Amayzine

What I am going to do differently in this lockdown light

We may come home at ten o'clock,' I happily shouted to my friend this week. He burst out laughing. It does indeed sound like you're fourteen and finally managing to sneak in a later curfew on a weekday.

Tuesday felt a bit like doomsday. Shit was going to hit the fan, you just didn't know how much shit beforehand. At least, aside from all the leaking of course. I always wonder to what extent it is a premeditated plan that a draft version of the roadmap ends up with the press. Like a kind of thermometer that is inserted into the population, to see how we are going to react. I saw on Volkskrant in the live blog a journalist asking if ‘this point had already been reached’ at the press conference, because the journalist in question apparently had unstable wifi. Then you know they already know much more than the common people at home. But a partial lockdown then, which starts tonight at 10:00 PM sharp. I have decided to do things differently.

1. This time I will do some DIY
I painted a wall and varnished a beam, but considering the whole house still needs doing, two bedrooms is a meager score for an intelligent lockdown.

2. This time I won't eat my way through the lockdown
And what I eat must be at least an eight. No quesadillas from some company on Sunday afternoons, but at most once a week good courses from local entrepreneurs.

3. This time I will drink less wine
Because I am participating in sober October, so drinking was not an option anyway. By the way, I am participating again because of the previous lockdown, so circles need to be broken.

4. This time I will take a walk every day after lunch
It seems that office workers have gone from five hours sitting on their behinds per day to eight hours. Never knew I normally walk so much to the coffee machine. A little walk can't hurt.

5. This time I will take a Greek course
I can't explain to you how annoying I found the quarantine people who followed three studies at the same time in the evenings, while I was finishing all the new seasons on Netflix.

6. This time I will exercise
Because that also failed miserably during the previous one.

7. This time we won't hoard
It feels like yesterday that I let two people in their eighties take the last zucchini from the vegetable section or that people with expensive napkins had to head to the toilet because there was no roll to be found. Long sentence in short: no hoarding.

I'll talk to you again in a few weeks. Probably with a quesadilla in one hand and a glass of wine in the other. Let me get to know myself.