And without stressing myself out, I have to say.
I can’t praise „Big Time“ by Laura Vanderkam enough, by the way, she has a way of making me feel much better about my time. Looks like there is enough time after all.
So, I went to bed only 15 minutes late and slept for more than eight hours, woohoo!
I woke up and felt – tired and blah. My smartwatch was convinced I needed to rest for the rest of the day. Um, no.
I did my morning routine a little slower than I would have liked but still made the time to work on the manuscript for 15 minutes. I also wrote morning pages, did yoga and meditated.
Just as I was about to get out of bed my „wake the boy up“-timer went off. I didn’t have to, though, because he had woken up on his own. I saw him very briefly as he was getting his water bottle and then I heard him leave the house in a hurry. There are train shenanigans going on this week, again, and so he decided to instead take the bus to the subway.
Well. The bus to the subway was overflowing and he couldn’t squeeze himself in. Since he thought the next one would be equally full he just turned around and went back home.
He got himself breakfast while I was still doing morning routine stuff and I didn’t see him after he told me what happened.
I was very determined to have another good day. And I had, only I also had a morning where everything takes longer than expected. But I did listen to my piece of classical music, and did my internet rounds, and looked at my list, and wrote messages right and left and did some admin stuff.
And then I went out to buy yogurt and go to the health food store.
The weather had been dreary and cold all morning with intermittent rain. I had looked outside before leaving and thought it a good idea to pack an umbrella but there was only a little rain, so I made do with my rain jacket. I wanted to do a trial run for the weekend and see how the jacket would be doing in the rain. I was also wearing the new pair of shoes I want to take with me on my trip to see if I’ll could walk in those for a while.
And then it started pouring down like crazy. I still didn’t want to get the umbrella out and then carry it around the rest of the way and I’m happy to report that the raincoat was sufficient and the shoes were only mildly uncomfortable.
I got everything I wanted apart from radicchio or any kind of salad, and made my way back home in time for lunch.
Lunch was a little late, though, so I had time to unpack groceries and fold two loads of laundry. Well, the parts of the laundry that were still on the drying racks, because the clothes had been hanging there for a while and had been picked off in part.
And then we ate lunch. Not outside this time:
I had a little over half an hour after that, that I used to read a bit and play my video game for twenty minutes.
Then there were many, many students. The student who often doesn’t show didn’t show up again (sick this time, poor thing), I did some more admin while I waited and after 15 minutes of that I decided to play the piano until it was time for the next student. That was fun.
Then more teaching until 6.30. I knew I still had a little time until the boy and I were supposed to do bodyweight training, so I refilled a fountain pen, cleaned the mirrors, touched everything with the feather duster and then I saw that my husband had started the dishes and had to stop right in the middle, so I finished those as well.
The boy was a little late but I didn’t mind. We did our exercise and then I could finally eat dinner.
After dinner I opened the manuscript for another 15 minutes, started writing this post, made a list for today, brushed my teeth, played some more video game and then went to bed with a book, well, ebook reader.
Oh, and at some point in the day I also filled some shampoo in a small travel container and packed my makeup into the toiletry bag.
Why yes, I was pretty tired last night but I felt soo good.
And now we just do it all again. Minus the grocery shopping and strength training plus cardio and writing sprints.
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