Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all!

We're going to do some work in the laundry room today. Move the washing machine and put the tumble drier on top of it so that we can continue with our modifications there.

I've got the books that I need for my English courses. Got them used for about half price - which was good. I'm looking forward to starting, which will be in about a week.

The moon

I took this picture of the moon when I came home from work today. Pretty cool, isn't it?

Missing the girls

We took the girls to the farm yesterday and left them there, since we were going to this company Christmas do last night. And we miss our girlies :'( But we or one of us will go and pick them up later on, Bob is doing his paper round right now and I'm studying.

This Christmas do was a waste of time as I think we both knew it was going to be, not long after 9 o'clock we were both almost falling asleep! We were home between 10 and half past 10, both exhausted! But we thought that we should go, we don't often go to company things.

But it'll be good to get the girls back home. And I bet they'll be happy with the gifts we got them yesterday :)

Christmas decorations

The window is Píla's place (or one of them). It took her a couple of days to accept the crap that I put there but now she's OK with it as you can see.

Skirt finished - knitting that is

I finished the knitting part of the skirt last night and my dear husband gave it a ten out of ten :) And I have to say that even now, before I hide all the ends and wash it and get it all ready, it looks pretty good :) Now I'm taking a knitting pause until after the exam, which is on Wednesday. After that I can do the vest and Heiða's other vest and the wrist warmers for the girls and whatnot. Cool!

Indy!

I've sent off the things I was making for Heiða. Sent the parcel off yesterday, she should get it around mid next week I hope. She's going to get me a pair of boots in return, these to be exact. Then we also ordered the Indiana Jones collection, with all the Indiana Jones movies.

Since I've finished Heiða's knitting I've started something for myself. Got wool yesterday, for two items, vest and a skirt and it only cost around three thousands. That's not bad.

I'm taking the girls to the farm after their judo practice today. We're going to make laufabrauð and Kristín Lára says she's going to feed the lambs some hay. We're probably staying over night, it'll be good practice for the girls since they'll be staying there with their grandparents next weekend.

My new sewing machines

I've just bought a "new" sewing machine. For a long time I've wanted to have an old Singer sewing machine and now I've stumbled across one, in an antique shop down town. It doesn't work but it's beautiful. It's 90 years old. A couple of weeks ago I also got my late great aunties old Lada sewing machine. I'm not sure how old that one is, probably from around 1940. They are so pretty and I am so happy with them both :) Here is the rest of the pictures of them.

"Ást á rauðu ljósi"

Last weekend there was a town festival here in Akureyri and they changed all the red traffic lights according to the theme!

Bread

A few weeks ago I got a recipe for bread with no flour, no yeast and no sugar. I've made it a few times and it is very, very good. Thought I'd post a picture of it.

The morning snuggle

Kristín Lára usually wakes up way before her sister. If Píla is in here when Kristín Lára comes down stairs, they have a sit down and snuggle on the sofa. Here they are having their morning snuggle, both seem very happy with life.

On the farm with Anna

The girls and I took Anna to the farm on Saturday. It was quite wet but we still took her down to the waterfall - and we got wet of course! Here are more pictures.

"No, he's an old man"

Bob was teasing the girls just now. "Who wants a slapped ass?" he said, and Sólveig Lilja said no to all his suggestions (she, her sister, both her parents and the cat). Then he asked "does afi want a slapped ass?" ("afi" = grandfather), and the answer was "no, he's an old man". Man, did that make us laugh!

We went to the farm yesterday morning to "help" feed the sheep. We were back around noon, we've done this a few times now, go there early in the morning and come back around lunch, and it is quite nice.

I had my exams last week, the first one, human recourses, was OK, the other one, finances, was horrible. I guess I'm going to have to resit that one - although I do not want to do that. But that's probably better than sit another course.

I've been calling my cousins, Kári's (my mother's elder half-brother) sons about the family reunion in June. It's been fantastic to talk to them, I've never talked to any of them before, and the major purpose of this family reunion, is to get to know them. I've made the first step in doing that by talking to them all, and it's been very good. All five of them seem to be very nice men.

Home, sweet home

It's good to be home! I had a flight home at 18:30 last night but because of strong winds, all flights yesterday, until early yesterday evening, were canceled. So after work I just went back to Hrefna and Þór's place and sat there, talking to them, when I got a text message saying departure was at 19:15. That was just after six and I grabbed something to eat and then left. The flight wasn't any bumpier than any other and the landing was one of the smoothest landings I've ever experienced! We landed around 8 o'clock and Bob and the girls were there to pick me up. The girls were pretty glad to see me, Sólveig Lilja insisted on holing my hand saying "I want to have you" which coming from her means that she wants me to be with her. They were pretty tired though since they are normally in bed around 8 o'clock, so it didn't take them long to fall asleep.

The poor old lady who drove into me last week has to pay for our car. Or her insurance company rather. Called them earlier on and they asked me where I'd go to have it fixed and I told them that and then he said that they'd pay for a hire car while it's done. I'm going to the garage on Friday so that they can evaluate what needs to be done.

I finished my audio book on the plane last night. Sense and Sensibility. And hopefully we'll have the DVD with the series soon so that I can watch it while it's still fresh in my mind.

Car crash

Last Tuesday when I was driving to work, an old woman drove into the side of my car! Bloody pain it was, there's not a big damage on the car but it still is damaged and needs to be fixed. I wasn't very happy about it and neither was Bob.

The moon - again

Áska just came by. She hasn't been by for a long time so it was very nice to have her over for a while. Sólveig Lilja sang to her and we just sat and talked for a while. She drew my attention to the moon, it's new and when she was here, it was almost exactly at the same spot as it was the other morning when I photographed it. Here are the pictures. Notice that you can see the outline of all the moon, which I think is pretty cool.

Am I turning in to a werewolf?

Guestbook

I've added a guest book to our site. If anyone comes to visit, please sign! The link is in the list on the right.

Cool day

I've got my new iPod and it's beautiful! It's red of course. I'm synchronizing right now.

School started today. One of my new colleagues will probably be doing the same courses I am which is cool. And I might be able to sell one or two of my study books, which is pretty cool as well.

I had my first proper day at work today. Did my first chargeable hours. Cool.

Cool day.

Test finished

I took the test Friday morning and I am hoping that I will pass. We'll see I guess. Now I have the weekend off and I'm enjoying some "normal" reading and just being lazy. I've read one of the books I got for Christmas and have just started the other one. Has made me realize how much I've missed reading normal books.

We've also been taking down Christmas tree and other ornaments. After all, it is the last day of Christmas today. And tomorrow I hope I'll start some proper work!

Took a few pictures of Bob and the girls yesterday, here's a link.

Study, study, study

I've been studying most of the day. Some for work, some for the test tomorrow. I haven't done any real work (programming) but hopefully I can start doing some on Monday. There are a lot of things to learn about this company as well, all their inner systems, how they do everything and how to connect to the different computers and things like that. So far - and it is only my second day - it feels interesting and exciting. Nice people, relaxed and good.

The moon

Bob noticed how pretty the moon was this morning and I went out and took a couple of pictures. They're not great (a bit out of focus) but they're OK so I've uploaded them. Take a look.