I had a roommate that was all about emergency preparedness. We both are members of the Church of Jesus Chris of Latter Day Saints which is big on emergency preparedness. Having lived with her helped me develop habits of having essential items on hand. This habit proved to be such a blessing last year, and this year as I was unemployed/underemployed for most of 2019.
After accepting a full time job offer in mid February, I started a plan to restock and purchase every day items that in some cases I had not purchased in a year. So I was down on toothpaste and that was one of the items I restocked on immediately, than I did paper towels, and suddenly I kept thinking you need toilet paper and while I had the money I kept thinking just wait until your next paycheck. Guess what the 2020 TP shortage occurred and I was down to three rolls - I am happy to say I have a pack and 3 rolls left as I found some one day. I do have to say my frozen stash of Trader Joe's grilled asparagus is getting low and that makes me sad. The canned goods I had underneath my bed are now completely gone - good thing because they were dusty. I now have just the food in my pantry and freezer.
As part of my training I also learned that being alone doesn't mean loneliness it can also mean solitude. So I focused to look at my time alone as solitude. I enjoy being alone and focus on enjoying the peace and quiet I had a friend in San Diego who did not like being alone and I remember once her calling me asking me if she could come over. It was in that moment that I was grateful for being comfortable being alone. I will say this I have enjoyed the peace and quietness but I am starting to get restless. I miss my weekend routine, specifically my Sundays.
I am also learning that I can do more than I think I can in a kitchen. I have developed my cooking skills the past few years but the last few weeks even more so as I learned to make scrambled eggs!!! Yes, that is right, I didn't know how to make scramble eggs. Mainly because I have a high standard for scrambled eggs and not many people can meet that standard so how could I a novice cook meet my high standards. I did - or maybe I lowered them for my cooking skills.
So yes, being single has prepared me for this period of time of Stay at Home Orders. Yet my extrovert party girl is starting to miss the social life which will return one day soon. Full disclosure because I work in a hospital I apparently am considered essential staff so I do go to work and then I come back home and go in full mode isolation. The weekends are hard because when you are up at 7AM and you do all you can think of doing you look at the clock and guess what, I still have seven more hours to go before I can crawl in bed. I miss my friends, I miss going out to dinner or to their homes to play games, I miss my church friends and the discussions.
But I will follow the stay home orders so that soon we can all be healthy and together soon.
