A New Normal? Life INSIDE the washing basket - PART 1

Well - life has certainly thrown a lot of change at me since last I blogged.  Some of that I will save for a different blog posting, as it's too BIG for a quick update thing.

I guess some of this stuff is BIG too, as in global-big.  You'd have to have been sleeping under a bush for over a month not to have heard about the global corona-virus pandemic.  With that pandemic comes a requirement for at least a temporary 'new normal', as the country is on lock-down, only allowing us out of our homes to shop for essentials, exercise once a day or travel to work (but only where we can't work from home).  Businesses and shops and pubs and restaurants and, well, most of everything normal, are shut.  I'm not going to describe it all here, I'm learning to deal with my own anxieties about it as I go along, and might expand on those in later postings when I can figure out my own head enough to write about it for others.

So the upshot is that work has moved to the computer room, shortening my daily commute from 3 hours 20 minutes to approximately 20 seconds.

But how to maintain that other, perhaps most important part of 'normal'?  By that I mean work and social interaction with humans outside our own home... and the answer is largely, of course, technology.  Work meetings take place on Slack or Skype, with occasional telekits where we need masses of people to hear the same message together.  Church has been substituted with viewing Mass over live stream on YouTube.  WW meetings have been (ironically) easier to get to, with many available online workshops after I've finished work for the day.  And craft night with my BFF, which we'd struggled to co-ordinate for a couple of months, what with school meetings and other outside social engagements, has been resurrected using Skype.  As we're in a different space in my friend's home, free from the television to distract us, we talk more, and we've definitely stitched more at the same time than we've done in quite some time.  In fact, that's led us to a mini-project that we plan to work on during our lock-down craft nights, and we will share progress on our blogs together - seems only fitting when the technology is part of the story.  More on that in the next blog post though....