Since I went to bed at midnight I did not get enough sleep. My plan had been to get up right away and speed my morning routine up because I needed to wake the boy up and my husband had an early dentist appointment.
Well.
So there was no yoga, meditation or writing before breakfast and I cut my morning pages in half. After breakfast, when my husband had gone out and the boy had decided to go back to bed instead of uni I wrote the second half of my morning pages about the fact that I felt like I’d never get a grip on my life and about all the almost-finished things around and all that jazz.
Seems that if I want to finish things I will have to actually work on them which is a shame.
After morning pages I realized that I’m really missing my morning knitting sessions. See, usually my husband and I talk after breakfast and I knit. But lately there was always something so that I did not get my daily knitting and conversation time. So I decided to sit, knit and read for a bit and felt immediately better.
And then I realized that one of the things that is weighing me down is the impending tax deadline so I decided to spend my break between students in the afternoon on slowly starting with tax stuff.
I did the sizable pile of dishes, had help from the boy at the end, even, and then went out for my walk/run. Somehow the transition between wiping the counters and getting out the door takes half an hour, no idea why.
On the way I met my husband who was coming back home from his run (he went running after coming back from the dentist) and it turned out that when he asked if we had enough frozen pizza he thought I’d be the one making it. I thought he would do it. And I was just about to frolic through the woods for an hour and come back home late for lunch.
Apparently, making frozen pizza is hard if one has never done it before. And can’t find one’s reading glasses.
But he didn’t want me to cut my run short either.
So I went out, did cut my run short by fifteen minutes and at the end it was me who put the pizza in the oven and rotated the three of them to get them to bake as evenly as possible. Husband then thought I would hop in the shower after starting the pizza but I can’t shower in the four minutes before the timer goes off for pizza rotation.
It was all very fun, I ended up hopping in the shower 1 1/2 minutes before the pizzas were ready, telling my husband to watch them and take them out when they were done, and he ate most of his meal alone. When he was almost done both the boy and I descended upon the kitchen at the same time shuffling pizza, salad and glasses of water around. Very cozy.
For the record, the pizza we made from that YouTube recipe was actually much better. But it did take way longer.
After lunch I had exactly half an hour before my first student. I read and ate chocolate and played a quick game. I taught two students, then went to the basement to try and connect the new computer to all the things for playing and recording audio and failed, then came back upstairs and started prepping taxes. I found that past me had already listed all my income in a neat excel sheet, then I gathered invoices and then it was time for my last student of the day. I taught her (very nice, just started this week), did some more invoice gathering and met the boy for more exercise.
The boy had spent part of the afternoon going out for a walk/run of his own, for the first time in years. He had been discussing and researching Couch to 5K-programs, unfortunately, the one I use is no longer available. He didn’t want to pay for a subscription.
He did manage to do Day 1 of on of those programs and then had face the fact that he is not in good shape cardio-wise. He also had to modify one or two exercises during bodyweight training because, well, his legs were already somewhat sore.
I was basically in the same boat, I have been sore from top to bottom for almost a week now but I still dialed my strength exercises up a little.
After that it was finally time for dinner, I read some more, then talked briefly with the boy and with my husband again, did Dulingo, started this post, made a list for today, did my foot exercises, spun for 15 minutes while watching C-drama and went to bed.
Today I will teach all the students, rescheduled ones, regular ones, and ones who only come in every other week and then I’ll probably crash.
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