Coronavirus Daze

My summer work wardrobe will be like brand new next year, if we are finally past the pandemic and able to live more normally. I've been wearing T-shirts, jeggings and capris with sneakers or flat sandals all summer.  And makeup? Why bother? My face is basically covered when I'm out in public. I wonder if cosmetics and salons will see a big resurgence when this is over with.  The  again, perhaps we will have gained some better sense of priorities by then.  I keep getting tempted by deep sale prices on summer sandals, lovely and chunky, practical and not so practical. Then I think to myself: Where would I wear them? Who would ever see them? But they're only $30, marked down from $135. I mean, who can resist that? I'm still mulling that one over. My size is available and they're only $30. And there will be future summers when I may want to wear them, not dressy, better than total casual.  Just spent 2 days at MAC in deliberative meetings with a nonprofit committee,...

So awoke this morning, not unexpectedly, at 5 a.m. to a strange sound that, after some fumbling, appeared to emanate from my cellphone and was a warning about a tornado, although that part of the message was so confusing, I wasn't sure. I later heard the sound again, after falling back asleep, and caught the fleeting message about seeking shelter immediately, which we did, in our tiny walk-in closet. That was miserable. The warning expired, and we got back in bed. Only to be awakened a second time about 20 minutes later. We got up and looked out the front door, and saw that our immediate neighbors were also looking around in confusion. There was no rain at that point yet, nor wind. But once the door was open we could hear a distant siren sound, which we believe was the county siren for tornadoes. We spent another half hour in the closet. Haven't had that kind of warning since. But we remain on tornado watch until noon or so. We had a couple of spells of hard rain and lashing wi...