Book blog

Good afternoon! You haven't seen me for a while again and I decided it is time to finally put this blog to an end since I am not getting the hang of it anymore. But don't worry, I have just made a new blog and am planning on posting something soon.

Just to give you a quick look on my life I have actually been single for over a month now and I actually love it: I have a lot of time for myself and I have gotten the hang of reading again. A month ago I got my first tattoo! I don't know if anything very big has happened.. I have had vacation
for a couple of weeks now and I have been partying too much.. :D

In less than two weeks, 19th of June, I am going to Spain with my friend Janina (we are in same class) for 17 days and I can't wait! After that I am going to work in a retirement home for 7 weeks

after which I have an internship in a hospital in a psychosis rehabilitation ward. It sounds very interesting! Before that I am gonna go to Weekend Festival in Helsinki and I am super excited for that! There are gonna be for example Martin Garrix, Armin van Buuren, Axwell & Ingrosso, Lost Frequencies and Tungevaag & Raaban! In the end of August I will go to a color obstacle rush with my classmates here in Turku :)

Anyway, my new blog is about books and book reviews so if you are interested

in that you should check it out! I am also open for ideas and tips on my new blog :)

https://onegirlthousandlives.blogspot.fi/

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope to see you on my new one ♥

Welcome home

Good evening! I wanted to show you my new home now that I have decorated it a bit and there 

aren't boxes laying everywhere (except behind my couch and in the kitchen...)

To say a few words about my decorating style, I like to keep things simple. I prefer white, grey and black but I like if there are some bright details (I would like to get a couple small turquoise baskets on my shelf for example). I also like everything wooden with English text and inspiring quotes and

I love candles ♥

I should get a new table in my living room at some point but this will do for a while :) 

Anybody here?

Soo.. it has been at least half a year since I last updated my blog. I just made this post to ask you guys if you are still interested in reading this blog or not? 

I just got my first apartment last week and I am about to move in on Friday! If I'm going to continue

with this blog, I think you will see more posts about living and cooking and less about nails (since

I haven't really been doing my nails for a long time...) etc. My life is quite busy at the moment because of school and moving.

Yesterday I spent the whole day at my new apartment, trying to clean it and put my clothes in the

wardrobe. Today I'm going to continue the project with my parents but before it I have some

(actually, a lot) catching up to do with school.

Please leave a comment if you are still interested in reading my blog so I know if I should try to

continue with it again! :)

New haircut

I kind of got bored of my long hair and middle part so this is my new look: a bit shorter and side part :3 What do you think? 

Life update

How is everybody? :) I hope someone still reads my blog sometimes, haha.  

I have been getting into my new study and I am finally starting to learn how to work at this level.

I was at library today with my classmate working on a project :) For once we are done early.

The only thing I love about early mornings: beautiful sky ♥
Often while on the bus I have seen the sun rise, it looks so nice. Fortunately it is getting

darker again so I can't enjoy of that for long.

Learning how to make nasogastric intubation at school :3 Our practice dolls look creepy.

Outfit a couple weeks back: new shoes, jeans and shirt :)

I had a relaxing evening with Petra, Siri and my boyfriend a couple of weeks ago. We were playing board games for hours, eating and laughing!

Of course we also had a couple of drinks. Raspberry liqueur with soda.

Fall is so pretty ♥

Look of today :) Tried a bit darker makeup than normally but it isn't too dark for my style.

Outfit today: shirt, BikBok / jeggings, Dr. Denim / shoes, DinSko / necklace is a gift

19th bday

This post comes a bit late but oh well! I had my 19th birthday 24th of September. It was a Thursday and I had school on Friday but I decided to go to a student party for a bit and I got a couple of free drinks :) yummy!

I got an amazing gift from my boyfriend: pink roses and a heart necklace <3 I also got sparkling wine from his parents :)

On Friday I went to bar with some friends to celebrate properly! It was a fun night, we were sitting around, talking and dancing.

Changes

♥

So much has happened in the past month. I don't really have time for my blog anymore which is kind of sad. Before I didn't have anything to post but now I feel like I am just too busy.

I have started studying nursing at university of applied sciences and so far I enjoy it though I do lack
some motivation. I also want to share my personal life on my blog so I think I can tell you that one of the biggest changes in my life lately: I have a new boyfriend. That has changed my life rhythm completely. I am almost never home so I don't post anything! I could start doing it on my phone more (like I am doing at the moment).

I just wanted to tell you all how I'm doing! At the moment I feel like my life is amazing and I am so happy that I also still have quite a lot of views on my blog though I haven't been active!
For the end I have some pictures for you. I have been mostly hanging out with my boyfriend and partying.. we literally have student parties every Thursday! Next Thursday it is my birthday and I will have quite a busy week. I will try to get some homework done in the beginning of the week but after Tuesday I am all booked. On Wednesday my grandparents will come to have coffee, on Thursday I have party and on Friday I have my bday party. On Saturday I have housewarming of my bf's friend. Busy week I tell you!

Now I am off to bed, enjoy the pics! Btw, follow me on instagram @janinass_

Nurse overalls for which you get badges from student events and parties :)

I dyed my hair a bit lighter last week!

Student party last Thursday :) !

Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express is the 10th Hercule Poirot book and it's average rating on goodreads

is 4.12/5 . The book was first published in 1933 and the English paperback version has 322 pages.

As some of you may know, I haven't been a fan of reading for long. It started about a year ago when

I read the Hunger Games -trilogy. I have read two books by Agatha Christie before: And Then There 

Were None & Death on the Nile. I read both books for school. So many people told me Agatha Christie's books are good but I honestly couldn't remember if I liked them that much. I decided to

read this book for my reading challenge (previous post) and see if I like it.

"Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. A passenger lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside."

(Goodreads)

Poirot gets the task to find out who the murderer is. I think about 1/3 of the book is him interviewing

the travelers, trying to catch the killer. This case is a bit more complicated than what Poirot is used to:

it seems to become more illogical all the time. Everyone seems to have an alibi but it is also impossible

for someone to have left the train. 

I enjoyed the book though I am not a fan of mystery and crime. I thought the interview part was sometimes a bit boring. Nevertheless, the story was interesting and I really wanted to know who the killer is since nothing made sense! I think I would like crime books more if I could actually figure out who the killer is before they reveal it but I have never managed to do that! In some books it is also impossible. 

I read this book in one day (well, 6 hours) since the Finnish version had just 214 pages and I was

doing the reading challenge, It was nice to read a book which isn't a trilogy or series for a change!

★★★★

Reading challenge

I have participated in a challenge where you need to read as much you can during 24 hours. The challenge is Finnish and you can find it here. During the 24 hours you are supposed to update your

progress on your blog. You tell for example how much you've read and what else you've been doing.

The only rule is that you are supposed to start or finish the challenge on Saturday 15th of August.

I will start my challenge soon, at 12 pm on Friday and I will update my progress here. I have chosen

a couple of books to read. I will try to finish Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie and

start Purge by Sofi Oksanen.

We'll see how far I get! Some people read 1000 pages or even more but my goal is closer to 400 pages, haha. I will update this post a couple of times (under the pictures) to tell you my progress! You can also see my progress on goodreads since I will update it too :)

11:45 - Challenge starts in 15 minutes. I am watching vlogs of Mascha (Dutch youtuber) and
soon I will make some tea and enjoy it while reading :)

13:45 - I am on page 85 of Murder on the Orient Express. I think the book is good so far! Now it is time to make some lunch and have a break! 

14:52 - I am ready to go on with reading. I am sitting outside and sunbathing at the same time.

18:33 - I have just finished Murder on the  Orient Express and I give it 4/5 stars. Mystery and crime novels aren't my favorite genres but this book was quite good and I enjoyed it! Now it is time for a break. I have read total 210 pages now.

20:58 - My break became 2,5 hours long because I started to clean my closet and throw away some old clothes. I am still not done with it but now it is time to read again!

22:12 - I am on page 58 of Purge. I have read just 259 pages today so I am not sure if I will make it to 400. I will not stress about it because else I don't enjoy reading anymore. I have a headache do I think I will have a break again and continue with cleaning my closet.

23:06 - I am done with cleaning my closet and it is time to go on with reading. I am not so into Purge (at least yet) so we'll see how long I feel like reading.

0:15 - I am almost sleeping on my bed, too tired to read. Time to go brush my teeth and go on with reading in the morning! I have read 290 pages today so I probably won't make it to 400. I will still try!

1:00 - I still went on with reading for some time because the chapters were short so I started a new one all the time. Before I knew it, I had reached part 2 of the book. It is good to stop here for tonight! I have read total 317 pages now.. Maybe I can still make it to 400! Good night <3

10:04 - I have been awake for an hour. I have eaten breakfast and watched a couple of vids. Now I still have 2 hours to read! I try to make it to 400 pages.

11:42 - I made it to 400 pages! Now I still have 18 minutes left.

12:02 - Reading challenge is over! I made it to 417 pages and I finished one book and I have read almost half of Purge. The font size in my books was quite small and the pages were full of text: if I had other kind of books I could have made it a lot further, maybe 500-600 pages. 

This was definitely a fun experience and I may try it again another time :) the only thing that made it a bit difficult was my sudden urge to clean my closet.. I think I will continue with that now ;) and a cup of coffee! 

Total 417 pages in 24 hours, 1 book finished and another one 47% done!

Recent outfits

Hello! Have you noticed I have been blogging on my phone lately? I think you can see it if you look at the picture size on laptop screen. I just like to do it on my phone because I have all my pictures here.

It has finally felt like summer and you can also see that in my outfits. I just had a couple outfit pictures which are taken  before going somewhere = nothing fancy. They are just taken using a mirror.

Shirt, Inside / Skirt, Cool Cat / Shoes, KappAhl

Faux leather shorts, H&M / Shirt, Bershka / bag, HEMA / Shoes, Click Shoes

Dress, Boohoo (belt with it) / bag, H&M

T-shirt, H&M / skirt, Cool Cat / knitwear, H&M / bag, H&M / shoes, KappAhl / bracelet, Nomination

The last outfit I wore yesterday when I went to Salo with my grandma. Possibly a post about that later!

xx Janina

Gel nails

I haven't been doing nail art for months by now. I kind of lost interest when I was done with school and I just had to study home. However, my friend, Emilia, has just got tools for doing acrylic nails and my interest in nails came back all of a sudden. I asked her to do me gel nails with my tools at home since I have always failed and now I have gel nails again!

I asked her to do them so that I could see if my tools and gels aren't good or if I am just doing something wrong. Now we just wait and see :) 

Emilia used clear gel on my nails because I want to be able to do my nails on the gel and have natural looking nails if I remove my nail polish. The result is good and I hope these stay on for some weeks! (Emilia promised to do acrylics to me already, yay!)

I finished my nails with this reaaally girly manicure. I am not a fan of loose glitter but the result is better than what I expected. My next challenge is to not rip off my nail polish (and gel at the same time). 

The pink nail polish here is by OPI and it is called Pink-ing of you. 

Back Home

Hello! I have arrived home from the Netherlands two days ago. I had such a great time with my boyfriend! We had a relaxing vacation and we went to London. Now I still have 3 weeks of vacation 'til school starts. I don't have any plans for the rest of my vacation but hopefully it will be good!

Here are some pictures of my vacation!

 I am so into my organizer and making it look pretty! I bought a lot of stickers and post-it notes from HEMA in the Netherlands :) would you be interested in seeing my planner and how I make it look pretty?

Breakfast of €1,25 and so delicious! I miss it already.

Going from France to UK. My first fish&chips ever. I was feeling a bit nauseous so I could eat barely half of it, though. It was so delicious!

Oxford Street in the morning! We arrived before 8 already so it was quite calm still. In the afternoon it was just awful! You could barely walk.

My new jacket from Victoria's Secret <3 the store was sooo beautiful! And it felt so luxurous.

Back in the Netherlands :) the last week was full of HEMA breakfasts and buying organizer stuff.

Time to go home :( always so hard to say goodbye!