So, carnival break. I went to bed an hour too late without writing my list or getting anything done, woke up from the alarm feeling a bit groggy, wrote morning pages and – hit a wall. Some dumb part of my brain had me convinced that the whole week was ruined already, none of the things I wanted to do would fit in, and also, I couldn’t write this morning. Maybe later. (Spoiler: that later never manifested)
After spending the time I usually spend on the manuscript online I at least managed to make myself do yoga and felt a little better. My husband and I had a long conversation over breakfast that was both exhausting and nice.
And then we had to scramble. The plan was to buy Faschingskrapfen, go to the health food store and walk/run before lunch. I did manage all of it, even though I had to go to two different bakeries, the first one was all out.
The weather outside was gorgeous and walking and running really lifted my mood and blew all thoughts about a ruined week out of my head.
We ate lunch:
I took a short break playing an actual game that I had paid money for years ago. It was just the right amount of pretty easy puzzles combined with interesting fictional landscapes to look at.
The boy showed up and showed me the figure he had painted the day before. He’s pretty pleased with the result.
My husband and I tag-teamed our showers for maximum hot water for each of us. And then it was time to watch the Rose Monday parade on TV while munching Krapfen:
My husband and I then started to deep clean the master bedroom. There were shelves, piles of books, yarn and craft projects that hadn’t been touched in years. We worked for almost two hours and only finished half the cleaning. Today we’ll tackle the next bit which might involve going through all the stalled projects and leftover yarn. I’m sure this will be painful.
But right now I am delighted that most of the cobwebs and dust bunnies have been cleared, I found my ukulele sheet music and a nice collection of craft books that I have been wanting to look at. There is also half a dozen fountain pens sitting on a nightstand, not quite sure what I’ll do with these. I have, um, eight in the current rotation, I feel that might be enough. Maybe I need to change them out from time to time. I definitely should clean the ones I don’t use.
My husband had to stop cleaning in order to teach a student, I changed the sheets on my bed and put my duvet back. Then I ate dinner. Answered some texts and started falling into the usual evening loop of reading stuff online and unable to start doing something productive.
I think it’s a dangerous combination of being too tired to get started with anything but not enough to just fold and go to bed. So most days I just sit there until someone enters the kitchen or until it is way too late.
This time my husband showed up just as I was starting to write this post, we talked a bit but were both too tired for a sensible conversation. So we called it a day, I did Duolingo, wrote some Chinese words, did my foot exercises, watched half an episode of C-drama and went to bed.
Loads of things to do today, I hope I won’t fizzle out somewhere in the middle.
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