today

Life is very flexible lately. Having no schedule means I often feel listless, but it also means I'm slowing running out of random distractions and getting on with changing my life.

Of course, the important thing I always avoid noticing too forcefully, is that in relaxing my routine and seizing my new interests, my everyday is becoming my new life quite organically. Honestly, it couldn't be better.



Having thought about this a bit, I'm going to record today, so I can remember this freedom isn't at the expense of effectiveness.

7am alarm goes off. snooze.

8am rouse to chat with Liam over breakfast before he leaves, then watch the mist
gathering out the window

8:40am roll out of bed, make a pot of tea and sit in the bay window overlooking the garden and write in my journal

9:20am stretch. eventually stop even trying to contain the cat-like noises my body seems set on emitting

10am dither over breakfast. decide to make (read: make-up) honeyed soda bread.

10:15 pop it in the oven, and tidy the hurricane of a front hall while it bakes. this mostly consists of sorting out the bookcases and filing away the piles of receipts and mail. it feels very Mary Poppinsish. bonus: find some old cards and letters and re-read them, feeling all fuzzy inside

10:50 - butter the toasty warm bread and feast

11:00 spelunk in the dvd bookcases and start sorting out those we still havent watched (MadMen, Persepolis), those that should come when we move (Persuasion, Edward Scissorhands) and those I'm probably done with (Signs, Team America). make a mental note to talk to Liam about his opinions on the subject.

11:30 personal emails and dither on twitter

12:15 finally take a shower and get dressed

13:00 chat to Liam on his lunch break briefly while concoct lunch. Today, thai sweet chili noodles and edmame.

13:30 proceed with an afternoon of weird tv (The Beauty of Diagrams & When the Moors Ruled Europe so far) and work (research, emails, proofing some work I've commissioned)

And now, the haar has rolled off, the sun is shining and I think it's time for a long walk, possibly a cuppa and then the commencement of the holiday weekend!

delayed

I thought working from home would leave me all this time. I was wrong.

I will write soon, and there is much to tell, but it is just too sunny to stay inside and our wifi doesn't reach the garden. so it'll have to wait. you poor poor people.