So when I started writing this blog in early January I was so excited to have a new project and I was full of hope for a new year. This year has been of to such a crazy start. This corona virus has ruined so many things. People are getting sick and dying and without knowing how to combat it the cases are increasing every day. It is scary to not know how all of this is going to end. My fiancé is working from home for the next three weeks, and I am still coming into the office every day. My office refuses to close or allow us to work from home. The entire state of Massachusetts is pretty much shut down and I am still forced to come in or risk not getting paid.
I wish I could just stay home for the next two weeks. I have so much to do for the wedding still and our honeymoon, we are sending our invitations out this week, and I have lots of shower gifts that I need to organize and put away. But here I am at work until the Governor calls for a shelter in place which I really wish he would. I feel as though the only way to slow down the amount of new cases is if everyone is forced to stay home. Not enough people are taking this seriously and its annoying. For those of us who have to go into work and people are complaining about relaxing, sleeping in, and eating while watching Netflix…..that’s the dream!s. Haha I would love two weeks of quarantine. I feel unsafe coming to work and being around other people when I don’t know if they are sick or not.
I am exhausted and tired of the news. Our president and the other candidates running are using this whole as a way to promote themselves. If the president can turn this around it will be great for his relection and if he doesn’t it will help the democrats. It feels awful that politics are so important as this is a relection year when people are getting sick and dying. It isn’t right but there isn’t any way around it. After about an hour I have to turn the news off because how frustrating and overwhelming it all feels. It all sounds bad and sometimes my perky self just needs some positivity even though its hard to come by right now.
Even if it feels tough we can still open up the windows and get some fresh air, we can go for walks and bike rides, we can facetime people we love, write letters, do home repairs, write thank you notes, binge watch shows on Netflix, cook, clean, paint our nails, color, etc. We have time now to do things we don’t always have time to do. If I was quarantined I would be doing lots of those things. I am trying to use my time at work to get things done and read some books, work on the wedding, but I really wish I could stop interacting with the public and be able to stay home.
This past Saturday was supposed to be my bridal shower. Lots of people have continued to send us shower gifts so my fianc and I went to his parents house, starting day drinking and we opened gifts while factiming lots of relatives. It was lots of fun and we got to take lots of fun things home to our apartment yesterday. Now I just need to clean out and organize our kitchen and make room for all the new stuff!
The year is off to a rough start but we are going to be ok. Spring is coming, flowers are blooming, the sun will be shining soon providing us all with a little more vitamin D. Our immune systems will be boosted and we will learn to not take things for granted. Maybe we can all learn something from this time and end up better for it. Trying to stay positive amongst all of this is difficult but we have to. We have to be happy to wake up every day and to have people who love us, food, homes, etc. and be grateful. Grateful to be alive, and to have things to forward to. Keep on friends! Start writing in a journal so one day your grandkids will read about the great pandemic that took over the world in the year 2020. We will get through this eventually. See ya next time!
JustJessica 