And how did that even happen?? I feel like yesterday it was the beginning of June and now it’s mid-August! How is that even possible?
I wish that I had some wise advice for this day — the 5th monthly anniversary of my stint at home. But I don’t. I have noticed that working from home has gotten a bit easier for me the past few months. I’m probably getting more done at home than I would be in the office.
But I’m also not taking a ton of time for myself — I repeatedly find myself working through my lunch break. I quickly stuff a sandwich in my face while reading e-mail instead of taking a walk to clear my head. That’s never a good look or a good thing. And I’m reading less for fun because I’m not commuting anymore. My daily step count has taken a severe plunge these months at home — I used to do 20,000 steps a workday, now I’m lucky if I make it to 10,000 a day.
But I’ve been doing a daily yoga practice first thing in the morning before work for the past 3 weeks, and that would just have never happened if I was going into the office every day. And I’ve been able to clean up a lot of my junk piles in my home “office” — I see them everyday now, it’s a constant reminder to clean my crap up. And my office plant is doing really well in my living room, I think he just needed some more natural light.
So see — there are silver linings to this pandemic. Now I’m not sure if I am ever going to start learning Italian or finally write my great American novel, but this is a start. Maybe it’s a slow start, but it’s a start at least. If being at home for 5 months has taught me one thing, it’s to be kinder and less judgmental of myself. We’re all doing the best that we can, right?
Notes from a Self Quarantine 