01.10.10
A few photos of Skella
Typical Icelandic weather is back, raining, windy, dark and about 6-7 degrees Celsius so not too cold anymore. I guess the not cold part is good but the wet soggy grass, not so good. I hope it either stays mild or that we get lots of snow like everyone else so the dogs can play, I just don’t want ice or freezing rain.
No doubt everyone has seen Iceland on the world news so I’m not going to go into politics, we are just about sick of politics. Soon we’ll have to vote on the referendum that the president denied to sign. I’m thankful for his courage but at the same time I’m not looking forward to that vote. Just wish this whole thing was over and that Iceland was back to the way it was or at least easier and cheaper to live here. We have had some nice articles in foreign newpapers lately and people are finally seeing our point of view a bit more than they did.
I can’t lie that I have been trying to see the positives with living in Iceland lately and thankfully although I may be overly negative at times I don’t have to look too far, sure there are negatives but the positives outweigh them most of the time. I am so happy that we have a nice warm place to live, hearing about how cold it is in other countries right now makes it even more apparent. Some of my friends abroad have frozen water pipes and their houses are freezing cold, they have fireplaces going but still can’t keep warm. A friend staying in England can’t even take a shower because the water doesn’t get warm enough with the oil heater they have. Rúnar and I (as well as all Icelanders I imagine) walk around the house in short sleeves and have to open the windows half the time to cool down when it gets too hot. We have an endless supply of (extremely) hot water and fresh unpolluted cold water. I can’t kid myself, I LOVE Iceland!
I’m so busy lately…I tell ya I thought it would be relaxing to have Rúnar at home but it seems like we are always either not home or doing something around the house or getting stuff ready for the new courses starting next weekend. The last class of the current course is tomorrow so we are looking forward to hearing what people thought of the course. Praying it’s positive feedback of course. 
Took a few photos of Skella, there is no doubt she is expecting, sadly I’m thinking Hófi probably has no puppies. Here are some photos of Skella on day 40 and day 43. She had 5 last time but since she lived with her former owner I don’t know how fat she got so I really can’t say if she has more or less this time. Time will tell and we are excited to see puppies from her and Klói since they are so sweet together.
Before (taken in August)
Starting with Day 40 (or at least we think that’s what day it was. Hehe)
Then a couple taken today about Day 43 (or there abouts).
So as you can see there are a few in there! Getting nervous already. Hehe
I guess I spoke of certain things on Facebook and not on here but then I think I’ve already talked about them. Gee sometimes I feel like a total dweeb at how bad my memory is, could also be I’ve just spoken about something in e-mails or during phone calls. This is one reason why I’m so glad Rúnar is taking over the courses. Most the time I thought that each new class had already heard it all before because I was “repeating myself”. Dingbat, I know…I could never be a teacher in a school with kids, they would so make fun of me. ;-Þ
Well we went into town the other day to get some cheap binders for our next two courses. Long story short Rúnar is starting two courses next weekend one right after the other because there were too many for just one course! He will be saving a bit of gas by having one hour right after the other so that’s a good thing, of course with him working it will be a bit tough but we have to look at it as a positive thing and just be happy with the interest. We had wanted to get a binding machine and laminator sometime in the future but we went to a big office supply store in Reykjavík on the 6th to get paper and some binders. Klói went with us and was in the car listening to all the fireworks in town for the last day of Xmas celebration.
Well, there are sales of course at this time but little did we realize that to get the least expensive binding machine and laminator was cheaper than we thought AND the binders were more expensive than we thought because the ones that were on sale that we went to get were all sold out! Lucky us I guess or we would have never even checked the prices of the other stuff. Need I say we gave in and bought the machines and don’t regret it, Lord knows we’ve spent so much on binders already during the years and we’ve always felt they were a bit unprofessional and boring. Rúnar has been having fun using the new equipment, he doesn’t let me do anything now, it’s too much fun. Lucky me, I used to sit on the couch for hours organizing, putting holes in the papers and putting them in binders, so much for that boring job! Yippee. The binders look great now so we are excited. They have laminated pages on front and back and black plastic binding, no doubt people won’t think it’s as great as we think it is because they don’t have to put the work into doing it, hehehe but at least we feel good being able to offer our students nice looking course material now and it looks much more professional which is the main thing.
Rúnar is working on a new slide show and it’s also looking awesome, the one I had made is almost 10 years old so it was high time it was updated. I’ve added slight updates now and then during the years but the new slide show is modernized, more catchy to look at and less rambling on the slides themselves. You can imagine how much I put on my slides with my “motor mouth”. LOL I’m so proud of Rúnar and his work on the course, it’s going to be great and I think he is enjoying teaching.
