I confess
…I can’t believe it is only Wednesday, I am so exhausted! The month of May is one of the busiest times for us at work and it is really taking a lot out of me.
…I am putting Travel Wednesday on pause for now. Since I am hosting Travel Tuesday for the next few months I want to focus on bringing you all an awesome travel post that day so tune in on Tuesday to read more about my travel story.
…I really need to get better about writing posts over the weekend but when the weather is nice out I am not going to sit inside writing all day. #sorrynotsorry
…I have been in Iceland for almost 7 months now and am starting to feel pressure to be fluent in Icelandic. I know this is pressure I am putting on myself but I can’t help but feel like I have to learn the language or society won’t accept me. Whenever someone asks me how my Icelandic is going I want to just shout at them “I am trying, seriously lay off!” but I won’t since I know they are just asking to be nice and I am the one having a crisis about it.
…last night after work I went on a major rant to H about my day and after about 10 minutes of talking I realized that this conversation needed to be had with a girl. Girls are just so much better at venting and listening to others vent, guys no offense but you suck at it.
…I am about to boycott all blogs that require captcha! I spend more time trying to enter the words in right than I do actually reading the blog post. My patience level for these things is quickly running out. If you have captcha please get rid of it!
…riding my bike everyday to work is starting to not be so fun. In fact riding my bike everywhere since it is my only means of transportation is starting to get really old! And riding your bike with all your grocery’s basically just sucks, I can’t even be positive about it any more I miss my car.
…at least once a day I get an email response from someone who completely spells my name wrong. How hard is it to just type out the same name I just signed the email off with!!!
…Parks and Recreation is one of the best shows I have watched. H and I have been spending most of our nights lately watching a few episodes. They never fail to crack me up!
…last night H and I were talking about what I wanted to do for my birthday at the end of the month. I started thinking about all the fun plans I would make if I was back at home with my friends and family and started to get really sad that I won’t be home to celebrate with them. Now I feel like I really need to make some awesome plans for the day otherwise I fear I am going to spend most of my birthday dealing with homesickness and that is no fun.
…the weather back in Oregon has been beautiful for this time of year. Every time I see someone post a photo in the sunshine or comment about how wonderful the weather is I get so jealous that I am not back home. Iceland can we please turn the heat up a bit?
I am not cranky but it sure felt good to get that off my chest! And to end things on a positive note today at work we are working on filling out a grant for our office to visit Spain this year as a “work trip”. I sure do love my job!
Question of the Day?
Anything you need to get off your chest today?
I'm Kaelene, a girl from Oregon figuring out life in Iceland. I have a passion for travel and a weakness for a good glass of wine. I believe in faking it tell you make it and am far from figuring out the expat life. 
