Staying Home

It's been 14 days since I have been out. Fourteen days since my last physical contact with a person other than my wife. It's been 14 days since I last worked at my volunteering at the Stonewall Jackson House. It's been two weeks since I have driven a car - the Saturn to be specific. I've been out of the house five times - twice each of the past two Wednesdays to take the trash can to the curb in the morning and recover it in the evening. Each of those "trips" take about 45 seconds. The sixth time was longer - I took a 25-minute walk last Friday around the neighborhood. That's it - 28 minutes of outside exposure!

Now I can't blame the coronavirus on this completely. I could go out and walk more. I could drive around the neighborhood or go get a drive-thru coffee down the road. I could even drive to Subway or MacDonald's or some other fast-food place to get lunch instead of eating my homemade sandwich. I could. Yes, I could. It's just that I don't want to. I've lost my motivation to go outside. But that is not the worst of it.

I'm beginning to lose my motivation to read and write. I'm currently reading six books more or less. I say that because I haven't reached that spot in any of them that I normally do in my reading that one grabs me and I rush to finish it. Then I will continue to read the other five until another gets to that "rush to the end" spot. I'll keep on doing this until I have two left and then I replenish the reading pile back to 5 or 6 books again. As I said, I've not reached that point and don't feel like reading many times at all.

As far as writing is concerned, you easily see when I last posted. There were many times I said to myself, "Self, you need to write about _______ . But I didn't. I am hoping that by writing this post that it break up the log jam, or brain freeze, or whatever it is that is preventing me from doing what I normally love to do.

Well, what do I do all day if I don't what I normally love to do? I watch a lot of CNN about the coronavirus. I sleep a lot during the day because I don't sleep well at night. I play games on my phone -usually Sudoku and a crossword daily. I visit the social apps I belong to like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Probably too much sleeping and social apping. The Sudoku and crosswords keep my brain sharp.

Well, I've done it as my granddaughter likes to say. I wrote today. Let's see what tomorrow brings.