Alan was up until around 4am doing his exam, so sleep was a bit broken. I had apple, granola, yoghurt and lemon curd for breakfast, but quite late and I also had 2 coffees. I got the milk and orange juice in.
We had a kick off call at 9am and I also then had a handover call with Katie who is off on holiday, so I will need to work out how to recruit marketing people for the next 2 weeks.
Today was very much a sort out of admin and emails day, but I did also have some good conversations with candidates and clients and will be more organised for next week.
The game that I ordered for Alan arrived and we thought about playing it today, but we were both a bit too tired.
I made some pasta, mushrooms, garlic, onion and courgette with cream for a fairly late lunch at around 1.30pm. I set off the dishwasher after lunch. I chatted to my brother as I'd been debating going to see him and my parents this weekend. It's a really long drive, but I'm not likely to see them all that easily for a while and I'd feel uncomfortable going after I'm back in the office again. It seems easier to stay with my brother than a hotel or indeed my parents and at least I know he's had Covid, so it's less likely he'll have it. I'm slightly worried about the flash floods forecast for down towards the south, so I'll have to check the weather warnings before I set off.
I sorted out some purchase order issues and more admin and got my emails down to a more sensible number, re-wrote a spreadsheet and went through around 30 job applications for a remote working job that had over 139 applications. I had to sort through them before I could delete them.
I managed to speak to the letting agents of my flat to find out whether the key had gone missing as they had not got back to 3 emails. Apparently the tenant had moved in ok and there was some works I'd paid out for, but now that it's been done I should receive a statement update soon.
I finished work at around 7.30pm and we ordered a Chinese - I had hot and sour soup, chips, crispy beef in peking sauce and some waterchesnuts and bamboo shoots, Alan had a spring roll, chicken in ginger and garlic and singapore noodles and banana fritters. I am very full now!
I went out for a run and again was fairly fast, even though my legs ache from yesterday and I did 6K in just over 30 mins including a PR on a segment and came 7th overall. The takeaway was delivered about 1.5 hours later, but was good, I had to ring up and make sure it was on it's way.
I spoke to my parents who seem worried about me coming, but happy to see me in the garden. It will be a long drive, so I should really go to bed at a sensible time.
I managed to do a bit more linked in work whilst watching TV, mostly Dave and Taskmaster, 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown and QI and a bit of CSI New York.
I also stopped my anxiety, but finally booking the virtual escape room ready for Monday - we're going to try this one Out of Hours
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