The Steem Diary Challenge: "My Daily Lockdown Life"

Today, I decided to participate to the latest Steemit Writing Challenge which I suggest every Steemian to do so. It's a great way to share about our life and the things that are happening around us. I believe the majority of us are in a state of lockdown and are now staying in our homes for the most part of our day.

It was more than a month ago when the community lockdown was implemented to our city due to the threat of COVID-19 pandemic. Although we started with very few confirmed cases our government decided to implement a lockdown as a preventive measure. And that's the time that our lifestyle changes from active to sedentary.

Before the lockdown, I'm always busy with my Cafe business that I manage together with my partner. I'm in-charge of the purchasing of ingredients and packaging supplies. I normally go out to buy things every day or every two days. My usual route is from the shop, I will take a cab to the market to buy the meat & vegetables needed for the pasta & pies. And then I get the rest from the grocery stores anywhere in the town area and from there I will take the cab back to our cafe. We open daily and so I have maintained a consistent routine over the past months since opened last October of 2019.

Together with my partner, I also helped on the preparation of ingredients while the rest will be done by my partner. She's the cook & baker of our Cafe.

Since we dedicated our life to our Cafe, we seldom spend time in our house. We only go home to sleep and wash ourselves. That's how we lived our life until the lockdown happens.

As I mentioned earlier, the lockdown made us change our lifestyle and forced us to temporarily close our shop until the government lifted the lockdown off our city.

To be honest it's frustrating at first since we are losing a big part of our income. However, as time goes by we are realising that this time off is something that we need since we started our business. We were always busy at work and constantly tired from it. I guess this time off will give us the opportunity to relax and have a retreat in our home. In the past months since we opened our business we didn't even have time to cook a homemade meal.
We usually eat outside or the food from our cafe. In the recent month while in the lockdown period we are able to prepare the kind of food that we always wanted when we didn't have time to make it. Now that we have all the time in the world inside our home, we can cook our food, watch movies in Netflix, and also do more social media stuff here in Steemit.

It reignited me to live a personal life without the stresses of the city life and my business life. Before the lockdown, I can't even think of me doing a movie marathon with my partner since we are mostly focused on the work that we need to do in our shop.

And now that we are nearing the end of the lockdown period, I'm getting ready physically and mentally for the resumption of my previous life. Yesterday, I started doing some exercise using my dumbbells. At the beginning of the lockdown period, I'm usually on my couch watching TV. Although it was relaxing and fun, I felt like my body had weakened. I thought that I would have a hard time catching-up on my previous strength if I don't start exercising now. So, every morning I do some stretches, jumping jacks, and then dumbbell workout. I have added my daily morning workout to my routine to help me keep up with my previous routine by the time the lockdown is lifted.
I have started eating fruits to keep a healthy immune system as well.

That's it for now, I hope you guys stay healthy and safe as well. Cheers!

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Big thanks to the Steemit Team for hosting a writing challenge like this. It's really motivating to participate especially during these times of crisis. Please keep it up!