Take Out, Kitchen Safety & Family Sanity, 3/17/20
Wow. I’ve been walking around like a zombie for a week now. But it’s time to snap out of it, because THIS, staying home with a freezer full of food and an extremely limited supply of toilet paper and hand sanitizer, is the new normal. Every time I try to get my head around the fact that BOTH my businesses are curtailed at least for the short term, I start panicking. How to pay my employees, bills, overhead? And why am I panicking over that vs. the reality that my family, friends, even I could become ill or worse?
For lots of us, it’s easier to deal with the almost-worst-case-scenario than the absolute-worst-case-scenario. Like you, I’ve been glued to every trickle of news and every new case in Connecticut. Now that I’ve mired myself in gloom and doom for a few weeks, it’s time to snap out of it. Watching CNN twenty-four hours a day is making things worse. (Although I have a total crush on Sanjay Gupta, don’t you??) THIS IS LIFE.
We can pass the time at home in any number of ways, thanks to Netflix, Kindles, face-time, webinars, and board games. I function best with a schedule. Mine includes jumping on my elliptical, working for a few hours, taking the dog for a walk, working some more, mastering something on Skillshare (www.skillshare.com), and trying a new recipe for dinner. Maybe it’s time to finally learn Photoshop. Or even return to the book I started to write twelve years ago. This is a new normal I can get my mind around.
Many of us are so fortunate to have a comfortable home and a well-stocked fridge. I’d like to help feed folks in our community that will suffer from the temporary closing of the Shoreline Soup Kitchen meal sites. The Soup Kitchen is still supplying groceries to families in need through their pantries, so it is a perfect time to help. Click here to donate.
We will continue to write The E List, although much of the stuff we keep you up to date with is closed or canceled. If you have important news that will affect our community (our subscribers live mainly from Branford to Stonington), please send it to me (erica@theelist.com) and I will help spread the word.
Let’s all stay home unless it’s an emergency. Flatten the curve. Stay safe and healthy.
Love,
Erica
Erica
