Welcome to the new weekend! A weekend devoid of brunch, leisure shopping, beach trips, Disney days, or anything that includes getting closer than 6 feet to another human that doesn’t live in your home.

Our new, inside out, upside down, normal.

On our first quarantine weekend we slept in, went to a quarantine gathering of exactly 10 people in our neighborhood that I know we shouldn’t have gone to, ordered more food on UberEATS than all the other weekends UberEATS has existed combined, and repotted some plants.

It was hard.

On Friday morning I was all TGIF, and then while I was eating lunch I realized that our weekend plans were canceled, restaurants were closed or take out/delivery only, and we’re not supposed to be around people. And it all became so much more real. This is going to be the new normal. My extroverted, outing loving nightmare. I made some water beads to give me something to play with. They are really fun and pretty.

On Saturday, we slept in and then went to a friend’s house in our neighborhood, even though we know we shouldn’t have. We sang along to music from middle and high school, ate some hamburgers and hot dogs, sat outside enjoying a warm day on a covered and screened patio where the sun and bugs couldn’t get us, and put our feet in the pool when we got a little too hot. We made jokes about working from home and people hoarding toilet paper and vowed to share supplies when one of us finds them. I am going to miss that kind of shit so much. I LOVE people. I want to smile at their stupid faces and say hi to them and talk to them and hug them and hang out with them. So staying home and not seeing my friends or family that I usually see all the damn time is rough. I’m sorry I went to a party, it won’t happen again.

On Sunday we were much more responsible. I noticed a couple of my favorite local coffee shops and restaurants had to make the hard decision to close their doors until further notice. So I decided while we could still support local businesses by ordering through UberEATS we would. I ordered coffee from Donut Central and Fuelspresso, Donuts from Donut King, brunch (let’s be honest it was breakfast for lunch) from Maple Street Biscuit Company, and ice cream from Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream. We are saving the ice cream for later, but I definitely had four lattes (2 hot and 2 iced in case you were wondering) and two donuts all on Sunday.

Eating is not all we did though, we also cleaned up a little, tried to make the Shit Room a little nicer for Christopher to work in, and repotted from plants.

A lot of these plants I’ve had for a while and they just needed new or bigger pots, but a couple of them were newer and I just wanted to put them in something prettier than the pot they came in.

We played a couple games of Sequence and neither of us even threatened divorce, so that was better than usual.

Overall we are hanging in so far. We got home from Seattle on the 15th, so we’ve only been home (mostly) self isolating for one week. Thankfully, both of us are able to work from home, so our weekdays don’t feel all that different, wake up, make coffee, work, dinner, chores, tv, bed, not much different there.

The weekends are where I think we will struggle. I started a list of things we can do over the weekends while we are home, and we’re checking in with each other to make sure Christopher is getting enough alone time and I’m getting enough together time.

I know that we are lucky to be able to stay home and do our jobs remotely and I cannot thank the people still out there working to make life happen enough. If you are still out there working in a grocery store, hospital, Target/Walmart/Costco type store, gas station, restaurant, or driving delivery, a semi truck full of supplies, or manning public transportation, or protecting people via Law Enforcement, emergency management, or fire services, or literally any one showing up to work, you’re a fucking badass. THANK YOU.

If you are home, know that you are not alone, we’re in this together. Share how you are making quarantine a little more fun in the comments below.