An old-new sports discipline

[wiseheart]

It's called weight-lifting combined with long-distance walking and deliberate deep breathing. Otherwise known as making a food run on foot, wearing a mask. *g*

That's what I did in the morning, giving up my favourite program on the telly (zoo reports) to avoid the crowd. Since Friday is a national holiday, on Thursday a lot of people will get an irrational attack of fear that they would starve because the grocery shops will be closed (GASP!) for a whole day! Never mind that they'll open on Saturday again. Every self-respecting Hungarian will feel obliged to go to the grocer's on Thursday and buy unnecessary amounts of food. So I went today because I don't feel like fighting any battles for the last loaf of bread or whatnot. (The last meaning that it would take at least ten minutes until the shop assistants load out the new batch...)

So, I went first to the ticket machine to buy my monthly card. Then I went to ALDI to buy half the groceries. Then I went to LIDL to buy the mineral water, because that's the closest shop and dragging the water flasks home is exhausting.

When I got home and we decided to finally have breakfast (it was 11.30 already), the blind lady from the flat opposite ours came - four times! - to get some help with her phone, which wasn't working. (She didn't wear a mask, of course; apparently, it makes her hearing worse. Yeah, sure. I backed off as much as I could, even though I was wearing one.) It is a landline, so we had to call the provider and talk to the artificial (un)intelligence that flies the complaints. Needless to say that my first cup of coffee was lukewarm at best when we were finished.

Somewhat later my friend Evie dropped by with a sack of apples (leftovers from school that the kiddies didn't eat), which she handed me from as much distance as our combined arms, while we were grinning at each other happily under our masks. It was good to see each other for all the five minutes.

Then I cooked lunch. I gave Mary Berry's Panang stir-fry a try. It wasn't bad, but we prefer less spicy food. But at least I won't have to cook tomorrow; we'll have leftovers. Mum made plum soup. Yum!

In the afternoon I wrote a bit on two different chapters of SD5 (actually rewrote half a page, which was necessary but annoying), cut out some shapes for future cards and talked to my friend Erna on the phone. (How comes that I've got so many friends whose names begin with an E?)

Then Mum and I watched "City Bakes" with Paul Hollywood and will soon watch "River Monsters" with Jeremy Wade. Our cultural interests are deteriorating steadily, but that's okay.

Oh, and my friend Elise has just mailed: her third granddaughter was born yesterday. Yay!

Comments

[meathiel]

Those LIDL water bottles are very heavy. I wouldn't want to lug them around.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I loved your description of your exercise regime.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

1.5 litre each. Alas, the glorious days when I could carry a six-pack of them in one hand are over. So I have to ply the pack apart and halve the weight.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, I have to do something to keep my girlish shape, don't I? Especially as this is the only kind of sport in which I indulge. *g*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

You know, watching TV like that decreases stress. No fake drama to deal with

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Artificial unintelligence. Hehe.

I hate carrying water bottles/almond milk/miscellaneous liquids. They weigh a ton, and somehow always end up squashing the bread. Even when they’re in different bags.

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

Erna, Evie and Elise..name one friend that doesn't start with E? :D

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, there is Alex and Adrien and Gaby... But I have an Eenie, too, and two different Ilonas. :)
What can I say? Parents of a certain generation weren't too imaginative, apparently.

[artemis10002000]

You've been very busy! And lol yeah whenever here is a holiday, people storm the stores, too.

Saturday is a holiday and I need to go tomorrow since I can't make it today as originally planned... not looking forward to it.

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

River Monsters.. I love that show. Jeremy is an attractive guy, too.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Exactly! *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sounds very familiar. ;))

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You have my sincerest condolences. *hugs*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

He has very nice white hair. Looks like meringue. *g* I'm terribly envious; we're of the same age, and he has twice as much hair as I have. It's not fair!

[artemis10002000]

Thanks! I wager I'll need it. Alas, we have been depleting our stashes so it can't wait until next week.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

I can't handle River Monsters. I don't want to know what is lurking in dark, murky water that one day I may have to step in, lol.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The last time I stepped into dark murky water (namely the River Danube) was some 40 years ago. There were dead fish, floating upside down. That pretty much put me off of bathing in rivers ever again.