Finally a Good Day(ish)

I woke up this morning with A Plan! And I devised an almost minute-by-minute schedule for the day. It kind of worked too.

First I started with a 20 minute yoga, with the help of Barbara Curry's DVD, which I haven't got out for over a year. The truth is, my knees were very stiff when I woke up, and I thought I cannot continue doing this to my precious body. Hardly any exercise for about 3 months, takes its toll for sure. It makes me puke just thinking about how fit I was in September! That could be another reason why I'm becoming so depressed lately! No adrenalin to lift me up...

Going back to the plan, I did all sorts, i.e. it was my turn for the ever boring nutella toast and tea making (using inferior tea bags), then read a few pages of Emotional Intelligence (cracking book), then jumped out of bed again, and hit the bedroom with a vengeance. I still have a way to go to tidy it all up, or at least organise it in some sort of fashion. As our books, videos and cooking items are still in boxes, just thrown in there from 4 weeks ago. It's a big task, but if I just do an hour every day, it will get done in a few weeks. By which time we'll really have to have a good go at renovating this shack of a mud house!

Then I washed up, about 3 times! One would think I love doing it. But without running water, ordinary tasks get trickier, and I so don't have time for people who complain about the British system of not having mixer taps! I'd be happy even just to have cold water inside the house!

So anyway, amidst washing up I called up mum, and my cousin. Good job too, cos I found out that there is no market on tomorrow (P wanted a Calor gas heater for that freezing icebox of a bedroom), and that my cousins and aunt are coming to see us on Monday. Or rather, we are going to pick them up. I thought it was going to be more like towards the end of the week, but they will have visitors too...

So Sunday will be hectic again. Then I started thinking up, what we will feed them with? Turned to Jamie Oliver's cook book, should do the trick as always!!!

Also asked P to bring in the shelf and the table from the store room, at least I could put the plates and mugs somewhere, and our guests will have a place to eat off of. Thanks Laczko Family! Really nice of them to leave all this great furniture behind! Could've done with all those trees as well that they chopped off around the house before we bought it, but I guess, more the fools we are.

Today I still miss England. Even though when I gaze out our back window towards the Tisza, I see deers munching on something in the partially snow covered ground, and there is not a human or a house in sight, and it is so peaceful and unspoilt, I still have a voice in the back of my head saying that this is not my home. Or am I just kidding myself?

P reads more horror stories today about the global economy on the blogs, and the general predictions are not looking good for next year. But I will go into more details about these later on.

That's it for now, hopefully I'll return sooner than my usual yearly or less update...