Random Thoughts on COVID-19

My gratitude that I and everyone in my immediate family have jobs that allow us to telecommute and still earn a paycheck is endless.

My 88-year old aunt is the only person I know of within my extended family who has COVID-19. She was intubated but is off the ventilator now and prognosis looks good.

My 88-year old Aunt is a tough old bird!

My apartment has never been this clean. My closets and drawers are organized, for a change, and I’d really like to keep them that way.

Craft projects are much more fun when you finish them.

Make one person a mask and everyone wants a mask. Making masks can be cathartic. Making masks makes you feel as if you’re doing something that can help others. After a while, you might get tired of making masks, but you keep doing it, because, making masks makes you feel as if you’re doing something that can help others.

Making masks makes you realize how many craft projects you started and didn’t finish because of all the random cotton, elastic and thread you already have on hand.

I have always hated antibacterial gel.

I can’t stop thinking about how lonely it must be to die of COVID-19.

There is nothing more liberating during excruciatingly long conference calls than the speaker and mute buttons.

Happiness is, weeks into the stay-at-home order, and you realize there are two seasons of Homeland you haven’t watched yet.

When we first started this social distancing business, I never, ever would have thought it would last this long. Everything I hear makes me think we're only at the beginning.

My cats always begged me to pay attention to them. My cats can only take so much attention.

Every time I start a new roll of toilet paper I feel a little guilty.

I looked it up. It’s called stir-crazy because stir is supposed to be a 19^th century British slag for prison, that derived from start, which is what they used to call Newgate prison and then that somehow morphed into stir and then stir became what they called all prisons and then when someone was in prison for a long time and they started acting crazy they were said to have been made crazy by being confined in prison for a long time so then the phrase stir-crazy was supposed to describe that condition. I think that’s all a stupid and unsatisfactory way of explaining why it's called stir-crazy.

Even though I am lucky enough to live near many different walking paths and trails, I almost always take the same one.

You’d think a stay-at-home order would mean lots of writing time. Wrong.

I really, really, really, really, really need a pedicure.

I was glad to hear congress had passed a bill to bring relief to people with unemployment and relief checks. They need to get those checks to the people who need them. Congress do you job!

I have not been sleeping well. I can only imagine how little sleep I would be getting if I were stressed out about not getting a damn paycheck. Congress do you job!

People should stop ignoring the one way signs in the grocery store. I like the one way signs in the grocery store.

I have a deep and lasting respect for people who work in grocery stores … including my sister who works in a grocery store part time. Always be kind to people who work in grocery stores.

I tried talking to the woman at the bakery counter. I repeated myself several times thinking she couldn’t hear me because of my mask. Finally she said, “I’m sorry, I’m deaf.” I apologized. I was also kind of glad I was wearing a mask.

What will deaf people do if everyone wears masks all the time?

My resting bitch face must look much worse behind a mask.

Our healthcare system is a disaster.

When my only choice is to shop online, I make are far fewer impulse buys. I have spent a hell of a lot less money this month. I had a hard time controlling my impulses before.

I am ridiculously excited about receiving the new mop I ordered. It's a regular old mop. Did I mention how clean my apartment is?

Grocery stores should quadruple the employees they have pulling groceries for pickup and delivery. I searched a month out and all of the pickup and delivery dates are sold out. Missed opportunity!

One thing I rarely kept in the house before but have multiple choices of today ... snacks!

Will we talk about our lives in terms of B.C. (Before Covid) and A.C. (After Covid)?

A good thing about COVID-19 is that social media know-it-alls are being proven wrong about so many things. A bad thing about COVID-19 is that social media know-it-alls will only find other stuff to be wrong about.

Stay away from social media as much as possible.

COVID-19 is proof positive that the election in November is the most important election of my lifetime.