30 Chic Days – The Fourth Series: Day 4

Welcome to day 4 of the 30 Chic Days Series.  If you’ve just joined us, you can catch up from to Day 1 here.

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.

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 4:

What I ate

Tea with trim milk first thing

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

Lunch – store-bought sushi, eight pieces – fresh (not smoked) salmon with avocado, with an apricot Frooze Ball and coffee for after.

Pre-dinner – Perrier Lemon in a champagne flute with some roasted, salted chick-peas.  I’m not gonna lie, they weren’t that enjoyable, so I won’t be buying them again.

Dinner – Homemade fish and chips.  Sometimes we buy fresh fish, but tonight it was frozen crumbed fish fillets with potato wedges made from Agria (floury) potatoes misted with olive oil and cooked in a very hot oven.  Accompanied by crunchy coleslaw (yum I love coleslaw).  Decaf coffee and two pieces of Lindt 90% cacao chocolate for afters.  I even took a photo for you.  I know, I have a pile of chips; I enjoyed them though!

What I wore

I have a photo of this too!  I wore a black and white striped Esprit boat-neck long-sleeved tee-shirt with dark wash jeans (Diesel) and my black leather Clarks ballet flats.  My black blazer is a Dior uniform from when I worked there in the early 2000s (I didn’t pinch it, they were always changing their uniforms, promise).

 How I moved

I went for an after-lunch walk to a nearby shopping area which is probably 25 minutes walk away.  I got to window-shop and buy a few things before heading back to work.  Plus listen to my Mike Dooley audio book on the way, onto the last chapter now!

What I read

Lucky I have quite a few books on the go at once, because there is no way I get through one book every day!  I am enjoying a bit of We’ll always have Paris by Jennifer Coburn each night, and sometimes at lunch.  It’s a memoir of taking her ten year old daughter to Paris, just the two of them.  I’m only 1/4 in but it’s a good read so far – I love the descriptions of Paris, plus it’s funny when she talks about the embarrassing things they do as green tourists.  I can relate!  I like the way the author also weaves in stories of how she grew up, they are interesting asides and often quite humorous.

My focus for the day

Today I cleared my in-tray at work.  I filed what needed to be filed and felt very up-to-date.  I often let things languish too long and I always feel better when papers are tidied away.  I don’t know why it’s so difficult for me to keep my in-tray clean.  Quite a small focus, but an important one for me.

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See you tomorrow, be chic!