Mood: Calm 
Vaping: Vozol 12000 Watermelon Bubblegum
Drinking: Vida Zero Salty Lychee Sparking Flavoured Drink
Weather: 27°C, Rain
Location: Mont Fleuri, Mahe, Seychelles
I woke up today grateful that my employee has taken over her shift and I didn’t have to work at the store. Yesterday was a particularly long day, and it’s a wonderful reminder of how much I hate employment. Was it just last week when I was talking to my mother about considering getting a job so that I could socialize a bit more, gain experience and earn pocket money doing so? Well, scrap that, I wasn’t made for employment. It certainly has its advantages, I won’t deny that. But it’s just not for me at this point in my life. The issue with working here is that if you’re working for a private company you might feel as though you’re not doing something important enough for the country. But if you are working in government and actually doing something really important for the country, it becomes too political and that would be too much of unwanted attention for me.
My most recent ex called me earlier. For some odd reason he wanted to catch up. After talking for a bit, he drops the news that he is in a serious/committed relationship and he’s now a stepdad, which he feels he was made for. He’s also highlighted wanting to maintain a friendship so that we can put the “bitterness” behind us, which I feel content with – I’ve asked him for us to continue as friends almost immediately after we broke up and he had continued to cross boundaries which I was not happy with. Now that he’s in a serious relationship, and as long as he can stick to the boundaries of friendship, I am more than happy to be friends. I much prefer him as a friend because I hated being his girlfriend.
It’s been a relatively rainy day. Visibility was incredibly low, on a normal sunny day I would be able to see Praslin island from this angle. Today, you can’t see past the compound’s gate.
My sister and I spent the day working, in fact we just returned from the store. We are trying to fully stock and prepare the store so that we don’t have to worry about it for the next 2 weeks. I’m trying to complete my laundry this evening so that all the clothes that I’ll need to take with me will dry on time. I’ve also started to pack my suitcase. I am taking the medium-sized one, because I won’t be bringing much and I have no plans to buy much either.
My sister and I both have some kind of mild sore throat. According to her, it’s already reached that level of “sore throat” and it’s becoming progressively worse. Mine is still at a mild or throat discomfort level. We have definitely been sneezing and whenever we’re at the store we develop runny nose. My throat discomfort started this morning. We’re definitely fighting something. A customer walked in yesterday and I remember telling my sister that she seemed as though she was in a bad mood, but then my sister felt it wasn’t a mood thing, and that the customer was sick. We are rarely ever sick, but it’s also because we spend most of the time at home as we tend to avoid crowded areas. Just what we needed – to be sick while on holiday! I have this betadine throat spray that’s been expired for 2 years now, lol. I’m going to use that and hope it’s more beneficial than not. They do have throat numbing spray at the pharmacy which I spotted the other day. I think I’ll pay the pharmacy a visit tomorrow, I’ll need to replenish my stash of Premarin 0.625 anyway. How will this affect our holiday? Well, we’ll have the unwanted downtime but most of all we will not be able to go scuba diving until all the congestion is gone. That really sucks arse. I have no congestion as of now, but if this progresses into a full blown cold/flu then that’s what the scenario will be like.
I tried hard to keep my caloric consumption low all day. I ate a small banana and a pack of Lay’s Salt & Vinegar which I was slowly consuming from lunch to dinner. I also had a cup of tea, a 7up Zero, a cough drop and then this Vida drink. So I estimate the total calories of today to be a little over 300. I weight myself this evening and I was at 50 Kgs on the dot. I’m so close to 49.xx but it’s like my body refuses to drop down to it. If I go back all the way to September 2023 I averaged a high 57.xx Kgs, and that’s when I started intermittent fasting. Incidentally I also decided to go vegan so I stopped snacking on Cadbury milk chocolate.
September 2023 average: high 57 Kgs, also hitting 58 Kgs once in a while
October 2023 average: 55 Kgs
November 2023 average: 54 Kgs
December 2023 average: 52 Kgs
January 2024 average: 52 Kgs
February 2024 average: 51 Kgs
March 2024 average: 51 Kgs
April 2024 average: 50 Kgs
I’m still chubby in some areas, I do start to like my figure when I get to around 47 Kgs. But my face is the last place to lose the chubbiness so I have to get down to around 44 Kgs for the fat cheeks to go away.
The personal box has been in Dubai since the 23rd of April. That’s just crazy. If it doesn’t arrive (and be delivered) tomorrow, Thyl and Thomas will have to share the same feeder. Thomas can eat non-stop, and Thyl gets anxiety around him. This means when the feeder goes off, Thomas will go at it until all the food is gone. There are kibbles that gets lodged inside the feeder for this specific model, so Thyl can dig into that, but if her digging calls Thomas back to the plate she will run away. This is going to be a real problem.