Looking forward to some time off

I went to bed on time, hurray! I did the usual morning things but did not open the manuscript again. Instead I paid for the next three book covers because there was a sale, and then I canceled the train tickets I had for the retreat and then bought new ones again. Because I’d like to arrive before the retreat actually starts. I am now set to take a train at 6 in the morning which is, um, unfortunate. I very much hope that everything will go right and I will arrive in time.

Husband and I had a harmonious breakfast, and then I had a phone call with the parent of a student. I was rather cranky because they insisted on talking on the phone but in the end it was rather nice and I got to talk about my teaching philosophy to someone who actually got it.

After that I did the dishes real quick, finished the grocery list and braved biking to the farther supermarket. Things went better than expected, for once I did not run into masses of students from the nearby high school and the shop was not as crowded as I thought it would be. I bought so much stuff that I could barely lift the bags, good thing I used the bike.

Since it was Friday we decided to keep lunch simple with frozen pizza and some salad:

I had a bit of a break and then it was time for teaching. Which was fun, I got to play a lot and even got to figure out how to play a new to me song together with a student. (The song only had four very simple chords, but still. I was very proud when my student strummed a chord and got it right without prompting or anything. He had just known that chord was A minor.)

I hadn’t been sure if I wanted to do bodyweight training because my arm was still a bit hurt from my shot the day before but in the end I decided to do just a quick round of exercises.

I had some wild ideas of starting the weekly cleaning between the last student and training but that didn’t happen. But I did manage to change the sheets while waiting for the boy to show up.

I also started to quiz him on the stuff he needs to know for his upcoming exam in between rounds of pushups and squats.

Then there was dinner and some more playing of Genshin than I had planned (just one more chest and one more Abyss mage, you know how it is) before I started writing this post, made a list for today and left the dishes in the sink.

I am very determined to not have another cranky and unproductive week off but then I always am. I guess I need to actually do something different this time to achieve a different outcome. Huh.