My two favorite things to wear

What are your two favorite things to wear?

In jewelry

It is this old family ring that has been past down generations in family. I have spoken about previously it’s almost 300 years old. It has been only wore 5 men before me and I’m only woman who has been given the right to wear the ring. Getting it was such a honor. Not only because of the history it has been in the family but also the history that the ring has been apart of. Including the 4 wars it has been wearing in during the war years or in the actual battlefields at the war. And previous ring wearer Felix was at the opening of the Eiffel Tower in Paris France. Felix was part and helping for different country at the 1889 World’s Fair. The ring does really has had been through history.

Second favorite jewelry is this tiger eye pendant that was gift from my mom’s biological father’s side family. It has been something I have mostly wearing since I was 9 years old.

Clothes

It is all about what feels good to wear and comfortable. Like home I like to wear long black skirts and black spaghetti strap tank top. Those are my favorite things to wear. With clothes it is all about what feels good and what I like. I have never been someone who follows fashion trends. Plus I’m goth so all my clothes has been only black since I was 13 years old. Even with gothic clothes it is all about what feels comfortable.

With love C.F. Grönroos

Creator of the Mysteries by Rose

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The oldest cats turn 14 years old

These two boys are 14 years old today

Garfield and Tiger were the first forster kittens where fostering went wrong in a good way. Actually the best way. Since they never left. They are only cats that have been since their birth. So it has been now 14 years living with these two boys. They are the oldest of the seven rescue cats. Rest of the cats has come from few weeks old to 5 months old. Still no regrets keeping them or the rest of the seven. I could not imagine my life without all of them. But this post is about the oldest two.

Garfield is named after two cartoon cats because his personality was so much both of them. The obvious one Garfield and from Disney’s animated Cinderella movies the stepmother’s cat Lucifer. Because Garfield is mix of both. But moment he is outside his comfort zone he is the biggest coward. As he is Siberian cat he is the most difficult one of all the cats. Now he is just mean old cat who spends mostly sleeping. He can be sweet when he wants or when he wants something usually red meat or raw chicken. The age starts to show in him.

Tiger is the sweet boy he is just normal shorthair tabby cat. He is friendly and loves affection. And he is one of the few cats that comes to meet guest. Rest of cats are invisible. Lol Tiger isn’t the smartest cat but he has big heart and is so loving. Still thinks he is cute small kitten. Little bit goofy. Age doesn’t yet show so much in Tiger.

I can’t believe it has been 14 years already with these two. It doesn’t feel like it. I’m so happy that it has been so long already. And each day, week, month and year more will be a blessing. We can’t ever know how long we have with our pet’s when we get them. Sometime it is just short time. These two it has now been 14 years. How many more no idea? But I’m happy to have as long as I can with both.

With love C.F. Grönroos

Creator of the Mysteries by Rose

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Heart that refuses to break

Broken glass inside my heart

Won’t cut like it used to

Cracks run through it

It is a heart that is covered in scars

Yet nothing can make it break or shatter

No matter how much pain and damage

It has endured

It still beats

After everything it will still beat

And not giving up

It turns all the pain and hurt

Into a strength

That can’t be taken away

No matter how much you did try to

It didn’t let you break it

You kept making me feel so unwanted

So unworthy of love

Tried to dim my shine

Whatever to make me feel less

So you could feel yourself being better than me

But you clearly did think

That I was stuck inside your trap

That I could never leave

But I walked out your life

Even through the fire

Like I was unstoppable

Phoenix rising from the flames

That in the end I was diamond

And each cut just made it more beautiful

The heart that refuses to break 

C.F. Grönroos ©             

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Never waiting for you

I just can’t stop laughing

You really did think

That I was waiting for you

I know I shouldn’t laugh

But did you seriously think

I would be still waiting on you?

Don’t you hear how ridiculous that is?

That after everything I would wait for you?

 You know what you did

And now you think

You can come back like nothing happened?

And everything will be like it used to be

I’m sorry but I have news for you

It won’t

I was never waiting for you

I will never wait for you

Seriously never

I moved on

And you have been dead to me

All this time

So go haunt someone else

Here is nothing for you

There is no place in my life

That you could get back

Did think that I would put a stop on my life?

And wait for you?

Never

My life went on

Now there is nothing where I used to be

Because I did find life somewhere else

You did wake up too late 

I’m already gone

And never coming back to you

So don’t cry for me

Because I have found my happiness without you

Not waiting for you was the best decision

C.F. Grönroos ©             

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Keeper of secrets

No I don’t have skeletons on my closet

Sometimes it’s hard to remember

Do I even have any secrets of my own anymore?

Because I have cemetery full of other people’s secrets

Locked away from prying eyes

It’s not a small cemetery

Only I know what is buried there

 And by who

But no one else has the access

To any of it

Some secrets are small and innocent

Even really sweet

Does someone really like someone specific?

What secret feelings they might be hiding

Especially from everybody else around them

But not from me

Knowing fully well

I’ll keep it all as a secret

It is safely buried

Where no prying eyes can ever get to

Where gossiping gravediggers won’t ever find it either

Because there is only one who can walk there

 And know what was buried where

The tombstones have no names

Hiding even more what lies beneath

To hide especially those darker secrets

That is buried so deep

The ones even I didn’t ever want to know

Yet I’m stuck with keeping them

Wanted or not

I’m the keeper of secrets

Good or bad

This is just a part of my destiny

Keep them safe and hidden from the world

In this invisible cemetery of secrets

Where is always a night

That is never ending just like the shadows

Between the trees and endless rows of gravestones

Cemetery of secrets doesn’t ever have blue skies and sunshine

It is a beautiful dark paradise under a full moon

That only keeper of the secrets can find it

C.F. Grönroos ©             

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It was never love  

How can love turn one so blind?

Not to see how love can turn into something so sick and twisted

The mad love

The bad love

While dancing on the edge of madness 

You murdered parts of my heart and soul

And I killed parts myself for you top of that

Because for love

Nothing was high enough price

It was love…

But it really wasn’t

I just could not see it

Because I believed your lies

Especially the biggest ones

How you loved me and could not live without me 

The madness was trying to take me down  

And because my love for you

I almost let it

More than once

I don’t even know how many times

I was losing my mind

Losing my heart

Losing my soul

Almost lost everything

Just because I fell in love with a wrong person

Because I believed in your lying words

How much you loved me

It was all just dark side of true love

But the black decaying heart of yours

Could never love

How many times you told me

That without me you could not live

And I could not leave because of that

So I stayed years until I saw the truth

It was never love

Since it wasn’t love there were no reasons for me to stay

 And sacrifice everything for love  

C.F. Grönroos ©             

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700th post

Technically 701th post

Because I didn’t notice that the last post was the 700th. Last one of these post were 3th of August 2025 so time for me to stop and looked at the numbers again. This time keeping the post short since I’m not feeling well. Nothing more serious than slight concussion from yesterday. Again… I’m walking accident. Lol

Growth in numbers

Numbers back 100th post were 912 views, 425 visitors and 503 likes

Numbers back 200th post were 2573 views, 1422 visitors and 1552 likes

Numbers back 300th post were 4730 views, 2816 visitors and 2853 likes

Numbers back 400th post reminder I started from zero start of the year 375 views, 248 visitors and 270 likes

Numbers back 500th post were 2093 views, 1390 visitors and 1473 likes

Numbers back 600th post were 3843 views, 2458 visitors and 2747 likes

Numbers now 5821 views, 3500 visitors and 3943 likes

All-time stats 12842 views, 7563 visitors and 8099 likes. Total words 286034.

For both the views and visitors I’m -7% from last year. So it looks like I’m end up similar numbers for my blog this year as I get last year.

Like always the biggest thank you goes my fantastic readers

Especially for my subscribers. Big thank you! You make this little corner of internet so wonderful place that I love. Thank you for all the other readers as well. I love this blog and right now I can’t ever see myself stop writing here. Because how positive and nice it is to share my writings. Thank you all making my blog my favorite place to be online. Lot of love for everyone and have wonderful day or evening.

With love C.F. Grönroos

Creator of the Mysteries by Rose

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Learning waiting is sometimes just…

It’s a hard lesson in life

Learn that waiting

Is sometimes just wasting time

For something…

Or someone

That was never worth it

That in life shouldn’t be afraid

Of what might end up face in life

Instead being afraid staying in wrong places

Way too long

Afraid to get stuck

Especially get stuck with wrong people

Because that is even worse waste of time

Waste of everything

Because it’s always more than just time

That we all end up wasting

Losing the precious time for wrong people

 Time that can’t be get back

And I have had enough of that

I don’t have much time to waste anyway

Now I’m ready to just walk away

From anything

That doesn’t bring anything good in my life

No matter what or who I need to leave behind

Now it’s a time to find my way

 Pick a road that is mine

No matter what I have to face

No longer staying where it doesn’t feel right

Take a leap of faith

To find the place I belong

And stop waiting and wasting time

C.F. Grönroos ©             

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When story comes into a dream

Usually it is other way around for me

My dreams and especially my nightmare inspire my stories and give me new story ideas. But today it was story that I’m already working on creating that did come into my dreams. Waking up and start immediately writing down to my phone’s note app the most important parts from the dream. That I won’t forget it. So now I have new things add for this story. That I wasn’t even thought in the first place. So thankful for my dream.

But still the dream was more into a nightmare territory. But considering what this spin-off story is about it was very fitting. Dream about shallow grave in woods that victim’s sister visit after victim had been found. Quite heavy topic and emotions in the dream. Plus the forest was little bit darker side and the open shallow grave didn’t help with it. But now I have the perfect mental image I can use in my writing.

I need to make a bigger writing update some point

Because there are so many new things related to the my rock star book series. All these new parts that I have added. Including this new spin-off story. That is related to new side plot for book 3 of a first rock star book series.

But I need to first write down and organize all these stories way it makes sense to others. Because this story world is just growing bigger and bigger. There will be all these new shorter story parts now. It is safe to say I’m still super inspired and the inspiration is not stopping. And now these stories apparently are coming into my dreams. lol

With love C.F. Grönroos

Creator of the Mysteries by Rose

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Family’s top 3 favorite meals

What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals?

There’s so many…

It’s hard to think only 3. Especially since my mom is professional chef and then there is her grandmother’s Lyyli centuries old family recipes to choose. And my own recipes. So to find only three isn’t easy. But I decided to choose top one from all of us three recipes.

Top 3

There are so many super delicious foods but unfortunately this writing prompt is for 3 only. So that is the 3 that I choose today. Even though the Honey-Chilli Chicken is already little bit cheating since I said all 16 ways to cook it. But I could not choose only one way over the rest. I love them all. Lol It is just too good and versatile.

With love C.F. Grönroos

Creator of the Mysteries by Rose

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