I woke up late this morning; I forgot to turn “on” the alarm. (Actually, in the middle of the night I woke up and thought I turned on the alarm, but in reality I didn’t hit the right button). Eriko and I shared breakfast together, which was nice. Off to work I went. I don’t remember whether I was productive or not, but I had no scheduled meetings today. I came home for lunch and we shared a nice meal together.

I woke up early this morning (about 6:20). I set the alarm aggressively; my strategy was that if Eriko was going to continue to go to bed real early and not wake up in the morning than I might as well get up earlier so that I could go to sleep earlier (and maybe leave work earlier too). To my surprise, after about 30 minutes, Eriko left the bed too. We made a banana smoothie for breakfast and then Eriko went back to work.

I woke up a little late since the alarm didn’t go off. Eriko stayed in bed. I wasn’t real hungry (my stomach still had food from the previous day of eating) so I just ate a piece of toast with honey. I went into work and had lots of stuff to do. The day was relatively light, with only a single meeting in the morning. I went home for lunch and Eriko had prepared a meal; afterwards she walked me to the park before I headed down the hill.

We slept in, although I reach a point where staying in bed becomes detrimental; I woke up before Eriko. The morning was pretty calm. She felt a little better but was still quite sluggish. I spent the morning on the computer and she was watching a (strange) Japanese movie. I called Alex about ten to see if he still wanted to have brunch with us and he did – ETA in about 30 minutes.

We slept in a little; the weekends are nice. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to be able to sleep in for hours like I used to. Part of the reason is that we are consistently going to bed relatively early (especially lately). Eriko was not feeling well and didn’t want to cook. I wasn’t hungry and just ate some toast. Eriko went downhill from there. She went to take a nap, but couldn’t get comfortable, nor sleep.

Having stayed up a little later, I didn’t wake up until the computer turned on (despite the alarm 30 minutes early). Eriko was even slower and didn’t get out of bed, so I went to work alone. Work was pretty busy. One notable thing that occurred in the morning is that I observed my team (during our daily meeting) really having a good time, making jokes and laughing with each other.