La Quarantena, Day Uno

As you probably already know, the word 'quarantine' has its origins in Venetian dialect, and relates to the forty days of isolation ships and people had to observe during the plague.  Like so many of the best words: la catastrophe and la peste in French; as well as 'bowel cancer' in Hungarian; la quarantena is feminine.

So here we are trying desperately to flatten the curve and avoid killing the elderly.  I'm game. I am however a bit nervous giving up so much of what I love. Thomas said Javier had to stay home and no mariachi bands have masks that fit over the trumpets; so we are on our own.  I overheard one man saying that when the kids came home from college, he was going to take them camping and tell them that "he and mommy were now taking edibles" but he would appreciate no judgement.

It is rather interesting how T is reacting to our diminished circumstances. If you think about it, a quarantine is a once in a life time dream for introverts- like burning man if burning man came once a century.  While I am having all this anxiety about being separated from humans- counting on my fingers all the things I cannot do: group exercise, and acupuncture and eating in a restaurant and kissing, Thomas is pretending to be the face of sad stoicism; but he is psyched. He actually said he was "really looking forward to being alone with me for three weeks". LOL!! Do we not spend enough time together already? (I am laughing as I write this).  He still gets everything he loves- me, exercise and unlimited Bloomberg charts. Throw in a few saunas and TV in the middle of the day, and you can see why he hopes this goes on forever.

Before this started, I called Amy and said she needed to get over here because I haven't seen them in so long. I proposed that we sit outside where we would be safe from germs, and said I would finally buy a fire pit (you all know my obsession with wood fires). And then slam...we get shut down. So I told Thomas that either he bought one or I would, and he would not be happy with my choice.  So he researches, and of course the best ones are in Italy, and in about four quarantenas, it should arrive.

But feast your eyes on the one we chose above. When this nightmare is over, believe me- we shall burn all the wood we want, and we will dance around the fire like the pagan goddesses we are.
You have my word.

NEW SEGMENT!
Most amusing things heard during Ellie's quarantine.

KMH brief but distinct loss of language when I told her Gladys would have to go home too.
KMH trying to think of something fun to do that was allowed, and came up with the idea of going to the dentist.
Brooke C telling her father when he came home from Australia that "she had Coronavirus and it did not look good." Before her sister said "Ahh we are going to need to confirm that."
F landed his little research project with the astro physicist in dad socks, and was told by said physicist that he should get comfortable with "spherical harmonics". Thomas has never heard of it, so we are in weird waters now honey.