My Forth Week In Lockdown - Coronavirus Crisis
Another week in lockdown has passed and we have now reached the month mark. A month of 2020 within the four walls of my home, the way I’m sure many of us have been spending it other than the key workers. If you are a key worker, I want to say THANK YOU for all that you are doing.
This week has definitely been the hardest yet for me, and I couldn’t really tell you why. I have been very hormonal towards the end of this week (is that too much information? Too late…) so I reckon that has been a big contribution to how I’ve been feeling about the whole situation. I have also been majorly BINGING on chocolate this week. After 6 weeks of giving up all desserts for Lent, yes, I am allowing myself to do eat as much as I want. A bit of Easter egg for breakfast, supper and any time in between! I’m actually impressed I still have three left; Cameron has eaten all of his!
Because of giving up desserts, I haven’t been able to bake anything yet this lockdown. I have always absolutely loved baking and have used it as a way to take some time out, put some music on and make myself something YUMMY ever since I have been able to. I still haven’t had the chance to bake something yet; I want to keep it as something to look forward to for the coming weeks. I did however, dabble a bit in the kitchen melting Easter eggs and covering strawberries, and then making some cornflake cakes too. They are the easiest thing to make but SO GOOD. I also watched Cameron make some of his famous cookies and they also were AMAZING and gone within around 24 hours.
This week, on 15th April, was Jacob’s 24th Birthday AND our 3rd anniversary. What a weird one this year. I can’t explain how hard it was spending the day away from him in these circumstances. I absolutely love making birthdays special for people, and I was so upset to not be able to celebrate with Jacob the way I wanted to. I sent him a birthday and anniversary card in the post which he received the morning of his birthday, and I have saved his presents all wrapped and ready for the day we can see each other again. I want to create another birthday for him, with the presents, making him a cake, cooking him a birthday tea and I might even let him choose a movie for us to watch WITHOUT arguments! That would be a huge sacrifice for me as he well knows! Jacob made me feel so special on our anniversary though. He rang me and told me to walk to my Dad’s car where I found a gift bag with a card, flowers and one of his jumpers inside. I didn’t see him, and I am glad I didn’t because I think I would have found it so hard seeing him but not being able to be near him. I love him so much, and I am missing him loads. It has been a month now but I know it won’t be long until we can be back together again. Happy late birthday and anniversary Jacob. Hope you had a lovely day with your family and I cannot wait to see you.
I am really missing my friends and family now too. It is weird because it kind of isn’t sinking in how long it has been since I have seen them properly. I think because Zoom and Facetime is a thing, it is slightly healing the hole I’m feeling from not seeing them. My best friend Keira has come up with a great idea of listing our favourite 20 musical songs and ordering them from 1 to 20. It took us maybe a week to do this, because it was SO DIFFICULT TO CHOOSE THEM. We had a really good facetime session where we started from the bottom (you definitely sang that) and took it in turns explaining why we chose the song and we reminded each other of ones we may have forgotten and gave each other some new songs to listen to. I know Keira has been doing this with other friends and family themed to whatever may suit them. I have decided to do another list with Keira of our top songs by Miley Cyrus, and I’m doing top films and top songs with Jacob, and top meals with Callum. It’s just another way of finding out different things from the people you love and giving you something else to listen to / eat / watch.
I was challenged to do the ‘run 5, nominate 5, donate 5’ challenge on Instagram this week. If you know me, you know the one thing I hate the most is running. But since I have nothing else to do, and I have been working on my fitness in lockdown then I thought, why not try and run 5k? The difficulty of where I live is how hilly it is. I think I’d have done better and been able to run further if I didn’t have as many hills to climb on route (which I walked, of course). It actually didn’t end up being as hard as I thought it would be and I’m really impressed with myself for doing it – but I doubt I will be doing it again any time soon so no one challenge me again please!
Nicole really stepped it up a notch for our weekly Chem quiz this week. She made a very professional looking PowerPoint with a round on memes, logos, snails (don’t ask) and a guess the Chem round where she had zoomed into a body part of each of us and we had to guess who was who. We all had a bev in hand and a catch-up before we started, definitely the perfect way to spend a Sunday night, though I can’t wait to get back to our usual antics on a weekend.
Now that it has been announced this week that we are going to be in lockdown for at least another three weeks, I need to plan another three weeks of things to do in my house! I hope everyone is staying safe, keeping as busy as possible to pass the time and staying positive as much as possible.
Keep smiling and have a great day! Liv xxx
