Wide awake at 3am because I went to bed early to ‘get a good nights sleep.’ Ah well. Still, the quiet right now is amazing.
Wide awake at 3am because I went to bed early to ‘get a good nights sleep.’ Ah well. Still, the quiet right now is amazing.
Still working on the superheroes name. Tomorrow, they plan to tell someone it’s ok to not know what to say to someone.
Basically, it’s the superhero the world I need.
Can’t we all just get along the kids are pointing maybe it is going to kick off maybe it’s just love?
I said today was going to be happy haikus but that’s gone out the window. The struggle is that I have work I need to do but only a small, period that I can really do it without distractions. And that is something I really struggle with. It’s basically nap time or after they go to bed, but the eldest isn’t napping at the moment and in the in the evening I’m just tired. So I just end up constantly stressed.
I tried not to use my phone today. Ended up writing some haikus instead. This are mostly first drafts that I haven’t dwelled on but instead was just trying to capture a few moments.
coffee and kids phoneless Saturday bubbles in cereal milk other connections
risk assessment single cough or sneeze your first thought always viral best start drinking then
but how much its all the screaming a constant high-pitched barrage I do love my kids
screentime I should put it down but what else is there to do when everyone’s screaming
nap quiet restful time when kids sleep parents can breathe want to buy a bridge?
Day 23 Bake Off on the box the trains out with the boy it’s not just one day
I’m so sorry, this is hard we don’t argue much we shout our feelings loudly at last, better out than in
I’ll exercise tomorrow one beer’s no problem ‘cause it helps take the edge off 4 more is ok too
I’m loving digging into this Makers and Mavericks list by Hiut Denim. So many interesting people doing some amazing things.
My freestyle @1secondeveryday is up to 326 snippets since we started staying at home. I say to people, “just assume the rest of time is full of people being annoyed or crying.” We have done lots to keep the kids busy, but obviously only focus on the times we lost our patience.
We live in a compound - a group of 5 18-floor towers- it has a front gate. I’ve not been out the front gate in a week now. The longest I’ve been outside the front gate in 3 weeks is 90minutes and that was to go to the supermarket. Now, 1 of us can leave the compound every 2 days.
Work + Family
Were once separate and now crashing together Powerpoint to do
I think we’ll stay in this weekend. Self-isolation is the new going out.
It’s interesting how in our bilingual household certain words don’t get translated into English. We only ever use the Chinese, it’s typically foods. Do you want a 水果泥? Though, I realise English is full of borrowed words. Maybe we’re adding some then!
Currently working while the kids pop all the balloons in the house.
We’re doing ‘e-learning,’ posting daily work for students, responding to both their work and their parents etc. The issue is that I’m doing that with 2 small children running around screaming. It’s not conducive to working. Anyway, happy week 3/21 days of self-isolation!
In other news managed to setup the router I bought over a year ago to have a separate vpn WiFi network. Not sure how I managed to though.
Regardless, it was nice to just sit on the floor in the lounge and just mess about, which I haven’t had time to do. It working is a bonus!
In the disco today is Armand Van Helden remixes. We’ve got mixes of Spin Spin Sugar, Sugar Is Sweeter and his collaboration with Dizzee Rascal on the track Bonkers. The last one being kind of perfect to describe our situation.
We made an effort to tidy today. We’ve kind of been letting things go, so toys were everywhere. Definitely feel better for doing so, even if it doesn’t last.
The one bad habit I now have is going to bed much later. Before, I’d get a decent 7-8 hours sleep, sometimes more. Now, it’s around 6hr and I’m waking after the kids and realising - “it is a bit like the tv, when parents don’t feel with it." New experiences.
I feel like what works best for me, in terms of habits, is to not tell anyone and just get on with doing whatever I’m doing. It seems so much more successful. No apps, bullet journals, no charts on the wall.
*This message is not me admitting that I have started anything.
The daily trip over the road to the Lawsons (little shop, convenience hop, Spar) is the highlight of my day.
Continuing in the series.
Sometimes losing my temper is cathartic. A hard reset. This morning was hard. My stock answer to how it is going is now, “ups and downs.”
When you wake up and are briefly happy it’s the weekend… before you remember you’re stuck in the flat for the 16th day.
It’s hard.
The foreign office in the UK is saying we should definitely leave China (but we can’t because we don’t have the right paperwork) but the exposure from flying would definitely be worse then we have now.
“Daddy + Elise” Art therapy
Day 14
