Let the Shopping Commence!

This blog will very shortly be renamed ‘Hrefna’s First World Problems’.  Woe is me.

No, I kid.  But still… 🙂

I started the day by going swimming in Laugardalslaug (great blog link!), one of a handful of 50 m pools in the area.

Since I was there during the morning, the pool was crowded with older people, which seemed to be more interested in chatting than swimming.  The pool was also relatively dirty, with lots of stuff on the bottom.  After a lot of dodging and weaving, I’d finished swimming my 1 km, when I remembered there’s also a fairly new 50 m indoor pool there.  I went to check it out and it was, gasp, empty!  So I hopped in and swam some more.  I might go again tomorrow and just hang out in the indoor pool.  Heaven! 🙂

The only weird thing about the indoor pool, is that the building itself is curved.  This means that the ceiling-structure also curves, which wrecks havoc on one’s sense of direction when doing a backstroke.  To help out, they’ve installed thick black lines in the ceiling to guide swimmers, but it felt like swimming inside a building-size optical illusion, and was really weird.

(Oh, and just to avoid getting bitten by too much bad karma:  I do hope that I too will reach old age, and be spry enough to go swimming with my buddies, sagging flesh, tepid muscles, stiff joints, and all… 🙂 )

Post-swimming I attacked a couple of my long-standing ‘stuff-that-needs-to-be-done-for-the-house’-issues, namely a) curtains for the living room to reduce the echo, and b) a matching coffee table and entertainment center for the living room.  (First World Problems, see!)

After a visit to Álnabær, I’m pretty confident that the curtain issue has been solved, but it looks like finding the furniture I want will be tricky, due to size-issues.

There will probably be more of the same tomorrow.  Yay? 🙂