I picked up a cough from sleeping every single night in an air-conditioned room, would you believe?? If someone tells you that this is the norm, that there isn’t really any other way, it’s not and they’re wrong (Auckland however, sits at a perfect (night) summer temperature between 16 to 18 degrees centigrade with less than 50% humidity).
Indulge in the quiet; just birds in the morning, or someone doing the lawn. I miss the malunggay bread seller though, announcing himself through a loudspeaker on cue every afternoon around 3pm (and the bread is good).
A near-empty refrigerator and going back to one meal a day.
4. Losing weight is not the point (lost 1 kg), but to get your fitness level to where it was before.
5. Finding something to do, like washing the dishes, doing laundry, sorting clothes- anything really that gets you up and moving, because having everything done for you is just wrong.