On the other hand I did get my complete list done, so there’s that.
I went to bed too late and was a bit slow in the morning but I still managed my complete morning routine, some of it while my husband was tending the fire. My blood pressure is a bit high again, not that bad but that plus feeling dizzy more often tells me I need to get myself to bed earlier.
Husband and I had a long conversation after breakfast about our mutual frustration with computer things. He is trying to learn to do things on his own but finds it hard, time-consuming and feels like he’ll never learn it. He valiantly tried installing a system update on his computer only to get the same error message each time.
Well, it’s not his fault. MacOS always claims it will install the update over night and then it never does. The trick is to start it during the day so that when it asks for your password to restart the computer you can put that in.
Anyways, I then vented my own frustration at being „the one who is good with computers and tech“ and „the one to whom all this stuff comes easy“. Because, yes I do know some things and yes, I usually get things to work, it’s not like that knowledge and skills are inborn. What I do is I decide that all of this must be learnable, I mean, all those devices and apps are made for just regular people to use so I should be able to figure it out and then I just go back to it over and over and over until I figure it out. And I google things endlessly and try things.
And my frustration stems from the fact that some people just lean back and say, „This is too hard for me“, a sentiment I can understand from the bottom of my heart and that means I’m the one who has to do the work.
And I’m a bit sick of it. From my mother-in-law who decided she can’t learn to fill her own car with gas to my mother who thinks I know everything about her Android phone. I get that most of these things are actually easier for me but that’s like telling me I have a beautiful voice and am very talented when my voice is the result of a lot of practice and lessons.
Anyways, we were both very frustrated and very intense but eventually figured out that the frustration was the reason we were upset, not necessarily the other person. And we have a strategy that hopefully means my husband will learn more of those skills and I will help him get there.
Then I was pretty late again.
I did the breakfast dishes, vacuumed the old part of the house, went on a walk/run that I found really hard (3-minute running intervals anyone?) but also very de-stressing:
My husband made lamb burgers with bulgur, tomato sauce and broccoli:
After that the plan was to take a shower after just a short break and then start working on website and newsletter stuff for my author website. I had it in my calendar and all.
And then the boy came downstairs. He ate lunch and we started talking about finances and investing. Since that is something I need to think about a lot as well, we ended up talking for an hour or so. I barely managed to get into the shower on time to be ready for my weekly author Zoom.
Or so I thought. Turned out I was an hour late because I forgot about the time change in the US. Oops. So the meeting was 30 minutes instead of 90 for me which left me an hour to try to wrangle website authentication for the newsletter provider into submission. I didn’t make it, by the way and it bugs me endlessly.
But I have. List of things to try next.
Then I was almost a little late for the weekly ‚Columbo‘-watching with the rest of the family. I had found the frozen spring rolls that I used to get at our local health food store in the one one town over and had asked my husband to make them. Well, at least that’s what I thought. Turned out the ones I used to buy were the mini spring rolls and those were delicious. These were bigger ones and they were, um, not as good. But whatever. We also demolished a box of Carr’s crackers.
The episode was good but a bit dragging, it was more than twenty minutes longer than most of the others and it showed. Not a bad episode, though.
After that I was very determined to finally watch some C-drama. Which I did but not before I had watched half of YouTube. And after I went back to – more YouTube.
Guess who went to bed more than an hour too late again? Yep, it me.
Sp today my list is again pretty impressive…
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