What was the moment you knew you'd broken during quarantine?
This post is inspired by a text I received from my sis Molly about 3 weeks into quarantine:
I've been laughing at the image of Dave carefully combing the stuffed animal's matted and tangled hair for several weeks now. Made me wonder about other people's breaking points : when you think "I am doing something I never in my life would have done if I hadn't been in quarantine for one billion days"
I've had several moments, but one that sticks with me is when I glanced in the mirror before I left the house and I saw not me, but Edward Scissorhands.
Raina lost it when she spent five hours putting up a trampoline and hurt her back on her first jump. Lost it again when her husband lost it and started blasting Alanis Morrisette. [See below]
Andy's Response to Raina's Breaking Point: First of all, I did not blast Alanis Morrisette. It was on a playlist created by Taylor Swift. Blame Tay Tay, not me.
So, I just lost it by being accused of playing Alanis by my spouse on a group thread.
Andy also lost it when he broke Oliver's violin string. Oli broke a string tuning and then the replacement string took 3 weeks to arrive because it was not essential. Then Andy immediately snapped the new one when trying to get it onto the violin. Will take 3 more weeks to get another. He still requires Oli to practice on a 3-string violin, "damnit, because [he's] seen those videos of Leo (aka Mozart)"
I've been laughing at the image of Dave carefully combing the stuffed animal's matted and tangled hair for several weeks now. Made me wonder about other people's breaking points : when you think "I am doing something I never in my life would have done if I hadn't been in quarantine for one billion days"
I've had several moments, but one that sticks with me is when I glanced in the mirror before I left the house and I saw not me, but Edward Scissorhands.
Bryn baked this incredible cake for her son Finn's stuffed animal Tigey's birthday.
Mika bought this virtual “friend” online for 7 month old Avery at 3am and received a full backstory on its life (with details that get added daily)
Avery looks dubious about the new friend.
Molly Graber looked down, saw her dessert in her hand and realized she'd lost it.
That's an Entenmann's donut and a Miller Lite.
Molly Greenwalt's was when the highlight of her week was ordering pizza and watching the NFL draft.
Raina lost it when she spent five hours putting up a trampoline and hurt her back on her first jump. Lost it again when her husband lost it and started blasting Alanis Morrisette. [See below]
Andy's Response to Raina's Breaking Point: First of all, I did not blast Alanis Morrisette. It was on a playlist created by Taylor Swift. Blame Tay Tay, not me.
So, I just lost it by being accused of playing Alanis by my spouse on a group thread.
Andy also lost it when he broke Oliver's violin string. Oli broke a string tuning and then the replacement string took 3 weeks to arrive because it was not essential. Then Andy immediately snapped the new one when trying to get it onto the violin. Will take 3 more weeks to get another. He still requires Oli to practice on a 3-string violin, "damnit, because [he's] seen those videos of Leo (aka Mozart)"
Tim looked down at his big toe nail, saw how it was actually deformed in shape towards the base of the nail, and thought, well, I’m not going to do a damn thing about that.
Ellen couldn’t think of the word 'potato'.
Cecilia found herself walking down the street with bunny ears, a ukele and a mug of wine singing songs on Easter Sunday.
Bridget got so excited that her 74 year old dad went to Safeway to get her yeast so she could keep up her newly acquired bread-making habit. She got two big bottles 2 days later in the mail and felt like she was the luckiest girl in the world.
Vanessa cried because her bread would not rise. (Turns out she was using baking powder instead of yeast) Also lost it when she decided that buying the Fifty Shades Of Grey trilogy, thus saving a buck, was a good idea. Final breaking point: when she came actually came down with the 19 and could no longer walk 15,000 steps per day. (Ed. note: Don't worry, all! She is feeling much better! And up to 5,000 steps a day)
Pat lost it when he threw out his back and couldn't summon the endorphins to care about life (or stains??) anymore.
I'll leave you with this beautiful story: the boys were being annoying AF last night at bedtime (Leo was egging Will on with little kicks and Will was responding by whining and whimpering) I stormed into the room and told Will to defend himself and he responded with a whine and then I advised him to "just punch Leo in the face" if he continued to kick him. Yes, I said that. "Expert in Restorative Practices" is listed on my resume, FYI. They both responded with silence, wide eyes and dropped jaws. Clearly freaked out by me and thinking: "What is Edward Scissorhands doing bursting into my room and promoting violence?!" Just one in a million little breaking points in the past 45 days. (Ed note: I acknowledged my behavior and apologized for my outburst today. Leo: I can't believe you wanted to see me bloody. All was forgiven on two gorgeous walks through our empty, dystopic city in the late afternoon golden hour.)
Even though basically all of my readers are the ones featured in this story, I want to hear other breaking points! Send them to me and I can add to the post or add to the comments if you please! Only a few kajillion more hours of uncertainty and close quarters, guys. We can make it!
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