Rambling thoughts about being on holiday

EPI and I are on holiday right now, which basically means Doing-Everything- We-Don’t-Have-Time-To-Do-While-We’re-Working. Things like Driving Across Sprengisandur, Sleeping Until Noon, Frying Bacon for Brunch, Actually Reading the Newspaper, Hair Appointment, Massage Appointment, Combing Every Fricking Sports and Department Store in the City of Reykjavík for a Decent Swimsuit on Account of Boxers Being Ripped Off [a futile exercise, sigh], Opening That Bottle of Bollinger and Eating Grilled Lobster with Garlic Butter and Toasted Baguette, And So Forth.

Meanwhile, work keeps coming my way and my greatest dilemma is how not to say YES to everything. Some of the assignments are actually very tempting, such as the offer by the major international travel publisher who contacted YT through the Weather Report with a view to doing some work on a Niceland book [unfortunately the timing didn’t work out, boo] and shows how this blog - which started out as an anonymous little diversion - has become much more than the sum of its parts. People keep talking about a recession around here and - yes - lots of people are being laid off, but I’ve never been so busy in my entire freelance career. It’s quite wonderful, actually.

AAH is currently in New York visiting her stepsister and reportedly the pair of them are taking the city by storm, all thanks to a pair of false eyelashes and a borrowed ID card. So, has she seen the Statue of Liberty? Empire State Building? Brooklyn Bridge? - No, but you can bet she can give a detailed description of every H&M and Urban Outfitters in the city. I was on Skype with them last night for over an hour because that’s how long it took for AAH to hold up all her purchases in front of the laptop camera to show me. Honestly, I fear that by the time she leaves all of New York City’s shops will be a gaping vacuum. She’ll need her own fleet of cargo planes just to transport all the stuff home.

IT’S BEEN RAINING!
And pretty damn windy, too. I’ve actually been delighted for all the vegetation, which has just been sucking it up after all the drought around here recently, but I do pity some of the poor tourists I’ve seen, tucked deep inside their windbreakers with their hoods tied up around their faces so just their noses and eyes are poking out. Niceland takes wind and rain to a new level of understanding, by the looks of it. Some of that abated today, though, and there was only minimal rain and actually a few sunny spells. Weatherman sez the next couple of days are going to be stellar, weather-wise. Right now 10°C [50F], sunrise was at 3:42 am, sunset at 11:23 pm.