Becoming more and more tired

Yeah, adding more sleep debt will do that for you. I did have a lot of fun the evening before but getting up was not quite as fun.

My morning routine went very well, anyway, I even spent 45 minutes revising the contemporary romance novel. I really like it, the two main characters are just so cute! And I was surprised at quite a few details that I had included. Writing dialogue for a pair of 6-year olds can be surprisingly fun. Lots of non-sequiturs, though.

There was yoga and time with my husband and no weaving in of ends despite my best intentions. While writing morning pages I decided that I need to get back to playing music more often and devised a plan. I opened my calendar and put time for vocal and piano warm-ups in on all days that I don’t start teaching early.

I went on an epic grocery haul. On the way I had to find that one of the streets I need to take was half closed but I just transformed into a pedestrian for a few meters. It looks like the street crossing they are working on might soon be done, fingers crossed.

I came home and unpacked while my husband finished cooking and we ate a very good pasta salad:

I ate some chocolate, read a bit and played Genshin for 20 minutes. Then I decided that doing the dishes was more important than other things but I did manage to get a vocal warm-up in before my first student. And some scales on the piano before the second because I had a 13-minute gap there.

Which also meant that my student who was waiting outside hear me fumble through all the scales I hadn’t played in years. Well, such is life.

I taught some more, the started writing this post right away because I was pretty sure I wouldn’t have any executive function left later.

I ate dinner with my book, played some more Genshin, watched some C-drama and went to bed.

Today will be cleaning day, this time for real, a few students and then fall break. Oh, and maybe Halloween, no idea, but for the first time in many years I bought some candy to give out because it’s the last day of school, so everyone will be organized enough to actually go trick or treating. And we can’t turn the lights off and close the door because it’s already starting to get dark in the afternoon when we’re still teaching. So, candy it is. My hope is that it is a) enough, and that b) there won’t be a lot left afterwards. Because I know myself, and everything that is left over will be devoured.