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Yes, ever since I finally took the plunge and got myself a credit card, I've been buying stuff off the internet namely from Edun and eBay!  And I've just uploaded pics of the pieces that I have bought so far!  

Been wanting to have some of these items for years especially the Gap (RED) tees that I got off eBay!  I absolutely love them!!

And the Edun items are just fabulous, especially the jeans with the Rilke poem in the pockets, and the scarf that Bono wore at President Obama's inauguration concert, so special!  All my other scarfs are now left on the shelf, literally for the rest of this winter!!   And the Edun tote is now my new hand bag, perfect for all my school books. 

Yes it's back to college for me next week, my internship finished at the end of February and I had a short skiing holiday then went back to work, at now my new place of employment, on thursday and friday.  I'm actually looking forward to going back to college coz it also means going back to my own place and Kuopio with all it's lovely shops!  And also U2s new album is waiting for me in the post box of my apartment, so I'm very eager for Monday to come around!!   

Oh U2 will announcing their tour dates next Monday, I hope Finland is on the European tour list, if not it's off the Ireland again me thinks, coz now I'm also a fully paid up member of U2.com, so fingers crossed all of us get the tickets to the concert we want to attend!!

Spring is in the air here, the birds are singing their spring song, the days are getting longer and brighter and the snow has started to thaw, and the hares and lynx's are rounding around, leaving their tracks in the snow all over our land and lake!!

Been following U2s promo tour around the world and their appearance this week on the Letterman show, from Breathe through Magnificent to I'll go Grazy, each song just sounded better than the last, the latter brought tears of joy to my eyes, absolutely fabulous, U2 are well and truly back!!

I'll be home for Christmas....

Finally I've found some time to come and post a new blog! It's been raining nearly all day here, so there's nothing much else to do!!

Over the last month or so (May) I was busy with the last term of college, exams, papers and other projects etc. And at the beginning of June I started my usual job at our local church as head gardener. I've just been so tired that I haven't found the energy to much else but eat and sleep and work!

Some good news, I got a 50 euro scholarship from college not much but it's nothing to sneeze and it helped to pay off some of my pending bills before I get my first months wage. And it makes all the hard work I put into my studys well worth the effort! I'll be starting my final year this August and I'm having to work an extra ½ hour per day to start school before the end of my work contract.  

On the U2 front, U2 movie U23D might get it's premier here in Finland some time in August although an exact date has yet to be announced. And the movie Across the Universe staring Bono as Dr. Roberts is finally being made available on dvd, it never made to the cinema here in Finland I'm afraid to say!

Oh and for all the Finnish U2 fans out there, U2Finland is about to start an official U2 fan club with, membership fees, a proper web page and forum etc. The papers have all been filed and we're just waiting for the officials to cross all the t's and dot all the i's! Hopefully just in time for U2s new album and up coming tour!!

Been following Bono's every move as usual and here's couple of the best pics of Bono from recent weeks, taken at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Third Annual Gala on 7th June 2008....

Looking might fine! Bono's back in Dublin now and hopefully putting the final touches on the new U2 album!! 

Hope every one's having a lovely summer! I just wish this summer rain would stop coz it's flooding some parts our garden!!

It would seem that I have the worst luck when it comes to computers! Over the last 3 years my first two computers died on me, although granted they where both over 10 years old! And one was struck by lightning!!

But now my laptop, that I only just bought last year and that I only just finished paying for last month, is now broken and coz I’ve had it for just over a year the guarantee has run out and it would cost me almost 500 euros to get the thing repaired!!

I don’t even understand how my laptop got broken! Coz when I got back to my apartment last Monday afternoon from school and unpacked my laptop, which I had taken with me to my parents house during the skiing holidays, I found I was unable to plug in the mains cable coz the mains connection in the computer had somehow broken and come lose!?! How it came lose is a totally mystery, I mean it’s not as though I’ve been throwing it around or anything! Also the people at the repair shop said that it was a very unusual thing to happen and that maybe it was faulty to begin with!! We’ll never know.

So now during the week I can communicate on the Internet only via my schools computers. Luckily my desktop computer here at home is still in working order! *she knocks on wood*

I’m just thinking that it’s probably cheaper to just buy a new laptop with the latest Windows Vista, than have my old one repaired, coz I really can’t afford to fork out 500 euros right now on my students income. And just pay monthly payments like before, only this time take extra care of the laptop! And then later once I go back to work in June, maybe find someone who can repair the old laptop, without having to get the expensive part (that alone would cost 300 euros!) and just pay for the work. Coz the people at the repair shop, that I took it to, do say they could maybe repair it without having to get the new part, but they can’t guarantee it’ll work!!

So it’s decision time! The only trouble with buying a new laptop is having to upload all my programs and files again i.e. time consuming work! Luckily I had backed up most of the files I had on my old laptop. I just hope there’s still enough juice in the battery, so I’ll be able download the few files that I hadn’t had the time to back up yet!

Wishing every one here a great St. Patrick’s Day!

Adam: Hey, Larry are my eyes deceiving me or are there huge three-leaf clovers floating in the air?!

Larry: Ya seeing things Sparky! Now shut up I’m trying to read!!

Bono: You do realize you’ve got the book upside down...

Edge: *thinking* Uhm three-leaf clovers, it must be St. Patrick’s day!