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Nothing bad, really, only feeling a little stressed.

I don#t say that often but there are just so many small things I need to take care of, and some big ones too.

Woke up early, and promptly forgot to take my thyroid medication for half an hour.

Made breakfast and set out everything for my husband to make muesli – including frozen blueberries – even though I had taken care the night before to get some bread ready for his breakfast. Mind you, all of that I did after getting enough sleep. (My husband eats muesli for breakfast on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays and bread or cake on all the other days.)

We talked a bit about what we want to do in August during summer break. Let’s just say that it is a very long list.

I had started to prepare yet another podcast (but didn’t finish). The DS that I took apart is still lying around on my desk – in parts. We’ll see how many of the screws will still be there when I finally have time to try and put it together again. I did manage to write for ten minutes and twenty seconds just after breakfast which resulted in 288 words.

I went running.

7.2 kilometers. This is me almost at the halfway point:

Came back and turned around immediately to get some more cream for the boy’s eczema.

When I came back home the boy was coming home from school early (and declared that he’d take a nap, something he never does) and my husband was coming back from his run.

Then I peeled potatoes and we cooked lunch against the clock. Semi-successful. We did make lunch in time but my husband had to skip his nap. Dinner was delicious, though:

Then I did the dishes with the boy’s help, and got ready for teaching. I had a list of things I wanted to do before than but I only managed to do one. Which turned out okay because I needed that sheet music for the second lesson of the day. I did not get around to preparing something for the piano student who gets 15 minutes extra each week until I have served my time, um, made up for all the lessons she couldn’t take because she was away with school for four weeks.

And I didn’t manage to copy some more music for another student but when I looked for it during her lesson I found a song that is much better and that she really loved. So I’m calling that a win.

Last student was late because of traffic so I worked a little longer than usual, and then it was time for the monthly webinar with Orna Ross:

Then my husband wanted to talk and I wrote in my bullet journal and tried to write some more with limited success but managed to go to bed almost on time.

Today there will be more running and my dental cleaning and only very few students but hopefully I will be able to record the next English podcast episode.

Phew.

Ten more days until summer break.

I actually didn’t do anything yesterday but lounge around in front of TV, help making lasagna and spin a bit.

Then I procrastinated about doing the dishes and went to bed later than I wanted.

Here is a nice picture of the lasagna that I ate alone in front of TV so I could watch the Tour:

And here is another picture of me spinning:

After the Tour I went on to watch the last game of the World Cup with my husband.

Today will be a busy Monday, running, leftover lasagna, doing everything I didn’t do yesterday, quite a bit of teaching and going to bed on time, hopefully.

It’s funny, I keep thinking that tomorrow will be less busy than today. I’ve been doing that for weeks now. And it never really happened.

Yesterday I woke up from the alarm which tells you how much I needed the sleep.

I did not write in the morning because I was a little late and then I started preparing the podcast.

My husband got up early, he had breakfast and then I helped him choose a fitness tracker. The challenge was to find something that you don’t need a smartphone for.

Then I went grocery shopping. It was the first time that I used the trailer again and it was much more comfortable than using the bike panniers. And I didn’t even have to leave the groceries in the trailer unattended, I could carry everything at once. Win!

Then we had lunch, pork cutlets with potatoes and cucumbers. Both the potatoes and the cucumbers were fresh from our garden:

Very yummy.

The boy came home in a bad mood. He had lost points on a physics test because he had used math that he is only supposed to learn next year in the answer. Unfortunately, he could also have worded his answer better. I offered to send an email to his teacher to talk about this but he didn’t want me to. Those points made all the difference between an A and a B.

He didn’t want me to talk to the teacher, though. The test won’t make a difference in his final grade. It is bugging him, though, which I can totally understand.

Then I left all the dishes in the sink and went to record the podcast. Then teaching and then a surprise webinar by Jessica Abel again. I spun while watching so that was good.

Then I finally did the dishes, wrote some more show notes for the podcast, attempted to do some fiction writing with not a lot of success and finally went to bed on time.

Phew.

Today is the usual busy Friday with pizza making and cleaning and teaching and at the end of it my husband and I will go out and see a free improvisation concert yet again.

Phew.

Not good hair, just slightly better.

I woke up really early, like 5.20-early. Wrote my morning pages. They felt endlessly long yesterday. Tried to write before breakfast, decided to do my daily update on Ravelry first, tried putting a picture from my blog into the post I was writing and, bam, my day got derailed.

Because my blog was offline. „Database connection error“ which is the same error that my husband’s blog has been showing for weeks now. The one I haven’t taken care of because it wasn’t a top priority for me. My own blog, though, immediately became top priority. (To be fair, my husband hasn’t posted in ages and the blog was hacked a few years ago and while I got the posts back up not everything was working properly. But he didn’t mind. I should address that problem in the next few weeks, though, because he wants to start posting again.)

So. Customer service opens at 9. Which is sensible, I mean, who wants tech support at six in the morning? So I wrote them an email. I decided that would be the better option. Instead of sitting next to the computer waiting for a few hours.

I had breakfast, I tried writing but only was able to focus for 2 1/2 minutes, yielding me a total of 69 words, 29 of which I deleted immediately. My husband showed up for breakfast, I knitted a bit, did the dishes, put on makeup and got ready for my hairdresser’s appointment.

I walked to the train station as fast as I could because I had forgotten that I needed to buy a ticket first. Reached the station three minutes before the train was supposed to leave, money in hand for the ticket. There was only one ticket machine in operation. There were two women before me. I changed money for one of them, helped her buy her ticket, told her that yes, she could use the same ticket on her way back while frantically punching buttons and trying to wrangle the ticket out of the machine. Stamped it, pushed the button that opens the train doors (it was still glowing green) but the doors didn’t open and the train pulled away without me.

Which made me late.

The next train was two minutes late on top of that (trains only go every twenty minutes). The good thing was that I would have had thirteen minutes to spare with the original train, so I was exactly seven minutes late for my appointment. Which was no big deal, I had to wait for ten minutes while she finished someone else’s hair first.

Now I’m basically looking the same as before with better bangs:

I still haven’t mastered the art of the selfie.

Then I ate a rather late lunch:

With some chocolate on the train, some fried zucchini blossoms before, this pasta with zucchinis and tomato sauce and a lot more chocolate afterwards.

Dishes. Teaching. Had a pretty enjoyable lesson with the two very young ukulele students who had been on the verge of giving up just a few weeks before. Phew.

Then another attempt at writing (I’m not giving up!) and then watching the World Cup with my husband. I thought I’d spin while watching soccer instead of bike riding for once. That was rather enjoyable. The game was really good and we talked quite a bit and had fun.

To bed a little too late.

Today there will be running and stranding and all the usual and teaching and – probably more soccer.