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Trying to debug the site

May 31, 2019 by Susanne Leave a Comment

So I’m trying to find out what went wrong with this site. I don’t have a lot of time for this so things might look wonky for a while. So far I have managed to lock myself out after changing the look, repaired that, changed the theme back to the old one and right now the formatting is wrong. Oh, and I can’t upload images anymore.

I’m guessing this will last at least a week because I’m swamped even without having to fix the blog, sorry.

At least the blog is still here.

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Daily Journal – Day 625: One of those days

May 31, 2019 by Susanne Leave a Comment

I didn’t really get anything done without being idle. Well, mostly.

I woke up around six again, without an alarm for once because I had aspirations of sleeping in. Trying to troubleshoot the blog had made got to bed way late yet again.

As usual I had lots of plans and wanted to write and spin and clean and do strength training. But first I tried to fix the problems with my blog. There had been maintenance two days earlier and that had led to me not being able to upload images to the blog. And every post I tried to publish that had images in it didn’t work.

So I spent quite a bit of time in the morning trying to find out what had gone wrong until the blog didn’t work at all. And I wasn’t able to get into the backend as well. Fun!

Also the last backup I had was from 2017. That had me a little worried.

So I helped with making lunch way too late. There might have been raised voices and in all the excitement a glass was broken and the asparagus cooked for too long. Still, lunch did taste great as always.

(Imagine a picture of white asparagus, potatoes and ham with sauce hollandaise. I posted it to instagram. I’m freejazzmama on there.)

I did knit a gauge swatch for the boy’s scarf, decided to use the bigger needles and promptly cast on with the smaller ones. Which turned out to be an excellent idea.

After lunch I asked the boy to help me think through the blog problem. We did find a possible solution but after that nothing worked anymore.

So I wandered off to spin in front of TV but the tennis match went into overtime and so I had to wait for an hour before the Giro was on. I did spin a bit but my heart wasn’t in it.

I did try to regroup and rearrange my to-do list but then wandered off to the computer again and suddenly realized how I had broken the blog. (Pro tip: when you change something in the config file of a WordPress blog make sure that it’s the right file for that blog. Not the one for your husband’s blog.)

Also, I realized that between the backup and the files in the blogging app I had all my old posts. And once the blog was working again I made a new backup right away. Phew.

All in all it seems I need to take half a day or so to sit down and commune with customer support at my web host.

Rearranging my list didn’t really help because I had run out of time in the day so we ate dinner. There was a minor bread crisis but I solved it with putting some buns from the freezer into the oven.

The boy and I watched some Voyager while I started the scarf for real.

(Here you have to imagine a picture of the fledgling scarf sitting on my knee.)

And the I read a bit, made a list for today and went to bed.

Today will be a pretty full day. The plan is to not make pizza but to clean and to go grocery shopping for the dinner on Sunday and then to teach all the students and go to a concert afterwards. In between I need to do email, write half a novel and a newsletter or something like that. Oh, and set the bullet journal up for June and make goals for June.

Though I have to say that goal-setting didn’t really work the last two months, things went a bit out of hand.

I’m not quite sure if I should enroll in a goal-setting course or just give up on goal-setting altogether like my husband thinks I should.

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Daily Journal – Day 624: Farmer’s Market

May 30, 2019 by Susanne 3 Comments

I woke up at 6.15, apparently I had slept through my alarm which was a bit worrying. Later that morning it turned out that my Fitbit stops vibrating for alarms and timers when the battery is too low. So it wasn’t me sleeping through the alarm, it was the alarm not going off.

At least I was still early enough to make breakfast on time. Afterwards I started watching an online lecture that had been sitting there for weeks. So, progress.

We did all the usual morning things, I returned two things that I had ordered, one because I was dumb enough to order the wrong sheet music for a student and the other because it was totally not what I had expected and then I walked to the farmer’s market for asparagus and potatoes.

My husband decided to not make asparagus for lunch after all. Comfort food:

Then I fell into my usual slump after lunch but for once I did manage to do the dishes in time and did my singing warmup before teaching. The yarn I had ordered for the boy’s scarf did arrive:

Then it was student after student after student without a break until dinnertime. The boy and I decided to watch an episode of Star Trek because today is a public holiday, so no school:

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That is the same beer I had when I was in London, only this time I bought it right here at home. The best before-date was the end of 2017 but the store where I bought it assured me that it would still be good. And it was.

And then I realized that yesterday’s post never went up. I had an error message at first and then forgot to try and upload it again. I’m using a blogging app which usually makes things much easier. But. It no longer worked. I think the problem is on my host’s side but I’m not sure yet. I had to copy and paste yesterday’s and today’s post and I didn’t get it to upload pictures. Seems there is another task on my to do-list. This is no fun.

So, today there will be a bit of cleaning because we decided to go out tomorrow. I hope cleaning today will make tomorrow less stressful. Also, we will be having dinner guests on Sunday which means I need to do more grocery shopping. The guests only told us which weekend they’d prefer last night. Of course I had already done all the weekly grocery shopping early because of the holiday.

Today will be a day off with maybe spinning in the afternoon, tomorrow will be somewhat crazy with yet more grocery shopping, loads of teaching and then a sprint to the train station for a concert, Saturday will be all slump plus maybe a bunch of teenagers wielding knives in our basement and Sunday will bring more knife-wielding and dinner guests with my husband’s usual cooking extravaganza. Fun!

But first I’ll do a gauge swatch for the scarf. First things first always.

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Daily Journal – Day 623: Grocery shopping in the rain

May 29, 2019 by Susanne Leave a Comment

Woke up from the alarm, meditated and surfed the web until I was a little late making breakfast.

The boy was a little late too so that turned out okay.

Started reading a new book because I had finished „The Labyrinth Index“ the night before. Really good book but I had a bit of trouble recalling everything that had happened in the nine books before. That’s the problem when you wait too long to read your books. I started „Das Mädchen vom Film“ bei Andrea Instone. And like it so much that I was almost done with it by the end of the day.

Talked with my husband over his breakfast. Dishes and such. I finally wove the ends of my Owligan in and washed it.

I decided to go grocery shopping early because Thursday will be a public holiday, so no grocery shopping. And Wednesdays are for exercise. So I walked all the way to the bigger supermarket in the rain. I wore a pair of jeans for the first time all month because I didn’t want my dress to get wet. I changed into that for teaching.

My husband made lunch without my help. The boy had planned to have lunch with classmates but came back home anyway because his plans were canceled. They did come to our house later to work on those chess pieces. Interestingly, my husband had made lunch for the boy even though he didn’t know he’d show. Intuition is a fine thing:

I taught a handful of students, then had dinner and some more chocolate and almonds and cheese.

Went to bed a little late again.

Today there will be walking and quite a bit of teaching. We’ll see what else I will get done.

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Daily Journal – Day 622: Cross-Training!

May 28, 2019 by Susanne Leave a Comment

Woke up at 5.30 and promptly fell asleep again. When he alarm went off I did actually meditate for five minute – rather fidgety – and wrote my morning pages. And then I spent ten minutes staring at the novel, correcting a word or expression here and there and then wondering where I had wanted this scene to go. It will come to me eventually, I guess. If not I’ll make up something else.

Then breakfast. I spent the time before my husband showed up making a new collection on my ebook reader with all the writing books on it. It is a bit ridiculous how much time and energy I spend on organizing my reading. Books get put into the bullet journal and on Goodreads and I order books and write the details down and put them in collections and delete them once I’ve read them. This is something that I only started seeing when I was less online in March.

But then I’m reading so much that a little book management is necessary. I only started cataloging my books when I bought the same book twice for the first time. These days with everything being an ebook that doesn’t usually happen anymore because Amazon warns me that I already bought the book before.

My husband got up and we rejoiced over the result of the EU elections.

Then he decided to skip running in favor of yard work and I went for a walk:

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It was wonderful to be moving again. I itched to run but I guess I better wait another week or so. I have reached the point where I often forget the bum leg, though. I take that as a good sign.

Then I went to the tea shop, two different bakeries and the health food store. I came home and helped my husband make lunch and then we realized that with all my shopping I had forgotten to get parmesan. So I went out again to get some more. And gummy bears, as one does.

Lunch was tasty:

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We’re still talking about Sunday lunch, though.

Then I sat in the kitchen doing nothing until I was almost late getting ready for teaching. Oops. I might have taught with dripping wet hair yet again. I need a bit more replenishing it seems before I’m back to normal. I’m never quite sure what this ‚normal‘ actually is, I get the feeling things are always off and almost never ‚normal‘.

I taught a handful of students who all felt as limp and unenergetic as I. I think we are all looking forward to Pentecost break.

Then the boy and I did some bodyweight training, a bit grudgingly, and had Brezn for dinner. After which I did the massive washing up and went to bed early.

Today there will be, um, teaching. Maybe a little spinning. Not much more.

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Daily Journal – Day 621: Back to the woman cave

May 27, 2019 by Susanne Leave a Comment

Woke up around six again, read the internet until breakfast and „The Labyrinth Index“ afterwards. Knitted a bit.

Then my husband showed up and we talked and did the dishes and the boy was late so we decided to go vote early. Which was a very good idea, there were barely any people there when we got there. I just hope that there were more people voting later. You know the drill, voting is important.

With the most important thing out of the way we walked back home to find the boy coming down for his breakfast. It turned out that his classmates would not come over to whittle some more chess pieces. They rescheduled for Tuesday.

So, an almost empty Sunday then. It’s funny, I have spent a whole week doing mostly nothing and I still feel like I need more downtime. Maybe I’m getting used to it. The leg continues to improve, by the way. There were times yesterday when I forgot there was a problem. Which is good.

Then my husband had this idea of making veal cutlets. I approved. With homemade gnocchi. I like eating those too. But making them stresses me out a little. But things went well and lunch was exquisite:

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Then a lot of dishes and after that I retreated to the smallest and darkest room of the house to watch the Giro and spin:

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First I plied what I had spun the day before and then I started spinning for my husband’s next sweater. And I’m thinking that the spinning wheel might actually be good for rehabbing my calf muscle. Which meshes perfectly with the current spinning project. The only downside is that I am still not sewing anything even though I really want more clothes. I might have to find a way to watch the bike race while sewing.

I hung up a load of laundry and helped my mother-in-law order something on the internet and then the boy and I had junk food for dinner. (I just looked it up but there is no such thing as an „Erdnussflip“ outside of Germany, it seems. Think peanut flavored corn puff thingies.) No nutrition whatsoever but they fit the mood and the boy had bought some to share with his friends.

We watched an episode of „Star Trek: Voyager“ that was really good but then had to refrain from watching another one because the boy still had school stuff to do.

I did another pile of dishes and went to bed early again.

Today there will be teaching and maybe a walk and strength training. I’m not well enough to resume running but I think walking should be alright. I also want to prepare my lessons for the week and maybe spin a little. We’ll see.

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