::The Yellow Book::

An illustrated regular

About Me
name: Katrin
age: 21
location: Reykjavík, Iceland
nationality: Icelandic
msn: trinagunnars (at) hotmail (dot) com
reading: Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen. Old Arcadia, by Sir Philip Sidney.
listening to: My iPod
watching: Buffy DVDs, How I Met Your Mother and Gossssssip Girl
likes: sleep, Pepsi Max, YAs by Meg CabotTV and my late cat, Joakim
dislikes: Techno, mathfish  

   Blogs

             + Aldís María        
 
+ Edda
  
+ Meg Cabot
  
+ Sigrun Ugla
  
+ Mummy dearest
  
+ Júlía Ara
  
+ Dísa
  
+ Hrafnkell
  
+ Þorsteinn
  
+ Hafdís
  
+ Frog Prince
  
+ Birna Kristín
  
+ Kolbrun
  
+ Erla
  
+ Gulla
             
+ Anna Margrét     +Eduardo

 

      Other links

   + My blogger.com profile
  
+ Pictures/myndir 2005
  
+ Pictures/myndir 2005-2007 (Scotland)
  
+ KatSpace
  
+ Poet Katrin
  
+ Gavin DeGraw
  
+ My Bible
  
+ Meg Cabot official website
  
+ See This Movie
  
+ He with whom I compare all persons of the opposite sex
  
+ Officially a fan
  
+ Ugla
  
  + My old high school
  
+ My old college
  
+ The Uni Choir
  
+ Uni Choir chat
  
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+ The BOG
  
+ Reykjavík weather

 

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   Host- Blogger
  
Skin-Blogskins
   
Designer-Dawnwake

 

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Friday, November 30, 2007

Mmmmmm

Mmmmm... My room smells of hoovering!
Nice smell ;)
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 00:28:-

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Cheater

I jumpstarted. I just finished wiping off one of the bookcases (in which I don't actually keep books, as the other one is much bigger), and am soon gonna wipe off the desk and nightstand. I'll leave the big bookcase till later.

I am such a cleaning slutttttttttt.
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 17:25:-

Katrín the strange

I am actually looking forward to my cleaning week, which starts tomorrow.
Why am I so weird?
Because I will then also clean my own room. And believe you me, it requires a bit of cleaning.
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 13:50:-

Monday, November 26, 2007

Talk

I just caught myself talking to myself. Out loud. In English.

That's a good thing, right?

QotD: Lorelai: [to Rory] "I have to know where you are at all times, especially when you have my shoes on." - Gilmore Girls
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 18:36:-

Friday, November 23, 2007


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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 01:24:-

Monday, November 19, 2007

Til fólksins á mölinni

Í dag blogga ég á hinu ástkæra ylhýra, af gefnu tilefni. Nei, ekki vegna þess að dagur íslenskrar tungu var seinastliðinn föstudag - á afmæli Björgvins stjúpföður míns, bæðevei (til hamingju!).
Þetta er auglýsing! Vil ég biðja alla þá Íslendinga (sem og útlendinga sem skilja íslensku sem kynnu að heimsækja þessa síðu mína, sem ég tel þó ólíklegt) sem búsettir eru á mölinni að taka vel eftir.

Næstkomandi sunnudag, 25. nóvember, og þriðjudaginn 27. nóvember, munu Háskólakórinn og Ungfónía halda saman tónleika í Langholtskirkju og byrja þeir klukkan 20:00 að staðartíma bæði kvöld. Flutt verður stórfenglegt kórverk eftir Ludwig van Beethoven heitinn, sem á tónlistarmáli nefnist Messa í C-dúr, Op. 86. Á mannamáli kallast þetta einfaldlega Snilld, eða Fegurð skilgreind í formi tónlistar. Ég get lofað því að einhverjir (undirrituð meðtalin) munu finna fyrir gæsahúð! Einsöngvararnir eru upprennandi stórstjörnur og heita:
Rannveig Káradóttir, sópran
Sibylle Köll, alt
Hlöðver Sigurðsson, tenór
Valdimar Hilmarsson, bassi.

Miðaverð í forsölu er 500kr fyrir nema og 1000kr fyrir aðra, en við dyrnar kostar 1000kr fyrir nema og 1500kr fyrir aðra. Miða í forsölu er hægt að nálgast hjá fólki úr Ungfóníunni og kórmeðlimum - mér það er að segja.
Ég hvet alla sem eiga rauðan eða fjólubláan seðil í veskinu og þykir gott að hlusta á fallega tónlist (eða jafnvel ekki; þetta verk gæti snert hvaða sál sem er!) til að annaðhvort hafa samband við mig (eða ef þið þekkið e-n annan í kórnum eða Ungfóníunni) hið fyrsta, nú eða bara mæta í Langholtskirkju á sunnudaginn/þriðjudaginn næsta klukkan átta eftir hádegi.

Að því er ég best veit hefur þetta verk einungis verið flutt tvisvar sinnum á Íslandi áður, svo að þetta er án efa svona "once in a lifetime" upplifun. Ef ég væri ekki í kórnum sjálf, þá myndi ég sko mæta. Er búin að vera að hlusta á þetta á iPodinum og/eða í tölvunni endalaust seinustu dagana og fæ alls ekkert leið á því! Ekkert nema gæsahúð og spenning fyrir því að syngja þetta fyrir fullri kirkju (að sjálfsögðu verðið þið að hjálpa til við að fyllla kirkjuna!). Svaka kikk, er ég viss um. Það er alltaf æði að syngja á kórtónleikum, en ég efast ekki um að þetta verði enn betra. Rosalega erfitt verk, en það er óviðjafnanleg tilfinning að ná því fullkomlega! Og ekki er verra að hafa vitni :D
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 20:01:-

Friday, November 16, 2007

Hilton, Richie, Lohan, Spears etc

This has bothered me for a while; I don't even know for how long. Ever since I started hearing of young stars becoming party animals that would make Keith Richards look like an angel, I've wondered. Why do they drink and drive? I mean, I don't blame them for wanting to have fun once in a while... though once in a while appears to mean "once a day" for some of them.
But why drink and drive? I mean, don't they all have their own personal chauffeurs? Or at LEAST enough money for a taxi.

QotD: Laney Boggs: "Screw the dolphins."
Jesse Jackson: "A guy tried that last year, banned from Sea World for life." - She's All That
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 21:51:-

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Another Oscar Wilde quote

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 00:17:-

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Spare time

Oh I remember when I had enough of it to allow myself to read a book for MYSELF once in a while. There's this one recently published book by Meg Cabot that I've seen at Mál & menning, and I wanna buy, but I'm afraid if I do I might just read it right away, instead of my textbooks...
Yes I remember when I had so much spare time that I had no idea what to do with it. Now I have so little that I have become an expert in "creating" spare time, i.e. procrastinating!
(Though of COURSE that does not prevent me from handing in assignments on time etc. I may or may not have neglected reading a few loooong chapters for British Culture and History, and a couple of 20-page long boooooring and useless articles for the compulsory philosophy course I HAVE to take. Possibly the most pointless and boring course of all time.)
I think I'm gonna go to Mál & menning tomorrow and buy that book and keep it where I can always see it, to remind myself of every day's goal: do a lot of homework, in order to pass the upcoming exams, so I can READ this book!!! :D

QotD: "I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 23:43:-

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Schnappi das kleine Krokodil

LOVE this.

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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 19:50:-

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