Life in the time of COVID-19.
I have been doing my best to keep me and my family sane.
It is now spring break and me and the kid have the week off. Not going down the information superhighway hole has been tough and man, oh man-eating carbs during a crisis tastes sooooo good.
Some things we have been doing and will do to stay sane.
Take a shower and wear more than one pair of workout pants. Last week I had a bunch of Zoom meetings for work, so I had to at least from the waist up look like I had not just rolled out of bed. This week since I don't plan on seeing anyone except people I pass on the street 6 feet away from me or the folks at the store (and let's be honest, Piedmont Grocery has seen me in these outfits before), I have to make an effort to clean myself.
We have done some Facetime/Skype(s) with some friends and family and I am going to extend that this week. It helps me to see people.
I found a bunch of Christmas cards, so I was thinking of sending those to folks as well. We put up some lights on our tree in the front yard and later in the week me and the kid will decorate on of my fake trees with handmade bird ornaments (the bird thing is a little out of control).
Exercise is helping too. The kid and I and sometimes the husband take walks with me. This morning we did yoga and later we are going to jump rope outside and go for a walk (at least a mile).
I am into crafts so we have some other projects that I hope take a long time to do. Masks, painting, paper dolls, and of course chalk art fun.
The public library offers an online language program and so we are going to learn French during meals. The live cam(s) of zoos have been fun to watch as well. Did I mention I have a bird feeder now? Good free inside fun!
I was also thinking of recording a message to friends and texting it out once a week.
I will probably send one off today. Lucky that we cleaned the house over the weekend.
Reading stuff on the interwebs about the impact on the economy and the closing of local shops, I want to do something. So it isn't much, but I have bought comics/graphic novels from the local comic book store (curbside pickup), get take out from restaurants on the ave, got a hoodie from the punk rock record store and going to our indie grocer. We are lucky enough to have secure(ish) jobs, for the time being, so putting money toward our local economy and not Amazon, I hope helps a little.
I wonder if it would be weird if I put a gift card for our mail carrier in our mailbox.
As far as staring at screens, our kid has the TV on as background while doing projects. Just like her mother and her grandmother, and her great grandmother. It runs in the family.
Ahhh!
Hope everyone stays safe and sane out there.
