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The Things I'm Missing Right Now.

I'm an auntie 4x and I'm currently missing moments like these (and feeling very guilty):

Þórunn Dúna (the birthday girl), Gabríel Gauti and Hekla Júlía...
And this is the Eton attending rugby playing nephew of mine, who seems to have hit the cider a bit hard,  Tómas Tumi :p

(for those who are wondering, I'm not broken anymore, Tall Boy is to thank for that)

Broken.

"We are so over. We need a new word for 'over'. "

As much as I hate to quote that bloody show, this sentence is just too appropriate.

My baby nephew has a name!

Let me introduce my baby nephew, who got a name today, Tómas Tumi:

Quick Trip Home.

Went to Iceland for a mini-break the other day, seeing the family (especially my little nephew who I hadn't seen) and friends. The week went by in a flash and i didn't get to do half the things I had planned!

Sætastar.

Ég stóðst ekki mátið, ef þetta eru ekki sætustu stelpur í heimi þá veit ég ekki hvað...

An Aunt x4.

This morning at 6:45 my sister gave birth to a little baby boy, her fourth child and my second nephew! An excuse to go out shopping for something cute to post back home.

My (Belated) Birthday Dinner.

I sort of celebrated my birthday tonight, rang up almost everyone I knew in London and invited them over for dinner here in the Mansion. I served organic Somerset brie with crackers and guacamolé a la Bethany and nacho chips for appetizers,  customized Pizza Express ready-to-serve pizzas (added cream cheese, black olives, read onion and mozzarella cheese!)  and then 'my' spinach and ricotta cheese cannelloni for mains, this was complimented with lots and lots of wine...

I had a blast and it was nice to see people I like actually getting along and interacting! One of the highlights of the evening was when the Icelanders and the Norwegian got all excited talking about Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson and whaling :p Our voices got all high pitched and whatnot ;)

Thanks to those who attended and I'm sure to do this again! I'll try not to kill you with food next time! (the story of how I actually managed to get home with all the groceries is a tale for another day though...)

Tomorrow is Saturday and also the 19th day of January, a day when the Icelandic handball team meets the Slovak team and I'll be at the Harcourt Arms watching 'our' boys....and drinking beer, hopefully not drowning my sorrows!

Twenty Seven.

So, seven hours and three minutes of being twenty seven years old, pretty uneventful so far.

Btw (or even FYI) I would SO have Paul Dano's children any day, Mook's songs are so unbelievably wonderful.

Can't wait to test this baby!

Me and The Rebel Alliance.

It's Sunday night and so far my daily accomplishments have been:

• Slept in
• Watched the Eastenders omnibus
• Went to Tesco
• ...bought a pumpkin for 98p (ritualistic carving ensues)
• Did some Cold War background reading for my Cold War mini-presentation tomorrow

Now Saturday was far more productive, on oh so many levels...

• Woke up at 7 am and attended a practical exercise as part of my postgrad course work
• Just before 1 pm I stood at a podium in front of 50+ people and forgot the entire English language! Blushing, flustered, rambling instead of coherently summarizing my group's result from the exercise...at one point I even uttered the phrase 'rebel alliance' before realizing that I was now referencing Star Wars! Deer caught in headlights would be the understatement of the year...Classic Sigga
• Consequently money was spent at Orla Kiely and beer was drunk and a movie was seen...
• Later on there was an interesting multi-cultural dinner party in Kensington (one floor below Mick Jagger's flat apparently) with Italian cuisine and the once and future king of the Republic of Congo :p

My local Sainsbury's.

In Iceland you're lucky if the person at the register says 'hello' to you at your local supermarket, tonight I had a lengthy conversation in my local Sainsbury's about Whitney Houston and how she's wasted her life and talent, "I mean, it's alright to have a bit of fun but she was SO talented! You just don't do things like that!" my new friend exclaimed while singing along to 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' and bagging my groceries....