And a little better again

I’m still measuring the days in increments of having my voice back or not. The answer, by the way, is ‚not‘ but I do feel a little better.

I woke up at 6.50, read a bit and then did the complete morning routine, journaling, yoga and meditation. Mind you, the yoga was ten minutes of mostly lying on my back and my meditation is a total of three minutes squeezed in between other things but at least I’m doing something. And the yoga was great for my poor tight hips and hamstrings. And yes, my feet still hurt. Plantar fasciitis continues to be no fun.

I did finish the second sleeve on my husband’s sweater, sewn bind-off and all:

 

The knitting needle was an accident, I had the sweater in my lap, leaned over to get my tapestry needle and heart a weird sound that turned out to be the needle trying to bend over the edge of the table. The table won. And I took so much care! But that’s always a bit of a problem with wooden needles this thin.

After this picture was taken I a) ordered a new needle and b) started the neckband. Fortunately I had another needle the same size around.

Then I did most of the rest of my morning routine aka as doing the dishes and such, changed the sheets on my bed, started cleaning the house and spent every minute in between researching acid reflux diet. Apparently, mint tea is out. Also chocolate but I’m not sure I can go that far. Yesterday I tried drinking sage tea all day but, um, I won’t do that again. Wow, is that bitter! I had to force myself getting it down.

At least lunch was tasty:

The boy had actually gone to university so did not eat with us.

Then there was some light teaching, one student canceled because they were sick and I canceled the singing lesson of the day.

Ate dinner, read some more, started reading a new book after finishing the one before. I have two more Sarina Bowen books to read until I run out and have to wait for the next one that gets published.

I started writing this post, wondered why nobody had pointed out that the last two days every post had had a typo in the heading, updated the blog backend, gave up on dishes, watched some C-drama while knitting the neckband and went to bed.

Just for fun here is how my Duolingo looked on Thursday evening:

And here it is after I did a lesson:

And yes, that is a 1,172 day streak. Not sure what I will do in the future because now I’m actually completely finished with their Chinese course. I still get words to practice but there isn’t anything new. Well, apart from practicing Chinese characters.

I am really looking forward to having the weekend off. I still need to do a little more cleaning and I’m planning to finally mend and alter two of my husband’s sweaters but that’s mostly it. What are your plans for the weekend?