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On my way to the public pool I saw a shield that they are closing some streets because of the triathlon this weekend. This weekend is also the maximum of the heat wave. This must be absolutely insane for the athletes. I mean at least swimming is part of it, but the running part will be tough- I hope everyone will be safe.

I went swimming and l am super slow. But this week I won’t be running because I don’t want to get up early, and otherwise it is too hot. 🥵

Tomorrow I will go to a Reformer Pilates session- a new Pilates studio opened only a 10min bike ride away from my home. And it is air conditioned.

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It is the beginning of a heat wave, which might last 2 weeks. This will be the two weeks of the whole year where we start planning air conditioning and then dismiss the plan until next year.

In middle Europe housing typically has no air conditioning, schools unfortunately also don’t, but usually work places have it.

But I also want to highlight that the heatwave will have a maximum temperature of 32 C (90 Fahrenheit) - so we are also babies regarding the heat.

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Pictures from my run the other day

Made baked oats- when you top it with plums it is the best

First strawberries from my garden this year - this makes me incredibly happy

Today we had a children’s birthday party (my youngest is now 5) which is always stressful for me, although we even did not make a party at home. He had fun and enjoyed it.

I ordered from the drugstore and they accidentally put my order AND additionally 6 bottles of fabric softener AND 4 kg of dishwasher salt into the shipment. So more than 10kg additional weight that I did not ordered. My order weighted probably 5 kg. My husband wanted to carry the package inside, but he just tried and decided not to as he had back surgery 4 weeks ago. He also questioned what I ordered. It is somehow hilarious. But the delivery guy might hate us now.

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Things lately:

husband had spine surgery- everything went well but now in this recovery phase he should not bend over and do no lift heavy things. This means I have to do all the stupideous chores like dishes and laundry and I am complaining a lot. Every other female person I am telling this says: “see, now you know how much he contributes” - girl, I know how much he contributes, otherwise I would not have married him and get kids.

I got a tick from a trail run this weekend. But the tick was only on the surface and easy to remove, so I would estimate a 5% Lyme desease risk. (Haha, I actually have no idea how high the risk is, but the tick could have been in the skin 5h maximum, which is good as typically it takes more than 12 h to get it). The trail run was good, I thought I took a pictures but the software bugs are strong with me (work computer, car, phone - everything acts weird).

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I grew up in a very hilly area and was not super active. With 19 I moved out and lived since then in relatively flat regions. I always had in mind that I can’t go up a hill with my bike because when I lived in the hilly area, I could not.

Today I rode a hill without any problems. Weight lifting rocks.

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One time I will learn how to make proper pictures of my food.

First signs of spring are here. It is the time of the year where I am super excited to run all my errands on my bike.

I grew up in very hilly area, so riding a bike was not so much fun. Now we live in a relatively flat area, so biking is wonderful.

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Today is a day where my anxiety levels are high. Might be related to work, where things were stressful and I take this stress with me.

So now I am reaching out to friends and acquaintances- which I rarely do which is not a good thing- and now I am wondering if writing a what’s app message at 8:00 pm is somehow inappropriate. I mean it is not midnight.

Also wondering what the average time for breakfast is, when you meet someone for breakfast. 2 hours ok?

I definitely need to relax.

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In the tumblr for you section I either find posts from people I follow (which should be in the dashboard area) or AI generated videos (not the content I am looking for).

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There was a weird smell in our Kirchen area.

So husband and I cleared out the garbage, cleaned the dishwasher sieve, put some chemicals into the sink and still the smell was there.

Today I figured out the smell: the Chinese cabbage ferment is smelling.

At least everything is cleaned now.

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Got this blue tulips from my kids. My husband took them to the flower shop, where the owner seems to dye the flowers. The shop itself really fits best the word funky (in my opinion). And the owner seems to have found his meaning of life in this shop, which I think is great.

Also we lost a chair. There is a saying that a house looses nothing, but I do not know how we managed to loose a chair. No idea. It is neither in the basement nor in the attic.

Another item of not very interesting daily things is this new dish soap I bought. I mean, calling a dish soap glamorous moments is already a weird choice, that this smells like men’s shower gel is another one. Was highly irritated during doing the dishes. Had to remove it and use another dish soap.

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Happy new year! We spent the last week sick (it was the real flu- do not recommend). At least my husband was vaccinated- I missed the vaccination as it was somewhat inconvenient- but guess what- the flu was more inconvenient.

I just wanted to share something from our local news. We have a mountain which name translates to intoxication mountain and a rescue team had to save a drunken woman, who fell. I mean, it is already in the name. Where did the mountain got its name?

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Ugh, I know I am not 100% fit, but I did not expect a heart rate of 177 bpm during simple walking.

Also I got annoyed a lot today - is it because I am sick or the last weeks were a lot.

However, trying to rest.

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I finally harvested my bulb-celery. It is, as always, tiny. But I forgot to actually buy celery and needed it for cooking, so I used the one from our garden. It was a lot of work cleaning it, turns out roller bugs like celery.

We did also some cookie baking- no worries there are more yodas, but I burnt the others slightly (is yoda now on the dark side?).

Also my favorite cookies, which look like 💩.

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Pictures of my lunch run today. If you look closely you can see the first snow of the season. Usually I am happy like a child for the first snow, but today I am bleh. Might be correlated that I was yelled at first but thing in the morning- my four year old really is grumpy when tired.

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We made Halloween sugar cookies. Yes, they are slightly burnt but edible.

Making cookies with kids is exhausting. Also we ate twice the amount of the cookies during decorating. No regrets.

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Pictures from yesterdays lunch-run. I really love fall colors.

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There are people who do not like onions.