DAY TEN - QUARANTINE IN AUSTRALIA

 First up... for the past couple of days  I've been muddled up with how many more days/nights I have here.

I keep looking at the sticky notes on my wall... and last night I had another good look at them and realised I'd not taken down one somewhere along the way.  So I thought I was here for another 6 nights as of yesterday, when in fact... I'm now down to only FOUR more nights HERE, and one night out by the airport next Tuesday night, then I will be in Coffs Harbour!

Best thing of all is ONLY FOUR MORE NIGHTS HERE.  Then I will be free to walk outside, go anywhere, do anything, eat WHAT I WANT.  OMG  that is going to be amazing.

Next.  I got a Care Package at my door late yesterday afternoon!  How exciting....

ABOVE:  OOOOOoooowwwww... looks very interesting.

ABOVE:  And it is!  Some really lovely snacks, and luxurious toiletries and a cute little book. 

The book is all about motherhood... the semi humorous/not so humorous side of motherhood!  Very entertaining reading.

ABOVE: This is the note that came with the package.  It is lovely, and the bit about mealtimes just made me laugh! 😂😆😅

Thank You so much Penny, what a lovely thing to do.

ABOVE:  These rice cake thingees came with Colleen's care package last week.  I got around to trying them yesterday afternoon.  OMG I hope we have them in New Zealand!  They were delicious!  Yes, they are all gone now.  lol

Note:  they are only 17 calories per 'cake'.  

Now... first up for my day is going to be another bubble bath.  The last one was just so nice!  Let's hit 'repeat'.

ONWARD...

DAY TEN... day ten... what's so 'special' about day ten?

OH yeah... I just remembered.  I get my 2nd COVID-19 test today.  I should rejoice... cos once that comes back clear I will be able to leave here.  Yeah.  Thinking of the positives.  It takes four days for the results to come in.  Hence being released from here on Day 14... all going well.

IF you test positive you have to do ANOTHER two weeks quarantine!  Imagine that ... horror!

It is a cloudy, dreary looking day here in Sydney ... but it might clear up later.

Meanwhile, down in Melbourne:

ABOVE: It looks amazing!  I have a friend (Marie McN) who lives there and goes for a 14 km walk most mornings along the seaside.  Today it's like GLASS!  So beautiful. Apparently the brown blob in the water is a ship (HMAS CERBERUS),, that was deliberately sunk there to act as a breakwater and dive spot; but is now off limits as it's deteriorating. All this wonderful information from Marie, thanks Chick. 

Breakfast arrived:

ABOVE:  And there is nothing to complain about here!  Fresh milk, a nice cereal, an amazing croissant, fruit bla bla bla.

I've been 'saving' up my jam pots, so used some on the croissant today.  SO YUM!

This meal gets a perfect 10/10.

JO:  I decided not to publish your comment from yesterday... as you said, it had the potential to cause sadness.  But I sympathise. 💙💜💚

I just had a comment come in that really required an answer. (Anon : 10.55 New Zealand time) I hope I did it without getting all defensive?

9.45 am : And I just had my 2nd COVID-19 test.  They couldn't do the swab down my throat as I just kept gagging and throwing up!  Was horrible.  Up the nostrils went better, even though it's slightly painful.  My temperature was 35.8 so all good there too.

I should get the all clear from that in just two days, not the four I was told on Day Two.

Yaaa, another hurdle jumped.

I just had some of the Cheesy Crackers Penny gave me.  Very, very nice!

1.00 pm:  Lunch arrived.  Don't get excited.

ABOVE:  It LOOKS OK eh?  Only the VEGETABLE SOUP looks revolting, and so does the VEGETABLE 'SALAD'.  Fuck I'm over left over vegetables from the night before. PUMPKIN??? 

I AM NOT A VEGETARIAN.  I didn't at any point tell them I was.  Grrrrr.

😖😠😣

This meal got a measly damn 2/10.

I ate the bloody carrot sticks and hummus AGAIN... and then ordered a friggin' burger from downstairs.  It costs $19 for a cheeseburger and shoestring fries here.

It is worth it to have something to eat that is PALATABLE and filling.

Well... I've just won two hands of Solitaire!  

That was nice... after playing about 20+ hands.

Finally got to have a very quick word with The OLD MOO just now.  She was too tired to have a conversation with... but at least I got to hear her voice.

She assures me she's 'fine', so I will have to accept that.

I still feel too far away.

Time to get off me bum and do a few lengths of the room.  My shoulders and upper back are killing me from sitting at this desk for too long.

5.15 pm: Is it sad that I am starting to recognize cars on the motorway?  I'm like... OH LOOK, there's that cute little purple car heading home.... yeah.  I have looked at far too much traffic these past 10 days!

lol ... there's a bus literally LIMPING up the motorway ramp!  Bunny hopping... I think it's gunna die.  

It's drizzling, has been on and off all day.  

The guys on the big construction site have just finished for the day. Poor buggers, working in those conditions.  I presume though, that it's not cold out there?  I wouldn't know.

ABOVE: Well, dinner arrived bang on 6 pm.

And I was not hungry at all!

So I put it aside for later.

And when 'later' came... of course it was stone cold.  But the chicken was lovely!

I'm giving this meal a 7/10.

It would have scored higher but for the pumpkin 😅.

I have literally had one phone call/video chat after the other since about 4 pm!  No chance to get lonely around here!

But now, I refuse to take any more.  I'm going to relax and watch something on Netflix until I'm tired, then go to bed.

Catch ya tomorrow.