I woke up early after only seven hours of sleep yet again, wrote my morning pages and some new words on the novel-in-progress and decided to skip yoga because I was lazy.
There must have been the usual breakfast and talking with husband and such but I don’t really remember at this point. I did the breakfast dishes and then we were scheduled to mount the new living room light.
Which we did. Not without frustration, of course, the place where one has to put the screws in to close the light are in a place where it’s really hard to reach. I tried a couple of times because my fingers are way narrower than my husband’s and still the screws fell down to the floor three or four times before we finally succeeded.
So yeah, we have a new ceiling light in the living room. But boo, the remote control for the light doesn’t work and so we have a glaring, white eye-searing amount of light there that we can’t dim at all. I mean, I really like my ceiling lights to be bright and I’m the one who turns on all the lights at all times but this light is so bright and cold it hurts my eyes.
We also hung the cupboard that used to be in the kitchen and that will hold some of my yarn in the future:
I will add the shelves and doors once I’ve cleaned it a bit.
So we had to think about whether we want to return the living room light or not. Husband actually likes it better than the one before, the boy and I both hate it with a fiery vengeance. So this morning I made the executive decision to return it. (Husband said, „But it’s used! We can’t return a used light fixture!“ Um, yes we can, if it’s not working. And you can’t figure out if it’s working or not without mounting it. And then he said maybe it’s due to our old wiring. I really don’t think so.) I’ve ordered a replacement (that costs 7 euros less because of Black Friday week) and if that one’s remote isn’t working either I’ll just learn to live with it.
After all that home improvement I didn’t really have time to clean anymore, so I helped a little with lunch:
This is basically the easiest Chinese meal ever, you need green bell peppers, tofu and rice, start by cutting th bell pepper and tofu into strips (husband cut the tofu into chunks, oops), dry-fry the bell pepper, take it out when it’s almost done, heat some oil, fry the tofu, add the bell pepper, salt and soy sauce and eat it with the cooked rice, the end. Husband couldn’t help himself and added black pepper which works well but I had to step in before he added garlic and ginger as well. Interestingly enough this tastes better without.
After that I wanted to take a break and then do the dishes and get started on cleaning but instead the boy showed up, back from uni, we talked and I didn’t look at the clock until it was time for my first student.
After that I had a break. Now, cleaning, proofreading or vegging out? Well, I did some online shopping for my husband, answered a few texts and did an online puzzle.
Then one more student and after that I did bodyweight training with the boy. After which we shared a bag of potato chips and one of licorice. I added a beer and ate it all in front of TV. I had looked forward to that for days and really enjoyed it.
After that I decided I was too tired for the whole foot exercises, bullet journal, Duolingo, start the daily blog post thing. The boy tried talking to me but I was thoroughly zombified at that point and just went straight to bed. With all the dirty dishes still in the sink.
So I guess today will be extra busy with the cleaning and maybe some walking, taking a shower and such. But well.
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