my brother's wedding

t: it happened about a week ago, but I’ve only now got to write about it. i was somewhat shocked at first. i have always expected my brother to marry before i did, however this was rather sudden. must have been love at first sight. anyway, katja’s sister is all right and this was a decision my brother had to make himself.

k: the ceremony was rather dull though. everybody was wearing black and all that. even if it was a jewish wedding, i’ve expected a bit more color; it just felt like somebody had died. you were happy though, i remember that you were smiling.

t: well, i was (and still am) genuinely happy for my brother. i’m also happy for your sister. i still feel i should get to know her better.

k: yes, well it seems i too should get to know my sister better. anyway it was quite a small ceremony with just your relatives around.

t: but i think i saw at least your mom attending with her spanish dress and everything though i was really surprised they decided to hold the ceremony at your grandmother’s. i kind of expected a synagogue or something.

k: well, we have no synagogues in sieppijärvi plus we had a rabbi anyway, so that makes it official enough, doesn’t it?

t: it was also kind of unexpected how at the end of the ceremony, after my brother had read that passage from the old testament and when your sister was about to read from the book as well, the rabbi told her he had a small collection of finnish bibles as well and she could use one of those. but by the way, your sister is lutheran, isn’t she?

k: hmm, i suppose she is but apparently nowadays one can’t kind of tell. i wonder what they’ll do about the kids’ religious education when the time comes. well they’ll just have to fight it out, i guess.

t: so does this make you my sister-in-law?

k: i’m afraid it does.

t: neat.


k: what a weird dream.
t: what’s more weird is that i’m narrating your dream in first person on my blog.
k: at least i got to correct my lines.

once upon a time… in the shower

what tibi had to say:

it is said a picture is worth a thousand words, however , i still believe these warrant some explanation. we were getting ready to make some waffles, my flat mate and i, around 1 am, cause what better time is there for waffles? we were going through her recipe book when i saw this picture of two children standing under the shower with an umbrella and i instantly knew we just had to try this out. since katja is, just like me, a bit more than normal, she didn’t take too much convincing. taking the photos themselves was a bit tricky, but as you can see we’ve managed (k: of course since we had a physics student and an engineer’s daughter to figure it out). it was lots of fun and i can wholeheartedly recommend it to anybody interested in such crazy things. oh, and the waffles were also great.


but what katja had to add???(wow finally we got to the interesting part – me:)

children! beware of drinking too much tap water or otherwise you’ll end up on the net faster than you can ask yourselves: actually whose brilliant idea was this? but yes, i truly believe in encouraging limit breaking behaviour though without my camera man (who probably already regrets letting me terrorize his blog – but c’mon, the man asked for it) i wouldn’t have any proof i can actually get drunk on water. but back to the shower… it’s a really a wet place you know. ;)

ja muuten viki: tervetuloa sukuun!

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