First day etc.
Jun. 11th, 2003 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purpletigronAs is common at this time of year, I woke up at 06:00. Unable to go back to sleep, I decided that the time had come to start breaking the Internet addiction which has kept me sane and slim over the past few months (really - sanity enables me to continue exercising and eating well, so I'm 78 kg instead of 85+ kg!). I decided to walk through the lovely lake gardens to build my appetite for breakfast.
It's cloudy now, but the sun was shining at 06:30, as I walked past tulip and maidenhair trees, dogs out giving their humans a run-around, water birds and their off-sprung, a gossiping gaggle of Canadas out on the water, and through the wilder areas full of scents to remind me of my rural youth, such as elderflower and wild garlic, then back through the rose garden just coming into bloom. I arrived home around 07:40, just as my partner D's alarm clock would be ringing in London... when D and I spoke at 09:00, I couldn't help teasing that I'd been awake for three hours yet D hadn't yet had breakfast. It works the other way around - I'm often asleep by 22:00, when D and G still see hours of computer noodling stretching before them :-)
I had a delicious breakfast, which just happens to be really nutritious as well - an exotic organic muesli, with extra oats and a little cranberry cordial to make a tasty sauce
with added water - I prefer it this way than with milk! In fact, I prefer this to most breakfast foods common in my culture, like toast, coffee (!), fried stuff... better still is curry, though :-)
And now, to work! Yes, I'm back on the Internet, but exercised and invigorated. I have reasonable goals, and every hope of achieving them. And tonight, someone is coming to fix the washing machine, and then D's going to be home early, for a meeting here tomorrow (G will be home on Friday as usual).
Life is good :-)
It's cloudy now, but the sun was shining at 06:30, as I walked past tulip and maidenhair trees, dogs out giving their humans a run-around, water birds and their off-sprung, a gossiping gaggle of Canadas out on the water, and through the wilder areas full of scents to remind me of my rural youth, such as elderflower and wild garlic, then back through the rose garden just coming into bloom. I arrived home around 07:40, just as my partner D's alarm clock would be ringing in London... when D and I spoke at 09:00, I couldn't help teasing that I'd been awake for three hours yet D hadn't yet had breakfast. It works the other way around - I'm often asleep by 22:00, when D and G still see hours of computer noodling stretching before them :-)
I had a delicious breakfast, which just happens to be really nutritious as well - an exotic organic muesli, with extra oats and a little cranberry cordial to make a tasty sauce
with added water - I prefer it this way than with milk! In fact, I prefer this to most breakfast foods common in my culture, like toast, coffee (!), fried stuff... better still is curry, though :-)
And now, to work! Yes, I'm back on the Internet, but exercised and invigorated. I have reasonable goals, and every hope of achieving them. And tonight, someone is coming to fix the washing machine, and then D's going to be home early, for a meeting here tomorrow (G will be home on Friday as usual).
Life is good :-)
