Just throwin' in my 2cents - those Amish hairpins ARE the greatest!  And I've only had one group order from LHC go bad, but it was rectified quickly.

*can't wait new, improved hairpins* I don't use hairpins that often these days- but when I need them, they are invaluable!

As for my secret pear cake recipe, I suppose it takes mostly a bit calculating from your part as I'm using Metric system (and am so lame in math that I'm a terrible converter)   . I suppose my secret is safe enough if it's known only at the other side of the world   .

Anyway, if you want to try, here is the recipe. Let me know if you experiment with it!

Pear cake

2 eggs
2 dl sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 pear
1 dl pear juice
1 tsp baking powder
2 ½ dl wheat flour
75 g butter

1. Turn the oven on (175 deg C), cut the pear into small cubes and melt the butter. Grease the baking tin and flour it with bread crumbs.
2. Whip eggs and sugar light. Add cinnamon, vanilla sugar and pear cubes.
3. Combine flour and baking powder and mix this into the dough as well as melted butter and pear juice.
4. Pour the dough into the baking tin.
5. Bake for approx. 40 minutes.
Note: the resulting cake is rather moist. I don't know how long it lasts storage- at my home it's about 1 evening.


*disclaimer: online dictionary was used in several places. If the recipe sounds really weird at some point use common sense and blame the dictionary.   *

*rofl* Actually, that's what my butter looked last night- I warmed it in microwave but the lid of the bowl wasn't tightly enough on and "exploded". Result looked a bit like volcano erupt. But, thanks for correcting. I modified the post. 

I knew that web dictionary would make me say something funny. 

It just wasn't what I meant... I always imagine that my English is fairly good...until I notice that at some areas my vocabulary is badly restricted. But, it's improving all the time. 

MT hairsticks have arrived! I got my first design that has lacquered bamboo sticks, and am impressed.  They look great and are very smooth. Finally I have a nice black pair! Two more pairs were of wood, that I sanded. One has tigereye gems- I'm wearing that pair right now. The other has serpentine jade beads, being a nice and simple pair. My minimalist season should come some time soon, and this pair is just perfect for that.

Last night was a hairwashing day. I dusted (splits are creeping back!), did just simple SBV wash, and oiled in the morning. I wanted to do a simple wash to see exactly my hairs' condition. After all, it's soon been a year since I joined longhair boards. I was very happy with I saw- my hair looks really the healthiest it has ever been! 

No need to worry, BB, you didn't sound like criticizing and have absolutely no need to apologize.  The translation was too funny- just what I expected from an online dictionary (and too true with what just happened in my baking just a bit earlier).
     I'm just a perfectionist and like to correct little things. It helps me to remember them in future.  And I think it's healthy for me to get reminded every now and then that I still need to continue my efforts to improve my skills. I know I'm pretty good- but there's always a chance to improve. I find that inspiring. 
     It's nice to be able to communicate in two languages (in fact, many people I know can express themselves well in three or four). As languages, Finnish and English are very different, and quite often, things are expressed differently. For example, English uses different pronouns for male and female people, while Finnish has just one word that is used for both. On the other hand, "please" that has quite obvious function in English, is missing completely from Finnish- we may use other expressions in its place, but more often we don't use anything (and it's still considered as polite if the tone of voice is nice).
Many little things like these combined lead to big and thought-provoking differences. Ludwig Wittgenstein said that boundaries of language are boundaries of world, and I find that to be so true. Knowing languages makes the world seem much wider.

I feel more dead than alive- 7 hour intensive meeting does that to a person!  My job is a dream, but there's just so much of it! But, at least things went a bit forward, and a better world is a bit nearer.

Hair has been all the day in a cinnabun with my new Tigereye hairsticks. They're soooooo cool. After the meeting, I went to do a bit shopping. I didn't find another Body Shop full size wooden comb, but I found a nice wooden pocket-sized comb. I bought it, so I have a nice comb with me on days like this. I also found a nice carved leather barrette from Glitter. I love the look of leather barrettes, though it seems that my hair needs to grow a bit before I can use one to make nice updos.

Headgames sent a strange email saying that part of my order has been shipped. They didn't tell though, which part.  I guess I'll see that soon though- their shipping is quite fast. I'm hoping that rest of the order won't take long either.

I made a last minute adjustment to my Amish pin order- I realized that I could use also some 2" pins. I hope I wasn't too late with that.

Phew. I'll check rest of the threads tomorrow. Too tired right now.

You read it all?!  Wow! Even I haven't done that for a long time.

Hee hee...Swedish sounds funny. Here it's compulsory to study Swedish at school all the way to university level. So I guess I could say that I know Swedish, but as I never need it anywhere, my skill is quite passive- I understand much, but can't really communicate very well. When I visit Sweden, I always use English. Finlandssvensk that I have learned is actually a dialect of Swedish, and sounds very different from Rikssvensk that is spoken in Sweden. I can hardly understand that!
But, even those Finns whose tongue is Swedish, know Finnish well and usually speak that when Finnish-speakers are around, so there aren't much chances to practice.

Hair growing requires definitely patience (see my ticker...) but in terms of things I've learned and condition of my hair, I've made tremendous progress. 
I didn't know much about anything when I joined, and my hair was for most part a mystery to me. And, I had no idea how eventful my hairlife would be- I think I've entered something here almost every day.

Then to today's news:

Biggest one first: it finally happened! The thing I've been waiting for months! I managed to order two pairs of the amazing new Futuristix!  I've been wanting more hairsticks in that style ever since I got Rose pair- they work so well even in slippery hair and look so like me.
I was so amazed when I saw that Rapunzel had made the stix right in the colors I've been looking for. I couldn't have found more fitting stix if I had custom ordered them. I'm sooooooo happy.  .[/ramble]
   
    We decided to go to sauna yesterday, as this weekend there's a rock festival that messes our schedule. T has a ticket for both today and tomorrow, and I have a ticket for tomorrow. So, no good sauna time. I washed my hair with honey beer & egg+ improved ACV rinse. It was still wet when we went to bed, and even in the morning when I unbraided my hair, it was still a bit damp. My hair may noot look amazingly long, but it has already achieved long drying time.
I'm wearing it now in a bun with Mei Fa's- wanted to wear just something nice and simple. I've needed to fiddle them a bit, but otherwise they're doing pretty good job in holding my VCHD hair.

My Sweet Basil soap is almost gone- what a great excuse to order more of lovely Chagrin Valley soaps!

I ordered:Chocolate Almond soap
               Cucumber Lime Yoghurt soap
               Honey Butter soap
               Lavender Oatmeal Spice soap
               Sweet Basil soap

               Lavender& Spice shampoo bar

All full size.
Ok...I got a bit carried away when making the order.    But, my skin loves CC's soaps and I'm sure that I've used them in no time. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking with it. 

Weather is still tropical- very damp and quite warm. Forecast says that today we might get thunder. I'm taking today easy- I'm going to have a lunch with my mother that I haven't seen for a while, then do some work stuff and bake cookies. Hair gets to spend the day in a scarf bun.
  I enjoyed walking a lot yesterday in spite the rain- but my old knee injury didn't like it as much as the rest of me, and my knee got really sore last night. It's better now, but I think I'm wise if I take it easy today. I had almost forgot that knee problem's existence- it hasn't bothered me in Ages. It's a knee I broke when I was skating as a kid, and after that it has been "weather sensitive", hurting when rainy weather is coming. During my teenage years it was quite troublesome at times, but it has gotten better and better since then. But, I rested it last night and am going to walk only a little today- I hope it'll be enough to make it happy again.