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One of the few, truly free days of the year and I woke up with a sore throat and a runny nose. So I sat around doing nothing and feeling sorry for myself all day.

There was some knitting, all of which I pulled out again because I made so many mistakes, there was a quick lunch (that would have needed way more salt):

A friend told me to go for a walk for the fresh air because it would make me feel better. She was right but the only thing I could make myself do was got there:

I went and got some throat lozenges that I ended up not taking, also on top of the bag of chips I ate right after lunch I also ate half a bag of mini grissini sticks, half a bag of licorice, a bag of marshmallow mice, a small chocolate bar and around 10 I decided that having a beer would make me feel better. (Well, it did but only briefly.)
I then proceeded to watch a second episode of C-drama and finished the novel I was reading to turn the lights out at 1.15…

Well. I am feeling a little better today and will now go and deal with the mess I left for myself yesterday.
The thing is, I can’t even be angry at myself for making bad choices because all those things did actually make me feel better in the moment.

On the other hand it is high time to re-install a few of the rules I developed when I was losing weight. Like, „every bite counts“ or my favorite, „when in doubt, no“. That last one is for when you sit there thinking, „should I eat this or shouldn’t I“? Since you’re debating with yourself it isn’t all that important (otherwise you would have eaten it already) and by asking the question you already know you shouldn’t.

Anyways, today will be loads of fun for sure!

I slept until I woke before the alarm but I suspect it’s more habit at this point than anything else. I wrote morning pages and woke the boy and just before I was about to do yoga my husband showed up. Turns out his stomach is still on daylight savings time.

I did yoga anyway (yeah!) and had breakfast.

We talked at length, mostly about last weekend. I made all the plans and then changed them. I did the dishes and then I went to the health food store. Where I then proceeded to forget liverwurst.

I unpacked the groceries while my husband was deep in veggies for lunch, he made asparagus risotto:

I hda an extensive list but I was also exhausted. But while my after lunch slump was deep and hard I did then go and do a few things from my list. Then I ate dinner, taught my lone student of the day, started writing this post and was about to just nod off, sitting at the kitchen table.

I made myself a cup of herbal tea, did my foot exercises, made a list for today, watched an episode of „Everybody loves me“ and went to bed.

Today feels like the very first day of fall break. A bit late for that but well…

I had turned the lights out too late again, slept well and woke up before the alarm. And then I continued lounging in bed until I didn’t have time for my morning routine.

Breakfast was a little shorter than usual because there was so much stuff to do. Husband decided to ditch the bolognese sauce he had made the day before because he thought the ground beef was a bit off. So he started over again.

I did manage to vacuum the old part of the house and clean the sink and toilet in the main bathroom, wiped the bathtub down, started a load of laundry, went to the health food store for more provisions, came back, tried decalcifying the, um, thingies at the tip of the bathroom faucets, sorry I’m too lazy to look up how they’re called. That did not went as smoothly as expected so I decided to just put a new one in the sink faucet, put the one that was in the sink into the bathtub faucet and ordered half a dozen more.

Then I helped my husband a bit with cooking and took a shower while he was walking to the train station to pick our guests up.

And then it was all talk and people for the rest of the day. We made lasagna and salad and talked:

After lunch I started doing the dishes and our female guest helped me while the men went downstairs to set all the synths up. Female guest and I stayed behind.

After a bit of talk she went out for a walk and I folded laundry and hung the load I had started in the morning. She came back earlier than expected because the weather wasn’t nice and then we sat in the kitchen making the kind of conversation that people make who don’t know each other well and don’t have any shared interests.

I did get a lot of knitting done.

Then there was dinner, more talking, and then my husband took one look at me and declared that I had reached the point where I can’t people anymore, no hard feelings but … To be honest, I had reached the point of no people, no not even someone I like, please, don’t look at me some time around Thursday afternoon but well, I always was a very well behaved child.

Husband and I did the dishes together, then he gathered the wine and both guests and led them to the annex so I could have some peace and quiet.

I did Duolingo, started writing this post, and then went to bed with a book, a beer and some chocolate.

Today male guest wants to play some Satie for me, his wife is meeting a friend in Munich and there will be more music-making in our basement.

Which was kind of restful.

Now, mind you, when I say nothing I don’t actually mean nothing.

I did wake up before the alarm despite turning the lights out at midnight and – skipped the morning routine. I filled the boy’s water bottle and made sure he hadn’t fallen asleep and then lounged in bed for too long.

There was breakfast and then my husband needed to get going because he and his friend had plans to go to Wörthsee again. They walked the whole way around it and went out for lunch.

Meanwhile I fell into a major slump and spent my morning reading and playing silly games. I didn’t even do the breakfast dishes. I did decide I needed more potato chips and chocolate and walked to the health food store for it.

Before that I finally tried my new pair of jeans. When I had ordered them I had been sure they would be too tight but, well, look for yourself:

I still need to figure out how to style them but I’m thinking tops that I usually wear with skirts. Anyway, very exciting.

I came back, took care of all the tea things from breakfast and pulled the frozen pizza out:

I ate, I sat, I read. Then the boy came home and got some pizza as well, after that my husband showed up ten minutes before he was due to teach and told me a bit about his morning.

I taught two students, found that I could attend one of the four monthly Zoom things that I subscribe to live and so I did that and knitted while listening. I’m happy to say that I’m finished with brioche for the moment.

After that I went to the kitchen again where my husband was busy making tomato sauce for today’s lunch. He was not happy, very hungry and exhausted and had wanted to talk with me but I had my door closed. Since I didn’t want to eat dinner while being talked at I went and vacuumed the annex. When my husband was finished the kitchen looked like this:

I decided I needed a beer. The boy came downstairs, saying he wanted to take a shower and that the wifi was slow just when I was starting this post. I declared that I wanted to do the dishes first, tell him when I was done and then I would restart the router while he took his shower.

At this point it was 9 pm.

I did all those things, made a mental list for today, did Duolingo, watched some C-drama while enjoying my beer and went to bed.

Today will be extra fun with the guests arriving. And, funny that, turns out when you have houseguests they also need beds to sleep in and towels and food for more than one meal. Oh, and I definitely need to vacuum the old part of the house and wave a rag in the general direction of the bathrooms.

I still don’t know.

The boy was feeling awful yesterday and stayed home with a raging cold.

And just wanted to crawl back into bed all day. Nevertheless I did the usual, morning pages, 1 1/2 rows of knitting, folding laundry, walking to the nearby supermarket because it turned out we didn’t need as much as I thought we would and then spinach, potatoes and fried eggs for lunch:

I managed to miss the window for taking a shower before teaching yet again but since the second student of the day canceled (also sick) I took my shower then. I could not use my usual bathroom because my husband had put a pillow in the bathtub to soak and promptly forgot all of it so I had to use the annex shower. It is small and cramped and tends to run out of hot water before one is ready to stop.

Then I hung up the load of laundry my husband had started earlier, taught another student, then had a one-hour break because another student couldn’t make it because of the trains not running where I ate dinner and then I taught two more students.

My husband only had one student all in all and when I came back into the kitchen after teaching all the dishes were done already. Nice.

I talked with the boy while he made himself dinner and then I started writing this post. I watched some C-drama while knitting, read a bit and went to bed.

If I get really sick today we’ll call the houseguests over the weekend off. So, we’ll see.