The Coronavirus continues to have serious impacts on our world. Personally, I am counting my chickens! It has had a significant impact on my life already:
- I haven’t been able to see my best buddy, my little Grandson for 4 weeks.
- I haven’t met any of my friends for 3 weeks, except the ones who also happen to be co-workers.
- I haven’t been able to go to the gym.
- I haven’t been able to buy toilet paper,
- I haven’t been able to teach my class.
- There have been no students at my school. However, as a member of the School’s Senior Executive, I have been attending every day.
- My regular Monday meeting and training night for the group I volunteer for is cancelled.
- Every event in my calendar has been cancelled.
- I won’t be travelling anywhere these school holidays. ( hang on I wasn’t planning on it anyway!)
Whinge whinge whinge!
I have nothing to whine about. I am grateful that I am healthy. My family is healthy, although distanced. I am thankful I am isolated in the age of the internet (although that is a double-edged sword.) I am grateful for the economic privilege I have. I live in a developed country.
So let’s start that list again!
- I haven’t been able to see my best buddy, my little Grandson for 3 weeks. I need to keep him safe, he needs to keep me safe. Given the nature of my job, I am too risky for him to be around. Given his age, he is too risky for me to be around.
- I haven’t met any of my friends for 3 weeks, except the ones who also happen to be co-workers or on Zoom.
- I haven’t been able to go to the gym. But my home gym in the garage is rocking to the Zoom classes my sister, a personal trainer, is running! Check out her classes at Village Fitness
- I haven’t been able to buy toilet paper. I don’t actually need any due to a lucky coincidence I’ll explain in a little while.
- I haven’t been able to teach my class. But they are still learning online.
- There have been no students at my school although it is “open” for the children of essential workers. However, as a member of the School’s Senior Executive, I have been attending every day. I get to go out! I’m also supporting essential workers to stay at work.
- My regular Monday meeting and training night for the group I volunteer for is cancelled. But we are still attending emergencies.
- Every event in my calendar has been cancelled. I can relax!
No events! The P&C meeting was cancelled too! - I won’t be travelling anywhere these school holidays. Hang on, I wasn’t planning on it anyway! It’s the Year of Zero!
- I am doing my bit by being socially responsible.
- I am going to stay at home.
- I am going to keep my distance when I go out for essential items.
- I am going to wash my hands frequently.
- I am going moisturise said washed hands every time I wash them!
- I am going to dust behind the lounge. I am going to dust the top of the pelmets on my windows. I am going to dust behind the TV.
- I am going to do at least one jigsaw puzzle, but not the friggin Mona Lisa one which had too many plain black bits! I couldn’t even finish the border! Or the desert one which had too many plain red dirt bits!
- I am going to write every day at my “best” time! Not when I am tired and overwrought from a busy day. Incidentally, that’s early in the morning.
- I am going to enjoy the clear blue sky when I go for a walk. It has been so clear and so blue.
Walking on the sand. I didn’t make it home before that storm hit! - I am going to enjoy some crafternoons. Love that word! How long has it been in the lexicon?
- I am going to make that family cookbook I have been promising to do.
- I am going to carefully ration the year’s worth of toilet paper I bought in January. (Feeling a little bit smug here.) As part of my Year of Zero, I did a big shop and bought a year’s supply of essential, non-perishables so that I would only have to worry about buying fresh food when I went shopping. I didn’t stock up on sanitizer at that time though!
- I am going to figure out how we can get Jacinda Ardern to be Prime Minister of the World. Seriously we need a Jacinda!
- I am going to slow cook.
- I am going to watch and laugh at Pluto.
- I am going to learn online.
- I am going to sew.
- I am going to create new stories and finish the half-finished ones.
- I am going to up my no waste efforts.
- I am going to enjoy good teapot tea every day because I have time!
- I am going to work on my side hustle.
- I am going to do everything with interesting podcasts in my ears.
- I am going to figure out how to do compositing on Photoshop.
- I am going to sort out my digital storage. (Wait up, I don’t think we’ll be in isolation long enough for that one!)
- I am going be grateful that my family and I are safe, and so far, healthy.
- I am going to hope that everyone else stays as safe as they can. And that people don’t behave like jerks and go out!
- I will hopefully be able to see my little buddy soon, after 14 days of “real” isolation.
STAY SAFE! STAY AT HOME, WASH YOUR HANDS.
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