Had another busy Friday and decided to just let everything sit and go to bed

The night before I had stayed up until 12.30, bad move again.

I had a slow start to the day, no morning routine or anything, but a long conversation with my husband. Then I did the dishes real quick while the boy got ready and then we braved the stormy weather and the supermarket.

We went shopping together so I could show him my process. Like, first you need to look in the pantry, fridge and freezer to see what is needed. Then you complete the grocery list. We try to jot everything down that occurs to us throughout the week, like, every time I sort the recycling I write down a replacement for every empty package I sort. These are all the things that somehow didn’t appear in the fridge by magic when I was traveling over the past year. We’re still working on, „when you want something from the store you can just write it on the list“.

There are so many small things I do. Like, my husband wrote pecorino pastore on the list which I had found the week before. There are two different places in the supermarket where you might find that cheese but they don’t have it all the time. So I write it down in two places on the list. Otherwise I forget. I also found myself saying things like, „I always buy this pound cake your father really likes it but don’t buy this one, it doesn’t agree with him“. Buy the big package of brie, not the small one. Count the probiotic yogurt drinks in the fridge to see if we’ll run out before next week. (For the record I think buying these is a waste of money but my husband claims they are making him all better, so whatever.)

Yeah, we’re very particular about our food.

We came back almost in time for lunch which was already on the table:

I did not do the dishes after lunch even though I had time, I was just too tired.

I did finish the swatch for the Kate Davies MKAL that morning and I really like it:

I taught all the students in the afternoon, then went to a Zoom meeting half an hour late that went on until 7.30. It was really nice and helpful (about burnout and writing).

At one point in the day I had signed up for the Knitsonik bullet journal course and in my overwhelming fogginess had managed to make a second account for the Teachable platform. I spent about an hour trying to fix it and merge my two accounts but failed and then decided to just go to bed with a book, leaving the blog post and the dishes for today.

At some other point in the day I also decided that I needed six Josephine Tey books. In my defense they were less than a euro each but still. I should stop to buy emotional support books. I also briefly toyed with the idea of getting a book about mental math but while that is fascinating and mental math is something I really would like to get better at I just don’t think I’ll have the mental capacity for that in the near future.

I actually turned the lights out on time, slept well and enough, wrote morning pages this morning and skipped the rest of the morning routine.

Today I will attempt to get all the Friday things done plus a packing list for the clinic and looking at all the paperwork for Monday.