Hi Internet!
So it's time for another complains-a-lot blog... Yes I seem to go overboard on those, but this time I really feel I have the right to went just a wee-bit...
Ragnar's fifth birthday was last Monday - Happy Birthday big boy and all that, - which means there was supposed to be a birthday party. OK we do the planning and buying of things because last Saturday was supposed to be the BIG day! on Thursday we handed out the invites to his classmates and everything was in motion - but OHH NO! Ragnar got sick, on Friday (which was btw the last day of preschool before the month long summer closing and he was supposed to get a birthday crown and make muffins and such because his birthday was just the next weekday) he woke up at six o'clock puking everything he could and kept at it for the better part of Saturday as well, so we called all the parents (although we couldn't reach one set - after calling homephone, cell and e-mailing - guess who got all dressed up and very dissappointed - so sad) to post pone the party for one week.
Which is no biggie, unless you consider the fact that this is actually the first week of the kids staying home all day and Gummi is working and I got sick on Sunday evening to make things even worse. Ok, so I threw up everything I could on Sun. Mon and Tue and then I finally started to be able to eat again, ok let me tell you about one thing. Depression medication doesn't work very well after being flushed down the toilet, so not only am I days behind on baking and cleaning and getting things ready but I'm also moody and crazy as he11 which means I have been snapping at anyone and anything all day *sigh* I'm so getting the bad mommy award after today *Sigh*
My house is a real mess and now Gummi probably can't get the weekend off because there is noone around to work for him *Sigh* and I don't have a clue as to what kind of Birthday cake I want to make *sigh* at least my grandmother is making the Skyrcake and my Mother-in-law is making some baked things so at least there's that...
ohhh and then I have been having some trouble with communicating with the computer apparatus we have been making for Ragnar's birthday - it's supposed to be a sort of video storage unit to hook up to his TV /computer - it's just a regular desk top computer hooked to his TV.... well it's on the FRITZ and I can't get it to work, so not only is Ragnar's birthday party going to suck, his cake going to be crappy but his birthday present isn't even working properly...and his mommy is moody as he11! - poor kid...
well this self pity lexure is over you are now free to resume your happy lives...
- Zi
22 júlí, 2009
27 júní, 2009
Waiting for the summer to end...
Hi Internet...
So I don't like the summer much, I mean, the weather is good here in Iceland - never TOO HOT - although it get's hot enough for me to just want to be naked (don't worry, I don't let myself LOL) all the time... but I just miss the fall, I love the fall, when it's rainy and gloomy and the leaves are falling and the colours are so beautiful...
And then the school starts! I can't wait to get to school, ohh I forgot to tell you I GOT IN! I got into VMA, the scool I applied for... well I can't wait to have something to do all day despite hanging online and finding nothing to do and rot from boredom...
I miss having a social life, and I miss seeing other people on regular basis, I just get so fed up with the only faces I see these days being Gummi and the kids - don't get me wrong I love seeing their faces every day, but I just want to see some other faces as well ;)
well that's enough complaining for now, ohh wait, I forgot to whine about how much my throat hurts so WHIIIIIINEEE - now I'm done ;)
-Zi
So I don't like the summer much, I mean, the weather is good here in Iceland - never TOO HOT - although it get's hot enough for me to just want to be naked (don't worry, I don't let myself LOL) all the time... but I just miss the fall, I love the fall, when it's rainy and gloomy and the leaves are falling and the colours are so beautiful...
And then the school starts! I can't wait to get to school, ohh I forgot to tell you I GOT IN! I got into VMA, the scool I applied for... well I can't wait to have something to do all day despite hanging online and finding nothing to do and rot from boredom...
I miss having a social life, and I miss seeing other people on regular basis, I just get so fed up with the only faces I see these days being Gummi and the kids - don't get me wrong I love seeing their faces every day, but I just want to see some other faces as well ;)
well that's enough complaining for now, ohh wait, I forgot to whine about how much my throat hurts so WHIIIIIINEEE - now I'm done ;)
-Zi
02 júní, 2009
Brand new lap top :)
hiya Internet!
It's been a while huh?
Today I became a proud laptop owner :) well actually I'm not sure if such a small computer can be called a lap top, it's the Toshipa Netbook 100 and uit's tiny and super cute and the best part is that I can do with it what I want so now I've personalized the firefox so it's hot pink and black, I've put a picture of Next Time on my desktop andmy igoogle has the Led Zeppelin icons on it :) gotta love personaling things :)
I'm still getting used to the keyboard though, it's so tiny LOL although I don't press many buttons at a time while writing on it the buttons aren't in the same places I'm used to so I hit the wrong buttons more often then not...
well I'm off..
-Zi
It's been a while huh?
Today I became a proud laptop owner :) well actually I'm not sure if such a small computer can be called a lap top, it's the Toshipa Netbook 100 and uit's tiny and super cute and the best part is that I can do with it what I want so now I've personalized the firefox so it's hot pink and black, I've put a picture of Next Time on my desktop andmy igoogle has the Led Zeppelin icons on it :) gotta love personaling things :)
I'm still getting used to the keyboard though, it's so tiny LOL although I don't press many buttons at a time while writing on it the buttons aren't in the same places I'm used to so I hit the wrong buttons more often then not...
well I'm off..
-Zi
06 maí, 2009
Procrastination - once again...
Hi Internet!
How are you doing? I'm good....
Well as you know I'm the queen of procrastination, and now I'm really paying the price, I'm flunking pioneers class - seriously I could have done it but procrastination got the better end of me and I just didn't manage to turn in the final assignment. *sigh*
My house is also a bit of a chaos, it's really nothing major, but it's still enough, I mean, I really need to get settled into the rythm of this new house, because for excample, there is a special laundry room, instead of having the washer in the bathroom and the dryer in the bedroom, so now I don't see the washer when I hit the bathroom in the morning, so I somehow more often then not forget to load it, and then I don't see the dryer when I go into my bedroom at night so I forget to unload it, so that's something I need to get used to - having a special laundry room,
I guess out of sight out of mind isn't a great thing when it comes to laundry ;) LOL.
I'm also still waiting for the reparemen that were supposed to come "right after easter" to put a thing in front of my dishwasher so dust doesn't gather under it, put a new lightswitch in Kap's room and bring the racks for my owen, ohh and fix my doorbell - so if you come over KNOCK the doorbell is broken! LOL. I guess they meant they would come right after NEXT easter *sigh* - ohh well, they most likely will come eventually.
I have only one exam left and then it's graduation, - it's not a big deal, this is just a program for drop outs like me to finish what they need to get into collage, (well sort of to put it in terms you USA folks understand LOL) so that's almost done and next fall I will start a perperation course for the travelling industree course I'll be taking in the fall of 2010 when it starts here in Akureyri. I'm really excited about school, now if only I could get this procrastination problem under control so I don't flunk that course life would be perfect ;).
Well I'll chat with you later internet, have a good one
-Zi
How are you doing? I'm good....
Well as you know I'm the queen of procrastination, and now I'm really paying the price, I'm flunking pioneers class - seriously I could have done it but procrastination got the better end of me and I just didn't manage to turn in the final assignment. *sigh*
My house is also a bit of a chaos, it's really nothing major, but it's still enough, I mean, I really need to get settled into the rythm of this new house, because for excample, there is a special laundry room, instead of having the washer in the bathroom and the dryer in the bedroom, so now I don't see the washer when I hit the bathroom in the morning, so I somehow more often then not forget to load it, and then I don't see the dryer when I go into my bedroom at night so I forget to unload it, so that's something I need to get used to - having a special laundry room,
I guess out of sight out of mind isn't a great thing when it comes to laundry ;) LOL.
I'm also still waiting for the reparemen that were supposed to come "right after easter" to put a thing in front of my dishwasher so dust doesn't gather under it, put a new lightswitch in Kap's room and bring the racks for my owen, ohh and fix my doorbell - so if you come over KNOCK the doorbell is broken! LOL. I guess they meant they would come right after NEXT easter *sigh* - ohh well, they most likely will come eventually.
I have only one exam left and then it's graduation, - it's not a big deal, this is just a program for drop outs like me to finish what they need to get into collage, (well sort of to put it in terms you USA folks understand LOL) so that's almost done and next fall I will start a perperation course for the travelling industree course I'll be taking in the fall of 2010 when it starts here in Akureyri. I'm really excited about school, now if only I could get this procrastination problem under control so I don't flunk that course life would be perfect ;).
Well I'll chat with you later internet, have a good one
-Zi
23 apríl, 2009
Happy Summer!
Hello Internet!
Today is the first day of summer, well that's what the calendar in Iceland tells us anyways LOL.
The weather is very nice, and we're about to go to the minjasafn (the local national history museum) and then downtown, with the kids, we'll hopefully have a good time.
Winter and summer didn't freeze togeather here in Akureyri but in a lot of places in Iceland they did so those places will likely get good summers, (according to traditional folk tales, if there is snow and/or frost on the night before first day of summer then the summer will be a good one)
well I'm off to get ready for the outing
later
-Zi
Today is the first day of summer, well that's what the calendar in Iceland tells us anyways LOL.
The weather is very nice, and we're about to go to the minjasafn (the local national history museum) and then downtown, with the kids, we'll hopefully have a good time.
Winter and summer didn't freeze togeather here in Akureyri but in a lot of places in Iceland they did so those places will likely get good summers, (according to traditional folk tales, if there is snow and/or frost on the night before first day of summer then the summer will be a good one)
well I'm off to get ready for the outing
later
-Zi
19 apríl, 2009
Eclipse...
Hello Internet!
I'm currently re-listening to Eclipse and I love being stuck - again- In Forks, I seriously love getting my head stuck in Forks, I just always feel so good when my head is there ;) LOL
My kid's have a new favorite movie, like so many other times, this time around it's the classic, Mary Poppins, my kid's sure have great taste ;) LOL
Today I intend on going to my grandmothers to keep sowing curtains, and hopefully I'll manage to fix her computer while I'm there...
well this was random LOL
Later
-Zi
I'm currently re-listening to Eclipse and I love being stuck - again- In Forks, I seriously love getting my head stuck in Forks, I just always feel so good when my head is there ;) LOL
My kid's have a new favorite movie, like so many other times, this time around it's the classic, Mary Poppins, my kid's sure have great taste ;) LOL
Today I intend on going to my grandmothers to keep sowing curtains, and hopefully I'll manage to fix her computer while I'm there...
well this was random LOL
Later
-Zi
15 apríl, 2009
Getting settled...procrastination style!
Hey Internet!
So I'm wondering, am I the only one in this world who procrastinates getting settled?
I mean, we have been living here for almost two weeks now, and I still have boxes on every square inch of the living room, the kitchen still has items cluttering the benches that I need to find places for and don't get me started on the wash room and storage room!?!
See I have this thing when I move, I rush through the packing (again procrastination has me doing this at the very last second, go figure!) and then the big move with all it's stress and heart palpatations, then the cleaning of the old place and getting rid of the keys and all! - when this all has been done I'm just BEAT! - seriously people I didn't do anything compared to my poor husband who is indeed my hero, working his 12 hour shifts in the night while sleeping very little and MOVING for a WEEK - seriously he did all the hard labour, he did the big move with his dad, brother and cousin, and my friend, carrying the dishwasher, Fridge, washing machine, and dryer along with our many heavy furnacings. Seriously people that man was doing slave labour for over a week and then moving every single box we HAVE ALONE while I did nothing but slowly unpacking some of the stuff...still procrastinating! And again all this while working 12 hour shifts during the night!
Then he ended up cleaning the apartment too because of my sinus infection - I seriously despice my body, least bit of stress and my body just goes into ERROR mode! - Sinus infections, migranes, back aches, etc. all due to stupid stress! I HATE that, I wish I could do something helpful for a change instead of just being a burden *sigh*
Well on with the story, after finishing cleaning the old place and handing over the keys I just hit a slump, every day live has started back up after spending the easter holiday for the most part at my grandmothers house except the night LOL - and my life is still in boxes!
I went to school today without books because I wasn't sure where my schoolbag had landed?!? - seriously, I just had to show up there without anything, lucky for me the math teacher was sick and that's the only class I really needed my books in *phew* !
I am going to really settle in here, I intend to live here AT LEAST 4 years if not longer, preferably I will live here until my daughter graduates 10th grade, then I'm open to suggestions, I like this neighborhood VERY much! - and I love the school system here, and I'm happy about our location and proximity to the school and pre-school. I have never before settled in to an appartment with the intentions of really staying there, sure I've in the past HOPED to stay for quite some time, and intended to stay a few years, but I never really decided to make the place MINE KWIM? So this time I will make this place MINE - I went and bought a "new" (used -got it at the fleamarket) tv cabinet thing (the thing for the VCR and DVD - the one the TV stands on, what's it called?) I really think I will learn to like it once it's here LOL - it fits the rest of our furniture and it can be properly closed LOL!
Yesterday I picked a painting by my MIL I've been waiting until I had a place to put it, it's a wonderful still life picture of apples and a bottle and a few peaces of wood - she's a wonderful artist, now we have one by Gummi's mother, and his grandfather, we only need one by him (unfortunetly the artistic gene skipped a generation with him LOL - he's more in the musical genre) and we have hung some of our pictures up on the walls, which is nice.
I have bought fabric to make drapes for the foyer window, - they are HUGE and I will also use the same (seethrough red lace things - sounds sexy huh? LOL) fabric for the kitchen windows and balcony and hopefully my bedroom window.
I have allready had my grandmother model and sow (I do not sow, very seldom at least, and not drapes!) a shower curtain and matching curtains for the tiny window in the shower, it looks great :)
and my furniture are pretty much the way I like them, I need to swap with my mother, she has my living room glass cabinet and I have another one that doesn't fit my furnicings and it fits her's perfectly so we'll swap, but that won't happen until the snow around her house has melted away.
I also intend on getting a "new" computer desk, this one really needs to be upgraded, it's a terrible thing!
*takes an hour long break while talking to mother, then husband on phone*
So that settles it, I will also swap my computer desk for my mom's desk(which actually is formerly known as our desk since we swapped a few years ago) so then I will not have to worry about any furnicings, now if the snow would only melt away from my mother's house so we could get on with it *grumble*.
Allrighty then, I should be getting to bed...
Goodnight dear Internet!
-Zi
So I'm wondering, am I the only one in this world who procrastinates getting settled?
I mean, we have been living here for almost two weeks now, and I still have boxes on every square inch of the living room, the kitchen still has items cluttering the benches that I need to find places for and don't get me started on the wash room and storage room!?!
See I have this thing when I move, I rush through the packing (again procrastination has me doing this at the very last second, go figure!) and then the big move with all it's stress and heart palpatations, then the cleaning of the old place and getting rid of the keys and all! - when this all has been done I'm just BEAT! - seriously people I didn't do anything compared to my poor husband who is indeed my hero, working his 12 hour shifts in the night while sleeping very little and MOVING for a WEEK - seriously he did all the hard labour, he did the big move with his dad, brother and cousin, and my friend, carrying the dishwasher, Fridge, washing machine, and dryer along with our many heavy furnacings. Seriously people that man was doing slave labour for over a week and then moving every single box we HAVE ALONE while I did nothing but slowly unpacking some of the stuff...still procrastinating! And again all this while working 12 hour shifts during the night!
Then he ended up cleaning the apartment too because of my sinus infection - I seriously despice my body, least bit of stress and my body just goes into ERROR mode! - Sinus infections, migranes, back aches, etc. all due to stupid stress! I HATE that, I wish I could do something helpful for a change instead of just being a burden *sigh*
Well on with the story, after finishing cleaning the old place and handing over the keys I just hit a slump, every day live has started back up after spending the easter holiday for the most part at my grandmothers house except the night LOL - and my life is still in boxes!
I went to school today without books because I wasn't sure where my schoolbag had landed?!? - seriously, I just had to show up there without anything, lucky for me the math teacher was sick and that's the only class I really needed my books in *phew* !
I am going to really settle in here, I intend to live here AT LEAST 4 years if not longer, preferably I will live here until my daughter graduates 10th grade, then I'm open to suggestions, I like this neighborhood VERY much! - and I love the school system here, and I'm happy about our location and proximity to the school and pre-school. I have never before settled in to an appartment with the intentions of really staying there, sure I've in the past HOPED to stay for quite some time, and intended to stay a few years, but I never really decided to make the place MINE KWIM? So this time I will make this place MINE - I went and bought a "new" (used -got it at the fleamarket) tv cabinet thing (the thing for the VCR and DVD - the one the TV stands on, what's it called?) I really think I will learn to like it once it's here LOL - it fits the rest of our furniture and it can be properly closed LOL!
Yesterday I picked a painting by my MIL I've been waiting until I had a place to put it, it's a wonderful still life picture of apples and a bottle and a few peaces of wood - she's a wonderful artist, now we have one by Gummi's mother, and his grandfather, we only need one by him (unfortunetly the artistic gene skipped a generation with him LOL - he's more in the musical genre) and we have hung some of our pictures up on the walls, which is nice.
I have bought fabric to make drapes for the foyer window, - they are HUGE and I will also use the same (seethrough red lace things - sounds sexy huh? LOL) fabric for the kitchen windows and balcony and hopefully my bedroom window.
I have allready had my grandmother model and sow (I do not sow, very seldom at least, and not drapes!) a shower curtain and matching curtains for the tiny window in the shower, it looks great :)
and my furniture are pretty much the way I like them, I need to swap with my mother, she has my living room glass cabinet and I have another one that doesn't fit my furnicings and it fits her's perfectly so we'll swap, but that won't happen until the snow around her house has melted away.
I also intend on getting a "new" computer desk, this one really needs to be upgraded, it's a terrible thing!
*takes an hour long break while talking to mother, then husband on phone*
So that settles it, I will also swap my computer desk for my mom's desk(which actually is formerly known as our desk since we swapped a few years ago) so then I will not have to worry about any furnicings, now if the snow would only melt away from my mother's house so we could get on with it *grumble*.
Allrighty then, I should be getting to bed...
Goodnight dear Internet!
-Zi
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