Surviving Iceland

There is very little on the news other than arguments between the politicians about matters that could wait a little longer. Accidents, people dying from accidents, the spring type of news motorcycle accidents .. The actual news about the need seem to have been shushed. The little band aid seems to be helping a few individuals out there, but the ones who are still sinking or literally being hung by the problems at hand are not being heard.

I myself am getting pretty tired, in general I think. Every day that I think things are going to be just "ok" .. are not. Do you guys remember the free media / national television "fight" a few months ago? Where one of the television stations shut down for a few days because they were sure they would just not make it against the national television with their huge financial support every year from the government WITH advertisements? So he government slapped an added tax (Nef skattur) on every citizen in Iceland and instead they were going to take the national television of the advertising market so the free media would have a chance to survive. But that worked so well that the national television was pretty much just put right on the advertising market again. But the .. damn tax is still there.

So I got the message yesterday that I will have to pay 30.000 in August only for this tax, in addition to the taxes my former employer who had to let me go when everything collapsed did NOT pay .. how on earth am I supposed to come up with all this extra money? I feel like banging my head against a wall, this is a fight I will not even win one round of as it seems. I´m sorry but 30.000 króna is quite a lot when you do not have money to pay for anything let alone have enough food per day, and people wonder why i´m stressed out about the tax raises that are about to come around as well. I think I have sold everything that I can from what I own, clothes and so forth, but unfortunately for me I do not have a clothing tree where I can step outside and pick some clothes to sell.

I was feeling optimistic a few days ago, and now I feel like I just jinxed the whole thing by letting myself feel like something might be working out. My back is absolutely killing me, still i´m trying to do what I can ..  Yep, its a wonderful life. So .. I have pretty much nothing much to say right now except that I feel like I am walking backwards in stead of forward, and as they said .. this is only the beginning and we´ll probably see a second collapse, and the króna has not collapsed all the way, and the government thinks that the EU is going to come in and make it all better while everything is burning up and people are getting these awesome new expenses to support the national television which I never watch by the way. Frustrating ............................................................................. and there is absolutely NOTHING I can do.