Another Day In Quarantine - Quarantine Day #43
april 25/2020
Quarantine has been boring, when I say boring I mean VERY boring. It has also made me realize I am such a loser? What i called fun pre-quarantine was that I enjoyed spending money (even if it was just $1, it made me feel happy... odd but that is what I have come to realize).
Also the reason today marks Quarantine Day #43 is because I have been basically at home since March 13, 2020 (which was the last day I was working from the office), I still recall that day actually, my manager was pretty much down-playing the whole COVID situation and I guess was saying that the reason we all get the option to work from home indefinitely is due to employee push-back on the whole going into the office, and it was “optional” and whoever wanted to work from home can do so as WHO had deemed COVID19 a global pandemic, but come that Sunday, he had individually contacted each employee on my team and advised someone from our office (this is a huge corporation mind you, and even has a large stake in the US) had gotten COVID as such everyone is expected to work from home for at least the coming 2 weeks, and now, here we are post 45 days later, we are still working from home.
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So what I have been doing to preoccupy my boredom....
1. Budgeting Videos - I recommend this if you genuinely are interested in learning how to budget. All of these budgeting videos on youtube have really made me “happy”, or at lease gave me a few hours to put my mind off of how bored I am. Some of the budgeting/savings youtube channels I have been binge watching are the following: Investing With Rose; Kyra Ann (I also love her videos on how aesthetically pleasing they are, and she is real and humble); Nate O’Brien (he’s only 21 - i think that’s what he said but he is in his early 20′s and such a smart guy, pretty sure he’s a millionaire but wow, kudos to him, and super inspirational) and Jenny Journals (she doesn’t really do budgeting videos but I love her creative artistic painting and really is inspiring me to open my own etsy shop... I am nowhere near as good as how artistic she is but hey maybe i can give it a try during this time)
2. Painting - I only have small and short bursts of urges and interest in painting but it has preoccupied me as it takes so long to set my painting station up and then cleaning everything up (mind you I bought a set of acrylic paints which I was super interested in painting last summer and i guess I didn’t properly clean my paint tray and now during this time around when i got all of my painting equipment out, i cleaned everything, which took me a long while to do, but hey I am not complaining since I do not have anything better to do anyways)
3. Cooking - make something fun, I would not recommend wasting food, but hey, this is a perfect time to experiment and see if you can really make your own recipes and make something delicious out of the concoctions of food you decide to try.
4. Watching Movies/TV Series - Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video are a few of the platforms i am currently binge watching shows and movies on. I can say i had finished 2 TV-series on Netflix just 2 weeks ago which I highly recommend you guys to try out they were called (The Burden of Truth and Outer Banks)
5. Chilling with my Pet - I have a dog, she’s the best and the fluffiest friend I can ever have. I personally get really sad and lonely being at home all the time, i KNOW some people who live alone do have it worse, do not get me wrong, but i do feel sad, and having my buddy with me really helps, she literally follows me everywhere and keeps me company will wait for me and i LOVE THAT having her around makes me less lazy as i HAVE TO take her or walks vs. just sitting on my lazy but doing nothing.
6. Meditating - the people upstairs (I currently rent a basement apartment) suck!!! SO INCONSIDERATE, honestly not sure if its due to their upbringing or their lack of consideration for the people around them but they speak sooo loudly (I will not make this into a rant but man oh man 1 of the tenants speak so loudly it’s painful, he is screaming, does he not know about a inside voice?), and the STOMPS, one of the just stomps like 15 football players and loves to drop shit on the ground, complete lack of consideration for people living with them. Also the 1 who stomps very loud and speaks excruciatingly loud ALSO is awake until 3 am, I will fall asleep and his damn stomping will wake me up. And being quarantined at home has really made the whole situation worse as we’re both at home and he is just ughhh cannot even write about it anymore because it makes me so frustrated. Also i DO WANT TO COMPLAIN but what is the point, I am moving out in about 6 days and I CANNOT WAIT !!!
Anyways signing off now
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