Ending the ski jumping season with a world record!

Is there life after the ski jumping scandal? Hardly.

This is a live tracking post of ski jumping World Cup season, focused on my two favorite jumpers, Domen Prevc and Andreas Wellinger.

Oslo or some Norway, Raw Air

Andreas Wellinger lost the qualification by 0.1 point to Geiger! What a bloody nerve-wracking move from Karl.

In the first round, Karl beat Domen Prevc by 0.1 point! What a bloody Karl! Beat both my favorites by 0.1 point.

The situation after the first round: Wellinger 2nd, Domen fourth 0.1 point from third place. A joint podium would be so close, but so far away.

In the final results, Domen was 5th, Wellinger 7th. Their difference was 0.4 points. So pretty close to a shared place, if not a shared podium.

Special notes from the competition: Timi has a much cleaner ass than Domen.

Vikersund Ski Flying

Friday

A double win for my favourites in the first practice round, Domen first. When could I see something like that in a competition? Domen won the second practice round... as I've always said, he was made to fly... when the jump hits the mark on a ski flying hill, he goes very far...

Domen won the qualifying round, meaning he won all three rounds. So no winning in the competition itself?

"Why couldn't this be a competition day?"

 

 

 

Saturday

The practice round was cancelled, so that is a good sign?

I was ready to do something drastic on Viaplay's headquarters when I found out that they don't show the competition on TV at all. What the hell is Viaplay being paid for? It's just fucking stupid to pay to Viaplay.

So I can't even get a tape of Domen's win so I can feel it afterwards.

After the first round, Wellinger was in the lead, Domen was fourth.

In the second round, Domen jumped a good jump, but fell. Wellinger won, Domen was fifth. Without the fall, both would probably have been on the podium, probably a double win!!

One good thing about it is that Viaplay only had an online broadcast, they showed everything until the end, so I saw the award ceremony, which is rare.

Wellinger, the wrong winner? When I was hoping for Domen.

I hope Domen's ankle isn't sore tomorrow.

Sunday

Still no competition on TV. You are pure shit, Viaplay. I've started to suspect that the reason why the TV doesn't record ski jumping is not the TV but Viaplay. Recordings from other channels are successful.

The start of the competition was delayed due to the wind, and there was just one round.

Double win for Domen and Wellinger! Personal best 247m for Domen!

Wellinger won Raw Air for the first time, Domen was second. Without his fall yesterday, Domen would have won both.

So two double wins and a joint podium! Dream come true! I even saw all the podiums!

How can it be that They are both winners!!

Is there nothing more to achieve in ski jumping now?

When I was tired and in pain, waiting for the competition to begin... because of the previous day's disappointment, hoping for a double victory...

 

 

 

Lahti

Saturday

Wellinger led the qualifying, but a couple of outrageous Austrian guys pushed ahead. Thank you Yle for moving the qualifying from television to Arena right at the time of Domen.

Wellinger 6th in the race. Domen biggest loser in the second round, 15 places down.

I don't understand why there was a crowd in the Lahti hill. Was it because of Ahonen and Nieminen? It was nice that they organized that, but I was scared whether they would come down from the tower alive. I even dared to watch Ahonen's jump.

(Like someone on Twitter said: This is a great time for Ahonen to make a comeback, so he can be 4th in the Olympics next winter)

 

 

Sunday

Stupid superteam. Why do I remember that before in Lahti there were always two individual competitions and an evening team competition?

Domen had no place in the team, he was only the fourth best Slovenian on Saturday.

Slovenia won, Germany fourth (again). But Domen got to be in the group photo of the winning team. Nice to stay there for an extra day for nothing?

 

 

Planica

Thursday's second practice round: Wellinger won, Domen second. Later I found out that Domen jumped 246.5 in the first practice round, half a meter away from his recent personal best. Deep squat landing, scary.

Wellinger won the last qualifying round of the season, Domen fourth. Eisenbichler, who is ending his career, third.

Who will win the ski flying cup? What about Planica 7?

Friday

Domen won the practice round.

After the first round, Domen was second after Anze. Domen's wind gap was not optimal. Wellinger 6th. Domen took the lead in Planica 7, taking the lead from Wellinger. After his jump, Domen explained to Peter how it went.

Domen won the competition. Wellinger 6th. Domen also secured the ski flying world cup victory. Best flier!

 

 

 

 

Damn, those ski flying jumps always scare the hell out of me. It's too dangerous.

 

 

Saturday

After the first round of the team competition, things were pretty well in the oven for both my favorite's teams to get on the podium, with Germany in second and Slovenia in third.

In the second round, Slovenia fell to fourth after Kos. In the final results, Germany was second, Slovenia third. The last jump of Eisenbichler's career, and in honor of that, as an anchor. And of course, no podiums were shown. And since the default is that tomorrow's award ceremonies won't be shown anywhere, it's a bit of a bummer. I want to see all the globes! Domen strengthened his lead in Planica 7.

I wanted to cry when I noticed that my recording of Domen's amazing victory the day before doesn't work. "Unknown error." Fuck you, TV. I had already thought how great it would feel to watch that victory at any time. Well, of course not. What in this life would work? 

 

 

Sunday

I realized on Friday night that the clock change is at a bad time. Should we turn them so that the competition is even earlier than normal? Instead of 10:30, it's already 9:30? And how does the TV alarm clock work if the clocks are changed in the middle of everything? Whhich alarm time does it have to be, old or new time? Luckily, I have a cell phone that doesn't change its time by itself, so I can set it to wake me up. Well, two clocks woke me up at the same time.

Domen won the trial round. Why did Michael Hayböck, about to finish his career, not want to participate in the competition, even though he could have? The best 30 overall in the World Cup can participate. Or the best 30 people present...

In the first round, Domen's 245m wasn't enough to take the lead, when Anze outrageously passed with a new (better than Domen's) personal best. Wellinger was 4th.

 

 

WORLD RECORD!

 

On the second round, Domen jumped a world record, 254.5m. It was a touch and go would it be deemed as fallen, but no. His brother Cene was the first to rush to congratulate him.

 

 

 

Even the world record wasn't enough to win the competition. Sorry Anze, but Domen is the moral winner. Wellinger was third, so both my favorites were on the podium! They are both losers!

 

 

 

 

Domen won Planica 7. And the ski flying world cup, Wellinger was third in that.

 

 

 

By some miracle I was able to see all the victory ceremonies.
 

Viaplay is a complete shit show, and this fact proves it: if it had been up to Viaplay alone, I wouldn't have seen a single award ceremony.

Even though I couldn't believe it after Friday, the season couldn't have ended any better.

After Domen's nightmarish start to the season, the rest of the season went incredibly well. Victories, world championship golds and, as the cherry on top, a world record! 

 

 

Domen's 2024-25 season would be a great movie, the drama would be spot on.

Ps. Moment of truth: does the TV recording of the record jump work? IT WORKS!

 

 

 

 

Misery and brokeness

Last week was pure crap. Endometriosis pain. Had to try to study for an exam. I went for a run with the help of painkillers. On Friday I started having joint pain, which I don't know now if it's due to premenopause or just my family's strong rheumatism genes. Yeah, it could also just be due to endometriosis.

 

 

It was another tough weekend. The World Cup in Lahti, and the World Indoor Athletics Championships in some place far away. My neck can't handle that kind of watching. There were some strange long relays in athletics, or should I say strange countries involved. No Belgium or Holland in either, neither in the men's nor the women's.

And then this Monday there was an exam. I thought I was ready to give up on my studies if I couldn't pass that mandatory course exam. I barely passed the first part of that course. But I got almost perfect points in that second part. I can't understand it.

Somehow I managed to force myself to finish another short story last week. On Friday I got 2 new short story ideas, and on Sunday a third. But I knew which short story I wanted to finish next, this week. And that one was already done today. What's next? When will that vacation or a break or the feeling of finishing something come? I can't be happy about finishing a short story when there are a million more in line, and I haven't made any progress on the novels.

 

 

This week went better in terms of pain. I was already thinking that I was feeling okay, and even my favorite streamer streamed on Tuesday after a long time. But on Tuesday night, I got a stomachache. I can never understand how a stray fart can cause such severe pain.

And then today, Wednesday, my computer broke down, meaning I can't trust anything anymore. First the mouse wouldn't move, and then the screen went crazy. My spouse immediately diagnosed that the graphics card had crashed, and replacing the graphics card helped. If I didn't have someone who knows about computers at home, I would be screwed. I would have to take my computer to somewhere to be repaired. So how? By taxi? Is there a computer repair service that does house calls? But I wouldn't even be able to find information about repair services without a working computer. And the repairmen would have full access to all the files on the computer, oh the horror. Do I have to start spring cleaning the computer? One option would be to learn how to repair a computer myself, but that's not gonna happen. It's terrible that my whole life is on a computer. For example, all my login information and passwords. Without this particular computer, I wouldn't be able to log in anywhere anymore.

My mouse has been acting up for a long time. Whenever I try to paint text, it only paints after several attempts. And when I try to paste text at the cursor position, far too often the text goes somewhere other than the cursor position. Both in the word processing program and here on Blogger. And it's not even a very old mouse.

 

 

And my eyes just can't take this life. What can I do for them? I guess I should use some moisturizing drops, but no can do because they're not free either. It's been 25 years since my last eye exam. But the FSHS doesn't have an ophthalmologist or anything else where I could get help for overworked eyes. Of course, it doesn't help that I also have rosacea in my eyes. Living the life with multiple conditions.

I'm looking forward to the culmination of the ski jumping season this weekend in Planica. But I'm not looking forward to the competitions being too early. Why do they have to start at 10:30 am?

There's something bad coming next week, we'll see what the verdict is. But the GTA Marathon also starts at the end of next week, yippee?

Soon nothing will interest me anymore

I'm not interested in playing games. There's just nothing fun to play.

I'm not interested in drinking. I used to be interested in playing Friday and drinking at the same time. But maybe I've had enough of the "kalsarikännit" now. There's no point in that.

I'm not interested in watching Twitch. I've watched Twitch every day for years, but now it just feels like no one ever streams any interesting games. And the worst thing is that my favorite streamer has streamed exactly once this year. I've even seriously considered the possibility that he's found life.

Well, ski jumping still manages to interest me, and for a good reason, as my favorites took the double victory I've long dreamed of. More about that later.

There was also the European Indoor Athletics Championships, outrageously at the same time as the World Ski Championships. Although I'm not much interested anymore since the Borlee twins ended their careers. And in the end, Dylan Borlee wasn't seen in the Belgian relay team at those competitions either. But it's completely absurd that both the European Indoor Championships and the World Indoor Championships are held in the same month, I can't understand it.

 

 

 

The last few weeks have been pretty much constant myokymias, especially in one eye. It's annoying. My eyes are just so sore, overworked and dry, they need rest. But what else would I do with my life than read stuff all my waking hours?

On Monday I woke up with a sore big toe. What exactly have I been doing? I mean, endometriosis pain, eye/neck/headaches, and my big toe so sore that it's hard to walk. Yes, it's okay to exist and study.

 

 

 

I actually switched to Globetel. I managed to change the SIM card without breaking my 25-year-old cell phone, although the battery seems to last less time now. The old SIM card was also quite old. The previous operator kept complaining that it needed to be changed.

I also realized that my bank charges me 8.25 euros in service fees every month. A terrible amount. So I have to switch completely to S-pankki, which is free. It's just a chore to change the information in all places, etc.

Ps. I realized yesterday (!!) that I still have the Christmas curtain on the kitchen window... I'm doing well.

Is there life after cats?

It feels like the death of cats is something I can never get over.

Life has completely changed. The cats' passing is visible in all my everyday activities, in all my routines.

I don't have to worry that Tabitha will snot on the bed or somewhere else. Or that Kali will try to shit on the bed, or Olivia will have diarrhea there or on the floor, or wipe her ass on the sheets. In the morning I don't have to worry about whether Olivia peed on the toilet mat.

In general, I can sleep more. The cats don't wake me up anymore, and I don't have to plan everything around their meal times.

I can hang the laundry to dry so that the lines hang down, there's no longer Olivia tearing them apart. No one is shoving themselves into the wardrobe or dressing room. No one comes in front of my computer screen to "disturb" my "important" activities. When I file my nails, no one will wonder what the suspicious noise is coming from, and want to use the file as a toy. I can take a shower without worrying that Olivia will have diarrhea while I'm there. When I'm walking around the room in the dark, I don't have to worry about running over some cat. I can leave my food on the table freely, no one will try to eat it. I don't have to be hysterical about every piece of dental floss or string. I can even leave a plastic bag on the floor without worrying that someone will choke on it. And Olivia isn't licking all kinds of plastic. I no longer have to wash socks because stepping on vomit or shit. The kitchen and wardrobe cupboards are empty of cat food, I suppose I could put something else in them. But what?

At one time, I had a routine with Tabitha that every time I boiled water for tea, Tabitha would come into the kitchen to be petted. I even tried to trick Tabitha with it when I changed the sheets. To get Tabitha out of the bedsheets, I boiled water for tea to trick her into going to the kitchen.

In the previous apartment, Tabitha had a nasty habit. Almost every night when we went to bed, Tabitha would pick up her ball and start shouting "throw me the ball NOW". Never in that situation was the ball thrown to her at night, but she still continued that habit for a long time. I thought that the neighbors probably didn't like it...

 

 

 

I try to keep Olivia's meow on my mind all the time. She had a unique meow, and I wouldn't want to forget it. I should have videotaped more cats, although the videos from my digital camera are of such poor quality that I didn't use it much for videos.

It's Olivia who I'm most upset about. I feel like I let Olivia down. Olivia's death came as a complete surprise. Although in retrospect, all the signs were visible. And I just laughed when Olivia, who had moved to live on the kitchen rug, sometimes couldn't even move off the rug when I was vacuuming. I just thought she was lazy. And when she lost weight and ate less and was constantly begging for food, I just thought she was picky. And when Olivia's chronic diarrhea turned into constipation, I just thought it was due to kidney failure. Why didn't it even occur to me that Olivia might have an intestinal tumor? It did occur to me when Kali stopped eating because of constipation the other Christmas.

 

Dreams of cats

I had a dream about Olivia, and this time it was the "real" Olivia. She came home many months after her death, looking healthy and even a little overweight. I wondered how she could be alive. When she was supposed to be dead, she was supposed to have colon cancer and a blocked intestine. I didn't get any answers to my questions in the dream.

In another dream, all the cats came home healthy. I thought it had to be a dream, and I tried to wake myself up by pinching myself, but it didn't work. Then I had to start thinking about what to do when there are three cats at home and not a drop of cat food. Finally, I looked into Olivia's eyes, and I started crying when I realized that the cat wasn't Olivia. The real Olivia had unique, different eyes. And that dream wasn't the only one, I had a similar dream again and again I recognized Olivia as fake based on her eyes.

In one dream, I had taken photos of cat ghosts. Something other than the supernatural was still wrong, there was more than one Olivia in the pictures.

In another dream, there were two Olivias. And then there was Tabitha attacking my food, just when I was bragging that I wouldn't have to be afraid of it anymore.

 

 

We don't have to buy anything for cats anymore. It's a shame that there are cat ads on my Facebook and YouTube, for example, and cat food in my personal K-plus offers.

Everything is used less now. After the cats died, water consumption has dropped by about 75%!! Toilet paper, kitchen paper. I used to use one freezer bag a day. Now I don't know how I could end use those bags used for food. I don't even use cotton pads anymore. I could use them several times a day to wipe Tabitha's nose, and I often bought them from bundle offers.

There is so damn little waste. I used to have to take out the mixed waste every other day, mainly because of Olivia's waste. Now there is very little of it, like everything else. Bio and metal.

 

Cat hair. They are no longer everywhere, like on my own face. Whenever I find a white cat hair on my face, I just think that this is one of the last ones. And that it could be from any of the three cats, you can never know whose.

I cry every time I vacuum. It is so unnaturally clean here, there is no cat hair or litter. Before, I had to vacuum twice a week, now there would be little need for it. And the vacuum cleaner started acting up even before the cats died. It started when I hit a plug while vacuuming, and the vacuum cleaner stopped working. Since that time, the vacuum cleaner has not always worked. I have to try many different sockets, and place the plug in the socket in a special way before the vacuum cleaner agrees to work. It has also turned off in the middle of vacuuming, for example because the vacuum cleaner has run over the cord.

It has been months since I put the last dust bag full of cat hair in the trash. But even then, all that was visible on top of it was dust. :(

 

 

Today, I would like to give advice to all cat owners that it is always a good idea to have an abdominal ultrasound done for older cats when they visit the vet. Some vets even include it in their senior cat health check-ups, and for a good reason. An abdominal ultrasound would have revealed things in all three of my cats. The biggest regret is that it wasn't done for Olivia in April, when she was at the vet again due to chronic diarrhea. And at the time, I didn't realize or know that I could have asked for an ultrasound.

Death has been a problem for me ever since I realized as a child that nothing in this life changes the fact that one day I too will lie in a coffin and be put on the ground to be eaten by worms. Other people seem to be able to shut the existence of death out of their consciousness better than I am. And now death has been shoved right in my face, and I can't stand it. If I stop for a moment to think about the cats' absence, it makes me cry.

A new kind of crisis

The knife was twisted in my heart again when Zooplus sent me an email saying they miss me, and now I would get a discount. A paper letter. Maybe because after the cats died I banned them from sending emails.

 

 

Last week's trip to Lidl was a bit disappointing. I almost couldn't find any women's pink pyjama bottoms, which were the main reason for going. They had been hidden among the men's clothes. And you never know what is the right size, it's a complete guess. On the way home, I got splashed all over by a car.

Lost library card

And when I got home, a crisis struck when I accidentally noticed that I had lost my library card, it couldn't be found in my wallet. I had reserved a course book from the library and was already panicking, wondering what to do now that I can't get it. I just remembered that the last time I changed the library card pin code was so that my spouse could wait at the library during a trip to the vet. Well, then he realized that my library card was still in his wallet. Luckily, I went through the contents of my wallet for fun, otherwise I would have had a useless trip to the library and I would have been a bit pissed off. I can imagine the situation: I excitedly collect a bunch of books and go to the lending machine with them, only to realize that I don't have a library card. Oh, shit.

I even remembered correctly that the library's lending machines have been changed. Nowadays, you need a PIN code to borrow books. It's a good thing I changed it back in the summer. My decades-old PIN code had letters, and today's machines only accept numbers.

On my trip to the library, I also went to Clas Ohlson to buy some Heat Holders thermal socks. They only cost 10 euros a pair. On the way there, I started wondering if cash is still accepted there. Well, it is.

 

G-mail is gone?

I guess I'll have to give up G-mail, because I won't be able to access that account anymore. When they start requiring a smartphone for two-factor authentication. A bit annoying. I'll have to change everything back to Yahoo mail. I don't even remember why I got G-mail in the first place. Was there some problem with Yahoo? Probably.

Well, the funny thing is that you can't change the email address of a Google account. And Google is literally my life. What am I going to lose next? I already lost my Tradedoubler account.

Writing short stories

Last week I finally finished one short story. I was supposed to finish it a week earlier, but it was left behind when I had a seizure. And now I thought I'd get to work on my latest short story idea, but what happened? I got another new idea, and a third new one... I guess the ideas have to stop coming at some point?! I don't have time to work on my novels at all because of this. Well, I dream of finishing enough short stories to make a collection of short stories. I now have 9 short stories in English that have been finished and published on Amazon. I just finished one story that I came up with an idea years ago. Maybe the oldest of the current ones. It would be such a good pace to get one short story published every week.

Why it is so easy for me to decide that my short stories are done and ready for publication? Whereas I've been working on my first novel for decades, and I can never be satisfied with it.

 

Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim 2025

The incredibly wonderful and miraculous Trondheim World Championships. When my expectations for my favorites to succeed were zero.

Trondheim 1997

The last time at the Trondheim World Championships in 1997, Janne Ahonen won the normal hill world championship. He rose from 8th place in the first round to victory. I guess I should also reveal that at that time Andreas Goldberger was also my favorite. It's hard to say who was first and who was second. It tells you something that I painted a flag with watercolours, one side of which was the Finnish flag and the other the Austrian flag. (Now I guess I should make a flag with Slovenia and Germany.) Somehow I got a bad taste for Goldi back then when he revealed his cocaine use.

 

Skiing

Iivo Niskanen got the flu and couldn't make it to the whole championship. It was upsetting for me especially for the Finnish relay team, in skiing I like relays the most. I can't accept that the men's relay is no longer 4x10km. Damn that "equality".

Normal hill

Andreas Wellinger did well in the normal hill training and was second in the qualifying, so my hopes were set way too high. And I was reminded that Wellinger was the defending silver medalist in normal hill.

After the first round, Wellinger was second, and held his place in the second round as well. World Championship silver after Lindvik.

Based on the time leading up to the World Championships, I couldn't have believed in Wellinger's medal, and I hear he didn't either.

During the second round, I wondered if I would get to eat a celebratory ice cream, or if it would have to be a consolation ice cream.

 

 

 

"What the hell, Domen is on the team" ie Mixed Team

I wondered if Domen Prevc was under a lot of pressure, not only because he could let down his team but also his sister. Domen's second jump scared the hell out of me, but it was really good.

Silver for Slovenia and Domen! Apparently this was Domen's first World Championship medal.

It was known that for Germany to get a medal, Wellinger would have to do something amazing, i.e. jump at least 5 meters longer than Hörl. Wellinger surprisingly did a really good jump, but it wasn't enough when Hörl did the same. Fourth place for Germany.

Amazing that both of my favorites got medals from the same championship. I was expecting a zero result.

So it was time for the medal ice cream again!

 

Team competition ie "I'm shitting my pants here"

Domen won the trial round, and Wellinger was third! An unfulfilled dream: both my favorites on the podium at the same time!

Before the competition I thought I would be disappointed if there wouldn't be at least one medal, that if both Germany and Slovenia managed to lose so badly.

But then I was reminded that Slovenia was the reigning world champion. Well, they won 2 years ago... when Domen wasn't on the team. That was the infamous competition when Domen was celebrating with them even though he wasn't in the team.

I realized that if Slovenia didn't win now with Domen on the team, it would just feel terrible.

Slovenia led throughout the first round, but only narrowly. But Hörl failed in the anchors, and Slovenia's lead after the first round was a good 20 points, Germany was a narrow fourth.

After the first jumpers of the second round, Slovenia had already lost more than half of its lead. Domen did well in both rounds.

 

"I'm scared of Timi" 

 

Timi didn't really succeed as the third jumper, and before the last jumpers the difference in Slovenia's favor was only 2.5 points.

But thanks to anchor Anze Slovenia won. Germany fourth. Too bad for Wellinger, two team fourth places.

The medal ice cream is over, so no more medals from these games?

 

Large hill

I was pretty sure that there wouldn't be a medal from the last competition, but what happened?

Domen was third in the qualifying! So again, my hopes were too high. And Wellinger was 7th.

Domen was in the lead after the first round! But by a small margin. That they had to organize such a thrilling spectacle for the last competition! My heart was pounding and I was nauseated, the latter for other reasons though.

I didn't think Domen would be able to keep his head together in the second round. But he did. Domen is the world champion!

After an incredibly crappy start of the season, winning the world championship is an unimaginably wonderful achievement.

My two favorite ski jumpers Domen Prevc and Andreas Wellinger: four medals from four competitions, including two world champion titles!

Why I didn't cry? I cried when Ahonen won the world championship. I cried when Wellinger won the Olympic gold medal (and Wellinger cried himself).

And of course, then the Norwegian suit manipulation scandal had to come and overshadow Domen's great victory. Luckily, Domen won the competition, and didn't just advance to the championship due to Lindvik's disqualification. If more Norwegians are disqualified, Wellinger will get two team medals AND the normal hill championship. And Domen would get a third championship.

 

"Slovenian Domen Prevc's famous world championship was completely lost amidst massive turbulence."

A frighteningly depressing experience

I have been depressed. I don't know if it's because of perimenopause, when it's always said that depression and low mood are among the symptoms.

But when I wrote excitedly for weeks, and then I'm not interested in anything anymore, too bad. Finally, I forced myself to finish one short story last week. There's also a certain problem with this, that it's hard to choose which short story to work on next. When you can't choose, you don't do anything. And of course, I started writing a new short story again.

 

 

I miss my cats. I just can't accept the loss of them, nor stand it. I always cry when I stop to think about it.

And I miss Friday. It really hit me for the first time around Valentine's Day. I guess I'll have to dare to try the private server at some point, even though they say (of course) there are only assholes left in the players, and no perks. So, playing with assholes without perks?

 

 

Should I order from Temu?

I admit it. For the first time ever I checket out Temu's (affiliate link) selection. I was really disappointed when I noticed that in honor of buying more Heat Holders thermal socks, the older ones started to fall apart. So I don't have enough socks again, I guess I never will. I didn't bother buying more since they are so expensive, almost 15 euros a pair. Well, I found a Heat Holders copycat brand, Heat Control, from Temu. Yes, that would do.

Temu is pretty annoying because it always does everything it can to prevent you from buying anything. The page jumps everywhere and back to the beginning when you have scrolled down for a long time. It required registration all the time. And when the settings were changed to Finnish, the one I had used disappeared from the selection options. How could I just look for acrylic socks when apparently that kind of material is not known at all in Finland? I had to change back to English.

It's not realistic to order from Temu anyway, since there is a minimum order limit. I would only be interested in ordering if I could get those little things in the mail at home, I don't want to pick up a package from some far away place. And I wouldn't be interested in paying the postal processing fee. Do I have to pay that even if I order just one product from China that costs less than 1 euro?

 

 

Scary bout

In honor of the opening day of the skiing World Championships, I had a seizure. First, I noticed that I couldn't see the text properly. Then I started having pain in my eyes, head, and neck. Then my left arm went numb first, and then the left side of my face. It's not the first time I've had a seizure like this, but it's been a long time since the last one. I always suspect a TIA, but they claim that it's not accompanied by pain. A few hours later, I started to really feel my neck, so much so that I tried to cry and desperately took several painkillers. I didn't know that my neck was so bad. I thought that doing dumbbell exercises every other day would have kept it in shape. So, neck stiffness + eye strain, this is the end result.

 

 

Well, that's why I went on "sick leave". No reading, no writing. No schoolwork. Especially not finishing an essay, when my body felt like it had had enough of it already on the day before. Well, yeah, I've still read, way too much.