WHAT?!

When is a person an adult? What's the age limit? Is there such thing?

I am driving myself crazy trying to figure out my life. At 23, I'm going through some kind of a phase... Kind of trying to be young again. Well, I'm still young, but you know what I mean, right? When I was a teenager, I didn't have any major crises, I actually knew what I wanted. I read a lot, was doing well at school, never ditched a class.. okay, once I ditched P.E in High School, but I felt really guilty about it. 

Now I feel like I'm a little lost. Maybe not so little. A lot. Like, really lost.

So when does one have to have one's life in order?

Clearly, since I'm asking those questions, I haven't reached the magical stage of adulthood. It makes me feel a bit better about myself, like I still have time. That I don't have to have a perfect plan. Because the truth is, I really don't have one. I don't think I ever did. Just an idea, maybe. I'm not one of those people who have their 5-year- and 10-year- plans. Sure, in five years I'd love to have a safe, permanent job. Maybe be married. 

But I've always wanted to travel and see the world before I settle down. I've been lucky enough and have seen a lot already. But an opportunity has presented itself and I might have a whole new life ahead of me. Emphasis on the word might. It might or might not happen, but I'm hoping it will, even though I'm not quite sure how I feel about it, yet. I know it's irritating to say something like this and then not say anything else, but sorry, it's what I'm going to do. But I promise, when I know more, you know more. It shouldn't be more than a couple of months. 

I hope you all have a nice Saturday. I will leave for work in an hour! 

byyeee!

-iira

Germany

Last Saturday I traveled to Germany to visit my friend, S. We met last fall in Portland, Oregon, where I was volunteering at the Children's Museum and S was doing an internship. We clicked instantly and became great friends. S visited me in Finland a couple months ago, and now I had the chance to visit her. 

Bremen City Hall

I love windmills!

Brunch at Alex, in Hamburg.

Hamburg City Hall

I had a great time in Germany. This was actually the first time that I went to Germany just to go to Germany. Once I got stuck there due to problems with flight schedules and ended up driving from Frankfurt to Amsterdam for another flight with my family. It's funny how after years of only traveling to the USA, traveling to Germany didn't even feel like I was abroad. There are so many similarities all over Europe, I guess that was it. But I loved it :) I don't speak German, even though I studied it for three years once. S was an excellent translator, though! 

I flew to Bremen, then went to Cloppenburg, Hamburg and Vechta. I was excited to drive 200km/hr (125miles/hr) and just have a break from everything at home. Sometimes it's good to have a little getaway and remind yourself there's so much more to life than just work and everyday routines. 

Having five days off from work has its toll, too... I will be working for the next four weekends. Maybe even a couple more after that, who knows? It was totally worth it, though. 

TGIF, right? Not for me ;)

xoxo

Iira

Third time's the charm

Heeyy everyone :)

I am very excited to be launching this new lifestyle blog of mine, and hope you will like it as much as I do! I'm not new to blogging, but kind of lost interest a while back. Recently I've been longing to return and decided to start fresh. 

I'll start by telling you a little bit about myself.

My name is Iira, and I'm from Finland. I'm 23, going on 24, and absolutely love writing, reading, drawing... everything creative. I'm into fashion, but it won't be the main focus of this blog. Mostly I want to keep things interesting and blog about different things, all the while trying not to make too big of a mess out of this. But hey, this blog is called Sweet Mother of Chaos, so I'm thinking I might as well live up to it, right? ;) I am, like the name suggests, a bit of a chaotic person. I'm not neat, not organized, and often take on projects I did not think through. I like it when it's a little cluttered around me, and prefer to spend my days off doing things I love instead of forcing myself to do something awful... like cleaning, ugh. 

One of my biggest passions in life is traveling, and that will surely have a huge role in this blog. I actually just got back from Germany yesterday, and plan on doing a post about it soon. Here's a little sneak peek:

Got these from Hamburg! AH! So in love with them, my first pair of Converse shoes! <3 Needless to say, I'm an America-fan ;) It's basically my other home. 

I don't want to bore you, since it's my first post and all, so I'm just going to wrap it up for now, and hope that you'll follow me and leave comments :) I take requests and feedback of any kind, because I'm not only writing this for me, I want to write it for you, too. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Iira