Maybe it’s Day 4 or 14 or maybe even 24, but i certainly hope I’m interrupting something. |
| Rita: “What did you do today?” Phil Conners: “Oh, same old, same old.” |
There’s a scene inthe movie Groundhog Day where PhiI (Bill Murray) asks, “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing you did mattered?” Well, that about sums it up for me. Each day having the same effect as slamming a revolving door. |
| So I started creating challenges for myself surrounding my daily wardrobe while wondering if there is nightlife in Katmandu. “How many orange things can I wear at once?” “Can I do four consecutive days of African prints?” “Does putting on earrings count as being dressed?” |
My brain on limited bandwidth, there are some days where I feel so lazy that sitting upright in a chair seems like too much. |
Then I considered my in-house situation, now that the neighbourhood is only available online. I now call the back of the house, the “café”, and the dining table is the “restaurant” – although the kitchen is short-staffed and underpaid. The food isn’t that great either. (I have no clue how this place is still in business.) The living room is called the “RepsolSport Centre”, with a worn brown yoga mat as its centrepiece, and a “reach for the remote” exercise routine. I have a “spa” – the bathroom, and the second bedroom “library” is being rezoned to make way for a high-rise of books. And I sure hope the weather is good tomorrow for my trip to Puerto Backyardia, because the kiddie pool is blown up and I found a bag of sand in the garage. |
Home isolation has its ups and downs. One day you’re on a high cleaning baseboards with a Q-tip, and the next day you are drinking vodka straight, watching two robins out the window. |
| Yup, right outside my window. Two robins, madly in love. Every spring they return with a lot of commotion, then settle down to nest building and chick raising. RIght now it’s primo wooing time, and it’s really loud. Get a room, you birds. |
| I heard a guru say that in this time of Coronavirus, we should focus on inner peace and finish things we start. So I looked through my house to find things I’d started and hadn’t finished. I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bag of Doritos, a pack of Mars Bars, a cylinder of potato chips, a bag of Oreos, a quart of chocolate mint ice cream, and a package of red liquorice.I only tell you this in the hopes of impressing you. So right now, we’re stuck with ourselves for a while. And you don’t want to start a lovers’ quarrel if you’re the only person there. For any couples that are sequestered together, well, good luck. If you don’t throttle each other first, there might be a baby boom in the coming year. Or not. Nevertheless, humans will never shed their desire to connect and commune. Love will keep us together, even when we’re finally allowed to go outside again. |
I’m so excited…it’s time to take out the garbage. What to wear, what to wear.
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