life

So tired! I went to bed very, very late again. I wrote morning pages but skipped the rest of the morning „routine“. There is a point where all that lack of sleep does something to my energy. (I keep telling myself that point only comes after serious sleep deprivation when in fact it comes way earlier.)

I had to keep an eye on the clock because I had a doctor’s appointment for my skin cancer screening. Insurance pays for it every other year so that’s how often I do that. This time I hadn’t been able to get an appointment with my usual dermatologist again so I guess I now have a new usual dermatologist.

This one is a bit too far away for walking. I looked up how to get there by train but the walk to the station plus the train ride would have taken 30 minutes when Google told me taking my bike would only take 11 minutes. Since this is not my first rodeo I gave myself 20 minutes before my appointment to get there, and an additional 5 minutes for leaving the house late and inflating the tires at the last minute.

The actual bike ride took a bit under 15 minutes.

I had been a bit afraid it would be icy and slippery but it wasn’t too made. There were parts of the trip where it was pretty icy but I managed to navigate those without any problems. This is a picture I took on my way back on top of a bridge over the highway:

I was back home pretty early, oh, and my skin was fine and I could also ask some questions about other things, like what to do about the eczema on my eyelids. (The answer – as always – is to use a special lotion. Yet another one.

I didn’t stay long at home before venturing outside again, this time to the health food store.

My husband was still cleaning frantically, all the while through cooking lunch:

Somehow lunch was a bit uninspired…

We talked, the boy came downstairs after we had finished, we talked briefly and then it was time to teach.

I had a break in the middle because of a cancellation, I got two emails from my webhosting provider that resulted not only in my author website finally getting switched to a plan that allows for an SSL certificate, they also installed the certificate for me and apologized. So that saga should be finished now.

After teaching I talked briefly with the rest of the family, sat down to play silly games and read a bit, then start writing this post. My husband had done all the dishes that day in addition to all the cleaning and a load of laundry and was somewhat exhausted by the end of the day as well.

I did Duolingo and my foot exercises, wrote a list for today, watched some C-drama and went to bed.

Today should be a little easier with some added strength training.

And I didn’t get enough sleep yet again, ahem. So, there were morning pages and new words of fiction and then we had cake for breakfast, yum.

My husband didn’t want to do anything special on his birthday this year, apart from the cake and some champagne in the evening. He went for a run and I went for a walk, he made lunch and I even managed to take a shower before eating. Lunch was rice and dal:

The boy even showed up and we spent all the time I had between lunch and teaching talking about the upcoming elections and different political parties. Interesting but not the best choice of topic for my after lunch break.

The I taught only five students who were all delightful, one of them even showed up in a wheelchair. They had had foot surgery the week before. I was surprised they were fit enough to go to lessons. Well, they were waning a little at the end…

Then I started writing this post, did Duolingo, had dinner with the rest of the family, we opened a bottle of champagne, I watched a (very silly) Inspector Barnaby episode and went to bed.

Today I need to get a move on, busy day ahead.

Let’s see, I had one of those morning where I am rather slow, I started writing morning pages but then wandered off into the internets. I opened the laptop to write, turned away in disgust and then forced myself to do yoga.

I told myself I’d write later but that never works. Unless. When I told my husband I’d write later he was miffed because that threw all his plans for the morning and then he said, you won’t write anyway because you never do if you don’t do it first thing.

Which is true. Unless I get challenged.

So the writing happened.

The boy had told me to wake him up at 9.30 via text at midnight which I found puzzling because that important lecture where the prof doesn’t allow anything digital at all started at 10. And it takes more than an hour to get to campus.

Well, turned out he had read his calendar wrong and was very upset about missing that lecture. I should have gone upstairs and ask him at 7.30 but since he specifically told me to…

The original plan for the morning had been to walk to the supermarket together but then we realized that two packages were expected that day and since one of them is that frame for the boy’s bed we decided one of us should be home at all times.

So I walked to that supermarket alone. It was too slippery for biking, I thought. And yes, I slipped and almost fell on the way there but fortunately I was able to grab onto a handy wood fence and catch myself. Let’s just say those shoes are not really the best for ice and snow and I have ordered new ones since then.

Walking to the grocery store includes carrying everything back home, a heavy backpack and two big bags. I am experimenting with compression gloves for my poor arthritic fingers and I think they make a difference to the better. I guess I’ll see.

I walked all the way back, unpacked the groceries and ate the food that my husband had kept warm and reheated several times:

That is tuna even though it doesn’t look like it. My husband was experimenting with a new recipe and it was rather good.

Then I took a break and ate too much chocolate, taught four students, sent the boy the wrong time for bodyweight training so he showed up an hour early, corrected the time and said I was sorry, finished teaching, changed into sweats and did said bodyweight training with him.

Interrupted by him showing me his new computer and how brilliant ‚Space Marine 2‘ looks now and how fast it loads. We also talked about something uni-related. 

I finally ate dinner at 8.30, hung around for too long, watched most of one episode of C-drama while inhaling another brick of chocolate and crocheting and went to bed at a reasonable time.

Today looks pretty full as well but, hey, no teaching!