On 16 December 2011, my brother Nökkvi and his spouse Jóhanna welcomed their second child! She was in a hurry to get here, and measured 53 cm (20.9 inches) long and weighed 4 kg (16 ‘merkur’, 8.8 lbs) on arrival. All were healthy and happy and they went home later that day. Since we wereRead more
Once I found out that I’d be all done with final exams on December 5th, I went right ahead and bought tickets for us to spend 10 days in the UK before Christmas with dad et al. It’s always nice to change scenery, and get a little extra daylight over the darkest bit of the year in Iceland. So to England we flew, and spent the days mostly just hanging out at my dad’s, oh and I did a bit of shopping too. 🙂
Friday 9 December 2011
The stewardesses of Icelandair have this lovely custom of coming out into the main waiting area and sing happy Yule-tide songs before heading to the planes (which all depart around the same time). They're really quite good!! 🙂
After biking pretty much daily to work in the balmy fall weather, frost and snow hit us like a brick in the latter part of November and nobody has stepped forward to remove the brick yet. I was all ready to keep biking, but for some reason my schedule became such that I’ve been car-riddenRead more
While living in California for ten years, we were incredibly fortunate to meet and befriend other Icelanders who lived in our area. Many of those ended up moving back to Iceland (as one does!) and we still keep in touch with many of them. Out of the ‘large’ group of friends, a small ‘core’ emerged, and this group meets up once per year to celebrate Thanksgiving – because who else would give a damn in Iceland?! 🙂 (This year the feast got delayed a bit, so it almost merged with Yule-tide – hence the decorating of ginger bread houses! 🙂 )
Our hosts this year were Soffía and Ágúst in their newly built house, and just like last year, Finnur missed the party – this time because he himself was in California on a work-trip!
Happy chit-chatting by the kitchen-island. 🙂
Bjarki’s daycare center held its annual Christmas Ball in the main-hall of Anna’s school. There was walking-around-a-fake-Christmas-tree-while-singing, a Santa-Clause showed up and regaled the kids with stories, before going on a sit-with-children-spree. All in all it went really well, and a good time was had by all! 🙂
Anna and her best friend at the ball doing a song-move.
As usual, I found myself moaning about the weather being so nice for so long this November. Mostly it was my nerves about ‘climate change’ speaking. And then the snow hit and I felt a bit better. But as of today (16 Jan 2012) it’s still here and my ‘climate change’ nerves are starting toRead more
We’ve finally entered a cold snap and, it’s freezing! Literally! Unfortunately I’m also carrying around the other kind of cold, the nasal-drippy, raspy-voice kind of cold. I’m hoping yesterday evening was the worst of it though, and that it will be getting better from now on. It does feel like both nostrils are equally cloggedRead more
Grandma Anna sent this picture of Anna cutting out ginger-bread cookies with two of her cousins (children of Finnur’s sisters). Is is just me or does Anna look extra grown-up in this picture?!Read more
Finnur took off for California yesterday on a work-visit. Before he had even touched down in the US, my nose started dripping and a lurking sore-throat decided it was time to come out of hiding. Thus ended my streak of mostly good health this fall, in contrast to last fall where I think I lostRead more
I can sorta see Finnur from where I’m standing… online. 🙂Read more