what is it you plan to do with your one and precious month between covid waves
—@sarahclazarus
Do you find it depressing? Scary? Invigorating?
I go for invigorating. Another quote I read today was,
How to reduce stress in your life: Turn the news off and turn the music up and dance.
What do you do to have fun and lift your spirits? I don’t dance, but I get all sorts of exercise when I stream interesting videos. It reminds me of a New Yorker cartoon I saw years ago. A cheerful gal is saying,
When I retire I’m going to watch travel videos.
She would do just fine handling Covid.
When searching for the link to Lazarus I saw her March 22 tweet:
staying hopeful about the future by breaking it into smaller increments. the next three minutes will be fine I think
March 28, 2022
looking back two years ago when covid reached our shores, a f/b memory had said that “I think it’s going to be longer than 4 weeks” that was to do with the first lockdown when even some “food essential stores had to close…”
my region in NZ has more than a fair share of lockdowns when waves have appeared, keeping the virus on in one section of our small country. But this latest wave, rushed out to surrounding parts of NZ and so everything went into a kind of lockdown..
what I get dismayed about, is I only just get “topside” and bingo we are down in the weeds again. It’s been quite a few months that it’s “still” taking me to get “topside” again. I keep thinking next week I will go further afield. Of course if I had a car, I would’ve already done much of that…but I’m wary of the public transport
I like the last quote – but then again, I’m not drifting around town, rather I’m indoors doing what I love, and about to start in on affixing words to book pages. Came online as trying to work out how to delete my “artists’ fb page” the instructions for the steps are getting me nowhere, call in the local geeks, methinks!
Hurray for projects! Andy and I haven’t been affected much by Covid because of that. He would have problems if he couldn’t drive up to the land. I would have problems if i didn’t have the internet. Fingers crossed for us all.
I love DOGS. all sizes shapes kinds.
they never cease to inspire me in Every way. so I follow a lot of blogs and instagrams about them. their spirit and love of life never fail to inspire me! XO
Again, thanks for the internet so we can pursue topics that feed our souls. 🙂
Around here covid seems to have disappeared from the news. I haven’t seen it in the papers recently.
The internet is pretty much my window to the world and my boredom buster when I’m home. I can visit all of you, take a trip to a place I’ve never been or learn a new skill.
I know. It’s one of the big reasons I’ve been so happy the past few years. Bless it. 🙂
Internet and sewing and reading help me through tough times. And I finally got a puzzle board and started my photomosaic Gray Wolf jigsaw puzzle. Which might take me all summer to do.
You have more patience than I do for jigsaw puzzles. I do ones with a lot fewer pieces, partly because I don’t room for a dedicated table. Please write a few posts about it, including your progress. A big job like that deserves to be documented. 🙂
my life did not change very much from before covid, during covid and kind of after covid… I am a homebody at heart and find it easy to entertain myself when contained on my own property. the hard part was the mask wearing and the not able to talk to strangers part. of course if the internet collaspes I will not be able to live life they way I do… and I often think, i need friends i can SEE and touch not just E friends… yet here i set typing on the internet
I can understand why you feel that way. Fingers crossed it gets better for you. And fingers crossed for us all that the internet doesn’t get messed up!
I don’t dance, either. At least if anyone can see me.
Probably because I was an introverted ‘only’ child, I became my own best friend. Even today, I’m content with my own company and those of y’all on the other side of my monitor. Sometimes too much people-ing can be wearying.
I’m guessing introverts have had a much easier time with Covid. I’m halfway between introvert and extrovert, but the internet has kept me happy.
I definitely need to turn on some music and let it take me away…..
The main thing is to play around and see what works for each of us.
A friend took me out for dinner on Saturday, and A friend and it truly felt pre-pandemic. All I could think of is that it’s a test for the immunity system! The news just came on here, and I need to change the channel to something more uplifting, or focus on reading blogs. There are things that really are hard to watch.
We haven’t had TV for several years now, so it’s easier to decide how much news to let in. That helps a lot.
I thought the first one was funny but the last one made me laugh out loud.
Since I spend my life on the internet and reading ebooks anyway nothing changed for me when the pandemic hit except for wearing masks when going to medical appointments.
I know. That last one was brilliant. 😀
To be honest Covid was/is hard for me because I had to do everything alone when I went to the hospital for my surgery and for the stay afterwards and when I went to get my chemo. I wasn’t allowed to have anyone with me. Now that I’m getting my maintenance infusions I see that people are allowed to have someone sit in a chair with them and it dawned on me I probably would not have had anyone to sit there anyway. I’m not feeling sorry for myself it’s just a fact the people have jobs and their own lives.
I’m good at being alone but I have to say lately I think I’m going stir crazy and there’s nothing that’s going to cure me except for some warm weather.
Hopefully the warm weather comes soon and you can get out and enjoy it.