Swimming, Women's day and currencies
Spring is here and I renew my flirtation with the swimming pool. I did not step into it during our last, unusually cold winter: it's not that the pool is not heated, it is very well heated, but getting out of it, and running to the shower, I always shiver so badly that the short swim is hardly worth it. So no pool until now that spring is here. I sat a bit with our lifeguard. He is a big man, and wears his trunks and T-shirt all throughout the year, December as well as August. Incidentally, I have never seen him in the pool, I've never even seen him slightly wet. So we talked a bit.
"Listen, Yoram" I told him, "you know that I am really not a good swimmer. There was that swimming instructor who watched me once and said: Lady you can't sink - but you can't swim either!
So my question is what happens if I feel that I am drowning? Will you jump in and save me?"
A challenging day for working out
We had a lively New Year's Party which started at 7:30 and ended around 10, exactly at the time when other people start to celebrate. It's just that at this time of our lives we should avoid too much food in the evening and we should remember that we don't need much alcohol to get tipsy, just a bit of wine can make us long for our beds. Nevertheless the short party was fun, Nehama turned out to be a perfect arranger of games, and poor Hanni sat exhausted in a corner, she had done all the preparations. "I don't even have enough energy for a New Year's speech!" she claimed. I usually avoid getting into arguments and fights unless it is for a worthwhile cause. Who decides what is a worthwhile cause and what isn't? I myself of course, but my decisions are such that in the end I am sure that nothing is worth the aggravation. Not so last week, one day at the gym. There is one man who always wants to watch soccer or basket ball or any other sport on TV while walking the treadmill.
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