Sick husband

Poor thing. He has a bad cold with a running nose and a persistent cough.

Mind you, he still did lots of housework and repaired an amp, you know how it is. (I mean, if it were me I would have stayed on the sofa reading and watching TV and doing nothing else but my husband is one of those people who can’t sit still.

I went to bed half hour late and slept all the way through. Win! I was very determined not to pick up my phone first thing and then spent 45 minutes on social media right away, ahem.

I still did my complete morning routine including half an hour of writing actual new words, so that is nice. Then breakfast with my husband and a few other things before I called my mother on the phone.

After that I did the dishes and started a load of laundry while my husband was making pancakes for lunch:

And then I made myself do some housework before going into the chocolate/reading/video game-portion of the day, highly recommend. I folded two loads of laundry and hung the one up that was done.

I finished reading the daily chapter of „War and Peace“ and am now up to speed again. I’m still behind on the „Year of Wonder“ classical music-thing but I’ll get there.

Then there were two hours of gaming that were pretty frustrating all in all. I tried some puzzles and fighting stuff while the boy was standing behind me trying to help me and it was a real mess. I also tried this one boss six times or so. I know I killed him a couple of times the other day with the same team on the same difficulty but I just couldn’t do it.

Frustrating. But well, I can try again another time.

The boy and I did our bodyweight training rather early this time because I had another Zoom call scheduled. In between pushups and squats I helped him study for his exam. I still don’t get any of the stuff he is studying, and am barely able to figure out if his answers are right or wrong. „But there is a d3 in this formula!“ „That’s not important.“ „How am I supposed to know what’s important?“ „But that’s completely obvious, the math does this…“ and then I still don’t understand anything.

Well, as long as he understands it. I have to keep reminding myself that I did this kind of math the last time forty years ago, that a lot of my science classes were cancelled because there weren’t enough teachers, and that what I’m doing is helpful regardless.

But of course there is a part of me that wants to go and learn math and physics now. Because it would probably be fun and expand my horizons. And I really used to like the kind of math where you use letters instead of numbers. Oh, and I am really getting an education in the Greek alphabet.

The other day the boy said he and a couple of friends were looking at a text with a Greek word right in the middle and then he was very surprised that they (two other physics students) couldn’t read the Greek. Because they work with those letters so much it’s just a matter of sounding the word out but it never occurred to his friends that you could do that.

Anyway, after that I vacuumed the old part of the house and did some other cleaning, then ate dinner while my husband was doing the dishes, and then it was time for more Zoom. I have reached the portion of the blanket where I start measuring it to see how many stripes I want to add.

After the call I started writing this post and finally planned this week.

Of course planning is always very important but even more so for a week off.