What constitutes a "busy" Saturday has drastically changed in the last few weeks. Things I probably should do I've put off. Like cleaning my house...I should do it, I have time, but I am putting it off until "some other time" since I'm home so much. My house is FAR less clean than it should be for spending so much time here. Cleaning feels like too much work.
So today's big activities were grocery shopping, and doing a bootcamp work out. First the grocery shopping. Not terribly exciting except we found a great wine person working so we got a ton of recommendations and were able to stock up on what has now become an essential. Forget rice and beans, wine is top of the list. When John & I were getting checked out we asked the guy what the secret to getting toilet paper was. He said to come at 8:00 a.m., and your chances went up. He did also tell us that some people just use catalogs when they are camping so that would probably work, and if worse comes to worse, your can just shower a lot. Good to know, good to know.
John then made me do one of his Orange Theory boot camps and it was horrible....H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E. I hated every minute of the 54 minute ordeal (it was live streamed from one of the instructor's basement). He was rocking out to the theme song from Flashdance, while shouting at us to keep pushing thru the 90 second squat sequence rotations mixed with arms. Terrible use of an hour. Yes, I'm probably more fit, but I don't think you are suppose to dislike something that much??
After these two activities, I can pretty much tell you that I felt like I had done a LOT. I've really become soft in the last three weeks. I'm not sure how I could handle my normal Saturday list of stuff to do which is a mile long when I wanted to nap after just these two things. Although, to be fair, the notion of people using catalogs instead of toilet paper can really physically drain anyone.
My big surprise today was a gift I got in the mail from my dear friend in Seattle. A lovely little necklace, a travel bag full of L'occitane. products and sweet card saying "we'll travel again someday, don't worry". It was such a lovely treat, and was super fun to get something uplifting and thoughtful. What would we do without our girlfriends?
I avoided media once again except for my short time I allowed to go over news articles. Every time I turn on CNN for even 5 minutes I loose my sense of perspective because everything is led with "deadly" "worst ever" "crisis". Might all be true, but when you couple that with the dramatic intonation of the newscasters it's a wonder anyone is keeping a level head. My advice to myself every day is to deal with what I have control over, take deep breaths, put one foot in front of another and think of everything I'm grateful for. I write about this almost every day not because I have some amazing tips or tricks, but because the simple act of reminding myself as I write is helping me remember...it's keeping me sane and keeping me focused (or at least "more sane").
True confessions...due to having fatigued myself with the arduous first half of the day, I found myself on my computer and I clicked on a link Ava sent me showing a Tik Tok video of this teenage boy asking his dad if he could go on a drive, and then he got in his car and screamed at the top of his lungs. I think she was maybe highlighting the fact that she also felt like screaming? Not sure, BUT I do know that following that I managed to go down the rabbit hole that IS Tik Tok. Wow. Wow. Wow. There are just some truly random stuff on there and I don't think all of it was put up due to extreme coronavirus boredom (which still wouldn't be an excuse). There was some stuff I just wish I hadn't seen, and alas, much of it was by adults not teens. At least teens can blame their youth. A solid 45 minutes of my life that I'm not getting back. Big sigh.
Looking forward to Sunday when I'm technically allowed to be even lazier.
Signed, LV. {lv}
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