Saturday 11 April - Lockdown Day Seventeen
Today Husband and I have been married 16 years. Sixteen looooonnnng years. Just kidding. Haha... ha... Needless to say, after 17 days in...
Tracking the sanity of a working-from-home professional/Mum through the covid-19 pandemic
Today Husband and I have been married 16 years. Sixteen looooonnnng years. Just kidding. Haha... ha... Needless to say, after 17 days in...
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...
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...
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...
Are we halfway now? Nearly halfway? Apparently, NZ's covid-19 cases are down today. The big news (well, the big newsES): - the Health...
Back to work today after that revitalising weekend off. (Cannot locate sarcasm font - you'll have to imagine it). We had a new team...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
New experience today - first team meeting over Facetime. After about 10 minutes of futzing about to get it to work, the meeting went...
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...
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...
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...
That heading sounds intense, but nothing actually feels different. I was working downstairs today and I did feel like I was hearing less...
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...
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...
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...