20 remarkable things that make you know that the insulation craze affects you too

On a walk of one and a half meters distance and the exchange of our guest dog, I see no one. And when you are explaining over the phone how your friend is running to a container because the organic waste bag is starting to tear, you know you have also caught a slight form of isolation madness.

1. Work from home day 18: I actually got dressed. The fact that I dare to write this says enough.

2. But give me three more weeks like this and I honestly won't remember how mascara works.

3. The only challenge I can manage decently is to wash my hair as little as possible.

4. Going to the supermarket is the highlight of the week, and when you hit a quiet moment, it feels like pure victory.

5. I told someone on the phone yesterday in detail that my friend had to run to the trash can because the organic waste bag would tear otherwise. In the category: you don't experience anything anymore.

6. You shower at very random moments. I've completely appropriated lunchtime as new shower time.

7. Our bedroom is in the paint and tomorrow we are going to latex everything. This quarantine is only really successful if you've painted at least one wall in the house.

8. You get worked up about people who just step into the car shoulder to shoulder because: one and a half meters, only to find out later that they live together.  

9. Whether you walk or puzzle, and if you do both, then early old age has officially begun. I don't know if you'll ever get out of this, maybe we go in a straight line from millennial to elderly. By the way, I walk, but I have certainly thought about puzzling too.

10. I suddenly also discover quarantine types. You have Team Topfit, these sneaky ones will come out of isolation as the healthier version of themselves. You also have Team Too Bad But Unfortunately, who still pour a glass every evening and only gain quarantine pounds. You can guess three times which team I signed up for.

11. You can no longer come up with a decent excuse to anyone because you don't have to go anywhere and you're not busy. While this was really your go-to excuse, so what now?

12. I've never heard so many people with children say that they now remember why they work. Work turns out to be just the daycare for adults.

13. Bol.com actually delivered my package the next day, and I thought we were back in prehistoric times where there would be a quarantine delay of a week on my order. I now see the PostNL delivery person as my inner circle, I see them more often than my own family. 

14. You now officially know that you're not too busy to cook for yourself but that you're just too lazy to do it. Although you can now safely hide behind #supportyourlocals.

15. Voice messaging on WhatsApp is a lifesaver because texting sometimes just isn't enough, but calling takes so endlessly long because you have to go through the whole spiel of hello-how-are-you.

16. You call family and friends to let them know you're thinking of them, but today you've actually experienced even less than yesterday. So what to come up with now? 

17. Two days ago, I told my new neighbor, whom I don't know and who has lived here for a hundred years, what time is best to go grocery shopping at Jumbo in the village. In hindsight, this felt almost inappropriate.

18.  I tell like some kind of evangelist that people should watch ‘Life Air’ from Jessica Villerius desperation, you hear. In the hope that they then understand why you (big fat curse) have to stay inside.

19. This morning I realized while walking that I can also just grill tomatoes as a snack instead of diving into chips. Then you officially have quite a bit of time on your hands.

20.  And when you come out of quarantine and haven't delivered any superhuman performance like writing your own King Lear, then your isolation was actually for nothing. So I'm still pondering that.

Honestly, you know you've really got the isolation madness when your number one irritation is hearing yourself talk in a video call.

But if this is all there is, then we're still doing steady.