#8
Yep. #8 IS Jacki, we har-de-har-har laugh because it’s spot-on true, it’s my anthem.
You over there.
Me over here.
We can text or talk on the phone, we can zoom or we can stand VERY far apart, if you insist on actually, real-time seeing my face, but I’d rather you not come inside or enter into my space. So, yeah, I guess it’s best if you just don’t come around here no more, ok ??!??
& ok, Family, I’ll admit, I’ve been kinda sorta an over-the-top freak about this beast dubbed Corona but we all know, I have my reasons (June 24th). But I also wholeheartedly agree, ours, was indeed, THE house !! The drop by, go-to, come on in any ol’ time house and it’s surreal how this pandemic has impacted Husband’s and my thoughts and actions, our FUN
But you wanna know a secret ?? My biggest concern throughout these Wear a Mask days has always and simply been YOU with a what if ?? the MINUTE I let my guard down, BAM. It enters and it hurts YOU. Because I just couldn’t live with myself if I handed this beast to YOU. So locked down and hidden, I remain, determinedly stubborn, I stay Under My Sidewalk.
Dr. Robert Murphy, is his name. He’s a Professor of Infectious Disease at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and he is the lone voice I listen to, the only advice I heed when it comes to Covid-19. I see his comforting smile every Monday-Friday morning on my local news (WGN) He answers my questions, he quiets my doubts and it is he I’ll wholeheartedly believe the coast is clear ! when, if fact, the coast is really, truly, honest to goodness, clear.
But, Dr Murphy also tells me, if I’m careful, if I’m outside, if I keep my distance and wear that mask, if I use my brain and a touch of common sense … together can be cautiously accomplished.
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So, today, we will do just that as a few of my peeps and I will gather (after S I X L O N G months of NOT gathering) in my pretty good sized, backyard and Sis expressed our sentiments best when she happily exclaimed
cause yep, I’ve missed you guys toooooo.
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And although we cannot BIG HUG or squoosh together for a group selfie
or huddle sidebysidebyside to catch up and reminiscence, we’ll be HERE as we allow normal to slow and steadily, timidly and turtle-like find it’s way back into our lives
& YaY, #8 !!
They’ll alllllll be coming around here more
! and more !
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