The requirements I’ve put upon myself! I have bitten off more than I can chew apparently. Typical behavior for an ‘A’ type personality like myself. Hunkering down should be easier than this, I would think, but it has proven a little more than I bargained for. Let me explain. (Bear with me, if you can.)
I have designated certain chores for specific days. A simple enough strategy to get through this self quarantine effort. To pass the time my plan has been to stare out the windows of my house. Easy enough you say. Well, not so fast. My style of attacking tasks is to be thorough and fair. I made a drawing of the windows, all of them. A plan view to make sure all of them got the treatment. To make sure I kept accurate staring histories I made tik marks on each of them. You know, the four tiks and then the diagonal strike to mark ‘5’.
What is this, like, week 5? I can’t remember. This morning I realized I was staring out the wrong window. To make matters worse, my thoughts while I was doing this were preoccupied with ‘what if I were staring out the wrong window?’. It turns out that I was doing just that. I checked the tik marks and sure enough I was way, way off track. So, I cheated and moved to the right one. Keep it to yourself, please,
Gentle George
April 19, 2020
Playing Fair and Being Kind 
Oh, god, George! Not the WRONG WINDOW! Noooooooooooooooo!
The sudden realization froze me in place. I couldn’t move for fully five minutes. While immobile I was trying to devise a cool strategy to look like I was looking out the correct window. I had nothing. I slowly backed away from the window without turning until I was far enough away to be invisible from the outside. Then I dropped to the floor and crawled into the bedroom and slithered into the safety of my comforter. Don’t tell anyone.
LOL!!! Covid time: I started making a list for each room, what needed to be cleaned .. desperate times, blah, blah, blah …
And here we are, Nancylee, a year and a half later. Let the good times roll!!!