{"id":5819,"date":"2012-06-26T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T00:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2012-06-26T00:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T00:09:18","slug":"let-the-shopping-commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/let-the-shopping-commence\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the Shopping Commence!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog will very shortly be renamed ‘Hrefna’s First World Problems’. \u00a0Woe is me.<\/p>\n

No, I kid. \u00a0But still… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I started the day by going swimming in Laugardalslaug<\/a>\u00a0(great blog link!), one of a handful of 50 m pools in the area.<\/p>\n

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Laugardalslaug, image from here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since I was there during the morning, the pool was crowded with older people, which seemed to be more interested in chatting than swimming. \u00a0The pool was also relatively dirty, with lots of stuff on the bottom. \u00a0After 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. \u00a0I went to check it out and it was, gasp, empty! \u00a0So I hopped in and swam some more. \u00a0I might go again tomorrow and just hang out in the indoor pool. \u00a0Heaven! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The only weird thing about the indoor pool, is that the building itself is curved. \u00a0This means that the ceiling-structure also curves, which wrecks havoc on one’s sense of direction when doing a backstroke. \u00a0To 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.<\/p>\n

(Oh, and just to avoid getting bitten by too much bad karma: \u00a0I 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… \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0(First World Problems, see!)<\/p>\n

After a visit to \u00c1lnab\u00e6r<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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This made me think of the US, and the eternal fight over just how many chemicals should be incorporated into house-hold goods. I think almost all foam-products in California have to be doused with some fire-retardant which tends to accumulate in humans, causing many people to be concerned<\/a>…<\/p><\/div>\n

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A solid-oak table that had intriguing legs, but no matching entertainment-center-ish piece. \u00a0I was also happy to see that sofas are now allowed to have somewhat rounded arms.<\/p><\/div>\n

There will probably be more of the same tomorrow. \u00a0Yay? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog will very shortly be renamed ‘Hrefna’s First World Problems’. \u00a0Woe is me. No, I kid. \u00a0But still… \ud83d\ude42 I started the day by going swimming in Laugardalslaug\u00a0(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 olderRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5823,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}