April 3, 2020

Friyay! This would be my typical call out to friends and colleagues towards the end of the normal work week. We would be asking each other about our plans for the weekend. Some with family will be camping with their kids in a nearby park, others will be planning a get together with their friends over dinner and drinks, or perhaps a weekend walk in one of the botanical gardens nearby to enjoy the Spring bloom. Me, perhaps, I would be heading to my Freedive pool training in the City. Those were the normal days. These uncertain times, most everyone in the world will be going nowhere. Nowhere!

If someone told me 3 weeks ago that I would be going nowhere today, I would have laughed at that person’s snarky remark. I would have thought that that person is perhaps just being a sour grape and having major FOMO after flipping through his/her social media accounts and viewing with envy some of his/her so-called friends posts from some exotic location.

Those were the normal days. Days when everyone you know seems to be enjoying their adventurous life, traveling somewhere fun and sharing their escapades on social media. Days when you yourself, not wanting to be left out, is constantly checking airfares online for a vacation location you’re planning at the tail end of Spring or beginning of Summer. Days when feeling the need to unwind, you drop by your favorite bar with colleagues as you wrap up your week. Then jump on the train to catch dinner with your loved one or your friends on the other side of town. Those were the glory days.

Welcome to the new reality without an end in sight. CoVid19 is still very much in every single human being’s consciousness these days. Desperation, death, destruction. Is there any silver lining coming soon? Towards the end of the day today, 250,000 Americans have been diagnosed as CoVid19+. New York continues to get whiplashed and they are days away from running out of medical supplies. Hard to imagine this scenario 3 weeks ago.

I can’t let this negative news bring me down. Time to go for a walk and a very late lunch after my last conference call for the week. Hubby and I walked down – masked of course – to our neighborhood bakery for a shared veggie sandwich.

Then it’s time to catch up with friends, this time, via Zoom. These are unusual times, indeed and yes, I’m going nowhere but somewhere, virtually.

April 4, 2020

I had all the intention today to finally plant the herb seeds I got for Christmas from a good friend. Spring planting season! Unfortunately, Mother Nature is really playing a big joke on us. It was only yesterday when the sky was so blue and the Spring weather was perfect. I woke up today to a gloomy weather and it progressively became gloomier and rainier. So – again I’m not going anywhere. Not even outside. Not even to our backyard.

What sorcery is this?

I’m one of those people that can’t sit still for long. I remembered that one of my to-dos is to clean the fridge in our garage. I discovered when I opened it the other day that I had turned the thing into a Petri dish of sludge. To my horror, as I opened the door, there was a drip of brown goo all over. I stored a bunch of celery there last Thanksgiving and completely forgot about it. Yikes!

Needless to say, I spent a couple of hours cleaning the darn thing from top to bottom, disinfecting every corner including the freezer. I also made sure I aired it out for another hour before turning it on again. What a tough job. I felt good being able to cross it off my list though. Plus now, I have an extra space to store things again.

Since I’m a multi-tasker, I was also doing laundry simultaneously. Yep, not only am I organized, I’m also efficient. Hah!

My highlight of the day though is being able to talk to my sister via FaceTime. Yes, even we can’t see each other face-to-face these days. She’s one of the vulnerables. She’s also one of the reasons why I’m keeping a rigorous routine of disinfecting even our home because I need to be healthy for her. In case she and her kids need my help. After dinner, my other brother from another state also called. It was great to catch up with him as well. Just chatting. Just catching up.

In these times of crisis, we all should reach out to our loved ones, family and friends. It is very important to make each other feel loved and connected no matter where each one of us are. No matter if we’re nowhere. We still have each other. That’s somewhere!

Time to go to bed. Sweet dreams wherever you are in this world.