It was that kind of day

And I’m running out of time again, and yes, I realize it is only morning.

1. I went to bed super early and slept well
2. I woke up and did the morning routine up to the point where I sat down to meditate
3. Saw that I had a voicemail on the landline
4. From my mother-in-law who lives upstairs from us
5. Saying that she wasn’t feeling well and wanted to go to the hospital
6. I went upstairs while she called emergency services and stayed there until she was carted off in an ambulance
7. The paramedics were clearly checking her for signs of stroke and heart attack but that wasn’t it
8. Meanwhile my husband didn’t know why I went upstairs and was impatiently waiting for me to return because
9. He had just killed an Asian tiger mosquito which can be dangerous and should be reported
10. So I finally ate breakfast more than an hour late while researching tiger mosquitos
11. For a moment there I thought I had to find a small box and mail the mosquito but it turns out you can also use an online form and send pictures
12. I finally did the breakfast dishes
13. Then changed my sheets and started to clean
14. Ordered takeout in between because
15. My husband was busy trimming the hedge and cutting up branches
16. More cleaning
17. I walked to the Chinese restaurant and picked up lunch
18. It was very good:
    
    
19. I messaged the boy and my brother-in-law to tell them about my mother-in-law
20. Took a little break
21. Started teaching
22. First student was ten minutes early
23. Second student hadn’t shown ten minutes into their lesson so I texted their mother who said they had forgotten because they were still in vacation mode but she’d send them over. We played for a total of 7 minutes
24. I had a break that I had wanted to use for the planning course but by then I was so frazzled that I didn’t do anything useful
25. The next student showed up looking very pale and stressed to tell me in person that she couldn’t take lessons anymore because her work obligations had reached a point where it was no longer feasible, plus, she had a new regular meeting on Friday afternoons
26. In between I also texted the boy to ask him to clean the hedge cuttings away. Especially important because they were sitting outside on the sidewalk
27. I only met my husband in passing but could see he was way more frazzled than me and making big strides with yard work
28. I vacuumed both parts of the house while waiting for the boy
29. We did bodyweight training
30. Husband interrupted us to ask for help closing the can of construction foam
31. I almost got foam on my pricy exercise gloves (the ones from the US, of course)
32. Husband got foam all over his hands because there were supposed to be gloves with the foam but there weren’t
33. We finished exercising
34. The boy called my mother-in-law on the foam; she was in a different hospital from the one we thought she was and had only gotten an infusion, nothing more so far
35. I ate dinner aka a bag of potato chips and finished reading a book only to turn around and start the next one
36. I played some silly games
37. I talked to my husband who was busy scraping dried foam from his hands
38. I did Duolingo and started this post
39. I gave the enormous pile of dirty dishes the side eye and went to bed

So the plan for today is to do everything I didn’t manage yesterday, of course.