Today is Sunday, April 5, 2020 and it's day #5 of my 30 day blogantine where I blog every day until the month of May, while I'm quarantining during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Yesterday sucked. Saturday absolutely let me down this week. I had such high hopes for sunshine and warmer weather, as Friday showed us a glimpse of. Well, it rained all day and then was over-cast all afternoon and night and bitter cold, back down to below freezing temperatures. We still did a our neighborhood walk anyhow, despite how bitter it was and because I know how important it is to keep moving my body. We caught a florescent orange and lavender sunset at 8pm, and were stunned by the vivid colors on the horizon after such a gray day. We treated ourselves to Slab Town cheeseburgers, to-go. We started the new season of Better Call Saul and then hit the sack hoping and dreaming for a better Sunday.
Except I didn't fall asleep as planned. I had my first bout of insomnia last night since forever. I mean, I've been sleeping good this past year. Between our purple mattress and just a better quality of life, I've been getting plenty of Zzz's. But as I've discussed before, I have a long history with insomnia. For me, a night or 2 of no sleep, a fibro-flair and a bad couple days of IBS, go together like rocks, paper, and scissors. I didn't fall asleep until 6:00am! Rough. However, I still had a joyous occasion to look forward too this morning, I snagged a spot on the shipt app for grocery delivery from Meijer! Woo-hoo! As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I was dreading going to the store in person after trying and failing to snag a spot for delivery or pick-up with any of our area's stores or apps. I kept refreshing the app at night while we watched TV. I am willing to-do whatever it takes to avoid leaving our home, especially going to a grocery store. Because, obvious reasons...main one being Covid-19 can be symptom-less. So I have no idea if I have it and would never want to subject someone to that....just in case anyone needs a reminder of why we're doing this! :)
Anyway....so we got our groceries delivered and it was glorious and executed flawlessly by our shipt shopper and we tipped him handsomely. The sun came beaming out and the birds were on full spring chorus mode. (are the birds getting louder? read about how our coronavirus quarantine is changing the planet around us in this article! I sound like an ad but no this is just really cool! Your welcome!!) We embarked on our first good outdoor work day of the season! I believe that working with earth, interacting with nature, and just getting in the dirt is so so so good for the soul. Also, gotta love that sun for giving you good Vitamin D. I broke my SPF rule for one day so that I could get the full brunt of the warm goodness while we put our knees in the dirt and weeded our garden. We opened our garage and actually set up a CD player in there and listened to Sublime because we must that mid-western, white couple. You know the one.
All in all, it was a normal-ass day. It felt so normal. Between getting only a couple hour of sleep and working hard in the sunshine, I'm definitely feeling kinda giddy and I hope what I wrote today makes sense. I know 2020 has been a rough year. but damn. but we are surviving. Dare I say we are thriving? All of you who are reading this are thriving too! I mean it! We are still here! and that counts for something. We haven't given up. We're getting through each day, slowly, but the night does still turn into day, despite how awful things are. and we keep going. The fact that you are reading my blog right now, maybe you are a friend of mine or don't know me at all, you are still connecting to this community. The fact you are making an effort to connect with others online means you still have hope. and if you are reading this blog about mental health because you yourself are or have struggled with mental illness? Well, that's huge because you are choosing to open yourself up to new ideas and perspectives about something that is very hard to deal with. That means you must care about yourself. and if you care about yourself, really, anything is possible from there.
Thanks so much for taking time out to read this today! I hope it's sunny wherever you are and like myself, have spent some time outside and away from social media and news for a least a little bit. I highly recommend it! I'll see you back here tomorrow.
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