Boredom is the new Uncertainty

We have lost count of how many days we have been at home. I suggest you do the same. You are not in prison so there's no reason to keep track of the days on the wall. You can check your calendar later. Just try to feel normal. Get up, get dressed, get those shoes laced up. You're not home sick, you're not on vacation. Treat the week days as weekdays and you will be fine... until the weekend comes and all of our good deeds and habits go to shit.

We don't feel the effects on Saturday or Sunday, mind you. Our problem is Monday. It used to be because we had to go to work or to school after a pleasant weekend. Now the problem is getting deprogrammed after 48-hours of non-stop Netflix and social media and all of the delicious decadence we do not allow ourselves during the week.

On Mondays, our brains don't remember how to function autonomously. My independant and usually interesting 9-year-old says: "There's NOTHING to DO!" and my own brain cries for the dopamine rush of the down-swipe refresh. Seriously, it takes an entire day to get over it.

Some may suggest taking ourselves off the during-the-week social media/T.V. diet, but we've tried that. It only makes us into zombies who sleepwalk through weekdays, too. It's not pretty. Taking away Netflix, etc. during the weekend just feels cruel, especially since we are not free to roam around anymore.

Instead of being a meanie on weekends (isn't 5 out of 7 enough??) I hope instead for a major internet outage that would force us to take up old-fashioned forms of entertainment: Hey! Let's work on that latchhook pillow for your room! Who's up for a million-piece puzzle? Monopoly anyone?

They say boredom is necessary for creativity, so I keep that in mind as the complaints start rolling in at breakfast and intersperse throughout the day. Sometime after lunch when the room is clean, the homework is done, and 30 minutes of book have been read, Little Sweetie asks for an Exacto knife and if she can have the cardboard box which, before the weekend, housed beer. What a relief as Boredom is replaced by Danger and a Vision for the Perfect House for (creepy) LOL dolls, a mom's signal that the weekend is finally over.