Aaaatchoooo....*cough*
Things aren´t shaping up very well over here, have had a flu/cough/cold for a while and for the moment it just seems to be getting worse :-( I think my body in order to gain immunity to British flus decided to dump them all on me at once, kinda a "get four for the price of one" deal ;-)
As I scrambled out of bed, blowing my nose, having a coughing fit and apologizing to Halldór for keeping him awake all night I made my way into the kids bedroom, and managing to sound cheerful and not too dead, proceeded to wake them up by stroking their backs (as I usually do) and was then greeted by my daughter mumbling " mind you in perfect English" I don´t want to go to school, it´s boring ..!!! So what are they teaching the kids over there ;-) The first sentence she ever utters fully in English at home and that´s it..?
Bleh..dreams get so weird when one is sick, dreamt all night (I know it because I woke up every 30 mins) that I was dealing with the human pestilence problem aboard the Babylon 5... geek anyone ;-) ? Hate when I get those fever inspired loop dreams... after a while the most innocent dream turns into a nightmare if you´ve gone through it often enough!
Halldór is amazing, he´s been taking full care of the kids here. Getting them up and ready for school, making their lunches, fetching them from school, taking them to judo, making dinner for us and then to top it all I keep him up all night ...
Sappy thoughts..
Did a long questionnaire/list/friendship thingie and am curious what you think ;-) I posted it on 
Went to see the Incredibles last night and was very pleasantly surpriced. It kinda embodies a lot of different genres, it was a family film, an adventure movie, a superhero movie and quite funny to boot ;-)
For most of the movie I kept gnawing my nails over not being able to identify who was the voice behind Elasti girl. I´m weird I know but I need to know these things ;-) Turned out to be Holly Hunter :-) 
My favorite character though was the costume designer seamstress Edna. Whose character I found out was based on a real life costume designer 
The sheep that are painted red and blue !! What´s with that??? I heard once that it was a way of marking upon which sheep what ram had gone, i.e. the underside of his belly coloured so as to mark the lucky sheep... but it´s not really the right time of the year for that?? Or is it? Well let´s think..nov, dec, jan, feb, mar, apr.. makes six months.. woe be me, lived on a farm for a year and have absolutely no idea as to the typical length of a sheeps (pregnancy) ( can´t be the right word, but it´ll do) ;-) This would explain why most of the sheep have two or more colours on their backs... kinda illogical if that were the general marking, right?
Been a good weekend :-) On Thursday (Yes I am fully aware that it´s not officially a part of the weekend and now keep quiet!) there was the parents teachers night at the kids school. I of course started stressing and fretting well in advance as is appropriate (or at least normal) until we finally left the house at 6:50. It was immensely gratifying!! We started up by meeting up with Ragnars teacher, mrs. Jamieson, who (apart from having a weird aversion to actually looking Halldor in the eye or addressing anything to him) was very pleasant in as much as she gave us good news about Ragnars progress. That he was in fact, aquiring Engilish at a remarkable level, was well above average in maths and was to be awarded a diploma of sorts the following morning at assembly for good progress and behaviour.
Now for those of you who don´t know, this is the kid whom I was told by officials four years ago would never be like normal children and that I should probably look into the possibility of special schooling for him!! So from there he has progressed to here!! A capable, socially capable curious child who has managed to conform his disabilities into idiosyncrasies. He couldn´t make himself understood in Icelandic at age six and now at age eight he is rapidly learning English. His English reading now is on par with his Icelandic reading capabilities a year ago!!The only part of his disability that is still quite obvious is his lack of social skills in the peer group arena, and somehow...judging from my own experiences and his father I think that might not dispel that easily. But from what I heard from his other teachers his classmates take very good care of him and make sure to include him in their endeavours.
Elena as it turns out is showing off her capabilities here as at home ;-) as it was so quaintly put, she´s; highly intelligent, talented and capable....but tends to want to make her own pace, control her surroundings and ... well rule. That didn´t coma as any surprice to me :-) She´s very powerful and selfwilled and will not follow any rules unless they make sense to "her" ;-) I did however find to my surprice that she was learning to approach the other kids in a softer way (obviously after failing the commando way) and then my pride: that she´d just been moved from the elementary maths group to the advanced one, seeing as soon as the language stopped impeding her they realised she was far ahead of the other in math skills and that her drawings were quite astounding, a five year old drawing full people figures with all extremeties correctly counted out and displayed.
Did you know that November 13th marks not only his anniversarial (is that a word?) progression, but also the births of several notable public figures.
Dear American friends.....There´s hope yet... well it seems following Bush´s election 
People are like stained-glass windows.
Secondly, I predict some other country will butt fuck us big time if we keep pissing the rest of the world off.
