For The Nations!

hem ham humphrey

well well babies and gents, its been a time.

First of all i got what i suppose to be my first home sickness, it came from a word - sundfólk. eyþór reads the sports page on mbl.is religiously and my eyes just landed on that word. i thought about how i have probably said that word less than 4 times in my life, i had never had much occasion to use it, but the point is i realised i wont have any particular reason to say that word in the anytime near future and put me in a reminiscent mood. but anyway things move along ever so swiftly!

its almost christmas! they've started decorating downtown and its so pretty! i cant wait for the christmas market to be ready! weee! i love christmas and eyþórs sisters and mom will be coming for a visit so that will be awesome!! if it would snow then it would be perfect :D but it will be great anyway ;)

i started german classes yesterday and i love it! its 3 hours every weekday (8:30-12:00 plus a half our break) very basic, i understand a lot already but its good to get to practise speaking :D

since ive been here autumn has come and gone, the trees were so pretty and the colors were beautiful! i kind of love this town

here are some piclatures of things and places!!

when we went to the temple to get sealed! it was such a wonderful day! we went with jenny and sebastian müller, (pssst sebastian served in the same mission as binni at the same time! woahwoahwoah )they were wonderful and jenny was so sweet and got me a bouquet! in the same style as my wedding flowers :D it was such a surprise and wonderful!!

this temple is so beautiful in person, its just not the same in pictures, over-cast and raining :p

wee!! this guy is pretty great :D

they loverly colors in our backyard a week or so ago, now the trees are all naked!! for shame

our building! its lovely and inside its really cool and old but in a nice and cosy way!!

this the across the street, i dont know why or how but our side is lovely and bright, while the other side is scary and ghost-inhabited-looking! what the what?!

our street! named after a dude named Günther he was probably really cool

this is our super awesome couch that we got from the lady across the hall, guess what makes it super awesome! its a sofa-bed-nappytime-sleep-a-majig!! and its what you'll have the fantastic luxury of conducting your repose upon if and when you should come and visit us!! arent you excited!? i know you are!

and last but not least this is the button at church for when you get the answer wrong in sunday school

until the times are upon us again!

Teehee

well well wellington,

time flies and all the jazz, our apartment is slowly becoming inhabitable, and for it to be so i've been putting together furniture for the last two weeks! A desk, tv table shelf thing, three chairs, a kitchen table and a wardrobe, still have the dining table to go but i'm almost there! alas there are still boxes and homeless things scattered around so no pictures yet :0

this past weekend has been great! Eyþór had a concert on saturday it went really well :D he was very pleased when it was over :p i'm super proud of him whenever he has a concert and i feel so lucky to be a part of it :p

here is a scan of the poster that was hung about the place!!


it's in german but it basically says "eyþór is so awesome at organ playing extravagance, come hear him play, you will be the luckiest duck"

and of course in the hustle and bustle of getting out the door with all the essentials we forgot our cameras!! so silly and no video either :9 but i assure you everyone was sockless by the end from the blowing off of them, which was unfortunate cuz the church was kinda cold :}

and so conference!! because of the timing of the concert we missed out on the saturday sessions and had a conference maraþon on sunday!! so awesome and uplifting! i love conference so much, it gives me the boost i need to adjust my life and get back on track, yay!

so a busy and wonderful and exhausting weekend :p
here are some pictures of the sad library
disclaimer: i didnt really look too close to the graffitti so if some if it is offensive, oopsie doopsie

right then, friends and foes! anticipate happiness!!

Here I am!!

hello beautiful friends and bystanders!!!

its been a shamefully long time :*(

SO! i was here in my new house with the new little laptop thing sitting on my new couch looking at my new desk and also out the window at my new country saying "bless bless" and "have a good day" to my new husband off to his new school and i thought to myself "its time for a new post!"

hm hm hrmumumph where to begin? well ill go backwards that seems to make most sense yes?

okay so ive been in germany for a little over a week and i have to say im quite pleased with the place. i came before to visit eyþór for 6 days but that doesnt really count. i like leipzig a lot, theres lots of transformations going on, a lot of the down town area is under construction or just being ripped down, so many of the buildings are so run down and falling apart, its kind of a shame some of them are so beautiful! like this super old library down the road, boarded up, nature having at it and of course covered in graffiti, made me so sad! but i suppose priorities are else where. i really like the downtown area, its so cozy and comfortable but still bustley and city like. when we were walking about down town one day we happened upon Auerbachs Keller! i was so surprised and it made me giggle! i didnt really recognise it until i saw a statue of mephisto and faust it was soooo nerdularly cool! so much history all around, i also saw a statue while wandering around of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (the dude who eyþór's school was founded by, worked and played a lot in leipzig :p) okay so this statue was erected for his contribution to music, especially in leipzig in 1892 but was destroyed by nazis in 1936 because he was jewish! only in 2008 was the statue rebuilt! can you believe it! they changed the name of the school and everything, so crazy but so cool that the history is everywhere, its also pretty crazy to me that things are STILL trying to get back to "normal" more than 60 years after the end of that war, i suppose its hard to recover from such a magnitude of destruction, i mean centuries of wars!

miriam should like that little tangent :D

moving was difficult and stress filled! but we got it done, the worst thing is though that i left the gift list in iceland in a box i asked eyþórs sister to bring at christmas! totally spaced that it was in there! so no thank you cards until christmas i suppose! looser! ill just have to be rude :p

the wedding itself was so wonderful and perfect and just exactly what i wanted! teehee im a lucky girl!! for our honeymoon we went all the way around iceland, it was so fun and beautiful im so glad i got to see those places before we left for a long time, i loved seeing the north and the beautiful and sleepy valleys! did you know there's a REAL forest that grew by itself out of the ground?! its not just lava and glaciers you know! i love iceland! but im so happy to be here in leipzig and grateful!!

so friends and bystanders as usual this probably made a whole heap load of nonsense but there you go

im so happy! :D

next time ill write about the apartment and ill post piccies but i need my big computer which comes tomorrow!

mensch!

okies i'm pretty much just writing ablog cuz everyone will get mad if i don't, even though i don't have a whole lot to say

Well crazy things are happening in this world and Iceland seems to be some sort of microcosm for it. People loosing their heads, jobs, SUVs, flat screens and who knows what else. I find myself actually prospering, being able to save more money, living a comfortable life, financial security and all that jazz.

I feel like the difference is that i have the gospel in my life, a real foundation and not the airy support of the world, I'm emensely grateful for it, for the forsight i have gained since i was a kid to have food storage, and for the knowledge that if you don't waste what you recieve you wont be in need. I'm grateful for the principle of tithing, to regularly and willingly give of what you have is a great excersise in not-of-the-worldness. I'm glad I know who I really rely on.

It's going to be okay, I know it

I like my job I like interacting with people and observing how they react to each other, i love the old people who are regulars and ask me what the weather's like in Australia, and the other old people who say a*********s because everything is "so expensive" they make me giggle. I love seeing people I know and having a little chat, and the Koyle's, they are the new mission couple in charge of the YSA they are quite new and need a little help with shopping sometimes :D

I love my life I miss everyone though, but there's not a whole lot i can do about that :/

Anyways so there you have it and i'm way excited for this year! it's gonna be great!

Floozy

Jeezaloo! I think I win the prize of having the biggest lapse of time from blog to blog, Ti's good to be thusly accomplished!

So it's 1am and yeah I should be sleeping and yeah I have working the morning and yeah I've had not enough sleep for the past several weeks but what are you gonna do about it!?!

So I'm listening to Sigur Rós (Olsen Olsen you know the one with the impossibly beautiful flute) I love Sigur Rós but anyway the reason I'm listening to it right now is because Matti asked me to send him some Sigur Rós (in his mission they have awesome rules regarding music, but that's a different matter) So I'm to send him some Sigur Rós that's spiritual or can invite the spirit, know what I'm saying well the thing is I don't think he knows what he is asking, you see he's only experienced homesickness once so far, on Christmas eve they (the missionaries) were watching home alone and for whatever reason he felt home sick. This next part is hard to explain, Sigur Rós is like Iceland concentrated and put into music form, I brings Iceland to you if you are somewhere else, I remember the first time I heard Hoppipolla in England on tv, I heard the piano in the beginning and thought "ah that is beautiful" then i saw the lopapeysur and was mesmerized, this was Iceland -my Iceland, I hadn't even made the connection of Sigur Rós at that point I sat down and stared, the whole house was quiet just this beautiful sound calling to me, then it was over and the longing was there, Unnur had a different experience and I hope she will permit me to share it :p she was in Byu first semester I think, she'd been having a really hard time and felt overwhelmed and homesick so after a really hard day she decided that she needed the day to feel like home so she skipped school, drew the curtains, turned on some Sigur Rós and scrap booked the whole day. So you see my dilemma. It may cause an deplosion visible from space! hmmm what to do. yay for random tangents

By way of updates since August somethingeth hmmm Oh we had the poly night it was so much fun and everyone said they had a great time which was a relief, I danced with the little girls and made a mistake but oh whale

well in October we had a glorious financial implosion/crisis/collapse/explosion it was catastrophic and will likely take years to right it, moving on we had a bunch of Danish YSA for a visit in October it was so much fun we went to the sveit and stayed in the biggest log cabin in Iceland this thing is huge and beautiful oh glory. Halloween! I love Halloween, scared some kids yup they cried, I'm pretty pleased

Onwards! oo I became a millionaire which is so much fun but also hard in some ways, I saw Matti for the last time for a very long time in November :( I miss him

December oh joys! Christmas I love Christmas! I was assigned to give a talk on the Sunday before Christmas and totally forgot about it!! usually I'm so nervous about giving a talk that it's tattooed on my brain but not this time so i freaked out when i got to church and realised but then it was all good and everyone was like thanks for your talk so yay! I spent Christmas with Ólafur, Björg and their extended family it was a lot of fun and kind of a fairy tail, it was like in the movies, that place is beautiful I got a drill from Björg she was my secret santa I was so pleased! NEW YEARS!! oh wow that was amazing! i love Iceland for it's extremes and insanities.

I probably forgot all sorts of important junk but oh whale

Now I must sleep so that I may wake and say "why the crap don't i sleep earlier?!"

No time to blog!

I find myself incredibly busy for some freaking reason, gotta tell ya, i'm not liking it so much.

See there's this Polynesian night at church, i'm really excited for it and it's been kinda tough to plan it all, but Sylvia and I share responsibility so it's all good, everyone should be a little stressed once in a while i reckon. It's gonna be fun, i hope.

The concert was amazing, okay so I had never heard most of his songs in my life but they were perfect and good and I don't know, I felt like they were meant for me :D. The Way You Look Tonight, Cocaine and Crossroads were definitely the highlights for me :D.


I wish people wouldn't worry about me so much. I mean, I appreciate that they care and I love that they want me to be happy but to worry is such a waste of time, and time is a precious thing which should be spent on better and infinitely more important things so please don't worry :) I'm happy, content and I have a good life.

Matti got his call, Salt Lake City South November 11, I don't feel like I thought I would, I thought I would be sad and rueful. But I just feel proud and happy for him, at peace as well, I know it's so right, yes.

Oh and any ideas for the Poly night would be appreciated.

Summertime in the LBC...

Ahhhh it's a beautiful day and a rare day off work for the communists, i mean commerce type people, so what better way to spend it than errrr... blogging.

Alas, Verslunarmannahelgi a time for the hard working stiffs get a weekend off to go out to the country, get wasted, listen to some proppah Icelandic music and um remain wasted.

A bit of a rant...

Okay so it's my birthday on thursday, right. So a few months ago I thought it would be an amazing once in a lifetime thing to go to the Eric Clapton concert that's on Friday, so I buy six tickets (47,400 ISK :P) and invite my closest of close chums in anticipation of a wonderful experience, you know one of those "remember the time" type experiences, and like i've mention before matti's off to missionland soon so it would be a cool last hurrah so anyways, one of the party asks if they can BRING SOMEONE! My first reaction was ummm Insanity and saying no about 7 times, I was right pissed! Yeah pretty much over reacting, but I dunno, this is my thing! And yes I realize how insane it is to say "no you can't come to the Eric Clapton concert cuz i say so" but anyway after a while of cooling down, I pretty much said they could come and it was fine (side-note i'm not sure if that was true or not even now) so the question I have for you is this:

Was it the right thing to do or the spineless thing to do?

I'm leaning toward spineless personally but that´s just me, It's so twisted and weird though, what was I supposed to do, I kind of wanted to say "Screw you! you can't come!" but i reckon that's a little too preschool. Holy Hannah! So anyway turns out one of the people I really wanted to come can't make it, so it's turned out all weird and much the different that I expected, but I am stubbornly determined to have an incredible time and to talk to the jackass as little as possible for the remainder of my life. :D

I saw Batman!! well the movie anyway it was amazing! and completely surprising a wonderful experience to be sure.

In conclusion yay for people who don't suck and to the people who suck: quit it!

PPPPSSSSSEEEWWWWW PPPPPSSHHEEWW BLAM BLINKS KABLOOEEEE that's the sound of me blowing melanie away...