It’s April! Finally! :)
First up: Happy Birthday Hólmfríður! Today was your special day! 🙂
So yes, for those of you that are Icelandic-ally challenged: Finnur the Prankster posted a blog-post shortly after midnight today saying that we’d just bought a very expensive house, and then went on to detail all the things we needed to fix (leaks, roof-parts, flooring) before moving in. This was, of course, an April fool’s prank, so no, we haven’t bought a house – or even found one to begin with. Still, that house doesn’t look half bad!… 😉 Also, Finnur is still grinning ear to ear over all the responses he’s gotten today… 🙂
In other news, Anna is finally healthy, and returned to school today for the first time in a week. Ironically, Bjarki’s daycare was closed today due to a staff-day, so Bjarki hung out with grandma Anna all day to give poor Finnur a break. Yes, Mr. Works-From-Home has worked from home while minding a not-terribly-sick Anna, who in turn happily (ecstatically?) spent ridiculous hours on YouTube this past week. He appears to still be employed, so that seems to have gone ok.
On my end, this week marks the end of week #1 out of 3 of making and giving 4x2x40 minute lectures in one week. Why is this hard, and why am I’m whining so much? Well, it just sucks up a lot of time and energy. For example: each 40 minute block takes me about 3 hours to prepare (Yes, I’m making new slides, so shoot me! I need to be able to show images, and lots of them, and it saves me time writing on the whiteboard). Each block generally lasts for 50 minutes each of being in the classroom. So that’s about 4 hours per 40 minute lecture block. I have 8 of these blocks now, so I’m spending about 32 hours a week on lectures (or four workdays).
For my remaining workday, there are homeworks to assign, solutions to write/assemble, homeworks to grade, and attending (barely) to the course I’m taking on “Course design, assessment and evaluation“. And there is also recovery, because each lecture is pretty darn draining, thus very little gets done for the remainder of a lecture day. Hence: Lectures get written on adrenaline-rushes the evening before.
Now, regarding this week: The good news for this week was that I did manage to give four lectures, although, boy, was it hard to get going on writing lecture #4.
The bad news: Over this weekend, I need to a) cobble together homework assignments for both courses, which should have gotten done today. They didn’t get done today because: i) No Time! and ii) I Refuse To Work This Friday Evening Like I Did Last Week!; b) I need to solve last week’s homework assignment in my EM course, write it up properly, and then grade the submitted homeworks; c) I need to finish writing up an application for my job which is due Monday; d) I need to make a lecture for EM on Monday; oh do a lot of things for my job. and e) I’ve promised to serve as a photographer for Finnur’s niece’s confirmation on Sunday. Of all these, I’m really only looking forward to e)
Two more weeks… two more weeks…
Keyptum hús í Kópavoginum!!
Uppfærsla: Þetta var apríl-gabbið í ár! (April-fools!) (PS. Ekkert af göllunum sem við lýsum á við um þetta hús, af myndunum að dæma hefði ég verið til í að flytja inn í nýverandi ástandi og gera ekkert við húsið) 🙂
Eftir mikla leit erum við loksins búin að festa kaup á húsnæði við Bollasmára 8 í Kópavoginum. Við skoðuðum í gær (með Önnu með okkur hálf-veika) og sendum inn tilboð í dag. Fasteignasalinn hringdi í kvöld til að segja að tilboðinu hefði verið tekið um kvöldmatarleytið. Fyndið að eiga við þessa fasteignasala, en það er annað mál og efni í aðra bloggfærslu (segi frá því síðar).
Bollasmári
Við ákváðum, eftir að hafa skoðað 20 eignir, að taka aðeins dýrari eign en við ætluðum okkur í fyrstu, þar sem úrvalið af eignum í “okkar” verðflokki hefur ekki verið beysið, allavega ekki sem við töldum að hentaði okkur. Við náðum þó að slá af nokkrar milljónir af ásettu verði, enda ekki margir að kaupa stórar eignir í dag.
Það er töluverður léttir að komast loksins úr leiguíbúðinni okkar og yfir í okkar eigið húsnæði í fyrsta skipti. Það er þó töluvert sem þarf að gera fyrir húsnæðið, eins og sjá má á (sumum) myndum…
Það þarf að taka þakskeggið í gegn og skipta um járn í þakinu.
Hér þarf líklega að skipta út flísum, fá stærra baðkar (ég er 1.92cm) og fá ný blöndunartæki. Og gera við smá leka í lofti.
Hrefna vill fá kork á gólfið í eldhúsinu, svo að hlutir séu ekki alltaf að brotna þegar þeir detta á gólfið. Hún fékk það í gegn, gegn því að ég fengi að skipta um innréttingu (skil ekki þetta bláa dæmi sem virðist vera í tísku núna). Ef einhvern vantar innréttingu, þá getuð við örugglega samið ef hún næst af veggnum heil.
Þetta herbergi fær að halda sér að mestu óbreyttu, enda kemur þetta vel út. Sé mig vel fyrir mér að vinna hér. Það er einhver smá leki í gegnum vegginn við gluggann (sést ekki vel á mynd), en það ætti ekki að vera of mikið mál að komast fyrir það, eftir því sem fróðir menn segja mér.
Svo eru fleiri myndir á fasteignavefnum, sem ég á á diski en nennti ekki að skella inn (get sent ykkur, þeir fara væntanlega að taka auglýsinguna út af vefnum bráðlega).
Nú er bara spurning hvort fólk sé ekki tilbúið að hjálpa okkur að flytja og kannski innrétta fyrst? Hvað segið þið, fjölskylda og vinir?
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