I don't talk to much...well a bit maybe...sometimes...

Hi Internet!

So I sometimes think when I tell my stories of crazy weird moments that people might not believe me, let's face it some of those stories are quite to awkward and stupid to be possible but they are true none the less.

I am just the kind of person that always seems to end up in the silliest and most awkward situations imaginable, like way back when I was 12 or so, me and my then best friend Sólrún did a little B&E just about everyday, see she used to forget her keys A LOT! So usually I would push her up on the balcony and she would sneak in through an upstairs window. One day I had sprained my wrist so I couldn't give her a push, so we decided that the safe route would be to take the huge garbage bin thingie and drag it up the outside steps so she could climb to the balcony, ofcourse this was the moment the garbage dude decided to come over to pick up the trash... well he was kind and decided to help the two innocent little girls break in to get to their lunch LOL he gave Sólrún a push and she got in, well the awkward part happened the following week... this requires a side story:

Sólrún had a job, she used to walk her next door neighbour's dog every day, while they were at work so they had given her a key to their garage so she could pick up the dog and let her in again, well we used to go walk the dog togeather, since we pretty much did everything togeather, and so it happened one day that we were bringing the dog back to the neighbours house we let ourselves into the garage and at that moment we see him, the kind garbage guy who had helped us perform the B&E at Sólrúns the week before, he stared at us coming out of the WRONG house and locking it WITH A KEY and ofcourse he drew a conclusion - let's just say it was a wee bit awkward :D LOL

- Zi

A dream for an insomniac

Hi Internet

I love a movie with that (or similar) title, it's one of Jennifer Aniston's first movies I think, it's brilliant. It's about this girl Frankie, who's raised in a café, devoted to Sinatra and his blue eyes, she drinks coffee all day and then she's surprised she can't sleep, at all.
I drink a lot of Caffeinated drinks, I am, some might say, an addict, I crave coffee/coke/other caffeinated beverages from the moment I wake up and throughout the day, if I do not get a hit in the first 6 hours of the day, I usually get a headache, then I start experiancing mood changes, everything from a slight draught (daft mode) to a case of ole hurricane (crazy) - this is my body telling me I am out of Caffeine and I must get more, - sort of like the fuel light on a car, if in another six hours my mission for fuel (caffeine) is still unsuccessful I start shutting down I will get super sleepy and unable to stay awake - let alone focused - for another five minutes, this also happens with cars, I remember once driving my beloved Opel to a gas station and it started coughing just a few blocks away from the gas station, then it finally shut down about three meters from the pump, and Gummi had to push it up the small hill to the station to get it coffee.
Now visualize me with a caffeine deprivation alone with my kids....yeah I know not a pretty sight! luckily I usally manage to coax someone into getting me my fix before stage shutdown starts ;)

I had a case of caffaine deprivation today, I was going on nine hours without caffeine when my aunt came over with coke and coffee (given she exidentally bought coffee beans and not ground which doesn't quite work for me since I don't have a grinder) and I had my fix, but in my state of caffeine need I - ofcourse - drank way to much, went over the top and now it's 3:30 am and I'm sleepless - once again, and knowing I will be having trouble in the morning waking up *sigh*

this post is dedicated to the love of my life/nemesis, Caffeine. - sponsered by Coca Cola and Kaffibrennslan. (J/K)

I'm heading to bed (again) and see if Mr. Sandman will spare a few specks of his awesome dust on me.

Goodnight

-Zi

Randomness... and Nostalgic memoriam of a blue car

Hi Internet!

Do you sometimes feel like everything is just so random? Like, you just don't really have a say about anything and you just go with the flow and things happen weather you participate or not?
Lately I feel that way about my life... I feel like I'm just drifting without a course...

I miss my friends around the globe, those who have had an impact on my life in one way or another, they are so many, I've met people that I've bonded with in short period of time before losing contact or whatever with them, only a few of those encounters I still stay in regular contact with, but they all have a special place in my heart recerved for the time we see each other again.

Yes I'm a bit nostalgic right now, it happens LOL.

I think it may be a part of feeling like I lost a dear friend when I sold my old car, I've had it, more or less, since I was 17, it was my first car, my key to the world, a way for me to get from under the constant survaliance of my mother *takes a break to wipe a small butt and put a couple of kids to bed*. It was my independence and freedom on four wheels, and I LOVED it. I remember well the day I moved out of my mothers house, I loaded my car with the essentials, clothing, clothing, make up and hair product, clothing, shoes and ofcourse all the music (cassettes,cd's etc.) along with my stereo system and a few books. And I set off, listening to music on full blast, driving insanely slow due to ice and snow (this was January 2nd 2002 and I'm very very scared of ice and snow driving conditions) and on my way into my own life.
My car was also filled with memories of my dear departed friend Sigrún, she was one of my favorite people ever, one of my closest and best friends, we used to practically live in my car, back in the day... ohh how I miss those days, and how I miss her... in a way I felt like I was saying goodbye to her all over again, when I drove the last drive with my old car, I looked at the empty passenger seat and saw her beautiful smile as she used to sing along with whatever crazy music playing at the time, at the top of her lungs and then point out the window and exclaim something about some gorgous guy driving another car... I also remembered our Christmas eve smoke cruises, how we got togeather after the holyday feast and package opening and while everyone else enjoyed a peaceful evening with their family and friends we shared a few moments together, exchanging christmas presents and talking and being friends, best of friends. I miss her so...

- Zion

'Tis the season...

...or maybe not..

Greetings Internet!

I've been hit hard by the christmas bug! Seriously! I was just walking in the groceriestore yesterday when BAM!! There were Christmas cookies!!! and it just woke in me, the Christmas beast that just craves decorations, christmas music and yule tide cleaning spree!

So when I awoke this morning at 6:25, I started to read the danish book for school but my mind didn't stick on it so I just got up and then the kids woke up so we had breakfast togeather and I - in my Christmasy mood lit a candle to make the dark morning a wee bit cozy and then I found a few Christmas CD's to listen to while going on a cleaning and rearranging spree LOL, nothing could kill my spirits, not even the pathetic meowing I heard from the foyer about n hour after I woke up, see my son had taken it upon himself to lock Harry out in the foyer sometime between 3-6 this morning and the poor thing had been in there meowing for hours! so when I finally heard him through the music and general loudness of my family the poor family had allready given a present to his captor, namely he pooped on Ragnar's jacket, that had been put on the floor yesterday intead of being hung proparly. so I woke up Gummi and made him clean up the mess and kept my massive rearranging spree going LOL.

In other news, my dear Opel (yes the very one I had when you were in Iceland Colleen) went to the chop shop yesterday :( she had been a faithfool servant all tose years but it was her time, we couldn't afford paying for her maintanence anymore so we took a loan and bought a new car :) a Ford Focus '03, silver gray, station :) I just LOVE it!

I will miss my dear old blue Opel Astra, my dear Nooshla that I loved so dearly, my very first car, my ticket to freedom, my independence, my life on my own, I will miss that car, and all the memories that it held for me. I will even miss the faulty window wipers and the stubborn gearshift. Fare thee well dear departed friend.

-Zion

Money Money Money...

Hi Internet!

How are things?

Somehow my headlines seem to get more capitalistic (sp?) every time I blog...hmmm must work on that LOL!

So today is payday, after paying all bills, taking the kittens to the vet and buying new tires for our car, getting said POS car through yearly checkup and buying one pizza and going to Bónus once we should be completely out of money...nice...

Why is it difficult to be in school some may ask? let me tell you! because going to school requires me having baby sitter and yet not getting income (well I do get some minute scholarship but that really doesn't go a long way) which means it costs me in addition to the semester fees 40.000 isk per month to have my children in preschool all day long... ok I'm happy about their pre-school - I actually prefer it to staying at home with them, it's much better for them to learn the things they learn there and get so much structure and social training then to hang around with me watching cartoons and eating bonbon's all day (pauses to fetch a prins polo. add cookie and a glass of pepsi to that order) with me. Yes that is me as a SAHM I am at home today, actually I have been at home all week, I've been sick and today my strength seems to be coming back - finally! so I'm catching up on laundry and housework and all those things (internet surfing) I didn't manage to do while sick. well not ALL those things cause frankly I'm not sure I'll ever be able to catch up on MATH! ugh!

Well I was ranting about money, so why do I do this? why do I go to school (and then slack in math), pay for daycare and not just get a crappy ole job? because I DON'T WANT TO!!! (hops up and down pulling hairs out of scull) I want to "become something" I don't want to have a lortejob that pays minimal wage just to have enough money to buy clothes and shoes now... seriously, why should I do that to myself? I am finally in school and I've been waiting a very long time for this! I'm going to go and finish folding laundry now so I'll catch you later...

-Zi

Cash and Clerks...

Hi Internet!

So I have ditched my cards and decided to use cash only always, which isn't really so unique - people do that often if they decide to try and make their money last throughout the month...

Well Icelandic money isn't that complicated we have the Króna, you have the basic 1,5,10,50&100 króna coins, then you have the 500,1000,2000&5000 króna bills, so it's not exactly difficult to see that to one 100 króna coin you have either 20, 5 króna, two 50 króna etc. to make up for that, for one 500 bill you need 5 100króna coins and so forth, so why is it when I have to pay say, 1576 krónur and only have a 2000 króna bill and 76 krónur in coins that it's so difficult to figure out the fact that I get a 500 krónur bill in return??? seriously, young people working the cash register are so dense with cash it's terrible, they take forever counting and recounting and trying to understand what I asked them to do (that is to give me a 500kr bill back) that the people behind me are usually about to explode with impatiante and muttering something about just using a debit card - seriously though - why is it that clerks don't have some minimal requirements for using every day math such as counting, adding and subtracting?!? I mean it's not like they need to know how to find the root of pi or anything?!?

And while I'm on the subject of clerks, is it too much to ask that my grandmother - who doesn't know a word in english - can go to the stores here in Iceland and be checked out in the language she knows - ICELANDIC??? seriously, why can't the store managers send their foreign workers to some basic Icelandic lessons???

ugh ok I'm done - sorry if I offended anyone :D

- Zi

Settling into a rythm

Hi Internet!

Things are good on my end, things are getting into a routine and we're all getting used to more workload. Kapitola is settling in at the Pre-school GREAT she loves her teachers, she loves her little friends and she is very happy there :) she got her symbol last week, they all have their own symbols to put on their chair, cubbie, sleeping area, basket etc. and her's is fruit :) they also learn how to use sign language to say their symbol.
Ragnar's symbol is the Lion and he has had it since he started in the pre-school when he was three years old. He is in the oldest class in pre-school now and is starting to get more schoolwork done and more structure into his dayplan to prep him for starting the first class in Grunnskóli (1-10th class, 6-16 year olds). Ragnar also started the Music school again, he's in the Suzuki program to learn to play the piano, he's doing well and we're getting into the swing of having a new teacher and practicing every day (which is hard when everyone has such different schedules we're basically running all day long).

I have gotten into full swing with studying (although I've been on sick leave last two days, bad sign this early in the semaster but I will go back tomorrow, and I've been trying to stay cought up). and I feel I'm getting a good grasp on everything I'm learning, except the Danish studies, well I'm doing good with the Danish studies - just not getting into the novel I'm supposed to read *eyeroll*.

Gummi is doing good with his job, he's still working 12 hour shifts for 7 days then 7 days off every other work week working 8pm-8am and the other work week 5pm-5am, which is why we're always running so much, it always feels like someone is about to be late somewhere *sigh* He also started jogging today - forgetting that jogging can make knee problems worse *sigh*... ohh and he's bald now...

The kittens are growing like WEED - they are purring and playing and sleeping and eating and doing all those cat like things - which is fun to watch ;) - although there is a behaviour Archie shows that slightly creeps me out - he tries to "nurse" for a lack of better word - on his brother *sigh* - and he really hangs onto him sucking on his fur for hours on end while purring obnoxiously loud... which is ok until Harry decides he's had enough and wants some comforting mommy time (that is sleeping right next to my face) and Archie follows him with his suckling which makes for some loud double purring, slurpie suckie party right next to my trying-to-be-sleeping-ear...... *sigh* kittens - gotta lov'em :)

I shouldn't leave out the two other residents here our birds Kíkí and Kíta are very loud and very squawki as always and I'm afraid they will get eaten if the kittens won't loose interest soon...