Hello folks!
As you can probably tell, my username change has happened 
I am now MelkeinHallittuKaaos, which is Finnish and translates to NearlyContainedChaos. It’ll take a while to get used to seeing the new name at the top of the page after having had the last one for 6 years 
In other news, Halloween is slowly creeping up on us, and so I have a little campaign happening over on my Etsy page www.etsy.com/shop/CrochetCraft… from now until November 2nd: if you buy something for over €10 (about $11.25 USD) from my shop and use the coupon code “HALLOWEEN10,” you’ll get 10% off of the purchase! 
With October starting, I will for the first time attempt to do the Inktober challenge, one ink drawing every day. I’ll be posting them on my Instagram daily ( www.instagram.com/nearly_conta… ), and I’ll either post all of them here afterwards, or just my favorites of the ones I did, I’ll have to see how many of them actually turn out good
Lastly, here’s a meme I was tagged to do
It's been a long while since I did one of these, and now I was tagged by NightWonder7, so let's do it!
RULES:
1. You have to post ALL the Rules.
2. Each person has to share 13 things about themselves.
3. Answer 13 questions asked to you and invent 13 questions the people you tag will have to answer.
4. Tag 13 people. (if you can)
5. Tag-backs are ALLOWED.
6. YOU MUST MAKE A JOURNAL ENTRY
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13 things about me:
1) I'm not a morning person in the slightest. I prefer going to bed at around 3-4 AM and waking up accordingly after noon 
2) I'm constantly coming up with characters and stories, but I never actually write them down 
3) I'm extremely easily creeped out by things. It doesn't even have to be a particularly scary thing, and I will still have trouble falling asleep later 
4) I hate showering. I love feeling clean afterwards and all that, but I'm always putting it off if I can
5) I'm in art college but I doubt I'll actually end up working with art. Maybe as a little side thing, but not full-time.
6) I don't really drink soda, or eat potato chips or such, but I do consume massive amounts of chocolate 
7) As a kid I was always taught not to swear, so I never swear in my native language (Finnish), but when I speak English I swear all the time. (And watching Jacksepticeye videos is not helping.) 
8) I have a long term plan of getting a whole sleeve made up from separate smaller tattoos. I just need to save up some monies and gather some courage to get started on it
9) I don’t like talking on the phone in general, but I’m absolutely terrified of calling people I don’t know. Probably the hardest thing I ever had to do was to call people to find an apartment when I was moving out. Terrifying. Terrifying, I tell ya! 
10) I’d love to be an old-school housewife taking care of the house (minus the kids, don’t want kids) while the hubby works outside the home. Now excuse me while I go and hide from all the feminazis that want to shoot me for saying that
11) I like both cats and dogs, but I’m definitely more of a dog person.
12) I absolutely suck at any type of improvisation-based game. Heck, even coming up with facts and answers for this meme is taking me foreeeever, ‘cause I’m just so bad at this But seriously, don’t make me improvise anything. Please. For the love of fuck, just don’t.
13) I used to hate tea, and now I absolutely love it. I suppose British friends will do that to you
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13 questions to answer:
1) How is a typical Friday's night for you?
Just chilling by myself, eating chocolate, and watching YouTube videos, drawing, or video chatting with my fiancé Preferably all of those at once
2) Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
Definitely introvert, a pretty extreme one too I don't like parties or anything of the sort, and while I do enjoy hanging out with my friends every once in a while, I'm completely fine just staying by myself without seeing anyone for weeks
3) Is it mostly warm or cold where you live?
This is Finland, so Imma say cold. Well, to me it seems like most of the year is neither, it's just sort of chilly and rainy and bleh most of the time
4) Which fictional character would you like to meet the most? What would you do together?
Oooh, this is a tough one. There are so many fictional characters I'd like to meet... characters from books, mostly. Ooh, actually, I'd like to meet my own character, Duusq. He's got a dragon, it'd be great to hang out with him, discuss dragons and stuff 
5) Do you have a job? If so, what is it?
I don't currently have a job, still studying. I've worked with gardening as a summer job a few years though. I don't like it. But getting a better summer job would require contacting people... nope.
6) Where is your dream destination?
Another good one; my go-to destination whenever someone asks me is Canada, obviously, 'cause my fiancé lives there, but other than that there are several places I'd like to travel; Australia for one, I'm not even sure why exactly, it just seems cool It'd also be cool to travel around Finland a bit more, I've never really been around Finland a lot. Lapland would be cool
7) Do you use Fahrenheit, Celsius or Kelvin?
Celsius for the win! 
8) What is/was your favorite subject at school?
I always loved History and Religion, always found it fascinating. In college I did love Psychology, but the tests were soooo tough =__= Somehow I managed to get a decent grade in the matriculation exam in Psychology, I don't know how I did that
9) Describe yourself in 5 words.
Ech, I don’t like describing myself in only a few words, ‘cause I find it so hard to label myself as anything specific
- asocial
- creative
- lazy
- friendly
- music lover (*le gasp* it’s two words!)
I have a feeling that I should’ve given this one slightly more thought. Oh well 
10) Do you have any phobias? If so, what kind?
Social phobia most likely Possibly arachnophobia? (Yeah, it's a cliché, everyone and their mum is afraid of spiders according to the internet, but seriously, I will completely freak out if there's a big spider in my room). Also I’m scared of being outside in the countryside when it’s dark, though I don’t know if that counts as a phobia, or if it's just part of my general paranoia
11) Are you going to dress up for Halloween? If so, what are you going as?
Oh yes! I love Halloween, and finally I'm in a place with people who actually celebrate it So now the question is, who should I dress up as. Right now my main alternatives are Sweeney Todd (but I did that last year, so ech), Heath Ledger’s Joker (been that too), Jane Lane from Daria (which seems a bit boring ‘cause Jane dresses the way I would dress on a normal day), or Willow from Don’t Starve. I’ve got almost a month to decide, maybe I’ll just do one each day the week before Halloween or something
12) What is your favorite thing to drink?
Let's see: water, milk, tea, and ice tea. I like a lot of drinks
13) What are you most proud of about yourself?
Hmmm... I tend to be proud of myself for the stupidest little things, just stuff like doing the laundry before running out of clean underwear or socks, or actually properly tidying my desk or somesuch I do always feel proud of myself whenever I make a piece of art that people like, or give a home-made gift to someone and they really like it
So, that was that; I won’t be tagging anyone or coming up with questions to be answered (see Fact 12), but this was fun to do
Hope you’re all having a nice autumn so far!
Minna
She had been with us for almost exactly 12 years, we got her in August 2004. I want to draw/make some sort of tribute to her at some point, but we'll see when I get around to it, with school just having started I probably won't have time to do anything proper for her for a while. Thought I'd mention this here though.
