You know when you get the feeling of not being able to move because you’re just waiting for the event that you don’t want to happen, come around? That’s what I experienced today. If you’ve never had it, well you’re very lucky and I hope you never do. The cause of this feeling was due to knowing that I had to hold a live class to 4 year olds over Zoom (video conferencing app). It was despicable. Imagine, you’re on video with a whiteboard whilst talking to the class but you can’t see yourself, so you have no idea if the board is even on the screen! Then, I have the 4 year olds shouting at the screen with the answer which is great BUT the quiet kids get lost. So, to resolve this I mute the rest of the kids and… oh wait, their ID’s don’t have their names on so I have to guess what kid is using what ID. By the way, during all of this, their faces are switching on my FULL screen as the website I was using wouldn’t let me see all of them at once 🤦🏻♀️ technology is supposed to be great!? Anyway, I found the quiet student and he would say his answer which was fab but bear in mind, I still have no idea if my board is on the screen… we were learning about emotions (worried, shocked and excited) so I needed to draw the faces on my board. My artistic skills have really improved since becoming a teacher 🙃 so the whole shabang was a battle but the clever little guys were all able to say ‘I am shocked’😵, ‘I am worried😟’ and ‘I am excited🤩’ at the end of the 30 minute Zoom sesh… so kinda mission accomplished.
Next thing, you ever get it when you’ve had a coffee too late and then you’re awake for most of the night? Yeah I’ve had that, it is so inconvenient, I just want to sleep – that’s the feeling at 2am… Well. Imagine that but times it by 50 because ZAC decided to invest in pre-workout. Generally it’s fine, you know a nice little kick before a gym sesh and you smash it up. BUT. 1: We aren’t going to the gym, it’s a tiny home workout that we’ll get into and that’s it. 2: We aren’t eating that much since we have no reason to as we aren’t as active as what we were before this epidemic kicked off and 3 (the most valid point): This pre-workout contains a combination of ingredients that would probably be able to set off a heart attack! This product is called ‘Pathogen’ VERY apt for this virus situation BUT it literally is a pathogen being inserted into your body… well, in Zac’s case anyway.
Zac has taken this pre-workout a couple of times but for the past week he hasn’t been able to sleep and he’s felt a bit rough, initially we thought it was just a little illness and it will pass. No that wasn’t the case, the next time he took the pre-workout (last night) the symptoms worsened. I decided to take it upon myself to turn into Sherlock Holmes and figure out what the cause would be. Yep, you’ve guessed it, PATHOGEN. I looked up the ingredients and it contains some serious head-blowing caffeine (4 different types)! No wonder he couldn’t sleep, all the caffeine is sitting in his body waiting to be used up… I can assure you, it would probably take a 4 hour long gym sesh to be all sucked up. So, I solved the mystery of why he was staying up and we figured that because the product has such strong contents it’s probably disagreeing with Zac’s digestive system so that’s why he’s feeling so rough. WOW I’m good, such a detective… also slight common sense. In conclusion, there you go, we found out that this pre-workout is literally a deadly pathogen – Coronavirus, you have some competition… sorry too soon.
Last thing, you know when you get the feeling that you just NEED to help someone because you’ve experienced the same thing as what they’re going through now. Yes, I’ve felt that, I feel like I would do anything to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen to them because when it happened to me it was awful. Anyway, I experienced that today, I listed down every way possible that I could try and help to stop the same thing happening to them and I thought I had a breakthrough but no. It just isn’t possible. It would be if this STUPID virus wasn’t a thing but it is. I am so mad at this Coronavirus, it’s spread around the whole world and it’s stopping people from living how they want to live, and for some, stop living all together! It’s just frustrating because I don’t want to stay in my house and tidy everyday… I know I said in my post yesterday that it’s a nice feeling, it is, but cmon I need to appreciate the feeling, let me have at least one day of mess! I want to go to the gym, I miss it so much, I will never take advantage of it again and miss a day when I was actually supposed to go. I want to teach face to face and not over a Zoom app that has so many inconveniences! I want to be able to freely fly around the world to see our families if we need to without having to be in isolation for 14 days before seeing anyone we actually want to see. Finally, I want to be able to eat out, I don’t want to cook anymore, someone cook for us! I think we deserve that!
I just had to let all my wants out, I really want to lose my ‘Tina the talking tummy’ and my ‘cellulite sally’ and my ‘Kimmy Cankles’. Sorry, that was my last one. Anyway, you get the point, I want this virus to be over because at the moment it seems that there’s no means to an end by the rate the rest of the world’s numbers are going up! Hopefully it stops before everyone starts writing blogs about Day X in the Coronavirus world!! 😟
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