Friday Night 2022

 

Another Friday night in the endless pandemic.  Debilitating headache started in the afternoon and continued until about 12:30 am Saturday.  

Maybe part of the headache is just enduring another Friday night in the pandemic. It sucks having nothing to do and nothing to look forward to.  I can't remember the last Friday night I went out to a bar and danced all night.  It has been probably a decade or so.  So, it is not like I would be doing that now, but just the fact that I can't, makes it feel so, well, restrictive.  Again, I agree with the restrictions, I am just sick of them.  

There are a lot of signs that the pandemic may have an end point.  Not because it is actually going to have an end point, but, like most things, it will be cancelled by a lack of interest.  No one really cares anymore.  No one cares about the numbers anymore, even though they are alarmingly high.  Actually, we don't even know what the numbers are any more because we don't track it.  Again, cancelled for lack of interest.  Hospital numbers are at twice the amount they were when we were in full-blown crisis, yet, somehow we are not alarmed or seemingly in crisis.  

People just aren't talking about the pandemic anymore.  Even our Canadian Chief Public Health Physician is ready to move on.  She is ready to move on from being a public figure to going back to her office and being a stats geek or retire.  She is not alone in wanting to move on.  In her latest news conference, she has declared the peak is over and we are on the downswing therefore we have to go back to what was our previous social norm.  

I can't really remember what I did before the pandemic.  

It was going to be an exciting night in our home tonight.  New episodes of Ozark dropped.  My husband was so looking forward to binge watching all the new episodes tonight.  I tried to be excited about it, but, this horrible headache.  

We watched two episodes and I couldn't get into them.  I bailed on him at about 8 pm with an unforgiving headache.  He told me he wasn't going to watch anymore that night as this was something for us to do together.  He is sweet and I am blessed.  But, it seems sad that this is now our thing we do together.  

Like I said, the headache lifted and now I am up, probably for the day, but with no headache.  Hopefully, this doesn't become a pattern.  Up most of the night and then taken down in the early evening by a headache.  

I hope both my headaches and insomnia will be cancelled due to a lack of interest.  

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