I fell asleep a bit early but only turned the lights out half an hour after bedtime. I never quite know how to count that.
In the morning I tried relaxing the ‚no reading‘-rule (again) and it turns out when I read in the morning things take longer. I know, shocking. I wrote my morning pages and spent half an hour on the manuscript dealing with a freshly turned vampire (as one does), then decided I’d rather eat first and do yoga later. And, also as expected, later turned out to be much, much later.
I did wake the boy up in time for yet another exam. He got there without any train delays or chaos, apparently, and said the exam was pretty much exactly what he had expected and prepared for. Fingers crossed.
My husband and I ate breakfast together and talked about people and how to deal with them for an hour. Which then made everything else that day late again.
I did the breakfast dishes while listening to some classical music I’ve already forgotten and then to something on YouTube. I have abandoned the publishing and writing courses again in favor for click-bait YouTube.
Then I went for my walk/run, this time it felt as if my legs weighed twice as much as usual. I’m hoping that is because they are busy building more muscle. I kept myself going for those long, endless 3-minute running intervals by listening to BTS and thinking about how great it will be not to have spontaneously broken bones in my 80s, also to be able to get up from the floor unaided in the future:
When I came back at lunchtime my husband was still in the big cooking crunch. I got to help a bit by peeling and slicing a few carrots. Lunch was very tasty:
After that I wanted to take a bit of a break, then a shower and be at my desk to work on proofreading or the website by 3. What happened instead was that first the boy came back home and told me about the exam and other things. He had planned to visit a friend in Regensburg some time this week but the friend’s plans changed and they’ll meet here in town for drinks instead.
After that I finally took my shower and when I was all dressed again my husband had already been looking for me to make the special pizza dough we had talked about. He is following an Italian chef on YouTube and we had talked about making his pizza. The dough needs to be made 24 hours before and needs stretching and folding and several rounds of rising in between.
Of course things went wrong but we did not fight and there is now some dough in the fridge that feels a bit too runny but, well. The whole dough-making took longer than expected, of course, and we did the dishes in between and when we were done with all of that I had exactly 22 minutes left before the Zoom call I wanted to attend.
I used that time to proofread my reader magnet, then realized I had already done so before. This time I checked it off the list so that I’ll remember next time.
The Zoom call was lovely and interesting, I even took two pages of notes. I also knitted the twelve rows I needed before starting the shoulder shaping.
After that my husband and I met in the kitchen to get something for dinner, the mini baguette that was the only bread left felt very unsatisfactory (I’m the only one in the family who doesn’t like white bread) so I stole some of the boy’s chocolate. I had given some of mine to my husband earlier that day and had run out.
I did Duolingo, my foot exercises and made a list for today after starting this post, watched C-drama while the boy was taking a shower and went to bed.
Today there will be pizza-making, a trip to the health food store and hopefully a productive afternoon.
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