Dreams come true...

I was looking at photos on facebook and wondering about the future, like I sometimes do. I was thinking about how some families eat whatever they want whenever they want, and don't do much outdoorsy stuff, and thats totally fine! as long as it makes you happy :)
But I don't want that... I want to have energy! I want my own family to be the kind that goes on hikes for fun, where each family member has an awesome 105 gear (however you spell that) bike and we go for awesome bike rides all down the coast and accros the country. I want to go camping and run marathons. I want to keep waking up at 6am to do Yoga and before I kneel to pray at night I want to do a few pushups and some situps. I love making and eating deserts! and I want that too, just not so much that I ruin my health and the health of the people around me!

Things I already do to build towards this future.

-wake up at 6am twice a week and do Yoga
-go for long walks and take pictures at least once a week
-ride my bike to the store when the weather permits it (otherwise I try to walk)
-do some situps before bedtime
-have a good attitude
-eat real food which is healthy

Things I can to better

-only eat candy on Saturdays
-eat fewer cookies when I have them
-go to bed earlier so that I can wake up and exersise the other 4 mornings of the week (when I dont have yoga or the Sabbath)
-appreciate the health and energy I do have more

wow, thats more good than bad! way to go Unnur!

I don't know, but it seems like a good idea...

I am not sure, but today seems like a good day to say nothing that makes much sense.
Went to bed sort of late last night compared to how early I got up this morning... The story goes like this, yesterday morning I woke up and went to church which was brilliant! exactly what I needed and I felt really good!! I love my religion and the fact that God answers prayers! even stupid ones like the ones I say. After church our home teachers came over, which, just like church, was absolutely brilliant! Then Maliana made dinner and I made bananabread and we ate until we felt sick! at which point we fell asleep to Pride and Prejudice, when we woke up there were like 5 minutes left of the movie we decided to rewind and actually watch the movie... then I went to bed... woke up six hours later and went to do early morning Yoga my favorite beautiful morning people. I fell asleep again for about an hour and a half when I got home after doing yoga at 7:30am and started getting ready for work at 9ish... went to work and felt light headed all day. Mom bringing me lunch and Grandma coming for a visit have been the highlight of the day so far. Tonight however we are going to Xan and Ashleys for a movie and dinner and then I plan on going to bed.... really early hopefully!
This week is dedicated to doing situps for a minute everyday :) every little bit helps!

Mr.Iceland, where is all the money?

Today Parliment was "opened" again after Christmas break, and just listening to the news on the radio it sounds like everything is going crazy downtown! my fellow icelanders are protesting in front of Althingi house where they are currently having a meating.

Today in the paper there is an article about icesave which lost a lot of fine English people (and fine people from other countries) their money. The article talks about how people were advised to put their money into an icesave account, people put huge amounts into this, but where is they money? did someone just walk away with it?

Personally I feel like icelanders are spoiled little brats! My friend went to a meating for the people to come up with ideas of how we as the people of this country can help in this situation. She suggested that stores be closed on Sundays. As she suggested this many of the people at the meeting went crazy! they want to be able to buy stuff whenever, wherever, with their worthless credit cards and then expect us to just sail trhough this recession as if nothing ever happened! Iceland as a country owes more than it can handle. Most Icelanders as individuals also owe more than they can handle, in consumer debt. Its insane how they think they can just keep living as if they have all the money in the world! We got ourselves into this situation by being irrisponsible and impulsive. To get back out of this with some sort of dignity things need to change! people need to humble themselves and change the way they do things. Stop using credit cards, stop buying expensive things you dont need simply because your neighbour has them! I will bet you a penny your neighbour is in over his head in dept too! so stop it! Grow up! take responsibility and get yourself out of what you got yourself into!! Sure, of course it is going to hurt, but the deeper you dig, the harder it will be to get out! Ignore the problem, and it will just get bigger.

thats all, the end.

Bolliaden

I know I promised a post on Bolliaden and its been like two weeks now... so here goes.... Bolliaden was really good, there was the usual Monday fun times meeting up with old friends, Tuesday meltdown because of one dramatic event or another (the night ended really well though, with multiple weddings, so its all good, thanks to my good husband Joakim, my brother Binni and his lovely fiance Kristine), Wednsday ended up being the best night of that day! and finally Thursday was pure chillaxedness. So there you have it... it was the best YSA convention I have ever attended, mostly because of how relaxed it was and how few people were there... I mean, there were still lots of people..but it was a comfortable amount of people!
So now moving on to someting more interesting and more recent.
I analyze too much!
the end

r.e.t.a.r.d.e.d.?

I am not at work today because I managed to get myself sick...... again. And so I am just doing the whole sick deal, sitting in my bed with my glass of water and vitamins, some tissue paper, a crap load of magazines, my mac, scriptures and preach my gospel and 2009 planner along with some stuff for my calling. I am looking for dance music at the moment, something for this years YSA dance iTunes playlist which sorely need to be updated.
So why do I feel retarded? because I am sitting here in my bed, in my PJ's, with my hair in a bun, all naturally beautiful with no makeup on and my old glasses on my nose (for some reason this flu is making my eyes have problems focusing) listening to halo and dota by Basshunter...pretty freaking retarded!!
hope you have a cute day!
:)

This for my mom and dad, I love you!

I know I already blogged today, but something just happened and I had to blog some more...
This is for my parents. I love them so much!
When I was little I used to be afraid that they wouldn't make it, that they would get sick and tired of each other, and I am sure they did every once in a while. But one day I walked by the living room and there was music playing in there like so many other times, but when I looked, I saw my parents, after 20 years of marriage, dancing with each other.
Just a couple of minutes ago my mom commented on a picture of my dad on facebook saying "25 years with this handsome man....pinch me!! :)" for some reason it made me cry, in a good way. The fact that love does exist, that two people can still be in love after 25+ years together, after 25+ difficult years together. Its so beautiful and it gives me hope.
I want what they have, and wish the same for all of my friends and loved ones; true happiness in one form or another!
Tomorrow is my parents 25th wedding anniversary, and I want to say thank you to them, for teaching me about love, that its not always easy but it is always worth it.
Takk mamma og pabbi, ég elska ykkur!

The Bike-Killer

Got home from Denmark (Bolliaden week) late last night and decided not to eat because it was seriously late and I was planning on going to bed within an hour and a half...this morning I woke up late, because I went to bed late, and therefore did not have time to eat...during lunch I had no time to eat either because I had some other pressing matters to tend to, such as posting pictures from Christmas and New Years on Facebook, and staring wide eyed and tired at the pile of dirty clothes covering my floor and most of the furnitures in my rather large room wondering when I would have enough energy to do my laundry...calculating how many days I can postpone washing clothes by checking how many clean pair of panties I have. ...Introducing, the lazy life of Unnur.

Actually, thats not me at all...I am not usually the lazy type, more of a Natzi type, when it comes to cleanlyness anyways, so the pile of dirties on my floor will hopefully no longer be there by midnight and if I know myself as well as I think I do I will have washed most of my clotes, hung them to dry, mopped the appartment, gone grocery shopping, gone for a run after having made a new playlist for my iPod to run with, taken a shower, made dinner, eaten, read my scriptures and finished unpacking and written down goals and dreams for 2009, all by 1am which is when I will be turning my night light off and going to sleep.

Actually, scratch everything I just said, I am probably somewhere inbetween the two extremes...I can easily be either one for a while but I try to ballance it, so as not to seem crazy.

I do however intend to do a lot of stuff after I close up at work in about 10 minutes.

I already went to the garage and got the bike out and carried it up to my appartment, and almost died in the process... first there was the garage door, which is ridiculous! it wont open unless you kick it whilst turning the key. Then there was the fact that I have no idea where the lightswitch is and it was already dark in there so I had to get the bike down in the dark... The bike was hanging upside down from a hook in the ceiling, its not that complicated to get it down usually, but somehow in the dark I managed to almost break my neck, getting it stuck between the seat and one of the steering handles, and then somehow I hit myself in the face with some part of the bike or another which might very well leave a beautiful bruise as a lovely memory of my fight with the bike. I think it was in hibernation and just wanted to kick my butt for getting it out in the beginning of January. But seriously, what are you gonna do when you are starving and its unusally warm for January and you dream of riding you bike at night!

Bolliaden post will be up soon...stay tuned.