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Happy Quarannviersary! One year ago today, the managing partner of my office gathered everyone in a conference room and told us that we would be working from home for the next two weeks while we ride out the pandemic. \u00a0ha ha ha ha TWO WEEKS! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha<\/em><\/p>\n Two weeks turned into two months and two months has dragged on to a year. \u00a0Over the past year people have been singing the praises of our doctors and nurses working tirelessly to save lives and the essential workers like the grocery store employees who risk their lives everyday so that idiots without masks can grocery shop. \u00a0They ARE America’s heroes. \u00a0They deserve all the praise and hazard pay.<\/p>\n But on this anniversary that I never want to celebrate again, I’d like to honor the true hero in my life – my couch. \u00a0I’ve spent a year on my couch. \u00a0It has been my office, a restaurant, a movie theatre, my best friend. \u00a0 I drink my morning coffee on it while I read all of the emails I will eventually fail to respond to. \u00a0I’m on the couch when I reluctantly log on to work and I’ll stay there until my laptop threatens to shut down because the battery’s drained. \u00a0I eat my lunch and take my lunch time nap on it every day. \u00a0In the evenings, I sit on the left side to eat dinner and watch TV. \u00a0I sit on the right side to drink wine and scroll through social media and text with friends or read a book.<\/p>\n I’m especially attached to it on the weekends. \u00a0With nothing to do and nowhere to go, I like cry from frustration\/boredom\/loneliness and then take a long afternoon nap just to pass the time. \u00a0Which side I cry\/sleep on depends on where the cats are. \u00a0I do my best to contort my body around them so they can sleep in peace.<\/p>\n My abused and suffering couch is wine-stained, coffee-stained, tear-stained, chocolate stained (and yes, it’s chocolate – I sat on a rogue chocolate chip), shredded by a kitten who doesn’t give two fluffs that I don’t want her to scratch it, and sagging from having to support my ever increasing pandemic weight gain.<\/p>\n I haven’t decided what I’ll do with it after the panny ends. \u00a0I probably should put it out of its misery and send it off to couch heaven, but I’m not sure I’m that selfless. \u00a0Do I really want to have to get to know another couch while I reacquaint myself with my friends, family and co-workers?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Quarannviersary! 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