How my life has changed

I thought that after over a month in a new place, it would be time to have a look at how my life has changed. One thing is already obvious: I am a lot busier than in Whanganui and life is not as easy. You might remember: in Whanganui, I used to get up reasonably early, did some writing work and also went to my courses at UCOL. I was busy but organized. In the evenings, I played computer games, read books or watched DVDs. It was not a perfect life but it was fairly easy. If I tell you that by now I still have not finished watching season 6 and 7 of my Voyager DVDs, you might already see that things are very different now! Yes, that comes from the person who was worried about running out of Voyager episodes too quickly! I also have not watched a single episode of Xena and did not play Skyrim! So what does my life look like now? How do I survive without games, Star Trek and Xena?

An average weekday

I try to get up as early as possible in the mornings, usually some time between 6 and 7 am. I prefer to get up before everyone else in the house gets up - I need some time without dramas in the morning. I also use one hour in the morning to get some writing work done (of which I do a lot less now because I've become quite bad at keeping up with writing). Once the girls in the house get up and go to school (or even before they go to school), I disappear to the pigeon lofts and start some cleaning there. You need to do daily cleaning, otherwise you just get a hard time with keeping up with it. 

Cleaning pigeon lofts has a strangely addictive nature to it - at least for me. At some times, it's just heaps of fun to flick pieces of pigeon poo from one corner to the other - but they have to have the right consistency or it's just a mess! Well, I better don't go into details! At other times, I get distracted by the pigeons. Some lofts are more cooperative than others - i.e. some pigeons do not react to polite requests like "Could you please move out of my way for a minute?" 

The cleaning of lofts usually keeps me busy for quite a while. I guess, I could get more done if I ignored the pigeons but I rather spend one hour more on cleaning than being mean to the pigeons. Sometimes, there are also other jobs to do, e.g. clean the chicken loft. I will not go into the difference between chicken and pigeon poo now - you might all not be very interested in that.
The evenings are quite different from my evenings in Whanganui as dinner is eaten a lot later here - this is something I'm still not really used to as my biorhythm seems to be very different from the family. Anyway, in the evenings, I also try to get some writing work done - or write on the blog when I feel to unfocused to write something I get paid for! Sometimes I watch TV with the people in the house - but their tastes are quite different from mine, so I often simply go to bed early.

An average weekend
The weekends are only different from the weekdays in regards to everyone being at home - which often leads to me spending even more time with the pigeons! Apart from that, it's just as a weekday!

Pigeon lofts
Even when I do not work in there, I spend a lot of time in the pigeon lofts - see my other entry for more info about my favourite pigeons!