There are not a lot of good things at the moment,
so of course one good thing is that I have time to do different stuff.
I've learned a lot of new things in this period
and maybe I can use it afterwards, but I still can't sing, so that will not help!
I am now in charge of dish washing, which is nice, I enjoy it,
I am master of that little machine now.
And I did my first scrambled eggs.
Nothing else since then, because Ulla was impressed about the scrambled eggs
but didn't really want to give me another opportunity since then,
and I didn't really ask for it.
But the challenge for next week is - I am 52 now and I cannot tie a tie.
This week, Dennis and I will learn to tie a tie.
After this week I should be able to, it will probably take the full week!
Because my hands are completely useless usually, so it will be funny.
I finished my career when I was 33, I became manager overnight,
then the first six months maybe I was part of the running sessions,
because I was young enough, a player, but then I forgot being part of it,
and that was pretty much the moment I stopped running.
A year ago or so I started running on the treadmill,
because when I tried it a few years ago I realised my knee is hurt,
like it is when you get older.
So I did it on the treadmill and that worked really well, but it's too boring,
so now, in the crisis, I tried to go outside once, and I've enjoyed it a lot since.
Since the lockdown, pretty much every day, and - improvement!
I improved my time, I ordered a running watch!
I had last week, kind of a flash - I'm not sure it's the right word -
but I felt on fire, so I sent into the players' group,
I started with a video about the trophy celebration after the Champions League final,
it popped up in my YouTube list and I watched it,
three or four minutes, so I put it in the group with the little phrase: "Still true."
And, by the way, I said we played some exceptional games,
the Barcelona game, I sent Man City at home, the Leicester away game,
United at home, so there were quite a few nice games
and I just, these 2.5/3 minute clips,
I told the boys: "Come on, send your favourite videos from the last year, or years."
And there were quite a few nice ones.
The boys sent a lot of their own videos which they made
when we were on the bus driving through the city,
you can see that they really enjoyed that,
and that they are looking forward to something similar.
So, it was nice, and I saw the Barcelona game then...
At half-time against Barcelona, something is going wrong,
I'm not sure who texted it, "We have to make a change!"
I think it was Robbo himself who texted that,
and then angry Gini had to come on.
Of course, there is a lot of banter around, so it's really nice.
Corner taken quickly - Origi!
OHHH! He's given it!
We always feel together, to be honest, but in these moments you feel it especially.
And that's really nice - doing the same thing in the same moment is really cool
and connects you on a different level.
My eldest son is here with us, he was here when the lockdown started so he's still here,
so every night one of us is in charge of the remote control and can decide what we watch.
The supporters probably will like this or will laugh about it, I don't know -
we watched Downton Abbey.
Meanwhile, before I never watched Marvel movies,
and I've now seen Iron Man and stuff like this, which I enjoyed as well.
It's nice popcorn kino [cinema], so you don't have to think a lot.
I'm not fixed in one genre or whatever, I like movies
and my favourite movies are for sure...
Yeah, The Waterboy, Dumb and Dumber, really silly movies,
and my problem is that I laugh so loud and long
that everybody who watches the movie with me feels slightly annoyed or interrupted,
they cannot understand what the next joke is because I'm still laughing at the last one!
So it's not a pure joy to watch a comedy with me, but I like it,
and from time to time I do it.
A good movie is like a holiday for your mind,
because if the movie is so good that you don't think about anything else,
that you don't have your smartphone around you, that you don't answer phone calls -
if you find a movie like that then it was a really, really good movie.
That's what I really enjoy.
I read about it, I'm not sure I want to see it, to be honest,
I'm not sure why you want to watch this kind of stuff,
but I have to, probably at one time I will start it
and then maybe understand why everybody is talking about it.
In a time where social distancing is probably the word of the year,
but in another way I am socially connecting again
with people I didn't speak with for a long time.
Now, I am completely in it, my friends are really surprised how active I am.
We have a classmates group,
and they sent last week,
because I don't have any pictures here for myself,
they are all in my mother's house,
I never thought about getting them or whatever,
but my cousin, who was in my class with me,
she started with baby photos, if you want,
and then I asked in the classmates group if they have some pictures,
and then they were shooting like crazy, and I had a wonderful day, to be honest.
I was really laughing so hard, a lot of nice memories came up,
and, yeah, it was a wonderful, wonderful thing to do.
And now I have all these pictures, which is nice.
I looked crazy, strange when I was young, maybe people say it today as well!
But I never cared about that, as you can see in the pictures!
You can show them to everybody, I'm not afraid of that,
that will be a big laugh for some, for sure,
so in these hard times, if people can laugh about me, I'm happy with that, no problem.