But it did make a difference.
I did well on the morning routine, and we ate a lovely breakfast. The only thing not ideal was that we ran out of frozen blueberries for muesli. This will become important later.
I usually have a whole new package in the freezer while using another one but for some reason I hadn’t stocked up.
I had a plan what to do when and followed it, up to the point where we figured out that not only didn’t we have any more blueberries, we also didn’t have enough lasagna noodles for lunch and would maybe run out of milk. Though later my husband decided the milk would be enough.
I remembered that I had promised my mother-in-law to cancel her appointment on Tuesday, so I went upstairs to find the note about the appointment on her kitchen table as she had told me to do.
Turned out the appointment had not been for Tuesday but instead for two hours before. Oops. I left a message saying I was profusely sorry but that she had told me the wrong day. I also said I would inform him about their next appointment in advance. If she had to cancel again.
So instead of going on my walk/run early I went off to the nearby supermarket. I picked up bread, lasagna noodles, a frozen pizza (because the big supermarket didn’t have the size I wanted the week before) and chocolate. There were no frozen blueberries. And then I remembered that the same thing had happened two weeks ago and then I had apparently forgotten to put them on the grocery list again. So I went to the other nearby supermarket and failed to get blueberries again.
I went home, dropped everything off and went walking/running. I am restarting the couch-to-10K program again and it feels great to just sail through the 30-second running intervals.
I came back home 20 minutes before lunchtime and my husband had just finished making the sauces.
So I assembled the actual lasagnas while he took a shower, then I went in the shower while the lasagna was in the oven. Which meant, by the way, that all the pots were still dirty and dried out in the evening.
But, we achieved lasagna:
After lunch I did not take my usual break but instead I went on another quest for frozen blueberries to another supermarket in the other direction. And I succeeded! At that point the supermarket was weirdly full of people, I had to queue for the self-service, even.
I went home through the drizzling rain for the third time that day, carrying the blueberries, milk and gummy bears.
At home I finally took a break and when I finished it there was not enough time left to take care of the piles of dirty pots. (Tomato sauce, sauce bolognese, béchamel sauce and fried eggplant.) I met my husband briefly before it was time to teach and he said he’d do the dishes because he had an hour before his next student.
He must have started washing the dishes because there was soapy water in the sink when I returned after seven but nothing else had happened. I suppose something else came up.
In between students the boy told me my mother-in-law had called because of the eggs. (Insert explanation here about the eggs that we get every Tuesday from a nearby farm where we set out egg cartons and money and the farmer goes around and leaves eggs in their place.)
Of course she had only called because of the eggs. Not to tell how she was doing. She had some unspecified examination but didn’t know the results yet.
I taught some more, then ate dinner and some more chocolate, the boy showed up just as I was starting to write this post, I did Duolingo, the many, many dishes and the list for the next day.
I also found the two other almost finished cardigans but not the buttons that go with them. I know I have buttons at least for one of them, possibly both, but I need to dive into the sewing box to figure that out. And while I was patting myself on the back for at least trying to do one thing that will eventually get my bedroom in order, my husband presented to me his favorite sweater (handspun, hand-knitted and mended a lot) with a gaping hole at the beginning of the yoke. I’ll have to see if I can find more of the yarn for darning.
On the other hand I was so motivated by planning and getting stuff done in the early morning that I used another break between students to proofread two more scenes which is very good.
Oh, and speaking of finished sweaters, here is the one I just finished a few days ago (sorry for the bad picture):
I am really hoping for today to be a bit smoother but we’ll see.
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