. My godfather use to tell me that "my life is better than your vacation". And now I understand how important it is for everyone to be able to say that same sentence. If not, then maybe it's time to make some changes. A year consists of 365 days. How many of them can you really remember? Not many...but the important thing is that you can look back and remember that you have been happy, that you have been living your life. And your vacations doesn't count.
So I had a lovely vacation, but now I am back. And I am feeling pretty great! By the way, I finally have access to the internet again! So there's going to be a lot of blogging again!
My last day in paradise:

Sunny Sunday

I don't think I have enjoyed a Sunday this much for a very long long time. I woke up early again and went running by the beach listening to John Mayer. I felt like free falling. Then I dressed up tp go to the fancy part called Puerto Banus where you can find all the expensive brand in the world. I was drooling outside Missoni, Luis Vuitton, Prada, Balenciaga, you name it!...And I have never seen Yachts like here. They are insane, I can't imagine why anyone would like to own a boat like that? There is absolutely NO POINT?! Just give the money to charity instead. Then I enjoyed the beach and went swimming in the warm warm ocean and finally I tanned by the pool, I am starting to get a bit tanned now! Yay!
I think I changed my outfit three times today just so I can use all of my favorite summer clothes before I go back to freezing my but off. Here's my day in pictures...

The key to happiness is...

...so simple. I have definitely found the answer, and so can you! Just book some planetickets to the closest paradise near you, and suddenly you feel amazing. I have been ridiculously happy today. I woke up early and went for a run by the beach, watching the sunrise. After that it wasn't hard at all to get some writing done, Í felt so inspired! Finallllyyyy! Then I visited a lovely pittoresk town called Casares, where Julius Ceaser himself walked around thousands of years ago! Now I am getting ready to go to a Spanish tapas restaurant! Here is my day in pictures:

Outfit: Shirt INDISKA, shorts self made , belt H&M, sandals from barcelona, bad secondhand

The pittoresk and very white town of Casares. I know one friend who would have liked it ;) Check out her blog HERE

Lisää kuvateksti

Running was suddenly so much more fun, wonder why?

The view this morning. Can't say I wake up to this every morning.

Today...

...has been fantastic. Spain is wonderful! The only downside is that it's a pain in the ass to use the internet here...it is so slow! But after a few nervous breakdowns I managed to upload some photos. So here is my day in pictures.

I love this photo I took with my iPhone! Can you believe that? Apple rocks! This flower is a Strelitzia.

Here I am!

And it feels too good to be true. The sun is shining and I am taning by the pool. Tonight I am going to go and check out the old town of Marbella. I can already feel the inspiration flooding, or is it excitement? It is so beautiful here that it's crazy, the mountains, the beach the villas and the flowers! The view is simply breathtaking, I can see all the way to Gibraltar from my balcony. Some pictures are coming up tonight so stay tuned ;)

Will I ever learn?

I am at Oslo airport. This morning started off with me almost missing my plane and now standing here without my cellphone. Thank god for the internet. But I am so tired of myself...this is not the first time thing like this happen, oh well you can't be good at everything right? I am going to post some pictures as soon as I get internet on my computer...wish me luck, God knows I need i

The sun is calling!

Ah...I can not describe you the feeling of packing out all your summer clothes when you already thought you wouldn't need them for many many months...I love doing spontaneous stuff like this! Makes life so much more fun. Who knew that you could surprise yourself like this.
Soon I will be back on the beach, right where I belong.
Me in Nice, France two years ago...

BE SPONTANIOUS, Spain here I come!

OMG! Guess what?! I just totally out of nowhere booked tickets to Marbella, and I am leaving tomorrow at 07:00 am! I didn't have ANY plans on traveling. But like I told you before I have been struggling with a huge writers block, so instead of just sitting here in my misery I decided to do something about it! So now I am heading south to work on my script under the Spanish sun! I am so excited but kind of freaking out because this was so last minute. I am leaving in a few hours and I haven't packed or made any preparations yet...shit! I have to cancel all my meetings and reschedule everything. Maybe I should have thought this through? Well the tickets are payed for so watch out Spain, here I come!

Outfit

Today I looked like this. Felt a bit like a proud russian woman in my fur.

Jean, red/brown sweater and neclase H&M. Shoes Rills. Fur secondhand

Bigger is not better

Here's a fact for you:
Good food makes you happy.
It's so simple and yet...not. If you know what I mean? My mother, who is a health freak used to tell me this about food. "One minute in your mouth, one hour in your stomach, forever on your hips." Made it so much easier for the teenage me to have a normal relationship to food...not. Well anyway, I think that food is one of the grate pleasures in life, and I want to enjoy my life! So I am never going to give up good food. And the best things come in small packages right? So remember (and I remind myself of this all the time) it is not the quantity but the quality that counts! So get out there and enjoy, just in small doses, because we all want to enjoy life right? And at least I can't enjoy it if I would become fat. Bigger is not better...when it comes to both food and weight. But sometimes, sometimes we have those days when we just want to eat...well I had one of those "days" today. And I have been enjoying it, but now I am so stuffed that I have to go out for a run...

So today has been a gourmet day for me. I started of with my favorite Breakfast, natural yoghurt, berries and roasted sunflower seeds and almonds with my favorite girl Isabella...Yum! Oh...and never forget the coffee! I love drinking it from my Starbucks mug, makes it almost ok that we don't have one over here...

Then I met my brother and grandmother for lunch and we ate a fabulous lunch. My absolute favorite food, sushi! It was delicious!

And then we celebrated an early Christmas with my family because we are not going to be at home this Christmas. In fact we are going to Aspen, Colorado for a month and we won't get any Finish delicacies there, but hey...I am SO not complaining ;)

How to reach your dreams...

Here comes the follow up. You can read the first part HERE


2. Read these books...it's crucial! 
-The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
-The Secret. 
-Letters to a young poet by Reiner Marie Rilke (even Lady Gaga tells her fans to read this one)


These three books changed everything. Instead of thinking "it's so hard to break into the filminsdustry", I started thinking that "I am going to break into the industry". And that's what it's all about right there. The ONE factor between the ones who make it and don't make it, it's their ATTITUDE. 
That is also a big part of why I left Finland. Everyone here was telling me how "hard it is to make it", that I definitely "should have a back up plan" because "I had to be realistic", and "there was a big chance that things wouldn't work out". I told them that there was no back up plan, that this was the ONLY option for me. When I got to Sweden things were different, everyone was telling me how great they thought my plans sounded and encouraged me. So number three...


3. Make sure you're in an encouraging environment. It makes a big difference. And make sure that you surround yourself with people who are also driven and can inspire you!


Number four on the list "of how to reach your dreams" is coming up soon...


My Dream? Here is one of them.
To live and work in New York.