I did do the complete morning routine by doing yoga first. Not my favorite schedule but, well.
Husband was in a talking mood again. I did wake the boy up but he was super cranky and fell back asleep immediately. He is still nocturnal, meh.
The main thing for the morning was doing a huge grocery haul. I was a bit afraid because the weather forecast was speaking of storm and I didn’t really want to ride my bike to the other side of town in that. I got lucky, though, when I left just before noon everything was calm and sunny.
I went to the drug store for tooth-brushing paraphernalia including a new toothpaste the hygienist recommended. I am a bit skeptical because every time I switch to one of the recommended toothpastes I get scolded at the next cleaning for not brushing properly. But I’ll try it out anyway.
Grocery shopping went well, I ended up with two heavy bike panniers full to the brim, a backpack and a pack of paper towels. When I put the grocery cart back I had a hard time lifting the panniers out and there wasn’t a lot of space and some people milling around, so I put the pack of paper towels on the row of carts. While lifting my bags out I almost hit a guy behind me and then a supermarket employee arrived with a long line of grocery carts that he wanted to wedge in beside me so I fled. Outside I put my panniers on my bike. Then paused. Oops, I had left the paper towels inside.
I decided to leave the panniers on the bike and pray that no one would steal anything.
When I looked the paper towels were gone.
I went back to the cash registers, maybe someone had left it there, but no. So I had to get back in, get a new pack or towels, stand in line, again, and pay for them. Again. All the while peering through the windows at my bike and the panniers full of costly food.
When I arrived back home I was afraid I’d be too late for lunch but no, my husband had just started. Funny enough making calzone from scratch does take a while:
It did taste very good but the texture reminded me of focaccia instead of pizza. I would have liked it if I could have eaten before two as well.
At least we got a lot of laundry folded and hung up in the meantime. I did air my frustration with being the only one in the house who knows how to hang up laundry properly. And yes, I am overly picky. But also, I have one nice viscose shirt and when you pick the drying rack up and move it, it would be nice to also straighten the laundry back out after so that we don’t all end up with weird wrinkles in the middle of our chests. And no, I do not iron stuff if I can help it.
I also like socks straightened before they get hung up and underwear hung a certain way. Oh, and socks hung in pairs. I mean, I am not as picky about this as my mother, that has to count for something. My husband didn’t like my criticism (fair enough) because he is just taking over more housework and all he gets for it are comments on how he is doing it all RONG!
Anyways, I had felt so frustrated that I bought a pastry at the store. I had plans to share it with the boy but then I was angry at him as well and ate it all on my own:
And yes, I am already working on changing that coping strategy.
Which is why I seem to have lost a minuscule amount of weight in the last week. I just stopped buying certain foods and reduced my alcohol intake. Because I had eaten all the sugar in the early afternoon I, of course, was even more hungry in the evening and followed my completely reasonable and delicious dinner with a whole package of grissini.
In between all of these things our new duvets arrived. They were advertised as „warm“ but when they got here they were very, very thin. We decided to try them out anyway and I can say they are, indeed, at least as warm as our old one and feather-light on top of that. Very nice. I still will need a while to get used to the change. Of course.
The thing that went well was that in between students I actually spent some time proofreading the second novel, so that was good.
I only had four students but did teach until past seven, then had dinner, sat around and did nothing for an hour or so, watched twenty minutes of C-drama while crocheting, did not do my foot exercises, spin or floss and went to bed way too late yet again.
I already started this morning by imploding my morning routine so this will go super, I’m sure.
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