Four Years On

It’s been four years since the world shut down for the pandemic and it feels like it was either just yesterday or 60 years ago. At this point four years ago people were baking bread, doing puzzles and learning how Zoom worked. Outside all those people dying, the staying home just with my family was not such a bad thing.

It would have been nice to have an idea how long we were going to stay home because then I would have made a list of chores I absolutely wanted to get done while I was stuck at home and gotten them done. I did build a garden and I am happy I still have that to show for the pandemic. But I never cleaned out my attic or garage and amazingly I still have not gotten around it it.

Now I have incentive because I know there are things in the attic from my college days I want to find. I am not sure when I am going to fit this job into my non-pandemic life now. I should go up to the attic if only for ten minutes everyday right now before it gets to hot. Why didn’t I think of this after Christmas?

I am not looking for another lock down, but maybe a week at home where I don’t have anything else to do. Wait, what would that be like. I always have at least a dozen things I am working on at one time and another 100 waiting to be worked on.

I think I have over 125 white napkins waiting to be ironed from the Christmas holiday. I know my garden needs to be prepped because I saw a mint invasion in there today. Don’t get me started on closets. When I went to pack this Friday I found clothes that are fifteen years old that need to go. What’s another fifteen years in the closet?

I looked at my blog from four years ago and I saw a photo of a fun puzzle I was working on in lockdown life. Oh, how badly would I like to be working on a puzzle.

I really wish I had written a book during the pandemic. I don’t know what it would have been about. I could have done a Cookbook with my eyes closed. But did I use my time wisely? No, and now four years later I am kicking myself. Those were not the good ‘ole days, but I do miss the empty calendar.