daily journal

I almost got enough sleep! Yeah? This is what I saw when I looked outside:

Snow! It was all gone by the end of the day but still, it was a cold day.

Did morning yoga and meditated and then had breakfast. Spent time with husband. He built a fire in the wood stove for warmth.

The boy woke up without prompting but did not come down for breakfast at all. He instead had lunch as his first meal of the day. Whatever.

I did the dishes and such and went out. First to the tea shop where I bought all the pu er, some de-caffeinated Darjeeling, two other types of Darjeeling and some Lapsang Souchoung. Unfortunately, the owner of the shop wasn’t there, instead I dealt with her daughter. She might be nice but she doesn’t know a lot about tea so my plan to have someone help me choose did not work out.

I have to say, being in that shop for ten minutes or so was the unsafest thing I have been doing for months. The sales woman pulled her mask off the second she was behind the plexiglas partition, did forget to put it back on again when stepping to the side twice and wore it as a chin-strap while on the phone. None of the windows in the shop were open and when I asked her if she didn’t feel unsafe she said, no, since she was behind the partition everything was alright. I asked about aerosols and she said that she was clean anyway because she gets tested regularly as part of her job at the airline.

Right. Because the test makes you immune?

Needless to say that my mask was firmly on, I did not follow the invitation to sniff the tea and the next time I might opt to order by mail even though I would have to pay for shipping.

Then I walked to the health food store which was blessedly empty, bought a few things and went back home.

My husband wasn’t feeling well so he just ate a few potatoes for lunch but the boy and I had potato salad and tofu brats:

We talked a bit after lunch, I did not do the dishes and somehow the whole afternoon just made poof! I did practice Chinese a bit, I read, I played the silly video game and just when I thought I should really get going my husband showed up to talk about singing and then we both remembered the laundry in the basement and hung that up.

The boy played video games with friends again, so we watched Netflix – or rather YouTube – later than usual, I did my evening yoga and went to bed.

Today there will be running and all the usual.

Woke up at 5.30 with a start and managed to waste more than two hours before getting up. No yoga even. But I did have Osterzopf for breakfast:

With honey:

Talked with husband and crocheted. Called my mother, learned a bit Chinese, made a list for the day. Woke the boy up and then woke him up again an hour later. We’re both having trouble with getting to bed on time, apparently. He is playing video games with friends online at the moment. It was funny when I tried to explain that to my mother. „You know, it’s like they’re calling each other on the phone through their headsets and then they’re talking while they play the games.“ „But is he going out? For walks at least?“ She doesn’t get it.

My husband was the one who did the dishes. He must have felt weird with not having to cook because his mother was making lunch. I even wore a dress for the occasion:

We had the exact same conversations that we always have but this time everything was nicer because my mother-in-law is fully vaccinated and so we can relax a bit more around her.

In the afternoon I thought about my goals, scrolled through Twitter, was on Ravelry, played Duolingo and just when I wanted to start writing this post my husband showed up wanting to talk to me. About singing technique. And he wanted me to listen to a Crusader song. And one by Joe Cocker. And it was all very sweet but then the boy showed up so we could eat junk food and watch ‚Torchwood‘. Another excellent episode, by the way. And I found two Chinese dramas that I’ve been wanting to watch on Youtube. We might watch those together as well. (It’s „Eternal Love of Dream“ and „Word of Honor“ in case you’re curious.)

The boy took a shower, I watched ‚Find Yourself‘ and when I went to the annex to use the bathroom I found that my husband was feeling rather down again. He didn’t want to talk, though. So I watched some more and looked at my phone for too long until it was too late for yoga and blogging and everything and then my husband showed up ready to talk.

So we talked and I think he felt a little better after that and I started writing this post at 10.30, then did yoga, wrote in my bullet journal, brushed my teeth and flossed, did 15 minutes of very relaxing yoga and finally went to bed.

Guess who didn’t get enough sleep yet again?

Right.

So. Today there will be twenty minutes of running, some laundry, something writing-adjacent and I will map out the rest of the week. I’m longingly thinking of bed already.

Really bad day. I didn’t sleep well, fell back asleep after my alarm, barely managed to squeeze breakfast in before my husband was due to show up. I did manage morning yoga, though, but just because I had left the mat out the evening before. Hurray!

I had downloaded a new game for m iPad, one of those where you ‚merge‘ things and restore a house, you know the kind and I got completely hooked on that. So that was what I did all day.

I did go running and it was great fun, intervals of 400 meters of running and 400 meters of walking for 4.8 k. Yes!

It was pretty cold. I was rather late but that was alright because lunch was late as well:

My husband was feeling extra down and was not in the mood for cooking. It was tasty nonetheless.

I spent the whole afternoon daydreaming, reading and playing that game and one when it was already time for dinner did I manage to finally take a shower. The boy was playing video games with a friend online so I just ate dinner in front of TV. I watched two episodes of ‚Find Yourself‘ and in between I started baking Hefezopf. Because of that I went to bed too late.

I almost forgot to practice Chinese and it was way late before I did my evening yoga.

Today we’ll celebrate Easter with Hefezopf for breakfast and my mother-in-law is making lamb roast for lunch. I’m hoping that I will spend less time on playing games and a bit more on things that make me happy in the long run.

I even started playing one of those silly video games where you just sit there and merge things. Ugh.

I did do yoga twice and I did most of the cleaning and practiced Chinese but that was mostly it.

The boy and I watched ‚Torchwood‘ and it’s still excellent. I also watched 1 1/s episodes of ‚Find yourself‘ and that’s excellent as well.

I asked for a simple vegetarian lunch and my husband complied:

I went to bad too late again.

Today there will be running, the baking of the Osterzopf and the watching of ‚Enterprise‘. We’ll see how much else.