Milestones (Amy's diary)

That's mad that you are only halfway on your journey Amy. I guess the best thing is to take every precaution and make sure you have all the amenities you need when you do go home?

Well done on remaining in the 160s. :) And when I'm cold and tired, I always want to eat.
 
Amy, I hope you get out of this quarantine thing well and happy. It can't be much fun. You seem to be keeping up the best attitude possible. Best of luck!
 
Thanks, Petal, and LaMa, for the suggestions about why I've been cold - and about it sometimes being a precursor to fever. I will take care - thanks for looking out for me.
And thanks for your good wishes, Rob - I am doing fine in self-isolation - I'd be ashamed to complain, anyway, even if I had a reason to, when so many people are really in hard times. Plus it's for the public good! As one of my nephews posted:

For the first time in history
we have the chance to
SAVE HUMANITY
by lying around and doing
absolutely nothing -
let's NOT blow it! ​

I'm only still in the 160s by a whisker, Emily. :)
And... April challenges! I'm enjoying the tai chi - before, with the morning exercise group, we did it to music. Now it's just two of us, in a confined space, doing it in silence - a very different experience, but I think actually improving my practice. Oh, and my balance is definitely better. I'm so far holding to the bedtime lights-out at eleven, which I'm pleased about. Eating has been pretty poor the last two days. But today, after supplies came from the supermarket yesterday, I'm having an all-out vitamin and protein binge - two eggs for breakfast, with tomato, capsicum and spring onion, followed by an apple. And silver beet and fetta are standing by, ready for some meal or other, yet to be invented. :)
 
Glad you have your supermarket supplies now, Amy & can cook some delicious meals. Good for you doing silent Tai Chi. That's how I like it. I think I'll do some today. It is bucketing down here, which is lovely.
 
That sounds really good about your tai chi practice actually improving in the confined silent space.

It's funny at my qi gong class that i used to go to there was quite a heated discussion about whether to have music or not. it was pretty funny considering it should be a relaxing class! I tend to put on music, myself.

Really good about the good food coming in -- you sound like you're ready for some healthy vitamin packed goods!
 
The tai chi changes, whether you want to stick with them or not, sound like an added experience for now. And your food sounds delicious!
 
Oh, I'm definitely ready for lots of vitamins! oranges, silver beet, carrot, wonderful garlic, banana, broccoli, the last of the dhal... it's been a good day!

I love your story about the heated discussion about whether to have music at qi gong, Liza! Humans! :rotflmao:

Yes, I'm enjoying the silence, La Ma, and using the time to try to improve my form in the fine details - so I think we'll stick with it, until we can rejoin the morning exercise group (but as to when that might be... :confused: )
 
You sound like you're doing so well in your isolation Amy--I'm impressed! I think I could very well sink into 2 weeks of netflix and junk food if i weren't allowed out. Good for you for staying healthy in mind and body!
 
I’m rooting here for you Amy in your self isolating time . Must be half way through now . Good to hear you are doing some exercise and eating pretty well
 
Thanks for your supportive voices, everyone! I'm nearly out, and will be very interested to see how the supermarket and the chemist's shop look - I mean: will there be queues? Will there be gaps on the shelves? and if so, what? I just recklessly opened a can of chickpeas, to add to a silverbeet/potato/chickpea thing, now bubbling on the hotplate - will I be able to buy another? (I do have dried. In fact, that's what I normally use, but this can happened to make it into the hastily packed suitcase, so... :D )
I'll be happy as well to exercise in fresh air. This flat is very airy, actually, when the windows are open - there's a cool breeze blowing through right now. But still, exercising outside will be lovely.
It's only been "pretty well" that I've been eating - I was fine for a while, but the closer I get to actually being in a supermarket myself, and going wild buying all the things, the more I seem to think I can eat bread and butter and cheese/marmalade/Vegemite (not together!) with impunity. But the scales are remorseless. (sigh)

But things are going okay here, basically - and the moon was so so beautiful, and so close to full, last night ! It must be actually full tonight - are you ready, moonwatchers? :)
 
aiminglow said:
and the moon was so so beautiful, and so close to full, last night ! It must be actually full tonight - are you ready, moonwatchers?
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I will take a look. I am a moon watcher, got used to it living on the Gulf coast, tides are important to fishing and boating and the moon controls the tides. Also when alligator hunting you wanted no moon, the darker the better. I also appreciate the aesthetics of a nice full moon.

Good luck getting out of quarantine, don't know what you will find there, but the descriptions you gave fit pretty well here. Most shelves full, but some empty, hard to find things like bleach, hand wipes, hand sanitizer etc. The toilet paper drought seems to be ending here.
 
The moon was beautiful this evening (well probably still is, but i am not presently looking at it) and I actually thought of you Amy as I walked with it in my view. Sun sinking, moon up.
alligatorob said:
Also when alligator hunting you wanted no moon, the darker the better.
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Oh wow that sounds really intense, and very scary, for all beings involved!

it will be so exciting when you get to go outside Amy! I'm sure a walk will feel glorious!
 
Our shelves were only somewhat empty for a week or so. And soap, water and elbow grease are as good for cleaning as disinfectants (as long as you don't plan on doing surgery on anyone) so I think we'll be fine on that front as well.
 
aiminglow said:
But things are going okay here, basically - and the moon was so so beautiful, and so close to full, last night ! It must be actually full tonight - are you ready, moonwatchers? :)
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I actually did notice the moon last night Amy, it really was beautiful. That kind of thing makes me feel like we're not so far away from each other after all. :)
 
I noticed the moon this morning huge and white in the blue sky . I love wham I can see that . Will watch for full moon tonight .
Amy I noticed we have very little soap , hair dye sold out and also men's hair clippers !!! All else there is plenty .
 
Hair clippers being sold out is no surprise to me. I think those are the first thing I considered buying after basic food.
 
Petal001 said:
hair dye sold out and also men's hair clippers
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That's so great that no one wants their hair to look bad! i was thinking recently that i should take this opportunity to do something funny with my hair.
 
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