At least I took some time to rest?

Or rather play silly iPad games until my hand hurt.

Let’s see. I woke up still super low on energy and decided to skip my morning routine in favor of reading. I still had faint hope of fitting yoga in at one point. (Spoiler: I did not fit yoga in.)

I wanted to do all the cleaning and change the sheets on my bed and change to the summer duvet but instead I did everything very slowly and was paralyzed by the knowledge that I’d go out for lunch. As one does.

My husband has been missing his weekly lunch dates with his friend. Said friend moved to Spain and no-one else wants to go out for lunch every Friday so occasionally the two of us go. To the Greek restaurant. Which cut into my cleaning time.

I was very proud of not drinking the offered free ouzo but still ordered a beer:

I had souvlaki, gyros, tomato rice, tzatziki, a bit of salad and a pita bread. And a beer. This will become important later.

Afterwards I went to the supermarket across the street for the chocolate I forgot to buy the day before. Was it a dire chocolate emergency? Not at all. We still have plenty of dark chocolate at home, only not the kind I craved. Also, I was cranky because I hadn’t gotten anything done all morning. I had hoped to finish the cleaning in the morning and do some sewing in the afternoon.

When we came home I talked with the boy a bit and we measured his window for a bit of mosquito netting. His room under the rood is super hot in the summer. If he leaves the window open he’ll get eaten by bugs so he needs something to prevent that.

I took a break after eating only a third of the chocolate (such restraint!), taught my two delightful students, was totally committed to at least start the cleaning or something but instead just – sat there.

I knew that I don’t get anything done the rest of the day if I drink alcohol at lunchtime. I still did it. Dumb move.

At least the boy and I met up to watch another episode of „Dead Boy Detectives“. Episode 6 did not disappoint.

And then I sat there playing more games, not really wanting to go to bed and leave the day a failure but also totally aware that it was already too late to watch something else. I did not start this post, I did not make a list for today or anything.

I’d say I’ll do better today but that already looks iffy. And yes, I had a hard week and need rest but not like that.

Oh, and since a lot of you have asked why we don’t just get a dishwasher (since dreading the washing up plays such a huge role in my day to day life), well, back when we had a dishwasher things weren’t actually better. Since everybody here is always cooking everything from scratch we need a lot of pots and pans in a day and there is just no room in our kitchen for more than four pans and seven pots, also we have quite a few things in regular rotation that can’t go in the dishwasher (like pottery mugs and wooden spoons and spatulas) and dishwashers smell horrible and leave an awful residue on everything.

But you’re right, I should stop complaining, it’s getting old.