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After going to bed after midnight because I talked with my son about language things I was a bit tired in the morning. I opened my phone and got sucked into a chat group on Patreon. Which tells me I should not open that app in the morning.

I did write my morning pages, skipped yoga because I was too late already but did do my three minutes of meditation and confirmed that yes, my blood pressure is a bit high after not enough sleep.

Ate breakfast with my husband and then he had to go to the dentist for a dental cleaning. I read a bit, went online again, and even opened the manuscript for fifteen minutes. I took my bike to the supermarket, came back home to a slightly stressed out husband cooking pasta e fagoli, helped leaning and chopping things, then put the groceries away, we ate yummy food:

Despite my best intentions I did buy a bag of gummy bears again and ate it all up after lunch. My first two students asked to do the lessons online which I gladly did even though teaching in person is much nicer. The next student didn’t show up, the next two were a delight and the last one called to say that she had no idea how to get to her lesson on time because of the train strike. I rescheduled her for next week.

During a break between students I did pretty easy bodyweight training and between teaching and dinner I actually did some exercises for my feet. I think I should do way more strength training, I’m getting unfit again and I think a lot of the pains and aches everywhere might go away if I were a little stronger.

I did finally break down and buy the novel my husband recommended in the Italian version. I already had bought (and not read) the German translation but had this idea of trying to read the original. We’ll see how that goes.

I started writing this post, did drink a beer after all, did Duolingo, a little lights yoga and watched some C-drama before going to bed early.

Today will be cleaning day and only three students. Who knows, maybe I’ll even fold the laundry. There are currently three drying racks with clean laundry in the house, time to put that laundry away.

I woke up too early again, this is getting a little tiring, literally. At least I managed to keep the novel-reading to 15 minutes and then did my full morning routine. Which this time also included talking to the boy while attempting to do yoga. And getting told by him that I wasn’t doing what I was supposed to but, well, my attention was somewhat divided, thank you very much.

Since I had gone without doing the dishes or taking a shower the morning was a little hectic. But I did manage to do everything I was supposed to. Sadly, switching back to the shampoo that makes my hair shiny and not frizzy won’t work because now I’m back to having an itchy scalp. So back to the anti-itch shampoo it is. My poor hair.

I went to the health food store a little later than usual and when I came back husband was right in the middle of cooking. I put the groceries away, found that the laundry was done and hung that up. We finally sat down to eat around half past one just to be interrupted by my panicky mother-in-law. The wood shredding service was there and we had forgotten all about it. I never put it in my digital calendar, only on the paper one in the kitchen and my husband put it in his for today. Oops.

The guys were nice enough to wait for us to sprint out and drag all the branches and such out from behind the compost. We worked like crazy for half an hour and ended up with mulch to put back on the compost. Phew.

By then I had 45 minutes left before I needed to teach. We sat down again and finished eating. This is potatoes with lentils. Very yummy:

I took a short break and then taught all the students. My voice is still not completely back, I can sing but not very loud and high notes are a big strain as is talking too much. But I’m getting there.

After teaching I was happy to find my husband doing the dishes. I ate dinner, started writing this post, did Duolingo, watched some C-drama while knitting and drinking a beer and went to bed on time for a change.

Today will be a lighter teaching day and I’m hoping to do some form of exercise later. Also, opening the manuscript would be a very good thing.

In the morning I had all the best intentions, woke up well rested and early enough to do the complete morning routine and then actually did the morning pages, yoga and meditation. And that was mostly it.

My husband went running and I made him take my old smartwatch and his cell phone with him, which he did under protest. Lunch was very delicious:

The boy had made a brief appearance around ten and only showed up at 5.30 again, still trying to switch his sleep schedule.

And then I spent the rest of the day sitting at the kitchen table playing silly games and reading „Unmasked by the Marquess“ by Cat Sebastian. I basically didn’t move until I had finished the book. And started the next in series.

Which meant my big plans of knitting and reading did not quite go as planned. And then the boy took a shower which meant I had to wait a little longer before I could finally do the lunch dishes and take a shower myself. Ugh.

I mean, I had planned for not doing anything all day so that was alright, I just didn’t plan to spend all day looking at dirty dishes.

Anyways, today there will be the weekly phone call to my mother, planning the week and decidedly less playing of „Chuzzle“. It took me a long time of playing it before I remembered why I stopped eventually.