Day 21 in China during the Coronavirus

Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! I hope you had a better one than me! 🙃 and Congratulations to us for making it to the 3 week mark in isolation!🎉 okay so, I’m salty about today because it was so boring!!

I started off the day quite well, I woke Zac up with some chocolate covered strawberries (I know, how romantic am I!) buuut he couldn’t really open his eyes as I kept him up for most of the night by snoring… I personally think he’s hearing things, I don’t snore. I may breathe a bit heavy but I’m asleep, shoot me 🤷🏻‍♀️ Also, he does have Misophonia (Sensitive to sound) sooo I think it’s him, not me… I’m perfect 🧚🏼‍♀️ kidding! So yeah, I felt really bad for keeping him up so the strawberries were an apology and a Valentine’s thing (2 for 1, bargain!). Then, it was seeming to be quite productive, I cleared the kitchen, walked the dog, sorted my online classes, prepped for the ones over the weekend and made the pizza dough ready to be used for dinner (pizza party remember)… but then nothing. We realised the VPN (the internet connection that allows us to communicate with the western world) was down! So no Netflix, Instagram, Facebook even WordPress at one point… you’re lucky, you nearly didn’t get a post today! I am a Generation Z specimen, we survive by scrolling through meaningless social media posts and binging on Netflix, today, that was taken away from me 😰 Well actually, I’m not a real Gen Z as I don’t use social media that much and I find it difficult to watch more than 2 episodes on Netflix at a time without getting bored… I just wanted to show off that I know about the Generation thing 🤓

Anyway, so yes, I was sat there with nothing to do and I am struggling because I can’t just sit, I’m like a puppy – I need to do something otherwise I sulk, Zac was playing his PS4 and I’m sat thinking of what to do. I couldn’t think of anything! I know you’re thinking ‘there’s loads of things to do, you could workout, make something, draw, learn chinese’. No no, I know there are things to do but my mind doesn’t let me, I need to be in the mood and your mind really does take over your body if you’re not feeling something because all motivation just flies out of the window! So after wasting a lot of time doing nothing it came around to dinner time so we made our pizzas… topped with some chicken, onions, peppers and of course cheese, added garlic mayo on the side and it turned out pretty nice, I would say ‘yeah yeah yeah!!’ But I was quite deflated at this moment as I was so disappointed that I didn’t do anything for the past how ever many hours. BUT then my old housemate, who I spent Valentine’s Day with last year, sent me a video of what we did for Valentine’s and omg my mood changed! I cannot believe how different my life was! Just to briefly describe the video; she was basically carrying me home from a night out while eating cheesy chips covered in Gravy and then sleep talking about parking on double yellow lines and pressing the printing button on the printer, so random but soo soo soo funny! Definitely a ‘be there’ moment to appreciate it but there you go. That was 2 days before I met Zac! Compare that to now, I’m at home making pizza with my fiancée and 3 pets… I’m grown 😟 I love it tho!

So since my mood changed and we had very fun food for dinner, we took the dogs for a walk, well, more like a lunge! We did walking lunges around the block as neither of us worked out today and we just ate fat pizzas so we had to do some sort of exercise! It was pretty entertaining since we had to keep up with the dogs. However, it took a turn! While on our lungey walk we were approaching another golden retriever. Lola, the friendly puppy she is, wanted to go up and play but quickly realised this was not a nice doggy! This dog’s owner had the aggressive golden off of its lead and he came running at Lola to attack her! Lola, bless her, was on the lead and couldn’t get away, I had to run towards her to catch up so she wouldn’t get tangled, this stupid dog gave Lola a little nip so she had a bit of a cry and Zac was not happy. I thought he was about to go for the dog AND the owner himself! Luckily, Lola is okay but she definitely had a scare! Aww my little baby! Ooo more on Lola, she’s 7 months old in 3 days, she’s growing up so fast 😢

The end. That was the events of today and hopefully there will be more tomorrow because I nearly lost my mind today. I HATE BEING BORED. Good night 🤠