I am feeling so lethargic. It is the day after our Passover Seder. Normally I would be trying to figure out how to fit all the leftovers into the refrigerator. This year, since it was just the two of us and I couldn’t run to the store if I had forgotten something, the fridge isn’t quite full. There is room for more stuff but I have no plans for exotic meals so it will just slowly empty, just as our wine fridge has.
Every day is pretty much the same. Waking up around 7 and checking the emails and posts. Getting dressed. Going downstairs for coffee and breakfast. Almost always one form or another of oatmeal and berries. I make the bed. Straighten up whatever needs to straightened which isn’t much. Put away clean dishes. Tuesdays I go to my virtual WW workshop through Zoom. That takes a whole half hour of my day. Then I pretty much compulsively sit and look at the news and posting on my iPad. I commiserate with friends and their woes, birthdays and celebrations of all kinds that pass unnoticed. We finally had to cancel our cruise to the Arctic. So sad. Andy spent the good part of a day trying to get refunds from hotels, airlines and car rental places. Our cruise itself was booked through our wonderful travel agents at Cruise Adventures in Walnut Creek and they took care of that. We think about things we might do when this is over but haven’t even made any tentative plans since we have no idea how long this will last.
In the afternoons I sometimes take a walk. I used to walk the mall every morning for 2 hours. Now I find it hard to walk a couple miles in my neighborhood. I just don’t feel motivated. But I know that when I do go out I feel so much better. Especially now that it is warming up and the sun is shining. But still I hang around the house. I guess part of my reluctance to go out is knowing I will have to strategize staying away from people who are also outside walking. There are still more people walking without masks than with masks. Lots of younger adults and kids who must feel invulnerable. I guess. Don’t know why else they would forego wearing masks.
About 4 p.m. many afternoons we have a glass of wine. And we watch some programs. Agatha Christie, Buffy, Angel, Murdock. Once a week we watch NCIS. That is the only regular TV program we watch right now. Sigh. We watched a few of the NY Met operas last week. Giving ourselves a break from them this week.
Lunch and dinner are often free for alls. Andy is a picky eater so he often will just have toast and sour cream for lunch and a can of soup for dinner. He doesn’t  particularly like leftovers and I don’t particularly like cooking every night so some nights are pretty lean for him. Occasionally he will cook something for himself. I make myself WW meals which I would gladly share but he thinks he doesn’t like them. Oh well.
I do connect with lots of friends and relatives online. Check in with them every week or so just to make sure all is well. So far the closest I have come to knowing someone with the virus is through one of our daughters. She says people in her office have family members who have died and one member of her group has died. Although we don’t know anyone who has it, the numbers for our county are pretty high so there is a constant state of anxiety hanging in the air in our house. We do everything we can to mitigate the dangers. We don’t go to stores, we stay inside. We don’t let people in the house. But it still hangs over our heads. We read the numbers for the world, Europe, the U.S., our state, our county. Very unnerving.
Today came the news out of Asia that a second wave of infections is hitting Wuhan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Perhaps we can learn from them. Perhaps the quarantine rather than being lifted will last longer and be even more stringent. Who knows?