On Christmas night itself -
so a wise man writes -
the lads were all restraint
and just stared at the lights.
Then one by one they trotted off
into the frost and snow.
On Twelfth Night the last of the lads used to go.
Their footprints in the highlands
are effaced now for long,
the memories have all turned to image and song
Ah yes tomorrow is twelfth night, what an amazing two weeks we have had, a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year. I have Olga and Ross to thank for much of this - it was so nice having them here and I will admit that the new years was probably the best that I have had in my 46 years on this earth. Such a great night, food, drink (whatever was available as I could not make the grog shop in time - damn work) playing games, firing off Hallgerði langbrók (Hallgerður of the long pants), dancing, playing more games, making a snow man head and finally hitting the sack at 7am or thereabouts - I walked the dog before going to sleep...
I have also started my new job, at the farmers advice centre, general bookkeeping... it´s just gonna be fun. This ofcourse means that life will be changing in many ways for me - I am downsizing - not because of a recession - but because life should be fun - work should be fun - the people that you care about should not have to hear about your crap job and the crap that happens there every day. So my resolution for 2009 is to smile more, enjoy life and not let the job affect me and those around me.
Also, 2009 is going to be brilliant - there is going to be a wedding here!!!! Hope I don´t let the side down and can organise this... I figure that the KISS system is the way to go, if not - bugger.
Take care folks... and remember - life really is what you make it - if you don´t like how it is - change it.
9 comments:
Hi Iceland:
Thank you for visiting my blog! I just took a graduate class and wrote a paper about wild horses in the US - our govt. paid close to 30 million to keep 30,000 horse in long and short term facilities last year refusing to slaughter any of them. My professor sent me an email and said due to the circumstances in Iceland we should work on getting your paper published though he has been on winter break. Whats going on in Iceland? Please email me at
westtexascowgirl@gmail.com
Love your attitude Sigga... I hope you enjoy your new job. Life is too short to have a crappy job.
Would you look at that... OneCowgirl came over... she's in my blog too, and Jolea's....
That is fine advice, dear aunt! I don't love my job as much as I'd like but I'm going to stick at it because it pays really well, and this isn't too bad a place to be stuck for two thirds of my life. As long as Jason works here, I'm happy.
I was thinking about it today, we had a meeting and I'm pretty sure I'm going to find my work as boring this year as I did last year, but my main goal for this year is to get the stuff done that I'm asked to do. I have a problem with taking too long to do projects and sometimes not even completing tasks, so if I can complete tasks and projects I've been assigned, I'll be pretty pleased with myself.
Congratulations on your change in life!
Thanks for the visit onecowgirl, will write you an email about whats happening here. Yeh Jomamma - I found her blog via yours, love the photos on her site and the insight you get into the life of a real "cow person". Maja, yeh its good that both you and Jason are working there, you would not stick it if he weren´t - nor should you. Money is not everything - it helps to pay the bills, but it also creates a need for things that you can possibly do without.
But I want to know what's going on in Iceland with horses too... I'm still ticked that they shot the Polar Bear! Are ya'll eating them?? Horses that is, well bears too. Do we need to send ya'll some beef?
Jomamma, we do eat horsemeat here.... and it tastes very nice... most of this horse meat is from younger animals that are considered surplus to requirements - ie not of enough potential to train etc. Icelandic horses aren´t usually taken in for training until their 4-5th winter. So keeping a horse and training it means long term financial investment. Actually this comment is becoming so long I think I will do a blog on it sometime in the near future....
Great advice, sigga, especially since I was about to write you and whinge about all those little things that are really too stupid to worry about.
There are much better and more important things in life!
Miss you already!
x
Just lost my comment urgh... See I am a whinging master! It is necessary for ones psychological well being - a good whinge is sometimes the only answer when there is too much of the little s**t going on... So Olga anytime you wanna whinge - I'm here... Love you and miss you and Ross heaps
Happy New Year and thanks for the Iceland lore this season! I love it! :)
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