Dear you,
It’s Groundhog Day.
Again. In addition to whether
Phil sees his shadow or not and returns to his burrow, signaling more weeks of
hard winter (which he did), the day now “celebrates” a situation where tedious
events recur in the same way. And here
we are facing a longer winter (again) and tedious events (again). This experiential déjà vu is personal and
public, my daily regimen is as repetitive as current/recurrent events. In tandem, it rolls like this:
Wake and freshen the kitty’s water, serve her canned food of
choice, and clean her litter box. [Breaking
not-news: we are sending troops to Eastern Europe (or somewhere).]
Pour a cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette while staring at
the morning sky. [Breaking not-news: Conservatives across the country are actively
banning books from schools and libraries claiming they create discomfort.]
Pour a second cup of coffee and smoke another cigarette
while staring at Mika and Joe on Morning Joe. [Breaking not-news: Defeated ex-POTUS Trump said something stupid.
And scary.]
Groom the kitty and hand-feed her what remains in her canned
food bowl. [Breaking not-news: Tourist
numbers for Panama City Beach and 30A communities are expected to be massive
for 2022. Out-of-state owner-investors
are jamming more bunk beds into these little condos and salivating over the
riches (and pollution and trash) rolling in.]
Make the bed, fluff pillows, tidy up and hit the floor for
push-ups, crunches, and yoga stretches.
[Breaking news: January 6
committee member states Trump is “tampering with witnesses”; yes, politicians
are often beyond corrupt.]
Pound down water and orange juice and finish workout with weights
for shoulders, back, chest and arms. [Breaking news: Overstuffed dryer causes house fire in Bay
County. (The dryer thing doesn’t necessarily
repeat itself as the star of local stupidity incidents, but just fill in the
blank with another appliance; electric ear-hair trimmer, toaster, curling iron,
George Forman grill, etc. Just saying
that accidents caused by stupid recur here on the daily.)]
Eat a tasty, nutritious brunch, wash dishes, and execute
dental hygiene routine. [Breaking news: Governor
DeSantis said something stupid. And
scary.]
Bathe and dress for tasking and out-and-abouting. [Breaking news: There is yet another Covid variant, “stealth
Omicron”.]
Before online work, check realtor.com for any fabulous new
townhomes or houses that don’t cost a million or more. [Breaking news: The housing crisis goes on and everything is
getting pricey. (A refill for kitty’s
lint roller jumped from around $2.50 to $3.69.
She needs to stop shedding.)]
Work and take occasional smoke and juice breaks. [Breaking news: Nazis rally in Florida.]
Wrap it up for the day and go for a power walk with
radio-headphones on blast. [Breaking news:
Local radio stations (other than the NPR affiliate) don’t deliver any
news. Except for traffic and dryer fire
updates.]
Return to the condo for sunset, more kitty feeding, and
cocktails, for me, not her. [Breaking news:
Recent studies show more people are turning to alcohol to cope with “unprecedented
uncertainty and stress”.]
Watch something mindless on BRAVO channel, get annoyed by
mindlessness, hit the off button on the remote and open a good book, fall asleep
drooling on that good book. [Breaking
news: A survey revealed one in three
adults hit the snooze button three times in the morning. People prefer not being awake.]
There it is. Repeat.
Rewind. Recur. Over and over, we go to war, silence provocative truth tellers, elect
idiots to office, swarm to tourist zones like locusts, react with shock when a
virus mutates, do stupid things with appliances, decide we cannot live without
lint rollers, self-medicate, and avoid waking up and facing yet another
Groundhog Day.
To close, something from the 90s movie Groundhog Day:
Phil: What would you
do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and
nothing that you did mattered?
Ralph replies: That
about sums it up for me.
That about sums it up for me too.
Love, Joyce
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