CloudberryRegular Boarder

Hello! Don't worry about it. I took a break for more than half a year from MFC, only because of quarantine I now have time for all of this again. ^^'' And wow, so much hours of work, I hope you're holding on! Is there any chance for a (short) vacation anytime soon for you?

Yeah I guess my 'updates' for you are that everything that I hoped to be doing in 2020 had to be cancelled. I won't be visiting my home country in 2020, I might be able to attend my sisters' wedding through livestream and my vacation for October/November is cancelled as well. It's a lot of fighting around with insurances to try to get as much money back as possible for these cancelled trips. Next to being sad for all the cancellations, the money fighting is also depressing. :( I hope things will go back to normal in 2021...

I didn't have a summer holiday...it was just...summer weather outside. :P But I have worked a lot of overtime in the last months, so I'll be able to take a week off in a couple of weeks. I'm mostly going to use it to sleep LOL.

I didn't really see lakka especially on sale here, not even during summer. I guess it really depends on which area you live in (as they are apparently from the middle and northern parts and I live in the south). And hrrmm well I think it was more like a lakka jam, so they probably inserted a loooot of sugar in it. ^^''

Yes! All the unpacking is done! Buuut...we are missing multiple parts we need to buy from IKEA (and you have to get it from customer service in person, can't order it from their website...). So the figure room is now stuck in an 80% finished state, which I am afraid of being in for a lot longer... >.<

About the language: They finally released Duolingo here and I have a 2+ month streak on it now. ^^ The language is super hard though...especially grammar... >.<

My PayPal is also finally working like it should and a bit over a month ago I started selling online again. Package shipping here is a mess, so I just started with everything small I can ship through regular envelope mail. If you want to check it out: www.ebay.com/us... . :) I'm still very nervous about it, because shipping to every place in the world is so slooooow right now. So I know I'm going to get complaints/PayPal cases/refunds, but hey, as I know have the time to do this (once I am back at the office I don't), I'm just going for it.

It is possible to return to the office, but my company lets you choose. And well, I see the most risk for infection using the public transport and I need to use the busiest public transport line in the country to get to my job, so...



As long as they are not forcing me back to the office, I'm not going. I really hope I can continue to keep working from home for a while, because even though the case numbers for Finland seem good...they only count the hospitalized and deceased. So anybody 'normally' getting sick or only testing positive is not counted in the numbers...it's unclear by how much, but the numbers should be wayyyy higher.

Ugh. :( Sad to hear that... :( I hope you are still feeling safe doing your daily things? Here in Finland everything has re-opened and depending on the company you work for some allow you to work from home (I feel very lucky). My home country and vacation country are both in a second wave though...both of those countries thought shutting down for 1 month was enough and after that just resumed normal day life... ( ⚆ _ ⚆ ) Numbers are rising, but their governments are just going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

Right now her wedding is 'only' allowed to have 100 guests...I still cringe at that because the locations where it's being held are still small, but they allow everything 100 and under...

LOL don't buy those plane tickets, because yes, you can fly, but you're either not getting into the country or you're not going back. How the situations currently are for the plane tickets I have
- The one in NL I can go to, but Finland won't allow me back in
- The one to JP, I can fly to JP, but their border security won't let me in. You have to quarantine for 2 weeks in the airport on arrival in JP. My vacation was supposed to be 2 weeks...

So yeah with those plane tickets you're seeing, of course you can buy and fly, but you either won't get into the country or you won't get back. :I Flight companies don't care though, they have been earning so little money recently they just want seats to sell. About that, planes are super scary right now, none of them have social distancing and only some of them have mandatory masks. Stepping on a plane is basically 'get your free Corona here' and of course they'll seat you next to the guy that is coughing the loudest.

Well, I've been talking a lot about myself, but what about you? Everything good over there? Can you hang out on MFC more and work less? Any free days coming up or had recently? Anything in general interesting that happened? Any buys/sells to the collection?

Heya! Thank you for those kind words. Yesterday was almost good until it had a bad ending. I was so upset that I decided to say my own feelings on here. I'm still young and have no clue what I am going to be someday. Reading those comments on that article made me more stressed about my future. But don't worry, I will keep on swimming. :)

Thanks for the birthday wishes and Senjougahara gif! :) :D

Thank you. love your collection as well.

hi, oops.... i didn't notice that, sorry, let me delete some msg, guess i got too many in a short time on my mail box

Hello! I'm very tired, but doing good! Work has been very busy as I need to learn a lot of things before everyone leaves for Summer holiday, but then in the Summer period it will be a lot more chill for me (I hope/assume LOL).  How's everything with you?

Thanks! And oh! I'll be curious about your favorite item(s) from my loots. :) And oh, how come? Less interest in figures nowadays?

LOL your neverending high expectations haha. xD Regular unpacking is 90% done and the figures are ~60%(?) done. I am missing pieces for 2 of my display cabinets, but rather not go into the outside world to purchase them (IKEA does not ship them to home addresses). PayPal will continue to be ??? until I do my first (eBay) sale and that is not happening anytime soon as I'm still in quarantine. Finnish language was recently added to Duolingo, so we have that! And the health care is sort-of working, but still working out some issues with it as rules and regulations are quite different here. And I actually did not see any lakka's for sale yet! But! I did try a while back a chocolate-lakka cake and I was surprised at how sweet they are! I was under the impression that most berry-types have a bit of sourness to them. :O

Here the situation is weird. Halfway into May they did a 'partial' re-opening, but basically everything just opened right away, people started clothes shopping and going to restaurants etc. It became very annoying for me to do my groceries because my nearest supermarket is in this big mall and it was filled with salespeople approaching me again. It was like everybody just forgot about Corona. Anyway, since then even more things opened and for Summer things seem to go back to 'normal' as much as possible, with planned that directly after Summer, all offices will open again. So yeah, let's see if in the upcoming weeks there will be a spike in the number of cases...if not, I guess there won't be a second wave and it will be safe for me to return to the office and the rest of my normal life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just really don't know what to think of this situation, all media tells something different and I am just so confused... So I'm self-isolating for as long as I can until governments all see it as safe.

Oh, so your area already has the second wave... :( I guess with ours it's also taking 'longer' as we are in general less densely populated.

Yeah, it's pretty bad that call centers are seen as such a bad job and also treated by most companies as something that does not need effort. I'm always so hesitant when I need to contact a customer support and when I do, I rather go for e-mail, chat, contact form etc. because of the experiences I've had working in them.

Oh man...yeah I've had similar stuff. Earlier with a job I had to regularly park someplace else and would have to pay additional parking fees which they covered, but it was always soooo much paperwork to get it back. And if there was only one tiny thing wrong (such as a damaged parking ticket I once had), they refused to pay back... As 'revenge' I would fill in those reimbursement sheets and make pictures of proof for them only during work time. :P

Well I guess I can copy-paste this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ again to answer that. My sister her wedding is going to be a social distancing wedding, the main party is cancelled and the smaller party has been moved to a bigger location so that the social distancing rules are able to be followed. It will depend on the news and numbers in both countries if we are still able to go there in September. I can say something similar for my vacation. Waiting until more numbers are known for both countries to have any clue if it will happen. As for your convention, well if you guys are already in the 2nd wave now, I don't think a convention can happen this soon again... :x

Yes, there are lots of cool places in Europe to explore! Still much on my own list to check out, next to wanting to see the area I actually moved to, LOL.

And yes! Well, the average Finnish person would say to you that Finland has no mountains at all, but for us people that are originally from a very flat country: it does! But if you want to see actual high mountains in Europe, you would have to go to Austria, France, Germany or Italy. When we still lived in NL we would sometimes drive a bit into Germany and there are lots of mountains and caves to explore there! But you need a good car to get there, LOL.

XD CB!!!! This makes me LOL every time I see one of these edits you do!

Thank you!

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On Celia bunny site, I stated Celia bunny is at 90% accuracy due to her some part are too big, see it urself and notice it, also quote prefer Celia standing version ITEM #872816, also mention only die hard fan will order her...

So u will displayed Celia naked... well guess u can... but u not worry about people coming over and see her like that ???

My vision of Celia bunny is in her excellent original box sealed/unopen... brand NEW!!!
Just like when u see it at the store, so excited... ;p

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my thought is to have one celia bunny on displayed and one for seal/never open/Brand New, is the reason i want 2 Celia bunny