One day at a time

 No good news on the restrictions, they are staying the same for a while longer yet, but at least they are not coming back (yet). Had problems trying to move my mobile broadband to another provider, the number I wanted to transfer to the new service has stopped working so I can not receive SMS on it to validate the move, so I have asked the new provider to cancel that order and I will try again. Hopefully that can be sorted before my current service rolls over again for another month. Work is still a headache, so in addition to my existing project I have had to pick up a new one and people keep questioning what is happening in the new project but I have only just picked it up, so I have very limited knowledge about what is supposed to happen. I am thinking about taking a couple of weeks off after this project is completed as well as two weeks off over the Christmas and New Year period. Who knows how we will celebrate Christmas this year, I guess I will spend it with my aunt, unless...

 The good news is that some of the restrictions will be lifted from midnight today, which means I will be able to wash the car at a commercial self serve car wash and also go to get my hair cut tomorrow. Other than those and the lifting of the 5 km limit to 25 km limit for shopping, the rest of the major restrictions will stay in place until 2 November, when we will move from Stay Home to Stay Safe! In other news, my elderly aunt had a fall this week and has been in hospital for the last couple of days. She does not seem to be seriously injured but has been kept in for observation and tests, which included a COVID test, which has thankfully come back negative (and no one has been able to visit until that was confirmed). I went to her house to make sure it was okay and to clear up a little after her accident. I don't think I made much of a dent in the cleaning of the carpet, but my friend has a proper carpet cleaning and we will take it down next weekend to have a better go at the c...

Still no hint of when this will end and the novelty has definitely worn off now. I don't leave the apartment much at all, a couple shopping trips and maybe a couple of walks around the neighbourhood are the only reasons that I leave here. It's depressing when I think about how little interaction I have with other people at the moment (although at the moment, that's probably the safest thing to do). Work isn't really helping my mood, I don't like working where there is a total lack of structure (or probably in this case, the structure hasn't been shared with me!). I think I am finally over the romance with my old team, there are only a couple of people left in there that I like and I can only be betrayed so many times before I learn my lesson (I'm a slow learner emotionally). I have been in touch with my family in the UK and my dad is convinced that they will be put under another lock down, as they are experiencing increasing numbers of infections. On top of ...

The weather has improved (I'm wearing shorts for the first time) and the infection rate is now in single figures, so it is looking good for further reductions in the restrictions. Work is still frustrating me, there is no plan I am aware for the latest project so I'm just going through the process blind until we are given a timetable. All of my deliveries have now arrived and I should remember that River clothes are on the generous size, I probably could have gone one size lower in most of the purchases. It's  better that they are slightly too big than slightly too small. So it was my birthday this week and on my special day, I did not work! Well that it all I could do this year, normally I spend my birthday on holiday somewhere else in this country, but this year that was not possible. Although there is good news with the opening of flights between New Zealand and Australia, although at the moment, only New Zealanders can come here and it's only two regions of Australi...

There hasn't been much different about this week. That's the biggest issue for me is that it's all the same, the only thing that is different on weekends is that my alarm doesn't go off and I can stay in bed. My best friend says I need a decent break from work and I would agree but at the moment, there is no where I can go. I am seriously over work and there is no end as we move from one project to another without a pause. Hopefully there will be good news on Sunday about further relaxation of the regulations in metro Melbourne and I am keeping one tradition going, I am not working on my birthday. It's not going to be  very exciting birthday, but at least I will be able to please myself what I do on that day. I organised an interview for the radio program I work on as a volunteer for this week and that went well, even though we didn't get through all the questions we had prepared, but there is over of 40 minutes of audio to use. Need to edit that by next weekend...

Less isolation this week, the regulations have been relaxed for metro Melbourne (although not as much as the regulations in regional Victoria). Now us singles can have social bubbles with another single and we are permitted outside for two hours. I know not big changes but first steps to a new sort of normal. Work has been getting me down so I had Friday off, not that there was much I could do but I did take the car out to go shopping and I plan to see my aunt over the weekend. My birthday is only a week away and there is no sign of the lock down finishing before then, so maybe I was overly hopeful that I would be able to go away for my birthday, but I still plan to have the day off. It's not going to be a long weekend this year, as the AFL public holiday has been moved to October, to coincide with the AFL final in Brisbane! My best friend has packed in his job, he had not been happy with the way the business was changing and what they wanted him to do. It was stressful at first, b...