Ok, here we are, many weeks into the social restrictions due to Covid 19. April 2020.

Sooooo …

What the heck, let’s just relax.
Why am I so bored?
Why can’t I find motivation?

What is this new show?
I’m wasting my life…
Ok, I need to get back to work.
Ok, I need to connect with my friends and family.
I’m capable, I can find something to make my life worthwhile!
How can I do that?
There are no problems, just challenges.
Challenges make our brains look for solutions.
We, as humans, are resilient and spectacular.

Still sitting on the couch.

At the risk of being stereotypical, there are 2 types of Lists. A ‘Honey Do’ list and an ‘I Need To Do List’.

Both are usually compiled by the same person in the relationship.

Not sure where you fit, but you know who you are.

I’m sure that both are on paper, perhaps stuck on your fridge, and they have their edges yellowing from age …

Crap.

Why do we do this?

That said, what else are you doing?? (and, on that note, what am I doing that I am not taking care of my list??)

Especially now.

• We can do this

I think that I need to STEP UP!

Unfortunately for my Spouse, I have also determined that now he has to STEP UP – and bring me along with him. I need some help.

To be fair, I am trying to suck some energy from him…

Wow, what a challenging time for people spending so much time together.

What he and I have figured out is that this is the time to Acknowledge when one of us does something (really, anything) in this time of Blah.

It has become a bit humorous.

Did you accomplish something on the ‘List’?

Even less so.

Did you empty the dishwasher?

Did you take out the garbage?

Did you get dressed on the bottom as well as the top?

(The bar is a bit low right now.)

We have decided to make this fun.

Why the heck not?

What that means for us is that if either of us accomplishes even the smallest item on the list, or even to be more realistic, something like taking out the garbage in this un-motivated time, we go:

TA DA!

Ensure that you make it Epic with arms Akimbo and Excitement in your expression! Jump up and down! Insist that your Other immediately attend to praise you for your accomplishment! Go over, at length, every detail of how this wondrous thing happened and point out even the most minute detail.

Take your TA DA when you do something. Give the TA DA when they do something too.

Enjoy the moments.

That is what we have right now.

Love each other. Have patience. Have humour.