Getting Dressed in the Dark

Sunday and the thirty-first Covid blog. ❄️

This week has been another interesting week in lockdown. It may seem strange to describe this confinement as ‘interesting’ considering the most exciting event (at least for me) is going out for the essential food shop.

However, I mean this in the way that it all feels very different than before. I know that it seems so much harder and the little things at least for me, are really beginning to aggravate, more than normally.

So, I thought I would get a couple of them off my chest. They are silly things really, first world problems but this one is really beginning to make me itch both figuratively and literally.

I am hoping that you may relate to a few of these too.

My first:

When did labels on the inside collars of clothing get (A) so big and (B) so scratchy and (C) so annoying? I’ll show you what I mean…

I have been cutting so many labels from my clothes for the above reasons and although this one wasn’t a candidate for (A) it was definitely scratchy.

All clothes labels seem to be made of a material that seems intent on making you suffer. I don’t remember having to cut labels from my clothes before but this event is happening more and more.

Then there’s that annoying message of which I can’t even read the last word. Cheat? Chant? Who knows! Well, I’m guessing that this girl must have looked pretty ugly because as you can see, I had to remove said label due to its immense discomfort.

Secondly:

Why are online purchases of small items in such large packaging with a planet already full to the brim with waste? Yes, I know most can be recycled but do we really need that much in the first place? A book I ordered arrived in a huge box one morning and during a moment of scratching, that was until I cut the label out which I’m guessing, compounded my feelings.

The point I’m making is that things we usually find a mild annoyance (although I think I have a valid reason with wanting to save the planet) is heightened at this time.

I know that my friends and colleagues are all saying the same thing which is reassuring to know that we are all feeling the same emotions at different times because at this point in time, it is so hard.

It also can be difficult to get to get motivated. I wore my running leggings one morning but that is as far as I got and when I collected my post from the post lady she gave me a look that said ‘yep, you’re convincing no one.’

Life is tough at the moment and perhaps we should acknowledge that it’s normal to over react at times. We are all trying to get through this together in the best way we can.

I really did over react and panic slightly when I thought I had put on several pounds this week. Although it turned out that my derrière wasn’t quite the size of a small continent but that I’d put my pants on back to front.

Still, better start putting those running leggings into practice, if only it wasn’t so cold…

Stay Safe,

Joy xxx