Hello everyone!
What day is this?? - Never mind,- that was a rhetorical question.
I lost track of everything... Meanwhile, i have to call my co-worker to ask her what are we supposed to do now.
Elijah, Liza, David and mom returned from the country, and stayed at our place for a few hours, because Elijah is proceeding with the repairs. It's a "mad house" here. At least, David was sleeping in mom's room, so mom stopped yelling at me for a while (it's her favourite thing to do). Now they are going to leave, and i'll go for a walk (i hope so).
I made up my mind and talked to my friend from Novy Sad (Serbia), because i haven't heard from her for quite some time, and i, being a rotten introvert, don't communicate with her very often. Her name is Yelena, and she is Slav, obviously. She was glad to hear from me and said that on Monday, they all are going to work, as the number of infected in Serbia has declined (not like here!!!). She also complained that she barely sleeps and eats, because she's struggling to get money, and she has to have 2 jobs (you can't make ends meet in Serbia, if you have only one job). She even said that i'm lucky to live in Russia. I thought: "Are the things really so bad at where she is, that life in Russia seems so great to her? Or maybe she knows only those things that are shown on tv?" From what she'd been saying previously, i understood that our government is being praised in Serbia. She said that the prices there are so high, that she can barely buy essentials (she's vegan, and it saves her a lot of money, but she's only 30, and her parents can't help her with the money at all). ...In a nutshell, i'm hoping to hear from her more often. I'm sure that she's so smart that she will survive. I always take off my hat to people like her: she's an interpreter from Farsi, and most of the time, she hangs out in Iran. She also speaks decent English (not perfect, but i can understand everything she says). But the most astonishing part is that she also speaks Russian! She studied it at school, only until the end of the 3rd grade, and she still remembers it, and can read my sophisticated russian scribble, and her compehension is good! She's not very good at writing in Russian. But she's the only acquaintance i can speak Russian with (ironically). I try to write distinctively though, without very complicated idioms, etc.
It's weird, but one russian acquaintance of mine has resurfaced somehow, and i'm not happy about it. It's a "girl" of my age, whom i was going to college with. She is/was a composer too. Now she's married, has two kids and lives in the beautiful district of SPb (Murino). I've been there, and i wish i could go there one more time, but it's very far from my place, plus the epidemic situation is awful there, so, no hikes to Murino in the visible future. That girl, Xenia, is a snob and and ignorant person at the same time, though she's a kind person (sometimes it all fits in one person). Just a year ago, she was acting quite arrogant towars me when i told her that i'm not completely raw (she was very proud to consider herself fully raw then). Now she confessed that she "skatilas' v Tar-tarary" ("Rolled down to Netherworld"), haha, meaning that she started eating lots of junk food and even dairy components. She had made her newborn daughter a fully raw vegan from birth, and the toddler is still raw and doing well. But... Speaking to Xenia, i gradually ralized (and i was in awe) that she doesn't know basic things about nutrition, or has misconception and false ideas of everything possible that is related to veganism. She even doesn't know that people need to take B12 supplements,- she thought that the body produces it. Not to mention that she doesn't know about its forms. I told her about that "Muscle" sports nutrition shop, showed different useful supplements that she may need and explained to her how to make an order. I can't explain why, but i'm not excited that she added herself to my "Whatsapp" messenger. I'm not sure i want to talk to her (but she wants to talk to me!)
I asked Elijah if he had seen a lot of people in masks outside, and he said "None".
I really hope that today, i'll manage to crawl outside without a mask and gloves. I usually don't approach anybody, unless they don't approach me (which i try to avoid by all means). I try not to touch our iron door and its handle, etc... I dunno... we'll see. I'll put a mask on when i get out, and until i reach a relatively desolate place and places with very few people.
Good news: Unghshu has finally learned how to put money from my debit card to mom's debit card, so i can keep my pin code in secret from her, can avoid giving her my card, and give the money back to her later, when she buys something.
Yesterday, Unghshu got soaked under the rain, but i didn't get cold. It was foggy and gloomy, but it was warm, wet, fresh and mysterious (i love this kind of weather).
Unghshu's walk (everything is blooming):
