June | 2020 | OUR LIFE IN 3D

29 Jun 2020

Knee Deep

So raise your hand if you have done or thought of this….

…Walking into a bank with your Covid mask on and asking for money.

Right?

Now is about the only time you can walk into a bank, wearing a mask, and the bank not get excited.

So with losing my job, some dire family issues, Covid 19 and E-Learning, its been quite a year here. So with my attitude spiraling downward I followed the advice of my therapist and went to my doctor for….an anti depression prescription.

And with all the ugliness and oppression going on in the world today…

…I did not resist.

Now, had I not been on this medicine, I probably wouldn’t have told you that (let that logic marinate).

But since being on this medicine I dont mind telling you.

See? Its working!

I was not so depressed anymore and actually ride on the happy side.

A happy guy more or less.

After all, I was taking the course on Happiness too.

Now, a true story, this really happened…

A few weeks ago my pharmacist called to tell me they were out of this anti-depressant medicine(?) prescription and that it was on back order and may not be in in some time.

I guess lots of people are depressed these days.

So, after hearing this news from my pharmacist, I paused for a bit and then said sternly,

“You know, this doesn’t make me very happy!”

Another true story…

I was at the gym to work out some issues. The gym was unstaffed and on auto pilot, including the radio station playing a country music station (not my first pick).

So I just focused on my reps.

But then a song came on where the words of the song caught my ear (country music does have some great lyrics after all). It just summed up the way I felt, or would like to feel.

The words stuck in my head….

“.…my only worry in the world is……is the tide gonna reach my chair”

Yea, sounds like the perfect phrase for someone who just had their no-depression prescription increased!

.…my only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair

Soooo…I’m just going to take my Zoloft.

This year life tried to stop me but it sure didn’t

and now I’m gonna put the world away for a minute

Pretend I don’t live in it

Sunshine gonna wash my blues away

Had sweet love but I lost it

She got too close so I fought her
Now I’m lost in the world trying to find me a better way…

Wishing I was Knee-Deep in the water somewhere

Got the blue sky, breeze and it don’t seem fair
Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair

Sunrise there’s a fire in the sky
Never been so happy
Never felt so high
And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise

Wrote a note said “Be back in a minute”
Bought a boat and I sailed off in it
Don’t think anybody’s gonna miss me anyway.

Mind on a permanent vacation
The ocean is my only(?) medication
Wishing my condition ain’t ever gonna go away

‘Cause now I’m knee-deep in the water somewhere

Got the blue sky, breeze blowing wind through my hair
Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair

Sunrise there’s a fire in the sky
Never been so happy
Never felt so high
And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise

This champagne shore washing over me
It’s a sweet sweet life living by the salty sea

One day you could be as lost as me
Change your geography
Maybe you might be….

Knee-Deep in the water somewhere

Got the blue sky, breeze blowing wind through my hair
Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair…

Sunrise there’s a fire in the sky
Never been so happy
Never felt so high
And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise

Come on in the water’s nice
Find yourself a little slice

Grab a backpack and lawn chair
You never know until you try
When you lose yourself……
You find the key to paradise

(OK…I actually just finished mowing the lawn)

Lose yourself and find your paradise!

I hope you find your own little paradise this week or next weekend….

Thanks Zack Brown Band, with a Jimmy Buffett accompaniment!

Here’s hoping the tide never reaches your chair.

….an audio start to help you find a paradise ….

That’s it for now knuckleheads.

I’ll try to do a better job next time.

Stay safe, wear a mask, love someone.

Show someone some Gratitude.

It’ll make you Happy!

…..and get Knee Deep in it.

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12 Jun 2020

Time Capsule 2020: Covid Shelter-In-Place-Staycation 19

Note to future self….

If you are looking at this post at some time in the future, Congratulations. You DID survive Corona 19 (T-shirts coming), So, since we are still alive in the future, I wanted to show you a little time capsule on how you survived that Covid pandemic back in 2020 that everyone might still be talking about.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Some of the signs of sheltering in place were actually neighborhood stuffed bears-in-windows scavenger hunt and chalk paintings on sidewalks

Here was an amusing sign in an elevator on my way to my doctor. “Everybody grab a corner!”

And, of course, the schools were closed and the future of education, E-Learning took over..

it was OK though because I had just lost my job a month earlier due to a ‘company restructuring’ and so I had #%¿¡}¥Ω time to teach (eerrrr!)

DIVERSIONS

So we tried to think of Diversions help us cope with Sheltering.

Verizon is offering free Disney + for a year if you have their Unlimited Plan. Big plus! We love it. Lots of things to chose from like the Mandalorian, Runaways, and One Weird Rock.

Also, I heard about a well received Free course from Yale online on the Science of Well being. Actually its a Happiness course on the science of being happy.

And since we were all stuck inside and no where to go, and one of us out of work, and that same person forced to be an E Learning instructor (instead of bike and go to the gym), we thought it might be a good time to enroll.

We tried to sneak into a state park, and get out of our house, and stretch our legs on some trails.

Most state parks were closed in the beginning. So we wore disguises.

For a little glimpse of some Lowcountry scenery…

(Daddy made the running creek sounds again….)

But…..everyone was still getting bored with not much going on.

So we tried to get creative at home with some corn hole toss, left over croquet and anything else we could think of…

But the fun could still run out…

Tired of losing to Dad in Cornhole Toss

And then girls got really bored …

(poor Chumley)

SPOILED

But with you being home, I mean me being home and unemployment and severance pay kicking in, your girls got spoiled!

First ever banana split

And the fav from last year’s vacation, frozen Mocktails….

Its tough being stuck at home!

STATE PARKS OPEN UP….

….but not our beaches.

Some of the state parks opened the beginning of May so we took a day trip down to Beaufort, SC for my birthday. Its the prettiest beach I have seen here in the US. Its a State Park named Hunting Island…..and they filled to capacity by 11am.

the Boneyard

Then, Memorial Day weekend, we drove to a remote little beach town called Edisto Beach. We checked in the state park there as they have a little trail that leads to ‘shell island’.

We walked.

We picnicked.

We swam.

And the ocean felt amazing for being May!

So we were truly, if not unusually blessed during the pandemic of 2020.

I was being paid to stay at home; with my girls. Our home was a great place to shelter in place. We didn’t need to leave our home except for groceries. It felt like we were pretty sheltered from the novel virus. It couldn’t touch us.

REALITY HITS

Then, at the end of May, we got word that my 91 year old Dad, stuck in a nursing home, picked up Covid 19.

Back to earth we came.

But, through lots of prayers to the King of Heaven’s army, my Dad is holding on. Two days ago he was officially Covid symptom free, although he did contract pneumonia in a lung and has really lost his appetite. #covidsucks

So hold on Dad! We love you!