I thought watching YouTube videos on my laptop instead of a show on TV wouldn’t make much of a difference, but it definitely did, and then I somehow never quite got around to brushing my teeth. The good thing is that I turned the lights out only half an hour late. The bad thing, well, half an hour late. And I have a dawning suspicion that my bedtime should be half an hour earlier than it is now anyway. I think I might need 8 1/2 hours in bed instead of just 8.
Then I started reading something in the morning right away, oops. But, again, the good thing was that I turned it around pretty fast and did my complete morning routine. Working on the manuscript is going well, there are things happening, even.
I think my husband and I had a good conversation after breakfast. I had a busy day planned with all the exercise and an afternoon filled with meetings and such. I talked to a friend about my plan to walk/run and do bodyweight training in the same day (not to mention the bit of morning yoga) and she said that would just show how fit I am.
I don’t think I’m that fit but then it’s always fit compared to what or whom. I am not as fit as I was ten years ago but I’m definitely much fitter than I ever was in my twenties. I also told her that doing both forms of exercise in one day often leads to me half-assing the strength training and she meant then maybe it would be a better idea to do them on different days.
And of course, in an ideal world that is true. In the reality I live in it is either doing the two of them in one day because the boy doesn’t have time for training today, or just not doing one of them. Also, having gone for a run doesn’t really affect my pull-ups and pushups much. It’s just that I feel a bit weaker when squatting. Which reminds me that I need to upgrade my squatting movement. I’ve been hoping to get to a point where I can squat deeper but so far I haven’t been able to without my back hurting so maybe it’s time to upgrade and do some stretching exercise for the deep squat.
So, I did the breakfast dishes and went for my walk/run. A little late but that turned out to be not much of a problem because lunch was late as well. I was so deep in thought that I just jogged through all the running intervals without thinking about it. Which tells me I am indeed fitter than I think I am. I can jog for three minutes without a break, even:
I had found green asparagus at the supermarket so we had asparagus risotto with fresh asparagus:
After that I took a break. I am rather exhausted all in all, definitely at the point where I need a break. I went on social media, read and played games, all the time waiting for a reply from the boy. We had agreed to do bodyweight training that day but I was pretty sure he had no idea about my schedule. Since we also wanted to watch ‚Columbo‘ together and I wanted to go to my weekly writers Zoom and I wanted to take a shower before the meeting but after training there was only a short window of time for the whole thing.
In the end I went upstairs and woke him up. I mean, someone who has an exam at 11 tomorrow should maybe not have a sleeping schedule that means sleeping until late afternoon every day.
He was pretty groggy but agreed to train with me at 4. Which we did. I had been feeling bad about my lack of progress with pushups. I only ever dip for a few centimeters and when I try going further I just start slouching my back. Well, yesterday for the first time I realized that the fear of falling flat on my face onto my glasses was holding me back. And of my glasses falling off my nose. Huh. Turns out, when I take my glasses off I can do deeper pushups. Who would have thought?
I had to rush to take a shower and showed up at my meeting with my hair dripping but, well. The meeting was nice enough that I stayed until 6.30 which then made me late for our ritual watching of ‚Columbo‘. This was another episode (Mind over Mayhem) that was nice but slow. If someone had cut out most of the middle it would have improved a lot. The motive for the murder was a bit meh and the fact that the murderer thought he was much smarter than everybody else and that made him sloppy could have been shown a little better. Also, I’m finding it fascinating how there are only ever three or four characters in each of these episodes. Well, not counting the basset.
After that my husband reminded me that there were still dishes which threw me off completely, then I offered to help him but he declined.
I decided that per my new evening rule I did not have time for any of my evening things but Duolingo and my foot exercises but first I watched an episode of C-drama that was very good. I did start reading just before my ‚get ready for bed‘-alarm and all the way through getting ready for bed and turned the lights out just eight minutes late which is acceptable.
And now for Sunday. You’d think that would be a not busy day but, um, no. But I’m looking forward to it. If I let myself off the hook too much I just sloth around and feel bad.
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