When will it be time to stop Pandemic Complaints? In one sense of the word, perhaps soon-ish. Maybe by spring. In another sense, though, will we ever be done complaining about Pandemic? I read somewhere (probably Twitter…somewhere dumb, suffice to say) that future generations will regard us the way we regard grandparents who lived through The Great Depression. I don’t know how…accurate that is but it will certainly always be there, like a burn mark in a tree trunk: covered over but still scarred.
My husband told me yesterday that one of his coworkers started talking in earnest about returning to the office and it made him feel panicky. All the vaccine news has forced people to sort of shake off the last ten months and contemplate a time when things might be, if not normal, at least more normal than they have been. My husband may not want to go back to his office but what I wouldn’t give to be rolling my eyes at some know-it-all at the wine bar on a Friday night.
It snowed all day on Tuesday. When I measured the snow on our deck in the early evening, it was 14 inches deep; it kept snowing until sometime after we’d gone to bed. The dogs were very overdramatic about it, the little one in particular isn’t used to it and I felt like I spent half my day being encouraging-but-insistent about going to the bathroom outside, please. (She complied but it was arduous.) At one point, I came out of the garage with the snow shovel and when the bigger one started barking at me I shouted IT’S ME YOU DUMB IDIOT which I’m sure did a lot for my personal standing as an animal lover to any neighbors that might have heard. Blame it on Pandemic!
In a few weeks, it will be a year since we brought the little dog home. It has really been difficult. I am glad she is grown up now (and medicated) even if she is still Very Problematic™ at times. In the last couple of days, she has shown some real progress toward being semi-normal and I’m glad to see it. Also! Just today I ordered Christmas-themed fleeces for both of the dogs and yes we are going to get their pictures taken with Santa, so rest assured I’m still very much That Person.