Crazy Daze, Silly Knights

It has been 126 days since I have been told to work from home because of COVID. 35% of the year I have not been in a store, gone on vacation, visited friends, had a real party, been to a movie or just gone away for the weekend. In that 126 days I have started and stopped a lot of projects. Drawing, painting, gardening, wood burning, writing, gaming, puzzles….just so many things. Though I will say my follow thru with drinking wine has been pretty steady. The delivery people have been to the house so often, I’m pretty certain I get to claim them as a deduction. The amount of deliveries from I have gotten from Amazon in 6 months is now 3 digits long. This doesn’t include Instacart deliveries. The one thing the delivery people cannot do is deliver my sense of humor because apparently mine seems to have left me. Who would have thought that during a pandemic that would be the thing to go. It is hard to write about the humorous things in life when there is so little to laugh about. Fires, mu...

It has been over 2 months since we have been in "quarantine".  To be honest, I use "quarantine" loosely because a real quarantine doesn't mean weekly deliveries of booze n food....and a list of other things too great to mention.  There have been 3 human and 2 dogs trapped in this house during the quarantine.  Things we have lost in this quarantine.... 1. Our couch. It was ugly it was not very supportive and there were stains on it. To be honest, it had it coming. Now that I think of it, it reminds me of some people in my life....but that is a whole other blog.  2. My living room. The moment we figured it would be more than a week, we decided we needed to be comfortable, so what used to be a common area is now an office space and a video game haven.  3. Separation from work and home. When work is home and home is work, then you have hork or wome. You get up and do things...could be work things, could be home things...you decide. In the end, there is no difference...

(This blog inspired by a real FB familial post. No recipes were hurt in the writing of the blog) One day in your past or your future, you will want to look up a recipe. Maybe it is the perfect cheesecake to impress your family at a holiday event, or perhaps a fantastic cocktail for a small gathering at your home, or maybe the perfect chili to warm you on a cold winter's night. It doesn't matter when or why, but one day you will try to get the ingredients to something you know will complete you.  So you open a browser up, pick your favorite search engine...and then you look for your recipe. It all started so innocently. A simple desire for a simple set of ingredients that might give you light in your life.  Then it happens, you find the recipe that claims it is the best. This is the recipe that you remembered seeing posted on your social media sites...maybe your sister's friend's cousin's teacher from grade school swore this was the one that made everyone swoon at he...

Pre-SIP (aka Shelter In Place) I had lists of things I would do if I had time. For example, I swore if I just had enough time I would dust more often. I know, it sounds like a ridiculous thing to do. But whenever people would come over, I would apologize and say, "you know how it is, you just don't have enough hours in the day to work and clean house." Turns out that I was a big fat liar. I am just a terrible housekeeper. Right now, I could be dusting the hell out of my house. I could be chasing dust bunnies down like a hungry coyote in the dead of winter. The reality is the most powerful enemy my dust bunnies have is a blast of air that would chase them from their hiding spots because that is the only way I'm going to find them.  I also said I would keep up with laundry more if I had the time. Wow...that was a complete lie! I could also be putting in the laundry and switching it all around for the last FIVE weeks...yet, here I sit, avoiding it. I'm hop...

As of yesterday, I have been working at home for a month. The Shelter-In-Place order for our state has been in place for a month. I am a homebody at heart. Some people live off of the energy of others, but then there are people like me who get drained by too many people. The best way to describe it would be like all the people around you have straws and they are drinking in your energy.  Okay that got weird, forget that.  Anyway, while I am a homebody, at this point I have to say there is WAY too much home in my homebody life right now. It is a little maddening. Before my life was a calm ballad with some changes to the melody of going back and forth from home to work, maybe go out with friends or invite people over, or finding a small adventure to enjoy.  Now it is the same note over and over and over and over and over and over and over....well you get the idea. There is no change. There is little to look forward to. Wednesday is the same as Thursday, Fri...

Person: I want a life, family, to travel and to pursue happiness. Government: You gotta work. Person: I can do that! I’m young and willing to learn. Whatcha got? Government: Minimum wage. Person: Well, how does that measure up to living life? Government: Not great. It doesn’t even cover the basics for a single person. Person: So I gotta learn a skill or get an education. Right? Government: Probably a good idea. Person: Hey, trades, how you looking? Trades: Pretty good actually. I can…. Society: wait, let me interrupt for a minute. Trades: Dudes, I just started talking, wtf. Society: Please, you are beneath us. But while I have you on the line, can you fix a few things in my house? Trades: Sure, I don’t care what you think, just pay me. Person: hello…got a life decision here. Military: How you doing? Person: I think okay. Military: Sign up with us and we can help you. Person: Well, we can call that an option. Is it okay that I have a problem with authority and I fear...

We have 3 types of people doing quarantine right now. 1. Those who lost their jobs due to shelter in place order. 2. Those who work at home due to the shelter in place order. 3. Essential employees who are at work and are enjoying the lack of traffic on their way in. Now to the first group...I'm so, so, sorry. Being unemployed due to no fault of your own has got to be the most frustrating thing in the world. It isn't that you can't work, it's that you aren't allowed to do work. It is like frustration on steroids. The 3rd group have many subcategories in it, but they are the ones going everyday to work and really have more constraints at work due to this damn virus. You probably growl at the empty desks of those who were sent home to either work or to just not work. You  have to be reminded of social distancing every moment, even in the bathroom. It is a balance of worry and anger. And if you are in the medical field, you are pretty certain you are going to ...