what a wonderful morning

MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS! yeps, and that's all i gots to says.... xoxo christmas bunny

23 December 2004

All right! So, back again! SKIING WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! Wow, the guys were great, saw a couple of stallions, 1 snow bunny (seriously, there was a guy dressed in a bunny suit) and a whole shit load of snow. I think that bunny guy was wearing the Easter costume, hmm... we'll never know now, since i didn't ask him. The main goal for the guys during the evening hours was to go to a bar and find some snow bunnies. I showed them the guy in the suit, but that's obviously not what they were talking about. I'm so confused. Hehe, no... they talk about bunnies, i talk about stallions. We all had an understanding of how the system works. :) Um, since i've been back i've just really been hanging out. Not doing much at all except for rotting at coffee houses with Anna and Leah. Arnþór is convinced that there's some coke in the coffee... he really doesn't understand why I go to Aroma's like 2 times a day. The mysteries of Hildur. But maybe there is some interesting point in Thor's inquiry. Maybe not, we'll never know. Well, this blasphamous writing is giving me a headache... so i think i'm going to stop. Tomorrow is my Christmas! I can't wait.... i've been singing WHAM! all day :) "Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away!" Cruel cruel people, hehe MERRY CHRISTMAS! XOXO Hildur

Everything is WOOHOO!

ALL RIGHT! WooHoO! So i'm back home! Úfff you don´t know how good it feels to be back! I´m flabergasted cuz i´m so excited! This morning, I woke up and it was light outside... 7 o´clock and light! OH MY GOD! So good to be out of the dreary darkness. Not only was it light outside, but I also actually spoke to people! yes, my friends, you heard right, PEOPLE! not were these people only people, but they were my FAMILY. Oh it was so nice and homey! Today I just kinda hung around, until I went to Aroma´s (coffehouse in Colonial Williamsburg). Oh, funny story. On my way there, I had to get gas. Pull up to the pump, look for the button to open up the gas flap (don´t know what it´s called), but to my surprise, there was none. I was seriously sitting in my car trying to find the damn button for like 15 minutes! I kept thinking to myself, "hmm... it´s probably soooo obvious, but i´m to disturbed to not see it", so I (feeling like a complete dumbass) ask this guy (a mexican who didn´t really speak english) to help me find the button. He was hopeless so I just said thank you and called my dad collect on the payphone! HOW PATHETIC IS THAT! And to my surprise, he said that there is no button (yeaps, figured that out myself) and that I just needed to push on the flap. TECHNOLOGY THESE DAYS! Unbelievable! haha! Yea, so I went to Aroma´s and sat there chillin, drinking my latté, and drawing, when no one else but LEAH came! WOOHOO! I was so excited that... um... I just couldn´t hide it! So, we drank some teath staining coffee, chatted and just enjoyed the moment, when no one else but ANNA shows up! WOOHOO! I tell ya, what a good day! awwww... :) So, now i´m waiting to go to my brothers violin concert... that little mozart... and then i´m gonna call my bizes up. Tomorrow I go on a weekend trip with my bro to go skiing! WOOHOO! It´ll be a blasted blast! I´m so excited! UGH IT WAS SO GOOD, AND STILL IS, TO SEE MY FAM! best feeling in the world! xoxo the "WOOHOO" girl

a penny saved is a penny earned

All right... so i'm ALMOST done with school! WOOHOO! i took my 40% exam yesterday, wrote about the barbaric invasions of the Germs and so. It went fine... cross my fingers...! So yesterday there was a cocktail party at KB Banki, a bank here in Iceland. The law students were invited to the bank, where they introduced a little bit why lawyers were needed in banks and so. They also freshed us up with red wine, white wine, beer and snacks. I tell you, I most definatly think we should invited ourselves to KB Banki a little more often! IT WAS GREAT! Free party night! Didn't have to worry about buying beer or nothin. "KB Banki, they're GRREEEAATTT". Oh can't you see Tony the Tiger saying that in a suit with a breafcase in his hands? Well, those of you who can't, suck. Hehe no just kidding. After the cocktail party, I changed and went to a birthday party. It was so much fun! Haukur had a karaoke party going on and, no... I didn't sing. That comes as a surprise! Knowing me, I would have thought I would be singing waterloo, dancing and going crazy. Well, I did all of that anyway, except sing waterloo... I'll just leave that to ABBA. Of course I had to show my skills on the guitar and play "ÞAÐ BLANDA ALLIR LANDA Á SÚGANDA", crazy skills on the GuItAr. Then, I went to Amour, sat there and watched my FAVORIT trubador play!!! HE'S SO COOL! Haha, didn't get his number though... haha Sólveig! Oh, something exciting... Sólveig and I are getting an apartment in January! FINALLY I GET TO TALK TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN MY COMPUTER! woohoo! I´ll have to keep ya´ll posted with news on that. Well, I´m kinda worn out from last night, so I don´t have much to say... and what I say is fairly dull... so I think i´ll stop torturing you all. "a penny saved is a penny earned" - how I wish I would follow this moto. toodles, the tired one

Ain't no sunshine when it RAINS

So, lovely day today here in Akureyri, wind blowing, ice melting and practically no daylight at all. Oh how the weather in Iceland is unbelievably good. YEA RIGHT. You know, i'm not kidding when i say it didn't get light at all, because it did't. And now, at four o' clock, it is dark and dreary, raining and just wet. Wet wet wet. I was contemplating this morning if I should buy iceskates, because I was slippin and slidin the whole way to school. It's unbelievable what we vikings have to put up with. Haha, I even started thinking, because I do so much of that on my walk to school, how "cool" I would be if I would show up to class with iceskates flung around my shoulder. Further into that thought, I started laughing... realizing that if I would pursue my idea, I would most likely fall, stab myself with the skate that were flung around my shoulder, and die. Hmm, best leave that idea only in my head... oh the great things that I come up with! :) (even though I would look awesome with my skates)!!! So, I think I should get a medal. No, not because of my brilliant idea with the skates, but because I conquered my bed this morning and was able to get to class! WOOHOO! Only about 15 minutes late (we'll blame that on the skate-less walk to school) ;) Oh, I forgot to write about the SPLENDID and most beautiful concert that I went to last Thursday. The concert: Eivor Palsdottir, who has the most beautiful voice ever!! Seriously, when I left Græni Hattinn, I was in a trance. Her voice is a beautiful piece of art... if you can say that. Sure, it´s my sentence, I say what I want. On the way home, Sólveig got to hear my constant squeeky voice describing everything, oh and i mean EVERYTHING, which I thought was great. And when I wasn´t talking, I was speachless! It was LOVELY! Haha, and when I parted with Sólveig, I sang the whole way home, trying with great passion to hit the pitches which she sang, which turned out to be an ungodly act of me... but hey, it made the ICE under my FEET start cracking!! Maybe that´s a method of survival which I should continue to pursue... especially when I´m walking my ass to school. Then there´ll be no falling for Miss Hildur... xoxo The Ice-breaker

13 DAYS!!! bed FiGhTs and frost...

OH i can´t wait to go home. THERE´S NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!! Ahhh... this is seriously starting to become an obsession. I can´t fall asleep at night because i´m starting to plan what i´m going to do while i´m home. Take the dogs to cw, go get coffee, and sow. Knowing me, i´ll probably only spend 1 day in sowing, won´t give a damn about the dogs, even forget to feed them, and sit all by myself rotting at the coffee houses. Haha, no just kidding, I think i´m going to have a blast. Relaxing and stuff. Oh, so something good happened today.... an essay which I though I was supposed to hand in tomorrow isn´t due til after a week! Ha! God must be playing with my head, I must have hear wrong. The Christmas spirit must be in my stallion of a teacher, haha! no, he´s a great teacher, just feel a little guilty because i haven´t been showing up too often. Actually, I´ve barely been showing up at all. I tell you, every single morning I have a terrible terrible fight with my bed. I hit it, bite it, and yell at it to let me wake up and go to school, but where as my strong will is just not AS STRONG as the will of my bed, I usually sleep through lesson and just go up to the school library. The battles which one must go through every day. It´s not strange though that one does not want to wake up, I mean, it doesn´t get bright til around 11, and before then, all you can hear is the wind blowing and the frost forming on your window. No desire to go into the cold I tell you. And also the fact that I have to walk 15 minutes to get to school just destroys my will. Oh how my life is hard... wah! haha just kidding.

Well, 13 days til I go home! I´M SO DAMN EXCITED! CHEERS!

Hildur Sólveig

The day goes on and on...

Ah, the heat is starting to come back to this winter-wonder(ummm...)land. No just kidding, it only feels a bit warmer because the temperature is not in the negative numbers. So, it's about 3 degrees C right now, the snow fading a bit, but nothing grand. When I walked out of my house this morning I thought I had entered a skating rink. See, here when the snow starts to melt a little bit, the ice that had been hiding underneath gives way and smakes you in the face as you fall on it. The bitch-slap from ICE. It's always fun. Hehe, yea... So, something that I think is really neat is when people have a group blog. It's great reading what a group of friends has to say, and the humour that is in that certain group. So, I picked up my passport today. Oh how the picture is GRAND! I look as white as my ass during winter, and it's just beautiful. I thought I was about to slap the lady today at the office where I picked my passport up. She was soooo rude and just plain ass BITTER! Yea well, if I was sitting on my ass all day I would probably be the same way. Well, no actually, I don't think I would. I would try to enjoy my life a little more, not be menopausing every damn day. This was the same lady that I talked to before... she must have remembered me... How could she have forgotten? A fun and spunky girl standing in front of her behind the glass window that seperated us? hehe, oh geeze, what is this post coming to? So, it's almost December! Oh how i'm going to be counting down the days til I go home. Not yet, I start when December begins. Sounds like a plan! Um, what else? Oh, I can't wait to see my VA peeps!! Sitting at Starbucks or Aroma's, drinking our coffee's and latte's, playing cards, and jammin! My toes are starting to tingle i'm getting so excited. :) Well, this is getting good... don't have much to say... ADIOS!

Words OF Wisdom

Hildur´s words of wisdom: DON´T EAT YELLOW SNOW! This is some great advice that I give people here in Iceland. All that is not pure and white, should not be trusted... so anything gray, yellow, or a little green should be taken with caution. Yes my friends, with caution. So, the pathetic life of Hildur has her sitting up at school on a saturday night hanging on the internet. The reason: Sólveig asked me. What a great friend I am. That´s all right, because I slept all day anyway. I tell ya, these weekends definatly get to get abused and beaten into sleep. That´s all I do... SLEEP! ´That´s all right though, because I don´t get enough of it in the week. So, yesterday I went downtown with Sólveig. Kaffi Akureyri it was. I´m really starting to get tired of this DJAMM here in Akureyri. Every single damn weekend it´s the same people, same music and same old beer. Eww no just kidding, not the same beer of course. Don´t get me wrong, I like meeting my peeps, but it´s the rest of the people who I don´t like who get on my nerves. The usual old men who constantly feel up on your breasts and spill their beer on you. Oh, the djamm atmosphere. So, I´m still so crazy excited about going home! YIPPEE! Welp, my cousin Auður Birna is going to the Galapagos soon. She´s in South America, I believe Equador, right now, and I WISH HER THE BEST OF LUCK AND HAVE FUN! nothing more to say... ADIOS!

1 month

A month til Christmas day!!! WOOHOO! So, Akureyri is starting to look like the North Pole. The Christmas lights have been put up around town and snowflake lights are hanging on the lightpoles on the main street. Not to mention the glistening snow which lays over the hills of this blessed town. Oh the snow. Yea, I must admit that those who do not get to experience the great snow of Akureyri, are missing out! PSH YEA RIGHT! Like stated very many times before, I'm usually falling on my ass and slipping and sliding all over the place. Ussss.... Aww, so I talked to my homebuay Árni just a little bit ago. I talked to him on SKYPE! GREAT INVENTION! hehe. So, I go home soon, after about 3 weeks or so. Then I get to RELAX! finally, because my health has been not too good. Yes, you heard it correctly from me, I have a soar throat. TERRIBLE! That´s about all that´s been going on in this blessed life of mine... not much to say, so i´m just going to say adios! c ya!

A month

As We Walked in Fields of SnOw!!

So, the streets in Akureyri are paved in snow. That blank above is my sample of snow to you all. Lovely. No but i'll tell you that I have to agree with my friend Andrea when she says that one of the most peaceful time of the day is when i'm walking to school. Beside the daily slip and fall on my ass, the daily windburn and the bloody daily skidding cars who never stop for me on the bloody crosswalk, it's VERY peaceful to walk to school. The temperture this morning as I was walking to school was near -7 degrees C! It´s fairly cold, but nothing that this crazy viking can´t endure. So, speaking about being crazy, I think my big round soccerball looking head is about to explode soon because Hart, Austin, Dworkin, Kelsen and some other fucking philosophers are trying to have a group orgy with me while i´m trying to catch some shut eye. Ewww, i´m only kidding, those men have been dead for a long time now, so I don´t think i´ll be able to fullfill THAT dream. (hehe Sólveig ;)...) ANYWAYS, yea this is the final week of this brain frying course. Man, I cannot wait til it is over! Oh how I am going to treat myself to something good on Friday. Speaking of, Singapore Sling and some other bands are playing on Friday at Deiglan. I do believe I may be thinking about going. Anyone care to join me? Oh how pathetic, I´m asking my blog to join me to a concert. híhí. It´s almost turning one, i´m up at school eating cold pizza from supper, i´m fatigued and trying to understand why the hell some philosophers think that law is something which it "ought" to be, while others think it´s something that "is". Damn! Well, at least the pizza is good. Oh, so I talked to VALA for a long time tonight! ÞAÐ VAR ALVEG ÆÐISLEGT AÐ TALA VIÐ ÞIG VALA MÍN! Aww, I miss my Reykjavík pack a LOT. Ya´ll know it too. Well, since we´re on this subject, then I also miss my Virginia pack, and my crazy Norwegian twins. :) haha well since I have no other friends, except perhaps a couple in PA, then i´m going to say ADIOS! Be safe, and if any of you have the same problem that I do.... butterfeet, then watch out for the hard ass sidewalk. ;)

Something Interesting

I'll tell you all something interesting which my teacher, the famous Mikael Karlsson said today in class. He went to NY over the weekend and came back with his head in awe. He said that the feeling in the air was very tense in the US. Is this true? It would be, no doubt, not wierd if it is tense. Half of the population is against that government power which is ruling the country. Should they feel stressed about what is going to happen? I do not know. Another thing which I was caught by today was the imposed terror onto civilians. What the fuck is the deal with that? Especially these days, why can people not be let alone to live their life in peace? When we ask ourselves this question, we must think of others and not only the people living in societies as ourselves. Can you all imagine all those societies which have constantly lived in terror? Look at the Iraqis. No one will tell me that every night they are sleeping soundly in their king size beds with down comforters. No one. Do you all believe in karma? Perhaps we are all suffering the from our karma, because we have always had it so easy. We live our lives without realizing what is going on outside our sphere of happiness. Is this terrible? You ask yourself. Is it luck that we are born into a society which is not one full of poverty or sickness? Yes.... no? Are we simply supposed to be contempt with the "class" which we are put in? I'm sure the wealthy feel fine, and would not find any reason to change. What about the not so wealthy? I will tell you, that at the moment, I look upon our world right now as when slavery was going on. We have our society which is contempt with how we live. We do not want to change it and we can always look to the poor to feel better. Then we have the poor societies, the ones in Africa, the Mid-East, South America, Asia... and what? We look upon them and we don't see people, we see figures which are just there... the poor. It is not taken personally that they dying, starving or hurt. No, no, they are just in their societies which are supposed to stay that way. I mean, is that not what we are saying when we spend our money on things which are not any way necessary? We increase our prosperity, while others are dying. We view their classes, and expect them to stay that way. Is that not kinda sad? What is the deal with not helping others? Why is it something so interesting to be in the red cross? Is it not something which should be viewed upon as being something we say "of course we should go out and help others..."? I mean, why not? Why do we not help others? I do not know....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FATHER!

All right... well as ya´ll can probably see from the title of this blog, it´s my dad´s birthday. YIPPEE! I called him of course bright and early to wish him happy birthday. Oh, the favourit daughter... um Hildur, the only daughter. Well, I had to try to make up some bonus points because I called my grandfather the day after his birthday... shit! Æ, things like that happen.... :o/ Um, well I guess i´m gonna start off by saying 1. The guestbook is working now, so do sign 2. The photopage is gorgeous! 3. umm... CHECK'EM OUT! Hehe, first thing done, check! Oh man, this weekend was great! On Friday there was a "country dance" (not square dance or anything, it just basically means that you can bring your own alcohol, and that you drive maybe 10 minutes out of Akureyri). The band, my favorit band at the moment, DOUGLAS WILSON... remember the www story? Well, if you don´t then you can check it out here bEloW. Well, Hildur took her usual steps on the dance floor. Ya´ll know what? I think I look like an airplane when I dance, mayve like an octapus. Who knows, at least... I just let go and let the spirit of the music man enter my body and take control. ;) owww! Anyways, many beautiful people there... and then the girl who has a sheep on the top of her damn head who dances like a chicken with it´s head cut off, i mean octopus no worm when being put on the hook. Now I think everyone knows what it must look like to get a visit from the music man. Be jelouse, very very jelouse. Um, yea so to carry on with the story, there was a lot of dancing, a lot of drinking (had to stop around 1 to dry out some) and a lot a lot a lot of HAVING FUN! yippee! always fun. I HAVE NOT BEEN SO HUNGOVER IN A HELL OF A LONG TIME! JESUS! I seriously thought I was about to die! ugh, but no worries, cuz on Friday there´s this Gala-Night for the Sociology and Law Department which is going to be grand! Hopefully i´ll be able to steal some pictures and put them on my photo-page after the weekend. Well, I don´t really have anything else to say, believe it or not... but I do believe I have written quite a lot. Now I think i´m going to finish this cup of coffee that I just got, finish 1 BeeGees song and then head on home... into my disaster-site of a room. I tell you all that my room is D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G!!! ugh... well I leave you all now with a song... we can work it out we can work it out life is very short and there´s no ti-i-i-i-i-i-ime for fussing and fighting my friend i have always thought that it´s a cri-i-i-i-ime so i will ask you once again try to see it my way only time will tell if i am right or i am wrong why to see it your way there´s a chance we might fall apart before too long we can work it out we can work it out -the one and only BEATLES "we can work it out"

Another 4 Years? Are you Serious?

This is a SAD, SAD, SAD, SAD, SAD, SAD, SAD, SAD day for the whole world. The date, 3. November, 2004, the day after the United States Presidential Elections. It´s down to Ohio, but the probability that Hitler, oops sorry I mean #1 terrorist and worst thing since the genocide of the Jews, the "man" who calls himself Bush will succeed and take the "throne" of being president one more time is fairly high. People, all people around the world, should now ask themselves.... HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN?? I know that that is what I am asking myself. In my little bubble of denial I am hoping that Republicans are secretly hiding their intention of trying to get Hillary Clinton into office after 4 years. I do not understand how people could actually want a man who has killed his own people, people from Europe and people in the Middle East... anyone care to inform me? His lies- oil, weapons of mad distruction and terrorism- have made the view of the world apon America not good. Why then would citizens of the United States want to make themselves even more unpopular by voting for the same jack ass one more time? The thing is that now that the US actually agreed and voted for this man again, means that now there is no defence for the citizens of the US to say that this man did a terrible thing(s). They are in a sense saying that they agreed with what this man did. Does this remind us of anything? Perhaps the denial that the Germans had when Hitler was in power? THIS CANNOT STAND. How do the Republicans let some ass on strings who plays doll in the White House be the representative of the most powerful country of the world? Then there are those who think that the US can rule the whole world without the opinion of Europe. We should all know by now that diversity is the key to a fruitful life. You do not grow without getting new and more information to adapt and grow from. This is so important for people to realize. For people´s information, I am have lived more than half of my life in the US and live now in Iceland, so I do not believe anyone can tell me I don´t know what I´m talking about. I have both the American and European views of what has been going on in Afghanistan, Palestine and Irac. I do not understand what people do... But, I will tell you all now... It is now a battle for freedom. This Christmas you will most definatly see Hildur wearing her fu*k Bush shirt, because NO ONE WILL TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM OF SPEACH, NO ONE WILL TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND NO ONE WILL TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM TO BE ME!!! I think it´s rediculous that we are having to battle these ideas and restrictions in 2004!! I ask everyone to take a stand and do not let the ideas of the Bush Administration weigh you down. Keep you goals to make a better world and do not give in to the sharks. For everyone´s information, this is my opinion and my opinion only. If anyone has a problem with this, then try to explain to me how the poverty, lies and scandles of the Bush administration can be good. This is what I would like to hear. Now I will say that this sad sad day will be recorded and viewed as a big mistake in a few years, and dear God, I do not know why people act the way they do. TERRIBLE! Hildur Sólveig aka "the sad blogger"

A little Theory of Knowledge

If a tree is cut down, is it still a tree? Does it play the same role as it did before? Is it still a living organism which functions in going through the process of photosynthesis and germinating to reproduce? This is a question you may one day ask yourself if you enter Sir Mikael Karlsson´s class of Legal Theory. Now what I ask you is, is a christmas tree really a tree, or have we all been wrongfully mislead our whole lives? So the next time you get a bouquet of flowers, just remember that it is not flowers which you are getting, but instead you are getting 'used to be flowers which are not any more.' They are something that once was, but are no longer. Ah, you gotta love the theories behind life. Another, do we find laws, or do laws find us. Was the theory of Pathagores there before he figured it out? Are the laws of math in our world for us to find, or are they invented by us to try to define something which we want to try to understand better? Hmm... well i´ll let ya´ll figure this out... enjoy! ;o)oh by the way, you guys can post comments, since I haven´t figured out yet how to put a questbook on my page.

Sex Tips

Dadadada..... dadadada......dadadada......dadadada..... that's the pink panther song! woohoo! What a great song! He's pink, he's cudley, he's a man... must be gay. All the good ones are. No i'm just kidding. Just so people out there know, i'm not bitter... just fun talking about the "cosmo problems" that girls are constantly supposed to talk about. Talking about Cosmo, has anyone -or is it just my great knowledge- that the "sex secrets", "sex techniques" and "sex positions" in Cosmo are always the same. You go to the book store in the expectation of buying the new Cosmo with GREAT tips, and da dann da da.... no new tips! Isn't that fraud? They sell you a product which is advertised with new tips and you don't get none. I tell you, if I was a guy, I would sue. And another thing, why is it that all the magazines tell you all these different kinds of things that you can do to pleasure your man, when all you're supposed to do is pleasure yourself. Ah-ha! Now I'm starting to talk like a single gal. That's the way to do it! But understandable, Cosmo is trying to tell women that they can hold on to their men unless they are able to get some new tricks from Cosmo. But COSMO ISN'T GIVING ANY NEW TRICKS! oh, how the world goes round. Another thing, um... oh, i'll just skip it... adios!

Quick post

Just another manic Wednesday. Ah, how I love school. The school life loves me. We go together like milk and cheese. So, I was in Bláa Kanann today, for about 3.5 hours. Definitely trying to kill time. Yep, ate some soup, bread and drank a shit load of coffee... Oh how I can´t wait to go to the States! I´M SO EXCITED, AND I JUST CAN´T HIDE IT! ah... so, I called my cousin´s girlfriend today who I haven´t heard from in forever! She had just taken her daughter to baby swim lessons and it was so great to hear from her! Petra is her name by the way, and isn´t just my cousins girlfriend, but also my friend. Yes, I do have a couple... haha, well i have to go coach, so I better say bye. I just wanted to say that. all right, ciao!

www.skype.com

I score on everybody to visit this site!!! With this "internet phone" that you download, you can talk to people all over the WORLD...(yes my friends, I am lonely)... so DOWNLOAD IT!!! plus, why waist cell phone money if you can call other people on their computers. I tell you, it's fantastic! So, if I haven't explained myself enough, there are prolly directions on the web-page... when you've done that... just call me up, if you see me online... just search for Hildur Sólveig CIAO!!!

waiting waiting waiting :p

Snow snow snow snow snow... It's going away. So, today I was walking to Cafe Karólína and was walking with sara part of the way, and guess what happens... a car drives by and splashes me! NO! yea, believe it or not! YOU MUST BE LIEING! nope, it happened for real. WHAT A JERK OFF! i know, people these days... haha, well, I can´t say i got really wet or dirty (oh how those words go well together in a sentence), actually I only got one drop on me... but I could have gotten dirty! That is the point... :) oh man, my story started out good, but ended shitty, could it be? Hmmm... I do believe so. Well, I´m just sitting in school stalking my teacher. We are supposed to turn in a paper... uh, 3...2...1... now, and my print quota is out, so I sent it to her in an email, and I just want to catch her to tell her that that´s what I did. Hildur did not improvise well enough. (damn you hildur, no sex for a week!) oh what a shame, since I get it 10 times a day... psh! haha! Oh, haha, a woman just walked by and i´m going to tell you of a story from Saturday night. Well, I went to Kaffi Akureyri on Saturday evening and sat at a table with tons of people I know, until I see a woman glance at me. Then I notice that it´s the "president" of the swim club which I am coaching at! That´s when I´m like, "shit! i´m drinking red wine and this lady is here... and I haven´t even said hi yet! I AM SUCK A DICK! how rude can I be?". So, I take another glance, just to be sure that it´s her, ask everybody at the table whether I shouldn´t go say hi, so as not to be rude... then I go and take the long walk to her table. This woman is, just so ya´ll know, in her 30´s.... I pat her on the back, say "hæ! Hvað segiru? -Ég þekki þig ekki - Hvað ert þú ekki í sundinu? -Sundinu? ég hef nú ekki farið í sund í mörg ár! -óh! haha, ég kom að segja hæ því ég hélt ég þekkti þig, en svo þekki ég þig bara ekki neitt, uff... ég hélt ég væri að vera svo dónaleg með því að ekki segja hæ... jæja, þetta er þá ágætt... haha! ok bæ!!!" -In this conversation I basically come to the knowledge that this is not the woman that I think I know... She hasn´t gone to the pool in a lifetime, she doesn´t know me and I make a dumbass of myself. Isn´t that quite normal for me though, Stína? I do believe so. Haha! well, I just got reminded of that story because she just walked by. Hmmm..... where is my teacher... she should be here! 10 minutes late! I could have used those 10 minutes. Has anyone ever wondered why teachers say a certain time which your papers should be handed in, then they don´t even enforce the time... wow, talk about one who is complaining. Dadada... so, I´m going to go coach soon. One of the girls who I am coaching was sure, last week, that I was trying to drown her. Psh, madness. "oh where oh where has my teacher gone..." I really would mind getting the hell out of this place. Oh, my dreds are coming along... I won´t say fine, I´ll just say that they´re coming alone. Oh, you wanna know what´s really sad, there´s a lady standing here whose legs are about the same size as both of mine. Lovely. uup, here comes Gylfi on his super fly bike... helmet, pants clamp, reflection band around his waist... such a character. Haha, well, i´m just going to put a small love letter in her mailbox and tell her that mine is in the form of an email. Well, gonna "get tha hell outta here..." as Tod, Árni´s friend says. WITH LOVE LOVE LOVE HiLdUR sólVeiG

"My Red Rubber Boots" (or is it ball)

Oh how I am loving this snow! It's great... it's still snowing, I want to say that's it's about 1 foot right now. It's funny how different the reaction is here in Iceland about snow then it is in the states. But I mean that is completely normal... we're so used to it here. I tell you... i'm not sure if any sleds are in the stores yet, but once they come in... ya'll know who will be the first customer with the stearable sled... da da da.... ME! yep you heard right, I can just imagine myself, with my red rubber boots, my speed lightning black sleek sled, my woolen sweater which is completely hidden by my ginormous coat... and a little condom looking hat, sitting in a snow bundle with the tip of the condom sticking out. That will be me... those orders better be coming in soon. People here in Akureyri are talkin bout cars, while i'm on my plan to buy a sled and ride it down the hill to get to school. It's so much more convenient. I swear, I'm a three year old. That must be why this girl was talking to me at the pool and showing me how she could me a mermaid, ballerina and a butterfly... I though we were supposed to get older when we got to university... sad sad misunderstanding. :) I sit here up in the dinning hall, all by myself... drinking my coffee... god how I love love love love love coffee.... I seriously do not know what I would do without it. Mmmm.... well my red rubber boots are calling for some cooling down... better go battle the world of Ice.. Ciao!

QUEEN NAG

Oh my oh my oh my! what a busy weekend I had! Ah, but it was a good and nice one... yea baby, all because of you. Now how would that be if I wrote my blog always in the style of a love letter? I could love you, kiss you, hug you, miss you. Oh my love, my life.... YEA RIGHT! I think I would have to shoot myself first before I go into the sensitive vulnerable stage. Egh! Well, that tells you how my love life is going... lack of love life that is. But the thing is, I don't understand all these love songs... call me relationship scared, but why would you want a person who you have to build your life around. I think my selfish life is the way to go. I don't have to tell anyone where i'm going, who i'm with.... and you know what?... it's not all that bad. Toni Braxton must have the wrong idea about being alone, because all it is is just freedom. Freedom to do whatever the hell you like. It's great. On to more important things... What I can not stand... First of all, what the hell is the deal with RUDE people?? Do they not know that they are not cool, not making the world any easier and just straight up SUCK? I swear, I'm starting to think that people think it's actually cool. Oh how they have misunderstood. Oh and reduculouse.... what's up with that? Why can it not be spelled that way? It makes much more sense than ridiculous... the english language... ussss! What else? hmmm, WHINERS! What is the sense in whining about every damn thing? There is no point... you can not change the world so just don't try it! Things will not always go the way you want it to, and to sit here and nag about every damn thing just will not help.... plus, people would probably much rather hear happy things, music or poetry rather than... ugh the weather, ugh my toe, ugh my nose, blah blah blah. Now i'm not saying that I don't whine, quite insidentaly i do it a lot, and I sure hope my friends slap me in the face if it gets to be too much. AAHHH.... Much better... Well how about I tell ya'll about what's happening here... it's snowing. We are living in igloos and I walk around in my flashy red rubber boots like some 3 year old kid. It's lovely. I like it a lot! At least at the moment... it's so peaceful. Oh something sad, I heard "Haleluja" today in Cafe Carolina, and I swear, I haven't heard it in a while and it just made me tear up... it reminded me so of Davíð, bless his soul. I won't talk about it. Um, people I really miss... LEAH, ABBY, ANNA MY LOVELY HOMEBOY KRULLU CHRIS, KRISTOFER AND STÍNA. awww, hugs and kisses to you guys from me. Ah, well i have to stop writing... I´m getting carried away. Cheers and don´t worry, i´ll try not to get lost in the madness of weather here in Akureyri. Kiss kiss Oh my the way, if someone knows how to put pictures on the internet please tell me... like how i can get it on a link off my blog. Aight nokka´s peace!

Sprellmótið

All right, the Sprellmót was on Friday... so damn fun!!! Because I am in the party committee... skemmtinefnd... I was one of the person "in charge" of what was going on the whole day. It started at 13:30... that is when all the departments in the university went to the "downtown Akureyri" and had a cheering competition... who could get craziest, loudest and most rediculouse. Reki was wearing red and pulled a "siminn" commercial and laid down in the middle of the torg, the Nurses (Braveheart) started killing Reki with their swords and axes. Stafnbúi, the fish committee :), wore blue and did not cheer at all... well they did have a blow up doll (1 point), the teachers (Magister) were Grýlurnar... with their trash bag dresses and bows made of alluminum foil. Kumpani (sociology and legal department) dressed up as rediculouse exercisers. I have to admit, I thought Kumpani was the best... since there is no bias, right? Haha, yea, when we got to the gym where the competition went on, the madness began. What kind of madness you may ask yourself? oh, that of the greatest kind!!!! We started with live fussball, then plastic wrap... where a group of people were wound together with plastic wrap and made run across the gym, drink a beer, and run back. This great game was of my grand creation. Then there was relay called "skota hlaup" or "shot run" where the team had to run 1/2 way across the gym, take 1 shot of Jagermeister, run to the other end, run 10 times around a pole, run back dizzy to the other end, crawl between the legs of the next component for him to go. I will tell you that I got a fuckin Jager shower!!! during this event. It was crazy! People were so competative! Haha, then there was the Limbo, which we all know is just gumby, the Tug of War... reipitog, and the eating competition... which was straight up nasty! We had fishpudding, Fiskibúðíng, which was covered with green food coloring... and believe you me, it was not a single puney can, it was a huge one! You icelanders must know what i´m talking about... americans, it´s like maybe bigger than a Campbell´s family size can of soup. HUGE! along with this, they had to drink 1 beer. Oh the beautiful Lager! This was the final competition, and after that, everyone was pushed out and I got to cleaning. woohoo! When the night falls... I will love you.... Yea right, that evening there was a singing competition... one contestant from each department. And guess who was up on the stage introducing, making jokes and lookin cute? YOU GOT IT... HILDUR!!! oh, you who guessed wrong suck. Well, I was there on stage introducing with my friend Sólveig, and by the end of the night... I just had to scratch that annoying itch... AND SANG "I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE" by The Darkness. Ah ha! The greatest thing of all was that I know maybe 2 lines in the song... and æ æ æ. It was great though. The band Douglas Wilson www.dw.is played and they were great. I score on you to go see their homepage. Great times, oh, I partied like crazy with my cousin Egil! This was like the 2nd time I meet him and he´s just crazy fun!!! I was kinda a loner that night though... but i thought it was fine. Oh by the way, my feet were killing me like crazy! I have never been in such pain because of some damn shoes my entire life... oh but I love them!
da..dadadada..dadadada.dada.dadadadadadadadadada
I wanna dadadadadada
...............
I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE...
OOOOOOO-UUUHHHHHH HÆJA!
kv. Hildur Sólveig

Dope in Akureyri

So, I heard something interesting yesterday night when I was listening to the news. Like I have told you guys, and some of you may know, the teachers in Iceland are on strike. One news reporter was talking to the principal or some guy here in Akureyri, and the principal was saying that this wasn´t a very good thing. It happens to be that drugs are a big problem here in Akureyri, where as children around the age of 11-12 were "caught" with drugs in their system!! I´m sorry, you all know that i am very liberal when it comes to this type of stuff, BUT THAT IS DAMN YOUNG! Do kids these days seriously have nothing better to do then to get high? What the hell is happening to Iceland? I find this rediculous and just straight up sad. Not Wah Wah sad but pathetic. Jesus! It´s a different thing when you´re older... i´m not going down on all my peeps you know, but kids in Iceland when they are 11-12 are still just little shrimps. They ain´t swimmin with the big dawgs yet. It´s sorry. Ah, now that i have that off my chest, "lets talk about politics!" :) oh the humour the humour. I took a quiz today on aol which was to "show" you which politician you agree with most. I think I had like 95% Kerry and 5% Bush. DAMN THOSE 5%!!! I must not have understood that question! ;) Talking about not understanding shi-it.... I´m reading a crazy book in Law about um.... I don´t know something in Icelandic, and I think that´s about all I can say about it! I am major slow at reading it and about to flip! I tried even to call my dad yesterday to complain, but regretfully (for me) no one answered (good for him!). Haha, i´ll try to survive though. It´s just that i´m not so patient. ooop... do i hear some wahing? None of that tonight, just coffee, library, cigarettes (not me) and a bloody book to keep my night... um.... happy :oþ
Lovely!

Ms. Wah wah wah girl

Yes! Score! Hell Yea! ah, i had to get that out. I just sent my exam to my Sicilian sexy professor! thank god that shit is over! now it's just beer beer beer beer beer tonight... since i didn't have any last night, psh yea right! oh my God talk about a hallarious night! well, all yesterday till about 16:30, I was up at the library writing my exam. Then I left and went to Cafe Amour to drink 2 beers. Yea, talk about lame ass people in my class who don't get off their ass's and join the crowd! I don't understand why people with no obligations can not join the crowd for once!?!? ah, anyways, then we went out to eat, La Vida et Bella. Muy deliciose! Then, we back to the library. Joy. But, no worries, we didn't last that long. Sara, who had decided to "study" at home, called after her nap. She came and picked us up and we went to Kaffi Akureyri. You know what, I haven't had this much fun in Akureyri since I came here! I was like flippin out! Dancin, singin, just enjoying the shit out of myself. Then when they were closing we left and were trying to find an afterparty. You know what? There are sometimes just times when you should just really go home. That's what we all should have done... just gone home... but no no no. Dan the Dane was trying to go home with Sara, who has a boyfriend, Norwegian girl trying to desperatly get with Davíð, everybody yelling at everybody.... except for me, who decided to tackle the mountain of a hill to get home. Damn Hills! they kill me sometimes. And then of course the whole "why don´t i have a boyfriend... wah wah wha.... why does no one like me.... wah wah wah....." by the way, that´s me. I´m the wah girl. it´s rediculouse. gotta love it. :) Well Sara´s birthday tonight, we´re going to cook us some borritos and good shit! and we´ll be flowing with beer too! Taha! Keep ya´ll posted!
cheers!
Wah Girl

Legal Nerds

This law thing has definately started taking over our lives. I was outside smoking with my friends Davíð and Dagný, discussing our friend´s Sara´s birthday. And since we blew up a sex doll for Davíð (because he´s so desperate) :) he made a little joke about giving her a man sex doll. Then I started thinking of a cool name, but then he spurted out the name corpus. This has just gone too far. We've been in this program for 3 weeks, and we're already making stupid law jokes! What will we be like after 5 years? Jesus! And considering that my humour is a very lame one, all you, my friends who read this in the states, are going to be like, WHAT THE FUCK? Oh terrible terrible. At 5 we're meeting at Cafe Amour, the law department, to probably make some lame jokes, drink beer, and just be glad that our first session in hell is over. Haha, i went to the hot pot the other day after coaching, and guess who i saw? My sexy sicilian teacher in a little speedo! Shoot me. It was quite amusing though, he talked and talked and talked and i was just waiting for him to stop talking cuz i was starved and wanted to go eat something. There were some pounds that got left in the pot! Oh jesus, yesterday i saw that guy that i met when i went partying by myself in Akureyri. Eww, he kept looking my way and I was not having it, so I started listening to Dagný the feminist talking to Davíð and how women..... I don´t remember, I was too busy thinking about what i was going to say to listen. Haha, I´m like a man, can only do one thing at a time. Lovely. The primary school teachers here in Iceland are going on strike soon. Now tell me, why did my teachers never have strikes? These kids get like probably a couple weeks off! Insane! Teachers are always complaining about their salary. well, the government needs to do something... oh the politics of Iceland. So simplex, but not really. I really don´t know much about it, just that i think communism would work for all. VIVA CHE!

Cafe Carolina

All right, well that previous post was from last week just so ya'll know. As we speak, i'm sitting at a coffee house by the name of Caffé Karólína. It's a really nice hole in the middle of a hill, you know how Akureyri is... So, like usual, the stress of school is still on. The people in my class and I have come to the conclusion that we are going to be stressing every single week for 5 years. It'll be the best 5 years of my life, eh? Haha, i said eh the other day and i was asked if I was from Canada! i was like what? no! fooled him! haha.... such humour! I tell you, i have found the reason why i hang out at coffee houses all the time instead of going home.... I don't like being at home. My epipheny! (damn i hope that's spelled right) :) So yea, i'd rather just hang out here and hang out with my artsy self listening to some immensly annoying girls play cards. My card playing peeps... we were not like them! So yea, I have a really good friend here in Akureyri who goes by the name of Sólveig. I believe she saved me. Had we not met, i don't know what i would've done. I wish i had something fun and funny to say but, mmmm do i ever. Yea, poverty is starting to stike the country of Hildur Sólveig. It's terrible. Ohh, I'm going to start coaching again. yippee! 2 a week, 45 minutes. Then yesterday the "party-counsil" met. It's going to be a lot of fun! HOORAH! all right, i have to get studying... the story of my life... oh, one thing i've decided is that learning is fun. it's fun knowing more one day than you did the other. All right, Hildur's words of wisdom! Adios!

ROMAN LAW. The word i have started to dread is invading my life. I woke up this morning and the first thing that came to my mind was ius civile. how lovely. after being at the library til 2 o´clock last night reading for a test on friday, i rode my yellow bike home, only to find that after my 20 cups of coffee that i wasn´t tired. so therefore being on my caffeinne high, i hung out for like an hour waiting to doze off. At three i was successfull in my attempt, slept 4.5 hours and rode my ass to school, only to be in a class about how to use the internet library. ahhh, TIRED. So, i decide to blog. These weeks have been all right. Last Sunday Einar got confirmed! It was so cute! he is such a kid in my eyes, and then all of a sudden when he started walking down the church aisle, i got teary (since it is a damn wedding). I tell you, the nerves were definately going crazy that weekend. I had to say adios to the fam, which was a waterfall. Rediculousé.

Ta-Ka Þ-e-TT-a Til Ba-Ka

All right, so now i have so much stuff to tell ya´ll about. I am placed in Akureyri, came here last Tuesday, thought i was about to DIE!! Let´s start from the beginning...
Tuesday:
As i had slept too long after 3 hours of sleep, i realized i still had to get all my shit together at my aunt´s house and leave Reykjavík. It had been decided that i would take the bus there (good ol´ 5 hours) since that made the most sense. I had called the night before asking if there was any limit with luggage, telling the man on the phone that i had 2 giant trash bags, 2 suitcases, 2 rolley suitcases, 1 sports bag, 2 small boxes, 1 chair and 1 bike. I think the man on the phone definatly fell for my sexy but sweet voice, because he said that it should be no problem. Then, the morning of my day of departure, i show up 15 minutes before the bus is to leave with all that shit and a smile on my face. it is fairly obviouse that the man driving the bus was not the same gentleman who i talked to on the phone, because this guy was not happy. after he "tetris-ed" everything into the bus, he was more than pissed to realize that i still had a bike! Then came the "de-tetris-ing" of all the luggage in the bus only to stack it all back in a couple minutes later. ;) He didn´t look at me the entire way up to Akureyri. haha. Then when i got here i got a look at my room and i really liked it. then i ate dinner with my great-aunt and family and listened to the beautiful a-Kur-eyrís-Ka dialect. I couldn´t help but laugh a little inside of me. Then when i got home i walked around until i found a video store, rented some movies and went to bed.
Wednesday:
On this long day i finished preparing my room and went and hung at a coffee house for like 3 hours. I swear i had abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do! i was borred out of my bloody mind! but it´s nothing that a couple of high caffeined coffee drinks can´t fixed. :) Then i went again to the video store, visited my friend the video man, and rented 2 movies. What an exciting day in the life of Hildur.
Thursday:
I don´t really remember Thursday, except that i went to the pool and hung out, once again.... by myself. Not getting enough of myself, i took myself on a date to a coffee house. Grand.
Friday:
Yep, hung out once again at a coffee house. yeah! Then that night i went on my desperate attempt to make friends with the people they call Akureyríngar.

This species is quite sensitive to girls, specially ones with wannabe dreads and freckles. They eat hamburgers with fries inbetween the buns and are very proud of their coke in a bottle. Life span reaches 116 years for males and 180 years for females. from THE BOOK OF ICELANDIC PEOPLE

Since my description does not suit these sorts very well, the only person who ended up talking to me was an old drunk. YIPPEE! my lucky days just keep on coming. As this drunk was talking to me, i enticed him to buy me two Guinness´s. Yes Abby, you heard right, Guinness´s. mmm. Then in my sad state, i ditched the guy, went to my lovely coffee place, had 2 mojito´s, got piss drunk, went to a night sale where I of course ended up offending the poor guy serving me because i asked him if it wasn´t in Akureyri where they put Potatoe salad and... "potatoe salad and red cabbage... NO. it´s unbelievable how many people we get from the city who are always asking that question. what do they think we are?" Right ass hole. then i walked home... left my trail of french fries on the cars, until i realized that my french fries were good and i wanted to keep them all to myself... and as thinking this, stuffed handfulls into my mouth. Arriving at home i died in my bed. Lovely.

Saturday:

Probably rented some movies and did absolutely nothing.

Sunday:

Ahah, nothing again! Then I went to dinner at my aunts. Pleasant.

Well, I´ll write more about school and how it´s been later. If this bores you, then don´t read it... It´s long. All right, adios COMPADRES! best of wishes to everybody!

Back on the Klake

All right... so i´m back in Iceland now. The trip here was all right, except for the quick life flashing before my eyes ride "above" fierce winds when flying from Norfolk to Washington. I don´t understand why the captain is always like, "ehhh, we´re flying over a storm right now so it will be a little bumpy" while i´m sitting there grabbing onto whatever stable substance i could get. but, i had my cosmo so as i was reading 100 things guys want girls to do in bed, the bumpy ride was not all that bad. haha. but yea, it was sad saying bye to the family, always is. but, then there is something to look forward to. :) well, i got dreadlocks on thursday. they are twisties so it´ll take like 2 weeks for them to really set in. I can not wait for the madness to get all nappy and tight. on Friday, my last night in williamsburg, i siezed the day till 6 am, not wanting the next day to come. i hung out at arni´s and nathan´s, pestering all the people who were attempting to pass out. NONE OF THAT, BIATCH! but yea, it was fun and sad at the same time. Today i didn´t do much. After i got to Sólveig´s apartment, i went to the bakery and picked up some schisnit to eat. Then i was going to take like a 1 hour nap and all of a sudden I woke up at 5!! whua! my 1 hour nap turned into an 8 hour slumber. But that´s rest that was much needed. I just got back from Kofa Tómasar Frænda. I was there with Kólbeinn and Kristofer. It was sooooooo good to see them again! I really like those guys. They are so great, even though Kris was being a dick and talking to his cute friend without me. But, you gotta love the British Tea Biscut... because he´s british. I told Krazy K about my "meeting Collin Ferrell" story. He was like "why did you have duck tape on your face?" and i was like "does duck tape have to happen for a reason?" His thugness couldn´t come up with a snazy remark so he took it like a bitch. Bitch is the word now. Everytime i say it i think of Leah scrunching up her face saying "that´s Garfield Bitch!!!!!". Gotta love it! So, I am staying with my cousin and her boyfriend as i speak, and she´s studying for her final which is on Wednesday. Good timing Hildur. My bad. I think i´m going to try to go to Akureyri on Tuesday... whua Law School here I come. Hopefully it´ll be a blast. All right, i´ll blog when i have something more cool to say. Till then, "buy some cats!" cuz MC´s, I just wanna hang out. Peace.

THAT'S GARFIELD BITCH!

So... I haven't blogged in forever. That's what happens in the summer time though. Right, good excuse since i have been doing this for so long :p anyways, tonight was the "last night" that i got to hang out with Leah. It's so sad to realize that i'm not going to see her again until maybe Christmas! That goes along with the whole gang too! Man. It's really funny though, cuz Leah, Abby and I are all going to be starting a whole new "life" this fall. Abby up in Wisconsin, Leah at MW and I at Akureyri. CRAZY! But, that's what life is all about, making decisions, meeting people and just enjoying the moment. But seriously, i do not know what I had done had I not met up with Chris that day (as posted below) at the Cheese Shop. That just has made my whole summer. These cool cats are like the coolest people in Williamsburg! They are people with whom you can have real conversations with and who go to coffee houses every single night and never get borred with just hanging out. Seriously though, we have a coffee house addiction. I don't think we've skipped a night of coffee housing for a while except on maybe the weekends. Insane. There we talk about our inside jokes ("THAT'S GARFIELD BITCH!" and "GIVE ME SOME SCONES NOKKA" <- my way of spelling it :p) It's just so funny how things turn up. Like Leah and I weren't close at all in high school, but now it's like i don't know how i would have survived the summer without her. In conclusion: TO THE GANG I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS SUMMER, THANK YOU!!!

Birthday Girl

Yippee!!! It's my birthday! 19 is definately not a very fun birthday though. There is nothing that special about 19. It's in between buying cigarettes and buying alcohol (when we are referring to Iceland). In the states, 19 is just not cool at all. It's unbelievable how time flies though. I still feel like my 17th birthday was 3 weeks ago... not 2 years ago. Hmmm, oh well, a year older a year wiser I do believe they say :) yea right... So, Silje and Kristin gave me this completely risky Corona bikini. Za boyz vill be druling zen. It was so great to see them again! I love those girls! Despite the short time that we got to hang out, we clicked together like 123. Oh, more exciting news is that we got a new puppy! A Yorkshire Terrior. She is soooo cute and tiny! We have no name yet, but i will keep ya'll posted with it. I still have no job, which is fine at the moment... but my bank account will be crying in a few days. Live today, worry tomorrow. Good saying eh? Today I went to meet Chris curler for lunch. He thought I wouldn't show up so therefore decided to start without me. Pfh! He was getting his ass kicked by the Cheese Shop. By the end of the day he'll probably have like 20 bumps on his head. Haha. It's all good though cuz he's going to find the secret ingredients in the Cheese Shop's house dressing. SCORE!!

Pop Stars?

So, yesterday I was hanging out at my brothers place and had this conversation with one of my friends... are there any non "pop-star" girls. Like, we have Avril Lavigne who tries to be all hard core and rebel-y, but is she not just playing into the pop world under that image? The producers and all those important guys maybe try to make these talented young people different from the rest, but they always fall under the same categorie as say Christina Aguillera, Brittany Spears and the rest of those "talented" bimbo's who shake their ass's and lip sing during concerts. So... what i'm trying to say is that groups like Metallica, Sigur Rós and the rest of those hard core cool bands don´t face the same opsticals as the girls in their little girl bands do. Either girls have to have the looks or... have the looks... or, um.... have the looks, to make it in this world today to be famouse. This I think kind of sucks because there is probably a ton of great talent out there that does not get to be expressed just because the poor girls do not look the part. They say "this business is tough", but I think "it´s fucking political"! -Skin from Skunkanansi

Summer Fun

Ahhh... isn't it great when you can go outside and the humidity is low and the temperature only in about, let's say, the 80's? Not many would agree with me, but this is the type of temperature that suits me. Instead of having the scourching heat crispying my ever so white icelandic skin, I can actually go outside and enjoy myself! :) Well, I guess i'm a wimp when it comes to this Virginian temperature, what can I say... I've been where the temperature reaches a high of 22°c (you do the math). Yea, but I just came from the pool which is freezing compared to the Icelandic geothermally heated pools and it was so nice! Since I got back home, it´s been a lot, and i mean A LOT of "family time". Well, isn´t that nice though? Then as the day goes on, the father goes golfing, the brother goes to soccer practice and the mother goes (of course) shopping for food! YUM. But yea, Silje and Kristin are going to come to Williamsburg on Sunday. I´M SO EXCITED!! They are going to VA Beach for two days, and then traveling back to the 1700´s and going to Collonial Williamsburg. It should be fun! I am thinking about going to an Aerosmith concert next week... WOULDN´T THAT ROCK?? I do believe so...! Good times good times. Well, I will leave you all with a poem which me and this Hollandish girl I met in London wrote. Enjoy!

The to be famouse writer:
I know, always was a fighter
but she was not a short sighter
Her sun shone made all brighter
She smoked her Marlboro of red
spirit is strong, no health thread
But of course the alcohol did not go to her head
Life is for the living and smile when I´m dead
Tomorrow we will see if it did
waiting in anticipation for teh hit
Whether my workout all month has made me fit
nevertheless bodies decay as lain in a pit
AND THAT´S THE WAY THE COOKIE
crumbles
Hildur Sólveig and Renete 30 May 2004

Back from London

Well, I got back from London last night. I had been there on my graduation trip with Stína. It was crazy fun! We weren´t really the tourists there, since our main artinerary was to go there and forget all which we had learned in school... which was great! AND MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! We stayed at a hostel called Generator, and damn do I recomend it! It was so much fun, the staff was great, the people there friendly and the bar in the hostel itself. I think that bar did it for me and Stína, cuz every evening that we were there, we showed up for happy hour at the strum of 6 pm to pay our 1 pound for a glass of beer. Not only that but participation from our 2 person group was taken in karaoke, limbo, crazy generator game and fun pool. (I got 2nd place in fun pool thank you very much, most likely due to Jan´s thrrrree´s). We also had fun experiences with the "funny" Brazilian guy, our German friend getting SLAPPED in China Town and Colgate trying to ride a drunk bike (not succeeding). Plus our interesting political talk which almost popped up every night... but thank God for the alcohol... cuz it eased our minds. ;) I do believe it can be righteous to say that London brought out the best of us.... because we were UNBELIEVABLE with our alcoholic drinking actions. Good times, good times. Like my friend Katarina says (very innocently) "you always remember your first", and my first trip to London will always stay as a sharp reminder on how fun life can be when everything is new. To all those who made my trip awesome, THANK YOU!! ;)