Lockdown Day #21

Well we have made it to 3 weeks, well done us.  Not sure about you but not much has happened in my world in the last couple of days.  I’ve gotten up each morning, getting more and more tempting not too though, done some work, then procrastinated plenty, done some more work, then chilled till dinner, eaten dinner then done not a lot else after.  So yeah, that’s about my days these days.  Oh and ystdy for some excitement I got to go to work for a couple hours to fix a technical issue, and I can safely say I did not fix it but I found a workaround which in my book is pretty much the same thing, it’s the same result so therefore basically the same thing.  Certainly helps keep the stress out of my life, well limits it and stops it getting too high shall we say.

Also finished painting the inside side of my front door, looks pretty good if I do say so myself.  Kinda makes me want to paint the ceiling though, but I have enough other things that are more higher on my list of wants than that, though I do spend a lot of time in the lounge so it may get bumped up the list at some stage.  Hopefully by the time it gets bumps up my slave can come and help do it…. hehe.

Glenny, it turns out, is not very good at looking after wool.  I have given him my cellphone instead cos he kept tangling the wool which is not cool, it does not make crocheting any easier if the wool is all tangled.  He is much better at looking after remotes and cellphones I think.

Finished watching Doctor Doctor if you care, and in the injustice that is this world so often it is not in stock with the company I normally buy my Aussie DVDs from.  I mean what else am I meant to do on lockdown but mission through TV shows so it’s a bit mean if I can’t even buy the next season of the one I was watching.  May have to buy the other show that I want that NZ doesn’t seem to be stocking instead.  Good thing I like a variety of shows aint it hehe.

Have you noticed that summer has left, I sure have.  It is definitely getting cooler at night and in the evenings and the days are not so warm.  I think I have fully acclimatised to Hastings weather too, I do not remember thinking these temperatures were this cold last year.  It does make the summers better though, with them not seeming so hot.  Spose you can’t win them all, or that is what they say, and I should just be happy with what I have.

In the achievement side of things, cos we still have to celebrate those, I made pancakes today without setting of a single smoke alarm, yup in my mind the celebration is in full swing with streamers and confetti.  Bro would be able to tell you that this is in fact a rather impressive achievement for me, sad fact but true.  And no, no one was here to witness it except Glenny and we all know how unreliable he would be on the witness stand so you have to take my word for it.  Promise I am telling the truth, however I will not ever promise to be able to do it again (I can set them off cooking eggs after all, I think mine may actually be a tad too sensitive, if that is possible…)

Tomorrow am going to head into work in the morning for an hour or so, for no other reason that I want to and I can so I will.  Then I dunno, might head home and do some procrastinating, or go for a walk or run, or be lazy and do nothing.  Who knows, the world is my oyster, so long as I stay in my bubble and don’t venture too far it is anyway lol

Lockdown Day #19

Well we made it through Easter, well done to all of us.  Not exactly the Easter I thought I would have at the start of the year, but then often this is the way as I like to change plans as things that appeal and ideas that sound cool grab my attention.  I won’t keep you in suspense about my awesome as outfit today, as I know you are all dying to know hehe.  Today I was Workman Jilly, wearing my fav boots (gorgeous steel capped boots that every sensible girl should have, and they aren’t even purple (mostly cos purple ones are nowhere near as cool as these ones)), and dad’s old overalls that are awesome and super comfy (and super painted and rather dirty).  And since I had the outfit on I decided I might as well prep and start painting my front door, just the inside side as I want it white not that weird green that is in the pic below.  And the wood bits around it (technical term that one lol) are also becoming white.  This was a job on my slaves list but hey I got bored and to do sewing I have to either clear the sewing desk or the table, neither of which is a fun job so painting it was.  And yes I still don’t like painting, but I do like the result so I will tolerate it for now.  Still got a coat or two to do and I’m sure I will find time to do them during the week.

Did some work work as well, yeah I know it’s the wknd but whatever, I was bored and I had a report to NZ On Air to be written so I worked on that for an hour or so.  The report is one that I have to do every quarter and there are bits that I could do each month that would probably make it easier but I never remember too and so at the end of the quarter I have 3 months’ worth to do.  Atlst the most time-consuming part I remember to do at the end of each month, otherwise it would prob take about a day to do the whole thing.

It has been super windy today, I have even yelled at the wind a few times to ‘calm the farm’ cos it was going a bit nuts.  Have not ventured outside much today because I am pretty certain that I will get blown away and if I am going to break lockdown rules it will be for something more fun than being blown away by the wind.  I was going to go for a run, that was the plan when I woke up anyhow, but btwn the wind and the painting of the front door I decided against it.  Sides there is always tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day…… lol

My super helpful bear is currently looking after my lollies and handing me one on a regular interval :) best bear ever!  Yes I know it’s dinner in an hour or so, but considering I think it should be more like 8pm right now and that the clocks have stopped, eating lollies makes perfect sense to me.  Plus it keeps the bear busy and a busy bear is much better for my health than a bored bear, just saying.

Not sure what I am going to do this evening, I don’t really feel like doing anything.  I can’t be bothered reading, don’t feel like crafting or colouring, don’t feel like watching anything cos everything I own seems blah… so yeah, no idea what I am going to do this evening, but I am guessing if the afternoon has been on a mega go slow then it is likely that the evening will be on one as well.  And we still have atlst 10 days to go, oh yeah those 10 days are going to be fun.  May have to leave a job or two for Dof so that he comes to visit and then he can entertain me in the evenings, and cook cos I’m bored of that too (aka he can boil the jug for either camping meals or noodles, we live the high life when he is here lol).

The one good thing that has come out of the lockdown so far is that I have perfected how I like my cup of tea.  Now this may sound weird seeing as I have been drinking tea for years, however I used to have milk in my tea but it has slowly been getting less and less (cheers body for not being able to handle dairy very well, just so kind of you), and earlier this year I was finding even a small amount in my tea was making me want to puke.  So the milk had to go.  Now came the challenge of figuring out how I liked black tea, I tried it with sugar and with honey, both were definitely no’s.  Turns out I like it just plain black, there is just a very specific time that it needs to sit for, too little and it’s not as good but is still drinkable, too long and it’s just gross and not drinkable.  So yeah, being stuck at home with time on my hands has atslt resulted in me figuring out how I like black tea lol.

Hope you all enjoy your short week :) I think I might do some work from home, prob go see Ken at some stage to make sure he’s all ok (lol), maybe go for a run or two, and prob be bored for quite a few of the hours…

Lockdown Day #18

Can’t believe it’s day 18.  18 days of being stuck without the freedom of doing what we want, when we want.  No going to see family, no hanging with friends, no getting together with any of the clubs you may belong to, no going out for coffee or food, no hugs, no freedom.  I know that what we are doing is saving lives but still, it’s not exactly fun every day being told you can’t do what you want or see who you want, yet having to entertain yourself so you don’t get too bored or go too insane.

Today I really would have quite liked to have gone out for food, but assuming that this was a normal week, not Easter or lockdown or anything, I could not have gone to the place I wanted to go cos they are not open on Sunday’s.  But since this is not a normal week that point doesn’t really matter anyhow, and all a girl can do is dream.  And dream for what another 10 or so days, then hopefully I will be able to go out for dinner and not have to cook.  And ok, so I am mostly microwaving, or adding hot water, or just chucking some kumera in the oven but it’s still counts as cooking which is more than I want to do some days.  Plus cooking leads to dishes needing to be done, and the one thing I am running out of is dish washing liquid, and I don’t really want to face the supermarket again just for that.  So less dishes is preferred, and no cooking would be the ideal.  Prob a good thing I can’t really go online shopping at the moment, will need the extra money for all the not cooking I am going to do when lockdown is lifted lol.

I was lazy productive today :) What is lazy productive I hear you ask, well simple, it’s when you are productive but you don’t do anything requiring much physical effort.  I managed to watch a whole season of Doctor Doctor, ok so it’s only 10 episodes but still, totally nailed that.  Also I started the day with three crocheting projects on the go, and now I am down to two.  Yup I finished one, and it’s even sewed together, mostly, needs a couple of domes then it is all done.  Am pretty proud of that.  Normally I leave the sewing up for ages, and the darning in of threads for even longer.  For example finally properly finished a throw I made a year ago this morning, yup I darned the ends in finally lol.  I did also work on the other two projects I have on the go, but they are bigger than the one I finished today, well bigger and not as fun which meant I kinda focused on the other one a bit more.  But that’s how things get finished isn’t it so there is nothing wrong.  Ps this paragraph made me go past 10,000 words in this lockdown diary, I have written quite a lot really haven’t I :) I think it’s kinda cool, in a something kind of way lol, cannot think of the word I want in there so feel free to insert your own lol.

Glenny has been very useful today, and we didn’t even do any work work.  I know, shock horror right, no work for JB for a whole day.  Well it is Sunday, and Sunday is the day of rest, and being Easter Sunday that means extra rest… right… lol.  Anyhow back onto how helpful my bear was today, he looked after many things for me throughout the day, my phone, scissors, dvd remote, needle needles, crochet needles, (I was alternating between two different ones), and sometimes he held up to three of these things at a time.  What a talented helpful boy I have hehe.

Today my outfit was Punk Rocker Jilly.  Bit harder to pull this one off with no make-up or nail polish, but since I no longer own either I made do.  And because I am me and I like to be comfortable I slowly exchanged parts of the outfit with items more suitable to lounging around, so am currently still in the stockings and t-shirt, but have on some short running shorts (that I never wear running lol), ex dads leg warmers, bedsocks and a ex dad hoodie, so super comfy clothing hehe.  And Glenny is still looking after my phone for me so he is still going strong :)  

Hint for my tomorrow outfit: I am going to be wearing my favourite pair of boots, and what is possibly my favourite item of clothing, I say possibly as sometimes I am in a mood where something else is more favourite but in general what I am wearing tomorrow is my favourite.  I know, super vague and not helpful but thought I'd give you a hint in case any of you want to guess what I am going to be.  Another not helpful hint is that the item of clothing I love used to be dads lol cos that barely narrows it down :p 

Lockdown Day #17

Well today started off nice and quiet.  I read in bed for a while, then got up and put a load of wash on so that if nothing else I could claim I had been semi productive because of that, then read on the couch for a while, had lunch and read on my beanbag in the sun for a while.  Once the book was finished though (it was a pretty crap book but still wanted to know how terrible the end was, not the best chick lit I have ever read but also not the worst so I kept reading, I mean I knew that the guy and the girl would get together and I was intrigued enough to keep reading, if the book is bad enough then I don’t care enough to keep going and then I don’t) my afternoon picked up.  

I played 18 rounds of golf (yes I still suck), some baseball (not a lot before giving up tho cos the game sucks), then did some ten-pin bowling, then some skiing and some snowboarding, then went to a couple of step classes then did some hula hooping.  So a very busy afternoon (playing the Wii if you are wondering).  Oh and I also made stew for dinner.  Not with my main recipe though, cos that didn’t work, I tried though but I don’t think it’s a lockdown recipe (it may say something along the lines of be busy and leave it to Dof to make hehe, he never turned up though).  So I made it myself.  I am not quite sure what I did wrong but I managed to burn it, it seems my cooking skills are almost limitless lol.  Considering I didn’t have any onion or carrot and I burnt it, it still tasted pretty damn amazing.  Yummy yummy yum yum.  I did add stock and herbs to it which probably made it the yumminess that it was.  Not sure I want to do the dishes though cos I also burnt last night’s stir-fry which means I now have a pot and a frying pan to scrub :( boo cooking, it so shouldn’t be required if one doesn’t want to do it. 

I also worked out today that Glenny and I both have a bald patch in roughly the same location, I think we have been hanging out a bit too long lol.  Not sure who got theirs first cos as far as I know he has had his forever and mine was already there the first time I shaved my hair so mine coulda been there forever too.

Today I wore one of my medieval dresses and was Medieval Jilly.  I normally wear the blue one when I wear one but today I decided to have a bit of a change up and I wore the other one.  The sleeves got a bit annoying for some things.  They were all good for things that required my arms to be raised, like hanging the washing, and were all good when it came to things like reading, but most everything else they just got in the way.  I did discover though, that varnishing while wearing a medieval dress does not make it smell any better, it still smells ick.  

And yes, if you were wondering I did some work today.  I know, I know, I am becoming a bit of a nerd during lockdown but it fills in time, and it saves time later on so it’s not too sad I don’t think.  My assistant was pretty assisty today, he musta been in a good mood.  I mean he didn’t go out of his way, and he wasn’t like a superhero assistant but still he was pretty good with what I wanted him to do :) I’m guessing he didn’t realise it was Saturday of a long wknd, or he will ask for something in return another time, but I don’t mind, I got what I wanted today which is all that matters at the moment hehe.

Oh, I also got a tad distracted this morning (in btwn all the reading) and watched a couple of my Scottish mates play Xbox online for a while.  It was rather addictive, I like watching them play, I used to hang out with them while they played some wknds when I was in Edinburgh.  Mark was doing it as a fundraiser for a charity, he was playing for 24 hours straight, that would have been hard I think.  And Ant was doing it to keep Mark company.  I only watched for about an hour, my connection kept cutting out which didn’t make it as fun and it should have been.  But it was still awesome watching them play again, and hearing them chat, there is just something about a Scottish accent…. mmmmm lol.

I have gotten my wool box out of the wardrobe as well, and I have started my next crocheting project.  Nope, not telling you what it is yet, mostly cos I don’t know if it is going to work or not so this way if it doesn’t work out right and I turn it into something else then I don’t have to admit that if I don’t want to lol.  If it works how I want though it should look pretty awesome, so got my creative fingers crossed that it all goes to plan.

Not sure what my plan is for tonight, but am probably going to watch some Doctor Doctor, if you haven’t heard of it, it is a awesome as Aussie tv show.  I have the first 3 seasons on dvd, and I think the 4^th is due out soon so thought it would be wise to re-watch them all so I know what has happened when I get the 4^thseason to watch.  Not that I would forgot as have watched them a few times but who would want to take the risk hehe.

Lockdown Day #16

Not much has happened in the last couple of days, feel like there is not much to update you all on or to say.  Pretty sure it was ystdy that I went into work, I needed some info from a folder that was there and going in was a much better option than getting Ken to drop it off to me hehe.  Was quite good fun, so good to see Ken, and he gives such a good welcome these days hehe.

Today I feel like I didn’t do much, I mean ok yes there was a lot of chilling involved but I also did do stuff inbtwn the chilling, just apparently not significant enough for me to really remember.  Did play with Lego for a while, and tried to read for a bit, did a few hours of work, tidied up a bit, went for a run, talked to Jo for ages, but yeah not really anything worth commenting on.  

Did dress up today, cos after all it is Easter and I wanted to make it more interesting than just another 4 days at home.  Hmmm maybe that is why I did a few hours work as well lol.  Today I was Cowboy Jill :)

Lockdown Day #14

Today was a good day, just wanted to start by saying that.  And I would say it was a good day based on normal day standards not just lockdown standards.  Dunno why, not like anything spectacular happened or anything, but it was just a good day.

Started with me reading my book while I decided if I wanted to start the day doing work or not, I figured while deciding it would be stupid to do nothing so read it was.  Then I did a bit of work, admittedly nowhere near a proper days work but I plan to work some over Easter so I figure its ok.  Also I did a fair chunk of what I wanted to do today last night so it wasn’t like I had heaps and heaps to do.  After doing some work I read some more.  Hehe can you guess what my day revolved around :) 

I then emptied out and cleaned the pantry, man I have a lot of stuff in there, not as much in there now cos some of the stuff I threw out instead of putting back.  Then I rearranged the kitchen, and I just want to say to all you male relatives out there I am annoyed at you, almost mad I would say but not quite that far, just a little bit shy of it.  Why am I annoyed with you I hear you asking, simple, none of you warned me how heavy a fridge is and how hard it would be to move it off its previous concrete home and onto carpet.  I mean sure dad gets most the blame cos he should know that at some stage my brain would go ‘hey, let’s rearrange the kitchen, wouldn’t the fridge be cool there and the pantry there, come on, it’ll totally work’, and therefore he really should have warned me.  But the rest of you have known me long to know that I might do something like this and that I should be warned so you all get a bit of the blame.  Bro gets the full blame for the pantry, I do not remember it being so heavy or tall when we got it and moved it in, man was that a mission to move without it falling over.  So yeah kitchen is now rearranged, and when I put the pantry stuff back in I rearranged that as well.  Not sure if things are better now than they were but it’s different which will keep me happy for a while.  And a side effect of the rearranging is that a job on dads list (which to be honest I’m not sure he was ever going to do, I feel like he didn’t think it was as impt as I did) now no longer needs to be done, so I’m saving him work.  Aint I such a nice daughter hehe.  Oh and I read inbtwn the emptying and cleaning the pantry, and the rearranging stuff, and the resorting the pantry.

After some more reading I then went for a run and it drizzled on the run so that was awesome.  I do love running in the rain, a bit more than we got today would have been nice but too little is better than too much so I’m not going to complain too loudly.  

Then I read some more, haha shock horror I know, but if I didn’t read so much I wouldn't be almost finished the book I started last night, so see it was a super productive thing to be doing.  I also made one of my favourite meals – fries, covered in coleslaw, then coated with garlic aioli.  It is very specific for me to love it not just like it though, it needs to be served in a bowl, with the salt added btwn the fries and the coleslaw, and just the right amount of garlic aioli on top.  Super yum yum yum.  

In the assistant update, he looked after my phone today which was nice.  I do need it kinda near so I can hotspot and then log in for work, and sometimes he does a good job at looking after my stuff like the phone, other times not so much.  Today he was in fine form, and he didn’t even msg anyone on behalf of me, that I am aware of, which is always a good thing.  He did say he is not working Easter though, and that I can’t make him cos working public holidays is not in his contract.  In all fairness I’m pretty sure he has signed no contract so I actually can’t make him do anything, but then in saying that he also pays no rent so he kinda owes me.

Now, I am either going to read some more or do some work, not sure yet but maybe a bit of both, work first then read till bedtime.  I want to get our monthly newsletter sent out tomorrow and if I work on it tonight then Ken has a chance to read the ‘test’ copy and add anything he wants to add to it before the long wknd which would be awesome.

Anyhow, hope you are having a good week and that lockdown is not getting to you too much.  I would offer to send a bear to you to keep you company but we all know I need mine to keep me sane and all the others have to stay as well so someone is witness and can tell the story when I do finally lose the plot lol.  Hopefully you have a bear of your own, and if it is sitting in the window I hope you are checking on it to make sure it isn’t bored or lonely.  My neighbours made me laugh today, they had a large toy gorilla hanging from their shade cloth watching everything that was going on.  And I was pleased to see they took it inside when it started raining, they obviously know that stuffed toys are not just stuffed toys…. Yes sir, that was a dig at you :p

Lockdown Day #13

Wow, officially two weeks tomorrow, which means I have been in lockdown for two weeks today.  It’s beginning to feel like normal life almost, I certainly have gotten into a routine with things and sometimes there is motivation and sometimes there is not.  And today there was a cough added to the mix.  Ken and I have decided it’s just cos it’s getting cooler and the air is not as warm.  It’s the best option out of all that it could be (the other options being he made me sick at work ystdy or that I caught something when I went grocery shopping on Sunday), so a cool air cough it is, and that is what it better turn out to be. 

I went into work ystdy which was nice, got a good welcome from Ken when I walked in too.  Haha I think he is missing the variety of people he normally gets to see.  But I don’t mind, a good welcome and someone being excited to see you is always nice.  Today back to working from home and there were quite a few calls btwn me and Ken, it was just one of those days I think.  Hopefully tomorrow is a bit quieter, though I may do some work later tonight so I have less to do tomorrow, what I will do with all that extra spare time who knows, maybe just chill with my bear, maybe do something constructive…. Only our good friend time will know hehe.

Talking about work, my assistant has forgotten everything he learnt last week, just slack these young people these days.  I decided ystdy that since I was going into the office later I wouldn’t bother re-teaching him anything, but today he refused to help at all which was not cool.  I spose on the bright side he didn’t sit there throwing stuff at me which was a bonus.  Maybe tomorrow he will have remembered stuff and be a bit more useful again.

We have decided on the four outfits I am going to wear over Easter to make it more special, and we decided on the order as well so we are doing well.  We discussed different options and came to the conclusion that alphabetical would be the more me way of doing things, cos if I draw them out of a hat I am likely to not want to wear the one I draw just cos.  Not that doing it alphabetically means I will be wearing stuff that is practical for what I want to do that day but that is a bridge to be crossed another day.

While doing the lawns ystdy I did think that sometimes it would be nice to have a place with less maintenance than this place has, then I laughed at myself cos to get less maintenance I would basically have to live in a unit block with no outside area.  I think it had something to do with doing the edges with the grass scissors while wearing a skirt and stockings (and steelcapped boots cos safety is impt (and they are cool)) so I was not sitting or kneeling on the ground which would have been easier.  Yes I do have an edger for those of you wondering but we do not get along so the scissors it is.  The lemon tree also broke the truce that we had so it better watch out if I get bored, I might take back my letting it win and attack it again.  

Aint really done much other than work and blob today, have an idea of stuff that I could do but just can’t really be bothered.  Maybe tomorrow.  Have been watching a new series that I recorded and I have to say, I lived a rather sheltered teenage life and I am glad.  Thanks mum and dad and everyone who helped with that.  Even my adult life is rather sheltered compared to many people that I know, but to be honest I don’t mind, I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything and have never felt tempted to change things.  Sides what would my bear do without me hanging out with him, he might get bored and leave and then I really would be alone and that would be sad.  So sheltered all the way lol.

Hopefully tomorrow I wake up feeling a tad more motivated, or atlst that the motivation sticks around a bit longer.  It tends to be around till about lunch but that time is spent working which is not a bad use of the motivation but it does mean that nothing much extra is getting done around here and if I have to be stuck here I might as well have something to show for it.  Which is one of the reasons I’m contemplating doing some work tonight, means that I could finish earlier tomorrow and maybe get stuff done.  Or finish earlier and spend longer blobbing lol.

Lockdown Day #11

Well ystdy was just blah, very very blah, and also very never-ending.  There was a point where I thought all my clocks had stopped.  It didn’t seem to matter whether I was sitting there doing nothing or if I was busy being productive, time just was crawling by.  Thankfully today was much better, I think the sun being out helped.  It’s crazy how a blah day weather-wise can also affect your mood.  The sun just somehow makes the day better, and makes you more motivated to do something, well I find it does anyhow.

Glenny and I found the Lego today, we have had lots of fun with it.  At this stage we have decided to just build the construction dudes, for those of you new to the JB Lego World the construction dudes are the baddies.  This is because in all the Lego City I have got I have only got one criminal, yet there are many many police people and they would get bored and restless if we didn’t give them something to do.  But since there is not a lot going on at the moment we think that having only construction dudes for a while could be entertaining.  Also, don’t think that we think real life construction workers are baddies, it’s just that it was btwn the fireman, the hospital people and the construction dudes, so not really a contest there is there?

I also went for a run, pretty stoked as it was the first time since starting running again that I did more than 5km without stopping.  I had forgotten the magical ingredient in the other runs (either that or I have magically gotten fitter after being sick and not running for a week… go figure), the magical ingredient being my iPod.  Still just ran around Frimley Park, I know not everyone is doing the stay in just your neighbourhood unless you are going grocery shopping or to work thing but I feel like it is a stupid idea to go further afield if you don’t need to.  But that may just be me with a sketchy immune system on my mind.  Frimley Park is about, I think, 2.3km if you run around the outskirts which is what I normally do but then I get bored, so today I zigzagged my way up and down then went around some of the outside.  Basically ran till my cd ended then headed to my finish line, then died lol.  Am pretty stoked with my effort though.  Am also pretty glad I am back running, it is something I love, even if it’s not a good run it still tends to make me happy while I am running.

Did some baking as well today.  Yum yum.  Been meaning to for a few days now, but the cookies I wanted to make require the mixture to be refrigerated for 4-6 hours (or ideally overnight) before baking the cookies, which I normally remember about too late and then I decide to do it the next day, which I again forget about so then decide that the next day will be the day.  It also doesn’t help that there is always a tomorrow at the moment.  Also made some weet-bix slice, if Ken is lucky I will take him some tomorrow, if he isn’t then it’s all mine to munch on cos it’s not like anyone is going to be visiting any time soon lol.

Am currently watching virtual Indycar which is a weird experience.  It’s like watching me and bro race but with no going off the track and no one constantly spinning while trying to get back onto the track, or taking out someone lapping them on their re-entry, and no one is missing any body work.  Not sure if they know what they are doing if they aren’t leaving the track and leaving bits of their vehicles all around the track lol.

Am going into work tomorrow for an hour or so which will be good.  There is a broadcaster that it is easier if I record with and that gives me an excuse to go in which I am taking.  Is still weird doing our recordings by ringing the broadcasters and then hitting record and we edit the extra stuff in afterwards but it is great that so many broadcasters are willing to do it this way as it means we are playing new shows for many of the shows, not just old repeats.  Of course for some there are repeats but we are doing what we can and the best bonus is that it is keeping Ken busy, and while I can handle chilling at home inbtwn work when there is not much to do, Ken is not someone who can handle doing not much or being bored.  I do feel sorry for him being stuck at home in the wknds but atlst for him he has work to go to everyday to keep busy.

I finished my book today, am kinda sad about that as it was a really good book.  You know the kind, where you are torn btwn reading it really fast and reading it really slow.  Fast cos you just really want to know what happens, and slow cos you don’t want to leave the amazing world and characters the author has created.  This book was like that.  It was Winter of Fire by Sherryl Jordan, and it was just amazing.  It is a young adult book and the edition that I read was a 25^th anniversary edition and all I could think each time I put it down was ‘where was this book when I was a teenager’.  Of course it was around, I am not that old, but for some reason it was not on my radar.  Teenage me really would have loved it, I mean grown up me loved it so of course teenage me would have as well but you know when you read something that you know a younger you could have benefited from, well this was like that.  The plot was very typical for a fantasy book, there was oppression, someone who stood out from the crowd and then a mission for that person, and along the way to complete the mission there were trials and tests and then an adversary to fight and overcome, and not to give away the ending but a victory (as you know there will be because the heroine is not the star of the story, and telling the story in a reminiscing way, if she loses).  And now I have that awesome book ending and nothing can come close to it so what on earth can I read now and not be disappointed by feeling, which is also why I haven’t read anything since finishing the book before lunchtime lol.  Not sure what I will follow that book by, it’s one of those do I read one I know I love or read something new and hope it is awesome dilemmas.  And as much as I hate these dilemmas I also love them cos it means you have just finished something amazing and that doesn’t really happen all that often.

Lockdown Day #9

Wow, we are almost into double digits for days of being locked up… not sure how I feel about that.  

Today was a not good day work wise.  Pretty much everything that could be made more difficult was.  The computers at work were on the biggest go-slow of their lives, also driving Ken insane and it didn’t help with the remoting in from home cos things are often jerky at the best of times and today it keeps freezing so I had to log out then back in again.  On top of that the website behind our website was glitching out and I kept having to get my friends at Firecrest to fix it.  It was a mix of my login being a dick and the website having issues from what I gathered.  Good thing they are also working from home, and it gave me someone to have a chat with.  Also spent some of the day email chatting with Todd, one of the guys down at Coast Access Radio (Kapiti area).  He is also in a single person bubble and although it’s not the same as hanging with someone it is nice to be able to compare notes about the things that we finding the most annoying and just chat about general stuff.  Needless to say I had to take a few breaks to calm down else my laptop would have been punched or thrown at the door or something.  Ended up working till around 3 cos actually quite a bit to do, it was longer than most Fridays lol.  May end up working some in the wknd as well, as I have work to do and I am likely to get bored.

Was not so happy when a friend asked what I was up to this wknd, it just reminded me that I have two days with nothing to do and no friends I’m allowed to hang out with.  Stupid lockdown.  I mean I do have stuff to do but there is no motivation really to do any of it.  Plus today was freezing bloody cold, we didn’t even get to 20 degrees, and the wknd is meant to be cold too so I might just huddle under blankets and hide. Or maybe clear the spare room enough to build a fort… 

My assistant and I had a compromise today, he got up this morning but he didn’t do any work.  Yeah I may have lost out on the compromise but atlst he was hanging with me in the same room which was nice.  And he looked after my book so he semi worked, kinda.  We had a discussion and decided that as it is Easter next wknd and that means we have extra days off with nothing to do (oh the joys) that we need to theme each days outfit to make things more interesting and special.  We have plenty of ideas and we just need to agree on if we are picking our combined top 4, or if we are drawing from a hat each morning…. I know, massive decisions that we have to make, life is so hard lol.  We did decide on the rules though, the outfit has to be made up of clothes or items that I own already, I am not allowed to sew something for it.  If possible I need to include accessories like shoes and jewelry if applicable.  And I need to take a pic for the blog, so you guys can see how awesome my life is lol.  

Today we also watched highlights of Bathurst 2001 (after I finished work if you are wondering), and can I just say watching them have to change gears properly was awesome, until Skaife overtook Murphy cos Murph missed a gear then it wasn’t quite so awesome.  But it still kinda was, cos they just don’t race like that now.  And yes I still verbally assisted the cars that were racing and shared my encouragement, or displeasure, depending on the driver.  I may even have clapped with joy when certain cars left the track hehe :)

Also, just in case you didn’t know, I have typed over 5,000 words in this diary thing, which means you have read over 5,000 of my rambling words hehe.  Oh and it’s 8 pages in word which means if you were to read this out loud it would take roughly between 24-32 minutes, just in case you were wondering lol