Merry Christmas everyone!

It's that special time of year again, and Steinunn is going home to Iceland in two days to celebrate the holidays with her family. I, however, am staying behind in Denmark.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the mouthwatering, traditional Christmas dinner in my family. Red cabbage, sugar roasted potatoes, brown gravy, cranberry jelly, risalamande and last but not least the duck. Mmmm... From what I gather, Steinunn is also looking forward to eating all the strange and exotic things that they usually eat at christmas in Iceland (turkey).

This year we've made our very own tacky christmas card. Originally, we intended to print paper versions of the card and send them out by snail mail, but suddenly we didn't have time to do that (ahem). So here's the electronic version instead, for your viewing pleasure:


Glædelig Jul, Gleðileg Jól, Merry Christmas, Frohe Weinachten, Feliz Navidad, Feliz Natal, Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo... (The last one is Bulgarian)

Playing tricks on Danish kids...

In Iceland we have 13 Santa Clauses. They are all brothers and they live in Mount Esja, close to Reykjavik. Their mothers name is Gríla and their fathers name is Leppalúdi. Gríla cooks naughty kids in a big pot and Leppalúdi is... well I can't really remember his role that much... Think he almost doesn't have one... Anyway, the Santa brothers come down from the montain one at a time, starting 13 nights before Christmas. The kids put a Shoe in the window and if they have been nice, the get a little treat. If not, they get a rotten potatoe.
ANYWAY. The point of the story here is that I've made the kids in my group at the kindergarden make shoes out of paper and we have put them in the window. Last night Santa came alllll the way from Iceland, to their amazement. Today it didn't come because I'm not at work, staying home with fun grammar. It is actually quite great to do this. I can so much easier keep them in line, having the whole "santa can see how you behave" hanging over their heads at all times... I haven't gone into too much detail about Gríla though... think it might scare them a bit tooo much... I might though, if they get tooo naughthy... ;)

A Great Find

These days I'm following an auction on eBay. It isn't just any old auction, though. The item being sold is a vinyl LP containing the very first studio recordings of The Velvet Underground. If you don't know The Velvet Underground, I can tell you that it was one of the most influential rock bands ever. The lead singer was Lou Reed, who later went on to make songs like "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Perfect Day" during his (ongoing) solo career.

A Canadian guy found the vinyl record in a garage sale in New York. He bought it for 75 cents. At first he didn't know what the record was, but when he found out he decided to sell it on eBay. There's only this one copy in existence, so the record collectors are going nuts.

The auction ends in 3 days, and the highest bid right now is 125,861 $ which is equivalent to 703.927 danske kroner, or 8558395 islenska kronar.

I would have liked to find that record myself.

You can follow the auction here.

- Søren

There is something so silly about realizing 15minutes before finishing an 8 hour work day that you have been wearing your shirt inside-out the whole day...
-Steinunn

We haven't been too active on this site lately. Partly because we have been super busy with work and school and partly because we haven't had that much to report. We still don't have much to report. Report. Report. Report.
It feels almost nuts that it's already December. Which means exam time, crazy shopping/spending time and for me a trip to Iceland. I'll be spending Christmas with the family up North and Søren will be spending Christmast with the family "down South". Next year we'll try to coordinate it a little better and only stay in one country. Being from two different countries takes a little planning from time to time...
Talking about Christmas shopping! I'm almost nearly done :-) And tomorrow I will only have like a gift and a half left :-) Allready gotten Mum's, Jenný's and Breki's. So, Søren, Hlynur and Dad are left... oh, and the Secret Santa gift for the Kritargirls at home too... ;-) I'm having a girls day tomorrow and meeting up with Anna in Cph to shop for some pressies and then we're meeting Maria later for an afternoon of gossip and girliestuff. It will be fun :) I haven't seen Maria for a while so it will be nice to catch up.
Anyway, Good weekend all!

PS.
Gledilegan Fullveldisdag Íslendingar :)