4.9.23 Genesis

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I suppose this is the first day back to routine. Everything else has been a tee up. There are no real routines in my life though. Everything is always in flux, it is moving constantly.

I am still very discombobulated. the boys coming home has been great though. We go to the gym everyday at around 6. It feels great to run for half an hour and then stay in the steam room for a bit. I notice my skin is so much better with this. I have decided to swim every other day rather than everyday because of the chlorine. The chlorine is bad of the hair and skin. And there is SO MUCH chlorine. 

But the steam room is great and it will come into its own in the winter. Running is my happy place. I run for precisely 30 minutes. Right now it is almost 4 km in that time and I burn 285ish calories. It's not the calories though. It is the cleaning out of the brain. The muscle tone, the sweating, the focus. It is all that. I watch fragments of films. Yesterday's film was about a woman whose husband had been cheating on her with a friend. there were so many amazing English actresses. 

It was lovely. It is lovely to run and be able to watch film. Who knew films would be everywhere in 2023? Who could contemplate 2023?

And yet here is where we live. 

This world/ Admittedly the world here is less bad than the world which Singaporeans live in. That world is quite awful. How people tolerate it I don't know. But Oisin clearly does because he wants to return there. We are never happy with what we have. I am happy though. I am happy with what I have. 

I am happy with my two boys. I am happy with my work. I am happy with my friends. I am happy. This is it. I cannot ask for more. I have my health. I have some money. I have a roof over my head. I have a lifetime of amazingness. I really cannot even. I am so grateful for everything. And so what if people don't like me. Sure everybody doesn't like anyone else. Use everyone to their just desserts and who shall 'scape whipping?

I need to get going. Before I go, last top up for the class...

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