Birthday, Office Dwelling & Confirmation Prep

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[Photos taken 01-11 March 2021, posted online 16 July 2021. The adults have begun their summer vacations, but the teenagers have a bit to go before finishing up for the summer. Covid-19 is rearing its ugly head again, sounds like rules to enter the country are to be tightened, not sure about rules for life in general. We have 85% of 16+ year-olds fully vaccinated, and about 90% have gotten at least one shot. The 12-16 year-olds probably not vaccinated until late August.]

March began as always with my birthday (yay!), I went into the office for a whole week to do tests, and we began in earnest prepping for Bjarki’s upcoming confirmation on 21 March, as it was looking increasingly likely that we’d actually be able to go ahead with it on the originally scheduled date. (25-ish images total)

Monday 01 March 2021

I got flower for my birthday, yay!
At work, Covid-regulations had been relaxed to the point of allowing employees to put food on their own plates (instead of the kitchen staff doing it).
A far cry from my usual two-toasts-one-with-scrambled-egg-the-other-with-peanut-butter-and-jelly lunch. I was in the office that whole week to participate in some equipment testing.
Anna, the baking hero, made a carrot cake for me/us!
Close-up of the flowers.

Tuesday 02 March 2021

Photo of the absolute worst reading book to come home for a long while. It’s decades old (this edition dates from 1970, it first came out in 1943), and is mostly a collection of super repetitive stories, where a protagonist goes around to different entities and recites the same things over and over and over again. This story in particular was especially bad, it was an old lady who couldn’t get her pig to cross a low barrier into a fence so that she could go home. Instead she went to eight different beings, asking them to inflict pain on the next in line. They all refused to help until The Rat broke the stalemate by asking for something and getting it. The story ends: The old lady gave the rat the cheese it requested, the rat began gnawing the stick, the stick began hitting the butcher, the butcher began butchering the bull, the bull began drinking the water, the water began putting out the fire, the fire began burning the plank, the plank began hitting the dog, the dog began biting the pig, the pig crossed into the fence and the old lady made it home. (‘Began’ is the only translation for ‘fór’ which means ‘went’ as in ‘went to do x’ that makes sense as a dead bull won’t drink water!) (And yes, I just sent an email to the education-materials-department to please consider removing this book from their catalog.)

Wednesday 03 March 2021

What “equipment testing” sometimes means in Marel.

Friday 05 March 2021

Walking while Bjarki goes to music theory class.
The church. That green thing is a frisbee-golf platform.
Thawing time.
We visited OTHER PEOPLE and had dinner TOGETHER!

Saturday 06 March 2021

Made it outside for a jog, just barely. That was the last jog for a while, as the weather got worse, and my entire being began hunkering down for Bjarki’s impending confirmation.
Spring in the air.
I got nice headphones for my birthday, and had to take a photo of the features portion of the box. So many words I have no idea what mean!
Finnur and I went out to dinner to celebrate 21 years of married life!

Sunday 07 March 2021

We went shopping for fancy confirmation-worthy clothing.
Good for chillin’!
Finnur also caved in, and agreed to update his decade+ old suit to something more fresh.
I stopped by mom’s place, as she´d bought a bunch of frames and wanted help ordering prints.
… and because this is my blog, I’m totally posting photos of photos mom had dug up of herself and dad from way back when! Oh, young love!

Monday 08 March 2021

Emma’s gymnastics costume, ready for her as I would be at the gym when she’d need to put it on, so it fell to Anna to get Emma ready. Oh, the joy of having big kids!

Tuesday 09 March 2021

Ominous news, one covid-19 infection found at the pizza place in our neighborhood, and 10 people sent into quarantine.

Wednesday 10 March 2021

Trying something new for lunch. I don’t think it got repeated.

Thursday 11 March 2021

Downtown again for Bjarki’s weekly confirmation session. This is the view from the 5th floor of the downtown library, which is where they now store the manga books.
Incidentally, the same cafe I’m writing this at.
Winter made a play for continued dominance…