30 Chic Days – The Fourth Series: Day 3

We’re into Day 3 of the 30 Chic Days series.  If you’ve just joined us, you can catch up from to Day 1 here.  For this series I’m following a simple format, logging my day.  The goals are:

Awareness of what I’m doing each day

Where I am placing my focus, and

Remembering what I want to achieve (versus one day blending into the next).

Here’s what I will be reporting on each day for thirty days:

What I ate

What I wore

How I moved my body

What I read

My focus for the day

Day 3:

What I ate

Tea with trim milk first thing

Breakfast – fresh chopped apple and mandarin topped with rice porridge (hot), raw brazils, almonds and walnuts, a soy latte (homemade)

Lunch – cheese and crackers (double cream brie, smoked cheddar and swiss) with a peanut butter Frooze Ball and coffee.

Dinner – Pre-made (from the freezer) meatloaf which I heated in the oven along with roast potato (really pushing the boat out sharing one potato between the two of us), onion and carrot, with steamed broccoli and cauliflower.  A champagne flute of Perrier Lemon to accompany.  Decaf coffee and one giant piece of unreal Lindt 90% cacao chocolate for afters.  That 90% Lindt is something else, so dense and fudgey.  The 70% chocolate we used to get tastes too sweet now!

Apart from tea and coffee, I drank water throughout the day as yesterday.

What I wore

Well, I wore my pyjamas until 10.30am which was quite luxurious, then I changed into my exercise clothes and went for a walk, then when I got back I had a shower and changed into my home loungewear of black leggings and a grey slouchy merino top with short black sheepskin boots.  Quite a decadent day all round really!  (You may have guessed I had a day at home from my outfits).

How I moved

I had a blood test to do, so I incorporated this in with my walk.  It was about half an hour each way which is perfect.  It rained a bit on the way there but I had my rain jacket on, and on the way back it was fine.  A few years back I was diagnosed celiac and my iron can be low because of this.  I have regular blood tests to make sure it’s okay.

What I read

The current issue of Victoria magazine, their annual French issue.  It’s delicious!  I don’t have a subscription like I used to; I bought my French issue from the book shop.  You can also order single issues from their website.  I’ve loved Victoria magazine since the 1980s.  Even though Victoria style is a bit too frou frou for my home décor taste, I adore the relaxed and happy feeling I get from reading this magazine.  Magazine meditation I’m going to call it.

My focus for the day

Today I focused on enjoying my day at home as well as doing tasks I want to complete.  I wanted to feel good that I’d had proportionate times of relaxing and being productive.  What doesn’t feel good is noodling around on the computer, getting sucked into something dumb that takes an hour or two away from my day.

I’ve heard it called a rabbit-hole (I’m sure there are good and bad rabbit-holes).  Those times are pointless and I never feel good after.  Fair enough if I’m researching something I’m interested in, but there comes a point when I start feeling unsatisfied, as if I am eating junk food just because it’s there – that’s what pointless internet browsing feels like to me.

I had my Mozart tracks playing softly in the background at home today and it was so nice.  Music like that certain brings about an air of elegance and I find myself behaving in a more elegant manner.  I love that.

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Are you joining in this 30 Chic Days Series too?  If so, please mention this in the comments so we can click through to your blog, or if you don’t have a blog and would like to participate, you can let us know in the comments how your day went.

See you tomorrow, be chic!