Today, after full year, I finally finished a bottle of cod liver oil. Icelanders believe that cod liver oil has magic qualities and can cure everything from arthritis to depression. Last September on insistent of my Icelandic teacher I bought one bottle of this elixir of life. I did try to drink it but the taste and aftertaste and the smell and the mess surrounding its intake, made it difficult. Honestly, I haven’t thrown it away only because I didn’t know how to dispose of it. What if it leaks inside the garbage bin and I will never get rid off the smell? Or what if our backyard will be invaded by army of meowing cats if I simply pour it out under a bush? The bottle stayed and reproachfully stared at me every time I opened our refrigerator. It became my mission to finish it off. And today it was accomplished. Hurray!
Other things to celebrate include arrival of the clementines in the local stores; cold, but calm weather, and abundance of ice and snow crystals in the lava fields. They are stunning, aren't they?
