Working from Bed, Wine, and Mondays: A Life Update

5th October 2020

It’s Monday again already, but I thought it was Friday which sucks. I think Covidviruslockdownsuckiness has messed up my days because that’s the second week in a row I’ve thought Monday was Friday. I used to be all like ‘OH I LOOOVE MONDAYS, IT’S A FRESH START blah blah blah’ but no, now I want it to be Friday or a weekend day every day, please.

Monday’s.

Today I’ve been working from my bed all day. Not because I’m a lazy fucker, but because the husband has far too many meetings at the moment and I can’t concentrate at all downstairs. Plus the dog settles down with me on the bed/burrows under the covers and lays over my legs/lies across my keyboard, whereas if I’m downstairs she either wants to bite me or sit on my lap at the table and make me lean funny at my keyboard and cause my back to ache a lot. I’m old, you know.

Plus, who doesn’t want an excuse to work in bed all day?

I do have a funny ache in my left side now though after being in bed for too long and I feel quite lazy. But actually I got a lot done today and I’m pleased. I feel like I’ve got about 1/24th of my to-do list done on most days so far this year so the odd productive day feels very good.

I say so far like it’s not the bloody beginning of October already and the year hasn’t flown by quicker than Concord on Speed.

The last few weeks have been a bit weird. Ava was back at school for a week after six months off, and then like so many she wasn’t very well and so was off school for a whole week. It wasn’t just a cold or I would have sent her there stat, but she lost her appetite and wasn’t very well at all. The week after that she was better and went back to school and then I was poorly and spent a decent amount of time in bed, but had loads of work and catching up to do so it wasn’t fun.

I’d been logging symptoms on that COVID app thingy and it asked me to get a test and I’d already been thinking maybe I should, so I tried and tried and tried for days. The times I actually found some available it wouldn’t recognise me as an actual person even though it had every detail about me from my NHS number to my ankle circumference, so I then had to ring up to find out what the funk was wrong. They gave me a special code to override everything and it finally worked. The test was negative, thankfully but by the time I actually did one it was more than likely too late. So I was still ill, feeling guilty for possibly wasting a test, and still left wanting to know if maybe I’d actually had it.

It probably was just a cold as everyone kept telling me (thanks!) but who knows. It’s hard this Corona stuff, isn’t it? You don’t want to be a dramatic dick for being careful and maybe thinking you have it. And you can’t keep your kid off at the slightest sniff and damn new cough. But then without regular testing we don’t know that we DON’T have it and are putting others at risk. I don’t like it.

Anyway, thanks for letting me catch up. I needed to let it all out, clearly. Oh, I didn’t mention wine. I’m drinking a lot of wine at the moment. I’ve introduced soda to white wine to make the bottles last longer/decrease the calories and carbs (I’m trying Keto) and I’m actually enjoying it. It’s the first night I’ve done it though and I absolutely, positively, completely wasn’t drinking tonight so we shall see.

Hope you are well and not having to get tested (for anything).

Lou xx