That was a bit of an intense day.
I went to bed on time, slept well and managed the complete morning routine.I was a little bit late for breakfast because I started upgrading my phone to the newest OS while writing morning pages. Yes, I am aware that is not best practice and takes away some of the meditation part of the journaling but, well.
Updates continued to wind themselves through the day. At first I thought I’d wait with the iPad update until we would be finished with bodyweight training because the app we’re using might have vanished. But then I decided we could always switch to a kitchen timer and marks on paper if we had to. I have the training program we’re using in an actual paper book so that makes it pretty future-proof.
Husband and I talked over breakfast and a bit longer while I was knitting, then I did some more updating and started the dishes somewhat late. I was done with them by 11.30, though, finally brushed my teeth and went to the health food store.
Where they were out of the chocolate we usually eat. So I had to go to the other health food store. Of course. And buy emergency chocolate at the first store. I mean, what if they hadn’t had the right chocolate at the second store as well?
When I came back home husband was in a full-blown cooking panic. He had decided to make stuffed zucchini because he had discovered two more gigantic ones. Also, both of us were starting out teaching days extra early. It was now 12.30, half an hour before our prepared lunch time and there was a) rice cooking on the stove, b) two enormous zucchinis on the kitchen table, c) a bottle of sugo, d) half a pound of thawed ground beef, and d) two equally enormous spring onions in the sink.
Stuffed zucchini takes more than half an hour to cook.
And my husband was talking about the fact that he had had to spend all his time working on the laundry since breakfast and still had to water all the plants to prevent them from dying.
So we had a problem.
He prepared one of the zucchinis while I was putting the groceries away, then I helped him prepare the second one, we put both in the oven without stuffing and then I started chopping things up while browning some pine nuts. There was a bit of back and forth discussion about why it was impossible to live this way and how my husband didn’t even know what he wanted to put in this dish because he hadn’t been in the garden.
I ended up doing the rest of the cooking and I folded the last of the laundry that was still on the drying rack in my studio. I think it looks a tad unprofessional when you’re teaching right next to a rack of drying underwear. But well, at least it was clean.
In the end my husband ate some bread and cheese or something and took a nap before lunch was ready. I ate alone at 1.30 and the food was not bad, if I say so myself:
I took a bit of a break, then started teaching. This time only one student didn’t show up and she even remembered to cancel! I am very proud of them.
That and another break between students left me some time to watch more planning course videos and to assemble the new mic stand that came that morning. I did tell you that I ordered one for all the many Zoom calls, didn’t I? So I can use my podcasting microphone without having to deal with an unwieldy microphone stand right in front of my face. This one can be screwed to the table and I think I found the right position.
After teaching the boy and I did bodyweight training, then I ate fresh pretzels for dinner (and more chocolate), did all the dishes, brushed my teeth, did Duolingo, started writing this post, and then watched some more course videos while updating my computer’s OS. Fun!
Today will be pretty much like yesterday with less grocery shopping and running instead of strength training. I have to say, when doing my homework yesterday – which was all about how much time I usually have and what all the things are that I need to do – I did get an inkling why my writing projects are not progressing faster.
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