I need to check my phone to remind me of what day it is, as my sense of the days of the week has gone. Thursday 18 March. I had a much better night’s sleep, but the alarm needed to be set for 5.50am. Why? Unfortunately the first rostered exercise session for our intake was to start at 6am until 6.50am. I don’t mind that because afterwards I am able to do my ablutions before breakfast arrived at 7.30am. It’s cereal and fruit again but I don’t mind because its muesli which I enjoy. Morning tea consists of an apple and a small muffin. You don’t need a photo…
The menu for lunch and dinner is here too. I’m having a chicken burger with chips and salad this afternoon and tonight is beef stroganoff – both worth looking forward too. The food is really really good! Last night’s Thai chicken curry was so good that I made a call to reception to pass on my appreciation to the kitchen regarding just how good it was. I could feel and hear the positive shift in the demeanour of the woman on the other end of the phone – this wasn’t another call from a disgruntled MIQ resident complaining about this or that etc. I felt good about making the call too. Being kind comes in different ways, plus you should never piss off the person who makes your food!
The morning has been quite slow, probably because of the early start and no outside time between breakfast and lunch didn’t help. I felt tired and bored, ending up by having a morning nap. I don’t normally nap in the morning and could feel myself feeling flat…this is only day 4 of 14 and this bothers me. The early analysis is that my day should be better planned. If there is going to be a significant gap between eating and exercise then I need to have a task available to do, and that will probably involve design aspects of the Port ‘project’ house. I still need to finalize the design of the kitchen and the master bedroom and have enough resources with me to achieve this.
I also think that now is the time to start binge watching a series on Netflix. This will give me something that I can continually look forward to.
Lunch arrived at 12.30pm and was quite good for a hotel burger and chips mass produced and staggered delivery to rooms. The welcome surprise was that it came with a can of coke, which I chose to keep for after the 8km walk and as a nice reward for the workouts.
My Day 3 Covid19 test has now come back negative but I expected nothing different.
Dinner will be here soon and a 30 minute walk to finish the day. Bring on Day 5!
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