Archives for June 2020

I woke up early, turned around and fell asleep again. Oops. So I skipped all of my morning routine but had breakfast on time. Then, instead of working on the novel I did a lesson on the Affinity Designer course. And realized why I don’t like doing those courses at all: it is because I’m just so bad at it. I’m almost a complete beginner, everything takes ages and I’m feeling so clumsy. Which means I need to do it more.

The rest of the family came to breakfast on time as well, they both ate the rest of the muffins we made on Monday.

I thought I would have a lot of time in the morning because I didn’t run or go grocery shopping but I barely had time to prepare the podcast but I managed. I got the camera set up with my ring light and mounted the mike on the small stand again and made a list of projects and of podcast feedback.

My husband made lunch all on his own:

Fish!

Then I only took a short break after that (and after doing the dishes) but still ended up starting the podcast recording a little late. So it had to be a short episode. The new camera worked just fine but it stopped recording after fifteen minutes. No idea what’s up with that. I think there should be a way to have it go longer.

I am pretty happy with the episode right now, so that’s good.

I had to stop in time to meet Eliandhra over FaceTime. We sat and knitted and talked for two hours. It was great. Talking to someone besides my husband and son is a real treat at the moment.

After that the boy and I watched another episode of Firefly, the one where they rob the hospital. Really good. By then I wasn’t feeling the knitting anymore, three hours that day was enough for sure.

After that I watched a Facebook Live for writers, started writing this post and made a plan for today.

Today there will be the weekly cleaning, the getting ready to teach in person again and, most important, the email to my students talking about teaching in person again. I really hope that I’ll get to do some work on the novel-in-progress as well and – and this just occurred to me – I also need to edit the podcast and get it ready to publish.

Woke up early, did my full morning routine but only managed 12 minutes of work on the novel. Sad face. I did try, though. Talked with my husband and knitted, and got started on dishes when the boy was due for breakfast. The plan was to do a quick grocery run and then go for an actual run.

And that’s when things went sideways the first time. The bakery had a line out the door and onto the sidewalk. So I decided I didn’t need bread that much. Walked to the nearer supermarket and it was – still closed. One of these days I’ll learn but every time this happens I keep thinking they will surely be open again soon.

I could have gone to another supermarket but it was getting late so after wandering around for twenty minutes I got back home and went out for my walk/run:

Die I mention that it was raining the whole time. Which meant there weren’t all that many people out:

When I came back I almost contemplated going to the supermarket right away but that would have made me an hour late for lunch. Not good. So I took a shower and helped with lunch:

Doesn’t look as appealing as it tasted. Yum, lentil soup.

The plan was to record the podcast after lunch but every time I wanted to get started on something my husband showed up and wanted to tell me something. It is great that he loves talking to me so much but still. When I still hadn’t managed to get my butt in gear at four and the ky was looking darker and darker (bad light for filming) I just went out the door and to the grocery store.

It was pretty crowded. I saw someone without a mask at all. The sales person in the bakery wore her mask hanging under her nose. That made me grab two packets of yeast instead of something already baked. I’m not keen on eating something she had breathed on, sorry. And I have been wanting to bake Franzbrötchen for ages now.

I walked back home, had an early dinner, watched Voyager with the boy, slumped around for an hour until my phone’s battery gave out, re-arranged the dirty dishes so that breakfast would be possible the next day, wrote in my journal and went to bed. By then I was really tired what with the walking all around town plus some running and more walking. Oh, I ran every single running interval again. Good thing.

Today there will be finishing podcast prep, maybe the recording of the podcast but I also may not have the time because in the afternoon there will be another lovely virtual knitting meeting with Eliandhra. An episode of Firefly in the evening. Some reading of the novel-in-progress. More knitting for sure.

My alarm went off at 5.30. I just picked up my phone real quick and then it was two hours later.

No yoga, no writing, no nothing.

My husband got up early to build a fire because it was so cold. There was a phone call from our furnace guy. I went to the health food store and tried finding the rechargeable batteries we need for our landline phone. When I came back I saw furnace guy go into our house.

The furnace was serviced, lunch was cooked and eaten:

There was some level debate over lunch which meant that my nice reading break got interrupted and there were more discussions until my husband had to teach his one student of the day. Meanwhile my one student of the day canceled.

I basically spent the rest of the day cranky waiting for the day to pass. Every time I thought of starting something someone would come into the kitchen and interrupt me. Mind you, if I had just started anything that would not have made any difference. I did wind some yarn into balls. Woohoo.

The boy and I watched the Firefly episode „Out of Gas“. I might have watched the whole series two or three times already and rewatching is not getting old.

At least I went to bed at a reasonable time. Today I’m hoping to do all the things. Including grocery shopping because tomorrow all shops will be closed.

Oh, and the faster internet got turned on yesterday around noon. It does make quite the difference. Nice.