Kettlebell swings are feeling stronger, which I guess is coming from some consistency. Which is good.
Kettlebell swings are feeling stronger, which I guess is coming from some consistency. Which is good.
Squashing coffee, exercise and just taking 5 minutes into the time between making breakfast and an online meeting with some other teachers.
Day 41 is bad.
Yesterday Day 40 of self-isolation wasn’t too bad, here’s hoping 41 isn’t so bad either.
This week, we’re going to try and put some order into our week. I’ve started by making the writing in my work journal diary neater and more organised.
Quarantine cooking: finding relief from the coronavirus anxiety in the kitchen. It’s strange since I’m here, but all this stuff passes me by, obviously.
The hardest part of this coronavirus lockdown in China is that my wife and I get so little time to ourselves and so much time with the kids.
Blue skies
Just learning that with Family Sharing on iOS that in-app purchases can’t be shared. So, it’s better to get an app that costs $ instead of a free app that needs $ to unlock the full version.
£5 a month just to play Grindstone ok Apple Arcade just doesn’t make sense.
Both L and I have both kind of hit a wall recently. It’s now 5 wks of being stuck inside. I can write about because I’m feeling a little calmer about it.
No idea of how much longer it will last. Considering going to Thailand but debatable whether that is a better choice for us.
I like the film viewing process when I don’t have a clue about it. It’s just so nice to not have expectations of what others think or what it’s about. It’s always a risk of course and some films it’s impossible to not hear anything about obviously.
I miss rolls of film.
I say that because apparently my 200gb of iCloud storage is full and I don’t want to have to sort out all my photos.
My wife tidies as she goes when she cooks and I’m very much in the - I’m cooking not cleaning school of thought. Which is why, when I think about it, that I normally wash up.
Been a tough weekend.
Now into our 5th week of self-isolation.
It’s normal now, not going out but L and I are finding it difficult having no time to ourselves now that our eldest refuses to sleep.
I used to watch The Office but fell out of it. We got Netflix recently and have watched the last season. Still one episode to go but the way they’ve done it is just lovely.
View off the kitchen balcony
Finally took todays nap time to get the Switch my friend kindly lent me off the top of the cupboard and to play a little Mario Kart. For the first time in a while I felt a little like myself.
I would love to see a playlist of music I’ve ‘loved’ on Apple Music but in the last day I’ve been making an effort to stop playing the same few playlists. It’s hard though.
I’ve turned off screentime on my phone. We’ve totally given up on trying to not use our phones or computers now.
I was going to try a screen free Saturday but here I am. The kids are, mostly, playing nicely in another room. I’m crashed out on a beanbag in the lounge considering doing some drawing and listening to some music.
Was interesting to read a discussion of subtitles of Parasite on Metafilter but I also read this post about subtitles missing some of the nuances.
For me, in China, Western films are normally subbed. Still, it’s when Western films have non-English dialogue that screws me!
Today’s Day 28 of self-isolation. I’ve been making a ‘freestyle’ @1secondeveryday (now 6.5mins long!) I realised, as I watched it that to start we made a conscious effort to do stuff to keep the kids busy but now we just do stuff with them. A small detail but feels significant.
I know I’m busy because I completely forgot to open my RSS reader.