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Perjantai 🇫🇮 Föstudagur 🇮🇸

Another terrible night's sleep resulted in me waking up grumpy - I woke up several times, again. (I checked my sleeping pattern on my Apple watch, and according to the app, I took some steps during the night, which I can't remember at all. I hope I'm not a somnambulist!) When I made my way down to the living room, Ági and Abby were ready for the morning walk, so I dragged my weary body along with them to the local store to buy something for breakfast. After coming home and devouring the nosh, I looked forward to gulping down the much-needed coffee. Little had I had to wait till the effects of caffeine showed some progress on my mood. Since Ági had two classes to teach this morning, I finally went to my den to study. I reviewed Charlette's lesson; I had to look up a couple of words in the dictionary.

Our schedule is not complete without visiting the craftsman store. Since there were no other engagements on our calendars for today, we jumped in the car and drove to the store to buy some tools I needed for the hall renovation. On the way back, we stopped at McDonalds to indulge in the delights of junk food. I know it wasn't the best we could make, but the options were limited, and despite all the negative aspects of fast-food restaurants and menus, we liked it.

When we returned home, Ági prepared me a delicious, strong coffee, which gave me strength to massage her feet. While I was poking her soles, I watched silly videos and some series, and then I fell into a half-coma-like state for forty minutes. The rest of the day went by quickly after regaining consciousness from the afternoon deep sleep session. We fixed an old shelve on the wall to store flour, salt, sugar, and semolina. I tried to fix the shading; however, the wall had second thoughts. 

Anyway, we enjoyed the late summer day, which wasn't too hot but wasn't cold either. The next few days will be equally pleasant, but autumn is approaching, and it can hardly wait to take over.

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