Being lazy

[wiseheart]

It was raining in the morning, so I postponed my short trip to Lidl. There is nothing we'd urgently need right now, and I hope I'll still get some of the things that are on offer tomorrow.

Being a bank holiday or whatnot in Germany, German TV ejected all the usual programmes I wish at daytime, showing idiotic quizzies and boring movies instead. So I used the unexpected free time to work a bit on my textile book cover, to practice knitting, to make pancakes and to work out the plot of a side story I intend to write later to "A Stitch in Time".

Then the insurance agent - the same one whom I had an appointment with on March 10 and who never showed up - called to talk to me about one of my contracts. I wish she had called two days earlier; that would have saved me some money I transferred to the insurance company and that I could have spared otherwise. Ah, well, fortunately it was a small sum; the transfer fee of the bank made up 30% of it, though!

I then solved a few crossword puzzles, talked to my friend Evie on the phone and went to the post box with Mum to give her a bit of exercise. It's still frigging cold over here, although weather forecast promises more pleasant temperatures for the next few days. I hope they're right.

Comments

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

It´s Ascension Day here, and Germany also has the dreaded Father´s Day, which often ends with a lot of fathers dead drunk...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I remember you having mentioned something about motorbike races on Father's Day. Not the best thing to do when dead drunk...

I'm just annoyed that every time the TV channels decide to do something "festive", they end up cancelling for the day everything I like to watch. It's bad enough that there isn't any sci-fi to be seen since the end of the RTL Spike channel. At this point I'd even watch bad sci-fi!

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

I never noticed! I usually do not watch TV during day, and hubby is a pro finding at least one crime story in the evening!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I watch court shows and the likes as "Auf Streife" because they speak the normal, spoken German (not the dubbing for American films), and that's good for my vocabulary and listening comprehension. Besides, they're the best to do some sewing at the same time. ;))

[meathiel]

Same weather forecast here, let's keep our fingers crossed!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh God, yes, I'm so fed up with this arctic May! I just hope we won't jump to 35°C right away.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Too bad about the TV. I hate when they do that crap.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me, too. The idea is to cater to the interests of school kids who don't have school on such days, but honestly, what teenager does still watch telly? They all hang around the internet in these days.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Exactly. None of them watch TV anymore.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

It’s lovely and cold, which is just as it should be, because it’s winter here. It’s been a very wet winter; I had to buy a new indoor clothes drying rack because I can’t use the outside line at all.
We had Mother’s Day last weekend. That’s the gardener’s date to plant spring flowering bulbs in the southern hemisphere, but I haven’t been well enough to do all my bulb planting yet. Hopefully the bulbs will still flourish even if they’re planted a few days late!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I'm still wearing fleece pyjama's in the house here, too. Yesterday I even turned on the heating for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Spring is a non event.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, same here. I'm dreading the upcoming prices for fruit and veggies. :(