Put on Your Strong Suit, and do the laundry.

 Some things I want to do when Covid lightens up.

1. Get new eyeglasses (Mine lost a nose pad, & I probably need a new prescription too, but don't want to exchange breath with eye doctor and staff)

2. Sit in the library for an afternoon

3. Go see movies!

4. Hug friends, face to face 

I love that new eyeglasses occurred to me first.
It's good to attend to daily things that perch on your nose.

"Less Drama. More Laundry"

The other day I went for a walk with a friend who is making some big life changes. The changes look dramatic, but they're really about clarifying and simplifying. She said she's relishing simply sleeping in clean sheets:
"Less drama, more laundry."

Yes!

(Zen version: "After enlightenment, the laundry.")

A lot of things have to be in place for a person to do the laundry in peace, or even  to want to do the laundry.

I've been feeling good, cleaning my room--getting my stuff in order (or purged) before going to stay in an Airbnb next week while the city installs new windows.
For instance, I finally filed for rent-tax credit, six months late.
Stuff like that--not usually my strong suit.

(I always assumed "strong suit" refers to card games. Looked it up, and it does--specifically bridge. I've never played bridge.
I've been reading novellas about an armored AI security bot--the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells––and it occurs to me a "strong suit" could be something you wear.
I like that.)

Put on Your Strong Suit

While I'm job hunting, which might take a while (especially since I'm slow at it!), I'm trying to reposition myself psychologically at work... 
My So what? woo-sah suit has worn ragged there, partly because of Covid, largely because of Ass't Man.

I want to work somewhere that actively supports the employees.
Or that leaves them totally alone--the situation at the thrift store before Ass't Man was put in charge, right before Covid.
I used to complain about the lack of support at work, but I always knew I work well without interference, especially if the option is micro-management.

I'd work well in a smart, supportive workplace too.
I'd been struck a while ago that the head of Netflix said that from the very beginning, even when they were operating in the red, it was always priority to recruit and pay excellent people.

[DELETE WORKPLACE RANT
It was helpful to write it out, but I don't want to leave it up...]

Working/living in a situation where there's nothing to be done sucks.

I just watched The Queen's Gambit, on Netflix. It was entertaining, enjoyable, and so, so unrealistic.
One of the only things that struck me as true was when a man says his wife* was "pathetic", and their adopted daughter (the chess player) replies,
"She wasn't pathetic. She was stuck."

I've got options.
I'm going to put on my strong suit and start to activate them.

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Huh! The actor who plays the adoptive mother--a good role--is movie director Marielle Heller. She directed two films I liked a lot:
“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” (the one with Tom Hanks--I even loved that one) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Melissa McCarthy as a forger of authors' letters).