Archives for April 2020

I woke up before six and did my morning routine slowly. Did not get around to writing in the morning, though.

There was breakfast and just when I thought I’d read for another ten minutes before starting to write my husband showed up. Conversations were had. We decided to go on our respective runs early so that there would be less people out. And it worked. But. The boy was late and didn’t get downstairs before my husband and I left.

Before then my morning had been rather leisurely:

I had big plans for the day but first there was running and walking:

The halfway point.

Random parts with trees.

I ran and walked for 80 minutes in total, 5 minutes each of warm-up and cool-down with intervals of 3 minutes of running and 2 minutes of walking. I did 9.51 kilometers and that was rather fast for me. Back home there was a bit of nothing and then I took a shower and gave myself a m much-needed pedicure and helped to make lunch:

I had a hard time to get going again after lunch and mostly read and did online jigsaw puzzles. I did do the dishes on time, though. I’d say that earns me some bonus points. I also watched a bit of the lecture on plot I got.

And then I got my own email about the new podcast episode – a day too late. Seems I put the wrong date on the scheduled post. Oops.

At four I met my husband again and we looked at the greenhouse that had suffered from that hail last year and some more storms and such. My husband worked on getting the roof panels back up while I figured out how to repair the sliding door. I’m happy to report that the sliding door is back where it belongs and is actually sliding open and closed.

Then more puzzles. No writing. Bad author.

At six I met the boy for a movie palooza, okay, just one movie. We watched „Isn’t it romantic“ while eating potato chips and ice cream. Somehow my husband did not want to join us. And then we added an episode of the animated Star Trek series that was written by Walter Koenig. Which I spent spinning.

Then it definitely felt too late for writing, I started writing this post, pulled out my bullet journal and got ready for bed.

Today there will be all kinds of things, sewing and knitting and writing and spinning and some more Star Trek. I decided not to record a podcast episode today, I really want a day off. And then another one and another one but I don’t think I’ll get those.

I woke up at 5.34, spent a little more time in bed and got up at six. I did not go online then because of that pesky timer I put on the wifi. Funny, how that was the first day I did my complete morning routine and wrote 700 words.

Then I spent some time getting the podcast up and communicating with students. I started doing the breakfast dishes early enough for a change and actually managed to do all of the weekly cleaning in time for helping to make lunch. Which was delicious pizza:

We sacrificed one of our precious packets of dry yeast for this. Since I need the others for making Hefezopf for Easter there won’t be pizza until there is again yeast in the stores. I have to say I was very happy to have bought dry yeast for emergencies. Usually I buy it fresh and we always have it in the fridge but there is none to be had at the moment. I know, first world problems. Maybe I’ll pull out my bread baking book and try my hand at sourdough. I’ve never done it before but I think I might have some rye flour around somewhere.

After lunch I did the dishes right away without taking a break and then I prepared my ukulele lesson of the day and told the world about the podcast episode being out. Then I taught four students over video chat. In between I scanned sheet music with notes so the students would know where to put the circles and fingerings and wrote more emails.

After my last student I had planned to do strength training but by then I didn’t really have any energy left. So I just did ten pushups with my hands on the kitchen counter and ten squats and called it good.

The boy and I watched a really good episode of Voyager and another one of the animated series that would have been good if it hadn’t been so sexist.

Then I spent too much time reading twitter, started writing this post and went to bed about an hour too late.

Today there will be more writing (I hope), a longer run/walk, prep for the next podcast episode, some online learning (I want to watch the third part of the sleeve workshop and a bit of the course on Affinity Photo.), some sewing, some knitting and some spinning.

The big plan for the evening is to watch „Isn’t it romantic?“ with the boy.I thought something funny would be a good idea but we both reserve the right to switch to something else if we don’t like it. It has been ages since I watched anything not-scifi so we’ll see. Part of me just wants to play it safe and rewatch „Ghost Busters“ or „Back to the Future“. We’ll see.

I texted the student who wanted an in-person lesson next Tuesday and canceled. I did offer her video lessons but she remains disinterested.

So, how are you guys holding up?