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Daily Journal – Day 384: Too much chocolate and lounging around

September 30, 2018 by Susanne 2 Comments

I woke up early feeling a little timid and angsty. I’m blaming the not-writing the day before. No, I have no idea when I’ll learn. And of course I didn’t start writing right away as well. It was Saturday! No need to get started early!

Yeah. About that.

I did get up at a reasonable time and had breakfast and then, just when I was about to start writing, I swear, the boy showed up. At eight. On a Saturday. „Oh, I went to bed at the usual time last night,“ he said, laconically.

Poof. Second window of writing opportunity gone.

Then my husband got up, we talked, I crocheted (the blanket is the only thing I’m working on at the moment because it’s so big and warm), we did the dishes and then I packed the birthday present for my BIL and sent it off.

Then running. Well, mostly walking, but some running:

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Then a shower and cooking. My husband had plans to make veal cutlets and homemade gnocchi. I was in charge of the gnocchi. I did follow the recipe and told him to not put an egg in and was stressed out and confused and hungry and only remembered that it had said, „Add salt to the dough,“ when the gnocchi were already in the boiling water and I hadn’t read the recipe carefully and we might have had a teensy argument.

This was the result:

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Each part of those mashed potatoes had once been a lovingly handcrafted piece of pasta that I pressed a fork in for nice-looking lines.

At least it did taste good. After putting some extra salt on it.

Then a huge washing up.

The boy needed some rubber gloves and I sent him to get them himself. Mostly to teach him a lesson but also because I’m a little tired of him coming down to the kitchen declaring things like, „Mama, I’m out of toothpaste,“ or shampoo or cleanser or lotion or whatever one or two days after I went grocery shopping.

To sweeten the deal I told him to get himself some candy. And he brought some for me to. Only, it was not the candy I wanted and so I ate it and then went out and got some more chocolate. And some for Sunday as well. And then I sat down and ate it all.

Note to self: be more strict about the no-buying-candy rule. No matter how much you eat it never feels enough anyway. Thanks.

And then I sat around reading, surfing the web and procrastinating. ::head desk::

I did manage to work on the dress a little, at least, and I also managed to give myself a kick in the butt and write some but still.

We watched some Star Trek while more crochet happened.

Today there will be: no candy, all the writing and all the sewing. Also, the laying out the bullet journal for October which means looking at my September goals and setting new ones for the month. I did pretty well in September, so that’s good.

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  1. tinijoens says

    October 1, 2018 at 8:09 am

    Mmmmh, irgendwie lese ich nahezu jeden 2. Tag, das andere dafür verantwortlich sind, dass Du nicht schreiben kannst. Welche Wege findest Du, damit Du schreiben kannst, auch wenn Dein Sohn oder Mann früher aufstehen, als Du geplant hast. Es muss doch eine Möglichkeit geben, auch das einzubeziehen (musst Du die ganze Zeit dabei sein, wenn sie frühstücken oder könntest Du nach 15 Minuten das Zimmer wechseln und schon mal 15 Minuten schreiben? Sie stehen ja auch nicht früher auf, um mit Dir zu frühstücken.)
    Dein Sohn ist doch jetzt schon ein Teenager. Wenn er keine Zahnpasta oder ähnliches hat, obwohl du ihm gesagt hast, er muss es auf die Liste schreiben, wird er auch in der Lage sein, es zu holen, wenn er es nicht gesagt hat. Sollte er in wenigen Jahren ausziehen, wirst Du doch auch nicht mehr einmal wöchentlich für ihn einkaufen gehen. Selbst die Zwillinge können mit ihren 8 Jahren schon zum Supermarkt gehen. Da würde ich ihn jetzt echt nicht mehr mit Süßigkeiten bestechen.
    Hast Du mal daran gedacht, dass der Herbst Dir zusetzt mit weniger Sonne? Vielleicht wäre Johanniskraut und Vitamin B eine gute Idee?

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    • Susanne says

      October 1, 2018 at 1:25 pm

      Oh, da muss ich mich undeutlich ausgedrückt haben, zur Zeit arbeite ich mit drei bis vier möglichen Zeitfenstern fürs Schreiben pro Tag. Bis auf Freitag habe ich jeden Tag noch die Kurve gekriegt. Auch wenn es mir prinzipiell lieber ist, das Schreiben morgens erledigt zu haben.

      Natürlich muss ich meinen Sohn nicht bestechen, damit er zum Supermarkt geht, in dem Fall wollte ich selber so dringend Schokolade.

      Ich fühle mich gerade eigentlich eher energiegeladener als sonst – weil ich schreibe – aber Wochenenden und freie Tage finde ich immer noch schwierig. Ich nehme hochdosiert Vitamin D und ich liebe den Herbst, also wohl eher nicht.

      Ich scheine wohl einen falschen Eindruck erweckt zu haben, sorry.

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