Well here we are folks. The quarantine continues on and I guess one of my hobbies is this blog so I’m trying to take this time to utilize this hobby.

So far here is my situation in quarantine. My parents are still in Florida and now presumably staying down there. I live in their house but my younger sister and her girlfriend moved in for the pandemic so I wouldn’t have to be alone.

I’m still working but only part time (about 24 hours a week) and my sister Mary and her girlfriend Emily are temporarily laid off. I had to finish one of my classes online and the other got canceled so for the most part I’m not in school and my whole program got pushed back a semester.

So here we are, just trying to do our best. Since the world is chaos now, all I can do to help my mental health is try to maintain some kind of routine.

Around 9:00 AM: I make some kind of breakfast for the ladies. I can poach an egg so like I’m pretty good at breakfast.

That’s a breakfast casserole. I got the recipe from one of my professors. I know it’s potentially the end of the world because I just pulled that crockpot out of the box from 2015.

 

Then around 11:30 I do some form of exercise. Before quarantine was super tight I would help my older sister walk her gang of dogs. Now I just go on walks alone or ride my bike.

 

Afterwards Mary will make us some lunch and we often watch House Hunters as a family. Where Mary yells at every couple for their dumb opinions and Emily was shook to know they never pick the furnished home. Also we watched a lot of them that take place in GR. I can’t help but think the producers tell them. “Choose a bit and commit. If you can’t stand a closed concept house because if the way you describe yourself is that you are always in the kitchen and can’t see your kids I want to hear about it. If you think you are saying too much, trust us you aren’t saying it enough.”

 

Slowly the afternoon comes and it’s Rob Time. I watch a little bit of Tiger King to be part of the culture zeitgeist. Then I picked up Orange Is The New Black. I had previously watched the first few seasons but decided to finish it out as well slowly work through my “watch later” folder on YouTube.

 

Then dinner comes and Emily has been making some wonderful food. They are even so kind as to make me food when I come home from work. I try my best to not come off like Darren Stevens from Bewitched expecting a martini right when I walk in.

 

The best part is promptly every night at 8:30 we sit down to watch one of the marvel movies. I’ve seen most of them and Mary and Emily are fairly new. I mostly police them from looking at their phones and find pleasure in Emily’s genuine shock to every major event. (Tonight is Black Panther)

 

Finally I lay in bed scrolling through YouTube or Tinder while Hulu plays American Dad! or Family Guy in the background until I finally drift off and the time loop can start back over.