My days go by fast.
Out of bed before seven. Getting ready for school. Eat breakfast and head out the door.
German classes for a couple of hours.
Take the u-bahn to daycare and pick up baby Jonas.
Find someone to help me carry the stroller down the stairs to the u-bahn again. (Why Berlin can't you make the U-bahn a bit stroller friendly and have ramps or elevators? I miss Stockholm when it comes to this.)
Take the u-bahn to kindergarten.
Pick up Oskar. Getting him dressed and walking the few blocks home can take ages but my patience is not growing thin.
Play with the children for a couple of hours.
Make food for Jonas and try to put him to sleep. Works most of the times.
Eat Abendbrot with Oskar before it's TV time and we watch his favorite shows and sing along. Well I'm technically not allowed to sing along since I don't know the words that good yet, so Oskar mostly tells me to stop and that just mom and dad can sing along.
During TV time I usually fall a sleep for a minute or two. You want to know why?
Intros to children shows here are really relaxing. The singing is nice and seeing a show about a girl and her friends in the Swiss alpes is just a bit to soothing to stay awake. (Check out the intro to Heidi here and let me know what you think. This is Oskar's favorite show on TV). Maybe it's just me, but I just can't help myself.
After TV time we do all the things Oskar has to do before bed. He washes his hands, he goes on the potty and we brush his teeth together. This is a routine he knows well but never wants to do so this can take some time.
Then we go into his room and put on a CD and he goes to sleep. Not at once of course. Sometimes we play a bit, or he plays alone for a while. Sometimes he wants me to read for him and I do.
He comes out a couple of times of his room once I put him back to bed and wish him sweet dreams. I think he comes out of his room to check if I'm still there or if his parents are home.
After this I try to keep in contact with the world (write e-mails, facebook, twitter, skype...) and make plans to do things at night. I of course also do my homework as well.
Nights are spent playing board games, hang out with over a beer or going to a couchsurfing meeting etc.
That's basically that's it.
I do have days of from the children but since I living with them I tend to play when I'm around.
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When it comes to other everyday thing I'm exhausted.
I wouldn't be me if I didn't meet up with friends almost every day and I want to do it but I feel tried all the time.
Maybe it's the thinking that's doing it or the lack of reading and writing, because I do feel like I get enough sleep.
So what are you thinking about Jenny?
I'm glad that you asked.
Following is a list of the top three thoughts that pass though my head mostly all the time at the moment.
- romantic love
I could write about this topic and it would be a really long blog post, but I doubt that I would be interesting for anyone else then me to read. These thought are mostly written down in my diary. Romantic love take up so much of my thoughts at the moment. I just keep thinking about it in different ways, dating and past relationships and so on.
- fashion
Mostly I think about high heel shoes more then I believe is good. I dream about my vintage dresses back in Stockholm. I think about getting a little black dress(or other cloths) and I'm basically tried of every piece of clothing I have in my wardrobe and also a bit tried of dressing down. Berlin, comparing to Stockholm, is a very dressed down city.
- addictions and habits
I'm back to all my addictions. I have snus (oh, sweet nicotine) again and am a bit to happy about it so I use it more then I ever have before. The coffee intake is getting higher but the amount alcohol is getting less. I keep thinking about my habits in everything and wanting to change the once I don't like. This I could also write a lot about, but let's not even start.
I know that I feel better when I read and write, but lately I have been really bad at both. I do write but the words that come out feels wrong or old. I've written them before and I'm stuck in a pattern writing wise.
Reading goes slow. I've been reading in Swedish and German mostly. Swedish goes fast but I can't keep anything in mind and on the other side German goes slow and I try to keep every word in my head, every way to turn a phase and the use of different grammar. I don't get any flow in any.
When these two aren't working for me it makes me feel stressed, since I use reading and writing as a way to came myself down and let my thoughts be concentrated for a moment. Getting drawn in by a story and stay in that world for a while.
I'm working on getting back on track with both and I think I'm on the right way.
It's my day of today, and the whole family is home. I hear them playing in the living room. I'm smiling when I hear the things that out of Oskar's mouth when he runs around. I'm going to make some coffee, have a snus and read until TV time. Tonight I'm stay in.
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