Confinement Jour 11 : un jour avec moi
Mar. 27th, 2020 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieSo I had my first Bad Day the day before last. I had some worrying family Covid-related news which threw me off a bit, had a - most unsurprisingly - Very Bad night that same night (my body was convinced it couldn't breathe properly, I was busy convincing it it was a trick from our brain! Fun times!) then a pretty subdued day yesterday to process it all. As the day went by, I started feeling a bit better, though. I did sleep well last night and I've been feeling much better today. I never fail to quote Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in times like these: "sometimes, you need to wallow", which is exactly what I did. Between you and me, if the Lockdown is extended to the end of April as the scientific council recommends it, there might be other times when I will feel a bit under the weather. As long as the feeling doesn't last it'll be ok! [ETA: the Lockdown has officially been extended by two weeks - for now - meaning till mid-April]
Yesterday wasn't all doom and gloom though. My university bought a Zoom licence, and I've been Zoom'ing (I'm pretty sure that's now how you say it but I like the sound of it) with two friends followed with a session with my parents and it most certainly cheered me up :) It'll be perfect for the FP tea party we're planning for tomorrow.
Without the slightest segue. I keep documenting the confinement and decided I'd do in picture today.
Alright, so! My exciting (working) day.
(1) When I purchased A Gift of Love, I thought I would read through it pretty fast (as it's a rather short book) but then I realised that I didn't want to. Martin Luther King's sermons are so beautiful and meaningful that I wanted to take my time and not read them back-to-back like you would with regular chapters. I've decided to read one sermon a day in the morning at the moment and using that time to sort of meditate and reflect on Things. (2) After I finished today's sermon, I finished drinking my tea with some good ole YT videos and lazed around for a little while. (3) After that I headed to my Yoga studio, conveniently a door away from my living room! I usually do sessions that last between 20 and 40 minutes (depending on my mood or how I feel etc.). (3) After Yoga was done (thank you Adrienne!), I hopped in the shower and got dressed before I realised (thank you, Google) that today was Marinière Day so I decided to change my top and put on a Marinière because... well, just because, basically ;) (4) I finally headed to the office (by then it was 9.30 AM, which fair enough. It could have been worse.)
At this point, I'd forgotten that I wanted to do a load of laundry so I did that but I thought I'd spare you the chores I did today (laundry, hanging up laundry, cooking, dishes, putting away the now dried clothes).
(5) Felt a bit lazy so I heated up some leftovers and made a little beetroot/tomatoes salad for lunch - Cookie chose the pasta she hadn't eaten yesterday (she's been sick for the past week and isn't very hungry), which is why we had different plates. (7) After lunch, Cookie went back to bed and I sat down to read a little. (8) Back to the grind, it was. I made myself some tea with honey (to try and help with my sore throat) before my online meeting with my coworkers started. (9) I finished around 6.00 PM and felt like I needed some physical activities so I changed again and chose a workout on YT. (10) Had dinner on my own as Cookie had already gone to bed and watched some tv. (11) Talked to my sister for a little while then went back to my book and had a nice and relaxing time. (12) Last "activity" of the day, turning the office into a bedroom - as I've done the past few days (doctor's advice for the time being).
There. My day in a nutshell ;) I'm now writing this entry and hoping I won't get too lazy to edit it. After I post this... I think I'm going to watch a couple episodes of The Good Place (feel-good, sweet things before going to bed is the way to go) and then call it day. Then tomorrow, weekend \o/
Hope you had a nice day, flist!
Yesterday wasn't all doom and gloom though. My university bought a Zoom licence, and I've been Zoom'ing (I'm pretty sure that's now how you say it but I like the sound of it) with two friends followed with a session with my parents and it most certainly cheered me up :) It'll be perfect for the FP tea party we're planning for tomorrow.
Without the slightest segue. I keep documenting the confinement and decided I'd do in picture today.
Alright, so! My exciting (working) day.
(1) When I purchased A Gift of Love, I thought I would read through it pretty fast (as it's a rather short book) but then I realised that I didn't want to. Martin Luther King's sermons are so beautiful and meaningful that I wanted to take my time and not read them back-to-back like you would with regular chapters. I've decided to read one sermon a day in the morning at the moment and using that time to sort of meditate and reflect on Things. (2) After I finished today's sermon, I finished drinking my tea with some good ole YT videos and lazed around for a little while. (3) After that I headed to my Yoga studio, conveniently a door away from my living room! I usually do sessions that last between 20 and 40 minutes (depending on my mood or how I feel etc.). (3) After Yoga was done (thank you Adrienne!), I hopped in the shower and got dressed before I realised (thank you, Google) that today was Marinière Day so I decided to change my top and put on a Marinière because... well, just because, basically ;) (4) I finally headed to the office (by then it was 9.30 AM, which fair enough. It could have been worse.)
At this point, I'd forgotten that I wanted to do a load of laundry so I did that but I thought I'd spare you the chores I did today (laundry, hanging up laundry, cooking, dishes, putting away the now dried clothes).
(5) Felt a bit lazy so I heated up some leftovers and made a little beetroot/tomatoes salad for lunch - Cookie chose the pasta she hadn't eaten yesterday (she's been sick for the past week and isn't very hungry), which is why we had different plates. (7) After lunch, Cookie went back to bed and I sat down to read a little. (8) Back to the grind, it was. I made myself some tea with honey (to try and help with my sore throat) before my online meeting with my coworkers started. (9) I finished around 6.00 PM and felt like I needed some physical activities so I changed again and chose a workout on YT. (10) Had dinner on my own as Cookie had already gone to bed and watched some tv. (11) Talked to my sister for a little while then went back to my book and had a nice and relaxing time. (12) Last "activity" of the day, turning the office into a bedroom - as I've done the past few days (doctor's advice for the time being).
There. My day in a nutshell ;) I'm now writing this entry and hoping I won't get too lazy to edit it. After I post this... I think I'm going to watch a couple episodes of The Good Place (feel-good, sweet things before going to bed is the way to go) and then call it day. Then tomorrow, weekend \o/
Hope you had a nice day, flist!
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Date: 2020-03-28 12:14 am (UTC)I am writing. I think it's stress relief at the moment.
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Date: 2020-03-30 06:54 pm (UTC)Glad writing helps too!
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Date: 2020-03-28 10:32 am (UTC)I'm enjoying your photo posts. It's nice to see your day to day life and how much you're actually managing to do.
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Date: 2020-03-30 06:58 pm (UTC)Thank you for not finding them boring! lol I've just finished a new one. I wasn't thinking of making one (and so soon after the other, at that) but I had such a lovely weekend, I want to store it somewhere for rainy days, so to speak ;)