I went to bed at midnight again and that overshadowed the whole day. I was very tired. And I can confirm that drinking any amount of alcohol at any point in the day makes my sleep less restful. Yeah.
Since I was so tired and stressed out I did not do my morning routine. I find that I skip it most often on days where I need it the most but then I’ve complained about this enough.
I did finish the crochet blanket, ends are woven in and all but I didn’t take a picture.
I had an ambitious list that included taking a shower and exercising but again I didn’t feel like it. Did I already tell you that my knees have started hurting again? I really should exercise again. Not today, though.
Me not getting adequate sleep again sparked a slightly heated conversation about executive function. My husband can’t shake the feeling that if I just knew how good it feels to get a grip on life I’d just do it. Right. Very helpful advice, thanks. So I went and bought the book „Dirty Laundry. Why adults with ADHD are so ashamed and what we can do to help“. I’ll make him read it eventually.
My husband made a new dish. The Italian teacher he likes best on YouTube had talked about it and so he had looked for a recipe:
Doesn’t look like much, I know. It’s pasta with potatoes and provolone cheese. He used ditalini pasta. It did taste very good but a bit too rich almost.
I only had a short break before my first student, taught straight through to 6 including two of my Monday students. One of them had broken their leg over the weekend, poor thing.
In order to get a grip on my evening I made an actual list with the things I wanted to do and the times I wanted to do them on the suggestion of a friend. Well, in a way that was a big success. In another way I lost an hour somewhere along the way. I had put half an hour for unexpected things in my schedule but not a whole hour. Still.
I talked to the boy who wants to make onigiri soon and we also talked about baking. He’s interested in learning how to cook. Also, I told him about my rule back in the day when I was losing weight that I could only eat sweet things if I made them myself. So no store-bought ice cream or cake, just homemade. Which meant I wasn’t really feeling deprived because I still could have them but the barrier to stuffing my face with sweets was quite a bit higher. I mean, I was still eating chocolate every day but only really dark chocolate and not as much. Which I find much easier when there’s less sugar in it.
And he is interested in trying that rule out himself. Which means I’ll buy the ingredients for muffins today.
I talked with the Wednesday students about me not teaching the week after next, only two more batches of students to inform. I did decide to give myself grace for being stressed, that’s just natural.
Oh, and I derailed myself by getting inspired to look at yarn for the MKAL again. My subconscious had been busy combining colors in the back of my mind so right before bedtime I went and made a decision and ordered the yarn. Now the question is: how will the colors mandarin and cerise look net to each other in real life?
Stay tuned.
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