2021, bonus post: My Life in Quarantine

 Hi, friends. Welcome to a bonus blog!

So, February 13th-22nd my roommates and I were in quarantine, since one of us tested positive for COVID. All of us work in person and normally we only really see each other on the weekends, so it was strange to be home together 24/7. Well, aside from school here are some of the things we did to stay busy, and not go crazy. (Spoiler: eventually we all went crazy haha)

• YouTube videos
• Social media
• Sewing. One of the roommates made a quilt.
• We used the leftover fabric to make rice packs.
• Webinars
• Cleaned, sanitized, organized.
• Freelance writing and advertising.
• Binged TV, movies.
• Read.
• Colored.
• Painted.
• Hugged our squishmallows.
• Hammocked (on the balcony).
• Wrote.
• Enjoyed sunsets.
• Drank hot chocolate.
• Baked.
• Cooked.
• Attended virtual events.
• Worked on creative projects.
• Networked.
• Applied for jobs.
• Mapped out 5 year goals.
• Took care of our plant babies.
• Online shopping.
• Tidied up Pinterest boards.
• Sent and received 5,356,744,756 memes, videos, etc. to each other! And friends and family!
• Cried.
• Laughed.
• Bought flowers.
• Dried flowers.
• Dreamt about moving (because by the end of the summer we'll all be moving out of this apartment; some are moving to other cities, others just moving to a different apartment).
• Complained about boys (we were quarantined for Valentine's Day)
• Ate chocolate.
• Complained that we couldn't go buy all the discounted Valentine's chocolate.
• Musicals.
• Natural disaster movies.
• Did you know that from 2016-2019 there were loads of movies made about epidemics and pandemics and how that would alter our lives?
• Celebrated a birthday.
• Prayed - especially for Texas.
• Revamped Amazon wish list.
• Made an Amazon wish list for graduation/birthday/housewarming/Christmas presents https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/5FNIEQBPTUN0?ref_=wl_share
• Talked with the fam about summer plans.
• Obsessed over animal photos and videos.

And then a day or so after quarantine ended I got an ear infection. I'm just having no luck haha

Love,

D. J. Lathrop

What have you done in quarantine/self-isolation?