Goodbye Marel

Today is my last day working for Marel. I feel strange, I feel sad and I feel like crying. The thing is I don't want to say goodbye to my co-workers. I like them so much and they are really really good persons. I am going to miss them so much. I am ready to leave the job and I won't miss my job, i.e. doing what I do here at Marel. It is mainly the people here. The company itself will also be missed.
This company, Marel, is an excellent company to work for. I would recommend it for anyone to work here. They are so professional, they give you good equipment to work with, good office environment, very family oriented and they just take really good care of their people. Thank you Marel for taking such good care of me. I am so glad that I have worked here and I have learned so much from working here.

It is so sad to leave, but I have so many good reasons to leave also. Strange, isn's it? It is allright to have mixed emotions? I hope so. I feel that way. I hope I am not making a wrong decision in my life. In my life I have most of the time made the right decisions for myself. This time also, I hope. Anyway... I just wanted to blog about this and I am posting a picture of three GREAT co-workers. Lara, Jon and Tomas. Thanks for everything and good luck in your future. I will be in touch. Hugs.... Gudrun

Busy, happy days.

Yes, time is flying by now. We are so busy now with our everyday life. Joi is back to school, I am working full time, children go to kindergarten full time, I work in the evening doing websites (when the kids are alseep) and I go to the gym 5 times aweek. Joi tries to go as much as I do to the gym, but sometimes he doesnt make it - school comes first :)

The children are good, though Johannes has been bitten three times this week at Kindergarten and has a bruise on his upper back. He is also peeing in his pants 2-3 times a day. He had stopped using diapers when he started kindergarten and was doing so well. I believe that he is not happy there and not feeling too good. I don´t know what to do! The teachers say that he is ok and I have seen pictures taken of him from kindergarten and he seems to be happy there. Also he does not cry in the morning when I leave him there. So maybe this just takes time. He is adjusting and learning to be in a new environment. We need to give it a little more time. I hope.

Well. I do not feel like blogging any more. I am posting one picture of my little son in Kindergarten, where he seems so happy :)

Wellness and Happiness

September 10th 2005

Today is our wedding anniversary. It's been three years since Joi and I got married. Joi has been so romantic lately and he told me it was because he has been thinking about this day since September 1st. They day he said YES to me. He has been planning to do something romantic for us. I was so surprised! He has actually not been very romantic on any of these days, i.e. birthdays, anniversaries, engagement anniversary, etc. Now he remembers :) I am so happy. He has planned to take me out to a brunch this coming Sunday at Hotel Nordica in Reykjavik.

We have many plans for this weekend. Joi is going to a police "end of summer" party Friday. They will first compete in soccer, then they will get drunk together. Spouses are invited along, but I plan to stay home with the kids. Also because I am going to party myself Saturday night. Then we have a "girls cousin" party. It will be at my older sister's place (Dísa), cousins from my mother's site of the family. We have done this a few times in the past few years and always have a blast. It has been 3 years since the last time we did it. So it is time to party now. I am not going to get drunk though because I want to enjoy breakfast with my partner in life the following Sunday :) I will just be tipsy, that is the plan. In the last cousin party I passed out at midnight, and I am not going let that happen again heheheeh. I wish I had a picture of that...actually Thelma, my younger sister has some pictures of me passed out on my cousins bathroom floor hehehehe. NEVER AGAIN!!! Ciao for now. GSJ

Kindergarten, sickness, new computer

Jóhannes Kristbjörn has started going to kindergarten school, the same one that Ásdís goes to. He is still in the adjustment period and does not spend the whole day there until next week. Today he was there from 09 am to 11.30 am. I don't know how it went but hopefully well. Joi took care of him today. Yesterday it worked out allright. I was not very happy with how the greeted him and they did not seem to be organized at all. I think a child that is starting school and in a new environment needs a special care and special attention from the staff. He was not really getting that the first two days in the school. Hopefully it will get better as the week prolongs. I did complain about this and they apologized and I believe they will do better.

I have been sick all week, actually since Saturday. Coughing and sneezing, with a stuffed nose. Terrible. Then my head is also full of this cold and therefore I have a headache all day long. I went to work today, but I am not feeling good at all. But I have to toughen it out.

I bought a new computer Monday and I received it yesterday. It is awesome. 17" monitor on this labtop and 3 gb RAM, 250 GB hard drive, web cam, etc. Very nice. Now I have to get some software on it. That will be tough because I do not plan to spend money on it. We shall see what happens. At least I will download Joomla on it and start learning how to create web sites in that web content management system.

My children in their school uniforms

Got to go now. I am at work and should at least try and do something these last days I work for Marel. Peace and Love.