My “New” Normal🦹🏻‍♀️ 🧛🏽‍♀️ 🐸 🐙 🤓 🤪

   It’s time for a new normal. It’s time to build a new “ normal” model. I woke up this morning and decided I’d pouted long enough. I think we all deserve a good pout, don’t get me wrong; a pout, an angry rant or two, a pity party for one, a moment of righteous indignation. Whatever it takes. But I am a woman and I’m strong and it’s time to get this show back on the road.

     I’m over the anger at hoarders. I’m over no toilet paper, no tissues and I’m Almost over NO Chicken! (Breathe, relax, ohmmm) Things at the grocery stores will find their new normal and will stop allowing one shopper to buy 100 packages of toilet paper and 75 chickens per shopping trip. Things will even out. Those of us who were stressed-out because we are in That Demographic who have been told to limit our exposure to crowds but were running out of food, will start to relax, a little. I will really miss going to my favorite restaurants for those special nights out for a great meal with my husband. Most restaurants here are doing take out and delivery but it isn’t the same thing. Eating a great steak dinner in your car in the parking lot leaves a lot to be desired. But part of the new normal will be making meals at home just as special, taking extra time in preparation and presentation.

     I have to re-learn to plan out meals for longer than a couple of days. I need to clean out the freezer and make space for meat and frozen veg and fruit. I’ll need to discover new recipes. We’ll have to change what we eat. More homemade soups and stews, meals that will last for a couple of days. I believe we still need to support our favorite dine-in restaurants as we can with take out when we can so when we readjust to the Old normal again, they will be there to reopen.

     A big part of my new normal will be watching newscasts only once a day. Too much is too much, especially when the news isn’t really that “new” but just regurgitating the same scary information. And maybe the news shows, instead of focusing on only the bad news, will give us positive news as well. There’s nothing wrong with hope. Negativity just for the sake of negativity is pointless. I’m also cutting back on super violent movies and television shows-mayhem just for the sake of mayhem. We have enough bad stuff don’t we? Cartoon violence is one thing; blood and gore just for the titillating effect is ridiculously counter-productive.

     The new normal will hopefully bring us back together as families and friends and as a nation. Hopefully we’ll reconnect and remember what is important and forget the divisiveness. We’ll realize there is more to agree on than disagree about. We’ll make better hygiene a habit for a lifetime, learn consideration for others and think before we jump to conclusions based on faulty information. Maybe we’ll calm down, use more common sense, be kinder to each other. Show more love and acceptance to everyone. Find your new normal!