Just a lazy teenager at heart

Let me qualify my heading by saying that I don't think ALL teenagers are lazy!

Yesterday, Vegan Chickie asked me if I was bored.

Vegan Chickie is a thousand months (slight exaggeration) pregnant and understandably finds it difficult to move further than 20 mtrs before requiring a nap (another slight exaggeration), so we are spending lots of time at home on the couch, both with our laptops in front of us and playing facebook Scrabble with each other.

Vegan Chickie works from home and also has a widespread cyber community that she is a part of,  so is a bit more productive with her laptop than I am!

So... being so far away from home, I'm out of my usual routine.  I usually pace my week out with a good range of physical activities.  Monday - golf.  Tuesday - tennis.  Wednesday - aqua aerobics.  Thursday - indoor bowls.  Friday - golf.

Every morning around 6.30am I ride my trusty red tricycle to the bakers, where I buy a take-away skinny cappuccino and then I ride to the boat ramp where I sit at a picnic table with a few of the old locals for an hour or two.  These locals are all over 70 yrs of age, so I hear lots of historic stories about the area where I'm now living, lots of current gossip and lots of utter bulldust!!

It's my favourite way to start the day.  We sit right by the river under a giant fig tree.  They are always happy to see me and I'm guaranteed at least one good belly laugh every morning!

Afterwards, I ride to the Post Office to check my mail, stop at the supermarket for any necessities and then off I go home.

By this time, it's still only 9.30 am.  I fill my day, aside from the sports which uses up between one to three hours of the day, with a bit of housework (but not much because I am a bare necessities kind of girl), a bit of gardening (also bare necessities), a bit of cooking (either breakfast, lunch or dinner), a bit of jewellery making, a bit of television (NOT soapies) and a LOT of time on my laptop.

I literally had to force myself to create this routine in my life because otherwise,  honestly, I am like a lazy teenager.  I would sleep til 10 am or later every day, probably stay in my pyjamas, sit at my computer eating junk food and showering only when I couldn't cope with my own body odour any more!

So, Vegan Chickie, to answer your question "Are you bored?"  ABSOLUTELY NOT!  I am living part of my fantasy life ... sleeping in every morning (I am lying in bed, in my pyjamas, at 10.30am as I write this) and sitting on the couch all day with my laptop!  I am having a lovely self-indulgent time!

However, considering this non-active lifestyle ... there will be no more Tim Tams, Chicken chips or that lovely New Zealand Hokey Poky ice-cream!!