Easter

Today is the Good Friday. I am learning how to make cold brew coffee and really liking this idea. You just put coffee and cold water together in a glass container and let it brew slowly for some time, from hours to days. This gives the coffee a special taste and is fun to experiment with.

The weather has been very strange today. At the moment we have sunshine. It has snowed many times today with long breaks of extreme sun. Very interesting indeed. Some planets have no weather at all.

I was talking to a Swedish friend of mine yesterday. I love seeing how different nationalities have different characters. Swedes often think that the world has the same traditions as them. Sweden is quite sustainable in the way that they produce a lot of things such as food, television, books and whatnot. He was asking me typical Easter questions and expected me to be doing the same things as people in Sweden around the festival. I keep having this when speaking to my friends and family over there.

Swedish customers at Kaffitár often expect us to be able to understand swedish when they order. Or maybe I should say that they hope we do cause their english is often quite bad. Probably due to their amazing television programs that are all in swedish. They have such good television culture over there. Probably the thing I miss the most about living in Sweden.

Volcanoes, Moustaches And Tattoos

I am sure it hasn't gone past many that there is a volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland. It started on Friday the 20th of March, there had been earthquakes around that area for a while so it was a bit expected. At first I thought, meh, it's not that exciting cause I thought it would just be small and nothing much to see. Now I dream of it every night and can't wait for the chance to go up there to see it with my own eyes. I just wanna buy a car and go, go, go! Everyone I know that has a car has already been, of course they all went on my work weekend so I wasn't available. It's a bit of a hike, it took my friends 11 hours to walk up and down again. I am sure I'll get there eventually, I AM CALM!

Another amazing thing about March this year is how giving it has been. First of all my school decided to have a Give Blood March, of course I couldn't give blood but I tried to get everyone I know to give as much as they were allowed to. Second was the Moustache March which I could participate in. My class (the male half) all grew nice tashes and collected 30.000 ISK for the cancer fund of Iceland. My mother gave me a t-shirt collecting money for the children of Haiti. Last but not least Kaffitár (my workplace) is in the application process to become a "swan" café. The Swan is a nordic ecolabel trying to make the world as sustainable as possible. I am proud to be working for a company ready to go through the effort of becoming an ecolabeled company.

Yesterday I went to the Blue Lagoon with my student organization Fjallið. It was nice as usual and my skin feels both nice and horrible today. The water in the blue lagoon has good effect on many skin problems such as psoriasis. The Blue Lagoon is pretty much man made cause it is waste water from the geothermal plant next to it. The water has high acidity and would be quite dangerous if you'd go there every day. But every once in a while it makes wonders for your skin.


My mum has joined her children in the skin art club and now has four butterflies (children) sitting on a branch of cherry blossoms (her) tattooed on her right shoulder. My brother-in-law Peter is the tattoo artist and did a hell of a good job. I can't wait to get started on my sleeve and all the other things I wanna get. In between my volcano dreams I dream of tattoos. But I am calm, CALM LIKE A CHILD ON CHRISTMAS!

Have I Told You...

how interesting and eventful life is nowadays?

There are so many meaningful and meaningless things happening in the world, my life, in my body and in my head these days.

First of all is this big baggage on us all that we call the Recession. Although I try to live life as it hasn't affected me at all, I have so many things to thank the recession for.

For instance the first thing I saw positive was that people got fired from jobs that they were doing badly and often new and better employees took over. This however is sadly not a rule as many good people lost their jobs as well.

Another good consequence of the Recession is my decision to go to university. I am currently taking student loans and studying geography at the University of Iceland. I am in an awesome class full of interesting and interested students of all ages. We all help each other and cry together over hard physics problems. The negative side of this part of my life is that there are so many students at the Uni now that it is hard for the lecturers to give each student as much time as they usually would.

We cook more at home after the banks fell. Instead of going to McD or Domino's Pizza I eat loads of homemade lasagna, noodle dishes, pizzas and all kinds of other stuff. I buy less clothes and books though.


Early in this blog I was talking about my life, my body and my mind.

My life has turned a lot since I came back to lovely, lonely Iceland. I say lonely but I also mean the opposite at the same time. I have less love life. At first this was extremely hard. Now I am a bit afraid of meeting new people to date. I seem to be more shy and afraid of being hurt. At the same time I am more confident in the non-love-life.

I talk to myself and tell me the truth everyday. -Þrallur you are so awesome that one half of it would be heaps and bundles!

The fact is that instead of working on my flaws i have accepted them as characteristics of Þrallur. I don't mind my weird posture anymore, I am happy with my mouse-gray hair color, I embrace my forgetfulness and try to smile a little when I dry the person I spilled my drink over.

I am a proud dull-colored, crooked, clumsy, forgetful, fed-up-with-love-yet-love-seeking Icelander with a beautinice beard!


Oh, I am almost forgetting the COFFEE part of my life. I am loving it as usually. I competed at the Iceland Barista Championship two weeks back and as usually I wasn't prepaired enough and made a fool of myself. I am not gonna let that push me down though cause I make awesome coffee and no trophy will prove that to me (although it would look awesome with my name on it).

Me and some friends are going to the World Championship in London this summer. Oh lords of Asgard! I cannot wait.


My grandfather on mum's side passed away on new years eve. This event resulted in many deleted FaceBook friendships, lawsuits, arguments and family splitting. Thankfully both him and gran were cremated cause otherwise they would have turned spun like a pair of tornados in their grave. This is nothing I am going to deeply into on my blog, it will come in my autobiography in the future.


This is only a small part of my status update. I am way too tired to talk to you more this evening so I bid you all good night.

New Life In University

It's a Wednesday evening, I'm sitting in the kitchen eating noodles and bread and reading the newspaper. All of a sudden I realize that some of the people I care about or care about me have no idea what kitchen I am sitting in and where in the world that newspaper is from. Since my last blog a lot of things have come to happen in the life of Þrallur.

In June mine and my very good friend Scott's rent lease ran out so I decided it was time for a dramatic change in my life. I packed my few belongings I had in Maynooth in Ireland and boarded a plane back to Reykjavík. I finally decided to apply for college after six years of break from school. When I was twenty I was so fed up with school, the school I last went to was in Akureyri, it was in no way appealing to me and I was quite bored with the town and the school for those four years I stayed and studied there. But these six years have done me good I have lived and learned from Life itself and have no regrets there.

I came back to Reykjavík in the middle of June and have been working most days since in Kaffitár, have had loads of good times in Prikið and lived on my friend Kolbrún's sofa to begin with and then Kristín and Kata's sofa until I finally got this apartment I am now eating my dinner in. I was a couch surfer for two long months, don't get me wrong though, it was mostly fun, but it is always tough living in someone else's living room for more than one night.

Scott came over for a week from Ireland in August. We had loads of fun and travelled a bit. Kolbrún lent us her car and we drove to Jökulsárlón, Skaftafell, did the Golden Circle including Kerið, Gullfoss, Geysir and Þingvellir and ended the trip on the Blue Lagoon. We also partied in Reykjavík and watched the annual Gay Pride that has never been bigger here in Iceland with 80.000 people in down town Reykjavík.

I have found out that 11 is my bar in Reykjavík, I have gone there a few times this summer and I love it, it's too warm too sweaty and lovely rock music, just the way I like it. Some say it's shabby but I think it's warm and welcoming.

Last week I moved into a flat in Hringbraut opposite the University along with my friends Anna Sóley and Salvör, we got the apartment the same day as I started my university degree in Geography so my new life started with a huge bang. I have a nice room in a big apartment next to my school and ten minutes away from Kaffitár Bankastræti where I will e working every other weekend this winter. How perfect is that?!

We are getting internet sometime this week, we got loud speakers today to connect our music to, we have a nice kitchen and have cooked a lot, we have two bathrooms, a nice couple of couches, wardrobes, toilet paper, knitting needles and wigs.

I couldn't be more ready for my time as a university student.

Magnús + Åsa

I just skyped with my little brother in Sweden.

Believe it or not he is engaged to his girlfriend (fiancé these days) Åsa.

Congrats you two!

When To Panic

Mexico has a problem with the Swine Flu so they have all the reason to panic, America has cases of the flu and they are americans they are extra allowed to panic, but what about us?

Us europeans think we are so cool that I am not sure we are ever allowed to panic about this. If a cool guy wants to start wearing a hospital mask, could he? What is worse the Pig Flu or the humiliation of being seen with a anti flu device?

I have often thought about these kind of things, when I was younger I would rather freeze than going to school with a jacket that the other kinds would make fun of. Still it is a little stuck in me, I have a plan of getting rid of the Þrallur that cares what other people think before I turn 30. I have come a long way though. I wear beards that some people think are ugly, but I keep them because I feel good looking like a hillbilly sometimes. I wear comfortable clothes rather that cool looking ones.

Still I am not all the way there though but I will keep trying.

This doesn't solve the question when to start to panic over this epidemic (or is it pandemic yet?). Shall we wait until it comes to Ireland or shall we take precautions?

I mean it will never kill me, I have never even been to Mexico!

All Men Are Equal, But Some Men Are More Equal Than Other.

These pictures are from the march for equality that was help in Dublin on the 19th of April this year. over 700 people were there giving the red card to politicians that see gay, bi and transgender people as second class citizens in the society.


This blog is for all those lost souls that don't know what to do with their day. Why not watch this amazingly sexuality racist video that the National Organization for Marriage put together in America.

There is a doctor talking about issues that doesn't even concern the subject, she says that everyday she has to chose between her job and her faith, meaning that she believes gay people shouldn't get treated by doctors but by law she has to treat them.

It's amazing that people that once had no rights are now against other people getting equal rights. Women had no rights once and neither did colored people in the USA, now that struggle is forgotten and all come together to bully the new minority.

We just never learn do we?

Þórhallur And Þórhallur

A year ago my dear grandfather Þórhallur passed away. Seems like just a moment ago I was in London playing with the squirrels and dad called me with the news. I light a candle for you today afi.

Tomorrow it's my day and I would like to ask for some sun and no presents. Hope I am not asking for too much. Have fun tomorrow all, hope you have something nice to eat and a jolly good time.

Gas Bill

My gas bill was €200 for December and January. February-March is only €80. How can that be? I remember by gas heating bill in Iceland being shit and nothing. Here I use the heating for about an hour a day while in Iceland I would use it all day every day.

Viva la Islande!

Fantasy Books

I love magic and old style fighting so I read a lot of fantasy books. Love how magicians can turn into animals, how hunters can shoot an arrow at a target million miles away, how thieves can pick all locks no matter what and more.

Yesterday is started thinking about the characters of my favorite books and realized that almost every successful author has the same buildup of main characters. Like all lady love stories have a sexually starved woman and a hunk of a man starring in them.

Here is the formula for a successful fantasy novel:

The Orphaned Child who possesses massive magic power that he/she has't discovered yet, but always knew he/she wasn't like other children. Usually the main villain killed the child's parents when he/she was an infant.
Harry Potter, Belgarion, Sonea, Mareth, Luke Skywalker, Eragon,...

The Old Magic Man, at least a hundred years old, grey beard. The only one the villain fears, but still not strong enough to defeat him. He leads the chosen one to the evil one and leaves him to do the dirty work.
Belgarath, Gandalf, Dumbledore, Obi Van Kenobi, Brom, Bremen,...

The Token Woman. She is the most powerful woman in the world, beautiful in a strange way, usually the healer but fights like a man. Girl Power! Sometimes two of them, one magic and one fighter.
Polgara, Éowyn, Arwen, Sonea, Mareth, Preia, Leia, Padme Amidala, Arya, Hermione,...

The Super Villain. He is a god or want's to be a god. He want's all creatures to be his slaves and usually fancies the token power woman, if he can't have her no one can. Quite often he used to be good but fell over to the dark side, so now he needs to be killed with a special weapon.
Kal Torak, Sauron, Brona, Lord Voldemort, Darth Vader, Galbatorix, Jafar,...

The villains inner circle, his loyal followers. Wear black usually.
Grolims, Ring Wraiths, Death Eaters, Scull Bearers, The Sith,...

The Scruffy Loner who usually gets the girl. He is very good with weapons and tracking and a very loyal friend. He usually left home bacause he is fleeing his past.
Aragorn, Silk, Durnik, Murtagh, Han Solo, Kinson Ravenlock,...

That's just what I kin think of at the top of my mind, the stories I am taking the characters from are:
Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings, The Belgariad, Shannara, Star Wars, The black Magician Trilogy and Eragon