I went to bed almost at 1 and did not sleep well. Eating a whole pint of ice cream right before bed turned out to be unhelpful. Also, I just learned how many calories there are in a pint of ice cream and it is about three times the amount I should eat for dinner. And that was on top of dinner.
Still, I had set my alarm 15 minutes earlier and while I was sluggish and slow I still did my complete morning routine before my husband showed up for breakfast.
It was raining like crazy and also very, very cold so his mood was not the best. He did build a fire, so the old part of the house got real cozy in the course of the morning. Then it turned out that he was out of milk for his coffee. I had tried to find lactose-free coffee creamer at the store the day before but failed and I thought there would still be some milk but no.
So he offered to drink his coffee black, all martyr-like and noble whereas I put on my winter coat, grabbed an umbrella and braved the pouring rain to get some creamer. And chocolate. And licorice.
The good news is that I managed to find lactose-free creamer. And also that they have restocked their chocolate. The bars on the shelf said best before February 2025 so I had to get some.
When I finally came back my husband was as good as done with his breakfast.
I did the dishes, sorted some recycling, decided that taking the recycling stuff outside could wait another day, changed the sheets on my bed, changed to the winter duvet and put the summer one away and then proceeded to clean the house. Ish.
I managed to finish the cleaning in time for lunch but my husband wasn’t done with cooking yet. As usual the wood stove takes much longer to get hot enough for cooking.
So I took a shower and then there were pork cutlets, potatoes and red bete salad for lunch:
The food was very good.
After I started doing the dishes right away and then set myself a timer for my break. I did sit playing games and reading for twice as long but still.
I found that I had yet another email about the shoes I returned in June and resigned myself to having to use the phone on Monday. I finally sent the feedback to the cover designer. I told them that I don’t want any AI art on the cover and got an answer back that they don’t use any. Which is very good.
The only reason I managed to finally send that feedback was that I had a Zoom meeting at 5 with a couple fellow authors and I didn’t want to tell them I hadn’t gotten anything done.
I had quite the list of changes I wanted and I specified that I do not want any Ai-generated images and promptly got the answer that they don’t use those anyway. Which is good.
The meeting was very nice even though it suffered from all the usual moderator people being absent and everybody else more prone to listening than to speaking. On the other hand we were done faster than usual.
After that and thinking a bit more about my shoe return problem because the finance company wants a return number that I can’t find anymore because the whole thing was in June and everything just vanishes from the post app after 21 days I tried looking at the email exchange with the seller again, found that the package arrived on the 25th of June, went through all the emails I had from DHL and found a tracking number that matches that date. Fingers crossed the thing will be cleared up soon.
Then I started writing this post, saw the boy for the first time that day, decided not to do bodyweight training yet again because he had just rolled out of bed and went on to have potato chips and a beer in front of C-drama.
I decided that I need to stock up on sleep so I can weather the upcoming week better, we’ll see how that goes.
And the plan for today is to make trofie from scratch again. I’ll probably regret that decision soon but last time they were delicious.
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