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New week! Monday energy! New school year!

I’m still exhausted and a little stressed, there is just too much to do.

I woke up early after not sleeping all that well and then dawdled and took ages for my morning pages and meditation.

Ate breakfast with my husband and didn’t even get around to knitting a few rounds which is rare.

I did the dishes and some admin and it hit me that I hadn’t prepared anything for the start of teaching. And then I went out for a walk:

I took a shower and we ate lunch:

I took a break and played some Genshin. And then I sat down to update my list of students and to check the list to see who had paid. I didn’t finish but it was a start. In the middle of that my husband fetched me to help him with the setup in the basement again where I had connected an older tablet so he can teach drums. The adapter I ordered somehow hadn’t worked and the tablet wasn’t charging while plugged in. (The way this kind of connection works is that you have to charge through the adapter.) I ordered another adapter but it might also be the port on the tablet, we’ll see.

I taught my first student, had a bit of free time when the next one didn’t show (we always start a day early and the students often forget because school hasn’t really started yet.

Then it was non-stop teaching until coaching with my New York friend and some chatting. I refilled one of my fountain pens and decided I was too tired to do the rest. I did migrate most things into my new bullet journal because the old one was full and I was getting tired of lugging around two fat notebooks.

I finally ate dinner about an hour later than I would have liked, played some more Genshin while the boy did the dishes and my husband went in and out of the kitchen, then opened the manuscript for ten minutes and started writing this post.

And then I got ready for bed and turned out the lights. I am having a scratchy throat. Fingers crossed that won’t get worse.

Didn’t quite feel like a day off.

I wrote morning pages and meditated for five minutes and talked with my husband and called my mother and then my husband’s aunt. Who then thanked me for such a nice conversation when all I was doing was treading water and making sympathetic noises at her complaints. Which apparently passes for a conversation when you’s 87.

She also keep forgetting that we rented car the last time we visited her because where she lives is even less walkable than the town where my mother lives.

I sorted spinning fiber into new boxes and did not bring them upstairs before lunch because I didn’t want to wake the boy up.

I folded two loads of laundry and hung up an epic load of wool things.

There was lunch:

I listened to my audiobook and played Genshin and played some more and then I set up my older tablet in the basement for my husband’s drum lessons. Which took a while because things were not working as expected. And taught me that the keyboard I had planned to use was just a tad too small so that the iPad kept falling over.

I did the dishes and had dinner.

I played some more Genshin, in fact, I started another quest about 90 minutes before bedtime and finished it half an hour after bedtime. And then I started writing this post, did a very sloppy version of planning the week, brushed my teeth and went to bed.

In between I did some video research about some other aspects of the video game, I am truly hooked at this point.

And today there will be teaching all the students again. I don’t really feel prepared, I have to say.

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.