Low Maintenance Girls = Quarantine Queens!

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​Jn 11: I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will never die.

 You know, now is when it finally pays off to be me.
 
Oh, I know, I’m a dork by all estimations and of fairly considerable percentage.
 
I don’t carry designer bags.
 
I buy formal dresswear exclusively from the clearance bin.
 
On the rare occasion you see nail polish on these man hands of mine (think weddings, graduations, etc.), I put it there my dang self. 
 
Ditto my tootsies, which are so frightening that I do make a concerted effort to keep them painted year-round … you know, for the gastrointestinal well-being of the other humans within visibility who might catch a glimpse of them in the raw and hurl up hunks. 
 
Either way.
 
Then there’s that deep, dark brunette bush of a moptop I got. Yeah, I cut and color that bad girl all by my lonesome; which is sadly apparent to the masses, I’m thinking. 
 
Regardless, I trim my own split ends and wash in that black hue like clockwork, solo, every month. You should see how smoothly I run my salon, right of the basement stationary sink, see?
 
Let’s face it, with all this physical distancing and mandatory hermitting, we weirdo outliers are being revealed as … well, quarantine queens, thank you very much.
 
Okay, first of all, I love to cook. It’s just that normal, everyday, running-around-like-coo-coo-23-hours-a-day PK doesn’t usually have time.
 
Well, she does now, yo. And breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and even desserts, are surfacing on the Casa Kimerer kitchen island like bluebirds to Snow White’s open bay window after a song, a’ight?
 
Then again, maybe I’m more Cinderella than Snow White these days?
 
Laundry, cooking, cleaning, writing my fingers off, freezing stuff, blanching stuff, conquering the crock pot, mastering the microwave, even resurrecting that crazy INSANITY workout video. Whew.
 
A no-frills gal can keep herself really occupied in so many square feet, especially if she’s not really one to trip the light fantastic in the first place, Capsice?
 
Yeah, I’ve been a veritable little busy bee. I’ve also been binging “Breaking Bad” with my boy. #BestPartOfThis
 
I even managed to have a birthday in the midst of all the kookiness. And guess what? I didn’t miss cake or cookies or crowds one bit.
 
Okay, I lied a little —- I miss the crowds.
 
Because even though I’m a homebody who doesn’t require lots of fancy schmancy schtuff — I do love me some humans.
 
Like... a lot.
 
Social distancing is hard for the huggers. 
 
Hmpf.
 
So, I will keep smiling and sweeping and sautéing and snorting when I laugh...but I’d be fibbin’ if I said I didn’t want to be free from the four-walls sometime soon. Just so I can give my Peeps a much-needed, overdue squeeze.
 
Ah well, we’ll save it for the end of the you-know-what. 
 
Sheesh, I hope if comes soon. Otherwise, I might be blonde by the time y’all see me again. Seriously.
 
KImerer is a Tribune Chronicle and VIndicator columnist who genuinely likes being home ... but come on already. Check out her quarantine quarterly at www.patriciakimerer.com