Yesterday Tim and I both received identical letters from the Court of Central Finland.
I freaked. I used "Google Translator" to see what happened as I noticed there was a date for April 1/10 written on there and that was it.
I was under the incorrect impression it was a request for a paternity test (which is required for those couples who's child(ren) are born out of wedlock (aka they're not married)). I had no idea why April 1 was a significant date, as V�in� will be 5 months on the 3rd. So I was quite confused.
According to Google Translate (which is absolutely awful by the way) many words were not translated but the ones that were stuck out.
"Bailiff, Man must sign, Man, Court of Central Finland, Summoned, By April 1/2010..." etc.
So the first thought was "paternity test"? Because we're still trying to prove our marriage. Sigh. Enough of that - you've all heard about our troubles.
Anyways I'm freaking out - not because of any doubt - but because I have no idea what to do and we (Tim and I) disagree with having a court-mandated paternity test. A friend, Kikka, explains it's just a signing of a document saying that yes - Tim is the father. (According to her friends). I'm like oh - that's a "paternity test"?!
So today I was to meet with Kikka around 2:30 but got there early and had V�in� wrapped to my chest with the green "curtain" I got at the baby exhibition. I chose not to wear a winter coat as it was 4*C or so - and with a thick sweater and V�in� attached - I was quite warm! When I got there - I bumped into Susanna and explained the document I received. She looked at it and called the court house and found out that they have come to a decision about a piece of mail we received ages ago.
We got someone else's mail listed for "Saunakatu 1c, 27". But our street has went under a name change awhile ago (prior to us coming to Finland) and the building number has changed from a 1 to a 7 as well. Which we didn't know about until the post lady told us when we returned the mail.
Why we have to go to court for this decision - blows my mind. So what do we do for future mail that isn't ours? Who knows. I mean one of these days it could be something really important and we'll get called to court about it? Stupid really - but interesting nonetheless.
My other thought was that someone from back home was trying to sue us for who knows what.
Onto other news. I had bought bananas recently and normally I just get about 3-4 Chiquita Jr. bananas as the store I sometimes go to doesn't have Chiquita bananas. Anyways - Tim bought the bananas last time (not that I have a preference - but anyways) and he got regular bananas.
This morning and yesterday too, I mashed up some regular Chiquitas and fed some to V�in� and he spat it out. No idea why.
Then I had a bite of the regular banana and realized that it's not as sweet (it doesn't taste bad by any means) as the Jr. bananas.
So - Chiquita Jr. are sweeter bananas and smaller but more expensive than the regular Chiquita bananas.
I introduced V�in� to prunes in a jar. I normally dislike the thought of having to feed V�in� food from a jar because of how long it's been on the shelf (who knows what is in it!), the salt and sugar levels and I like cooking - so why not take the extra step and make it myself? He really enjoys them.
V�in� dislikes eggs (hardboiled then mashed or over easy), carrots, mango pieces...so far so good.
Oh and a few more things.
Today I was on the hunt for stationary. I love this stuff and was sick of writing on blank white paper or lined paper from a notebook I'll need in the future...so! I went downtown and looked around after hanging out with Kikka. No luck at the book store or the 2 art stores downtown. So I will try the post office tomorrow - I know they sell it - I just didn't think of it.
Anyways - downtown in the city center, there are no vehicles allowed (except bikes/emergency vehicles, taxis and people who live in the center (above the shops) that are leaving or entering their parking lot). So onto the exciting part. I saw a bunch of people standing about and then saw a Police vehicle (they mostly drive paddy-wagons here) parked outside of the book store and Sokos and two officers patting down two people and going through each and every pocket of their pants (like cargo pants)...no idea what they did but I must've missed something while in a different shop!
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