Life of Pol

I hope everyone is staying as sane as possible during this trying time. I know it's difficult to be cooped up in the house for so long. Even for couples like Steve and myself, who love spending as much time together as possible. But it's different when you're spending time together and going out and about to find stuff to do, rather than stay at home. It's probably a bit easier on me than it is for Steve because I'm used to being at home and staying busy. But he's a champ, and we'll get through this with one another's help, just like everyone else will. Speaking of everyone else . . . Ah! To the people who are not listening to the stay at home orders or social-distancing themselves, STOP! All you are doing is prolonging this event, and you are going to cause the people who are staying at home to be forced to shelter there for even longer, and that's not fair. (Obviously the people who need to see that the most won't because they're ...

Day 8 of our self-quarantine and day 3 of regular blogs! Wow! To be perfectly honest, I hadn't kept up with this blog because of the lack of response and the general all around uninterest in it. If nobody was interested, then why should I waste time doing it? Right? That's been my problem for a while-years to be exact. It's a problem I'm facing to this day. I have a difficult time with acceptance or the lack there of. When I feel the rejection, I "turtle" and hide under my shell. This is a very strange time for this pandemic to hit. Strange for me, at least. You see, I'm recovering, in a way. (Warning, open and honest moment coming up.) Over the last several months I have been battling depression. I won't go into too many details, but know that it had gotten bad enough that I began seeing a doctor. A hypnotherapist. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I knew I had to do something, so I was going to try. Thankfully, I was pretty amazed by t...

It's the start of another day for self-quarantine. I'm starting off this day with a bit of anxiety, because we have to go to the store. Two stores, actually, because we have to get Finn's puppy food, and PetSmart is the only one that carries large breed puppy. So it's the pet store and Walmart. The feeling of fear with getting out in public and being careful not to touch anything seems to be overwhelming at times. But we'll go in quick and easy, hold our breath and keep hands in our pockets. It feels almost like a covert operation or something. When the necessary store run isn't on the schedule, Steve and I have been doing our best to keep busy and keep boredom at distance. Of course there's TV and Netflix, we also started watching Game of Thrones again, even though we only just finished watching the entire series about a month ago. BUT! There's a good reason for that, other than being cooped up inside. It is a bit embarrassing, but wha...

So I've decided to start blogging regularly during our quarantine time. I'm starting slightly late because, honestly, I didn't think about it until yesterday. I'm also starting on day 6, but that's the amount of days Steve and I have been here together. Steve was furloughed from his job on Monday, because of the virus and the continuing shut downs. Before that, I was quarantined by myself for the most part. It was nerve-wracking during that time when Steve still had to go into work and be exposed. But he's home now, and we're hunkering down as we should and waiting it out. Luckily, Steve and I like being around each other. We're trying to stay busy and stick to routines. It has been easier for me than Steve, because I've been self-isolating in a way for months because he works so much. Although, it is different when you're just used to hanging around the house because that's what you do, as to not being able or advised against lea...