Milestones (Amy's diary)

Cate said:
How are you settling in?
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Well... I am very comfortably located, with stacks of food, especially now – yesterday I was able to get a local supermarket to deliver (which they don’t normally do - I am very grateful to them). And the weather is beautiful, and the natural world, like the tree outside the window and the sky, is inexhaustibly lovely. At the same time, I’m aware of a constant underlying sadness and anxiety; I am cut off from family in another state, and they have stresses, including health and job loss.

Personally, physically, I’m fine – I am monitoring for symptoms, but can’t see anything worse than generally coldy-type things. (We’re both really feeling the cold, which I think must be because of the lack of humidity.)
My weight went down a bit in the first few days (before the supermarket delivery!) and is now up a bit again, but I’m still in the 160s Club (just!). Curiously, I didn’t really want to eat until the supermarket delivery arrived - then instantly wanted all the carbs!
I’m keeping half an eye on nutrition, with special attention to vitamins.
I’m not doing very well with exercise; some bending and twisting, some very bad tai chi. This is a pretty confined space. I’m doing pretty well at positivity, and not nearly as well as I’d like at using this time for getting unfinished things done, books read, language acquired etc etc.

(Have just heard Dr Norman Swan has tested negative! Hooray! :hurray: )
 
aiminglow said:
I’m doing pretty well at positivity, and not nearly as well as I’d like at using this time for getting unfinished things done, books read, language acquired etc etc.
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i think it's great if you are able to maintain the positivity and not worry about productivity. I like hearing about people just taking their time to relax or whatever. Way too much emphasis on being productive all the time!

Really glad that you're feeling good with no symptoms of anything. And lovely to be well-stocked so you can just hang out, eat, and do the best version of tai chi you can manage in your little space...maybe you'll come up with whole new form...
 
Thanks, Liza - I'll try to benefit from that advice. :)

And it's true that straining after productivity can turn round and bite the would-be productive one - as shown in this news story from Australia!
Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device
:D

(The story benefits from being read right through - I especially liked the reiterated "at this point" theme. And it may be of particular interest to the more engineering-minded among us - @overlandflyer perhaps? Who else is scientifically-minded?
 
Amy I totally understand how you feel. But glad you got at least some food delivered and you fancied eating something which is good. I will read your article later. I think we all trying our best with positivity but it's bound to be affecting us in ways . Look after yourself
 
aiminglow said:
.... And it may be of particular interest to the more engineering-minded among us - @overlandflyer perhaps? Who else is scientifically-minded?
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when i run my live steam locomotive (coal fired), i've developed a foolproof way to avoid touching my face...they're called gloves. when i need to scratch an itch or rub my eyes, they aren't all that difficult to slip off for a minute, although coal dust is a lot less invisible than a virus, so the same incentive may not be there... :)
 
liza said:
that magnet story is so great and funny!
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:D What goose he was! He may be a Ph D and an astrophysicist, but there's something very eight-year-old about him. Glad so many of you enjoyed it!

But... oh, boy! hanging on to weight loss during isolation is being a bit tough. I was badly wanting starchy carbs yesterday – and managed not to give in to that, beyond my lunchtime serve of pasta. And wow, did my body rebel this morning! I managed to have a decent breakfast (tomato, celery, egg, coffee) but then morning tea-time came, and I cracked, and have had two rounds of toast-and-honey. :(

This morning, my weight was down to 76.3 or 168¼ lbs – just a fraction over twelve stone, which would be an exciting milestone to pass. But now, I bet tomorrow morning … well, so it goes. :(

On the other hand, I am managing, so far, to meet my April challenges. :) And it’s a beautiful day – the sun is shining so sharply and clearly on the tree outside the window! (I love the Australian light – the clarity of the air!)
Less cheerfully, the radio news this morning was about how our internet is groaning under the weight of all the use right now. I’ll be fairly brief in my posts here – and I’ll write things out (as I’m doing now) in Word, and then just zip in and out of the site to post them – or at least that’s the plan! Knowing you all, there’ll be so many fascinating posts that I’ll end up staying online for ages anyway. Well, we’ll see!
 
aiminglow said:
but there's something very eight-year-old about him
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very much so! Nice to know the adult scientist maintains that child spirit of curiosity and play...even if it lands him up in trouble sometimes!

aiminglow said:
I am managing, so far, to meet my April challenges.
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That is great Amy! Especially as you say, being in isolation brings its own set of challenges...not being able to walk about and cheer up the spirit that way, i can see how it would be easy to cave to the honey on toast!

I'm glad you have a lovely view of the outer world at least! Do you have an area you can sit outside as well or can you only look out a window?
 
aiminglow said:
This morning, my weight was down to 76.3 or 168¼ lbs – just a fraction over twelve stone, which would be an exciting milestone to pass. But now, I bet tomorrow morning … well, so it goes.
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NOW is the only time we can change. Not the past, not the future.
 
I love the Australian light too, especially at the beginning & end of each day. The Autumn colours are so pretty, especially in the fading light.
 
So... still in the 160s Club, by a whisker, but I can't afford to pull the toast-and-honey trick again. :blush5: Though I think the desire for starchy carbs is related to my feeling the cold (though it's not cold at all - 22/72 right now) - feeling the cold, and being cold, as measured by thermometer. More hot drinks needed, I guess.

I've been in touch with the kindly supermarket again - with any luck more supplies will arrive in the next 24 hours - with extreme luck, they might include capsicum, which I only remembered to ask for after I'd sent off a list of what I want.

An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 uncomfortably close, in terms of where I've been, i.e. the airport. I still need (? or do I?) to travel to my house, in food-desertland - I had to go straight from the airport into isolation - but I'm not at all sure that going, possibly as an asymptomatic carrier, let alone what I might have picked up at the airport, into an out-of-town area is a good thing to be doing at the moment. I won't be hurrying up there until I've checked, anyway. (I'm quite sure Tru and Cate will understand! :) )
 
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Amy I thought you were at home . You still need to travel to your house . You better stay the required 2 weeks in isolation first .

I get cold when I’m tired . Are you tired ?
hope you feel better soon .
Yep toast is not a good habit to start again. Oh I love hot toast . Not had In a very long time
 
I get cold when I´m starting to develop a fever. Please take care and don´t go anywhere out-of-the-way until you´re sure you´re not sick. That´s what quarantine is for!
 
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