I did pretty well all morning. My husband needed to leave the house at 9 and wanted to have breakfast at 8. Which he did. I started yoga at 8 and thought 10 minutes of yoga and 5 minutes of meditation would take 15 minutes but instead it took 30. No, I’m not sure why, either.
Husband left, the boy texted me that he was up on time for the video call with his supervisor, I finished my cup of tea and then I went outside for my walk/run.
It was fun, even thought the temperature was way higher than I would have liked. It sees that biking on Monday instead of running and a day completely off yesterday made the running part easier. Nice.
I chose a route that was mostly between trees, so it offered lots of shade:
I was home early but did not manage to do the dishes then. I asked the boy about having sushi for lunch but he didn’t response.
I got sushi anyway:
We also had spring rolls before but I was so hungry I forgot to take a picture. I was very pleased that the restaurant owner had remembered not to pack chopsticks for us. We always throw the disposable ones away and that’s a waste. Because we own several pairs that are much nicer to eat with.
The ones you usually see in my pictures are chopsticks a friend brought back from Thailand but I also have several pairs that I bought at several Asian grocery stores. (I am also very pleased that the first word my head offered to me when I saw the picture was 筷子. Maybe I will learn Chinese eventually after all.)
I ate some chocolate as dessert and read more „Tears of the Wolf“. The book is so, so good! I am very happy to hear that the second book in the series is already about to be finished and I really loved the video Elisabeth Wheatley made about sheep shears, rooing and shearing. (The link goes to Instagram, no idea if that’s helpful for you.)
Anyway. The boy showed up at one point and told me the next time he’d like fried noodles instead of sushi, please, and that he didn’t get my texts.
I finally pulled out one of my graded reader book in Chinese and stumbled through a chapter of a Sherlock Homes story. I am at that stage where I can read most of the characters (the story only uses 150, so not that impressive) but I still often don’t get the meaning because knowing individual characters only helps so much.
Like, 大 means big, and 家 means family or home but 大家 means all of us or everybody. It can apparently also mean great master or expert or influential family of long standing. Sure. (I actually knew what that meant, I just briefly forgot and I feel it’s a good example.) Also I learned that the character for home is shows a pig under a roof. Meaning your home is where your livestock is, apparently.
Anyway, I talked to the boy for a bit, and then my husband came back from his excursion to a lake with his friend and we talked a bit and then I sat there for a while, reading, and then I finally took a shower, talked to my husband some more, read some more, ate dinner, and still hadn’t done the things I wanted to do in the afternoon.
The boy and I forgot to do bodyweight training, but I did remember at 8 and we decided to do it after all. Even though I was nice, clean and showered and ready to wind down for the day.
Today is grocery shopping day, oh, and my husband has another appointment, this one even earlier.
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