Lots of Monday energy

And that despite going to bed at midnight and waking up just 6 1/2 hours later unable to fall back asleep.

I did that thing where I look stuff up while writing morning pages, I don’t recommend doing that.

Nonetheless, I started out writing about other people and the patterns I see where my expectations get lower and lower.

And then I started thinking about my own patterns, the ones where I do stuff that is clearly embarrassing.

Huh.

And, you know, the things where I keep saying I want to change things and then I don’t do the things I need to do to actually change something.

That gave some big, fat Monday energy. And the I promptly offered to skip yoga and meditation so we wouldn’t be as late with breakfast. Husband didn’t accept that offer, phew.

We talked after breakfast, as usual, and I found that I finally had managed to make all the stitches line up properly in the fingerless mitten:

Yes, I was reading „War and Peace“ while knitting the last few stitches of ribbing.

I did the dishes, brushed my teeth and went walking/running:

I hit a rather energetic part of the BTS-playlist I use while running, so that made my pace a little faster than usual.

Meanwhile my husband was stressing out again, he had started trimming the hedge thinking that he only needed to do half of the front but that assumption turned out to be wrong. So he got into a huge time crunch.

Because I was really set on doing my training I did ask the boy to help, which he did. Good thing he had been too late for uni in the morning because that meant he was home and awake in time to take care of all the cutting and dirt before it was time for teaching.

Lunch was pretty simple but the tomatoes were homegrown:

Then I read a little, started the next mitten, cut my nails, fought the boss that had frustrated me five times already and won, did the lunch dishes and called a potential new student on the phone. Good thing I start teaching late on Mondays. I had already taken a shower before lunch.

I taught a handful of students, played the piano, ate dinner, talked with husband and worked on the manuscript for half an hour. Well, I say worked on the manuscript when in fact I’m still reading through the old book 2 but it is fascinating, there are so many great ideas in there. Most of them are just lose ends, but still.

I then started writing this post, made a list for today, fought some more video game bosses, brushed my teeth, re-watched the first episode of ‚Mobius‘ while plying purple yarn and went to bed.