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Biweekly life report: new humidifier, wooly socks ambassador, November wallpaper
Moikka! How’s everyone lately?ʕ•㉨•ʔฅ
New Humidifier
I have never been a super healthy kid, which means that I would catch a cold every time when the season changes. The situation continued until I was in high school, when wearing more items was a trendy choice and a way of showing own tastes. Also that was the time when everyone was playful and tried to do whatever we could on top of the school uniform. So after high school I got cold less frequently, but when I get sick I would have fever and headache, that kind of being ill that makes me hardly could stay vertical. Unfortunately, going to a doctor is not as convenient and easy as it is in Taiwan, so what I could do is only drinking a lot of water and taking pain killers, letting my body to heal itself.
Also, I’m allergic to quite a lit of things. Just like a lot of kids in Taiwan, my nose was always stuffy and itchy, especially in the morning after waking up. My mom always called my nose “bad nose” when I made a lot of noice cleaning it and easing the itching. This is basically gone after moving to Finland, where the air is way cleaner and humidity is way lower. Dry climate is a great for my nose, however, not as good to my skin. I started to have eczema in winter, my body gets itchy, and face skin peels. I survived by putting a layer of Bepanthen ointment on my face as the last step of skin care, and to wherever I feel itching.
As it is autumn now, the temperature had dropped a lot, the first snow had come, the air humidity had also dropped! And how did I know that, not by checking our hygrometer, but by my dry bleeding nose. The past week, almost every morning I woke up with my nose feeling dry, and when I clean my nose I saw dry blood. Then I thought it was time to try if our old humidifier still worked. The old humidifier, named Harry, was bought couple years ago and decided to start on a strike in the beginning of this year. So I cleaned it, dried it, let it rest, to see if it would come back to work. Unfortunately he didn’t want to so we had not choice but to let him retire. Few years ago I wouldn’t care to much about not having a humidifier since I though it wasn’t necessary. But I’m different now, I need enough air humidity in my life. Especially when last week, right after I felt so dry and uncomfortable in my nose, I caught a cold ʕ•㉨•ʔ (but it’s a mild one, feeling like a teenager again.) The dry air actually made the inside of my nose hurt when inhaling! Had to get a new humidifier soon. Urgent!
The new humidifier is different from the old one. It is basically a pot that heats up water and keep it warm. So there’s no visible mist and no sound. Whereas the old one, Harry, is the ultrasonic type. The new humidifier is named as Harry Kane, for three main reasons: 1) to continues Harry’s legacy, 2) HK is the part of its model name, and 3) it sounds like hurricane. To be honest I’m slightly concerned about using an ultrasonic humidifier after hearing about the South Korean humidifier disinfectant case The case reemphasised the importance of paying attention to what is actually put to be vaporised and cleaning the humidifier properly and regularly. A movie based on the case was also released last year.
Talking about snow, the first snow in Helsinki came last week, which I feel like it’s quite early this year. Although snow is nothing new, every year I still get excited when the snow season approaches. Until it has been snowing for months and everywhere is covered by thick snow and I have to leave home early to catch a train because walking on snow is slower, the excitement will be replaced by annoyance. Earlier when I went to our corner store, they had put out all kinds of advent calendars. Christmas is coming.
Continuing on Knitting Socks
The pair of suffeli socks is officially finished! The process of making the second one was smoother, and I think it looks better. There’s still quite a lot of yarn left, almost feeling like it’s enough to make another pair. I’m saving them to my yarn box for future use.
Without a pause, I started to knit another pair of socks. This time they are for my mom. I let her to choose the colour and she surprisingly chose my favourite green? I think this is the yarn I’ve rebought the most so far.
The reason why I want to knit a pair of wooly socks for my mom is that, she is someone whose feet get super cold in winter. She always has a small heater under the desk specially to keep her feet warm. As someone who used to also have very cold hands and feet, I found wooly socks wonderful. Like I said, my feet were always icy cold in winter, so cold that it sometimes hurts. But I hated to wear those warm fluffy socks at home because they make my feet feel suffocated and constrained. But it’s completely not the case with wooly socks. Wooly socks keep feet warm but at the same time that air goes through! The thickness also makes the so comfy to wear. I wear them just like indoor shoes basically throughout the whole year, only except the hottest weeks.
I remember the first time when I visited my friend’s family’s mökki (summer cottage) in a late autumn, her mom gave each of us a pair of wooly socks to wear on top of our usual socks right after we entered. They are so warm and comfy, but they don’t make sounds as slippers do. On the coldest days Aaro would also were double layers of socks like this, so far I haven’t had the need to do so 😂
I mentioned that I “used to be” a person whose hands and feet get icy cold in winter, meaning that I don’t have this problem anymore. I have been trying to find out the reason but I don’t think I know exactly why. The problem had been there since I could ever remember. I tried Chinese medicine and followed the instructions to strictly quitting iced drinks and all kinds of frozen desserts for more than a year, nothing helped. But recently that completely changed. I’m so warm, my hands are so warm, and my feet are so warm. But I eat ice cream a lot and even in winter now! Mysterious.
Aaro said it’s regular exercise that helps the blood circulation. Maybe. But my exercise strength is not high at all. I do some pilates and stretching every morning during weekdays. This is something I can keep on doing for a long term. So if I want to put it that way, yes, I do some exercise regularly. That makes me wonder, if this amount of exercise fix the cold hands and feet tremendously, why didn’t I start earlier!!!
What I ate
Chicken pesto pasta
Bún bò Huế
When it gets cold I always crave Vietnamese food.
Cabbage stew
I intended to make cabbage stew but did’t have any luxurious ingredients such as dried mushrooms, and it turn out very much like the braised pork I always make?
Meatloaf
Aaro was the chef who made this dish, I was in charge of the potatoes, broccolis, and the mushroom sauce.
We specially added blue cheese! And I insisted to half the seasoning, so the whole dish tasted balanced and super nice!
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Our Kiiroitori plush can be seen in the back of the 3rd picture.
What I Drew
Chicken cold noodles
I like to add garlic and chilli sauce!
Matcha pudding, caramel pudding, earl grey pudding
The reason why I drew puddings is because of a video Aaro shared with me😂 so addicting!
Chai cake
My nose is so dry!
一次用五支棒針織襪子的我！Using 5 double pointed needles knitting socks!
I saw before that this is not so suitable for beginners, but practice makes perfect!
And I do think I’m quite talented in this.
November wallpaper
Aaro’s birthday is in November, so this month is his character capybara and his favourite carrot cake!
Can also be downlaoded from our website’s wallpaper section!
Pre-order Products
Next week starts the pre-order of the new Long sleeved T shirts!
Check my Penker store if you are interested ( ⸝⸝•ᴗ•⸝⸝ )੭⁾⁾
The big project I have been working on ( and made me super busy) is slowly come to the final result. I really want to share but still I’ll wait until everything is done and ready. Continuous busy weeks plus a bit of seasonal depression had make both me and Aaro feel fatigued. We tried to strictly stick to our sleep schedule to help with the situation. And it actually helped a lot. But still, we decided to take a week of autumn break. So next week is going to be our staycation, during which we can go out to different places, visit restaurants, or play boardgames at home, or just chill. Can’t wait!
Aaaaand this ends the biweekly report.
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