Waking up to another rainy day, we decided to enjoy the stormy sea and stay put. The pups weren’t keen to wake up and I can happily lounge in bed with them waiting for a break in the weather, especially when I have a ton of coursework I’m expertly procrastinating over.
Beach life
When Jaspers sad face encouraged us to embrace the rain, the pups had a great run around and Ernest made friends with another puppy which burnt off a lot of energy.
Mark and I then popped to the supermarket and tried to find a cafe, eventually finding a nice basic one open where we tested out our Spanish. I’m trying my best to string basic sentences together as often as I can, and it typically raises a smile, even if it’s not completely correct.
Grub
If you are tucked up in the van there is definitely a temptation for comfort food, so we spoilt ourselves with homemade beans on toast for lunch (so easy – can of harrico beans, can of tomatoes, mixed herbs), lots of nibbles, a scrummy dinner of seitan burger with salad and a huge batch of homemade vegan rice pudding for dessert (love this recipe ).
Sorting out my day / life
After another long walk, where we spotted more strange sculpture, mosaics and an elephant, we played bananagrams and I finally sat down and scheduled my whole week.
It turns out, with the aim of bettering myself and learning new skills I’ve enrolled on a ridiculous number of courses many of which are topics I am fearfully uneducated in (web design, SEO, blogging naming the scariest). I’ve got a couple I’m more excited by (Phd research, nutrition, food & brain science, and a random calligraphy course so my journal looks pretty). But true to form I’ve not allowed myself to do the fun ones until I start the scary ones.
Add to this a neverending list of books, research papers, podcasts, and exercise challenges and the last couple of days I’ve felt so swamped I’ve avoided doing anything.
So yes, I sat down and scheduled everything – morning routine, food, van duties, coursework, exercise and bedtime routine…hopefully leaving enough time to travel, explore and get to a final winter destination. It’s all on my habit tracker app and planned ahead in my journal, so no excuses.
N.B. yes I’m aware it could be considered I’ve successfully procrastinated another evening away planning what I’m going to do rather than doing it 🤣🙈 Haha wish me luck with the new schedule 🤞
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