daily journal

I had an okay day, even though my whole morning was eaten by trying to update the OS on my smartwatch. That was fun!

There was lunch:

And teaching and planning for May and a bit of cleaning.

Since writing about my daily fails here feels a bit tedious I have decided to take a break from daily blogging. I might not blog at all, or the muse may strike and then I’ll write something, we’ll see.

I hope you find hope and inspiration in May, the ultimate spring month. You can find me on instagram if you’re here for pictures of what I eat for lunch, see you.

But not enough time for blogging, sadly. I bought more books and all the groceries, had pasta for lunch:

And watched this concert with my husband in the evening (it was a live stream on Youtube):

Seems like you can only watch the video on YouTube directly, so embedding it here is a little pointless…

I went to bed too late after having a little too much beer. Today is Friday which means cleaning, teaching and then the weekend.

I woke up too late to do yoga again. Had breakfast, woke the boy and helped him get to school on time. All the while I read „Aftermath“ in short bursts.

My husband and I talked a bit, then I helped him with an online order, did the dishes and went off to the health food store. Came back, put the groceries away and started making spaetzle. Ordered a new hand mixer because the old one that we inherited from my husband’s grandmother is getting way too hot these days and some of the plastic is peeling.

We had lunch without the boy because he ate upstairs with his grandmother:

I didn’t eat all of that, it was just too much.

No dishes but a short break and then teaching. One student canceled and another didn’t show, after ten minutes of trying to call them on Skype I gave up. In that time off I started researching book covers for paranormal cozy mystery. At least now I know what I don’t want.

After teaching I ate a bag of potato chips and had a beer in front of TV, then did the dishes, some yoga and went to bed.

Today is our 26th wedding anniversary. There will be takeout for lunch, lots of teaching and maybe some champagne and a toast tonight.

I slept in until 6.30 so no yoga and such. Breakfast with the boy, then breakfast with my husband, dishes that were quick and easy to do because the boy asked me the night before if he should help me do them (I’m very grateful for that).

When I re-folded the crochet blankets on the sofa I saw that there is mold behind the sofa. For now I just moved it away from the wall again. Not good.

I went for my walk/run and it was fun:

Posting these pictures here three times a week makes me feel as if I should buy a new jacket or two because I always wear the same when running.

Then I practiced Chinese and took a shower and my husband made lunch:

It was a bit too al dente but very good. It is very cute how my husband is throwing himself into cooking at the moment. I got him the „Salt,Fat, Acid, Heat“ book for his birthday and he is slowly making his way through it. Not cooking all the recipes but mostly thinking about cooking. And then going through his fat Italian cookbook and marking recipes to cook next.

Then there was teaching with a break in between and a live stream thing and then I started writing this post. Watched two episodes of „The Devil Punisher“, and went to bed way too late again.

Today there will be grocery shopping and teaching and reading. I started reading novels on my phone every time I want to check Twitter or Instagram and that is actually really good.

My life does feel a bit boring at the moment, I don’t write, I don’t sew, I don’t really do anything. But. Tomorrow there will be takeout! And maybe champagne! And on Thursday we’re watching the live stream of an improvisation concert on YouTube!

I take my excitement where I can get it these days.