Still overtired

I mean, you would think with the time change in this direction it should be easier to get enough sleep but apparently not. My theory is that I was so tired by 9 pm that I just couldn’t find my way to bed.

Instead of berating myself I reminded myself that small and easy works best and restarted the habits of tidying the kitchen after lunch (makes doing the dishes easier which lowers the threshold to do them either right away or later) and to brush my teeth first in the evening. Ideally right after dinner but that never happens. Because with brushed teeth going to bed feels much easier.

I do resent that I need all these tricks but then better silly tricks that work than being stuck in the same old habits.

But. That reset only started yesterday not the day before. I went to bed so late, it was ridiculous. Consequently, I did not open the manuscript.

My original plan was to go for a walk/run but then I looked out the window. It was storming with pelting rain and almost freezing. I pride myself on going out in most weather but when it storms I’m always afraid that a branch will fall on my head in the woods.

I wanted to use that opportunity to finally clean the house.

Well that didn’t happen.

I did mend my husband’s favorite sweater, though, and folded two loads of laundry. Then there was lunch:

I remembered to straighten the kitchen afterwards just in time, did the dishes because I thought it didn’t look much and with me being so super-tired and exhausted I’d probably be worse off in the evening. The boy returned from university where he had submitted the form that says he wrote his thesis himself with only the sources he mentions. He tried signing digitally but the website didn’t respond, so he had to spend almost 3 hours on that, including a very late train while he was waiting outside.

I took a shower and then it was time to teach.

My last student canceled and I thought I would do all kinds of things with that free time. Well, see above.

I hung up the load of laundry my husband had started in the morning and then I could finally eat dinner.

When I found myself knee-deep in BTS reaction videos I managed to pull back and brush my teeth. I started this post, decided to move the weekly planning to today and that more sleep was more important than opening the manuscript, made a list for today, did Duolingo and went to bed.

Today is errand day, it’s my mother’s birthday, and I have other plans as well.