This is a bank holiday weekend, a long weekend, but will anyone notice? Or remember to put their bins out now for pick up on Saturday because the Monday is the bank holiday. …
Today is May Day. We’re suppose to be celebrating fertility, and blossoming flowers, fruits, dancing around a pole with colourful ribbons and stuff… But we’re not for obvious reasons … Not that we would otherwise … A bit sad that we’ve all seem to have forgotten this. Maybe because we were to busy to make time for it. … Now we have the time, but what are we doing? …
I went into town. Mr Bells was open in the Market, after a 6wk close down. That where I get my refills on rice, beans, quinoa, etc… I can buy bulk there, and my stocks were running low. Got some mince (ground beef) from the Boyling Twins at Best Meats in the Market as well. Also got caught in the rain on the way down, and again on the way back …
The rest of the day and night, I spent trying not to strangle the boyfriend. It wasn’t that he was being mean, or grumpy, or purposely annoying. He was just bored. Being that he burned through Facebook, & YouTube on my computer … Oh yeah … His computer is down. The cable needs replacing. A new one will come in … UGH… A week and a half … My computer doesn’t have his accounts with Spotify and different streaming channels. All his passwords are saved on his computer, and would be more difficult than it is worth to log in to his accounts from my computer. I don’t have flash player on mine so he can’t see most of what he wants to watch … So he is limited to Facebook and YouTube … I guess he can check his email … Back to what I was saying earlier, being that he burned through Facebook & YouTube, now all of a sudden he’s looking to me for entertainment, when all I want to do is flick lint off my shirt in silence.
I know that if I snapped at him or yelled at him, or strangled him it wouldn’t be fair, it’s just the situation that the world is in right now. Normally on a Friday he’d be out and about. He’ll have his lunch in town, meet up with a friend for a chat in a coffee shop. He’d come home for dinner, but I would leave shortly after for band rehearsal, by the time I get home he would be watching the Late Late Show on his own computer, where I can either watch with him, or go off on my own and watch my own shows or do my own things.
Seeing that we are not doing things apart from each other, we don’t have anything new to talk about except this damn virus and even there the stories are repeating of what he said or what she said. … Talking for the sake of talking … It’s like junk food, you eat it, gobble it up, and at the moment you’re thinking it’s great, but 10 min later you forgot you ever had it. How many times did I say today, “Yes, you’ve told me that already.” or “You’ve asked me that already” … It’s a classic situation that once again proves, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I understand that for most people, going a whole day in the same house with another person, particularly a partner of some kind, and not saying a word to each other, is odd and is a sign of a troubled relationship. But for me … scheesh … I wouldn’t think anything of it or love him any less. I feel that not only do we all need physical space between us from time to time, but we all need mental space as well. … Don’t know if I’m making any sense or how I can explain it … I don’t know if I want to take the time to explain it, because I’m tired right now, and I trust that if you are reading this that you are all smart enough to know what I’m talking about, and it would be mildly insulting if I rambled on explaining something you already know about… I’m beginning to babble …
So, Leo announce that the restrictions will stay in place with a couple of acceptions. People will be about to travel up to 5km from their homes instead of 2km. And people who are cocooning will be allowed to go outside for exercise as long as they don’t interact with people. The rest will stay in place until 18 May. They will see how we’re all doing to see if we can go to phase 2 of a 5 tier process.
I won’t be able to open my school up on the 19 May, and will need to think of how I can move some of my classes on line. I may not be able to open my school until September. which would mean that I would have to practically start from scratch … again…
There are now 20833 confirmed cases and 1265 deaths in Ireland
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