Day 3 of the Corona Quarantine

As noted in my previous post, we are entering some unchartered territory with what has basically amounted to a quarantine in the Rita/McC household that is simply not used to all this time together.  Here are some random observations about how this quarantine is playing out:

• Quarantined Rita is Busy Rita.  When Rita has to concentrate her talents within these four walls, things are going to get legit.  And I don’t mean she might paint the bathroom.  I mean she’s always wanted to flip the locations of the stove and the sink.  She is one instructional YouTube video away from replumbing the house. 
  On the other hand, McC may have been under quarantine since 2016, its hard to tell.  I feel like the rest of the world is catching up to the beauty that is 12 hours a day in front of your computer followed by some rigorous TV watching. 
  
  I do have to say….it is very difficult to complete a house remodel around my resting ass.  And that has not gone unnoticed. 
  
• Will someone please define elderly?   Does COVID realize that age is just a number?  If you are old enough to have watched the Golden Girls but too young to currently be on the Golden Girls, where do you fall on the elderly spectrum? 
  
• One thing this particular pandemic has made clear is how very often I touch my face.  Holy shit.  More often than I touch my phone.  50 years of nail biting ain't gonna stop on a dime.  And I have figured out that my very favorite thoughtful repose is the professorial-looking gesture that involves the index-finger alongside of face, hand resting under nose.  Years of trying to look smart and now I just look like Typhoid Mary.  
  
• As we pondered weeks and weeks without any live interactions, we thought about who might be safe to invite over to the house. You all failed. But judging by the lack of inbound invitations, we haven’t exactly passed any tests either. 
  
• I now have thousands of dollars of Southwest flight credits resulting from all my cancellations. I fear these may turn out to be the modern day equivalent of Confederacy currency after the war.  All post-COVID flights will be on Trump Airlines. 

I am hoping it remains fashionable to laugh at ourselves even as we all get tired of this social distancing business.  And that last comment is mostly directed at Rita since I am bringing precious little else to this Corona party!