December.

Happy December 1st, now it´s officially allowed to start waiting for the Christmas to come. Also, you can now start thinking what you want for Christmas. I would like to have snow, a lot of it, a bit of peace and quiet and good time with my family. Though this Christmas will be odd, the first one without Grandpa...

I also have to remind everyone that today is the World AIDS Day. According to UNAIDS there are estimated 33 million people living with the virus. Of course, the situation is worst in Africa, where the health care won´t help and too many children get infected. It´s not good. I really don´t want to judge, because people make mistakes and they have to live with the consequenses, but you know there are ways to prevent HIV. Even if you and I are negative, it doesn´t mean that saomething can´t happen. So please, prevent the virus from spreading by using a condom. It is called respect. Here is the rich west we know what to do, now I can just hope that people in Africa start to understand what it takes. I am wearing red today. How about you?

I do not know, maybe I should not bring this up today, but I feel like I need to. I want to write about same-sex marriages. Here in Finland a same-sex couple can register their relationship and have pretty much the same rights as man and woman have in a marriage. Though, the church isn´t that big on same-sex couples, I remember the "is it right or is it wrong" -talk when a couple got benediction. If I believed in some kind of God, I´d like to believe all He wants is to everyone to be happy, so why not allow same-sex couples get married and get same rights as man and woman couples get? And if they want to do it in front of the eyes of God, they should have the right to do so. Same-sex couplse still can´t adopt kids together here, even if the other one of the couple has a child, the other one has no legal rights to be a parent of the child. I think that is highly unfair and I really hope they get that thing fixed as soon as possible. But why am I writing about this? I read a heart-breaking story yesterday and had to check out this Prop 8 that passed in California while the world was celebrating the election of the first black president of USA.

I mean, people. You had already ok´ed the same-sex marriages and then you take it back. You cannot do that! This doesn´t affect me, I am straight and don´t live in California, but it still makes me sad. That people still won´t accept the fact that a love between two men or women can be just as pure as it can be between a man and a woman. Now I would like to know what you think of this. Should same-sex marriages be allowed and if not, then why? You know what I think, if it´s love, then of course. If you are against them, please tell me why. And I will not accept "they are not normal, it is not what God wanted" -kind of answers. I understand that some people have strong religious convictions and that affects their lives. I just can´t believe people in California aren´t tolerant. They were and suddenly they are not? What happened? It´s not like a gay marriage will be a threat to the "normal" marriage. If the love is strong enough, there shouldn´t be a threat. This just makes me sad. It´s all I can say.

And on with the football. It has finally sunk in that Gunners actually beat the shit out of Chelsea. Fine, they handed the one goal to the Blues (unfortunately), but otherwise they did pretty good job. Maybe the didn´t rule the entire match, but win is all that matters. And apparently Arsenal plays hell of a lot better against the big teams. Remember what happened to Man United? Yeah, me too. Van Persie was of course the man of the hour, two goals in less than five minutes. He might have been offside during the first (he was, but the flag was kept down), but the goal stands and that´s what matters. I was really happy at that point, thinking a draw will be great, but then came the second goal. Totally out of the blue (no pun intented) and there it lay, behind the back of Petr Cech. After that all i could think was that Gunners will fuck it up so bad, but they did not and left the pitch as the heroes they were. A fucking sweet victory.

Yes, RVP is back on track churning goals, but he wasn´t the only one doing great. I have to say, Almunia has been pretty good, if you do not count the situation that resulted the Chelsea goal. And Sagna, gosh, I didn´t realise how much they had missed him. He was once again awesome. And so was the second half Clichy. The captaincy has seemingly cheered Fabregas up, he is the magical wizard we know he is. And his 150th Premier League appearance, first as captain ending with a victory must have felt absolutely fabulous. Nasri was a bit out, but Ade back after injury was doing pretty well. They need to keep doing like this. The kids will be playing Burnley tomorrow. They have been amazing, and that is what I expect them to be again. We´ll see. Right now, I still want to celebrate. Beating the almost unbeateble Chelsea. A fine moment indeed.

I have excluded one item from my wishlist, it was never there and won´t be, because I want to assume I am getting the, now almost annual, boy calendar from Emmi. No pressure, but I´ll be bit disapointed if I don´t :D. And Dad promised to pay part of my camera, so now all I have to do is to decide which one I want to get.

I´ll be posting again soon. Until that, take care!

IWFT