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Another lazy morning and lazy breakfast. More talking with my husband. I knitted half the bind-off back on the Comodo cardigan back because it had turned out too loose and started again.

All the usual morning stuff got done and the boy was up only fifteen minutes later than the day before and fully dressed. We’ll see how that goes in the future.

I did my weekly stretching exercises in front of Youtube, this time it was all about hips and back. I have to say that there were several exercises I could barely do, I still have a long way to go until full mobility. But my knees don’t hurt at the moment which is a big plus.

My husband had to fast all day after breakfast so I made pizza for the boy and me. I had planned to make it on Friday but with the dentist it never happened:

It was very good if I say so myself.

I watched part of a lecture on research for fiction writers and I drew a few curves on my tablet along to the course about digital art. My husband showed me the pictures he had taken while away and before I knew it was evening.

There was the ritual Star Trek watching while I finally finished the bind-off and got the cardigan done, then I got ready for bed and that was it.

Today I got up earlier than usual because I decided to accompany my husband to his colonoscopy today just because it’s nicer to have someone there in case. He isn’t supposed to get home alone. We’ll take the train anyway, it’s not like any of us is driving but still.

Which means I’ll leave the house shortly and then sit around at the doctor’s office for an hour or two before heading back home.

At least I did get enough sleep. And I meditated for five minutes in the morning. I still had a hard time getting out of bed and starting breakfast.

My husband showed up and started to tell me everything that happened while he was away and I told him a lot too and the boy got up on time for once and came down for breakfast already dressed. Not in pajamas. Shocking!

More talking and some dishes and we decided what to make for lunch and found that we were running out of honey and bananas and salad so I went to the health food store for the third time this week. I was halfway home when I remembered that we weren’t making salad for lunch after all (that had been part of the first idea my husband had had but we then decided to cook something else). We were making cauliflower and all of a sudden I was completely sure that we only had one package of frozen cauliflower in the freezer. And one package is not enough for three people.

So I turned around and went to the health food store for the second time in a row, just for cauliflower. (Of course when I pulled the other cauliflower out the freezer it turned out there were two packages left after all.)

Going to the health food store on a Saturday morning is never a good idea.

When I came back I met my husband who was already back from running and in a hurry to go and buy beer and alcohol-free beer and soda.

I peeled potatoes and started getting everything out for making lunch and then I went running. I wanted to walk and run for about an hour and I only had half an hour left. But it was okay in the end because we ate later anyway.

The run was nice but running earlier is easier because then I’m not as hungry:

Food tasted wonderful:

With all the exercise and walking around getting groceries I was somewhat exhausted after that. Read a bit, played some games on my phone, did the dishes, took a shower, watched a writing lecture, went online again and then it was time for the ritual watching of Star Trek.

And that was basically it for the day. I did have an idea or two for the newsletter and the podcast, so that’s good. I also have a list of open loops from the trilogy I’m writing. I even printed it out and everything. Sometimes I take it out and look at it and then I put it away again.

Today I want to spend more time with my husband, do some stretching and make a plan for the upcoming week. I’m really hoping for some Monday magic.

Well, that went different than expected once again.

I woke up late, at 6.30, lounged in bed, took my thyroid medication a little late and had breakfast. Then waited for the boy to show up. The plan was that we would start making lunch at 11. Instead of doing something productive while waiting I just sat there knitting and reading „Reticence“ (great book!). I found that I was rather anxious about the impending dentist’s appointment. I did water all the plants but didn’t do much more.

So the boy overslept and only got downstairs around 11.30. So I made the executive decision to eat sandwiches for my (rather early) lunch while he finally had breakfast. Did the dishes and went off to the dentist.

The dentist appointment was less stressful than anticipated. Interestingly the tooth that had lost its crown was not a dead one as I had bee told before. Which explained why that tooth had been hurting for two days now. Not all that bad but a little uncomfortable. It turned out that my file said the tooth was dead but the x-rays told a different story.

The crown I had lost and put back again was sitting so tight that the assistant had to fetch pliers to get it off. They cleaned the tooth, put some cement or glue in (or something) and put the gold crown back. Then the x-rays which showed that everything was peachy and my implant is looking good as well.

A first: nobody asked me if I was pregnant before x-rays for the first time in decades. I had a little chat with the dentist, was advised to not eat for an hour and toddled off. Then I shopped for Brezen and sausages and went back home. Waited for half an hour or so and then made a rather late lunch:

The boy had vegetarian Weißwurst.

Then I would have had enough time to do most of the things on my list but found myself oddly paralyzed and playing games on my new phone.

I decided the day was a bust, gathered the boy, we watched an episode of Star Trek and then it was time to wait for my husband. Since we were finished with watching TV right in time I walked to the train station to meet him. We talked and told each other at least some of the stuff that had happened over the past three days. I went to bed a little late, glad for him to be back but a little unsure about what to change in order to feel better about summer break.

Right now I am having a vision of me sitting around getting crankier and crankier until school starts again. Which is not that unrealistic. I have had Augusts like that in the past. Bleagh.

Woke up around six and meditated. Wasted an hour or so, had breakfast and then called the dentist’s office. They told me I could come in that morning and wait for at least 1 1/2 hours or I could come in the day after and get an actual appointment. At precisely the time we usually eat lunch but hey, emergency dentist appointment.

So I agreed to wait a day and went walking/running:

The weather was nice and the run went very well:

I didn’t fell like cooking at all and decided there would be döner for lunch. I gave the boy a choice of coming with me to Munich, to get himself a vegetarian döner-like thing nearby or to fend for himself. He chose fending for himself and apparently had scrambled eggs for lunch. I had this:

Just as I was getting ready to leave the house my mother-in-law showed up saying, „Uncle H and aunt R are coming after all!“ Which I found a little puzzling. It turned out that said uncle and aunt had told her they would come to visit that day and my mother-in-law had told my husband who already knew that he wouldn’t be home that day. When my mother-in-law then told said uncle and aunt they decided that they didn’t have a lot of time anyway and wouldn’t show.

Well, they had a change of heart.

So, the poor boy was the only one home to meet them. Well, and my mother-in-law who will be traveling next week and had planned to get her suitcase to the post office that day. Instead – or maybe in addition to – the suitcase shenanigans she then rushed out to buy some emergency plum cake. Aunt and uncle arrived after I had already left the house and the boy had to entertain them for a while. It seems that the uncle’s health problems are getting worse instead of better. I guess we really should visit them soon.

After lunch I met my friend in my old neighborhood. Well, one of them, when I still lived in Munich I moved around a lot but I have fond memories of this place:

And the café where I was meeting my friend was in the actual street where I used to live:

I was an hour early on purpose and spent that hour writing out all the loose ends from the trilogy-in-progress and I read part of a book on how to write romantic comedy.

My friend arrived and we spent some time catching up. We only see each other once a year these days so there is a lot of catching up to do. In all the excitement about the new phone and the döner and taking my bluetooth keyboard with me so I could work on the novel I had totally forgotten my knitting. Which made me rather antsy. Seems I don’t sit and listen very well when my hands are not busy. Huh.

Since my friend had plans of looking for a new jacket we then took a train to the city center and made our way through a huge clothing store searching for just the right black jacket. Both sporty and elegant with a zipper. That was a rather interesting experience for me for several reasons. A) I haven’t been clothes shopping in many years, b) these big stores are rather overwhelming and confusing (but at least there was no music), c) my friend’s taste and mine are completely different and d) every time I see something that I like it is totally expensive. I tend to favor brands like Hugo Boss and Armani, apparently. Not that you would have thought it, seeing me in my handmade wardrobe and barefoot shoes. (I wore a purple, hand-sewn tank top with a homemade denim skirt and black Mary Janes with no heel and a toe box wide enough to accommodate an extra toe or two.)

After that one store I had enough and decided to make my way back home.

The boy and I watched an episode of Deep Space Nine. (They got the station back! Rom didn’t have to die! Poor Ziyal!)

Then we talked a bit and I got ready for bed, started writing this post and wrote in my journal.

Today I will do all the things! I need to do some laundry and clean all the things and work a bit on the novel and maybe practice. I also want to cook some real food. And I need to get that on the table real early so I can get to my dentist’s appointment afterwards.

And my husband will be back tonight. Phew. Slightly turbulent week.

I woke up around six after a night of enough sleep. Dawdled. Checked on the new phone’s progress and it was supposed to arrive that day.

Breakfast, knitting, husband. My husband got ready for leaving right after breakfast and the boy didn’t show until he was gone.

I started reading „Reticence“ by Gail Carriger and basically spent the whole morning sitting at the kitchen table with that book. Highly recommended. You might want to read the three that came before it first, though.

Then I realized that my phone was about to arrive and that going for a walk/run in that time might be a bad idea. So I decided to run the next day instead. Then I found that I didn’t want to cook and that I wanted frozen pizza instead so I made the boy stay downstairs to wait for the package while I walked to the supermarket. (Poor thing had to delay playing „Skyrim“ for an hour. I gave him a choice, though, he could have gone grocery shopping as well.)

So then I had a new (to me) phone! Which meant that I spent most of the rest of the day with it. I have to say that setting it up was rather painless. I was pretty surprised by the ‚just sit it next to another device with iOS 11 or higher and wait‘-feature. I still had to download all kinds of things to it but after less than an hour it was ready to go with all the settings just so.

We had frozen pizza for lunch which was so unremarkable that I didn’t even take a picture of it. Also, I was just between phones at this point.

And then I spent the rest of the afternoon setting up my old phone for my husband. I learned how to unlock a prepaid SIM card by having a video chat with the phone company, and I learned how to wipe the phone and set it back up again it was all very instructive.

And then it was time for Star Trek and potato chips and licorice which was rather nice until the point where I bit on something hard and it turned out to be one of my crowns.

So. Today I will:

1. Call the dentist right after breakfast and hope that he can fit me in somewhere in the morning.
2. Hope that it will be early enough that I can go for a run afterwards and get ready in time for
3. Meeting a friend in Munich in the afternoon.

No idea about lunch. My mother-in-law had wanted to go and have lunch with the boy one day and I told him to ask her if she wanted to go today but he forgot. I might just go to Munich early and leave the boy to fend for himself. We’ll see.

I did get enough sleep for a change which also meant that I didn’t have much time sitting in bed before breakfast. (Why yes, there still was no writing. Harumph.)

I actually spent most of the day refreshing the tab on my phone that showed the delivery status for my new phone. It said that it had arrived at the post office the night before and that was it. All day. Until last night when it said it was getting ready to be shipped. Maybe it will be here today.

So there was breakfast and talking and knitting and then the boy’s breakfast and then it was time to get ready for my first student of the day. He was unusually focused. Maybe it was the morning lesson, I usually see him in the afternoon and he is only five.

Then I walked to the health food store because we were lacking two vital ingredients for lunch. Helped to make lunch:

Then dishes and after that my second student of the day. A short break and another student. I had had plans to sew after that but again – I didn’t. This is getting rather boring. At least I finally managed to write my August Patreon newsletter. Phew.

The boy and I watched Star Trek and I spun. And then it was off to bed. With some more reading beforehand, of course. I’m currently reading „Lace and Lies“ by Nancy Warren. I did enjoy the six other books in the series. It is a rather cozy paranormal mystery with a knitting shop – and a cat – in Oxford. And I can’t wait to start reading „Reticence“ by Gail Carrier, I’ve been waiting for this one for a year or so.

Today my husband will be leaving once again to visit another friend of his in Austria. Well, almost Austria. Which means I will have to decide what to have for lunch. I also want to go for a run, write 2,000 words and finish the Kew dress but I guess that’s a little unreasonable.