Not making any promises, especially because this definitely took more than half an hour. But I would like to get back to daily writing, and life drawings.
Today was a nice day, even though I was doing some work today and yesterday. I tend to be able to cope with working at weekends, if it’s not for masses of hours (I think I did about four today and four yesterday) and it’s threaded in between and around other nice things. Or, perhaps more to the point enjoying the ordinary little bits of everyday life.
Everyday things that I’ve enjoyed doing this weekend …
Sitting on the sofa drinking tea
Reading my book (Confessions of a forty-something f###k up)
Washing up
Cleaning the bathroom while having a shower (multitasking win)
Walking to the shop and going through the park instead of the slightly quicker route along the road
Cooking dinner (last night I had a quick stir-fry just for me and everyone else cooked their own food; tonight I made loaded sweet-potato fries for three of us, as one of us is away for a few days, which were very nice and 100% plant-based) and dancing to the ‘Happy Mix’ playlist on Spotify
Drawing while watching Mrs Maisel
Setting PowerPoints while watching Mrs Maisel (that was the work, but it probably does count as an ‘everyday thing’, especially when it’s leaching into the weekend, but I did enjoy it, too)
I would really like to add hanging out some washing to this list, but it rained a lot yesterday and I forgot to put any on today, although actually I think I had got through it all during our two days of summer earlier in the week and wouldn’t have been able to make a full load without mixing our clothes with the kids clothes, which just wouldn’t do and would be far too confusing.
Slightly less everyday, but fairly ordinary things, that I’ve enjoyed doing this weekend …
Cutting my hair (I have been cutting my own hair since the pandemic and it’s been a while since I cut it last, because I had been thinking I would let it grow long, but then it was annoying me - I was enjoying it whenever I put it up, but down it was just too heavy and would go quite flat, rather than nice and curly, so I took really quite a lot off and it made me feel on top of the world)
Skype call with Chris’s parents (this is a pretty much weekly occurrence and I really enjoy it)
Postcard from my oldest friend (oldest as in she’s been my friend for longer than anyone else, I have friends who are older)
Looking up about where one of my kids has gone for a few days at the last minute and being reminded about the time we saw a unicorn in Puzzlewood
I love travelling and day trips to the city, but I also really do love the ordinary pottering of everyday life.
Here’s some of the everyday life that I drew.
I started cutting my husband’s hair at the start of the pandemic and I’ve gotten quite good at it :) I find some odd joy in these small self-sufficiencies, cutting his hair and dyeing mine, repairing our small electric appliances, growing our own herbs on the balcony, mending some clothes as I can. I’m not amazing at any of these things but they make me happy.