A Day in the Life of Me

It’s funny how humans are creatures of habit. Every day I do the exact same thing.
I know I’ve written a similar blog about this kind of thing before but I guess this one is also kind of “A Day in the Life of Me”.

So, every morning I wake up at what my alarm says is 6:30am but is actually more like 6:20am or slightly earlier because I keep my alarm clock running 10 minutes fast.

I roll around for a while and say “nughghgh, it can’t be time to wake up already” then I stay in bed till it’s about 6:40am just listening to ZM’s Morning Crew for a few minutes before going to have a shower.

I pee then have my shower (also a routine, eg: I wash my body in the same order every day with the same body wash) for 10 minutes then I get out, dry myself, walk back to my room and slip back into bed so I don’t get cold.

I continue to listen to The Crew while I’m getting dressed into my work clothes. When I’m dressed, I go out into the lounge and turn on the computer, it is now 6:57am in real time.

I check Hotmail first to see if anyone cares enough to email me, then I check Facebook and sometimes Twitter if I get time.

By this time, it’s usually about 7:20 so I brush my teeth, make sure my bag is packed with some healthy snacks and a good book then I get in my car, listening to the same CD most days (or my Ipod before it broke) and drive to the Trentham railway station.

I park in the same place at the railway station as I do every day and sit at the there for a few minutes listening to music until 7:37am and then I take out my car stereo and put it in my bag, then grab my bags and go to the platform.

At 7:44am, the train comes (sometimes it’s a little bit later but never earlier) and I get on and read my book till we get to Wellington.
At Wellington I put my book in my bag and get off the train. I sometimes walk to New World and buy a danish if I’m hungry, otherwise I walk out of the station and up the hill to work.

When I get to work, I go up to the 3rd floor in the lift and walk to my desk, turn on the computer and read the Dominion Post for about an hour.

It’s now about 9:30/10am and I check my emails and respond to anything that needs responding to. I then make coffee or have a glass of cold water and a No-Doz caffeine pill so I’m awake for the day.

I then have a briefing with my boss who tells me what to do for the day and I do it, only stopping to check Hotmail, Facebook and Stuff a few times during the day.

At 12pm I have lunch, which is usually a sandwich from New World’s deli, which they allow you to choose 4 salad ingredients and one spread. Usually, being a creature of habit, I have cheese, lettuce, tomato and sprouts with honey mustard sauce on multi-grain bread.
Sometimes I’ll also have a raspberry cream bun as well, if I’m feeling like something sweet.
I eat in the little memorial garden beside work, it’s very pretty and is great for sitting in to get out of the office for a while.

I do more work in the afternoon, at some point going to the bathroom because I drink too many glasses of water during the day (using the same toilet every time of course) until 4:55 when I turn off my computer, go down the lift and walk down the hill to the railway station to catch the 5:12pm train.

The train gets back to Trentham at about 5:45-5:55ish and I drive my car home from the station.

At home, I say hi to mum, cuddle each of my cats and turn on the computer.
I check Hotmail, then Facebook then watch a little TV or make dinner.

After dinner, I stay on the computer, watch some TV and upload my photo of the day, which I took at some point during the day.

I go to bed at 9:30-10pm after putting on my pajamas and brushing my teeth.

Are you a creature of habit or do you like to change things up a bit?

V.

Oh the smell

Hey,
So I'm about to blog for the second time today BUT you fuckers better not hope for a blog tomorrow.
So if you want DAILY Varelai action, read this tomorrow.
Oh I know it's hard and you suffer but so do Muse so you'll survive.

So, number 1: Lately I've been concerned I smell bad. I smell myself and think, wow that's awful and often wonder if others can smell me.
I don't want to know if you can but I AM conscious of it so I'll try to avoid it, not that I don't ALWAYS avoid smelling awful but when you're gaining weight like mad and begin to wear tight pants which probably don't have much breathing room, sometimes that kind of thing happens.
But look guys, I WILL stop talking about gross shit on here coz that's so not right and I would NEVER want to read that.

But first.. Okay so our ex next door neighbours have been married about 20 or so years now.
They're about 20 years apart in age but that doesn't stop them still being happy.
They seem to argue like nobody's business but I feel like it's because she is quite a "German-like" type person, gets angry very easily and does NOT know how to just chill out and ride life like it was a really gorgeous rockstar.
And don't get offended Germans, even my little German will admit German's find chilling kinda hard (like a gorgeous rockstar?)
And I am kinda German myself so uh... Yea.
So anyway, the partner, the male, is SO chilled, I cannot imagine him EVER getting angry at anything.
I stepped in his wet cement in the weekend and he didn't yell AT ALL. So yea, so calm.
Where as she gets angry about everything from people parking on their land to his whistling in the morning when he wakes up earlier than everyone else and bangs around too loudly while she's still sleeping.
So while they're arguing, well while she's yelling at him a bit for the above morning routine, he comes up behind her and tickles her. And she giggles even though she's trying to be all angry about how insensitive he is.
Then later, we have a feed of vego nachos, which are AWESOME coz she is an awesome cook, on the previous day she made me the BEST quiche I've ever tasted so has made me LOVE quiche. Yes, it was THAT incredible that I've changed my whole mind/world view of the Q word.
So anyway, she gets up and says something about farting. Which is totally gross coz I hate that kinda stuff.
But then her husband and I start talking, I ask him if it was awkward the first time they farted in front of one another.
You see, the thing is. I've listened to ZM for a long time coz I LOVE the Morning Crew. Polly and Grant are married and they've talked a few times about this toilet business. Polly never wants their own business to be "aired out" so to say.
But they ask listeners about it and get response.
So anyway, it's something I know I have to get over.
Everyone does it. My friends do and my partner certainly will (particularly if he's male) so how do couples get over this hurdle?
Is the "F" word a bigger issue to me than it is to most people?
I hope my friends read this and realise I don't think they're gross for being human but it's my own fear of the F word that makes me get grossed out at these occassions.
However, I think EVERYONE has this fear because my friends don't often do this in front of me.
But maybe that's coz it's a private thing people do alone?
But if they do, then how do people, friends and lovers, get over it?

So guys, I need answers.
I don't want to know about your F wording but I want to know what you think when it comes to doing it around people.
Is it normal?
It's human, sure but how do you get over it?

But also, the aforementioned relationship makes me think of Up! Which I saw last night.
Ellie and Carl love each other till the end.
Ellie dies but Carl continues to feel her all around him throughout the rest of the movie and you KNOW he loves her forever.
I'd love to have that. Or the real version which is my ex next door neighbours, who fight like cats and dogs but still love each other where it counts.
You can SEE the love even when they're fighting.
And I do believe couples NEED to fight to some degree coz they can't always agree on everything and fighting means less chance of divorce because they get their feelings out before they explode in divorce.
I have a lot of love to give and nowhere to spend it.
That's all.

I have another blog idea for tomorrow that I've been saving since yesterday,
hope I remember.

Varelai.