day in a life

Just a few days 'till Christmas, almost everything is done, I have two presents to buy and I'll do that today and a few small items from the last 5 santas that haven't arrived yet. Santas isn't a plural in English, and it sound wrong but (like I have said before) they are a breed not a person. I really like the evil parts of stories and life, I am not evil or bad to people myself, though some people say so but that is more as a joke cause I don't know how to hide my feelings. I can't pretend to like people or if I don't like something people say you can usually see it on my face. But back to the other bad guys, I have been reading a bit about Krampus, didn't know who he was until I saw last week's episode of Grimm. Here on the ice we have Grýla, she is our santas mom and she eats kids who are naughty, she also has a big cat and he eats kids who don't get new clothes for Christmas.

Maybe this is because of my research into Grendel but it is interesting how many monsters are in our lives. We tell our children fairy tales of evil beings and the old myths are often very scary. We create all sorts of monsters and tell stories about them before bedtime. At the moment I am reading A Christmas Carol for my son and that one is filled with scary ghosts. But the ends justify the meaning, right? if the good guy wins then it's OK.

The Icelandic santas used to be bad guys but they changed and turned good, now they give children a small present in a shoe they put in the window. I found a few of their names translated in to English and they pretty much describe what they do: Window Peeper, Door Slammer, Sausage Snatcher and Pot Licker. These are just a few there are also many old ones but only 13 names are still used today, one of the old ones that is not deemed good enough as a role model for kids is one called Skirt Blower, yes he would blow up the skirt to see what was meant to be hidden.

I like these 'bad guys' traditions meant to keep kids in line, and here if a kid is bad he gets a potato or a coal in his shoe. That is not fun.

Anyway enough of my wanderings. I got two of three grades in and I got 8.5 for both courses, I am very happy about that. I have just one left to come and I think that will be after Christmas. That was in Horror studies. I am on holiday now and my mom keeps nagging me about Christmas cleaning, what is the deal with that!? My house is not dirty but for some reason I have to do everything ten times because it's Christmas. I don't do, just what I feel like I need to not my mom. My son said to her yesterday that he doesn't think we need to do that much cause he will be with his dad for Christmas and I will be with her. I like that reasoning.

We make our own wrapping paper, a tradition my son loves. We sit every night and draw pictures on a roll of paper so everyone gets a personalized wrap. We did this for my brother's birthday too, and I wrote a lot of quotes on it from Star Trek, Star Wars and other sci-fi shows. My son loves doing this. He says he's going to be an artist when he grows up.

Well life goes on as it should. This is always a good time of year for me. When so many people feel awful this time of year, and here on the ice it's dark almost all day. Right now it's 10:30 in the morning and it's pitch black outside, the sun comes up around noon maybe and than it's gone an hour later or so. Many people don't like it and feel depressed but this is my time, I love it and it's is the only time of year I can't complain about anything, and I do feel it in my mood. I have more patience and my mom nagging doesn't irritate me.

Well I'm gonna do something wise now, like read