Out of the comfort Zone

May 20th, 2020, waking up to warm house….20 degrees Celsius compared to 8 degrees yesterday morning.

I have given up on the fire, while it has that feel good look, the heat generation is minimal and the cost is high.

A quick trip to The Warehouse yesterday saw me lash out on their most powerful, expensive, fan blasting model of heater, all for a mere $79.00. So here we find ourselves this morning to a thermostatically controlled 20 degrees.

Yesterday morning produced an orange sunrise and what followed was a cloudless winters day…still the jeans and jersey type, but sunshine sneaking in every corner it could find.

A crockpot fail saw my dinner ready at midday, put the cook level on high rather than low so it boiled rather than bubbled and got turned off at lunch and reheated for dinner!

Yesterday I took the time to pen a letter to Riverhaven, not sure to who or whether anyone will really care! Just took these things out of my head and put them on paper… a reality hit when I had finished, and a little sadness. The short summary was that the fun, friendly, kind, community spirit that we all bought into and built up over the years (a big part of Russ) has been chipped away at, leaving us with an environment we all feel uncomfortable with and don’t want to be part of. Anyway it’s out there in the universe now and a weight off, I can at least enjoy the community of Waiwera and the kind folks that call this their home for the winter.

Time to leap out of bed…and face another day, it’s a biggie. Today is the day I support the local petrol stations and travel to the other side of Auckland for a work meeting! But first a couple of hours at the keyboard, as I am not upending the work setup for a few hours in a different location….then I hit the road, and undoubtedly traffic as the city is 75% back to normal. So far so good. But first….feet on floor. Then, it’s “what to wear?” A question I haven’t asked myself in eight weeks! “Do I bother with makeup?” Don’t usually, why start now? And the day of a working girl begins, already this remote work life feels like a nest I want to be in forever!