[Written 24 January 2014] Those who’ve visited us often will know that we’re not the tidiest of people. Sure, we keep cooking and eating surfaces clean, but we’ve never been the world’s best at controlling clutter. But every now and then, something snaps, and epic tidying happens. And so it was one recent evening, whileRead more
My darling, darling, darling husband, whom I love more than dark chocolate, likes football a lot.
And that’s great. I looove that he has a hobby (I have similarly engrossing hobbies in my online life), buuuut (could you see the buuut coming?), admittedly, I’ve been a bit miffed that he has a reason to physically venture out of the house every weekend (more or less) for upwards of two hours, come rain, hell, or snowstorms.
So, I’ve been trying to think of something equivalent for me to do, but there aren’t a lot of organized events for people who just want to do something different or special for two hours, sans children. And going to the gym is way too pedestrian.
And thus I decided to form a Fake-Football-Fanclub. Which will operate like a football fanclub, as in have a set time and event to attend every weekend (or close to it) picked by me.
The plan for now is to do something between 3-5 pm on either the Saturday or Sunday (opposite of Finnur’s engagement probably), and for now I’m working with ideas off of the TripAdvisor Activities list for Reykjavik.
The Fake-Football-Fanclub is called Ekki-aðdáendaklúbbur Shrewsbury Town (Not-Fanclub of Shrewsbury Town), and by making it public, I’m putting pressure on my self to both plan and go do stuff!! And of course, if someone wants to tag along, the more the merrier! 🙂
(Shrewsbury Town got picked due to Þráinn’s suggestion that Shrewsbury is the birthplace of Darwin, which is cool.)
So. Today was my first outing.
I decided to be arty, and visit Kjarvalsstaðir (The Place of Kjarval) which is a museum with two show areas, one of which is pretty permanently dedicated to the prolific Icelandic painter Jóhannes S. Kjarval, and the other houses random showings. Today was the last day of the showing for Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography (wikipedia link).
And in spite of my sometimes snarky commentary (see below), I had a very good time. 🙂 (47 images total)
The weather outside was blistery, but not too bad.
Emma’s recently discovered that crawling all over our big keyboard is a lot of fun! And fiddling with the light over it is also fun when it’s getting dark… (3 images and 2 videos total) Emma crawling all over the keyboard while Anna plays a little. Which reminds me… I totally forgot to postRead more
I’ve been meaning to write a post about body weight, mine in particular, for a looong time, particularly about my goal to ‘not gain weight’ as opposed to ‘lose weight’. But I’ve shied away from it because, ugh, aren’t we all supposed to be striving to weigh less? Yesterday I stumbled upon this TED talkRead more
[Written 9 January 2014]
The first few days of the year were mostly quiet. Here’s Emma at the tree gate on 1 January: (6 images total)
I aaaalmost caught her in the act of fiddling with the decorations.
Hey, it’s 2014!! (More pictures tomorrow!)Read more
The last day of 2013 started out chillin’! (44 images total, 1 video link)
Bjarki and a friend chillin’ on our loungers.
This should have been the first ‘studio’ post since this was the first photo shoot of the ‘season’, taking place on 30 November. But time is relative, so meh.
The plan was to shoot our own Christmas card photo, and figure out the living room “studio” set up, since we hadn’t ever taken photos in there. And with my brothers, spouses, and their kids showing up the next day, it was sort of important to try and figure stuff out.
As it happened, we just barely managed to get set up an hour before we needed to drop Finnur off at the bus-stop, where he would board a bus to the airport and then fly to California.
Not surprisingly, tensions were high, so we didn’t get a whole lot of usable photos. The Christmas Card one has already been posted, but here are a few more, just for kicks: (4 images total)
Laying down.
On both 10 and 11 December, my cousin Ríkey (our grandparents were siblings) and her two kids came by our house after work .
We meant to take Christmas card photo on the first day, but I foolishly decided to make us lasagne for dinner, not realizing that lasagne takes over an hour of hard work to make, and so we ran out of time.
The next day I was more cunning with my dinner choice (oven baked cod and sweet potatoes) so we had time to take some photos.
Ríkey actually owns a proper ‘home studio’ set up, with two crazy powerful lights in fancy softboxes, buuuuut I didn’t know how to sync them properly to my camera which refused to acknowledge their presence, even though I got the lights to fire simultaneously.
So I reverted back to my simple two-flash, one-umbrella setup. Sigh. (She left the home studio box here though, and it’s on my to-do list to get it figured out!)
Anyway, on to some photos! 🙂 (11 images total)
Ríkey and her darlings.
On 8 December I visited Adda and Halli, and brought with my my trusty, yet meager, photo-gear (Canon 40d, 70-200mm lens, two flashes, one umbrella).
Halli and I then took a bunch of photos of the kids, to use for their Christmas card this year.
Here are some of the photos I took: (8 images total)
Arnar and Hildur – back to back.