That’s the best I can do most days.
I had gone to bed too late again. Yes, I know this is boring. Now imagine living it. I keep making the same mistake over and over. Boring.
I did get up, wrote morning pages, did yoga and meditated. I think for March I’ll change to a different yoga playlist again. The one I’m doing now is very slow and gentle. It’s nice. But it might be time to do something just a little more challenging again. I mean, challenging for someone who is not in shape.
Oh, and speaking of shape, the night before I found out why my feet are getting worse. I had ordered some insoles from the internet because a friend of a friend had claimed they made her plantar fasciitis go away. I put them in my too wide house slippers. My feet had been getting worse and it took ages before I realized that the pain was in a different spot than before. Huh, I wondered, why are they hurting in that spot? Well, that would be the insoles’ fault.
I switched back to the custom-made insoles and not-as-wide slippers right away – relief! And this morning I tried around and I might have found a solution that is padding the wide slippers enough that I can use the custom-made insoles with them. Because the old pair of slippers is rather slippery with half the soles missing.
My husband and I ate breakfast, I crocheted and starte weaving in a few ends, I changed the sheets on my bed, put many small stacks of clean laundry away, and cleaned the house. I didn’t finish the cleaning, in part because my husband asked me to help him with making lunch. Lunch was very good:
I taught two students, had a break because the next student canceled and used that break to vacuum the old part of the house. I did not get around to clean the washbasins and toilets but I did take a wet rag and clean the dust and grime off the bathtub.
I taught two more students, including one who wanted to play „Summertime“ and I got to impress him with the remains of my jazz singing talents. Oh, speaking of jazz singing, I found that one of the former members of the vocal jazz quintet that I used to belong to has a solo performance coming up in two weeks or so. I’m tempted to go and see her but then I’ll probably not feel like it in the moment. Also, it’s always weird to see people I used to share a stage with perform while I am sitting in the audience. I mean, I gave that up willingly and for reasons but still.
Some time that afternoon I also managed to buy the sheet music for another Elena Kats-Chernin piece, „Late Spring“:
It was originally written for string quartet and voice but there is a piano and voice version as well. I had to dig it up on an Australian website. I hope I’ll be able to play it. Well, eventually. My voice is feeling a little better but not up to singing something like that.
I ate dinner, played some silly iPad games, started writing this post, did the dishes and went on a Zoom call.
Today I hope to finish cleaning, take a shower and go out with my husband in the evening.
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