Not that I’m still in school but since we follow school holidays I had a week mostly off. And yesterday my full teaching schedule came back into play.
But first:
I had gone to bed somewhat late because I wanted to do too many things in the evening. Woke up from the alarm, wrote morning pages and did yoga and then my husband showed up a little earlier than usual. No meditation but that was okay. I ate breakfast while he started the fire, we talked a bit, he felt horrible, maybe the coffee he had had two days in a row. Somewhere in between I rescheduled my last student of the day to today.
I tried getting to everything I want to do in the morning but failed because I suddenly realized that I needed to leave as soon as possible to renew a prescription at my gynecologist’s office. I was so late I even ran part of the way to the train station. Running felt great everywhere, by the way, but my poor feet. I hadn’t even managed to tape the poor things.
I got my prescription, went to the health food store there and bought a couple things, arrived at the train station just as a train was pulling in, arrived back in my town, went to the second health food store just for vegetarian Leberkäs, went to the pharmacy and the third health food store and walked back home.
When I walked in the door my husband greeted me with, „I can’t cook for you, I’m just making potatoes for myself, maybe do something with the leftover pasta.”
I packed away all the groceries and such and decided to just have potatoes and the leftover pork from a few days earlier:
Also, I had bought chocolate.
After lunch I had a thirty minute break during which the boy showed up. He was slightly confused about having to fend for himself for lunch but then went on to fry the pasta with some eggs.
I started teaching. After five students in a row who refused to look at the sheet music I slightly lost it and the fifth student got a bit of a lecture about how it would really help to actually look closely at the page. And no I would not write „g“ next to the note because there is a reason why people developed music notation and did not keep on writing music down with letters. And yes, I get that it seems complicated at first and that you just mastered reading words in German and feel that yet another system is a bit too much to ask but trust me, it’s not as hard as you think it is.
Followed by my usual question, „So, where is the piece of paper you have that shows you all the notes?“ Followed by the students’s traditional answer, „At home.“ Followed by me pulling out the piece of paper I have for just that reason.
Which reminds me that I didn’t get said paper back. I guess it’s time to make yet another copy of it.
The student after that had canceled during breakfast. So I decided to play the piano for a few minutes before answering a friend’s text. She was feeling a bit off and clearly in need of sympathy but all I could do on that busy day was send a hug emoji and tell her I’d answer later.
But then the student after that canceled as well. And I decided to just video call my friend. Well, if she liked. And she did and so we spent 1 1/2 hours talking which was great. I really missed that.
Then I saw I had a call from the furnace guy who had left a message that he wants to come in today. Oh, and the new windows we ordered months ago? They’re supposed to be put in next Monday.
I went upstairs and talked with my mother-in-law about the funeral tomorrow, finally ate dinner, scrolled through Instagram a bit, did all the dishes since the night before, did not do my voice and feet exercises but Duolingo (very briefly), watched an episode of „Love me, love my voice“ and went to bed.
Oh, and at some point in the morning I also got a reschedule offer for my dermatologist appointment. It was moved up to Thursday which is good but I can already say that I’ll be just a pile of limp dishrag by Friday.
So, today there will be furnace guy, a phone call with my thyroid doctor, an insane amount of teaching and then I’ll probably pass out. Oh, bonus points for feet and voice exercises and for getting the clothes ready for tomorrow.
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