Well, at least I got some writing in before lunch

So, I went to bed on time but didn’t get enough sleep anyway because I had to get up at six to throw the boy out of bed for uni. I didn’t sleep all that well because I knew I had to get up in the morning and while I was pretty sure, an alarm on my phone would be mirrored to my watch while I slept I didn’t know.

Well, now I do. When in sleep mode – it doesn’t. I did wake up at 6.20 and woke him twenty minutes too late. He did arrive on time but he did not eat breakfast. Mea culpa. Next time I’ll do it differently.

I wrote morning pages but skipped yoga in favor of reading and having a more leisurely breakfast. Then I did some more knitting on the mystery knit-along, up to the point where I was done with counting and complicated stitches all to prepare myself for evening knitting in front of TV.

I did the dishes and decided to not go for a walk because the boy and I had planned to do bodyweight training in the evening. I listened to some meh Puccini and then sat down to write for half an hour. I’m not quite convinced of what I wrote then and also a bit unsure about how I wrote it so I guess it’ll take some more time to really get into the groove.

Then there was lunch, fried fish, potatoes, peas and carrots:

My husband had had a more strenuous morning than me, he went for a run and then cut the inside of the front hedge. Fortunately, his mother helped with the cleanup.

The boy came back home just in time for lunch so we could eat together and my new game controller came. Or rather, my two new controllers because I had been too impatient and ordered a second one, planning to cancel the order that would be sent off later. And I tried but they were in the exact same delivery.

We talked it over, I was all set to send the controller back but my husband decided to give it to the boy. While he does own a controller it’s pretty buggy and decrepit by now. But then it turned out that the Bluetooth on his computer is too slow for the wireless controller. But then I found out one can use it with a USB cable. So it might work after all.

Meanwhile I unpacked my controller, it connected with my computer with no problem, I started the game I had wanted to play with it and – nothing. The boy helped with troubleshooting but we couldn’t make it work. It did work with Steam and with other games just not with Gris. But look, how pretty:

I started researching but had to stop because of work. One of my Tuesday students had asked for an earlier slot a the only one I could offer was Monday at 2.30. Ugh. But it turned out to be a very good thing, he’ll be on a school trip next week and the week after is fall break.

So I taught some students, had an unexpected break when a student didn’t show where I did some more controller research, then taught some more. The missing student turned up an hour late and I had to send them home, there was no break I could use to teach her because I was teaching a new singing student.

I taught until almost 7, then waited for the boy because of bodyweight training until I really didn’t feel like it anymore, we decided to skip training, I tackled the controller problem again and managed to make it work, hurray!

Then I ate dinner and sat there, all slow and sloth-like for an hour.

I started writing this post, did the dishes, wrote for another twenty minutes, did Duolingo and went to bed.