Well, it was really back to work Sunday evening for me last night, but today was my wife’s first day back in the office, and I had my fullest day with six Outschool classes to teach, beginning at 8am. I got a bit more sleep last night than the previous few, but still woke up a bit early, I think just before 6am. Hopefully one more night will see me sleeping through until a normal wake-up time, and I can declare the jetlag defeated.
The new next door neighbours have not started moving in yet. They are doing some renovations of the apartment before moving in. I mentioned three days ago they were removing the wooden shutters from the windows. Now they’ve ripped up all the carpet—I guess to either install new fresh carpet or perhaps wooden floors. And today they started painting, which caused a paint smell to permeate into my place even with all the windows shut. It was quite bad late morning as I was doing some classes, and Scully’s nose was affected and she started coughing.
They left a box of Lindt chocolate balls outside our door on Saturday, with a note apologising for the renovation noise and saying they expected it to be finished in two weeks, after which they’d be moving in, and looked forward to meeting us. As it turned out, the buyer of the apartment was one of the people we met briefly when they inspected the place, as we came out of our door while they were in there, and they asked us a few questions about the place. We were enthusiastic about our love for this as a place to live, and about the surrounding neighbourhood, so maybe that inspired them to buy it!
I took Scully out as soon as my classes finished, and walked her over to my wife’s office to drop her there for the afternoon. I wore my running clothes and ran all the way home, taking a longer route than runs along a bike/pedestrian path for a lot of the way so I could avoid car traffic, and to make the distance up to 5 kilometres. It’s the first time I’ve run this route and it was nice to have a change of scenery.
Tonight, another slightly early night and hopefully a full sleep through!