My birthday is coming up and I still haven’t bought anything for my wife. I know, I know, I suck! But how do you celebrate an entire year living with Coronavirus?
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I think inviting friends to a party is not a good idea.
Should I give my wife a mask? Sweatshirt? Bleach?
Do you believe that we all live in a pandemic for an entire year? That’s right, just 12 months ago we used to do strange things with friends like shaking hands, or hugging, or meeting them for dinner without fear of causing the death of people.
Just a year. It’s amazing how the weather really no fly from.
It may have been an exhausting 12 months, but I would like to focus on the positive for a moment.
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Okay, enough of that.
No, really, the last 12 months have been interesting, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I learned a few things:
- I found that cooking for my family every night for the past year has resulted in me still not being a good cook.
- I found that if I don’t eat a huge block of cheese and drink half a bottle of bourbon at midnight, I won’t wake up feeling awful the next morning. I think I have to keep discovering that lesson.
- I’ve found that delivering groceries online takes more time than actually buying them in person.
- I learned that using text chat is the most efficient way to annoy someone.
- And finally, and most importantly, after spending almost every moment of every day of the past 12 months with my five children, I learned that I am no longer afraid of that Harry Chapin song, “Cat’s in the Cradle”:
“When are you coming home, dad?”
“I do not know when
But let’s meet then
You know you’re going to have fun, then. ”
Happy birthday to all!
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