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I woke up late and skipped the whole morning routine. That always feels rather freeing but usually doesn’t bode well for the rest of the day.

My husband and I talked, overall the family mood is on the upswing, so that’s good. I did the dishes and then went out for my run/walk. There were quite a lot of people out. Well, it was Saturday and the weather was very nice:

I find that the running goes better if I manage to do it earlier but that was a late run.

Then I came back I woke the boy up (who opted to skip breakfast again) and then we made pizza together:

Salami for a change and here’s the boy’s vegetarian option:

I spent the whole afternoon reading „Blood Heir“ by Ilona Andrews and playing video games and only managed to take a shower right before dinner.

The boy and I watched an episode of ‚Torchwood‘ that was really good and then I watched two episodes of ‚Accidentally in Love‘. Either the series is getting better or I’m getting used to it, anyways, I’m really enjoying it.

Then I made a neat stack of all the dirty dishes, started writing this post, did some yoga and went to bed.

Today I will do everything I failed to do over the past two weeks. Or not.

I will certainly call my mother on the phone, make pasta with my husband, clean those toilets already and plan out the next week. And read some more, of course. First things first.

I did most of the cleaning, morning yoga, helped to make rogan josh for lunch:

Had the rest of the day vanish on me, watched an episode of ‚Star Trek: Enterprise‘ with the boy that was actually pretty good and went to bed too late.

I wanted to blog this morning but only remembered now. So far I have skipped all of my morning routine, played games on my iPad, got angry about politics and practiced a bit of Chinese. (I did break my 32 day-chain on Fluent Forever the day before.)

There will be running today, pizza for lunch, the cleaning of the bathrooms (for real!) and evening yoga.

I tried sleeping in but failed.

Had like an ongoing argument – or rather discussion – with my husband all day. He is obviously unhappy and we were basically debating how much of that is my fault. Or something. It was the kind of day where he complains about people always getting in his way and objects being unwieldy.

Interestingly, the boy started speaking up at dinner time. He never does that but it was clear that he was completely done with the complaining.

I did do most of my morning routine, so that was good. (Writing? What writing?) I walked to the supermarket and bought all the cheese. Came back to a husband who was completely stressed out about making lunch and hearing that I was supposed to teach at 2.30.

So we had this scrumptious meal:

Arugula cultivated in a pot in my husband’s studio and parmesan cheese. We did not make the cheese.

Stuffed bell pepper. There is rice and olives and pine nuts in there somewhere. Also cinnamon, thyme and chili. It was very good. And yes, that is wine. We’re still on Easter break rules.

We did not give the boy wine yesterday because he apparently went to bed at about the same time that I got up in the morning and after waking him up three times he finally managed to get up in time to eat lunch. Oops.

We have now changed our rules, by the way, it used to be that we insisted on him getting up at 9.30 on days without school. Then the time slowly creeped to later until I was going upstairs some time between 10 and 11.30 to wake him up in person. And yesterday we decided that since he is technically a grown-up now that maybe we’ll just go with not setting the breakfast table for him and if he goes to bed late enough that he doesn’t want to get up before lunchtime that he maybe just sends me a text telling me so. Please.

He asked, „How am I supposed to text you when I’m sleeping?“ and my answer was, „You just text me before you go to bed when you realize that you won’t get up on time.”

We’ll see how that goes.

I did get myself some roses at the grocery store. Roses are my favorite and I adore this shade of red and they were only 1.99. Win-win-win.

After lunch I ate some chocolate (the idea of that chocolate tasted better than the chocolate itself, by the way) and then I taught two students. I had a break where I thought I would do all kinds of things but I ended up watching a talk about productivity systems, as one does.

Then I taught one more student, my last student of the day canceled, we had some more discussions about personal incompatibility while making dinner (yes, this is a bit exhausting, thanks) and the boy and I watched a delightful episode of ‚Torchwood‘ while eating dinner. Then I finished watching an episode of ‚Accidentally in Love‘. The series is starting to grow on me.

And then I watched an interview that Jessica Abel did with Austin Kleon while starting writing this post. And then I did the dishes, wrote in my bullet journal, did some yoga and went to bed. Not too late.

Today is cleaning day and who knows, maybe the stars will align and I will write a few new words or something like it.

I almost got enough sleep! Yeah? This is what I saw when I looked outside:

Snow! It was all gone by the end of the day but still, it was a cold day.

Did morning yoga and meditated and then had breakfast. Spent time with husband. He built a fire in the wood stove for warmth.

The boy woke up without prompting but did not come down for breakfast at all. He instead had lunch as his first meal of the day. Whatever.

I did the dishes and such and went out. First to the tea shop where I bought all the pu er, some de-caffeinated Darjeeling, two other types of Darjeeling and some Lapsang Souchoung. Unfortunately, the owner of the shop wasn’t there, instead I dealt with her daughter. She might be nice but she doesn’t know a lot about tea so my plan to have someone help me choose did not work out.

I have to say, being in that shop for ten minutes or so was the unsafest thing I have been doing for months. The sales woman pulled her mask off the second she was behind the plexiglas partition, did forget to put it back on again when stepping to the side twice and wore it as a chin-strap while on the phone. None of the windows in the shop were open and when I asked her if she didn’t feel unsafe she said, no, since she was behind the partition everything was alright. I asked about aerosols and she said that she was clean anyway because she gets tested regularly as part of her job at the airline.

Right. Because the test makes you immune?

Needless to say that my mask was firmly on, I did not follow the invitation to sniff the tea and the next time I might opt to order by mail even though I would have to pay for shipping.

Then I walked to the health food store which was blessedly empty, bought a few things and went back home.

My husband wasn’t feeling well so he just ate a few potatoes for lunch but the boy and I had potato salad and tofu brats:

We talked a bit after lunch, I did not do the dishes and somehow the whole afternoon just made poof! I did practice Chinese a bit, I read, I played the silly video game and just when I thought I should really get going my husband showed up to talk about singing and then we both remembered the laundry in the basement and hung that up.

The boy played video games with friends again, so we watched Netflix – or rather YouTube – later than usual, I did my evening yoga and went to bed.

Today there will be running and all the usual.