Archives for February 2025

I got enough sleep again and also did the complete morning routine. Then breakfast with my husband. I managed to do everything on my list with the exception of refilling two fountain pens. I also cut my husband’s hair so I don’t have a problem with that.

I went for a walk at noon wearing Five Fingers. I’m trying to build my foot muscles back up in the hopes that at one point in the future I can quite wearing orthotics. The weather was freezing and gray but I loved walking through the woods anyway.

My husband had had a super busy morning himself and then tried to cook lunch on the wood stove which meant it took ages. Luckily, Monday is one of the days where we both start teaching a bit later.

I also took my shower before lunch and then ate my food all clean:

My last student canceled so I used that time to play a bit of piano. After that I wanted to eat dinner but found that we were almost out of bread so I pulled some rolls out of the freezer and ate my weight in cheese while waiting for those to be all crisp and warm.

I played all the silly iPad games, had great plans to watch C-drama but instead spent all the time just sitting there. I also watched quite a bit of the course I’m currently taking, so that was at least marginally productive.

Then I started writing this post, did Duolingo and my foot exercises and went to bed.

I’m still waffling if I should finish reading the gay hockey romance I’m currently a bit more than halfway through. I would actually have preferred the book to have come to a conclusion by now. The two of them are happy and together and now it’s pages and pages of „I’m not worthy and what if I turn out to be an asshole like my father“ over and over. Very tiring. I even started reading „Fox of Fox Hall“ in the morning and can already tell that that book will be way more fun. Oh, and I am continuing to slog through „War and Peace“. I mean, the characters are growing on me but I just started part 2 of book 1 and have been thrown into a completely different kind of setting.

Today will be a bit weird overall, I have to leave now for my MRI, so that will be something different. It’s not my first one and I know I’ll be fine, but still. Having the polarity of all my hydrogen altered and then pop back is a pretty strange thought.

After going to bed a little late, again, I woke up from the alarm and actually got moving right away.

I wrote morning pages, then decided that instead of writing new fiction words I needed to read through everything I had at that point. So I spent most of my writing time getting the manuscript on my e-reader and started reading a bit.

For the first time in I don’t know how long I actually did the complete morning routine. This time that involved doing yoga next to my husband tending the fire and meditating while he was nearby as well. I even measured my blood pressure for once and was almost shocked when it was completely normal!

I did the usual morning things, and then my husband and I walked to the supermarket together. It was not as busy as I had expected on a Saturday morning but it was still pretty busy and maneuvering two people and a cart through is harder than doing it alone. Nevertheless it was nice, even though we spent the whole way there and back bickering.

The bickering went on until we finally realized that what we needed was food and rest. We ate eggplant, red beans and fake ground beef with rice:

Then I talked with the boy a bit, took a break, did the breakfast dishes, cleaned the washbasin and toilet in my bathroom and then sat down to set up the new month in my bullet journal. This month will be super busy. There are doctor’s appointments and I want to take a course (or two) and crochet and write and do all the things.

After that I had to hurry to be in time for my online writers group meeting where I told everyone about my exciting goals and lists and journals and such, up to a point where some of the others, who were in the US and had just gotten up, felt like they needed to get back to bed. Ultimately, I hope it was more inspiring than tiring.

I had to leave the meeting early so I could watch an episode of ‚Columbo‘ with my husband and the boy. I liked the episode very much even though it had a bit of drag in the second half. And after that I watched a YouTube live call for the publishing course I’m taking.

I ended up dozing off at times, it had been a full day up to that point.

Then I did Duolingo, started writing this post, did a few foot exercises and went to bed.

Today should be less packed, I need a bit of rest.

I went to bed half an hour late but slept well and woke up from the alarm at 6.30. I was a bit slow but managed morning pages, some new word of fiction and yoga. Yeah for yoga. I was hurting everywhere from working on the boy’s bed the evening before.

My original plan had been to go to the supermarket but I was just too exhausted and overstimulated for that so I switched things around and did some cleaning and dealt with laundry. My husband was making pizza while I was vacuuming around him and we didn’t start to fight anyway. Lunch was very tasty:

After lunch I talked with the boy and played silly games and then I spontaneously started mending my husband’s sweater. It had been sitting in the mending pile for years until he freed it earlier this month. Since then he has worn it constantly until it became clear tat the huge hole in the left sleeve was growing more and more.

So I started watching a video about how to mend this kind of hole, found that I had opinions about the way the YouTuber was attaching the patch to the sides of the hole and especially about her – extremely wrong – way of doing Kitchener stitch on the top. Found the rest of the (handspun) yarn I had used for this sweater, looked at my Ravelry database for the size of needle I had used and started knitting the patch. I knitted the sides together with the existing stitches which looks a bit wonky right now but I’m hoping it will even out after washing:

And this is how it looked after:

It’s clear that the fabric is thicker on the patch and in person the difference between the fresh yarn of the patch and the often worn and washed sweater is more marked but still I’m pretty happy with it.

I’m not quite sure what to do about the inside of the hole, there is still quite a bit of fabric in there around the hole.

Then I started teaching, used a big break between students to mail a letter and a package and hang up a load of laundry. Two more students, then the boy and I did bodyweight training even though we were all achy and weak, then I ate leftover pizza for dinner, fell into an iPad game hole while eating half a bar of chocolate, did Duolingo, started writing this post, watched some C-drama while crocheting and drinking another alcohol-free beer and went to bed.

And now off to a new month!