A bit of relaxation, not much else

Well, turning the lights out past 1 AM kind of set the tone for the day.

I did wake up somewhat rested from the alarm at 7, did my stretches and got out of bed right away, then picked up my phone and, um, lost an hour? Wrote morning pages and skipped yoga again. This picking up the phone business has to be stopped. Really.

I did finish eating breakfast before my husband showed up, at least.

Then there was talking with my husband (very nice), calling my mother on the phone (also very nice) and then, instead of waiting for lunch to be ready I just went to my studio and played piano for a bit. Ha! Playing the freshly tuned piano was great! Only there is a key that makes just the slightest rasp of wood on wood. And then there are a few places in the deeper range that are a little off. Not that they’re actually off key, they just, I don’t know, resonate wrong?

I wasn’t sure if I was imagining it, maybe because I don’t quite trust the younger piano tuner yet but my husband heard it too. I said, „There is this one tone that is just slightly off. I tried playing a chromatic scale and everything was fine, and then I played octaves and fifth and everything was fine as well but when I played the tune it sounded wrong.“ And while I was saying this he chimed in saying that he had heard it as well.

So I guess I might call the piano tuner again and ask for a correction. I mean, it’s not a big deal, nothing is actually out of tune and the poor guy had to sit there tuning for three hours. And my piano is fickle in places, one can tune it well and it still sounds off until one gets those few notes just right.

And as my husband said, most people won’t even hear any of it. While he and I are almost at that stage where you can tune a guitar just like that. Sometimes a student of mine starts tuning and I go, „Nope, that is way too low!“ Without a reference. To be fair while I’m mostly right when I say things like that, sometimes I’m not.

Anyways, lunch was only half an hour late and super tasty:

Then I played some games including Genshin Impact, scrolled through social media, ate too many snacks, and then planned out my week.

I ate dinner, did the dishes, decided to skip my second Duolingo session of the day, started writing this post, watched some C-drama and went to bed.

And now off to a new week.