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I woke up at 9 pm confused, disoriented and with crazy hair.
I know I shouldn't have had a nap at 6 pm but I was so tired, I thought I'd just close my eyes for a few minutes. I think it's my wisdom tooth, or rather, the inflammation where it's trying to push out, that's making me so tired. I feel almost as if I have a fever. I've already seen a dentist and an oral surgeon and I need to get the inflammation in check before it can be operated on.
Now I'm wide awake and feel slightly feverish and a little head achy. I hope I didn't catch a cold today.
I missed my window of opportunity of 10 minutes today to leave work while it wasn't raining. Is this summer ever going to have weather that's not off the charts hot or crazy wet?
I couldn't leave during the 10 minute rain break, though. Do you do that, too, when you put off all things that are not urgent to a later, unspecified date, when there will be less work? Often summer is implied as that later date when all will be quiet. I did that all through spring and now summer has come and I have nothing urgent to do but a whole lot of important things that were unpleasant enough that I wanted to put them off for a while.
So I'm slogging through to do lists right now. The upside of this is, that when I've finally finished a task that is so unpleasant and has lived at the bottom of my to do list for so long, I feel much more accomplished than when it's just something I do every month and doesn't bother me much.
So I ended up leaving work a little late for a Thursday and went food shopping. I have guests on the weekend, so I couldn't put it off, despite the insistent rain. I chose the supermarket based on proximity to bus/tram stop because of it. Then I forgot to get a shopping trolley. When I went back I caused the alarm to go off, so I took a basket instead. This limited my shopping to as much as I can carry, which in hindsight was good, because it prevented me from buying a plastic tablecloth. I don't feel quite old enough for such a practical purchase.
So, what is new?
I finally got a brand-spanking new dishwasher:
After the customer service guy said fixing the old one would cost 590 € my landlord agreed pretty quickly that buying a new one would be the sensible action. I bought one even before my trip to Croatia and it was delivered last Wednesday. The technician creeped on my a little, calling me a pretty lady, but I was so thankful for getting a new dishwasher delivered, installed and having the old one taken away, I still tipped him.
According to the instruction manual it's so smart it measures the water's cloudiness (?) to determine how dirty the dishes are and adjusts the amount of water and time the programme takes to complete accordingly. How awesome is that?
Two weekends ago I was in Croatia, which was beautiful and relaxing and much too short a holiday. This was our view from the hotel room:
Or possibly the breakfast terrace, I'm not sure anymore. Because our window was facing East we woke up pretty early most days. Which was great, because we went for a swim in the sea before breakfast. I loved that! The day we arrived it had had 39 degrees, so when it rained on Saturday for two hours it wasn't so bad - it cooled off the air a little and made for awesome waves.
One weekend ago I had visitors from Vienna who came to see the pflasterspektakel. It's a yearly festival of street art. On Thursday I went with colleagues, and it was 34 degrees and there were so many people we didn't really see much of the evening's highlight - a fire show. I loved the street art though.
Sadly, I didn't get the picture of the troupe that fascinated me the most: They were all entirely covered in bright pink body paint and not wearing very much. They didn't talk but only made whistling and clucking noises as they clicked and whirred through the streets. The head of the group, a guy wearing only a pink thong and a skirt from stripes of cloth took my drink, a shandy, from me and fed the others from it. You could tell that one didn't like it. He didn't swallow but blew up his cheeks instead. He turned around in a circle and pretended to retch. Everyone moved back but of course not far away not to be covered in a spray of shandy raining down on us.
I found a photo of them on flickr, but be warned it's not entirely SFW. Well, if your employer minds pink boobs.
On Friday, when my guests arrived, it rained, of course. There is a limited programme even when it rains, though. We listened to some weird pipe music for dinner and later went to see a samba percussion troupe. We also met the pink troupe again. One of the pink performers approached a little kid to give him a piece of candy and the kid was so scared, he shrieked and wouldn't stop crying for minutes.
This weekend a friend from Vienna will visit for a night. The plan is dinner and Linz nightlife. If there's another weather Armageddon tomorrow, like there was today, with rain so heavy it sounded like hail, we might stay in and drink a bottle of wine. And on Saturday night another friend will drop by on her way back from Salzburg. We have made plans for dinner and a movie on Sunday night.
Next weekend I will be in Vienna again and have plans to meet a friend for breakfast and visit another friend, who's usually in Brussels, at a giant scout meeting in Laxenburg, south of Vienna.I'll also try to fit in meeting a few former colleagues and the usual breakfast meeting with A. I think my weekend is taken care of.
I know I shouldn't have had a nap at 6 pm but I was so tired, I thought I'd just close my eyes for a few minutes. I think it's my wisdom tooth, or rather, the inflammation where it's trying to push out, that's making me so tired. I feel almost as if I have a fever. I've already seen a dentist and an oral surgeon and I need to get the inflammation in check before it can be operated on.
Now I'm wide awake and feel slightly feverish and a little head achy. I hope I didn't catch a cold today.
I missed my window of opportunity of 10 minutes today to leave work while it wasn't raining. Is this summer ever going to have weather that's not off the charts hot or crazy wet?
I couldn't leave during the 10 minute rain break, though. Do you do that, too, when you put off all things that are not urgent to a later, unspecified date, when there will be less work? Often summer is implied as that later date when all will be quiet. I did that all through spring and now summer has come and I have nothing urgent to do but a whole lot of important things that were unpleasant enough that I wanted to put them off for a while.
So I'm slogging through to do lists right now. The upside of this is, that when I've finally finished a task that is so unpleasant and has lived at the bottom of my to do list for so long, I feel much more accomplished than when it's just something I do every month and doesn't bother me much.
So I ended up leaving work a little late for a Thursday and went food shopping. I have guests on the weekend, so I couldn't put it off, despite the insistent rain. I chose the supermarket based on proximity to bus/tram stop because of it. Then I forgot to get a shopping trolley. When I went back I caused the alarm to go off, so I took a basket instead. This limited my shopping to as much as I can carry, which in hindsight was good, because it prevented me from buying a plastic tablecloth. I don't feel quite old enough for such a practical purchase.
So, what is new?
I finally got a brand-spanking new dishwasher:
After the customer service guy said fixing the old one would cost 590 € my landlord agreed pretty quickly that buying a new one would be the sensible action. I bought one even before my trip to Croatia and it was delivered last Wednesday. The technician creeped on my a little, calling me a pretty lady, but I was so thankful for getting a new dishwasher delivered, installed and having the old one taken away, I still tipped him.
According to the instruction manual it's so smart it measures the water's cloudiness (?) to determine how dirty the dishes are and adjusts the amount of water and time the programme takes to complete accordingly. How awesome is that?
Two weekends ago I was in Croatia, which was beautiful and relaxing and much too short a holiday. This was our view from the hotel room:
Or possibly the breakfast terrace, I'm not sure anymore. Because our window was facing East we woke up pretty early most days. Which was great, because we went for a swim in the sea before breakfast. I loved that! The day we arrived it had had 39 degrees, so when it rained on Saturday for two hours it wasn't so bad - it cooled off the air a little and made for awesome waves.
One weekend ago I had visitors from Vienna who came to see the pflasterspektakel. It's a yearly festival of street art. On Thursday I went with colleagues, and it was 34 degrees and there were so many people we didn't really see much of the evening's highlight - a fire show. I loved the street art though.
Sadly, I didn't get the picture of the troupe that fascinated me the most: They were all entirely covered in bright pink body paint and not wearing very much. They didn't talk but only made whistling and clucking noises as they clicked and whirred through the streets. The head of the group, a guy wearing only a pink thong and a skirt from stripes of cloth took my drink, a shandy, from me and fed the others from it. You could tell that one didn't like it. He didn't swallow but blew up his cheeks instead. He turned around in a circle and pretended to retch. Everyone moved back but of course not far away not to be covered in a spray of shandy raining down on us.
I found a photo of them on flickr, but be warned it's not entirely SFW. Well, if your employer minds pink boobs.
On Friday, when my guests arrived, it rained, of course. There is a limited programme even when it rains, though. We listened to some weird pipe music for dinner and later went to see a samba percussion troupe. We also met the pink troupe again. One of the pink performers approached a little kid to give him a piece of candy and the kid was so scared, he shrieked and wouldn't stop crying for minutes.
This weekend a friend from Vienna will visit for a night. The plan is dinner and Linz nightlife. If there's another weather Armageddon tomorrow, like there was today, with rain so heavy it sounded like hail, we might stay in and drink a bottle of wine. And on Saturday night another friend will drop by on her way back from Salzburg. We have made plans for dinner and a movie on Sunday night.
Next weekend I will be in Vienna again and have plans to meet a friend for breakfast and visit another friend, who's usually in Brussels, at a giant scout meeting in Laxenburg, south of Vienna.I'll also try to fit in meeting a few former colleagues and the usual breakfast meeting with A. I think my weekend is taken care of.