Phew. Went to bed too late, dawdled in the morning, so no manuscript time and then I was very late for breakfast.
On the other hand I have done yoga and meditation every single day this month so far, so that’s good.
My husband went for his long 10k run, so left early and assigned me the task of turning the beans off at a certain point. I was done with dishes and such fifteen minutes before that time and instead of just getting ready to leave the house for running right away and then maybe waiting for five minutes I went online and reinstalled the Instagram app on my tablet. Great move.
Somehow after that I was late for my own walk/run.
The weather was gorgeous and I did pretty well. It’s very funny, I run along on my endless 2-minute running intervals, feel like I’m close to keeling over, then look at my smartwatch and see that my heart rate is 134. Ahem. I’m not that unfit, I should be able to train at 145 to 155 for a while before it’s too much. So my perceived effort is very different from the actual one:
I came back home half an hour late but I had left a note, and I could even shower before lunch.
We had pasta e fagioli, a family favorite:
After lunch I read a bit, ate some chocolate (a little more than my (almost) no sugar challenge allows) and then I started playing Genshin Impact. The plan was to play for an hour or so, then do the dishes and open the manuscript.
Well. The quest I was playing was rather nice and also very, very long and I kept thinking „just a little more“ until I had to rush off to my weekly writer Zoom call. That call was lovely even if I never quite got to check in but I already knew that I was not super happy with the amount I got done.
After Zoom I met the rest of the family for our weekly session of ‚Columbo‘. The episode was great, it was the one that Peter Falk wrote himself thta features a wonderful Faye Dunaway. It was very good, though I have to say, the fact that there is never any blood anywhere (after shooting someone in the chest in front of a white door on a beige carpet, ahem) is starting to get to me but then that’s just what they used to do on TV. The other main character was played by Claudia Christian and I was very proud that I recognized her as the actress who played Commander Ivanova in ‚Babylon Five‘.
After watching TV I ate some more chocolate (again, twice the amount I had planned to eat) and went on to play just a little more until I finished the quest right after my bedtime.
I started writing this post, took care of the leftover food and tidied the dirty dishes so that we could make breakfast this morning, brushed my teeth and went to bed.
Today I really should get some housework done but we also want to go out for lunch, so we’ll see what actually fits.
And then it will be back to teaching and regular life.
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