Preperations for next week!

Hi World!

So I got the news last week, I have been accepted into the hairdressing course at my school. I am thrilled, although also a bit worried about money issues!

I will start school next week on Wednesday, - very exciting!

Ragnar will start school a week after me, on +wednesday in the following week.

I can't believe this summer went by so fast, we have had some this summer and I think it's time to reflect on that now... with the wind and rain blowing outside making the fall seem closer then ever -

In may I finished my exams and hung out a lot with my friends during the kids time in Pre-school - such a sweet time, just me and my friends and not a care in the world LOL
in June we went on a trip to Reykjavík and the surrounding area, we rented a cabin about 45 minutes from Reykjavík, for a week and stayed there with my grandmother, her boyfriend, my aunt and cousin. we had a great time, and relaxed and had fun and a well needed break from everyday life :) - We also used the time we stayed there to travel around the area visiting relatives and friends, the highpoint of this trip for me was to visit my old great uncle, he's gone blind and half deaf but he was staying alone in a trailer in a summervacation area and we visited him there, if I hadn't known he was blind I'd have thought he'd been lying about it - he walks without a stick and jumps around like a 70 year old (in fact he's a little over 80) I have missed him a lot and was super glad to see him again, I haven't seen him for years!
There were many fun things such as a trip to the petting zoo and a visit with my BFF and spending the national independence day (June 17th) with her. And then we finished the trip by staying with my aunt in Reykjavík for one night were my kids and her kids had a blast and us grown ups played cluedo :) it was a great evening :) the day after we visited good friends, the kids and Gummi stayed with a friend of ours while I went to meet an old friend whom I haven't seen in years and then we drove home that night, it was a great trip and so worth it!

In the beginning of July Ragnar quit the pre-school and Kapitola started her summervacation from there. and we used the four weeks of family time to visit friends and family in the surrounding arias and having a great time, among other things we visited the old house in Laufás, a historical turf house, where Kapitola got to try her hand at butter making they also got the feel of old Icelandic country life. We also visited my great uncle who lives in a farm, and tried our hand at harvesting grass - for the sheep he raises - and that was fun, and Ragnar's birthday was celebrated on the 17th (his real birthday is the 20th) with a big party in his honor and we all had a blast.

This month has been no less hectic then the last, Kapitola started pre-school again, now in Sóley the second grade of her school and she is loving it, although she does miss her brother when she's there, because he's no longer in her school. Ragnar and I have continued visiting friends and family and having fun - just the two of us - and on Kapitola's days off we try to relax a bit all of us and gather some energy for the oncoming weeks of madness :)

I love my life, I have to say I don't think I would want to change a thing (although a little more income a month would be nice LOL) about it, I have the best husband, the best daughter and the best son, and I have incredibly wonderful pets and my house is perfect :)

love

Zion

Conteplating Changes...

Hi World

As I sit here enjoying the last whole week of my summervacation I think about the changes in my life.

This fall is different from last fall because my big boy is starting 1st grade, he graduated pre-school this year and in just a couple of weeks time he will be sitting in the school with his books and his pensilcase and all his new things along with his little friends and embarking upon this all new experience. I cannot believe how big he is!

Kapitola has already moved up to the next class at the pre-school, she's now on "sóley" which is the second class in this preschool. all the classes have flowernames, it's very cute :) the littlest ones go to Gleymérey(forgetmenot) at the age of two, then they go to Sóley (small yellow flowers I'm not sure what are called) when they are three, and then Smári (clover) at four, and Engjarós (some sort of a wild rose I think) is the last class at age five. Kapitola is very excited having started Sóley, she's feeling so much older now that she's not in the group of youngest children there, she just loves to "take care of" the younger ones. she's such a little mommy :)

Myself, I'm not sure what my course will be this winter, I will know more next week, weather I can start the hairdresser studies right away or if I need another semester before I can start it to finish the last few preperation classes I have left. which would suck! I am truly hoping I can just take those two classes (biology something rather and math(trig maybe?) ) along with the hairdresser courses but I'm not sure because this biology class I still haven't done is somewhat important to get accepted into the course itself. then I have some gym, some english, and a third language to complete (I'm thinking German or Italian, or maybe Spanish) but then that will just have to be determined :)

So if I get into the course I'm looking at a 40 hour week at school and homework to boot, but if I have to finish the preperation classes first I'm maybe going to be in 5-6 classes which is about 12-16 hours a week... So depending on how that will go I might get a part time job at some store or something just to bring in some extra cash...

On that note I'm also a bit worried about the extra money I have to pay if I do get into the hairdresser course rightaway, because the (material charges is the word google translator supplies me with but it's the money for the supplies I need to use in school like haircolor and wigs and such) are so high, but then again that would mean one less semester before I can start working full time... ugh, I just hope it all goes smooth whatever direction it will end up in...

Love you all

Zi

Happy with the moderate drama of my life...

Hi Networld!

So I started watching The real housewifes of New Jersey, actually I just started with the second season but not the first so I'm not sure at all times what's going on in the show.
Now let me clarify, I have never before watched so much as a whole episode of those Real Housewives of this or that before, just not my cup of tea, watching the "luxurious struggles" of people who have more money then they have lifetime to spend it in.... - but hey that's just me ;)

Anyways... I've been watching the New Jersey Housewives for a few episodes now, and the reason for me doing so is my obsession with New Jersey - there is just something about it that fascinates me - I blame Stephanie Plum! - anywho, as I watched a woman in labor worrying about her mascara running, and then making her newborn babygirl wear first leopard print hat then a ridiculous pink hat with a flower decoration that was much bigger then the poor child's head I realized this is a brand of people I am not likely to encounter in my life. those people's reality is so different from my life that I can't even imagine what their life's are really like.

Mind you, that same woman, the mother who put the gigantic flower hat on a newborn, also makes her daughter take dialect classes because of her Jersey-girl accent (which I LOVE - something to do with Plum...) and made the poor child at age 8 walk in a fashion week extraveganza - something I wouldn't even let my child attend at the age of 17 - not while they are under my authority - damn fashion industries are to blame for way to many of the world's problems that I would support that sh*t - sorry - not here to loose myself in opinions about things like that - on to the show.

And then there's this woman, she's nearly 50 years old and makes such an effort to appear only 24 - it's disturbing, and this woman is so delutional, she has started to go around with mob goons by her arms to "protect" her from all the bad things her former friends might do to her - which would be shunning her - or at the most yell at her - well a goonsquad she's called in for her protection and this is just where I left off... I really don't understand get this - but it is entertaining - I just wish I could be sure that those people are only actors and not real people being such idiots! -

Well I shall go on with my life chuckling at the madwoman with the goons being shocked the poor child wearing a flower and feeling sorry for the overstimulated actress/model/singer/cheerleader/the list goes on, and not to mention watch the men that are so funny in their Italian hot blooded ways - I just wish they were hotter... (here we can blame Morelli for my weaknesses)

Now this was a long post about absolutely nothing regarding me...

love
Zi