An eclectic day

[wiseheart]

Really boring stuff behind the tag - but also something positive for a change

Today was hunting day again. Unfortunately, I also had to go to the post office, which opens at 8:30, which always makes my tour a logistic nightmare. Because of the current emergency rule, due to which only seniors (65 years and beyond) are allowed in the food shops between 9 and 12, I had to do all the shopping before that. Unless I wanted to go after noon, when everything is really crowded. I tried that last week - never again!

So I was at Lidl right for the opening and got the mineral water and some other heavy stuff, because that is the shortest distance I had to walk. Then I went to the Auchan supermarket - by tram, which isn't really good in these times, but otherwise I'd have run out of time - and to the Aldi opposite it, where I got some other heavy stuff. Then I went to the post office, paid the insurance rates and got home - by tram again because my back is still acting up, and I couldn't have dragged all the stuff home otherwise.

In the early afternoon I finally got IC guy from the neighbourhood to install my new antivirus programme (via TeamViewer), as the old one is about to run out in 5 days' time. That took longer than expected because my geriatric laptop has become as slow in recent years as its owner. But now I'm safe for another year, I hope. A good thing I didn't have to cook today, though. Leftovers can be life-savers. Or at least time-savers.

And now to the joyous news: another one of my young colleagues is expecting! Yay! They had to postpone the wedding ceremony due to the virus (although they might do the civil part just with the registrar and the witnesses), but the baby is on its way and is supposed to arrive in October - some two and a half weeks after the son of the other young colleague. My own birthday is between the two events, so it promises to be a festive month. ;))

Comments

[meathiel]

Lots of shopping today ...
Do you mean those 1 1/2 litre bottles of water?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep. However, this time I managed not to drop any of them. *g*

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Congrats for your colleague!

[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

Well done you! And congrats to your young colleague!

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

The govt suggests only going shopping once or twice a week. The govt obviously assumes we all have cars. I have to shop three times a week at least, because I have to lug the bags home.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks, we are all happy for her.:)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is a funny thing, you know - we've been working together for years before we'd find out, quite by accident, that she went to secondary school with a boy from my very first class in this school. The kiddies get old so quickly...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know the feeling.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

I used to like shopping at the supermarket, now it is a major headache. Congratulations to your colleague and the baby on the way! Wish protecting ourselves from the virus was as easy as installing an anti-virus program on the computer - sigh.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep, that would be very handy indeed. I generally love supermarkets, too, but nowadays it is a serious logistic problem, as I have to go to different ones for different wares. And only senior citizens (65 and beyond) are allowed between 9 and 12. So I go early, right when the shops open, in the perhaps futile hope that it is safer at that time.