Or so.
I went to bed at midnight, both because there were still things I wanted to do and because I was dreading the day because of that conflict with my husband.
I woke up at 6.30 before my alarm but was pretty slow at first. When I was right in the middle of my morning pages my husband showed up and – surprise – was all in a good mood, conflict basically over. Phew. We’re good again which is much better.
I skipped writing again but did yoga and meditated and then we had breakfast. There was brief talk of having breakfast outside but since my husband already started eating while I was doing yoga we decided to stay inside.
There was nice conversation, I called my mother and we talked, and then I helped my husband making salad for lunch. Right after the day where we had set a new rule that I am not allowed in the kitchen before lunch is ready. Well.
This time we did eat outside:
This is the view from our back porch into the yard:
After we went back inside my husband started doing the dishes right away and I helped. I’m finding that it’s easier to do the dishes after having eaten outside because I am not sitting on the kitchen bench, moving back inside involves a natural transition and that can lead to just starting the dishes easier.
Of course it’s much easier still when someone else starts them.
I read quite a bit, then played Genshin Impact until a timer reminded me that I had planned to write in the afternoon. I had a bad case of the dunnwannas paired with „I have a thing at 5 so I can’t do anything else before“, and read some more.
An article about bullet journal led me to thinking about how many of those I already have and I pulled the first one out that I could find on the shelves. It is from 2017 and while there are quite a few things I’m still doing the same way I also changed lots of things. Back then I did not review nearly as much, it’s mostly just lists of what I want to do.
There are also a lot of notes about books I’m reading. Nine years ago I made my way through a ton of writing books.
And then it was time for my 5 o’clock Zoom. I was meeting with an online friend who had helped me think through stuff a few months ago and I felt like I should return the favor. We had a fun conversation where I barely knit which is rare.
I then browsed the internet until five minutes before the boy and I had scheduled bodyweight training. I went outside to see what my husband was up to and found him on a bench at the back of the garden taking a break. I sat next to him which I never do and we got to observe a hedgehog shuffling through as if we weren’t there.
Then I was somewhat late for bodyweight training and we suffered through the dreaded 10 sets of 3. It’s all one-minute intervals which means you never quite get going for real and you keep interrupting yourself all the time. Weird.
It was time for dinner afterwards, then I brushed my teeth, wrote the list for today and then started this post interrupted by both my husband and the boy but only briefly.
I played a little more, then finally started plying the purple Corriedale and went to bed.
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