Today was a good day. And because it was a good day, I decided to do a "Day in My Plague Life" post. I mean, why not? Let's delve into the big stuff and the little stuff, too. Ethical and social struggles during this time, and What I Had For Lunch, too. So here we go!
An Overview of How My Day Shook Out:
8:00 AM
Skype Coffee Date with Eldest Sister. This started as a way to compel me to wake up at a decent hour...but damn, of all the people to kickstart the day with, Eldest Sister is the one I want to do it with! She's a driven, creative woman, and she always leaves me feeling inspired and energized.
9:00 AM
I hop on the exercise bike and watch some YouTube vlogs. I've found that the best way to do exercise is to do it as soon as I hop out of bed (or finish my Skype date) so that I get it done early on. And then, even if I'm a blobby sloth for the rest of the day--at least I've done some exercise.
9:45 AM
Shower, get ready for the day--meaning, I actually put on honest-to-god clothes. A couple of days a week, I try to wear jeans, but today was supposed to be godawfully warm, so I wore shorts. It didn't seem worth it to heat-style my hair, so I put my mop into braided pig-tails. And I put on a dab of makeup, too: concealer, eyebrow pencil, mascara, and lipstick. Anything more, I would have sweated off. Maybe it seems frivolous, but seriously...if I am trying to live my best life, even now, why not?
10:30 AM
Time to clean! I refuse to think of my home as a prison right now. It's a haven. So I'm gonna try to keep it that way.
11:30 AM--Lunch prep time! I've got a pound of ground beef that needs to be cooked, so I end up browning the beef and making my own version of a Chipotle Burrito Bowl. It was freaking good...if not particularly photogenic.
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| It may not be pretty, but I served it in my grandmother's pretty fine china! |
1:00 PM
Oh, thank god--I get to do work! I spend the next couple of hours having a meeting with my fellow managers, checking work email, and calling a dozen of my colleagues/reports to check in on them. It was frickin' magical, hearing so many of their voices.
3:00 PM
Reading--lately, my concentration has been shot. I'm trying to power through it. The book I read today was The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt--pretty damn fluffy and illustration-heavy. I started and finished it in one day; hopefully I can get back into my reading groove.
4:45 PM-7:20 PM
Head over to The Prof's and spend time working for her. (Update: She's holding her own.)
8:00 PM
Zoom date with a group of friends! It quickly got disrupted by a violent thunderstorm, complete with hail and howling winds. More than one of us decamped to the inner rooms in our homes to await the potential tornadoes, which are the the sugary sprinkles on our Apocalypse Sundaes. Eventually we were able to resume our shenanigans, and sanity was restored.
And that brings us to now, the late hours of this Wednesday evening. It was a good day, filled with chores and meetings and socialization and exercise and a little bit of relaxation (really, like a "Normal" day should be) along with some Death Storms of Doom. Although we don't know when the end will come, the end will come, and the ending of this day brings us one day closer to the end of this...experience. It was a good day--it was a day in which I tried to be deliberate and mindful about what I did and experienced. Not every day is like this. Hell, few days are like this. More days are filled with naps and eating a three-week supply of Cheetoes in three hours, and playing games on my phone, and not living my best life. But we'll just take it one day at a time, and this day was a good day.
Daily Indiana COVID-19 Counts:
Total Cases: 5,943 (up from yesterday's 5,507)
203 people have died.
Daily Gratitude:
No tornadoes! Seriously.
Daily Funnies:
Also, bonus! Thoughts I Had Today:
"Bernie Sanders dropped out? Oh shit, that's right, there's an election this year!"
"And here I thought "buffering" was a thing of the past."
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