JOURNAL

After several days of grey and gloomy days in a row, the sun was out on the weekend with temperatures reaching 23 degrees celsius!

After some quiet time in the morning, we decided to take our bikes out and cycled to Japan Village, which took us around half an hour one way.
We had our sunnies on and didn’t need to wear a face mask whilst cycling since we were moving and maintaining a six feet distance from people. I think I will definitely start cycling more. It feels much better than walking around with a face mask on.

I didn’t get to take many photos during the bike ride unfortunately. I was too busy soaking up the sun and taking in the Brooklyn scenery I haven’t seen in for so long!
Above is a photo of the goodies we bought – mostly snacks!

On Sunday I stayed home all day. We had breakfast and finished cleaning the apartment. It’s always better to get chores out of the way, get it over and done with, so that you can fully enjoy the rest of the day. We finished watching several TV series such as ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ and ‘Normal People’ on Hulu. I read both the books early last year, in months apart I think. Interesting how they also released it in a similar time frame.’Normal People’ was definitely the better T.V adaption.
The chemistry between the actors made you assume they were dating in real life (sadly they are not according to Google) and overall it was filmed intricately and intimately, both visually and emotionally. Towards the end, I felt like I just went on this tumultuous journey of a relationship with them and ended up thinking/feeling about it/them for the next few days.
I’m OK now though 🙂

Seems like Saturdays are designated as the guilt-free lazing and napping day. I woke up at 6.30am without the alarm clock, made my coffee and dozed off again after reading. After lazing around, I had another nap in the evening for three hours. It’s weird because I was able to sleep again fine the same night.
Although, on Friday I was in this groggy and down mood. I logged off work an hour early and had a nap. I’m still not sure whether I needed to catch up on sleep or I was just escaping reality (sorry, just being dramatic over here). Either way, I feel better now.

N also refrained from sitting in front of the computer screen on Saturday morning so we both lazed around on the sofa in the sun, read our books and relaxed. We had lamacun that he made the day before for lunch and dinner. I am dedicating a separate post for my ultimate favourite Turkish comfort food.

When I have these lazy days, I always feel better the day after.
On Sunday I worked through my to-do list of chores, studies and planning during the day. For dinner I made beef udon noodle soup. Dessert was a slice of the banana bread that I made during the week with hazelnut spread. No regrets.

With bleaker news each day, our days continue indoors, in quarantine.
The lockdown measures have been extended until the end of April. This means the next four Weekend Stories posts will, more or less, look the same.

After a nice sleep in, N made us French Toast for breakfast. I kept telling him I felt like I was eating this at some swanky cafe for brunch but better.

The rest of the day was assigned as a much needed lazy-do-nothing-rest-and-nap day.
It was a busy week at work and, whilst trialing a new morning routine, I did not sleep in time at night, thus the missed hours of sleep really caught up. We flicked through Netflix and Hulu, I had a few naps, lounged around reading and eating.

With my batteries some what recharged, I woke up on Sunday with more energy.
What made it even better was N’s breakfast menu: Pancakes!

Finished a book and watered the green onion bulbs (I will provide weekly progress photos of the shoots growing).

Cleaned the apartment, worked out and then ate some fruits while I edited my next YouTube video (watch it here).

Felt so productive and good. To top it all off, N made homemade pizza for Sunday dinner, made from scratch with the dough he had set overnight. Absolute bliss. ‘Tis simple joys in life.