I’m going to look on the rest of this Lockdown as a ‘hard Lent’

THIS week I reached a new all time low. I spent a whole hour doing a face full of makeup and curling my hair to drive into town to go to the chemist to collect a prescription. Then I bought a coffee and sat in the car in the carpark watching the traffic go by for half an hour before driving home again.

That was the highlight and low point of my week. I think I spent less time titivating myself the day I got married than I did to drive into town to get a message whilst wearing a mask! THIS is what my life has become!

And it gets worse. I’ve now divided up my shopping into four separate trips to four different supermarkets just to give myself something to do. Mondays I do Aldi, Tuesdays Lidl, Wednesdays Tesco and Thursdays Supervalu. Unfortunately there isn’t a Dunnes near me otherwise that would be earmarked for Fridays.

“Did you see that new wine they have in Aldi?” a friend texted me last week. “Not yet,” I replied. “Mondays is Aldi Day. I’m trying to spread them out so I have something to do every day.” Turns out she was doing exactly the same. Her biggest concern last week was living in the country, she’d get snowed in and miss Lidl Day.

The first thing I’m going to do when this lockdown is lifted is NOT go to the supermarket! I’ll either shop online or send Himself because, truth be told, I’ve become way too dependent on them as a source of entertainment.

Himself ’s aunt who lives in Australia and is having the life of Riley by all accounts told me to look on the next few weeks as a “hard Lent.” Easy for her to say and she going out to restaurants and drinking wine on terraces with her friends.

But maybe she’s right. I’ve never really done Lent before. Well I’ve tried but always failed at the first hurdle. As soon as someone waves a sweet or a fag under my nose – I’m done. But this time I could look on it as an accumulative effort for all the past Lents I’ve attempted and failed.

And the good news is I don’t have to give up anything because I’ve already given up going to the pub, restaurants, the hairdressers, the beauticians and the shops. If The Man Above takes all that into consideration, I should be left with a clean slate come Easter Sunday.

So really I just have to keep doing what I’m already doing – eating crap, lying on the couch, watching Netflix and moaning. I just need to keep that up for another six weeks or so and the hardest Lent of my life will be done and dusted.

There are brighter days ahead.

SO REALLY I JUST HAVE TO KEEP DOING WHAT I’M ALREADY DOING – EATING CRAP, LYING ON THE COUCH, WATCHING NETFLIX AND MOANING.