Busy weekends, general tiredness, specific tiredness, Opera.

I am tired.  My to do lists are too long.

I realise this is probably a result of doing things - we are doing a lot.  Or maybe we are doing... anything? We are doing more than we could last year with 18 month old twins.

We can go for walks with both twins out of the pram now.  Someday we will go for walks without a pram.  That will be so cool.

This weekend we went to the theatre with everyone to see the Welsh National Opera perform Play Opera Live: Shipwrecked.  Clara loved the theatre.  Ezra was interested.  Lily was tired.  Aubrey mostly enjoyed the folding seats

It was a kid theme show where they also sang opera.  I would say it was about 60/40 too much opera, exposure is good right?  I am a total pleb about Opera and at the end it turned out they had sung famous Opera songs throughout.  I thought they had just done 4 or 5 opera songs over and over but it was actually... 12 real opera songs. 

The weekend was just busy,  and the weeks are really busy.  There doesn't seem to be any downtime besides anything I carve from work and 5:30-6:30am, where I am writing this right now.  Apropos of nothing, I am so behind in photo albums at this point I'm half tempted to give up.  2026 is the year that we did too many things to remember.

I realize I'm moving forward on some small and big goals, which I guess is good? But also many of these are really boring goals. 

Last week I managed to get all my passport documents together so I can renew my US passport, which expires in July.  This week the goal is to mail it.

On Saturday Andy finished a many-year-long dream of mounting a second shelf in his/our office.  And he mounted pegboards for each of us as well.  In JANUARY we bought peg boards.  Apparently we need a 4 month lead time to drill two holes in our wall

My office wall is pretty instagram now though.  So thats exciting.

Mostly I am tired.  I even got a "tiredness screen" at the doctor which is a blood test that told me I am not sick, which is great, but somehow that doesn't make me less tired.  I realize I could probablys sleep more, or eat better, or do more exercise.  Somehow I managed to train for a half marathon starting around now last year.  Right now, I am failing to ride a peloton once a week.  Two weeks ago I did 3 days of a Peloton Strength programme and then got ill for 5 days.  In addition to being tired, I am being annoyed at being tired.  

In road cycling people used to say "it doesn't get easier, you just get faster".  I feel this is somehow the opposite. Parent life of kids age 2-7 is easier than all other age brackets I've experienced so far, and I am feeling more tired than ever at the effort.