November - Friday 21st & 28th

Friday 21/11/25

533am - Wake up and have a 30 second shower, get dressed and then drive to West Perth. Am tired but pretty alert. It is light outside.

6am - Arrive at yoga for my first non-Wednesday night class ever. Have done about 260 Wednesday night classes so this is new for me and don’t really know what to expect.

720am - Yoga finishes and it was a fair bit more tiring than my Wednesday night class. I quickly drive home and the roads are a little busy now.

815am - Am finally ready and leave Jolimont to head to work. Am def a little fatigued from yoga.

440pm - Turn off my computer and go to the big meeting room for some Christmas games with everyone else. We are doing jigsaw puzzles and ours is a soccer one so I am very keen as I know pretty much all of these players but know there is no way that we will finish this puzzle before our dinner.

620pm - Leave work to go to our Christmas dinner in Innaloo, after completing about 5% of our puzzle. We are def behind schedule. Eventually I arrive at the Indian restaurant which is on the other side of the road from the Innaloo Goodlife which means that I didn’t have to worry about checking directions because I’ve been going there a bit lately on Saturday nights.

950pm - Leave the dinner, I am so full and have about 3 containers full of leftovers which I take home. We always order way too much food at these dinners so there are always leftovers.

1005pm - Arrive home in Jolimont, I am so full and tired too. Feel like I am in a stupor and am seriously questioning if I will be able to make the gym.

1130pm - Arrive at the gym, did not think that I was going to make it. There’s pretty much no one here and I do my usual Friday night walk on the treadmill and 40 or so minutes later I change over and do a 20 minute run. Watch the coin drop game (UK version) on one of the TVs in front of me.

130am - After having a shower I leave the gym and drive to Wembley IGA to buy some orange juice.

205am - Finally go to bed, I am pretty cooked.

Saturday 22/11/25

830am(ish) - Wake up by alarm even though I’m still so tired, play on my phone like a zombie for a bit.

920am - Stu messages me to say he’s got a spare ticket to the ASHES and he plans on going for maybe one session or so. This is the reason why I set my alarm and yes I decide to go for a bit as well and yeah this would have been a lot easier if I just msgd Stu during the week to confirm this.

1130am - It is so overcast and not hot which is nice. I arrive at the stadium after training it from Daglish. Definitely a good vibe and I make my way up to the top tier and find Stu. Perth Stadium is def a 10 out of 10 for watching live sport.

540pm - Am shocked but very impressed that Australia who started the day batting managed to bowl out England in two sessions and then score 200 odd in less than 30 overs to win the match. Very good atmosphere. I head down to the train station, wait awhile then very, very slowly catch the very packed train to Daglish and manage to get through the crowd and out of the train.

625pm - Walk home from Daglish Station, arrive home and message David and Ben to let them know that we won’t be going to the cricket tomorrow.

Friday 28/11/25

530am - Wake up, have a 30 second shower and race out to yoga in West Perth for another Friday morning session.

6am - Arrive at yoga. Nice and light like usual and people are walking past the studio wearing their Christmas party clothes.

720am - Am lying on my back as yoga finishes, it was another really good workout. The relaxing music is still on and all the lights are off. Everyone is lying down still and I am looking to make a quick exit. As I get up really quietly to spray my mat and sneak off, Eva (our instructor) is also sneaking out and she says that she’s got to go to work in a very soft voice. I sneak out too but it’s funny because the music is still on, the lights are off, people are still lying on their backs with their eyes closed and I’m wondering who the hell is going to lock the studio up 😂😂😂. I get to my car quickly and head home through Subiaco.

730am - Arrive home and start getting ready for work.

835am - Arrive at my desk at work and I am the only in our office for at least the next 30 minutes.

The day passes.

6pm - After working late to get as much done as I can, I head home. Was a very quiet day in our office with only about 3 or 4 people there.

635pm - Get home, get changed and lie on the couch and play on my phone.

725pm - Cut up and toast the remaining sour dough bread that I have, eat it with some cheese and avocado.

805pm - Pack up my two shopping bags with all of my gym clothes and a towel. Drive to West Perth near Pascoes and park my car.

820pm - Cross over to Watertown and am waiting at the Yellow CAT stop with a lot of other people. A car pulls up in front of the stop and I am wondering what this person is doing because it’s not a taxi bay and they’ve pretty much stopped. I look to my left to see which person is going to get into this car, I notice a guy standing close to me and I wonder if he is going to get in. I am staring at this person and eventually I realise (unbeknownst to him) that this is Prayash from work that I talk to every day and he is waiting for the bus but is looking at his phone.

825pm - Catch the CAT with Prayash to the Forrest Place. Prayash and I get off, Prayash says that he is going to have a look at a few more shops and then will go home. I go to MYER and David Jones and the city is so busy, the busiest Friday night I’ve seen for so long, there are food trucks and Forrest Place is packed. When I am at David Jones it is getting close to closing time so I have to be quick. Eventually I have to leave and I walk back to the Yellow CAT stop on Wellington St and have to wait for about 15 mins for the bus to show up. Am a little annoyed because still have a lot to do. Catch the CAT back to West Perth and then drive to Goodlife in Subi.

940pm - Do Duolingo and then go into the gym and start my workout on the treadmill, facing the 8 TVs. Catch up on all the news for the week 😂.

1145pm - Finish my workout and have a shower. It is pretty empty by this stage except for the cleaner. Have to tell her that I’m having a shower so she doesn’t start cleaning.

12am - Drive to Wembley IGA and buy a hot meal and some orange juice.

1215am - Arrive home.

1235am - Eat dinner after being hungry since I woke up at 530am this morning. Classic fasting Friday.

125am - Go to bed.

Saturday 29/11/25

Somewhere between 8am-9am - Woke up, played on my phone, turned on the TV, watched YouTube, checked out the recently uploaded movies on SBS On Demand, are food, watched Survivor.

Somewhere between 1230pm - 2pm - Fell asleep on my bed.

5pm - Get a text message from Sam about Brendan’s gig later tonight. ETA is meant to be 730pm but I know that I’m not going to be on time.

530pm(ish) - Park my car in the multi story car park at Goodlife, warm up, do my medicine ball workout, have a shower and go home.

740pm - Walk to the Daglish Train Station and catch the train to to Bayswater.

810pm - Try to find the entrance to The Basement, eventually find it and go downstairs. Meet up with Sam and watch Brendan’s gig. There are five other Pascoe/ex-Pascoes crew there. I have 5 drinks over the night and we are there until well after the gig has finished, Sam is pretty drunk and eventually I leave at 1145pm to make sure that I catch the train in time.

1150pm - Walk to the Bayswater train station, catch the train to the city and then to Daglish. Arrive home about 1230am and am pretty tired. Looking forward to having a quiet week next week as the lead up to Christmas is pretty tiring. A busy couple of weeks for me (by my standards anyway 😅).