Archives for May 2019

I didn’t really get anything done without being idle. Well, mostly.

I woke up around six again, without an alarm for once because I had aspirations of sleeping in. Trying to troubleshoot the blog had made got to bed way late yet again.

As usual I had lots of plans and wanted to write and spin and clean and do strength training. But first I tried to fix the problems with my blog. There had been maintenance two days earlier and that had led to me not being able to upload images to the blog. And every post I tried to publish that had images in it didn’t work.

So I spent quite a bit of time in the morning trying to find out what had gone wrong until the blog didn’t work at all. And I wasn’t able to get into the backend as well. Fun!

Also the last backup I had was from 2017. That had me a little worried.

So I helped with making lunch way too late. There might have been raised voices and in all the excitement a glass was broken and the asparagus cooked for too long. Still, lunch did taste great as always.

(Imagine a picture of white asparagus, potatoes and ham with sauce hollandaise. I posted it to instagram. I’m freejazzmama on there.)

I did knit a gauge swatch for the boy’s scarf, decided to use the bigger needles and promptly cast on with the smaller ones. Which turned out to be an excellent idea.

After lunch I asked the boy to help me think through the blog problem. We did find a possible solution but after that nothing worked anymore.

So I wandered off to spin in front of TV but the tennis match went into overtime and so I had to wait for an hour before the Giro was on. I did spin a bit but my heart wasn’t in it.

I did try to regroup and rearrange my to-do list but then wandered off to the computer again and suddenly realized how I had broken the blog. (Pro tip: when you change something in the config file of a WordPress blog make sure that it’s the right file for that blog. Not the one for your husband’s blog.)

Also, I realized that between the backup and the files in the blogging app I had all my old posts. And once the blog was working again I made a new backup right away. Phew.

All in all it seems I need to take half a day or so to sit down and commune with customer support at my web host.

Rearranging my list didn’t really help because I had run out of time in the day so we ate dinner. There was a minor bread crisis but I solved it with putting some buns from the freezer into the oven.

The boy and I watched some Voyager while I started the scarf for real.

(Here you have to imagine a picture of the fledgling scarf sitting on my knee.)

And the I read a bit, made a list for today and went to bed.

Today will be a pretty full day. The plan is to not make pizza but to clean and to go grocery shopping for the dinner on Sunday and then to teach all the students and go to a concert afterwards. In between I need to do email, write half a novel and a newsletter or something like that. Oh, and set the bullet journal up for June and make goals for June.

Though I have to say that goal-setting didn’t really work the last two months, things went a bit out of hand.

I’m not quite sure if I should enroll in a goal-setting course or just give up on goal-setting altogether like my husband thinks I should.

Woke up from the alarm, meditated and surfed the web until I was a little late making breakfast.

The boy was a little late too so that turned out okay.

Started reading a new book because I had finished „The Labyrinth Index“ the night before. Really good book but I had a bit of trouble recalling everything that had happened in the nine books before. That’s the problem when you wait too long to read your books. I started „Das Mädchen vom Film“ bei Andrea Instone. And like it so much that I was almost done with it by the end of the day.

Talked with my husband over his breakfast. Dishes and such. I finally wove the ends of my Owligan in and washed it.

I decided to go grocery shopping early because Thursday will be a public holiday, so no grocery shopping. And Wednesdays are for exercise. So I walked all the way to the bigger supermarket in the rain. I wore a pair of jeans for the first time all month because I didn’t want my dress to get wet. I changed into that for teaching.

My husband made lunch without my help. The boy had planned to have lunch with classmates but came back home anyway because his plans were canceled. They did come to our house later to work on those chess pieces. Interestingly, my husband had made lunch for the boy even though he didn’t know he’d show. Intuition is a fine thing:

I taught a handful of students, then had dinner and some more chocolate and almonds and cheese.

Went to bed a little late again.

Today there will be walking and quite a bit of teaching. We’ll see what else I will get done.

Woke up at 5.30 and promptly fell asleep again. When he alarm went off I did actually meditate for five minute – rather fidgety – and wrote my morning pages. And then I spent ten minutes staring at the novel, correcting a word or expression here and there and then wondering where I had wanted this scene to go. It will come to me eventually, I guess. If not I’ll make up something else.

Then breakfast. I spent the time before my husband showed up making a new collection on my ebook reader with all the writing books on it. It is a bit ridiculous how much time and energy I spend on organizing my reading. Books get put into the bullet journal and on Goodreads and I order books and write the details down and put them in collections and delete them once I’ve read them. This is something that I only started seeing when I was less online in March.

But then I’m reading so much that a little book management is necessary. I only started cataloging my books when I bought the same book twice for the first time. These days with everything being an ebook that doesn’t usually happen anymore because Amazon warns me that I already bought the book before.

My husband got up and we rejoiced over the result of the EU elections.

Then he decided to skip running in favor of yard work and I went for a walk:

It was wonderful to be moving again. I itched to run but I guess I better wait another week or so. I have reached the point where I often forget the bum leg, though. I take that as a good sign.

Then I went to the tea shop, two different bakeries and the health food store. I came home and helped my husband make lunch and then we realized that with all my shopping I had forgotten to get parmesan. So I went out again to get some more. And gummy bears, as one does.

Lunch was tasty:

We’re still talking about Sunday lunch, though.

Then I sat in the kitchen doing nothing until I was almost late getting ready for teaching. Oops. I might have taught with dripping wet hair yet again. I need a bit more replenishing it seems before I’m back to normal. I’m never quite sure what this ‚normal‘ actually is, I get the feeling things are always off and almost never ‚normal‘.

I taught a handful of students who all felt as limp and unenergetic as I. I think we are all looking forward to Pentecost break.

Then the boy and I did some bodyweight training, a bit grudgingly, and had Brezn for dinner. After which I did the massive washing up and went to bed early.

Today there will be, um, teaching. Maybe a little spinning. Not much more.

Woke up around six again, read the internet until breakfast and „The Labyrinth Index“ afterwards. Knitted a bit.

Then my husband showed up and we talked and did the dishes and the boy was late so we decided to go vote early. Which was a very good idea, there were barely any people there when we got there. I just hope that there were more people voting later. You know the drill, voting is important.

With the most important thing out of the way we walked back home to find the boy coming down for his breakfast. It turned out that his classmates would not come over to whittle some more chess pieces. They rescheduled for Tuesday.

So, an almost empty Sunday then. It’s funny, I have spent a whole week doing mostly nothing and I still feel like I need more downtime. Maybe I’m getting used to it. The leg continues to improve, by the way. There were times yesterday when I forgot there was a problem. Which is good.

Then my husband had this idea of making veal cutlets. I approved. With homemade gnocchi. I like eating those too. But making them stresses me out a little. But things went well and lunch was exquisite:

Then a lot of dishes and after that I retreated to the smallest and darkest room of the house to watch the Giro and spin:

First I plied what I had spun the day before and then I started spinning for my husband’s next sweater. And I’m thinking that the spinning wheel might actually be good for rehabbing my calf muscle. Which meshes perfectly with the current spinning project. The only downside is that I am still not sewing anything even though I really want more clothes. I might have to find a way to watch the bike race while sewing.

I hung up a load of laundry and helped my mother-in-law order something on the internet and then the boy and I had junk food for dinner. (I just looked it up but there is no such thing as an „Erdnussflip“ outside of Germany, it seems. Think peanut flavored corn puff thingies.) No nutrition whatsoever but they fit the mood and the boy had bought some to share with his friends.

We watched an episode of „Star Trek: Voyager“ that was really good but then had to refrain from watching another one because the boy still had school stuff to do.

I did another pile of dishes and went to bed early again.

Today there will be teaching and maybe a walk and strength training. I’m not well enough to resume running but I think walking should be alright. I also want to prepare my lessons for the week and maybe spin a little. We’ll see.