Thinking about energy levels and fatigue on the last day of Easter break

I mean, it was probably the very gray, cold and wet weather. But also, it seems that I often come out of school breaks feeling very low on energy and very tired.

Not quite sure why that is. The not getting enough sleep is certainly part of it, as is the energy drain of the house being a pigsty and all those unfinished projects, but still.

I did my morning routine including opening the manuscript and reading through a few scenes to get back in. Like every day I really didn’t want to do yoga and then felt better because I did it.

We had breakfast and were talking about phases of life and transitions, I called my mother on the phone and her big piece of advice for this week was that a) you can also use beans from a can instead of soaking the dry ones and cooking them for hours, and b) when I leave for my trip on Thursday I should definitely get up 15 minutes earlier instead of stressing myself, right.

Never mind that I am a big girl and have known both of these things for many, many years.

I then helped my husband a little with chopping things and grating cheese for lunch:

There was more talking and then some reading and chocolate. I did not read my chapter of „War and Peace“ that day or listened to the daily piece of classical music or did my daily 2 minutes on the Chinese app because I found this really awesome webcomic „Assassin Roommate“. I spent most of the day slowly making my way through the first season of that.

I am very proud that I did not leave the dishes until late but actually did them around 5 and then proceeded to plan the upcoming week.

The boy and I did a short session of bodyweight training, I ate dinner (more comic-reading), and then I went on another one of those Zoom calls. This one is a monthly one and I am never quite sure if it’s helpful or not. I do like most of the people, so there’s that.

After that was finished (and after completing most of the heel increases of the sock-in-progress) I started writing this post, made the list for today and did not look at my phone again.

And now I’ll be off to an extra long day to start the week properly.