sunnudagur, júlí 24, 2005
So, I go to the beach for a couple of days, and this is what happens? Everybody stops commenting? Where is everybody?! Ok, ok, I know, I know, there´s no fun without me :)
Since mamma seems to have fallen off the face of the earth (really like that expression) I´ll have to do some serious blogging. Mamma is actually too pooped these days because she´s waking up way too early to help her youngest son do his summer job, so I guess somebody is going to have to fill in for her. And now she seems to be growing a gerbil farm in her new house, although getting attacked once in a while (I´ll leave that funny story for mamma to tell you!).
These last few months have been a life experience for us, just getting over the shock (but the very happy shock) of being pregnant, I started throwing up and didn´t stop until a month later, while still trying to finish up both school and work and feeling way too hot and exhausted to do anything else than sleep all day (which I actually did do when I could) and feeling famished all day, no matter what I ate, I was constantly hungry. Then another month of not throwing up but constant nauseas and dizziness, now even eating was making me nauseated and the constant heat was driving me crazy. Here in the city it´s even worse because sometimes you can hardly breath the air is so thick. We were finally on vacation, so sometimes we were like three sloths (me, Mishka and Kisa) lying around the house anywhere where there was a minimal breeze
with all limbs flung out from the body (imagine the cats in the same position as me, flat on the back with all their legs strecthed out), while Manu took care of feeding us.
And now I´m feeling much better, no nauseas, just the normal tiredness and always hungry. We went to the beach for a couple of days to get out of the suffocating city, which was great but only for a few days. We of course got a little burned and the sun was just too hot, so we decided to stay only a few days. We also do get pretty bored at the beach, since we like to be at home so much, and the small appartment at the beach is nothing compared to home. Now we´re just waiting to go to Iceland the 1st August, where we´ll be staying for two and a half weeks. I´ve been dreaming of Icelandic food since May, actually dreaming during the night of drinking Icelandic milk (the Spanish milk is especially bad, I can´t find any kind that I like after Icelandic milk!) and eating roast beef and pabbi´s french fries and this sandwich that we ate in the country once and the cheese and the bakery goodies... slef..I could keep on with the list for hours, but that would just bore you and make me even hungrier than before, but I´ll keep you informed on what I eat in Iceland and how much I like it! :)
So mamma mentioned that Thóra and Freyja might be coming to Iceland? And news on that? That would be loads of fun, you guys are so silly when you all get together!
I´m getting hungry from all this writing, so I´ll leave it here for now. Bye!
Since mamma seems to have fallen off the face of the earth (really like that expression) I´ll have to do some serious blogging. Mamma is actually too pooped these days because she´s waking up way too early to help her youngest son do his summer job, so I guess somebody is going to have to fill in for her. And now she seems to be growing a gerbil farm in her new house, although getting attacked once in a while (I´ll leave that funny story for mamma to tell you!).
These last few months have been a life experience for us, just getting over the shock (but the very happy shock) of being pregnant, I started throwing up and didn´t stop until a month later, while still trying to finish up both school and work and feeling way too hot and exhausted to do anything else than sleep all day (which I actually did do when I could) and feeling famished all day, no matter what I ate, I was constantly hungry. Then another month of not throwing up but constant nauseas and dizziness, now even eating was making me nauseated and the constant heat was driving me crazy. Here in the city it´s even worse because sometimes you can hardly breath the air is so thick. We were finally on vacation, so sometimes we were like three sloths (me, Mishka and Kisa) lying around the house anywhere where there was a minimal breeze
with all limbs flung out from the body (imagine the cats in the same position as me, flat on the back with all their legs strecthed out), while Manu took care of feeding us.
And now I´m feeling much better, no nauseas, just the normal tiredness and always hungry. We went to the beach for a couple of days to get out of the suffocating city, which was great but only for a few days. We of course got a little burned and the sun was just too hot, so we decided to stay only a few days. We also do get pretty bored at the beach, since we like to be at home so much, and the small appartment at the beach is nothing compared to home. Now we´re just waiting to go to Iceland the 1st August, where we´ll be staying for two and a half weeks. I´ve been dreaming of Icelandic food since May, actually dreaming during the night of drinking Icelandic milk (the Spanish milk is especially bad, I can´t find any kind that I like after Icelandic milk!) and eating roast beef and pabbi´s french fries and this sandwich that we ate in the country once and the cheese and the bakery goodies... slef..I could keep on with the list for hours, but that would just bore you and make me even hungrier than before, but I´ll keep you informed on what I eat in Iceland and how much I like it! :)
So mamma mentioned that Thóra and Freyja might be coming to Iceland? And news on that? That would be loads of fun, you guys are so silly when you all get together!
I´m getting hungry from all this writing, so I´ll leave it here for now. Bye!
sunnudagur, júlí 17, 2005
Reunions and babies (no, not high school).
There has been a lot of talk lately, in the chatrooms, about possibly having a family reunion in Iceland December/January 2006. We would love to have you all here, and the sooner it is decided the better. As you all know, we now have a sizeable house; it has however not a whole lot of bedrooms and the extra apt. is now being rented out, to Freyr. We told him right away about this plan, that he might have to vacate around this time. The sooner this is finalized, the better for him, obviously.
There is an apartment for sale almost next door, by the way, 60 meters square, price 12 million kr., about 200.000$. Interested? We could rent it out when you´re not using it....
Now to the more exciting part of our lives, babies. Every week I see lots of them. And every day I feel that I learn something from them. They teach without effort like good teachers do, but most of the time without intention. Sometimes I wonder though, maybe there is some design..... Some babies are more memorable than others. I remember many from my work in the office and hospital. Some incidents are imprinted in my memory, even names and minute details. Some of these from more than a quarter of a century ago.
I remember faces. Almost an uncanny ability to remember faces. Prosopagnosia I do not suffer from (look it up). I recognize the little faces in the grocery store, looking at me from behind their mother. And I smile and wave at them. Makes my day. The most memorable are my own, children that is. From the day they are born, every little detail of their face, body, their whole existence is loaded onto my personal hard drive. The more emotion, the easier access to the data it seems.
And now there is a whole new experience looming, one I haven´t experienced. One of my babies is having a baby. Really?
More about babies and faces later. There was this one girl in GUH that I wanted to adopt, beautiful black baby, the mother did not or could not keep her. Her name was Anthea. I couldn´t convince Gerður......
There has been a lot of talk lately, in the chatrooms, about possibly having a family reunion in Iceland December/January 2006. We would love to have you all here, and the sooner it is decided the better. As you all know, we now have a sizeable house; it has however not a whole lot of bedrooms and the extra apt. is now being rented out, to Freyr. We told him right away about this plan, that he might have to vacate around this time. The sooner this is finalized, the better for him, obviously.
There is an apartment for sale almost next door, by the way, 60 meters square, price 12 million kr., about 200.000$. Interested? We could rent it out when you´re not using it....
Now to the more exciting part of our lives, babies. Every week I see lots of them. And every day I feel that I learn something from them. They teach without effort like good teachers do, but most of the time without intention. Sometimes I wonder though, maybe there is some design..... Some babies are more memorable than others. I remember many from my work in the office and hospital. Some incidents are imprinted in my memory, even names and minute details. Some of these from more than a quarter of a century ago.
I remember faces. Almost an uncanny ability to remember faces. Prosopagnosia I do not suffer from (look it up). I recognize the little faces in the grocery store, looking at me from behind their mother. And I smile and wave at them. Makes my day. The most memorable are my own, children that is. From the day they are born, every little detail of their face, body, their whole existence is loaded onto my personal hard drive. The more emotion, the easier access to the data it seems.
And now there is a whole new experience looming, one I haven´t experienced. One of my babies is having a baby. Really?
More about babies and faces later. There was this one girl in GUH that I wanted to adopt, beautiful black baby, the mother did not or could not keep her. Her name was Anthea. I couldn´t convince Gerður......
miðvikudagur, júlí 13, 2005
The Future.
Do we know about it? No, but we have hopes and expectations. Parents (Gerður and I= we) hope that our kids will grow up happy and at least be content in their life and reach at least some of their goals. That we will be able to be there to help and assist and share some of their experiences in life. That Gerður and I will be in Spain around next New Year´s or early January, visiting Úlla and Manu. Speaking of expectations; someone is expecting and maybe there will be a new relative in Spain in a few months time! Yes, Úlla er ólétt!
Do we know about it? No, but we have hopes and expectations. Parents (Gerður and I= we) hope that our kids will grow up happy and at least be content in their life and reach at least some of their goals. That we will be able to be there to help and assist and share some of their experiences in life. That Gerður and I will be in Spain around next New Year´s or early January, visiting Úlla and Manu. Speaking of expectations; someone is expecting and maybe there will be a new relative in Spain in a few months time! Yes, Úlla er ólétt!
