Archives for August 2018

I’d say that I could get used to doing nothing but I know that I can’t. It’s time to get going again.

I woke up and had breakfast and all the usual and knitted a bit on the mystery shawl.

My husband wanted to make Greek food at home and we cooked for almost two hours:

That’s pasta with tomato sauce (tomatoes from our garden), meatballs, red beet salad (red beets from our garden, salad made from scratch and eggplant creme (eggplant from the yard as well). And then it was so hot that I didn’t really want to eat anything, something that doesn’t happen to me often.

And then I went out, bought a bag of gummy bears and ate it all. I did bribe the boy with more gummy bears and he finally agreed to empty the wastepaper baskets in his room. He said that the recycling made him all nostalgic, seems there were Christmas candy wrappers in there still. I suggested emptying the baskets weekly from now on. We’ll see how that goes.

Then I hung around knitting and reading and trying to make myself shower, practice or write to no avail until it was time for the first webinar of the day about developing a daily writing habit.

Just before the thing started it occurred to me that I already have a daily writing habit. Ahem. I am writing here on this blog daily and have been doing so for almost a year now. Duh.

I did get a lot of fiber carded so it wasn’t a waste.

Then I wanted to finally take a shower but my husband’s student showed up at the wrong time and I didn’t want to risk getting caught in my bathrobe in the hallway.

I sat around knitting and reading and elevating my foot and then it was time for the second webinar about kicking your inner critic to the curb. Also not all that helpful to me.

Then the boy and I watched some Star Trek and had dinner, then my husband wanted to talk at length as I was trying to wind down for bedtime and then I went to bed slightly too late.

I am hoping for today because today everything will be better. Of course.

I will finally take that shower, then go to the doctor again because I think I need more antibiotics. I’d like to clean the house because not cleaning it last week is showing and I don’t like it. We’ll be going out for lunch all three of us.

My husband is teaching this afternoon again and I will try to finally get my projects going, at least a little.

It is rather hot, though, and that makes things somewhat harder.

No gummy bears today.

Woke up from the alarm. My goal is to go to bed so early that I’ll wake up without it but that might take some time.

Managed to get to the dentist almost on time. When I left my husband wasn’t up yet and I didn’t have the time to leave him a note. Later it turned out that he was rather confused. Especially since I had left the living room window wide open.

My cavity was filled in quickly. It wasn’t exactly fun but I’m a big girl. Then I went to the bakery and the health food store since I was already out. And I knew that we were out of a few things again.

Went home, explained to my husband where I had been and sat down to knit. I even started reading a romance novel because I felt I needed a day off from everything.

When we talked about what to make for lunch it turned out that we were out of other things as well so I decided to go grocery shopping after all.

It is really hot at the moment and I was really tired and exhausted and my body is fighting the infection so that was fun.

Lunch was rice and dal again. (My husband said, „I could make chicken as well.“ I didn’t want to add anything. I just wanted something easy and soothing.)

I had big plans of writing and making music and sewing but found that I was just too low on energy to do anything.

So I sat and knitted and read and went online.

Taught a student at five and another at six, sat down with the boy to watch Star Trek and went to bed early.

I’m hoping for a bit more writing a sewing today. There will be no errands and no leaving the house. I will sit here with my foot up and rest.

I also signed up for not one but two webinars today, one about developing a daily writing habit and the other about kicking the inner critic to the curb. We’ll see how that goes. I’m planning to use the first one to card more merino. During the second one I’ll probably take notes like crazy.

And of course, listening to those will mean that I’ll be a totally different person afterwards who gets up in the morning and sits down to write with a big smile on her face.

Sure.

So yesterday I got up early after not enough sleep, had breakfast, walked with my husband, took a shower, ironed my skirt and went off to Munich. I left the whole pile of dishes from dinner and lunch for my husband. (Spoiler, they were still all there with more added in the evening but it was him who did them eventually.)

I met with Eliandhra and we had a great day. Sat in a café knitting, walked around (we did try to keep in the shade and I had planned a route that went along the Isar river a lot):

We went to a beer garden for Weißwurst’ for lunch (non-alcoholic beer for me because of the antibiotic):

Walked some more, went to a yarn shop as one does and then I went back home again because I had to teach another student.

Watched some Star Trek with the boy and went to bed slightly exhausted.

Today there will be the going to the dentist to get a cavity filled, and the teaching of more students and otherwise I’m planning to just sit there with my feet up in a cool room.

And then I’ll make a plan for August.