Quarantine
Diary of a quarantined Game Over employee. Week 1 – Motivation!
Day 1:
7.30am: Woke up to get ready for work.
7.33am: Remembered I didn’t have work.
8.30am: Made a coffee, ate breakfast and contemplated when I’d see the outside world again.
8.35am: Saw the outside world again.
8.36am: Went back inside…Far too cold.
9.00am: Considered if showering before a video meeting was necessary? Decided it wasn’t.
9.20am: Decided it was.
9.35am: Late for meeting.
10.00am: Boss says take next few days to spend quality time with the people we live with.
10.02am: The person I live with not pleased at this news.
12.00pm-5pm: Eat food. Watch Netflix. Eat more food. Watch TVNZ. Consider a snack while eating a snack. Watch Disney +. Where did I get another snack from? Plan dinner – something healthy after all these snacks…
5.40pm: Check Food On Q website on the odd chance that they are deemed an ‘essential business’.
9.00pm: Good first day. Tomorrow will be more productive.
Day 2
Was not more productive
Day 3
8.00am: Woke up following a dream that one of the Game Over go karts was driving itself and was chasing me around the track… Why was it laughing at me?
9.30am: Showered. 2 coffees. Breakfast.
11.00am: Had the realisation that the reason I hadn’t been productive was down to not having a plan! It was so simple, if I wrote down a schedule of things I had to do, then my motivation would finally kick in!
4:40pm: Probably napped longer than I should have.
6.00pm: Seriously Food On Q ISN’T an essential service?! 8.00pm: Made dinner. Watched movie. Made a plan to make a plan!
Day 4
9.00am: Considered trimming back my beard.
9.01am: Dismissed this idea. Tidy beards were for the outside days!
11.10am: Went for my first ‘isolation’ walk! Man, Queenstown is eerie with no people. Like the backdrop of a zombie movie.
11.16am: Ran away from a zombie!
11.18am: On reflection, zombie may have just been an older gentleman with a limp.
12.30pm: Returned home with a new lease on life and MADE MY PLAN!!! Productivity here I come!
1.30pm: Quick game of Call Of Duty – Warzone, as a reward my mornings exercise!
8.00pm: Xbox controller out of battery… When did it get dark?
9.58pm: Awkward discussion in bed when asking about my girlfriend’s day….apparently she had been here the entire time?
Day 5
8.00am: Woke up. This time I chased the go kart.
9.00am: Preparing for video meeting. Decided to NOT shower!
I put on a Game Over hat and sat further back from the camera. The perfect crime.
9.35am: They can tell. I don’t know how, but they can tell! Why didn’t I shower and why am I wearing toy story pyjamas?
12.00-6.00pm: Cooked! Cleaned! Baked! Did gardening! Got some exercise! Looked into some online learning!
Hello productivity!
8.45pm: Successful day. Feeling good. 1, maybe 2 glasses of wine to celebrate?
????pm: 3rd bottle? Easy! hmm? Jeffffaallllllll!!Nope giddneeehhht! HHHAAA!
Day 6
8.45am: Stupid wine.
9.30am: Video meeting. Everyone is talking far too loud today.
12.00pm: Afternoon of answering emails. Event planning. Easing into working from home!
9.00pm: Early night… Stupid wine.
Day 7
9.30am: Showered. 2 coffees. Breakfast. Meeting. DONE!
11.00am: Exercised. Answered emails. Planned events. Written blog. Marketing plan. DONE!
6.00pm: Cooked dinner. Watched movie. Read book. Done!
10.00pm: One week down with no dramas and no reason to panic…
10.02pm: I am informed we only have 8 rolls of toilet paper left.
WE RIDE AT DAWN…
