Archives for March 2018

I basically spent most of the day in bed, reading, surfing the web and dozing. I tried not to speak but failed.

I actually slept about nine hours last night. I’m still sick, as expected.

At least my voice isn’t completely gone. If I don’t talk much and rest a lot between students I guess I’ll be okay.

I did help making homemade gnocchi yesterday, that was good, so here’s a picture of the uncooked gnocchi:

And the whole meal:

Despite being sick I did manage to cut the boy’s hair yesterday. It still looks pretty wild because he wants to grow it out but at least I trimmed the bottom and he doesn’t look quite as overgrown.

Today I will be teaching but not that much. I’ll try to mostly communicate by sign language. Teaching singing will be, um, interesting but I’m pretty sure that that particular student can handle it.

The boy was pretty scared this morning because he has his first day of internship. He is nervous about finding his way there, and about the work, especially since they are putting him on the phone right away. I guess he’ll learn a lot.

I think I’ll spend the morning in bed today. No running for me, that’s for sure.

So yesterday ended up being a day where I did nothing at all, apart from buying clothes with the boy. We walked to the very small mall here in town, hunted down 1 tee, 2 sweatshirts, 2 belts, and some chocolate (we both aren’t fond of clothes-shopping), failed to find pajamas that we liked, and walked back.

I did no running, only a little spinning, no writing, and no music because I’m sick. Laryngitis again. No idea where that comes from.

So today I will spend the day in bed and on the couch doing nothing, drinking lots of tea and not speaking.

My family hates it when I don’t speak, they find it spooky.

There will be crochet, and reading, and knitting, and maybe a shower. I need a pedicure but sitting around with bare feet for an hour or so might not be the best thing to do today. The boy need his hair cut.

We’ll see.

The day went mostly as I wanted which is great.

I even started writing before lunchtime! My husband got up rather early which always leads to me getting more done because then we can both start into the day earlier.

I ended up writing 1,100 words which makes me happy. I also changed the sheets, cleaned most of the house, made pizza, taught four students, did some more research on how to record the video podcast better (I started breakfast late because of it but it was ready early enough for the boy to leave for school on time), made music, watched some TV show with the boy in the evening, and went to bed almost on time.

Right now I’m having a sore throat and I hope I won’t get sick. I’m not quite sure if I should run today or not. Maybe only my usual 5K.

Other than that there will be writing, and music, and family, and maybe I’ll press the fabric for the dress I want to make, and I need to cut the boy’s hair, and force him to go shopping for clothes. He will probably want me to accompany him. Most of his sweatshirts are years old and he really needs something that looks a bit better put together for the internship next week.

I’m using this weekend as a kind of dress rehearsal for Easter break. This time I will attempt to not spend my days off sitting around reading and knitting with nothing to show for at the end. I wouldn’t mind taking a few days completely off if it wouldn’t make me so cranky every time I do it.

So I’ll be trying to make good use of my weekend.

And don’t fear, there will be sitting around and reading as well as being productive. Just, I’d like there to be more than just sitting and reading.

Yesterday wasn’t too bad until the evening.

I actually got out the door for my run at 9.30, something that never happens.

Took a shower and then my husband made me lunch at 11.15 because I needed to get to the mammogram afterwards.

Found the bus, wandered around a little because I didn’t find the right way at first but google maps helped a lot, and was early at the mammogram place,

The whole experience went faster than I thought it would, and while unpleasant it was not as unpleasant as I had come to expect from other people.

Went back home and then had basically spent all my oomph for the day. In the evening I saw that I had walked 12,000 steps so that might explain it.

I did practice and I did write (but only 390 words) and then I started watching „Frankie and Grace“ and since I hadn’t activated the timer on the wifi after that webinar extravaganza I continued watching until 11 pm.

I might have had a little less sleep than I need.

I also started obsessing about making myself a new cardigan ASAP. Of course I’ll spin the fiber first, as one does. Stay tuned. And of course this will be a quick and easy project, right?

I also tried to research equipment and such for video podcasting but didn’t find the information I need. I will have to try things out with whatever cameras and microphones I have around some time on the weekend. Another big project apparently.

Today will be cleaning, and pizza-making, and teaching (but not a lot), and maybe strength training (don’t hold your breath, that’s the one thing I haven’t been doing at all lately), and watching TV. Somewhere in there I will squeeze music and writing in.

Then I will go to bed too late and feel terrible tomorrow.

At least I re-activated the timer on the wifi…

So yesterday was a whirlwind of things. I ran 6 kilometers instead of my usual 5 (and actually ran for most of them, even, helped with making lunch, played all my instruments, did all the dishes on time, taught all the students, had a student show me his new electrical guitar, organized a meeting between him and my husband so that he can take electrical guitar lessons starting next month, and then I sat down to watch not one but three webinars in a row.

Yeah, I thought it a bit much as well. I did drop the third one after half an hour.

The first one was Orna Ross’ monthly thing about creative entrepreneurship and creativity. It’s funny, she keeps saying things like, „I know we covered a ton of material in this event, feel free to ask me about anything you didn’t understand,“ and I keep waiting for something I didn’t know before. So I’m recommending this class for people just starting out.

I haven’t stopped attending her webinars because I like her very much. Still, not the best use of my time.

Then there was a thing with Jessica Abel about focusing on your creative projects while living your regular life. I totally love what she is doing and writing and I would love to take her workshop but it’s not in the budget right now. I will just have to make do using her book.

And then I started watching something where Bryan Cohen was rewriting a book description live but by then I was not really able to take anything in anymore, it was past my usual bedtime and I need to focus on finishing a book first before thinking about marketing and such.

Then I found that we had two messages on voice mail for the landline. Both for my husband, of course. Ao I went over to the annex to tell him (my husband goes to bed much later than I but he doesn’t know how to check messages on the new phone; I get them to my mobile which is always on these days in case my mother-in-law needs help). Two friends of his were complaining that he hadn’t gotten in touch. This happens to him all the time. He didn’t check his email for two days and didn’t have time to answer right away for one, and the other one just complained that nobody ever answers the phone at our house. We haven’t answered the phone in decades. We do call back if you leave a message. Usually.

Then I went to bed.

Woke up at 5.15 from a dream, knocked a full glass of water over and was pretty awake. I did try to fall asleep again after mopping up most of the water with limited success. The lamp on my nightstand was standing in a puddle at one point, I just hope that it will continue working.

Today will be interesting enough, I’ll be having my first ever mammogram. For this I need to take a bus and go to a town that I don’t know very well. The appointment is right at lunchtime so I need to organize my day around that.

I really hope to go running regardless and to do all my usual things today which might even be possible because I’ll only be teaching two students.

Sorry for not putting links in, I’m already a little late in getting up to make breakfast. I guess this will just be one of those days.

So yesterday was all in all a pretty good day, my husband still feels mightily overwhelmed by everything, a feeling I can totally understand, I went tot the big supermarket and am starting to find my way around it better, and I didn’t write a single word all day but managed 1,000 words right before bed but the best news yesterday was the email the boy go at lunchtime.

We were sitting around making frantic plans about how he could spend the afternoon to get an internship after all when he looked at his emails on his phone and said, „I got the internship.”

One of the two places he had called last week that had told him to send his application in will take him. He’ll start on Monday and he’ll spend half of his Easter break working there as well.

I slept all night like a log, 8 1/2 blissful hours.

And now I’m a little late and need to hustle.

There will be all the usual Wednesday things today, including running and music and writing. I have a list. A long one.

But I am almost relaxed. Which is great.