Leuty Parker

Tag: #living

  • Loneliness

    I live HARRPY on my own. Love, love, love cooking for myself. Doing computer stuff. I even designed a work out routine which should be done alone.

    (Don’t worry, it’s not what you’re assuming!) a plank [im hoping you know what that is], to 1x Alexa song.

    On my personalised playlist, the length is from 3.5 minutes, to 9. No stopping aloud.

    Endorphins subconsciously make me happy. But my mum died last week.

    For all the years I’ve lived on my own, whether it’s Edinburgh, London or Hong Kong, I haven’t really felt lonely.

    But there a big difference between being alone, and feeling lonely….

  • Routine

    I think I need a routine, everyone does, to get a normal life. I’ve layered out my own one. Week-to-week, it may vary, depending on special days (usually in my diary), but here’s just a basic day/week :

    Wake up (usually 8.30) have 5x medicine (don’t know exactly which, but they’re in a blister pack)

    Tidy room; make bed, brush teeth, maybe mop kitchen/ hoover bedroom

    Wait for nurse, check BGL, have insulin, weigh out breakfast (42g bran flakes =30g carbs = 30g carbs) & eat

    Sunday: meal prep; carb counted, what I have left in my kitchen.

    Recreational activity (usually gym, work out plan in other posts)

    Monday, go to supermarket, buying what I need for meal prep designed on Sunday

    Unpack & put away shopping

    Cook & eat lunch

    Uni work

    Dinner

    Recreation (podcasts/audiobooks/blog/calls)

    Shower (maybe)

    Podcasts/audiobooks in bed

    Obviously this is just a basic, it changes with I have things on though…. Still a routine is good for me preparing for normal life. Having it down is like a “written contract”.