Today Steinunn and Einar Christened their son, Þórarinn Víkingur Einarsson. The mass began at 2 pm, and we were pleasantly surprised to see Kristborg, daughter of Elsa and Þráinn, as a member of the girl-choir that sung in the church today, in honor of today apparently being a national-church ‘Youth-day’. Once mass was over, weRead more
March 3rd was our 11th Wedding Anniversary. Leading up to our anniversary we were incredibly fortunate in that a) I won a gift certificate to the Blue Lagoon Exclusive Lounge (worth 135 EUR/189 USD/21600 ISK) though a game hosted by 66 North on Facebook; b) Finnur got a gift certificate for “an all expense paidRead more
We invited my mom and brothers plus spouses and kids to dinner to celebrate my 34th birthday. Finnur made a seafood-soup for appetizer, and the main course was a leg of lamb. Afterwards Finnur fixed a game computer while I exposed my brothers to Doctor Who. Poor little brothers… 🙂 Click on the photo belowRead more
Yes, it’s the First of March again, and so: Happy Birthday Me! 🙂 (Also: Happy birthday Steinunn!! And Clint, and Helgi Hauksson, and… all the rest !! 🙂 🙂 ) To celebrate, the University of Iceland has declared today (and yesterday) to be no-teaching days, which is much appreciated!! 🙂 (Ok, ok, it’s not becauseRead more
Apparently I only pick up the camera on weekends now. Hrmm… Well, at least it got picked up and used, which is the important part!
On this lovely Sunday we invited ourselves to Finnur’s parent’s place for tea, and then got them to babysit while we looked at yet another property we won’t be buying. Reasons: The layout was all wrong: Huge kitchen, tiny living room, and the roof had apparently reached the end of its lifespan-ish. We then relocated to my aunt’s place, where a big party was under way to celebrate her youngest turning 10 years old. How time flies!!
Anna outside her grandparent's house, as we were about to depart for the next stop. It's been snowing on and off lately, but never enough to really build up to anything significant.
This was one of those crazy event-filled days. Unlike most other days, I actually had my camera in tow and two lenses, and took some 360 pictures throughout the day. Furthermore, we got home fairly early, so I’ve now gone through them all, and thrown the not-too-shabby-ones onto PicasaWeb… which means: Click on the photosRead more
What’s with these crazy timewarps? One day it’s the third day of February, and the next it’s suddenly the SEVENTEENth day of February – and I haven’t even blinked!! So, yes, two weeks have wizzed by, and since none of us had any doctor’s visits, they were apparently not very blog-worthy. I do recall thatRead more
Today we had a parent-kid-teacher conference at Anna’s school, and the teacher heaped praise on her which was fun for all involved! Overall things are going well for her at school, so good for her!Read more
This will have to be brief since I’m (supposedly) writing a lecture for tomorrow morning (exactly 12 hours from now). Today’s health update is as follows: Bjarki went to daycare, and did fine. The rest of us saw doctors today. Finnur got an appointment with some random general practitioner at Domus Medica, who listened toRead more
Lately, Finnur and I have been looking at houses/townhouses/row-houses to buy. To do so, we’ve been watching fasteignir.is, which is the main real-estate website, and lamenting how very primitive it is. For example: They do not offer a map-view of all the properties for sale (check out redfin.com and zillow.com for a good example, weRead more