Continuing the Trudge
My mom has always worried about my lack of ability when it comes to cooking, but I quickly learned that I am a fairly good cook, however with my brain-type I am finally able to acknowledge that cooking is something that I do not enjoy doing. I feel that it is a huge time waster for me. I appreciate that there are many people out there who enjoy spending hours on meal preparation, not me, I start to resent anything that takes more than fifteen minutes.
In the beginning of the quarantine my roommate and I used to alternate and take turns preparing dinner. On this occasion I made tacos. Not to toot my own horn, but they were delicious.
This is a photo of my roommate Lilly and I as we ate the elaborate taco feast that I prepared. Now you might be saying to yourself "Huh, I wonder how these photos are being taken, do they have some sort of in house photographer?" The answer is "Of course not!" Since my landlord Kurt is a musician and randomly a music stand was left behind which we extensively use as a tripod. We also set the camera on time release. It's quite an intense system that I feel over time we have perfected.
I have found that the Quarantine has served as a perfect time to accomplish cleaning projects. For this photo, first of all it's important to enjoy my outfit and notice that I am wearing heels. I try to treat everything as if it was capable of producing a wonderful opportunity, and cleaning is no exception.
True to Michelle Risse form I have created a tool inventory list that I have taped to the cupboard door. Cleaning is an essential part of my happiness, without a clean environment there is no way for my creativity to be released. My ex. called me OCD but I don't know about that, I just require pleasant surroundings.
If I were to attribute anything with staying sane during the Quarantine, it would have to be working out. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Lilly and I were quite committed to "Buns of Steel," which thankfully had been posted to YouTube giving us the ability to chrome cast it on our large living room TV. Bunz (as we liked to refer to it as), was always a challenge, but something that we thoroughly enjoyed and always looked forward to.
Throughout the day I like to go to "my office" which is kind of a joke because I have one room for sleeping, writing, and housing all of my possessions, but one day I'm sure that I will have my very own office. At the time this picture was taken, I was working on a series of extensive edits for my two books and I was using books like Amy Schumer's as exemplars to provide me with the format for professionally published books.
Even though life wasn't that different for me, I found it difficult to now hear that I wasn't able to go anywhere and was forced to spend time indoors due to a nationwide pandemic. I must admit that initially I was petrified and placed the border on my facebook profile "Stay Safe and Stay Home," but eventually I became crippled by fear and figured out that exercising caution could be a way for me to re-enter civilization safely.
