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| Binge reading my favorite author's books |
My days during the quarantine period have been very
productive.
We never say we are bored staying in the house since there
are lots of things to be done in the first place. It’s like every single day,
we need to accomplish goals and I found myself planning what to do for the next
day. Set aside tiktok and netflix for a while, here are the things that kept me
busy:
1.
Household Chores
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Having a two-story house isn’t easy to clean.
With seven spacious bedrooms (dusting and rearranging furnitures and organizing
stuffs) it’s impossible to finish all of it in one day. Also, it is not nature
of our parents to just sit on the couch the whole day since they are always up
to something, most of it cleaning. So as their children, we take initiatives to
help. I need extra hand to get it done so I always ask my siblings to help me
with the activities. These take the whole morning until lunchtime comes.
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We take turns in washing the dishes as well. One
has to sweep and mop the floor and another has to wipe the dishes before we
watch TV.
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As for the laundry, I and my sister do it every
other day.
2.
Reading books
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Being a bookworm, I made sure I allocate time
for reading. I do this in the afternoon. I challenged myself to read as many
books as I can. I’m more focused on books bought from Big Bad Wolf since I was
impulsive in buying it last year. I just thought that this is the right time to
make use of them. As of this writing, I am starting to read Mark Twain’s The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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| Made finishing touches of my song compositions |
3.
Awakening my musical interests
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I started tuning my guitar and doing song covers
once again as my stress reliever. There’s always music whenever we wash our
clothes too to take away boredom.
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I completed my unfinished song compositions
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I saw improvements in finding my vocal range. I
want to be an opera singer!
4.
Rosary
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Improving our spiritual life is essential. With
the cases of COVID-19 rising, we seek intervention of our heavenly father with
intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary to help us win this battle. We do this in the evening, when we’re done washing the dishes. I thank God that the whole family
is participative where aside from reciting the rosary, we also offer our
heartfelt petitions for humanity and for the whole world.
5.
Relax
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Every once in a while we tend to rest and relax.
Since I’m out of work, an eight hours of sleep is what I really deserve. With
so much hatred and negativities in social media, I tend to cut down my internet
usage and instead, I spend time with my family by watching movies or sharing
jokes with them.
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Of course, I use Tiktok once in a while. I also
watch Youtube and Netflix videos if I have enough mobile data. Of course, I’m
reviving my blog site as well by writing drafts.
At the end of the day, I realized that things are worth it.
Maybe this outbreak is an avenue to keep families closer together but again, I
hope this pandemic will end soon and everything will be back to normal. After
all, I still hope we can go to malls and enjoy outdoor activities before I fly to the US. I hope
your quarantine days are as enjoyable as mine. Keep safe and stay indoors!
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