Happy New Year everybody! Hope you all celebrated the beggining of the new year properly. For me, it was all about family. It all started at round 8PM, we had a delicious dinner and then it was time for the annual tv shows, every channel has their own. We watched one, played some cards, saw a tiny bit of "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" and welcomed the new year together, with music and champagne. The new year is a great time to begin new things, it may be a new lifestyle, eating healthier or to stop smoking (cliché).

Whatever you decide it's time that you started with, I wish you the best of luck and may 2014 be the best year ever!

 

 

On Sunday my whole family and I were invited to my uncle Arturas and his wife Violeta. They have quite newly moved to a new house, so I think this was only the second time we were there. Their house is really big and beautiful. There's still a bit of renovating going on, but I guess that comes with the package. However, we had a really nice time there with delicious food and great company.

Here are some photos from then!

 

 

 

Hi guys! I'm once again back at my aunt's, a lot of travelling back and forth going on here.

Today, before getting to my aunt's, Milda, my aunt and I met with her cousin and my second cousin, Vida and Goda. My second cousin is 10 years old and she's incredibly cute! We went to the cinema to watch "Free Birds". It was such a funny and cute movie, I really liked it. After the movie we went to eat at this place called Delano, where they serve different traditional Lithuanian dishes, Basically, the movie was about how two turkeys went back in time to erase the tradition of eating turkey on Thanksgiving. Check out the trailer below!

Then we went to my aunt's place and here I am, just about to go to sleep. I will tell you more about yesterday tomorrow.

 

Sleep tight!

 

 

 

 

Here's my 2013 in pictures, all from Instagram. You can follow me at @rutamozuraityte .

 

 

 

Yet another day has begun, an especially fun and exciting day if your name is Ruta!

Today, at around 4 PM, my family, my aunt and I are going to a ballet. We're going to see Moscow City Ballet perform "The Nutcracker". Last year, we saw them perform "Swan Lake", which is one of my favourite plays, aswell as the one we're going to see today. So I'm really looking forward to it!

 

Today began with a morning walk with Seira and after that my aunt introduced my sister and I to a tv-show that she's watching. In Lithuanian it's called "The Magnificent Century". It's kind of like "Game of Thrones", but in Turkey. It's actually really interesting and my aunt thinks that I look like one of the actresses, and that's always fun.

 

Mom and dad will come home soon too, they were at an office party last night in an another town, that's why my sister and I stayed with my aunt. It was really nice actually, we watched "Hunger Games" and "A Few Best Men". The main character in the second movie is so handsome, I'm melting away...

 

Anyway, have a good day everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas everyone!

I'm soon heading to grandma and granpa again, this time my uncle and his wife will be there too. We will have a nice and big Christmas dinner, exchange gifts and spend some time together. It will be very nice!

 

Yesterday we celebrated Christmas Eve with my aunt. We had a nice traditional Lthuanian dinner, with diferrent kinds of herring, salads, cookies, nuts, and of course poppy milk with kuciukai. Yummy!

After dinner we received our gifts! It was so nice to spend this holiday with my aunt, though we usually spend it with my grandparents. Really fun!

 

Hope you guys had a great evening!

 

 

 

 

When celebrating Christmas, it's necessary to have some good music playing in the background, taking the atmoshpere to whole new levels. That's I've listed my favourite carols to make the season even more magical!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When it comes to Christmas carols, it's all old school for me. You won't find any new remixes in my playlist! Traditional songs, sung by old legends like Marilyn Monroe and Bing Crosby, or newly recorded by Michael Bublé (he's still able to keep that old sound in his songs).

 

Hope you liked them!

 

Hi everyone! I'm back, at least for a couple of days.

On Friday, we didn't do anything special, just stayed at home watching TV. Mom and sissie went to the hairdresser, and so did our cutiepie Seira. It's incredible how soft her fur gets after a trip to the pet salon! Also we went to this asian restaurant called "Mao", they serve some really delicius food there. One course that we chose was beef with mushrooms and bambu, and the other one was curry chicken. They were both delicious and we left the restaurant with pleased minds (and bellys).

After that me and Milda did some super quick shopping. I bought this beautiful lace peplum blouse in a teal color that I'm really happy about!

We ended the day with watching "Home Alone 3" all together, it was super cosy!

 

 

 

Yesterday it was once again time to pack for our Christmas trip to Lithuania. As always when I travel somewhere, I have the hardest time deciding what clothes to take with me! I lay everything out on my bed and then I kind of sort out what to pack and what to leave behind. But since I'm, at least in my opinion, pretty good at packing by now, I don't have such a hard time as others may have. 

Also, I had to write my film analysis on "Tristan and Isolde". Now that's a whole different story. I usually don't find it so complicated to write essays, but this time was somehow different. It started on Wednesday, when I started writing it. I sat at school for more than an hour,  and only came up with a few sentences. Yesterday it was really difficult to get started as well, but I finished it and sent it in before 11PM. To be honest, I don't know if I could've done it any better, even if I had a day extra. All I can do now is hope that it's enough. 

 

Anyway, now I'm on my way to Vilnius. I probably won't have internet until Monday, so a bigger update will come then. But I will still be posting some interesting things, so keep your eye on this blog!

 

 

 

 

Yep, it has happened again!

Sickness stroke me at around 2AM this morning, this time in form of an INCREDIBLE stomach ache, like nothing I've ever felt in my life. I laid there for probably an hour and the pain didn't go away. Because of it I couldn't move either, so I was unable to get some Ipren or something. Ugh, it was horrible. On top of that I had a headache and felt extremely nauseous.

I can still feel it a bit at the bottom of my stomach, but I seriously have to get out of bed now and start my day, with baby steps of course. I hope this isn't the famous winter flu, can't affford it to be. I have to finish my movie analysis and pack for tomorrow.

Ugh, just please go away, you stupid feeling!

 

 

 

Christmas is coming and for all you housewives out there, or just anyone who likes to bake, this is a great recipe to try out before the big holidays. It's a simple, yet delicious, cake with cranberries as the main flavor setter.

I will definately be trying this yummy creation out this winter!

 

 

 

 

First update at 1PM, "well done, Ruta!"

 

Today is such a boring day at school. Firstly we had not one, but two math exams. They're now both done and I'm not really sure how it went, to be honest. It was a C exam, which basically means that the hoghest grade you can get is C, but that didn't mean that it was easy, no no.

It was actually quite diffcult, but at least I answered all the questions, what's important now is that they're right!

What's left of the day now is Science class where we're supposed to start a project about energy (really smart there with only 3 days left of the term). It's nothing major, but it still affects your grade. It actually feels really unnecessary, but what can you do?

 

The only positive thing about today was supposed to be the meetup with Agnes, Bea and Anna that we were going to have after school, going for a coffee and exchanging presents. But now that Agnes is sick, it probably won't happen. I hope she gets well soon! So now I'll probably have to do homework instead of meeting up with friends, sigh...

 

Hope you guys have a better day than me!

 

 

 

Yesterday my family celebrated mini-Christmas. Since we're not home during almost whole Christmas break, we're not celebrating it with just our family. You could say that we celebrate Christmas 3 times, every time with different parts of the family. Therefore we've had this tradition since a couple of years ago.

Around a week before we leave for Lithuania we celebrate our own little Christmas. There are some "rules" about the presents. A person has to buy one gift for each member of our family, and the gifts aren't supposed to be big and pricy, just something small and cute that you can appreciate.

But before exchanging gifts we decorate the Christmas tree together while listening to Christmas carols. Pie is also on the menu, this year it was rabarber pie. Yummy!

 

 

 

 

Christmas is closing in being about a week away. This is often the time when people realize that they haven't bought all the presents and the panic is rising. All the stores are packed with people, there are hundreds on the streets and chaos is a fact.

But no worries!

Here below are some great ideas for those of you who don't have the energy to fight with three other persons over a pair of socks. Simply click the links and you'll come directly to the product.

It's in times like these we can be gratefull for shopping over the internet, it definately makes Christmas shopping a lot easier!

 

 

 

I remember when this happened about a year ago, on December 14th 2012. I was at home alone, waiting for the rest of the family to come home after some kind of event, when I read about this. It was so sad, I remeber watchign videos and live broadcasting, feeling horrible and crying rivers while seeing the poor parents waiting around the school. It was such a horrendous incident, a still get tears in my eyes just thinking about it.

So let's all take a moment to think about these poor children and adults that were the victims, and mention them in our prayers today.

May they rest in peace.

On the picture below you can see a makeshift memorial with crosses for the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre outside a home in Newtown, Connecticut.