I wake up at 6, get dressed, go for a run with The Cos. Come back, take a shower get ready. M wakes up at 7, gets dressed, goes for a run with The Cos. I take over baby, dog and house duties and M works on her paper until 11 am and then I go to work.
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What really happened.
M woke me up a little before 7. I must have slept through my alarm or turned it off or ANDROID! The baby woke up shortly after, M went back to put her down, M fell asleep. I fell asleep. Next thing I know, it's 7:40, no run for me. Exhausted. I tried to take a shower, but couldn't stand, so bath. Tried not to fall asleep in the tub.
Got dressed and took the dog out. The dog was disgusted at me for not taking her out to pee sooner. I got back and the women were awake. I took over baby duty. M did yoga. We all had breakfast at the table together.
M sequestered herself. The Koala and I cleaned the house. M had taught the Koala how to participate in housework and she is rather lovely about it: loading and unloading the washing machine and dishwasher; wiping surfaces; putting things away; finding things she thinks you need, such as stray almonds. She is an excellent buddy this way.
I got ready for work, then M took over. It was hard to leave all of them. The Koala does this thing now when waving goodbye of popeye side smiling and partial winking, doesn't say a word. It's heartbreaking.
Work is now less work than home and it's actually relaxing because I can simply communicate directly and I do what I need to do without fuss instead of constantly navigating around the tiniest and most intrepid explorer and all of the things she finds and releases into the house. And not a single one of my students periodically begs me to carry them.
On my way home, I ran into our downstairs neighbors. The wife seems to relish in pointing out how tired I always look.
M had made dinner, but I had already eaten on the train, so she was disappointed. They were just finishing up as I arrived.
There was a bottle of Fritz cola on the counter and I turned around and it was empty. I asked M if she was able to drink it that fast, she said, "no, I just now watched you drink it."
M went for a run with the Cos. I put the baby to bed then we both spaced out for a while. I took the Cos out again for a 5k. It was supposed to be 30 minutes, but I ran out of steam midway and had a hard time walking back, the entire time thinking about food. It took more than an hour to get back and by then it was really late. Our dog was happy.
I made some kind of hybrid mashup of M's pasta and hot dogs. I crashed at 1 am. Woke up today at 6.
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