Author name: jade

AU quarantine day 3

I have a new appreciation for my pets’ behavior around being fed. They’re hungry, they know where the food comes from, and they alter their behavior in anticipation for food. I now have anticipation around food delivery. Food delivery is during 2-hour windows: breakfast between 7:30-9:30am, lunch between 12:30-2:30pm, dinner between 5:30-7:30pm. They knock at […]

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AU quarantine day 2

Physical and mental health are taken seriously in this quarantine business. Besides needing a covid test 72 hours before the flight, all the travel safety precautions, and having a mandatory 2 week quarantine, we have regular covid tests. We got a call to inform us that a nurse would knock at the door and we

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AU Quarantine day 1

After a day of doing nothing, I decided an aimless day was not going to work for me during quarantine. I do much better with structure. I work 8am-noon M-F AU time (1-5pm CA time) and work any other client/business after noon but that leaves many hours in the day. Without being able to leave

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empty flight

With travel restrictions tightly enforced, there were 22 passengers, 13 cabin crew, and 4 flight crew for the entire Airbus A350. There was no wait for meals or drinks, there was never a line for the bathroom, and there was enough room that I could spread out between 3 seats and sleep. This 14 hour

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Australia bound

From September 2020 until now, we’ve been working on a work trip to Australia. Because BF will be working and AU isn’t allowing tourists due to covid, we applied for a permanent resident visa. The application was under the category of distinguished talent. In on the coattails. The first part of the application was demonstrating

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