A rather good day on not enough sleep

I had turned the lights out at midnight, way too late. Woke up from the alarm at 7 and got out of bed right away, something I don’t do often. I did skip the whole morning routine because I needed to leave the house early. There was breakfast and such and in the end I had to hurry because I had left only seven minutes to brush my teeth, change into real pants and get out the door. But I did catch my bus.

I got shockwaved at the orthopedist and it did hurt again. I practiced mindful breathing and relaxing my muscles to a point where the assistant treating me asked if I had sensed any of it. Um, yes, it was rather painful, thanks.

I was back home an hour after leaving. Talked with my husband, wrote morning pages, proofread the manuscript for twenty minutes, did the dishes and went off to the supermarket.

I was so late that I got right into a stream of middle and high schoolers getting off both on my way to the supermarket and on the way back. I did pop into another store to return a pack of underwear and pick up the same underwear in a different size. Did all the grocery shopping including spending 5 minutes trying to figure out where the sake was. Not exotics but liquor, go figure.

Came back home, put most of the things away and had lunch:

If this food looks a bit uninspired it is because my husband was feeling really bad all day. His cold is just gearing up, poor thing.

After lunch there might have been a few indulgences:

Not only did I buy extra chocolate, I also had ordered not one but two completely superfluous new fountain pens. After seeing a couple of unused fountain pens on the unused nightstand. After noticing that my fat wooden Jinhao pen was out of ink. I think these pens will fit my hand better than the super chonky one but, well.

I took a break, taught a couple of students, put ink in three pens, taught some more students, ate dinner, read and lost an hour or so, did Duolingo, was just about to start writing this post when the boy said he wanted to take a shower next so I did the dishes first, then brushed my teeth and changed into pajamas, finally started the blog post, made a list for today, made myself a cup of tea and read some more and then turned the lights out.

Another rather busy day today and then the weekend.