It’s not that I was anxious about that doctor’s appointment but since I’ve been waiting for the verdict when my cataracts will be bad enough for surgery it’s always a bit fraught.
Spoiler: no surgery yet, the doctor told me to come back in a year or two. Slightly weird.
I went to bed after midnight, always the best life choice when you get up at 6.30, which dominated the whole day. I did my morning routine, switching to the slightly longer and more demanding 30-day yoga challenge, and I spent some time on the manuscript. In this case mostly time trying to figure out the weird problem Scrivener seems to have with smart quotation marks.
Boiling water for tea on the wood stove took ages and we were quite late with breakfast even though my husband had started early. The boy was awake in the morning which threw us all off a bit as well.
I had plans to do the dishes before leaving the house but in the end my husband did them which was helpful.
I took the earlier train and ended up being so early that I could pop into the drug store for some errands.
The doctor’s visit went pretty fast and I left with a piece of paper that said I need stronger glasses. Something I had been suspecting for a while now. The weird thing is that they measured my glasses and wrote the current prescription down as well and that doesn’t match the numbers I have saved at all. And there was no talk of the cataracts at all. Huh.
I have an appointment with my optician tomorrow, so we’ll see.
On my way home I bought my husband’s favorite pastry and passed the health food store.
At home my husband was very stressed but lunch was almost ready. We were out of parmesan which constitutes an emergency for sure. I offered to go out and get some but he doesn’t like it. So we grated some Manchego. Shrug:
The boy even ate with us which was nice.
Before leaving the house in the morning I had decided to try my luck with Genshin’s gacha system to see if I could get the Arlecchino character with 80 wishes and – I could. So then the boy tried to teach me all I need to know going forward in one conversation. I might need another one later.
Then it was time to teach which was very nice. I used a break between students to hang up laundry, then taught a bit more and then I attended yet another Zoom meeting, this time with Jessica Abel. I had thought I wouldn’t have time but a student canceled.
By then I was very, very tired, ate dinner, did the dishes, played some Genshin, was very determined to watch some C-drama and spin but got stuck on classical and jazz musicians reacting to BTS videos on YouTube. And went to bed too late again.
And next I will pull my old glasses out and see if they work better because they are stronger than the newest pair. This might become an expensive month. But then December usually is.
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