Skip to main content

Christmas 🎄

We've never had such a Christmas we've been having recently. Even though we are aware of this holiday's significance and love it very much, we don't feel we need to celebrate or experience it. This terrible disease makes the Festive Season blurry for us. It's like watching Christmas behind frosted glass in an isolation ward. The brain fog and the fatigue we've experienced recently are quite scary. COVID not only makes you sick but also makes sure that you'll suffer during and after being infected. I tried to get back to normal with baby steps, so I tried to do the early morning physical activity - which is mainly moving my neck and body and doing some squats - I used to do before this disease. However, even this insignificant set of movements that hardly elevates one's pulse was so painfully tiring that after a ridiculously low number of repetitions, I had to sit down and rest, just like the members of the nursing home, who, after finishing breakfast, waddle to the TV hall to watch their beloved series. The prospects of the disease are not so bright because they predict longer periods of fatigue and brain fog, which are not the symptoms one would like to cope with while trying to get back to normal. Sometimes, it feels like being that typical old, drooling pensioner. I wish we were two months older!

At least the weather is good. Too good, if I'm being honest. The highest temperature was around +14°C today, which is rather unusual around this time of the year. Crazy times in every aspect.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Tiistai 🇫🇮 Þriðjudagur 🇮🇸

My day was alright. I rearranged the shelves in the basement, which took me two hours to complete. I could have spent more time rearranging, but I had to deal with my homework before the class this afternoon. I had to read a story and summarise its content, write about the characters, and describe my impression. Even though the weather forecast predicts warmer days, the presence of autumn is palpable. The nights are much colder than a week ago, and the morning walks with Abby are faster due to the chilly temperature. I quite like the lower temperature and enjoy taking cold showers in the evenings because they refresh my body. However, I miss my summer sandals, shorts, and T-shirts. Walking Abby without having to don my jacket and put on several other layers was much easier. The English class with Charlette was fantastic. The sixty minutes flew by like a bullet train. I feel lucky to learn from her. After the lesson, I prepared my high tea cocoa pancakes. I love pancakes. When I devoure...

Keskiviikko 🇫🇮

We watched the last episode of Bordertown. Now the series is over and won't be available on Netflix anymore. Moreover, they don't plan to shoot another season yet, so chances are we were lucky to have watched the complete three seasons. Anyway, "Vive le Finnish-Hungarian friendship and Uralic languages!" 🇫🇮🇭🇺 After Ági left for the university, I sat down to study. I received four tasks yesterday from Charlette, and I finished the open cloze text and made some notes on the vocabulary part of the lesson. Now ask me anything about "wear out", "hanker for", "wind up", "drop in on", drop in", "cloak", "spectre", "orb", and "mace". Writing a report, explaining the gist of a video to a B1 level student, and writing a letter to an editor of a magazine are left to be completed. When I finished studying, I made some lunch: the menu was pita-bread with Greek yoghurt and veggies - tomato, spr...

Keskiviikko 🇫🇮 Miðvikudagur 🇮🇸

After a not-so-good night's sleep - I had a terrible dream; a lion wanted to chase me down and eat me - I woke up like a log. Little did I know about how chilly the outside temperature was when I took Abby for her morning walk. Both of us hurried back home. It took me two hours to create the lesson plan before my dentist's appointment, but I did it eventually. Since my temporary bridge had fallen off yesterday, I went to the dentist without it. Anyway, I'll have a new bridge next Wednesday if things pan out. I had a lesson with Ági's student this afternoon. I enjoyed the class and hope the students were also content with it. But the afternoon traffic is lethal. On the way home, there were numerous collisions, and I even saw two cars in the ditch. Crazy drivers should stay indoors. The weather is changing. It's still not typical of October, but the first signs of autumn are visible. The foliage is not as fresh green as it used to be during summer, and the nights are ...