DAY TEN QUARANTINE - AUCKLAND

IT!

Cos well.... seems I swear too much.

Let's make it pretty then.

But yeah, I do swear too much, and I shall try to do it less.

BUT... if I'm really crabby, the odd bad word is gunna slip out.

It's MONDAY... so I already feel so much closer to being let out of here!

I can easily visualise it now, whereas at the beginning that was hard to do.

I apologise for being in a right funk the past couple of days.

Things are happening in the family that have just knocked me for six really.

NOTHING I can do to change one situation at all, so I have to let that one go.

But... there is another one that I sure in hell can do something about, just as soon as I get out of here.

Stew and I took a huge step back from a family issue, but it's now just got to the point where power and control have gone to some people's heads, and it has to stop.

So... we shall be taking an active interest in this issue again, even though it's the last thing we want to be doing.

So sad really, because it is all SO UNNECESSARY.  JUST BE KIND.

BE KIND?  Seems someone FORGOT about that.

ONWARD...

ABOVE:  Ahhhh.... because I can.  For as long as I want.  NO INTERRUPTIONS.  Well... except the ants.

They found me rubbish bag.  Little shits.  I put Blu Tack over their entrance hole.  GOTCHA. 

Might just go for a wander soon....  the lobby walking area is calling.

11.09 am:  And I've just had a 40 minute walk. On me own.  In the cool lobby walking area.

I've also booked myself a place on the 1pm Level 4 Deck walk as well.

NOT that I will be walking!

I'm gunna lie in the middle of the deck and get a tan on the back of me legs!

Lots of people do it.  Or just sit and read a book or listen to music.  It's just GETTING OUTSIDE  that matters.

No one tells you off for NOT exercising!

Just as well cos I think they'd have a revolt on their hands if they did.

Getting fresh air and sunshine is just as important as exercise in this situation.

I didn't get any breakfast today!  Wow.  Seems sometimes they feel obliged to feed me, and sometimes. NOT.

All good.  I have plenty of food of my own!

Got a couple of hours to kill till my next 'appointment', might watch something on Netflix again.

Well... I went out to Level 4 Deck and lay in the sun.  About half the 14 people out there were doing the same thing.

After that I came back to my room, made some lunch then had a nap.

I must have been tired because I slept for 3 hours!!!

Then dinner arrived.  Then family conversations ensued.

And now?  I'm gunna go downstairs and walk around the lobby for 40 minutes.

ABOVE:  Random salad shit on RICE.  Not meat.  It was TVP (Textured Vegetable Protein)  .. hideous.

ABOVE:  Pork and Potato/capsicum on RICE.

ABOVE:  Anyone for RICE AND POTATO?

8 pm. FIRE ALARM. PLEASE EVACUATE THE BUILDING BY THE NEAREST FIRE EXIT!!!

OK. Now standing outside. Cops and fire crew swarming all over the place.

So.  8 pm and the alarms go off. I'm thinking.... OK.  They are going to do another 'public announcement'... someone has Covid and they have to do another 'Deep Clean' of the building.

But NO.  Next comes the 'Please Evacuate the Building from the nearest Exit'.

OK.  So I grab me handbag, laptop and passport and I'm off down the stairs as fast as I can go.

Only I go PAST the lobby exit and end up in the basement, which does NOT have an exit!

PANIC!  Realise my mistake so go back up 2 flights of stairs and exit into the lobby, then go outside.

There's not even 'organised chaos'.  Everyone is just milling around wondering what the hell is going on.

Did someone smoke in a bathroom?

ABOVE:  There's cops and fire men everywhere.

Making sure no one RUNS for it!

CRANKY:  No chance of running ... Chris DOES NOT RUN.  Unless there's a rabid dog chasing me!

After about an hour it was deemed 'safe' to reenter the building.  We all had to use the freakin' stairs to get back to our rooms!

OMG imagine being on the 15th floor!

I really struggled to get back up to the 4th floor ... I really struggle with stairs.

There WAS a fire on level 3. edit:  According to news media, there was no fire, just a problem with sprinklers going off.   We were told there was a fire.  Oh well.  Either way, it was scary.  There's been some water damage to a few rooms.  Not mine thankfully.

Not that it would have bothered me.  Everything that was important left the building with me.

Now I'm back in my room and not feeling very safe.

I'm sitting having my end of day chat with Stew... and the bloody alarm goes off again!  I immediately think "FUCK gotta get out again"... BUT IT ONLY WENT OFF ONCE.

Relax.

Panic over.

But seriously, I'm sleeping in me clothes tonight!

11.09 pm:  and there's an Army Officer at me door.

Doing a room/person check.

Really?

At 11 pm?

Nice.

Not like I was asleep I suppose.

NOR was I in me nightie.

I'm actually feeling a bit sick to my stomach.