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lifewithoutmeds · 1 year

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January 28, 2023

saturday afternoon, 5:28 p.m.

finishing off the last of my laphroaig scotch with two ice cubes. the sun is setting/has just set, and i just came back from a quick 15-minute pee walk with kiwi. i’m planning on going to a Hot Flash (lesbian event) tonight at 8, so i’ll probably/hopefully be able to take kiwi out on a quick 15-minute pee walk at 7 so i feel comfortable for the night.

life with Kiwi is slowly becoming regular. on my WFH days, i walk her around 6:30 a.m., noon, and between 5 and 7, occasionally both. i wait on emails, i wonder how to fill out my timecard, and i fill my time between waiting and working with small tasks on my to-do list: make the bed, wash some dishes, let them dry/rotate them, check the mail. now it’s punctuated by three walking sessions with kiwi and two feeding sessions, and the ever-present reading, vacuuming, and checking of the mail, etc.

today i was initially supposed to go to switzer’s to hike with kiwi and rhiannon, but last night rhiannon mentioned that she’d be better up for a walk than a hike, so we met up around 10:40 a.m. and we walked to and from brand park, which took just about an hour and a half. she then played with kiwi a bit and kiwi got a bit too rough with the tug-of-war rope and accidentally bit my thumb, so i had to stop so i could rinse the blood off, stop the bleeding, and bandage it up.

i made us brunch (BLT’s), and we walked and talked and played with kiwi. around 2 she headed out and i went to the burbank animal shelter to pick up some more food for kiwi, looked briefly for hiking sandals at the local nordstrom rack, then came back home and resumed my chores/reading. it felt like a pretty productive day and i even managed to sort out/organize a couple of the kitchen drawers that had gotten a bit out of hand. such a contract to how i was feeling just a few days ago when i just felt so out of my mind, so frantic and anxious and full of some unknown dread/horror of the past/present/future. i think some of that might be due to my reduction of meds, because day to day, life has been fairly consistent and not too bad.

tonight is the Hot Flash lesbian event for lesbians 30 and over, which i’m pretty excited to go to. i haven’t been to a queer event in a while, and it’ll be nice to go to one in which i’ll be on the average/younger side for once. i also took a shower which felt nice after sweating a bit during the hike. it felt good to exert, sweat, and then wash it off, very poetic, very .... complete.

i still have another couple hours before the event and i’m not exactly sure how i’ll spend it. i’ll probably finish up this entry, take kiwi out, and maybe read?

i was thinking the other day that one time when i was talking to my aunt while she was visiting in december, and i was sort of bemoaning the passage of another year with nothing to show for it. i hadn’t lost weight, saved much money, gone anywhere, done anything, even read anything meaningful, but just gotten fatter and unhappier, etc., and she noted, that i was more rested, and i stopped and thought about that. how since starting work in the marina and especially when dating jadai, i never felt rested. i wanted to nap so badly, or just to stop, and to say no to social engagements, and just lie down. she’d get annoyed with me that all i seemed to want to do was lie down and stare at my phone, and she took it personally, but i now think that during our relationship, i was very tired, i was downright exhausted. there was dates with her, or even just watching tv shows/movies, constantly walking/taking cooper out, constantly going to queer events, fundraisers, all of her friends getting engaged/married/turning 30, etc. it seemed it was always something and i remember asking specifically if we could schedule in days in which we did nothing, in which we cleaned, and got together donations, and dropped things off at the toxic waste center (batteries, dead electronics, etc.)

so maybe i can say that 2022 was a year of rest. it felt like a wasted year, but i rested. i slept a lot. i played hours of games on my phone. i ate a lot of edibles. i mean, maybe it wasn’t productive, but maybe i just needed to survive. maybe i just needed to sleep.

this year (hope i don’t jinx myself), it’s been about productivity. budgeting! goals! no spend/low spend january! daily chores!

and already it’s been going pretty well so far. i’ve journaled regularly, read regularly (on my fourth book of the year), fostered a dog, started budgeting/saving money, and moved my CD account into another, better, higher yield CD account, as well as moved my savings to a higher interest savings account. i’m making small/modest moves with my money but that makes me feel more aware of what i have.

the next thing i need to seriously tackle is my weight, mostly, i need to eat less. i don’t want to do too many drastic things at once but i’m hoping it at least helps that i’m : walking more (with kiwi) drinking less (by going out less and trying to spend less) cooking more (fewer fancy dinners with lo and just going out in general)

i got some protein on sale (chicken thighs, rockfish, and ground turkey), and am basing meals around them: panko baked chicken with salad, battered rockfish with rice, ground turkey with marinara sauce and angel hair pasta.

things feel ok (although once more, i had 1-2 mild breakdowns just in the last few days), and i’m hoping i can keep up these fairly modest gains/wins.

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pbandjesse · 3 years

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Today was another excellent day. But I am way tireder then I was last night. Like it is a little hard to sit up and write this but I will power through.

I did sleep alright last night but before bed I had another really bad nose bleed except this time I was alone, as James was asleep, and I only had 3 tissues. So I was a little upset and scared. But it was alright in the end. And I have a new tissue box now so hopefully I wont feel so stranded.

I woke up around 8 but I stayed in bed until 830. I really wanted to keep sleeping but I knew Jess was up and I didnt want to be rude. And of course she was already dressed and looking cute. But she was doing work for her WFH job so she wasnt to bothered. I got washed up and dressed. I felt cute again today but I mostly forgot to take my picture until way late in the day. But that was alright. We were just having to much fun.

The big plan for the day was to go squishmallow hunting. But the mall we were going to search at didnt open until 11. So we had some time to hang out. So after breakfast we started rinsing our tye dye projects. I decided Jess should go first because her's is so much lighter and I didnt want to stain her's with all my dark dye. And it was so funny hers didnt run any dye at almost at all?? Absolutely bizarre. We were using the coldest water and really trying to get in there but no dye came out. So we hung it to dry and got into mine.

Mine was a different story. As soon as I unwrapped it from the plastic is was dripping black dye. So I pulled off the rubber bands and got to work rinsing it. It took a good ten minutes of rinsing but it honestly looked great. As it dried throughout the day the black would fade to a lovely almost grey purple. But the actual tye dyed scrunchy parts look so cool. I am super excited to share it tomorrow when we take pictures. It was a lot of fun to do and while I dont think I will like. Tye dye my whole life. It was a lot of fun to experiment with. And for our first go it was really successful.

Once we were done that and everything was drying in the bathroom we got ready to leave. I wasnt super excited to drive, as I still felt really tired, but it was alright. Though when we got to the car I found we barely had any gas and I was annoyed about that because I hate putting gas in the car but I would do it. Even though I hate it.

We drove out to the mall and it felt so weird to be in a mall. But there werent a lot of people. It was mostly just quiet. But it for sure felt like a blast from the past. We walked the whole mall. Talked about being mall rat teens. What we would do and play and just the culture of that time in our lives. And hoenstly it was just a good time. It was nice to walk around inside and not be cold and because we were on this funny hunt for squishes there was an element of activity and goal.

We didnt have great luck. The claires had nothing. The hallmark had nothing. We did find some at Hot Topic though. I ended up getting a blind box one. And Jess got a couple little things. We also got a matching set of lollypop earrings I am very excited about. We got lunch in the food court. Felt very weird eating inside. I got pretzel bites. It was just. A good time at the mall.

We were there about an hour, making our last stop at Hot Topic for the second time to make our actual purchases. And then we went to the strip mall across the road to go to starbucks. Everyone was driving stupid so I was really glad to be out of there.

We started to head towards the closes Marshalls. And they only had a cuddler squish there. And a way to long line, so I did not buy the face wash I was going to get. We instead went to Target. We made a stop to get gas. Which was terrible only because the same thing happened as last time and the machine kept saying my zipcode was wrong and I had to go talk to the man at the counter and it was a whole thing. I hate pumping gas. But it was handled.

Next we went to the CVS and the Walgreens to check and finding nothing good we continued on to Target.

Target was mostly a bust. No easter friends. But we ended up finding a beautiful greyscale bunny that Jess really liked. And we decided we were done. I wanted to make one more loop around toys just and in case and while we did I remembered to stop to look in the legos to see if they had the botanical one me and James have been trying to get but keeps getting scalped for 3xs the real price. And I was so excited to find that they had it!! The bouquet of flowers!! I was so jazzed. I cant wait to build this with them and its going to be great and look so cool in our house.

We were both a little beat by this point though. So it was time for home.

It was a nice drive back. The sun started coming out after a really grey day. And I was happy to be home.

We would chill for a little bit but then there were more things we wanted to do. We opened our blind boxes. I got a dragon that we think was meant to be scented like minit chocolate but just smelt. Bad. But whatever. Still cute. I like the dragons. And then we got to work on my clothes.

I wanted to do another big purge and having moral support to talk things out was exactly what I needed. So Jess helped me make piles of everything I own and make hard calls for each piece. I was a little more brutal then I expected but honestly I had purged my clothes in december and I sort of knew what ones that if I didnt wear in the last 2 months were going to get the axe. So it was only hard at some points. And I was really excited that everything I wanted to fit in the trunk for seasonal pieces and my closet isnt to full anymore. Two bags of clothes to donate and Im just really happy about that. And before that Jess tried on some that she liked from the get rid of pile and took some and that made me feel really happy too. Im glad they will get a second life.

We would spend more time in my room trying on ren fair costume stuff. And spent way to long trying to relace a corset thats a little to big for me. But it was honestly a lot of fun. We were just very tired at the end.

James had a performance review during that time that we got to hear and I got to be all proud about how well they are doing. And then James would go on a bike ride after work before picking us all up dinner. Because I have the best partner.

While James was gone me and Jess would be on the couch playing a little animal crossing. Being sleepy. When food did come I was really upset that both our orders were missing pieces and I was trying very hard not to have a breakdown over something stupid. But Jess gave me some of hers that I was missing and we made due. I was just a little sad.

Dinner was nice though. And we all just sat together doing little crafts and enjoying the company.

And we still have tomorrow. The plan is to do some photoshoots and make a little painting project together. I hope to sleep better tonight though. Im going to go take a shower and get cozy and try to get to bed earlier. Wish me luck. Goodnight everyone! Wash your hands!

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a-mere-ninja-blog · 4 years

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Week 1 of working from home

Monday:

Late evening get a text from our company alerting system saying we are all WFH for the foreseeable. And so it begins...

Day 1:

Quite happy. Like the peace and quiet. Feeling positive - I'm going to storm through the last part of my professional studies!

The day flies by with back to back skype calls.

First call I am panicked by the need to use video. The lack of makeup or bra is making me feel uncomfortable. But I ease into it.

Cat embarrasses me on an important call - circling the table screaming for attention. Does not understand skype etiquette. Hoping I can keep myself on mute until the rage leaves her tiny body. I think it's safe to contribute. I take myself off mute. The cat decides to throw herself against the kitchen wall and launch up the stairs and across the landing at her heaviest possible decibel. Sounds like I've adopted a Rhino. Apologise to colleagues.

Last call of the day. Someone mentions how it's nice to see everyone dressed properly. Pleased I wore a thick cardigan over my pajamas.

Day 2:

Still quite happy. Decided I needed to wear a different garment over my pjs today so no one gets suspicious. Opted for a blue hoody.

Now pretty comfortable with my make-up-less face on skype. Think this might be good for my skin. And the light in my kitchen is good anyway. Flattering. I don't look like death.

The cat sleeps all day. Maybe she is embarrassed.

Enjoying the ability to eat hot, fresh food (whilst I still have supplies). I even decide to make dinner for my partner when he gets home from work (which never happens - he is the domestic one in the relationship). I make him carbonara. He is surprised.

Day 3:

Opt for a big blue fluffy jumper today.

The mornings seem to go by in blur with check ins and calls. But the afternoons are starting to drag.

Got an email from HR saying I need to WFH for 12 weeks due to my asthma. Seems like a scarily long time.

I try a skype lunch date with my two work besties who are in isolation. We have the video on as we eat our pot noodles and roast each other in the normal fashion. Much more enjoyable than first anticipated. Particularly when I discovered you can eject people from the call. Timed it right after an insult. Lots of childish behaviour ensued.

By the end of the day my back is hurting. Turns out the hard kitchen chair I use to WFH once a week is not suitable for long term use. Who knew. Wishing I had stolen my beloved office chair.

Cat sleeps all day again but loses her tiny mind at night. Maybe we've now settled in to an agreeable routine?

I make dinner again. Ad is happy but says he feels lazy. Wonder why I didn’t feel lazy the last 79 days of the year I didn't make dinner? Vow to be less shit.

Day 4:

Opt for a red superdry hoody today. Am quite enjoying picking out a new jumper every day. So much easier than deciding on a whole outfit.

I make scrambled eggs for breakfast and start my day by catching up on icomms & news. My back is definitely a bit sore today. I think about my office chair again.

Work out that it's only one week til payday. Thank god. I realise how much money I’m saving WFH, not buying constant snacks from the canteen. It's day 4 of no chocolate. Decided at the beginning of the week to treat this like a detox. Maybe this will be the year I get a summer body?

Lunchtime: I cave and drive to Gatwick to get my chair. In my car the freedom is liberating. Tempted to get chocolate on the way home. Refrain. Summer body.

I anti bac the chair as soon as I get in the house even though it's mine. I sit in it. OMG! I cannot describe how much better that is! Do a few swivels for fun.

We watch the PMs press conference, which has become our new routine. He closes all pubs and nightclubs. No difference to my social life there. He also closes gyms. No more Thai boxing for me. This I am gutted about. Muay Thai has been my release and my fitness kick for the past 18 months. Really don’t want to lose what fitness I have!

We try a home workout. Our gym gave us free online workout videos. Pretty good. Cat is freaked out.

First weekend:

Saturday - Day 5:

Nice lazy morning with Ad before he went to work.

Did several loads of washing and attacked the overflowing ironing basket. Ironed until back got sore.

Got message from eyelash lady saying she was closing. Nooo!! This will change the future of skype calls. In 2 weeks' time I will have turned in to a bald chicken. Even the lighting in my kitchen won't be able to save me.

Tried another home workout. Hope no one saw me through the window.

Showered and sat on bed for maybe 15 minutes staring at the wall.

Ad got back early from work given the lack of flights. Saved me from the staring.

We found a new TV show to watch - hallelujah!

Asthma is playing up - have to take inhalers during tv prog and before bed.

Sunday- Day 6:

Bad night's sleep. Woke up in the middle of the night with tight chest and hot and sweaty. Had to take inhalers. Convinced self I have Corona. Started on my steroid inhaler in the morning. Hopefully will help.

Finished all of the washing and ironing. Every conceivable basket is empty. Am practically a domestic goddess at this point.

Binge watched 'say yes to the dress'. Have an overwhelming urge to try on swishy dresses.

Asthma has been fine today. Must be a drop in temperature combined with paranoia.

Do another home workout. It kills an hour. Ad gets back early again from work. I have dinner ready for him. Feel like a 1920s housewife. He discovers he’s brought some emergency keys home & has to go back to airport. Have to keep dinner warm for 40 mins. Miffed. Would hate being a housewife.

Watched our new TV programme. Finished new TV programme. Buggar. Now what?

#wfh #self isolation #working from home #coronavirus #social distancing

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almondbiscotti · 4 years

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WFH Day 5: 13 April 2020

7.00am – Woken up by alarm. SERIOUSLY I NEED TO TURN MY DAMN ALARMS OFF.

7.40am – Wake up proper. Scroll scroll social media. Tik Tok is a disease and I’ve been infected.

7.41am – Housemate tells me he got a call from MOH contact tracer asking him if he is Chatusomethingsomething son of Manu something. Clearly wrong number. Also, these contact tracers call early!

7.42am – Housemate also tells me there’s a COVID-19 cluster at Black Tap at MBS. We were at Black Tap on 27 March. REGRET. I AM FILLED WITH REGRET. Don’t care so much about myself but worry about having possibly infected my Mom. Housemate also went to see his parents for dinner in the last 2 weeks. Hopefully MOH doesn’t call me ☹ I’ve been good, I swear.

8.26am – Dept folks check in at dept group chat. Seriously these people are early.

8.27am – Check in on dept chat group.

8.30am – TIK TOK IS A DIESEASE I SWEAR

8.47am – Roll outta bed.

8.48am – HELLO PLANT BABIES GROW GROW GROW 😊

8.50am – Realise I left my blazer in office. AHHHH need it cos I’m conducting recruitment interviews later!

8.51am – Housemate lets me try on his jacket. Jesus I look like a hobo it’s way too big for me. But looks okay enough on camera I guess.

8.52am - Housemate asks for Dalgona Coffee. I happily obliged. It’s fun to whisk whisk whisk and see the liquid turn into foam 😊

9.03am – My tummy feels odd. WHY?! I HAVEN’T EVEN DRANK MY COFFEE.

9.04am – Jesus Christ who is ringing my doorbell?! Are my Taobao deliveries finally here? AHHH HOLD IN MY BOWEL MOVEMENT!

9.05am – Oh, it’s NEA officer doing house inspection for mosquitos

9.06am – Tell NEA dude to wait cos I need to put on a bra. He checks neighbour’s house first.

9.07am – Housemate hurriedly clears water from the saucers underneath our plants. Don’t think it’s an offence but looks bad because I just watered the plants. I SWEAR I’M NOT BREEDING MOSQUITOES! Those things evaporate by mid-day.

9.12am – NEA officer inspects house. He’s really very polite and non-intruding. 😊 and quick!

9.14am – NEA officer just tells us to be mindful regarding our plants. He totally knows what we did heh.

9.15am – Bowel movement finally. I had to hold it in while the NEA officer did his check.

9.27am – WORK WORK WORK. Send email, reply work texts, prep to-do list for the day.

9.45am – Appalled by my block’s whatsapp group chat. Somebody is upset that our Management Office person didn’t inform us of today’s NEA spot check. IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE SPOT CHECK IF YOU’RE TOLD ABOUT IT HOW IS IT SURPRISE GEEZ.

9.46am – Tell Housemate about it. Find out got people kena fined for telling family member about spot check beforehand.

9.50am – CANNOT GET OVER THE AMOUNT OF STUPID. Not like the NEA officer is demanding entry at your door -_- And surprise checks help protect us against dengue. If I get dengue from these jokers God so help me I will stab somebody. We’re already a dengue hotspot FFS.

10.00am – Text in the group chat telling my neighbours our MO isn’t supposed to tell us beforehand about the checks since it’s a SURPRISE check. NOBODY REPLIES ME. HAHA. SUCKER.

10.11am – Dalgona coffee is delicious.

10.12am – WORK WORK WORK WORK

10.50am – YOU SEE YOU SEE THESE FUCKERS ON THE BLOCK GROUPCHAT CHANGE TOPIC. Now say yah many mosquitoes recently, got fucking bee even. -_- Cheeeeeeeebye. Just now complain got check now say is good to have check? I flip prata also neh flip so fast.

11.24am – Argh, disgusted by how messy my desktop looks. Clean it up up up up.

11.33am – Much better. 😊 Maybe I should clear my work laptop desktop too.

11.34am – Jesus that is a train wreck. Maybe some other time.

11.58am – TIME TO MAKE LUNCH! Housemate has to leave at 130pm for his distancing ambassador thing so needa make lunch for him quickly!

12.00pm – Decide to reheat soup made last night and add in some pork for housemate. Steamed salmon and enoki mushroom for me! Housemate doesn’t like salmon. Insists that salmon tried to kill him because he once got a horrible salmon fish bone stuck in his throat and it required a trip to ED and an ENT specialist to get it out. Dramatic. But I suppose it is quite traumatic. The fish bone was hella big. I was there when it happened. Truth.

12.01pm – CHOP CHOP CHOP COOK COOK COOK. I really use a lot of garlic in my cooking. I LOVE GARLIC. And chilli from my apartment garden. 😊

12.20pm – LUNCH IS READY! Was quick and easy.

12.21pm – Housemate needs to shower. So I eat first. Lunch is good! 😊

12.22pm – I watch an American YouTuber as I eat. It’s a 10 tips to keep productive while on quarantine video. Didn’t learn anything new but her voice is soothing and nice to have on in the background as I eat.

12.33pm – Done with lunch! Also realise I might have smeared a little too much chilli essence on my fingers while cutting the chillis earlier. Some parts of my fingers sting ☹

12.35pm – Nomnom on some potato chips for some delicious salty savoury goodness. YUM!

12.45pm – Need to prepare for interviews later at 2pm!!! Okay I shall shower.

1.00pm – Lordy lord it feels good to shower.

1.05pm – Okay, I need to zeng my face. Can’t remember the last time I put make up on. Jesus my concealer is really dry.

1.15pm - Okay, face zenged. Bra on. Work-ish top on. PJ shorts below because no one can tell when you’re on a VC. 😊

1.17pm – Tried on housemate’s blazer. Rearrange table a little to ensure laptop camera doesn’t capture any weird things during my video interviews.

1.20pm – Turn on the aircon cos blazer is REALLLLLLY hot.

1.30pm – OKAY I AM ALL READY FOR THIS.

1.40pm - Housemate leaves for duty to the nation. BYE HOUSEMATE BE SAFE!

1.43pm - Housemate returns. He forgot his car keys.

2.00pm – HELLO FELLOW INTERVIEWERS.

2.30pm – First candidate!

2.36pm – SHIT IT IS RAINING THE WINDOW IN MY BEDROOM IS OPEN FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.

2.40pm – Realise there is no way I can stealthily leave the room to close my bedroom window. ☹

2.57pm – It stops raining. Praise be but I’m sure my bedroom floor is wet.

2.59pm – Interview ends. I sprint to the bedroom to close the window and clean up wet floor. Phew, thankfully not very bad.

3.04pm – Next candidate!

5.45pm – Interviews and post interview huddle ends! PHEW I AM POOPED!

6.09pm – check out on dept chat group for the day. I AM DONE WITH WORK I TELL YOU I AM DONE. Interviews really take it out of you.

And there ends WFH day 5? Day 5!

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opepin · 7 years

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march: week 4

20: lots of cramping and gas going on lol. well, i rushed in the morning because i stayed in bed 10 minutes after my alarm rang. then the red line had some delays, but i still got to work before 9:30 am, ahah. it was a pretty chill day in the office. i ate lunch at my desk because i had a call when everyone else was eating :< craii. i ordered daniel’s bday present and also managed to print out the amazon return label. i kind of lost fuel one hour before the day ended because of my stomach and cramps, but it’s okay! it happens, haha. i got home at like 5:30 pm and then snacked a bit before doing my 45 minute cardio workout. then i made rice and headed upstairs to shower. i had to bring all of my shower and skin care stuff to the bathroom x__x; it was a nice shower though because the shower head is 2x as strong as ours for some reason. hopefully, that gets fixed too.

kevin got back and we went ot bj’s to pick up croissants. he really wanted them. we devoured two on the way back and then he went to shower while i prepped the veggies. LOL and then i made a mistake where i threw out the white ends of the chives when i wasn’t supposed to and then i took them out of the garbage (was pretty clean) and washed them like 30x times. i was going to lie to kevin about them but then i broke down and told him what happened and he couldn’t stop laughing at me. if baby brain exists does period brain exist too? LOL. kevin finished cooking and then we ate and watched an episode of ‘how to get away with murder.’ then kevin washed the dishes and we headed up to brush our teeth. kevin gamed for the rest of the night and i laid in bed nursing another tension headache until i fell asleep at like 1 am.

21: i woke up with the tension in my neck and shoulder and our shower was still getting fixed so i worked from home. we woke up to the maintenance guys’ knock on the door and they said they would come back in an hour or so because we were still in bed. so then we slept for 30 minutes more and then went upstairs to brush our teeth. the wifi in the suite still didn’t work so kevin sent me the information while he commuted to work. we ate breakfast and then stopped by the front to sign a card and drop off some money for our maintenance and cleaning staff appreciation thingy. then i headed upstairs and changed and brought my stuff to the suite to work. i recorded some videos and then caught up with phil. i got the ‘ok’ to start implementing some of my changes. i’m so excited! then i ate lunch and looked at headsets. i realized that kien and haowei are getting pro gamer headsets LOL. cole suggested the arctis 5 and i might get it. we’ll see.

i went back down to the apartment and finished editing videos and ended my day with a call. then i washed dishes, put on rice, snacked on a croissant, and did an hour workout focusing on obliques. kevin came home a bit later than expected because he was working on a problem. i went to shower while kevin cooked dinner. he got really dried out and tired while cooking so he went to shower after cooking while i watched ‘reign’ and tried catching a good tapu koko. i’m hoping to catch a tapu every other time i game LOL. i didn’t catch one at the end of the day though. we ate and watched two? episodes of ‘how to get away with murder’ and then kevin washed dishes and then we brushed our teeth together upstairs. i finished watching ‘reign’ in bed and then went to sleep at 1:15 am? kevin stayed up debating stock market things or something ahah.

22: i actually didn’t need to rush in the morning. i got dressed before brushing my teeth because i had to go upstairs to the suite to brush my teeth and then ate breakfast and i was on the train at 8:34 am! i met sultan for the first time in person and met our new front end dev, joe today. it was a really quiet office -- only the marketing team and product team were in the office. it was a productive morning. i ordered the arctis 7 in white for my headset for work and then i worked on tutorials. everyone online was busy so i just worked and listened to music. the day went by pretty quickly. we scrambled at the end of the day because of an issue that we really needed to solve together. it was fun doing that and figuring it out. i left at like 5:15 pm after cleaning up things with phil for the client and then i met kevin at the train station :) he made it just in time to get on the train!

i told him about my day and when we got back, i watched ‘jane the virgin’ while trying to catch a good tapu koko. i was close twice but one wasn’t timid nature and the other didn’t have perfect speed :< my hand was cramping so i quit and i cleaned up the bathroom. kevin made stir fry potato slivers and braised chicken with mushrooms for dinner. mmm. the potatoes were hella spicy but when we put more salt, it tasted better. we watched 3 episodes? of ‘how to get away with murder.’ there’s so much sex this season .__. LOL but we’re getting to the good part now. we stopped so i could exercise. oh, our water pressure for the shower is perfect now! it’s waay stronger. kevin took a nice long shower and after my workout, i cleaned the kitchen. i got irritated at kevin for not vacuuming when i asked him to and when he did it, it was half-heartedly. :/ but he cooked today and he just showered so i just re-vacuumed spots and swiffered the floors before showering. i was still a bit irritated but it was dumb to get mad at him for it. so i waited for him to finish up gaming and then went to sleep when he did :)

23: i almost forgot my lunch today but i went back and got on the later train because the train just left as i got on the platform ;( i shared the weird tasting totaste green tea biscuits in the office and steve’s reaction was the best. everyone else said it was alright. diego surprised me and said it tasted like olive oil and he wasn’t disgusted at all. hmmm. oh, diego came into the office without me bothering him to come in :P yay! i was pretty productive today. i had a few long meetings, but it was alright. i ended my day with a meeting that kind of went over in time so i had to jump off, pack up, and then go to the chocolate shop with cole. i got chocolate covered gummy bears and dark chocolate peanut butter cups. cole bought the gummy bears for me because of all the snacks i’ve given him -- thanks bro! T^T i made it to south station 2 minutes later than kevin -- i broke my winning streak ;( ahaha.

we got home and played pokemon and cuddled and watched tv while the rice cooked. we made super easy omurice and then continued watching tv and gaming. mmm. it felt like a friday. we stopped at around 11 pm, kevin washed the dishes, and i did 30 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of back workout (15 minutes with dumb bells). idk if it’s gonna work because maybe the weights are too light? we’ll see. then i showered and ko’d in bed. mm i wish it was friday, but i’m also working from home tomorrow so nbd! i also caught a pretty good tapu koko! tapu lele is so hard to catch T^T my next challenge... p.s. i love talking and hanging out with everyone at t7. everyone is great and so funny. i’m so grateful.

24: my upper back was in so much pain when i woke up, ahha. kevin got up later than usual because i was still in bed (wfh). :) i got myself up eventually and then made breakfast and recorded videos. i also weighed myself in the morning and i don’t talk about this a lot but i’m so happy and proud of myself for pushing myself physically and getting to my body/health goals, BUT this morning i was 117/118 lbs and 19.7% body fat. yaaaasssss! my “previous goals” were to lose all the weight i gained (i was at like 130 lbs last year), and then get to 20% body fat. my now goal is to maintain this body fat or if i’m feeling bored, go further without changing my diet so it’s solely dependent on how hard i work out. it feels so good to eat whatever i want and stop when i know it’s too much and then work it off and get stronger. i’ve stopped being so dependent on calorie counting and just knowing what foods and portion sizes are good for me. i think i’m pretty close to having a good understanding of how much i should eat everyday and what it will do to my body. i’m getting there and i’m always learning about myself and about food of course ;D

anyway, then i ate lunch and ate some chocolate. mmm these dark chocolate peanut butter cups are the best. i talked to cole and dropped some food knowledge while he had some down time haha. phil told me to take the day easy after 3 pm because sultan and byron had off time today. so that’s what i did! i recorded 5 videos (record!) and then spent a good amount of time uploading pictures on facebook. i took a day off from exercising because my upper back was killing me. instead, i played pokemon for the rest of the day with kevin. we cuddled on the couch while watching tv and playing pokemon the rest of the night. we didn’t even cook dinner because kevin had happy hour and ate sliders and wings so i just baked some chicken nuggets. we took a break to shower and then play some more in bed and then went to sleep pretty late...like at 3:30 am or something...LOL

25: kevin woke up earlier than me and made breakfast. by “earlier” i mean like he woke up at 11 am and i got up at 1 pm LOL. it was a cloudy day so i didn’t feel like recording my 2min showcase... i skipped the meal because i felt full and we went to the movies to get tickets to see ‘logan.’ the 7:20 pm time was totally booked and same with ‘get out’ so we got tickets for ‘logan’ tomorrow at 7:20 pm. :) then we drove over to ‘oh my tea’ and i got the pudding, grass jelly, and boba milk tea drink (this is my second favorite drink there, especially for like a dessert kind of day) and kevin got the strawberry lemonade. i didn’t like his drink. Dx we devoured our drinks before we even got back home. well, kevin finished as we walked into the apartment... kevin tried making general tso’s chicken...it was a spicy af half failure -- tasted too salty and not sweet enough. the spice was too much as well...

while kevin did this, i nluu proofed our kitchen (haha i really enjoyed doing this). then i washed the fleece blankets. we ate, watched some tv, and then kevin left to go climb. i finished getting all of the pokemon in moon though!!! i just need kevin’s kartana -__-” so then i switched over to finally playing ‘bravely default.’ daniel got this game for me for my birthday like forever ago. it was hard getting into it but now i’m hooked. i watched ‘reign’ while playing this and then when kevin got back, we had a quick dinner and tv session and then i continued gaming. i stopped myself at 10 pm to do the intense 60 minute kickboxing video i found a week ago and then showered and continued gaming in bed until 3:30 am again LOL. omg, that work out killed me and reminded me that rest days should be light workout days and not “i’m not going to move anywhere for the whole day” days... the circulation in my legs and arms made me scratch everywhere and it was not pleasant but the work out felt good.

26: we woke up at 12 pm, kevin played pokemon and i played bravely default in bed until 1 pm, kevin made us breakfast, and i recorded my 2min showcase video. i hope it doesn’t turn out too bad? i don’t feel real motivated this week, but i’ll do my best to keep on schedule. then i did some internet errands, figured out our meals for this week, i started laundry, and then we went grocery shopping. we thought we were done early until kevin wanted to get fermented foods for congee and then we forgot to get vanilla mochi.... then we went in circles looking for chocolate syrup at rochebro’s and then we finally made it to bj’s where the express line was kinda long x__x; we made it back, put away all the food, transferred the wet clothing into the dryer, and then kevin realized we forgot to get garlic so he left to get garlic, i washed the dishes and prepped for dinner. luckily, the recipe was quick and we ate before heading out to see “logan.”

whyyyyyyyy?! i cried haha. it was a damn good movie and the little girl is a beast. <3 me and kevin had a semi-argument about character design for females vs male when it comes to “mutants” and things like that on the way back. i folded clothes when we got back, ate the mochi with some chocolate syrup, curled my hair, and then did the 45 minute cardio video. then i showered and brushed my teeth and got into bed. i stayed up until almost 2 am watching videos and waiting for kevin to finish watching the dota game. then kevin woke up at 2:30 am because he couldn’t sleep due to the fact that our upstairs neighbors were blasting music and talking loud af. kevin actually went upstairs and knocked on their door and no one answered... he also sent an email to deco to complain and then he fell asleep with earphones... i think he was listening to dota commentary LOLOL.

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february: week 4

20: ho hum. i was in much dull pain in the morning. i did work from home today and i worked on looking into using camtasia and recording videos in between meetings today. kevin didn’t have work today so he spent his time making ratatouille pasta for us for lunch. thank you <3 it was delicious haha. he also gamed until he got sick of dota 2. i exercised after work. i did 45 minutes of kickboxing with weights and then i showered right after so that my hair would dry in time for sleep. everything felt good (other than my stomach) today. like it was nice to work out at like 5-6 pm again and shower at an earlier time. we spent the rest of the evening watching ‘izombie.’ it’s getting more interesting. we had pasta for dinner but also ate pizza... we were really hungry for some reason? we didn’t get full, which was weird. i looked up why i felt like i wasn’t full and it’s because it’s my time of month. apparently bodies burn more calories during this time lol. so we ate half a pizza and some pasta. kevin vacuumed and swiffered while i got ready for bed. then we played some pokemon and i ko’d before 1 am. zzzz. here’s to spending more time with kevin on a weekday <3

21: i felt energized when i woke up and ready for work. the train was a bit late though so i got to work a bit later than i expected and i also took a nap on the train...so then i felt really sleepy coming into the office. the office was pretty full today! hehe. cole, charles, and i went to kane’s donuts and started our mid-morning off right. i love my t7 team. :) john sat at my desk yesterday because the heater was on (no one was there to turn it off) and the building was like 80 degrees and being in the separate office was even hotter :O haha good thing i didn’t come in. jim was also melting... the morning was hard for me because i was sleepy but i did learn more about camtasia and made a to-do list for myself. i had 3 meetings today so i had to juggle videos and meetings like yesterday. i realized that i can’t do video work in the office because it’s an open space and that i will work from home to do video work from now on.

i was in meetings for the rest of the day. i bonded with charles and cole over pokemon LOL and john was a bit bewildered about our generation because cole and i brought in our 3ds’s to work :P i left work at 3 pm after a meeting to catch the train before my last one at 4:30 pm. i picked up my memebox package and then got comfy and got back to work. after the meeting, i looked up where to eat for boston’s restaurant week and i got super excited. hehehe. then i made shiitake rice and prepped the veggies for dinner. i started exercising after and kevin came back. i finished exercising while kevin finished cooking dinner. then we watched 2 episodes of izombie while eating dinner and kevin made me feel bad about spoiling the show but then he revealed that he also knew -__-” JERK haha. then i got ready for bed and ko’d at like 1 am.

22: mmm i had a late morning. kevin went to work and then i got up, ate cereal, and went straight to recording and editing these video tutorials. it’s a lot harder than i expected and i’m not enjoying it as much as making templates for clients right now, ahha. i’m not comfortable with making video tutorials yet. i took a short break for lunch and watched the latest episode of ‘jane the virgin.’ i went back to editing and messing with camtasia until around 5 pm. it was a really chill day. i played pokemon for a bit and then made dinner. kevin was really tired for some reason and asked if he could just chill on the couch for a bit. he ended up taking a nap :P i made pico de gallo (a very chunky one), shredded lettuce, washed the black beans, made rice, and baked chicken thighs. i was in love with the salad i got with cole so i wanted to make it at home. when i started eating it, i realized that i just made chipotle...LOL. i really liked the chicken but i think if the pico had smaller chunks of red onion and tomato, it would have tasted better. we watched two episodes of izombie and then kevin went to game. i played some pokemon; i’m trying to get a razor claw from jangmo-o T_T it’s so hard. i gave up and then did 20 minutes of obliques and 35 minutes of kickboxing. this video hurt more than the 45 minute one! maybe i should skip weights for now. i went to shower and then kevin and i played pokemon in bed before sleeping at like 1:30 am.

23: lol i guess i’m working from home the rest of the week? it’s been hard trying to motivate myself to make tutorials and videos. i feel like i’m bad at explaining things and i need feedback. hopefully, phil lets me know what he thinks today. i made a small to-do list for the morning and then put on some music and tried to pump myself up. oh, my facebook cleanse has been going alright. i still open up my chrome browser and pause and then close it again because that habit has been ingrained in me. x__x maybe i should go for a full facebook deactivation? that seems too intense though. i also need to stop going on snapchat so much. i’m gonna start that cleanse soon too. haha i waste too much time on these apps when i could be playing pokemon (not being on facebook opened that up) or even reading. that’s my other goal. i think if i keep with this cleanse, i will be able to fit in both. i won’t give up my youtube videos though. the downside is that i usually find weird and interesting things on facebook to read and stuff, but i can also educate myself with reading.

anyway, it was a pretty productive day. i figured out how i want to approach the tutorials and etc. i got to talk with phil and sultan as well. we had a somewhat late and long client meeting, which ended my day at about 6:45 pm... i also was frustrated with catching the ultra beasts in pokemon so my mood was kinda ruined for the rest of the day. we ate leftovers for dinner and watched ‘izombie’ after i had a tantrum x__x then kevin dropped the corner iphone on my eyebrow bone on accident and i cried again LOL. it hurt :( but i think it was also because of the shock. kevin went to game and then i pushed myself to workout even though i was super tired from my emotions. i did an intense 30 minute tabata workout and i did 15 minutes or so of hip hop cardio. i haven’t done hip hop cardio in a while. then i showered and kevin and i played pokemon before bed and then we went to sleep at around 1 or 2 am. i caught a good nihilego before sleeping toooo.

24: i got up and scheduled things for next week. it’s a bit of a weird week so i hopefully will be in the office for 2.5 days and then the rest will be wfh for videos and late-ish meetings. then i got on a two hour training session and then right after, i microwaved lunch and then went into another meeting and after that, another two hour session. i caught 4 fairly good pheromosas and took a break from pokemon after learning that xurkitree is a pain in the butt to catch and to get a good one without a synchronized abra. blech. i spent an hour planning to start a video series called, “2MINShowcase.” it will be a series of videos showcasing products, brands, and services that i love and enjoy. i’m excited to start! it’s hard organizing and curating these collections though. i think i have one to shoot tomorrow! i’m going to shoot with my iphone 7 and edit with camtasia as a nice little exercise for now.

kevin stayed later than he expected and didn’t go climbing right after work. instead, he came back right when i was going to prep the pork cutlets to make tonkatsu. lol, i would have started prepping earlier if i knew. i turned off my work phone when i was done with work for the day and kevin sent messages there so i missed it by 30 minutes or so. well, we talked while we cooked together. kevin did a really dumb thing: put cold water in a pot of super hot oil. omg...it made a big oily splash when he did that and it scared the shit out of me. sometimes, he just doesn’t think in the kitchen... no one was hurt though, thankfully. we finished preparing dinner with no more kitchen incidents. we had tonkatsu spring rolls while watching the newest episode of supernatural. then kevin went to game after i felt like he insinuated that i am fat (he told me to exercise and i asked him if i should and then he continued to say that people run in the morning all the time and he compared all of the exercises i do to that. -__- then he said that he knows not to lift everyday but it doesn’t really apply to cardio. idk if you would get offended, but i did).

i think i actually ko’d for a bit and then woke up and did my damn 500 calorie burning popfitness video. then i showered and washed my hair. i don’t remember the last time i washed it LOL. it’s been a while because i worked from home basically the entire week. hmmm. anyway, i’m getting a little crazy from staying inside. i watched the free episode of the ‘try guys’ youtube red series and then went to sleep at like 2 or 3 am.

25: uhhhh my body was awake at 9:30 am but i got up at like 12:50 pm LOL. kevin made us breakfast: egg mcmuffin with leftover pico. i think the pico i made has a bit too much red onion... it’s upsetting my stomach in a way. i think i need to stop eating it lol. i watched ‘reign’ while kevin watched a dota game. then he tried getting a haircut but he had to wait after 9 other people...so he rq’d and got us bubble tea and then came back. after kevin left though, i went straight to recording my video series. the iphone 7 camera is soooo nice. i hate that my oneplus one always tries to auto-focus so it kind of zooms in and out. it’s so not cool. for some reason, it took 1-2 hours for my iphone to upload 17 1-minute or less videos to dropbox... so i sat and waited and edited as each clip came in. ugh. oh, kevin came back and then went straight to rock climbing. lol i lost track of time because of editing.

then i had to take a break and ate leftovers for dinner with kevin. we watched two episodes of izombie and then i went back to editing. i finished and tried uploading but then i was slowing down kevin’s connection so he restarted the router and i stopped (even though i was super excited about uploading it to youtube and facebook) -____-” so i just did hip hop cardio while he gamed. he finished his game like 30 minutes later and asked and i said no because it was too late for people to even see it if i posted it. ugh. i came back and uploaded it after my workout. then youtube took down my video T__T so i spent a few hours looking up youtube rules and violations and etc. then i finally went to shower and then i got in bed and played a few minutes of pokemon. it was like 4-5 am by the time we went to sleep LOL. kevin was up watching a dota tournament.

26: we got out of bed at like 2 pm or something LOL gg us. then kevin made us pico with scrambled eggs. it definitely made the red onion more tolerable. then he gamed for a bit while i finally uploaded my video to facebook, curled my hair, and then got ready for groceries. oh, we also planned food this week in bed. we didn’t need to get much because we’re going to new york on friday. so excited! we went to kam man and got some drinks to bring over to winston’s and jeanne’s along with groceries. we actually had to stock up on a few things so we did a lot of grocery shopping in general. then we went to roche bros and finally stopped at bj’s. we spent like 2 hours grocery shopping because i had coupons for bj’s and there were two coupon books so we had to check if each item we wanted was worth or not. we ended up getting more than what we needed...like chicken nuggets for example haha.

we got back, unloaded, kevin started cooking hong shao rou, i started laundry and cleaned the bathroom and then went to cutting apples for our puff pastry apple hand pies. it took me forever to find the recipe michelle gave me for the filling of an apple pie and also the other recipe i used to bake the hand pies and how to seal them as well. it was crazy. we ate dinner while standing and waiting for other things to cook. then i assembled the pies, put them in the oven and then we put up all of the artwork and posters we have gotten for the apartment so far. while kevin was putting up the final one, i took down our christmas tree. kevin finished putting it in the box while i showered at like 12:30 am or something. it was late af. i finished folding the clothes and then i stayed up a bit watching clothesencounters’ new video. i went to sleep at like 1 or 2 am but i think i actually fell asleep asleep at 3 am or whenever kevin got into bed x__X; this is what happens when you get up at 2 pm when you got shit to do LOL!

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