sunday again
we had a great weekend, in terms of weather, which is when you need it really. when you're stuck in class who cares if it's hailing or whatever? thank God for giving us lovely blue skies and sunny days and a much appreciated bit of warmth again! it's funny how it can be super hot one week and then next week super wintry, and when it's cold i totally cannot remember ever being hot and when it's hot i can't remember how i could have felt cold!
anyway after a first week of classes that felt like much longer than that, i was happy to have a bit of a rest. well there weren't any sleep-ins cos we are both determined to keep the body clock set to the right timings. friday night we had a date, went to eat at the lovely yaki tori place. gorgeous food! and i really enjoyed the tapas-style eating, little plates of delectable morsels instead of one huge plate of food which gets boring halfway through. i think i could do tapas style every meal if only i had the time and opportunity. on saturday we went to babysit for several hours. the boy was having a nap when we arrived and even after chatting to the parents for almost a good hour, then chasing them off to have their valentine's day lunch date, we still had a good 2 more hours of absolute quiet during which both of us managed to do a bit of work (i sat in the sun too! lovely!) before he woke up. apparently he was a bit sick and would have been normal to be cranky but he was lovely with us and i must say i had lots of fun watching the man interact with him - this is the first time i have seen the husband try to relate to a toddler - this the man who studiously avoids pregnant women and children haha! maybe he'll warm up to them in the course of his GP practice, simply because it can't be avoided!
although this semester i had big plans not to work during the weekend and work like 8-6 on weekdays there was so much to do this weekend. not only school work but house work too. this semester is so busy that the plan is to do all the cooking for the week in the weekend so that on weekdays when we get home late (the husband will pick me up from the library after work and we'll come home together) and don't have time to energy to cook, we'll still have healthy proper meals instead of resorting to takeaways or crap food!
in fact i have big plans this semester, mostly to do with time use. i feel myself in a new phase, one of trying to do all the thinking and planning ahead so that i have a routine i can simply execute with no stress. the thinking part is what takes up the most time i reckon, more so for myself, because i can't avoid thinking until i believe i have the most efficient plan. see? takes a lot of time.
so the plan is to be dropped off in the morning by the husband who will then drive out of town, then work til 6pm or so when he can pick me up, thereby minimising the amount of school work i need to do on the weekend, which can be then used to cook and try and maintain the house in small doses. not much planting this year, a bit of amending the soil. gym three times a week to balance my life with all that studying. though it'll be hard to have any kind of routine this semester cos it's so broken up. 4 weeks here, then 5 weeks placement, then 2 weeks holiday, then back to class etc.. it'll be over in a flash!
i have also been incubating ideas for my next knitting project. i think it'll be warm, sort of autumn/spring, wool of some sort but not scratchy (maybe merino/possum?) possibly a dark red, long, with buttons and maybe a tie front, hmmmm..... i'll have to think it up and try and design a pattern because i have such specific criteria that i almost never find a pattern that is exactly what's in my head so i'll have to work on something i can make variations to.... hmmmm...
anyway after a first week of classes that felt like much longer than that, i was happy to have a bit of a rest. well there weren't any sleep-ins cos we are both determined to keep the body clock set to the right timings. friday night we had a date, went to eat at the lovely yaki tori place. gorgeous food! and i really enjoyed the tapas-style eating, little plates of delectable morsels instead of one huge plate of food which gets boring halfway through. i think i could do tapas style every meal if only i had the time and opportunity. on saturday we went to babysit for several hours. the boy was having a nap when we arrived and even after chatting to the parents for almost a good hour, then chasing them off to have their valentine's day lunch date, we still had a good 2 more hours of absolute quiet during which both of us managed to do a bit of work (i sat in the sun too! lovely!) before he woke up. apparently he was a bit sick and would have been normal to be cranky but he was lovely with us and i must say i had lots of fun watching the man interact with him - this is the first time i have seen the husband try to relate to a toddler - this the man who studiously avoids pregnant women and children haha! maybe he'll warm up to them in the course of his GP practice, simply because it can't be avoided!
although this semester i had big plans not to work during the weekend and work like 8-6 on weekdays there was so much to do this weekend. not only school work but house work too. this semester is so busy that the plan is to do all the cooking for the week in the weekend so that on weekdays when we get home late (the husband will pick me up from the library after work and we'll come home together) and don't have time to energy to cook, we'll still have healthy proper meals instead of resorting to takeaways or crap food!
in fact i have big plans this semester, mostly to do with time use. i feel myself in a new phase, one of trying to do all the thinking and planning ahead so that i have a routine i can simply execute with no stress. the thinking part is what takes up the most time i reckon, more so for myself, because i can't avoid thinking until i believe i have the most efficient plan. see? takes a lot of time.
so the plan is to be dropped off in the morning by the husband who will then drive out of town, then work til 6pm or so when he can pick me up, thereby minimising the amount of school work i need to do on the weekend, which can be then used to cook and try and maintain the house in small doses. not much planting this year, a bit of amending the soil. gym three times a week to balance my life with all that studying. though it'll be hard to have any kind of routine this semester cos it's so broken up. 4 weeks here, then 5 weeks placement, then 2 weeks holiday, then back to class etc.. it'll be over in a flash!
i have also been incubating ideas for my next knitting project. i think it'll be warm, sort of autumn/spring, wool of some sort but not scratchy (maybe merino/possum?) possibly a dark red, long, with buttons and maybe a tie front, hmmmm..... i'll have to think it up and try and design a pattern because i have such specific criteria that i almost never find a pattern that is exactly what's in my head so i'll have to work on something i can make variations to.... hmmmm...