15 more minutes of scrolling don’t make you go to sleep 15 minutes later but they will cost you hours.
This is something I heard in this video about sleep. And he is perfectly right. And your sleep window is the time when you are tired but still have enough impulse control to go to bed. Duh.
Anyway, that was the window I missed Friday night. I was cranky because while I had planned to clean and kill that video boss I did the game first and then go stuck with that, trying over and over and failing. In the evening I had achieved nothing (well, apart from the garden center and hardware store bit) and there were still all the dishes.
So. Lights out at 1.30 do not make for a good next day. My brain was very mushy, I didn’t realize that there was snow that needed shoveling, my husband was the first one who saw it and then went out to shovel which triggered his feeling that he is the only one actually taking care of the house and property.
It didn’t help that I wasn’t really capable of coherent thought and speech and that I was feeling completely desperate, like I would never get anything accomplished ever. I’d say that was mostly the sleep deficit talking.
I wrote morning pages, wrote my blog post, did yoga, helped to make breakfast and are alone because my husband was mad at me. On the upside I got to read some more of „Snake-Eater“. I’m still loving it.
My mood got another damper when my sister asked me if there was anything wrong with this blog because she couldn’t access it. Well, apparently, because neither could I, and the backend was only partially accessible as well. I decided not to let myself get triggered and it looks like it’s back. Phew.
I did a few dishes, my husband came back from running and realized that we didn’t have the kind of pasta he wanted for lunch. So I went out and bought some. Also tortilla chips, and all the veggies. And another cucumber.
Then I went for my first walk/run in weeks, I started over with the first day of couch to 5K. It was nice but I was definitely feeling my arms and legs from training the night before. The weather was gorgeous:
And I also took a selfie:
I went back home, husband was still cranky but much less so. Lunch was already done when I walked in the door which was greatly appreciated:
This is what my husband made with the leftover salmon from the day before.
After that I read and ate licorice and played my video game. And then I actually stopped playing, took a shower and after that folded some laundry and started dusting.
My husband used the afternoon to vacuum and mop the annex. I am very happy that he did but I ended up doing the first few minutes of my Zoom call with both camera and mic off because he was still busy mopping the floor in my studio.
Since both my husband and the boy weren’t interested in watching TV together I got to stay at the Zoom meeting all the way to the end which turned out to be after more than two hours.
When I was done blabbering away it turned out my husband had taken care of the dishes. Probably so that I didn’t have an excuse for going to bed too late yet again.
I then ate tortilla chips and some ice cream for dinner and had a beer. There was more reading. I wrote this post. I did not learn Chinese in the evening but I did finish a sock. I’ll show you a picture when I have better light.
Today will be super busy for sure, so stay tuned.
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