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And who would have thought that that would be a thing I needed in my life?

I didn’t sleep all that well and not enough because of all the junk I ate the day before. Also, playing adrenaline-fueled shooter parts of my favorite video game right before bed might have been a bad idea for sleep. And I forgot my night guards as well, woke up at one point with my teeth hurting. ::facepalm::

Consequentially, I decided to skip morning pages and meditation and started the day in a bit of a mood.

But then I talked with my husband over breakfast and knitted a few rounds on the sock-in-progress, and did some dishes before finally getting out of the house. I spent 45 minutes walking outside while listening to BTS and then I felt somewhat better:

I even wrote a (super bad) blog post on my neglected author blog, hurray!

I took a shower and then it was time for lunch:

Yes, when I came back home the kitchen was deserted and something was frying on high without supervision. No, it was not the chicken breast, that happened later. But it all tasted delicious.

I spent most of my afternoon playing Genshin Impact after having spent some time with my audio book. I’m really enjoying it. The plan for Genshin had been to tackle those pesky realms with the new shooter mechanic that I am so, so bad at but instead I ended up exploring places and doing some quests. There might be a bug in the game because I actually finished that one quest but the game says it’s still locked. Harumph.

Since we had finished watching every episode of ‚Columbo‘ the week before we were a little unsure about what to watch next for our family sessions on Saturdays. I suggested ‚Mobius‘, a fast-paced Chinese crime series. I wasn’t sure how the rest of the family would feel about it. The boy and I really liked it but my husband is still a bit on the fence.

There are some rather ridiculous elements, the hero is very heroic and the action scenes are somewhat exaggerated at times. But it did make the 45 minutes feel rather short and I didn’t really lose interest anywhere in that first episode. I think we’ll watch some more, and if the others don’t want to watch it all I will probably do it on my own.

I then started writing this post, made a list for today (pretty long list I have to say) and didn’t do much else. Since it was the end of summer break husband and I celebrated with some nice Oktoberfest beer so that lowered our energy somewhat.

Today I will need to do all the things! So I can get ready for the start of the school year tomorrow.

And of going a little crazy because I can’t really do anything.

Which is funny because I actually did stuff but it turns out my usual exercise does help a lot and calms me down. And boosts my mood.

I might also be a little cranky because it’s the end of summer break, no idea.

There was knitting and the breakfast dishes and I helped a little with chopping things for lunch:

That is parmigiana di melanzane, eggplant with parmesan and mozzarella and boiled eggs and tomato sauce. Since we ate all the bread before the boy had a chance to eat something I then went to the nearby supermarket for more baguette. And some sweets.

Ate all the sweets, read, listened to my audiobook (Ilona Andrew’s „One Fell Sweep“) and then tried to fix the problem that my husband couldn’t access his email.

The good news is that he can now get some of it. The bad news is that I managed to bork the Thunderbird installation so spectacularly that I couldn’t even re-install it. He will have to rely on the mail program that came with the computer.

While I was busy doing that my husband did most of the dishes which was rather helpful.

I had eaten half a bag of potato chips for dinner before the email rescue, so I wrote this post, played some more Genshin, watched a bit of C-drama and went to bed.

Oh, and just before helping my husband with his email stuff I got an email myself saying that I had to change the connection for my trip at the end of the month, so I was busy booking alternative trains and getting even more seat reservations. On the very bright side I finally figured out how to use my train bonus points for those reservations so at least they didn’t cost me extra money. I already had a perfectly fine connection book with all the reservations but no, I had to do that all over again. Fingers crossed that means everything will be going smoothly and on time on the weekend when I’m away.

I might go for a walk today, since I’m not allowed to actually exercise. I hope that will lift my mood.

And I’m doing fine after my cataract surgery but I have been using screens a little too much today and so I’ll make this short.

I went grocery shopping and took a shower, that was mostly it.

For two or three days, I guess but I can’t be sure.

I had a super busy day planned yesterday but only got around to about two thirds of the list.

I went running and walking:

We ate lunch:

I spent some time playing my video game and then I sewed for only twenty minutes before sitting down with the boy to order fabric for his costume. At some point I also ordered stuff for my husband.

My hand is getting better slowly, at times I even forget about the bee sting.

I gave my writer friend a piano lesson, and when I was finished my husband told me that the boy had gone to the health food store with not enough money because we’re short on cash right now. August is always a low income month. We do have money in the bank it’s just that we’re running out of coins and banknotes and my husband gave the boy the last of his.

So I went out to meet the boy because the money he had taken was not enough.

Turned out the boy had cash of his on his person and if that hadn’t been enough he would just have used his debit card and I could have reimbursed him.

Well.

It was still nice to meet him at the health food store and to walk to the other supermarket for yogurt.

Then we had dinner, I did the dishes while watching YouTube, I looked at the instructions for this morning again and wrote this post.

Today I’ll have to leave the house without breakfast or tea rather early. The plan is to take the train back from surgery this time because the taxi was super expensive the last time and this time the train is actually running normally, so changing to a bus this time. And the walk to the taxi stand is about the same as to the train platform.

My list for today says I need to mostly chill after getting back home so that sounds doable. I already started listening to the Graphic Audio version of „Sweep in Peace“ and added a ridiculous amount of videos to my „Watch later“-list on YouTube. I would also like to watch some C-drama. That writer friend of mine has started watching „Find Yourself“ and so I’m thinking of watching it for a third time. We’ll see.

Since I need to rest my eyes a bit there won’t be a post at least for tomorrow and then we’ll see.

I am again short on time, today I’m going to do all the things I need my eyes for this week because tomorrow will be my second cataract surgery which also means I’ll be offline again for a few days.

The boy and I went to the big Dutch fabric market in Dachau yesterday right after breakfast. Well, after breakfast for me, he wasn’t up in time to eat something before we needed to get the train.

We took two trains and a bus and came out on a huge parking lot with lots of fabric vendors. We had a list and very specific ideas what we wanted. Red canvas and some other white cotton fabric for the boy’s costume, some t-shirt fabric, something woven, preferably with flowers in bright colors for a summer dress for me and some fat quarters to make a bucket hat.

Most of what we found were lightweight viscose fabrics, knit fabric in pastels and lots and lots of fleece and sweatshirt fabric. There was some nice upholstery fabric but that was more expensive than we wanted to spend. So we looked at everything but did not find what we were looking for for the boy.

As for my own list, with so many options I felt unable to choose anything and so I decided not to buy anything.

We went looking for the bus back which turned out to be harder than expected and went back to Dachau. Since we were there anyway we decided to walk up to the castle because the boy had never been there before.

It was rather nice and the view was spectacular.

That’s Munich on the horizon, complete with the Olympic Tower.

The plan was to have lunch at the castle. We sat outside and asked for menus that showed more than the coffee and cake menus that were lying on the tables.

The menus came and it turned out that the castle restaurant is really, really expensive. Plus, none of the dishes sounded appealing to me as well. So we ordered some iced chocolate:

Then we walked back to town always looking for a place where we could find something proper to eat but mostly failing until we reached the station and got ourselves some falafel in pita bread. Very yummy:

Even if eating it sitting on the train platform was not the most delightful setting.

We went back home, talked to my husband, then did our thing for a while until we met again for bodyweight training and dinner.

After that I had a Zoom meeting with a writer friend that showed I was pretty tired at this point, did the dishes together, I wrote this post and went to bed.

Today will be the last super packed day this week and then it’s all sitting still and giving myself time to heal until next week.

 

I am again short on time, today I’m going to do all the things I need my eyes for this week because tomorrow will be my second cataract surgery which also means I’ll be offline again for a few days.

The boy and I went to the big Dutch fabric market in Dachau yesterday right after breakfast. Well, after breakfast for me, he wasn’t up in time to eat something before we needed to get the train.

We took two trains and a bus and came out on a huge parking lot with lots of fabric vendors. We had a list and very specific ideas what we wanted. Red canvas and some other white cotton fabric for the boy’s costume, some t-shirt fabric, something woven, preferably with flowers in bright colors for a summer dress for me and some fat quarters to make a bucket hat.

Most of what we found were lightweight viscose fabrics, knit fabric in pastels and lots and lots of fleece and sweatshirt fabric. There was some nice upholstery fabric but that was more expensive than we wanted to spend. So we looked at everything but did not find what we were looking for for the boy.

As for my own list, with so many options I felt unable to choose anything and so I decided not to buy anything.

We went looking for the bus back which turned out to be harder than expected and went back to Dachau. Since we were there anyway we decided to walk up to the castle because the boy had never been there before.

It was rather nice and the view was spectacular.

That’s Munich on the horizon, complete with the Olympic Tower.

The plan was to have lunch at the castle. We sat outside and asked for menus that showed more than the coffee and cake menus that were lying on the tables.

The menus came and it turned out that the castle restaurant is really, really expensive. Plus, none of the dishes sounded appealing to me as well. So we ordered some iced chocolate:

Then we walked back to town always looking for a place where we could find something proper to eat but mostly failing until we reached the station and got ourselves some falafel in pita bread. Very yummy:

Even if eating it sitting on the train platform was not the most delightful setting.

We went back home, talked to my husband, then did our thing for a while until we met again for bodyweight training and dinner.

After that I had a Zoom meeting with a writer friend that showed I was pretty tired at this point, did the dishes together, I wrote this post and went to bed.

Today will be the last super packed day this week and then it’s all sitting still and giving myself time to heal until next week.