We have all had them -- day after day when nothing is easy and even the smallest detail of a usual routine seems way harder than it needs to be or ever has been before.
At least we have the pandemic to blame it on
It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
Yes we can blame those difficult days on the pandemic, I have them too. Sometimes the isolation and emotional strain of the pandemic IS to blame!
ReplyDeleteYes, good point. And it will get better...
ReplyDeleteReally, I think you CAN blame it on the pandemic.
ReplyDeleteI know, I blame burnt toast on the pandemic. Kind of nice to have a scape goat.
ReplyDeleteIt has been that kind of year. All of it hit me at month 4. I was fine until then. I guess that is my limit. I am finding I wish to be around people I don't even like just to feel normal again. Pitiful.
ReplyDeleteWe do have those days/weeks unfortunately. I hope things are improving this week.
ReplyDeleteTake care and stay well!
Ask me about my sore knee!!!! Hahaha
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I have so many arguments about dumb things that we could call ourselves the Bickersons. This situation seems to bring the stubbornness out in each of us. The other day when we were arguing about some dumb thing we both looked down at about the same time and noticed that our Fuzzy Pomeranian, who is deaf, was sitting on the floor in front of us watching us argue like we were a tennis game. His head moving back and forth watching our lips move. It did stop the argument because my husband and I got to laughing about Fuzzy watching us. Maybe Fuzzy is trying to learn to read lips. The only "persons" benefiting from this at home all of the time situation are the pets. Fuzzy has started several new attention getting activities like purposely hiding his toy balls under the furniture so he can enjoy watching us try to retrieve them for him. And now a new thing where he starts running by revving up his back feet on the wood floor like the Roadrunner and then zooming off into a short run. It is so loud when he revs up like that on the hardwood floor, that it makes me jump. This is a 16 1/2 year old dog,he never did this before the past 3 months, and the more times he revs up like that in a day, the more stiff his hind legs are at night.
ReplyDeleteSo everyone in our household is becoming a little more wacky each day.
Susie, that is SO funny about Fuzzy. I love the image of him watching a "tennis match" and making you laugh.
ReplyDeleteGigi, I should ask "what would Gigi do?" -- make a lovely meal and enjoy life in Hawaii!
Patti, mine was a burned grilled cheese sandwich.
All, yes, we do have bad days and good. It's a waiting game so might as well just accept as things come and go.
Grumpy days. No distractions. This is life. Continue on.
ReplyDeleteI love the cartoon. I think we can forgive ourselves for feeling like everything is hard. It is hard. We're limited in what we can do and we have a barrage of bizarre things in the news. It's hard to be useful, it's hard to be apart from friends and family, it's boring!
ReplyDeleteEverything is the pandemic's fault, I tell ya.
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