I woke up early but at least I had gone to bed on time. I went to bed while the boy was doing the dishes, win! And it turns out him clanging pots and pans doesn’t bother me at all when I fall asleep. Now, in the morning, about an hour before I wake up, well, that’s a different story. Tiptoe past my room and – bam! – I’m awake.
I had set my alarm a little earlier so I could check on the boy who had plans to go to uni after a night without sleep. He was still awake when I checked but turned out he was way too tired to go anywhere or pay attention. Then I picked up my phone and had to skip the morning routine because I ran out of time. Sigh.
My husband came for breakfast and started the wood stove again, it was still very, very cold so I was grateful for that. While he was waiting for the water to boil I finally finished Clue 1 of the mystery knit-a-long. I counted the stitches to see if everything was alright and – the stitch count was off.
Long story short, I had made a mistake in row 63 of 220, had made a 2-row stripe instead of a 6-row stripe, and so I had a problem. I was very proud of myself for not immediately ripping the whole thing back. Instead I took a picture, posted it in the MKAL spoiler thread and asked for advice. Because there are knitters in the group who have test-knit the whole pattern they could tell me what to do. And they did. The best solution is to just knit on for a few more rows, apparently the stripe color doesn’t matter all that much.
Now I have to decide how much it bugs me. Especially since I also botched the edge stitches. Sorry, that I can’t post a picture but – spoilers. I did cast on for my third Lauriel sweater, though. Nothing much to see there so far, I only got five rows in. And had to start the whole thing over twice because counting stitches and setting up an unusual ribbing pattern doesn’t really mesh with re-hashing the argument you had with your husband two days ago. At length. I think we reached a new understanding, though, so at least it was worth it.
All that knitting and counting took quite some time so I posted that sad excuse for a daily post and then started researching videos that teach how to fix your sleep schedule.
And then – another proud moment – I pulled the laptop out, sat down at my new writing desk and fixed the formatting problem on the novel so that I can give my husband an ebook copy. Yeah!
Lunch was leftovers, bifteki and bulgur in tomato sauce. Some veggies would have been nice but my husband spent the morning finally making the recordings he had wanted to do on the weekend and that was more important. He had spent two days trying to get the recording software to record more than one track at a time and failed. The night before I had tried helping him and though he told me to just leave it alone after a while my brain wouldn’t let it go. At least it’s fixed now. We have had that exact same problem before and even remembered the solution but not where to click to get to it. Very frustrating.
Anyways, obligatory lunch pic:
I took a shower right after lunch because I was seeing a potential new student first thing and wanted my hair to be as dry as possible. Which turned out to be not very dry. The student is the sister of another one of my students. She is really nice and will start next week.
Then there was all the teaching. It was fun after two weeks off. And I also started scheduling the first two make-up lessons for the week I was in the hospital.
Determined to not slump down after work as usual and also remembering my do-something-different challenge I made myself my very first ever grilled cheese sandwich:
The boy has been making himself pan-fried grilled cheese a lot lately and since I’m a bit tired of eating the same exact thing for dinner every day and since I am not a big fan of white bread when it’s not toasted I gave it a try. It might not look much but it was excellent.
Then I played my silly games for a bit, started writing this post, skipped the dishes, did Duolingo, watched an episode of „Handsome Siblings“ while working on the cardigan, did some quick yoga and went to bed.
Today will be another busy one but then Tuesdays always are.
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