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Lauantai 🇫🇮 Laugardagur 🇮🇸

Little did we know about how the events would unfold later today when we woke up this morning. After a terrible sleepless night, my morning routines felt like black-and-white images from a slow-motion movie, and I resembled a sleepy bulldog. When the much-needed coffee found its way into my system, my whole perception came to its senses, and the world wasn't that grim anymore. I still need to figure out why my wee mind blows the alarm in the middle of the night and puts me fully awake. During these instances, I feel like a marathon runner ready for the next contest, and falling into a deep sleep seems impossible. However, when dawn comes, the whole game changes suddenly. My eyelids are no longer glued to the top of my head but gradually descending towards my chin like two 16-ton weights. 

When my mind started to produce meaningful thoughts, I knew I was ready to talk about what to do today. Eventually, we decided to go to IKEA and buy some more unnecessarily necessary things. We can always find a reason to do something, and today wasn't different. When we arrived at the IKEA store, it was already busy with similarly nervous customers as we were. Whereas they were trying to find the best bargain, we were focused on the caramel apple cake at the cafeteria, so we hurried up the stairs like two hungry hawks. After devouring the cakes, we became so calm and collected that even the hysterical baby cry couldn't disturb us. (If something, then baby-cry is what annoys us the most.)

When we returned home, I prepared lunch: "lecsó á la nature". It was so delicious that we could hardly say a word while devouring it. Then the rest of the day went by quickly: a bit of sun-bathing, lesson preparation, teaching, walking, and now I'm writing this entry and am ready to call it a day...

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