I woke up from the alarm but was slow and while I did make a valiant attempt at the morning routine I did wander off after one page of morning pages. I was too pre-occupied with the new TV and some other admin stuff.
So I was still lounging in bed when my husband showed up for breakfast. We talked and I knitted and then he asked me to help him order a King Crimson t-shirt and with one thing and another I was late with basically everything.
My husband thought that cooking a bit Greek feast would be a great idea, so I went off to the supermarket again for Brussel’s sprouts and green beans, bread, potato chips and licorice. I was in a rather cranky mood because I knew setting the new TV up would take a lot of time and what I had planned for the day was writing and a Zoom call with some writer friends.
My husband did not want to start setting the TV up before lunch. And then cooking took ages and I helped chop things and make tzatziki and in the end we ate lunch an hour later than usual:
Not pictured is the tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes.
Next I canceled the Zoom meeting. We were already rather late, my husband likes to take a nap after lunch and all that meant we wouldn’t start with the new TV before 3.30.
Setting the new TV up did involve rearranging half his studio, including cleaning quite a bit and at one point I was sitting there waiting while he was ripping a wooden box from a chest of drawer that had contained his guitar effect pedals and had been glued on.
We also moved his computer back to a different desk and had to go and get several different cables to connect things. I did the automatic setup twice and had to figure out how to mirror his computer display on the new TV. Next up we need to buy two new cables (I think) to connect the TV with the stereo and with a wall socket and then we should be set.
The whole thing took 2 1/2 hours. After, the boy showed up, ready to leave for a friend’s house and asked for help with his bike. He had a flat tire and the last time he had tried pumping it up himself but had failed. The trick it to open the valve a bit, by the way. So I went outside and inflated his tires.
Then I had one of those terminal Saturday slumps. It took me another hour before I managed to sit down in front of TV with potato chips and beer to watch some C-drama. I ate half a pint of ice cream, then slumped some more, decided to let the dishes be dirty, tidied the kitchen, started writing this post and took a shower way too late.
So, clearly today I will do all the things I didn’t get done all week. Nods. Sure.
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