Iceland

Apex Raffle update

Well, I closed the donations window tonight with over sixty raffle items. So those of you who were holding out until all the items were in, may start dropping tickets in the hats. You can stop by the site for details but one of the things I added is an audio recording by me. Meanwhile, […]

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W, X, Y, and Z

Ha ha! Take that, Icelandic language. I’ve been working with a pocket dictionary and asked my teacher to recommend a more comprehensive one, which I picked up on the way home from class yesterday. Last night while doing my homework, I discovered that my brand-new dictionary was missing WXYZ and most of U in the

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My day in Icelandic

For homework last night, we had to write about our normal day. Needless to say, most of the words I needed were not in the normal lesson… I have no idea if any of my declinations are right; conjugations I feel pretty good about, it’s all those darn declining nouns and adjectives that make life

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The Viking Pirate

Avast! Vikings were sea-farin’ plunderers, so for TLAPD, I’ve recorded a choice phrase in Icelandic. Ég er sjóræningi, þu lítilmótlegur gamalreyndur sjómaður. Aaar! Translation: I am a pirate, you scurvy sea-dog. Aaar! [audio:vikingpirate.mp3]

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Life cast

I’m building a polar bear costume for a childrens’ hospital here, and for the head, needed a life cast of someone’s face to build on. Back in Portland, I have several life casts of different people that I sculpt on when I’m making a mask. Wigforms are lovely things for wigs, but they are not

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Distractions

Why do I only have 1167 words to show for today? Because I spent all freaking day trying to recover from edatarack’s blunder. I’m busily moving every site I hosted with them so that I never have to deal with them ever again. Between that and the Icelandic lesson, I feel very good that I

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Icelandic lesson 1

I’ve had my first Icelandic class. We are starting by reviewing the things covered in course 1. I seem to be about in the middle of the class, in terms of grasp of Icelandic which is perfect. My classmates are from Belgium, the Congo, Phillipines, Poland, Haiti and America. It’s a small class which is

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Bada Bing

I headed into Lazytown today so that Jonathan and I could go have lunch. He’s heading back to NYC tomorrow, so this was the last chance to see him for awhile. We had planned on going to Dong Huang, which is the little Chinese restaurant we’d recently discovered. Sadly, they only offer a buffet during

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Restart the clock

As you might recall, last year I decided to stop writing Good Housekeeping during NaNoWriMo after two weeks and 25,000 words. I stopped because we were moving to Iceland and decided that it would make me crazy to get the wordcount done, plus pack, plus go to Woodthrush Woods for the holidays. At the time,

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Placement test

I went today to take my placement test for Icelandic. The first part of the written test was fine, I breezed through the first two pages and then started slowing down. The nice thing about the test was that they let you know which level each section tested for. I was mostly okay in level

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An Icelandic Witness

The doorbell just rang. When I opened it, there were two squeaky clean young men in suits. Each had a little black name tag. Yep. Mormons. One of them started speaking in Icelandic and I stopped him. Turns out they were both Americans, California and Utah. Can you imagine? He was about to witness to

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Light dinner

We had folks over for dinner after production today. It was just a light meal with conversation. I made a Roasted Cauliflower soup, which I love because it’s easy and you can do other things while it’s becoming tasty I also made Mixed greens with feta, pinenuts and blueberries for the first time. Again, a

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Two years online

I started my online journal two years ago today after I got a call from Lazytown and sold my second story. I guess this would be a clear example of the aphorism “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Rob and I are planning on staying in Iceland after we wrap production.

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The motorcycle

Rob, for some time now, has been coveting a motorcycle. He used to ride them in Hawaii and the roads in Iceland are apparently perfect for a motorcycle. So, he’s been shopping for one for a couple of months. The shopping was sort of a hobby. Until last night, when he won the auction for

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