Day 49 (I think)

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I’m counting from March 3, so I think that I’m up to day 49-28 days in March and 21 in April.

So now the routine is:
  • Up between 6:30 and 7ish
  • Shower
  • Yoga
  • Breakfast
  • Read the newspaper
  • Wait for Governor Cuomo and his update
  • Get depressed
  • Have lunch
  • Watch Fauda Season 3 (we’re up to episode of 7 out of 12)
  • Start cocktail hour (with fancy appetizers)
  • Make dinner
  • Watch something else—The Plot Against America was last night’s event.
Okay so we don’t get depressed every day, especially today—“only” 481 deaths, down from over 700 day after day.

Our lives aren’t all that different from the “before.” We are cooking more, shopping less and watching more TV. We’re walking the trails in our neighborhood and have discovered trails that we always meant to walk.

We (okay Anne) have seedlings growing under grow lights in the basement—dill, parsley, cilantro and thyme. We have radishes and greens growing under row covers as we await our last (we hope!) overnight freeze.

Our lives are different in that shopping has become an ordeal, we aren’t going to the movies, we aren’t eating out, we aren’t visiting with anyone and no one is visiting us. We are spending HOURS on Zoom (and getting tired of it), we both look very shaggy and our house isn’t as clean as it could be. We can't wait for Fresh Organic Salon Solutions to open again and we can’t wait for Jenny, our cleaning person, to be able to come back into our home.

So, how is everyone else doing?

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