A Day With Me (part2)

It's been a while since my last "a day with me" post so I thought I'd do another one :) I like reading this type of posts myself in the blogs that I follow, hope you do too! So get a comfy position in your armchair and take a look at how my day went!

5.50

The alarm rings. The first thought is "I can't". 

6.00

Snooze alarm. Damn, I still can't.

6.30

S*it. I get up as I need to wash my hair before heading to the physiotherapy at 8am. Getting up this early and to do this type of activity on holiday should be forbidden by law. I look at my fiancé and Patu who happily snore away when I drag myself to shower.

7.20

I need to hurry up if I want to make it on time. My hair takes forever to dry and the humid bathroom makes me feel like I need to hit the shower again soon. I decide to skip breakfast until after the physio, there's no time for such activities now.

7.45

I park my car by the old soviet style building which works as the homebase for several different companies providing healthcare services. I walk in together with quite a few elderly people who I assume are there to fix potentially similar issues to mine. The only difference is, they're about 45 years older than I am. 

7.50

I run into an old colleague and friend at the waiting hallway of the place. We have a short catch up and agree that we're slowly falling apart piece by piece. Not good.

8.00

My always positive physiotherapist starts to work her magic on my feet. Ouch and ouch, but a good ouch. A little ultrasound and cold air therapy to finish off the treatment.

Yey! One more physio done!

8.40

Time to hit the traffic jam and go home. I feel happy, the physiotherapy is working and I can walk almost normally. Pretty cool stuff.

9.00

Ahhh, breakfast finally! I fix a bowl of oatmeal. I eat it straight from the plastic cup I made it in the microwave, no time to make things pretty. It looks like a bowl of waste but hey, the taste is good! I change clothes so we can head to town to the new Lutherian wedding church.

10.45

Everything sorted at the church, we've booked a rehearshal for Friday before the wedding and agreed on all other details.

Wedding flower "shopping"

11.15

Meeting with the florist. Looking at different flower bouquets and floral table decorations. The florist is really nice and professional and gives us a lot of great ideas. We manage to set up everything and select the flowers we want for our special day.

Mmm. Carbs.

12.00

Lunch and coffee in the market square, things start to taste like holidays :) 

13.00 

The carb loaded lunch hits me hard and we decide that we have deserved a good nap. I set up an alarm for one hour later, feels luxurious!

Me and Patu agree, it is tough waking up after a nap.

15.00

Ok, I snoozed again! I get up and make myself a vanilla Nespresso. It's legday today and I can't head to gym feeling foggy and zombie-like.

It's all about the attitude when working out!

15.45

Sweating like a pig. I did 20 minutes bike, 4 x 10 on leg press (45kg, 55kg, 65kg, 75kg), 3 x 12 deadlift (30kg), 3 x 10 sumo squat, 3 x 10 narrow stance squat (both with 15kg), 3 x 24 lunges (12 on side, 14kg). I drink my protein shake in the dressing room and pack my things and head home.

On my way to the wedding dress fitting!

17.00

Speedy shower at home after gym and change of clothes. I call a taxi and head to my wedding dress fitting at Anna Kara.

18.20

Woop woop! My dress is ready and it's perfect! :) For the first time I can visualize myself as a bride walking down the aisle. Even the weather cleared out as if to celebrate the moment. I decide to walk home instead of taking a taxi. I call my mom on the way home and we go through the dress details and all the things we've managed to sort out for our big day so far.

18.45

At home, starving! I eat nectarins and some rice cakes with ham. Fiancé has finished his workout and is fixing our seating plan for the wedding.

19.30

Cooking a simple omelette for dinner. Eggs & turkey ham served with cucumber tomato salad. Super simple but enough on a day like this. We fix some more details for the wedding. Good stuff coming up I think :)

21.50

I finish writing this post and need to take my butt downstairs. Monsieur PatPat needs his evening pee walk. Around the building it is, against the rules of the residence, like two little rebels we sneak around the backyard. 

Yeah, about the same amount of sweat I had at the gym today. Less muscle though.

22.30

Michael Jordan is tired (my fiancé calls me that sarcastically as I apparently am very lousy at throwing things). Setting my wake up call at 6.45 with 15min snooze allowance. Why? The physiotherapist's torture chambers are calling at 8.30 :)

Good night and good morning! <3

A Day With Me

A little different post this time with the theme "a day with me". Not the most typical day as I am still on sick leave due to my back (returning to office tomorrow) but this could easily be a description of a Sunday as well (yes, even with the wake up time). Nothing special going on, but that's how life often is no matter what the day :)

5.25 

Fiancé's alarm goes off. 

5.30 

My alarm goes off, fiancé gets up and goes to finish his packing for national team.

6.10 

Fiancé tells me to get up. It's time to go wish him a safe travel to Riga for the first rehearsal game with the French national team. He'll be back on Saturday for two days so I save my emotional speech for next Monday, when he'll be leaving for a month's period.

6.20

Fiancé's out. We stare at each other with the dog for a bit and decide to go back to bed. My neck is hurting after last night's physiotherapy and I slept badly. I decide to give myself a break and fall back asleep.

8.36

I wake up. Head feels foggy and I feel there is a risk of getting "hangry" if I don't get up soon. I answer the text I had received from fiancé, I wish him safe flight and ask to send me a text after each flight. He's got a connecting flight in Warsaw. 

9.00 

Quick shower and a glance at the mirror. I'm not happy with the tired puffy eyes that look back at me. I go take a look at the weather through the living room windows. Looks grey and the weather forecast tells there's a risk for rain. I decide to skip the longer walk with the dog and curl my hair a little to look more human.

A completely unnecessary face shot.

9.20 

Walk with the dog. He is pulling like crazy again which is hurting my back. I'm thinking what tonight's physiotherapy will be like and if after each session I'll be more in pain. I decide pain can be good. Keeping it positive can help. I pass the shop downstairs and can smell the freshly baked buns and bread in the air. I curse myself for not taking my wallet with me but then soon thank myself for the same reason. Time to go back to oatmeal after being a complete pig this Easter weekend. 

9.50

The wind is nasty and I hope my friend Monsieur PatPat will finish his toilet business quickly so I can get to my breakfast. He's laying on the ground. A familiar elderly man from the neighborhood approaches with his little mixed breed dog. Patu and mixed breed fellow sniff each other's butts and we say our hello's. I don't need to explain to this guy anymore that my Polish sucks, he's aware. I smile and nod and we head our ways. I see a white van and it makes me smile, my best friend and made of honor has told me to watch out for white vans as they might come collect me at any time. I run different scenarios in my head and wonder what kind of crazy stuff they've come up with for my bachelorette party, her and my sister. I sigh and think how I miss my family and friends. Patu decides to make his business right in front of our building. Great. Time to collect the jackpot.

The fifty shades of oatmeal. 

10.15

Oatmeal is getting ready. In the meanwhile I'm collecting a few t-shirts and random items fiancé left around after un packing and packing. I get grumpy by the mess I've made myself too. Why can't we just be super tidy people? I want a maid. 

And another one. I love breakfast, I love oatmeal.

10.30

I take an unnecessary amount of pictures of my breakfast, the Easter tulips that still look great and a stupid face capture of myself. I wonder if it's healthy to take so many pictures of everything. I decide to go with positive thinking again. I like to capture things with camera, and that's ok. 

11.15 

I try to log onto my Blogger account and Google asks me to create a Google+ profile. I am confused but go for it. My blog has disappeared, Google tells me I have no existing blogs. I get angry and curse quietly. What have I done now?! After a while I realize it helps if you log in with the correct email address, the one linked to your blog. I feel stupid. 

12.10

I get a text, fiancé's boarding his next plane. I start thinking about traveling and where I'd like to go to next. I can't help but think it would be a place somewhere warm, with nice tracks for running, a pool, seaside, fresh lemonade, the perfume of summer flowers lingering in the hot air, exotic birds singing on the background... I remember the forecast promised +19 for Friday. Spring is here, my favorite season.

12.40 

There is a random show on the French channel. Earlier there was one talking about producing cheese, now there's an old document about love, people talking about love. Only French would make this type of a document, I think to myself. It's horribly made but I leave it on anyway. I wonder when we'll go to France the next time. My thoughts wander from Paris to Bordeaux and somehow from there to work. My sick leave finishes tomorrow and I decide to open up my laptop and prepare a todo list for tomorrow. It'll help as the workload is likely to be high after being gone for two weeks. I should go buy an exercise ball to sit on at the office, my chair is not great for a crooked back. I try to remember to go get one later this week.

Monsieur PatPat doing what he does best, sleeping.

13.26 

I feel drowsy. The dog is napping. I get a text, fiancé's landed to Riga. I decide to take a little rest myself before having something for late lunch. 

Leftover lunch.

14.15

I receive a call from Medicover explaining my physiotherapy for the day has been cancelled as the physiotherapist has fallen ill. I decide to eat the leftovers of the kale/ spinach pasta I made earlier in the week and think of a plan for the rest of the day. My head is plank. I make a cup of coffee and do the dishes to get my thinking going. I eat a couple raw chocolate covered cashews. I decide to wait a bit, take the dog for another walk and see if I have the power to go for a little jog after the lunch settles in.

17.15

Finished an hour long walk with Patu, somehow the plan of a small walk and run got switched to long walk together instead. That made the fluffy buddy happy. Time to hang the laundry to dry and fix some dinner (and tomorrow's lunch). Feeling bummed about the cancelled physiotherapy, neck is feeling stiff. I decide to make a massage after dinner. 

19.00

Eating dinner. I look for movies in iTunes but nothing's really tempting me. I decide to opt for How I Met Your Mother instead. I make a massage for my back and take a pain killer. 

19.45

Patu needs a final little walk outside before we head to bed. I don't want to go outside as I feel perfectly comfy indoors. I suck it up and sneak my furry friend to the back yard. Hurry up I hear myself thinking.

20.00

 We get back inside and I feel really tired. I decide to hop on to my pajamas and allow myself to fall asleep while HIMYM plays on the background. I set my alarm for 5am, tomorrow there's no going back to sleep after the first ring and no fiancé to tell me to get up. I do a little meditation exercise to relax all the muscles on my body and I'm good to go catch up some ZzzZ.

Good night!