Not literally, though.
I had turned the lights out just after midnight, woke at 5 to use the bathroom, heard the boy in the kitchen and went back to sleep right away. Slept until 6.45 and woke up super determined to do all the things.
I thawed some blueberries for breakfast, took my thyroid meds and went back to bed with my morning pages only to be interrupted three sentences in by the boy. He needed me to put some money in his debit account so he could buy something because he only had cash.
So I abandoned the morning pages and helped him. We talked briefly. I decided to do yoga first and morning pages later and just when I was about to finish yoga the boy showed up again. We talked. It was very nice. My husband showed up and we ate breakfast. He gave me an article to read in his guitar magazine and we talked about that.
Some time in between all of these things I had started researching how to use an iPad for sheet music and such. There is this big mess of lead sheets and music all over my studio and digitizing it might solve a problem or two. I did manage to just open half a dozen tabs and leave it at that.
But. After breakfast, when I should have done the dishes and/or written morning pages and/or done yoga I suddenly was very convinced that I need more reading in Chinese (which I certainly do) which somehow led to me trying to buy „The Three-Body Problem“ in Chinese as an ebook. Not that I can read any of it or will be able to do so in the next few years. I also bought it in English for comparison.
The Chinese ebook is only available on Apple Books and so I got sucked into trying to get that one onto my Kindle reader and the next time I looked up it was noon and I hadn’t even brushed my teeth yet. My husband was not happy because he wanted to start cooking. Which is completely understandable. Always a bit tricky to explain that my brain just focused on something completely unimportant at the totally wrong time and then all sense of time passing vanished.
There was a heated discussion, I finally brushed my teeth, started a load of laundry and did the dishes right before lunch was ready. It was a low-effort cooking day, baked beans, rice and fried eggs:
Oh, and in the course of the morning I also got two phone calls to my cell, one from my GP telling me to reschedule my Monday appointment because the doctor was overbooked, and the second one from my dentist’s office. I had put myself on a waiting list for a dental cleaning and they finally had open slots again. I had to decline the one in April and have now a scheduled dental cleaning in – July.
And then I got a reply to my email to the surgery clinic that said I should send them my phone number so it would be easier to make an appointment. Sure.
Maybe I’ll use the time I have gained on Monday because I won’t see my doctor to call the clinic instead.
I felt really awful for wasting so much time at this point but still fell into a huge slump after lunch. Taught my first student which was fun, then waited for the next student. And waited. He never showed. I talked with my husband some more until he started swiffering the annex floor which set me off, I got the vacuum out and vacuumed the annex. After that I waited for the next student, all while vacuuming the old part of the house, then I remembered the laundry, hung that up and put a new load in. The next student texted me to say she would be late. Eight minutes.
We still sang for an hour total because the next student had rescheduled to last Wednesday and the last student of the week said she had thought about canceling because she had been out with a friend and the friend wanted to invite her for dinner.
So, only half the students I usually teach on Fridays. I’m blaming the „last day before school break“-syndrome.
I talked some more with my husband, ate dinner, talked with the boy, lost another 45 minutes to playing silly games and social media, started writing this post, did the dishes (quickly because the boy wanted to take a shower), did Duolingo, watched half an episode of C-drama, quickly brushed my teeth and fell into bed.
Phew.
I’m predicting a very low productivity day today, I’m toast.
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