New month! New drama!

I could have done without the drama. It wasn’t big and it’s all sorted now.

Since I had gone to bed too late yet again, woke up from the alarm and actually did my morning routine. I’d say the new „no phone before breakfast“-rule is working – and it is – but I still picked it up and managed to buy a 91 cent ebook before doing anything else. Still practicing.

I did do my complete, full morning routine. Phew. And made breakfast before my husband showed up.

Then it turned out that he was still very angry at me for snapping at him the night before.

I did all the usual morning things and then finally made jam. My husband had volunteered washing the berries and getting them ready for jam-making. And had been very surprised when a game of soccer with overtime was not enough to finish that task. Before I went to bed I had added the sugar to the berries, stirred it all and put it in the basement until the next day.

I forgot to take a picture but we got 5 glasses of jam.

Meanwhile my husband got crankier and crankier. I did bodyweight training. Then I waited for lunch. And waited some more. At one point we started arguing about the night before and all those things that pile up when you have been together for 3 decades. The argument continued through lunch, always super fun:

We talked and raised out voices and cried at various points complete with several attempts of each of us to leave the room to eat in peace, each of them abandoned in favor of talking it out.

We ended the conversation shaken but with a new understanding of the problem. I think.

Then I took a break and ate some chocolate. And took a last-minute shower that gave me a couple great ideas for a blurb for my novel. I hope what I wrote down very hastily in my notes app makes sense because by then I was cutting it rather close to the start of teaching.

I only taught from 3 to 6, was very determined to make good use of the evening and not procrastinate. The only things still on my list were the email to the piano tuner, the dishes, Chinese and watching something. Also, finishing the cast-on for Clue 2.

But. I ran out of energy. Did the dishes, Chinese and watched something and then went off to bed.

So let’s hope for way less drama today. And some more good ideas, I won’t mind those.