A Day in The Life of a COVID Stay-At-Home Female

• 8:05 Up and at-em. Slowly. My body is stuck and I feel like I am moving through glue. Arthritis is to blame.
• 8:20 Finally made it to the bathroom.
• 8:45 Finished repairing the damage sleep caused. Stepped on the scales and gained a pound over the weekend. I am either eating too many chips or I am pregnant.
• 9:00 Dressed and made bed. See Mom? I didn’t get on the internet just to make you cry.
• 9:10 Breakfast gathered and brought into the office. No coffee today, because I drink decaf when I do drink coffee and not drinking coffee at all seems to be no problem. Besides, I don’t have irritating co-workers to deal with and no meetings in the breakroom that turn into marathon gab-fests.
• 10:30 Read the daily Bible text, Breakfast completed, perused Facebook, wrote a blog entry, checked email, checked to-do list, looked online for baby girl names.
• 10:35 Started working. The thing is, I work at home, doing a job that is sometimes boring and definitely tedious. But, I am saving my house. I call apartments all across the US, checking on apartment availability and pricing and then that info gets sent to the guys who hired me so they can set rates for the “daily pricing” system. Basically, apartments now charge as much as the market will bear, so no breaks on apartment rent.
• 12:30 Lunch break. Left-over fish fillet made into a sandwich with cheese and tartar sauce. Better than a McDonald’s fillet of fish.
• 1:30 Watched a guy on YouTube walking around Yokohama, Japan while I ate my lunch.
• 4:05 Finished working for the day. Highlights from working: Lady: I need your home address and your birthdate before I can provide any information. Me: I am simply looking for pricing and availability. I am not filling out a lease at this time. Why do you need my home address and my birthday? Lady: We need it to make sure you are honest. Me: I will look elsewhere.
• 4:08 Thinking about the lady I encountered. How will knowing my address and birthdate prove I am honest? I am baffled.
• 4:09 Turned on the TV.
• 5:45 Put my trash can out be the street for pick-up tomorrow. Watched an episode of Meet the Meerkats on Discovery+. And another. And another.
• 6:00 Ate cereal for dinner because I didn’t want my leftovers and was too lazy to cook.
• 6:45 Napped in my chair after dinner.
• 8:15 1 hour and 15 minutes of meeting with Friends on Zoom. One of my favorite things to do during the week.
• 9:15 Watched an episode of The Zoo. Animal shows are safe to watch. I am not old enough to watch anything that is rated “R.”
• 9:30 Got ready for bed. I used to just get into the bed, now I have to get ready for bed. I am older, now.
• 10:00 Read a book until I fell asleep.
• 10:01 Rudely awakened when I dropped the book on my face.
• 11:30 Read some more until I felt sleepy, again.
• 11:31 Put the book on the nightstand so I wouldn’t drop it on my face, again.

If you read all of that, I congratulate you. You have a great deal of perseverance and stamina.