Svava´s little blogg-page: 01/01/2006

The little guy fell asleep in my arms (múshímúshí)

Golden girl :-)

Well, this was a great weekend. On Friday it was beer night at work, loads of fun :-) On Saturday I had a little birthday party, got nice presents and great company. Thanks girls !!!! On Sunday Hilda was competing yet again. She held her ground in hardening competition and snatched one medal, this time the gold in pole jumping :-) Proud mum ! Unfortunately I forgot the camera, but believe you me, she was looking great, holding the pole like a professional :-) Vala Flosa, eat your heart out :-) And this evening my darling Steingrímur came for an overnight stay. He is sleeping soundly here beside me in bed, high cuteness factor. And now off to sleep, happy and content.

Cosy time with Brad

Dirty-four and feeling just fine

Yesterday was my 34th birthday. I was awakened by my only child at 7:00 with a birthday song and hugs and kisses :-) She gave me a John Grisham novel and a picture she drew herself. Very nice :-) My friend Helga at work gave me a lovely necklace she made out of paperclips :-) I wore it proudly all day :-) In the evening I went to a restaurant with Hilda, my sister Svanhildur and her family. We rounded dinner up with ice-cream and I then went home, happy and content. I got e-mail greetings, sms's, phone calls and msn conversations from people wishing me happy birthday and then there were those that gave me the greetings live :-) Me basking in the attention, yes yes :-) And those that forgot to wish me happy birthday of course wound up on my death list. Muahahahhahah, you didn't really think advanced age would make me soft ??

Washing himself

My cute little Brad

I've been tagged - yet again :-)

Four jobs I´ve had in my life:
A cleaner at the Teachers Academy in Reykjavik
Court clerk
Research lab assistant biologist
A public health officer

Four movies I could watch over and over (and have!):
Airplane
Princess Bride
The man with two brains
Kill Bill 1-2

Four places I have lived:
Bólstaðarhlíð 66, Reykjavík Iceland
Tammisaari, Finland
Copenhagen, Denmark
Möðrufell 5, Reykjavík Iceland

Four TV shows I love to watch:
CSI
House
Little Britain
Law and Order, Special victims unit

Four places I've been on vacation:
Portugal
Spain
France
Greece

Four websites I visit daily :
Go Fug yourself
Xanth.is
Mbl.is
CNN.com

Four of my favourite foods:
Bread Soup
Chicken Lasagne a la my friend Sif
Leg of lamb with all the trimmings
Icelandic smoked lamb

Four places I would rather be right now:
In Scotland visiting Gunnella)
In Denmark with my friends there
In a buddist cloister near Lockerbie, Scotland
In the Galapagos Islands

Four bloggers I am tagging:
My sister Steinka
Dunno about others

Now what is Svava Svanborg ?

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Svava Svanborgicide is the killing of Svava Svanborg.
Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of Svava Svanborg.
Svava Svanborg does not have toes.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armour raised their visors to reveal Svava Svanborg.
Women shoplift four times more frequently than Svava Svanborg.
Svava Svanborg can pollinate up to six times more efficiently than the honeybee.
The colour of Svava Svanborg is no indication of her spiciness, but size usually is.
Svava Svanborg was named after Svava Svanborg the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life'!
The Aztec Indians of Mexico believed Svava Svanborg would protect them from physical harm, and so warriors used her to decorate their battle shields.
68 percent of all UFO sightings are by Svava Svanborg!

Hildur and Sören getting snowed on in Copenhagen :-)

Good old Nyhavn, one of my favourite places in Copenhagen

A lion I met by Christians brygge

Inside Låsby Kro, very nice

Snow falling in the early morning hours, turning Jylland into a winter wonderland :-)

Back from Denmark - nothing was rotten there, not even their cheese :-)

Got back from Denmark this afternoon, after an irritating two hour delay due to a de-ising queue at Kastrup airport. The trip was good, though at times a bit tiring. I flew to Kastrup on Tuesday, and foolishly walked to the domestic terminal for my connecting flight. Yes, I now know it lies far from the international terminal, and yes, I know there is a free bus that drives there (never you mind !). I flew with Cimber Air (no, never heard of that airline before) to Jylland, to Karup airport. There a taxi awaited me to take me to Låsby Kro, the hotel I had booked outside Silkeborg. The hotel turned out to be a nice old country inn with later time additions that both had comfort and rustic charm. I ate a delicious dinner there, mmm, and the portions were not small no no no. MMMmmmm. Only downside was that the room was freezing cold. And I couldn't get myself out of the warm bed to go to the reception to complain. Ah well. The next morning I shared a taxi with a ridiculously beautiful man to Silkeborg. Mmmm, that was a pleasant experience. Too bad I had to leave him in Silkeborg ! I took the train to Herning where I spent the day at Agromek 2005, a huge agricultural equipment expedition. I was there with bank executives from the bank that owns one pig farm that I monitor. We looked at various solutions for odour problems from pig farms. In the afternoon I flew back to Copenhagen and was picked up by my friend Hildur. I stayed with her and her boyfriend Sören. Sören and my friend Jakob made dinner, Sören maybe being a little to enthusiastic, as he cut his finger badly during the culinary exercises. Jakob took him to the hospital after dinner to have him stitched together again. Mmmm, dinner was gooood. The next morning I overslept ! Still, I got my butt out of the house and I visited the usual haunts in Copenhagen; Miljöstyrelsen (the Environmental agency), Miljökontrollen (Environmental office) and others. It was freezing cold in the city, so I had to flee into a pub to warm up over a beer :-) Hildur and Sören met me there and I went with them to a couple of game shops, and bought two mini extentions for Carcassone (yes, I know I am obsessed !). Repeat delicious dinner in the evening, without Sören cutting into any parts of his body though :-) Then this morning it was good-bye, snuff snuff ! But I threatened to visit again.... I could see them running out of the airport screaming... MUAHAHHAHAHAHHAH

Waiting for the gun to go off for the 60 m dash. She improved her time and was in 13th place out of 32 girls

Getting her bronze medal. The girls in the first two places are a year older.

The concentration is apparent, the ball is this time 3 kg, versus the 2 kg ball used in the age group 11-12 years.

Getting ready to throw the ball :-) The competition was held in the new atletics building at Laugardalshöllin

Proud mum yet again :-)

On Saturday Hilda participated in her first athletics competition in the age group 13-14 years old. She will turn 13 in February. And as usually she did fantastic. She got two medals, a bronze for shot (kúluvarp) and a silver for high jump :-). She also did well in other things, 5th place in long jump and 4th in the 800 m dash. Proud proud proud mum :-)

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Dad relaxing in his chair last Christmas

My father's birthday

Today my father would have turned 85, had he lived. We went together to the graveyard and placed white tulips on his grave and a candle. It was biting cold and dark in the graveyard but most of the graves had christmas lights on them so the surroundings were in no way bleak. It is nice to get an outlet for ones grief by going to the grave and have a moment of reflection. Today would also have been the birthday of my friend's Kristin's father. May they both rest in peace.