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I'm still trying to give a modicum of structure to my day, or at least to my thoughts, with my little four part list of things to try to accomplish each day. Yesterday's four things went something like this:
Productive - Hoovered the downstairs.
Fresh Air - 2 doggy walks around the paddock, one with lots of lunges and hops, skips and jumps ... yes Alan thinks I'm mad, it's official. I did try to look like it was a normal walk whenever a car drove past. 🤭
Something Cooked or Made from Scratch - missed out on this one, we had a nibbly, eat all the little bits from the fridge sort of day.
Something I Love - We both watched a couple of films ... Contagion, so weirdly similar to how things are now it was scary!! Men in Black 3, we've never seen this before so it was different. And finished off with a Midsomer Murders, a really old one with John Nettles as Barnaby.
Every day is starting to feel like a Sunday, it's very strange. A bonus is that although it's bitterly cold outside, the sun is still shining and somehow that makes things so much better.
I hope you are still safe at home.
Sue xx
I really had to think hard about what day it was when I woke up this morning too. It's Monday!
ReplyDeleteThe days are starting to merge into each other aren't they.
DeleteIt's easier for Alan as he's still working five days a week but from our office upstairs instead of regularly travelling and he is still making an effort to 'take weekends off' … ha that's a laugh he does all the physical outdoor stuff then, not my idea of a weekend off ;-)
We are making our way through a lot of films and series we have recorded. I do love Midsomer Murders! The only reason I remembered it was Monday, is that I’m giving blood today. I know they’ll take all the necessary precautions, but I have to admit I’m a bit apprehensive!
ReplyDeleteWe love Midsomer Murders as we spend a lot of the time recognising places we used to live near. I check the locations on my phone on the Midsomer Locations Finder page … yep, I'm sad that way. I even watched an Agatha Christie yesterday, I really got into it, the 1930/40s fashions and cars were gorgeous.
DeleteI love Poirot for all the gorgeous fashions and the Art Deco scenery.
DeleteYou are right about keeping some kind of structure to one's day - it is so easy to just wander about aimlessly I find. And yes, the sun makes a huge difference doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteEven a bit of structure helps doesn't it :-)
DeleteWe are VERY lucky with the amount of sunshine we have had over the last few days aren't we, it would have been an entirely different kettle of fish if it had been miserable outside.
Ok, here goes this was yesterdays:-
ReplyDelete1. Productive - we went through all the books that we were ready to get rid of on Ziffit, 4 boxes picked up this morning from the front step. (They have reduced their weight needed to pick up from home by the way).
2. Exercise/fresh air :- I did an excercise video from you tube, glad no one can see me. Puffing and very red in the face.
3. Something cooked/made from scratch :- made a roast dinner for the 3 of us and a loaf of bread.
4. Something I love:- Another Easter card made, I have another 2 to do. We also watched Going in Style, which was quite funny. Helen S.
Excellent to be able to do some minimising and selling while confined to quarters, well done. I hope you got a half decent price from them. I keep saying I will do an exercise DVD but now I've got the perfect excuse with a very sore back. Oh well ... I will get round to a spot of exercise soon I hope.
DeleteYes very true.
ReplyDeleteI felt a little bit of cabin fever coming on yesterday, it soon passed when I got out in the garden. We are catching up with cleaning and jobs, trouble is we musn't do too much in one day, we are going to be on lock down for some time, we have started rewatching dvd's, we are on An Idiot Abroad box series now.
It is a question of pacing out the jobs isn't it, something I'm quite good at but Alan does like to rush through things and 'get things done'. At least he still has his day job to fill a good 7 hours a day during the week, so he only has weekends and evenings to rush through everything else.
DeletePlease stay safe everyone. We have just lost a relative to this nasty virus xx
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear this Susan. Sending my condolences 🌹
DeleteThe days are running together. It seems like you go to bed and get up and everything in between is a blur. I like your four things a day. I need to get myself better organized. You two take care.
ReplyDeleteThe going to bed part sometimes feels like the best bit 🙂 My weird dreams are starting to lesson a bit now, so perhaps my mind is more settled in this altered reality we currently live in.
DeleteWhy make your walk look normal?
ReplyDeleteThis morning I drove into town to get fresh vegetables. A man was waiting to cross the road, holding the hand of a little girl. On HIS head was a “Shrek-like” hat/helmet thing, only it was purple and sparkly, and had big bouncy bits on springs sticking out of the top of it!!
He looked absolutely bonkers so I slowed right down and waved as I went past. He grinned and gave me a ‘thumbs up’. The little girl was bouncing with SO MUCH JOY she could barely keep her balance.
Nah, stuff “normal”.
Mostly so drivers wouldn't swerve in astonishment and crash their cars on the dangerous bend that is at the end of our land 🤣😬🙃
DeleteLove your list of four daily things, Sue. What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteHello from New Zealand.
Hello from Llanrwst in North Wales 😃 It's a very casual, hit and miss sort of list, but it gives a pretence of order to the day 😄
DeleteI agree that every day is starting to feel like Sunday.
ReplyDeleteYour list is perfect and how many of those little nibbles were cooked from scratch in the first place?
God bless.
Glad the sun shines even though it's cold. For us, nothing is different. I work from home so that's the same. And hubby still has to go out into the world. So work/home is not different in that way. However, all his clothes get directly washed when he comes home and showers up straight away. AND, we don't go to market for just one week now. It's a bigger shop with less trips for now.
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