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Post #2 - Life on “pause”, week one

It has been a week since we have been asked to stay home, restrict travel, and shelter I place.  Schools, libraries and many businesses are closed, even doctors are restricting visits with patients in the hopes of slowing the advance of the Corona virus.

And I was born for this!

Since I retired, I treasure the days on which I can stay home, all day, and not have to put on real shoes. Don’t get me wrong: I love subbing, and teaching classes at the George F. Johnson Memorial Library (the best public library around!), I look forward to visits with friends, and even enjoy shopping from time to time.  But, given the choice, I would stay home.

I am a child of parents of the Great Depression, so I can stretch a pantry of food for weeeeeks.  I can do without, and make things to substitute for what we cannot buy. So the shortages at stores do not scare me.  Heck- I would be able to avoid stores for a month and live off the stuff I’ve stockpiled when it was on sale, just like my mother did!

Plus, I am a crafter! This means that I have a closet filled to the top with materials that are begging to be made into something useful, and those supplies have been nagging me for years! I could work on something all day, every day, and never run out of things  to make.

Plus, whenever I look around this house that is falling apart, I see things that need to be fixed, painted, cleaned or otherwise tended to.  It’s impossible to all in to any room and not see work that needs to be done, or stuff that needs to be cleaned out. Frustrating in most times, this gives me purpose while stuck inside.

So I am planting seedlings for spring, cleaning out and boxing donations, sewing masks, reading the stack on the bookshelf, trying to clean out the garage, organizing paperwork, teaching the dog to read, and adding to my to-do list faster than I’m crossing off. The USA Today List of 100 Things to Do While You're in Quarantine has nothing on me!!

My only worry is that I am a procrastinator....without deadlines, I cannot focus. Here goes an experiment in self-motivation!!!

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