Bites of My Life

Hi, I had coronavirus over Thanksgiving, how was your holiday? Well, mine kind of sucked. I made it through and I don’t want to throw a pity party because I’m a big girl and it ended up being totally fine. But, coronavirus is the pits in every form and fashion. It’s not lost on me how lucky I was to have mild symptoms and I don’t want my experience to diminish the tragedy it has brought so many.

As I said, I was lucky to have mild symptoms and besides the first two days, I operated at almost full commission the majority of my quarantine. However, being alone on Thanksgiving day (my favorite holiday) is something I wish for no one, and hope to never have to experience again. There was a comfort knowing the majority of America was in a strange situation as well for this holiday. Getting off Instagram for the day really helped too. I’m also thankful for a family who equally loves Thanksgiving as much as I do and decided from day one that we would postpone our big meal until I could be there. So I’m not sure if you heard, but Thanksgiving is December 5th this year, and this past week, well that was just a Thursday.

Below are only a few snapshots of my quarantine. There were tears, laughs, and all the feels over the past two weeks. My apartment is now my second skin, and while I love it I hope to never spend this amount of time alone inside of it ever again ;).

-First Dallas book club in the books (this was before any known symptoms of C-19).
-I didn’t get a bites of my life post out last week, but Bytes 0.2 went up!
-A cozy hot bath set up in an attempt to heal the symptoms that started to come on over two weeks ago.
-Scene from my car waiting for my test results: blanket, breakfast, and a good book to help wait it out. If you know me well, you probably know about my purple sick blanket. I’ve had it since high school graduation and I cling to it anytime I get sick (from a hangover or a virus).
-Within an hour of my positive result, I had chicken noodle soup arriving on my doorstep from one of my best friends. #thankfulgratefulblessed
-Panic ordered a friendship bracelet making kit and made a list of shows to watch and activities to do with the looming two weeks of quarantine ahead of me. Luckily my work was extremely busy leading up to Thanksgiving which kept my mind and days busy and quickly helped pass the time.
-A quarantine pick-me-up came in the form of flowers from the Rent the Runway ambassador team! They sent these beautiful flowers for me getting several referrals over the past couple of months.
-Insta Cart and Favor became incredibly useful during quarantine. I’m wildly thankful for modern technology allowing me to order groceries and some of my favorite meals delivered right to my front door. However, after ordering one of my favorite salads, I quickly realized this was the moment I lost my taste and smell. I kept obsessively over salting it because it was “bland.” Joke was on me.
-A weird but successful quarantine activity resulted in making homemade coconut yogurt. It was incredibly simple and I was shocked at how well it worked. Here is the recipe I used.
-It is simply NOT Thanksgiving, without a viewing of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. I relished in my situation and drank my coffee and ate my breakfast in bed, while I watched the parade all morning.
-A very comforting breakfast that I savored as my taste started to come back over the past weekend. Details: 1/2 baked sweet potato, 1/2 of a banana, a spoonful of my homemade coconut yogurt, lots of pumpkin pie spice, a drizzle of almond butter, and chia seeds.
-Bring on the festive coffee in a festive mug. I bought these last year and they spark immense joy.

Annie