
THE PANDEMMA DIARIES
Tracking the sanity of a working-from-home professional/Mum through the covid-19 pandemic

Friday 10 April - Lockdown Day Sixteen
It's Good Friday today, and I have the mother of all headaches. I spent half the day in bed waiting for my meds to kick in. I spent the...

Thursday 9 April - Lockdown Day Fifteen
I have a confession to make. I binge-watched "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness". I'm a bit of a true crime junkie, but this was...

Wednesday 8 April - Lockdown Day Fourteen
Well, what an exciting day! Firstly - today I drove the car for the first time in, oh, about 14 days! Husband is nominated shopper, so I...

Tuesday 7 April - Lockdown Day Thirteen
Are we halfway now? Nearly halfway? Apparently, NZ's covid-19 cases are down today. The big news (well, the big newsES): - the Health...

Monday 6 April - Lockdown Day Twelve
Back to work today after that revitalising weekend off. (Cannot locate sarcasm font - you'll have to imagine it). We had a new team...

Sunday 5 April - Lockdown Day Eleven
Why am I so tired? All the time? I am, quite literally, doing almost nothing. I have achieved some advanced level of TV-watching, but...

Saturday 4 April - Lockdown Day Ten
Saturday today. Not sure what a weekend even is now. I mean, I don't have to go down to my office and be significantly less productive...

Friday 3 April - Lockdown Day Nine
So, I haven't posted in a while. Not because we have the covid, or because I've gone Jack Nicholson in The Shining on my family - just...

Thursday 2 April - Lockdown Day Eight
We've survived our first week in lockdown. But, man, only just. Today was another sub-optimal one in our house. They announced today that...

Wednesday 1 April - Lockdown Day Seven
So, let me start with a bit of a confession. I'm a fairly impulsive person and, when the 48 hour countdown to lockdown started, I thought...

Tuesday 31 March - Lockdown Day Six
Well, it had to happen. Eventually I was going to lose my shit and spend an entire blog post complaining and now, for your reading...

Monday 30 March 2020 - Lockdown Day Five
New experience today - first team meeting over Facetime. After about 10 minutes of futzing about to get it to work, the meeting went...

Sunday 29 March 2020 - Lockdown Day Four
My goal for lockdown day four was to spend the entire day in my jammies. Yep - I'm aiming high. But I was thwarted - by this persistent...

Saturday 28 March 2020 - Lockdown Day Three
Covid-19 cases are up again today and for the first time (that I've seen anyway) it has been reported that we have people in the ICU for...

Friday 27 March 2020 - Lockdown Day Two
Husband went to the supermarket this morning, before 8am. He had to queue (2 metres away from the person in front of him) to get in and...

Thursday 26 March 2020 - Lockdown Day One
That heading sounds intense, but nothing actually feels different. I was working downstairs today and I did feel like I was hearing less...

Wednesday 25 March 2020 - last day before lockdown
NZ is still at Alert Level 3, but tonight - just before midnight - we move to Alert Level 4. It all feels quite surreal, to be honest. We...

Tuesday 24 March 2020 - schools closed, day 1
Miss9 was upset when I told her last night that schools were closing for four weeks - because she "didn't get to say goodbye" to her...

Monday 23 March 2020 - And so it begins...
Today seemed like a good time to begin to blog my way through this crisis, so here we go. Last night, at around 8.30pm, I heard from my...



















