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.