Susanne

The night was short because I didn’t want to go to sleep before the boy was home from meeting friends. He came back around midnight. And had to get out the house the next morning in time for the climbing gym at eight which meant breakfast before seven. Fun times!

I did do yoga, though. And not much else the rest of the day.

Breakfast was had by all in succession, dishes were washed and I walked to the supermarket. I bought cake and ice cream and some real food too. We had lunch early. My dear husband had done a load of laundry, cared for the garden and cooked minestrone:

Very tasty.

Then I taught all the students. And met a new on who will start lessons in the fall. And taught another student how to do stuff on the piano that I am only beginning to learn myself. That’s alright, though, because I’m way ahead of her and I learn a lot while teaching.

Then I ate the chocolates I had gotten from a student, started writing this post, finally did the lunch and dinner dishes and crashed.

Today there will be the cleaning of the house, the changing of the sheets, homemade pizza for lunch and probably dinner, the boy will get his report card, a pretty long afternoon of teaching and then – summer break.

We won’t talk about the two days I’ll be teaching next week, okay?

I woke up early again and decided to read instead of doing anything productive. Not the best of choices but I did finish reading all the books by one of my new favorite authors. Since I read all the books she ever published I’m now free to read something else and could barely decide between the newest Harry Dresden book and the newest Foreigner. I started both but Harry Dresden won.

I had a late breakfast and then knitted while my husband was eating. The boy was quite late. My husband took the dishes on because I walked to the farmer’s market for potatoes and then I went on my run.

I tried running for 22 minutes without a walking break in vain:

There were loads and loads of people out with us. And it was rather hot:

You can’t see it but at the edge of this picture there was my husband:

I came back home, took a shower, picked out which classes I wanted for the Cold Poker Gang Kickstarter Stretch Goal rewards and ordered a new pair of running shoes. The ones I’m using right now are only a year old but my feet are starting to hurt again and I had promised myself not to wait until there were holes in the soles. And thanks to budgeting there was actually enough money in the budget to go and order them. Hurray!

It’s always a little weird to have a nice cushion in the bank and feel as if there is no money left but in this case it all worked out because I’m putting away a little money for things like clothes and then when I think about getting new shoes I look at the budget and see that there are 170 Euros just sitting there for exactly that purpose. And I only used less than half which is excellent for barefoot shoes.

We had a yummy lunch:

That’s fish, by the way.

The boy then went off to the big city to meet some friends, I did the dishes and started teaching. There were a lot of students. I have to say that I started to sag a little by late afternoon but things went fine. In between I overwatered my hibiscus. Poor thing. It doesn’t look that good. I need to take better care.

I had dinner, read a bit and waited for the boy to come back home. I don’t like it when parts of the family aren’t where they belong.

Today there will be the grocery shopping and lots and lots of students again. Just last night my husband told me he’ll be teaching five students until the end of the week. Well, for me it will be twelve. Mostly in 30-minute increments but still, that’s a lot. Including a potential new student. I’m moving everything else to the weekend. I’m sure that will go well.

I slept wonderful and deep and long enough and then I didn’t really want to do anything all day. Decided to read instead of doing anything productive  in the morning and forgot that I don’t have a lot of time on Tuesdays. Especially since I had added two extra students to my afternoon.

I knitted and started to turn the heel on the second sock, almost finished reading a book, did the dishes, went to the health food store and managed not to buy a chocolate bar for myself but only for the boy. I did get some potato chips for my upcoming birthday but was good otherwise.

I tried working on the novel before lunch but my husband needed help cooking again. No wonder when you look at all the different things we had to eat:

After lunch the boy and I did the dishes, I had a short break and then it was time to start teaching. I had quite a few breaks throughout the afternoon, not bad.

After teaching I started writing this post, brushed, read some more and turned the lights out on time.

Today there will be running again, one of us will have to go to the farmer’s market for potatoes and then there will be lots of teaching.

I did that thing again where I turn around once more after the alarm. But I did get up around six. Did yoga and such and had breakfast. And then I actually got myself pull out the novel-in-progress and work a bit on it.

I don’t quite know what to call the thing I’m doing at the moment. I am reading through it on my iPad, Apple Pencil in hand and change things I don’t like while re-acquainting myself with the details of the story. I’m also adding to a list of open questions and things I want to talk about again in this book or the next in series. Let’s all it an editing pass.

I like what I’m reading even if it’s not super good. And I’m having those moments where you read something you wrote some time ago that you had completely forgotten about.

My husband had breakfast. We talked about a lot of things, among them political correctness and gender equality and why I’m thinking a women’s quota is a good thing. He left to get ready for running and I did the dishes. The boy showed up for breakfast. We talked about why we talk about left and right political parties (French Revolution and where parties were seated), Mandarin pronunciation and if there were socialists in the late 18th century. As one does.

Then it was time to go on my own run:

I was supposed to run for two twenty-minute intervals with a one-minute walking break in between. Well. I almost managed the first twenty minutes. Then I walked most of the way back home:

I’m not quite sure if that’s good or not. But hey! Almost twenty minutes.

Back home I took a shower and then helped with making lunch:

First time eating on the porch this year. We had spaghetti with homemade pesto Genovese and a salad.

The boy helped me with dishes again and didn’t really stop talking afterwards until I told him I wanted a bit of alone-time before teaching.

Teaching ensued, this time with all students coming to my studio, I started writing this post, worked a bit on the Affinity Suite course, got ready for bed and that was it. I got to read in bed and turn the lights out early.

Today there will be a walk to the health food store and quite a bit of teaching. And more work on the novel I hope.

Woke up from the alarm, turned around and slept some more. Had breakfast. Knitted on a sock. Talked some more about yesterday’s drama-stuff. Did a huge pile of dishes. Planned to wash two loads of laundry but instead my husband did all the work because I forgot.

Good conversation with my husband while making this opulent lunch:

What can I say – we had leftover veal…

So, this is bulgur, tomato sauce with the veal, tsatsiki, fried zucchini, skordalia, feta and bean salad. With wine and olives.

I might have had a little too much wine, the boy and I got rather talkative and sat there for two hours after finishing the dishes just talking and looking up stuff on Wikipedia. Very enjoyable.

Then I read a little and went scrolling through Instagram and the like. The boy and I had dinner in front of TV while watching ‚Eternal Love‘ again. By the third episode things are moving a little faster and we might get an inkling of who is who and what the story is about. I love the costumes. Doing heel increases while watching the show might have been a bad idea, though.

I started writing this post, did my weekly review and was surprised that I could check off two or three of my monthly goals, not surprised at the length of the list that was left and planned the week out. Well, as much as that is possible. Right now it does feel as if there is no space left in my week at all. I know that’s not true but that’s how it feels.

Today there will be running and teaching. I’m not quite sure yet what else.

If I don’t work on the novel in the mornings I don’t work on the novel. I keep thinking that I’ll have all the time in the world in the afternoons and then it’s suddenly way too late to go to bed. Harumph.

I woke up early and opted or dozing a little longer. Did yoga and meditated and then made myself breakfast. Somehow the twenty minutes I had between finishing breakfast and my husband having breakfast vanished into thin air. I did finish reading a novel around that time, so that was probably it. I did finish a sock:

I did a huge pile of dishes while listening to podcasts and went running:

I had ten minutes running intervals with only one minute of walking in between. I did alright for the first two intervals and then I basically walked back:

 

It was the day of the Nerd Fitness 5K. I was supposed to post a finishing photo but instead I took one at the halfway point as usual:

The weather was gorgeous and there were many people out:

I got back home and started making spaetzle right away. They were very good and my husband’s veal as well:

I got some pseudo-meat for the boy and he was pleasantly surprised at the taste.

Unfortunately, we had one of those major misunderstandings while cooking and that took most of the afternoon to sort out. There went all my plans of getting something done. Meh.

In the evening the boy and I watched some Star Trek: Enterprise and the second episode of Eternal Love. Looks like we’ll stick with it for a while because we are very intrigued. We’d like a wiki of characters and nice synopses of each episode but I guess we’ll deal.

Afterwards the boy and I talked about different Star Trek-series. We might have agreed on re-watching Picard again.

Today there will be all the writing, all the sewing and all the lounging about.