Patiperra makes another brain release....

Just because I am off my blog, doesn't mean I've stopped thinking about things... So as hubby is off to yet another far away land, I grab my keyboard and let myself be inspired by some recent brain activity on topics that annoy me...

* Food for children; see Harriet Strandvik's letter to editor in today's HBL, I could not agree more on this one. Or yes I would add some issues on empty calories, margarine and fat free milk... I do not see the point in keeping the kids bloodsugar jumping up and down and with low fat keeping them hungry between meals, or actually satisfying their hunger with quick carbs so that they definatelly will be screaming for mor "fast" food 2-3 hours later. Insane.

* Racism; see today's column on "Peruspelkurit", I agree on many things here. Monsieur Halla-aho got himself into trouble saying Greece needs a military regime to clean things up. Is it so surprising? Coming from him, I mean. What is surprising to me is that this guy, and his party, can ride through any kind of storm well supported by many Finns. Insane. Which actually brings me to the next topic...

* This Greece business, or actually the whole world financial market - what is wrong with this place?!?! Can't the politicians just get it right for once? And my other question is:  Do we really need to further increase our debt to sort things out?  Or be indebted to the Chinese to be able to buy their stuff? I actually walk around trying to figure out who will win at the end. Is  "the West" ready to see the end of their era - or will they invent another way out of their debt to China without having to hand over the power to the lender? When I have been thinking too long I get myself in to the "Property for Sales" pages on the internet to look for my own piece of land. You see once the crisis hit, the best thing you can do is to be self-sufficient. Buy land, plant veggies, collect wood for the heating in the winter, in short: be ready. But I would have to buy land on credit... is that wise?!? Better just emigrate to March. This world is insane.

* My kids, they always manage to press the button. The red one, you know, the one from the ages of cold war, arming a nuclear world war right here in our house, or actually usually our stairways - I feel sorry for our neighbours, yet another reason for that property idea I had, we better give them long lasting peace already. But lucky for me these kids are the best I've got. Without them I would probably go crazy with all the activity up in my brain office these days. They keep me focused on what really matters, which is this:

Break from standby mode...

... just to tell you some breaking news:

1. A bikes everywhere she can nowadays. And G is ever so happy to have moved from the bike-wagon up to the bikeseat on my bike. We are training left and right with A - which I have to admit is rather difficult for this mother who has never been clear on what is right and what is left... but as said, we are working on it and until we get it right we stop 5 meters before the crossover, look like 5 times and then we cross.

2. We went to the 4 year health check today. This is revolutionary stuff. We were only -5 on the weight curve!!! I know, you are not supposed to be obsessed with the curves but for a mother that has felt the knife on the throught with a weight curve around -13- - 17 ever since the first born was 3 months old, this is worth celebrating. And thus we continue with our freaking sugarfree diet here at home. Which by the way is not a challenge anymore, it is our day-to-day life. And I love it.

Over and out.