Personal stuff: how am I surviving quarantine?

Hello everyone! And Happy Easter, if you celebrate it, at least in your home.

It’s been 3 months since my last personal post here, but it feels like years since the world has changed a lot lately, for the worse.

At first I didn’t want to write about it, since I prefer to keep this blog a funny and peaceful place, but there are nice people who are kinda worried about me or the situation here, so I decided to update you a bit about my daily life.

As you probably know, I’m from Italy, which is one of the most affected countries.

Since the end of February, when the virus started spreading uncontrollably in my area, our life changed completely: I stopped working, shops closed one after the other, until my region was completely quarantined, on 8^th March. After a couple days, the lockdown was extended to the whole country. I guess it was too late, since the number of deaths is still rising terribly every day, even if a month has passed.

In this tragedy, I’m lucky since none of my relatives and friends were affected; I lost a few people I knew from work, which is terribly sad, but it could have been way worse.

The peak seems to be passed, even if there are many new infected everyday; but the most difficult moments should be an awful memory now.

But we’ll be on lockdown at least until May 3^rd.

Needless to say, I’ll cancel both my wedding and my trip to Japan, since this summer we’ll be lucky enough if we’ll be able to go outside our house while wearing a mask; meeting people to celebrate or going overseas is out of question.

Let’s stop with sad stuff here, let’s talk about how I’m spending my time lately, since days are really long when you are forced to stay at home.

Or at least they should feel long, I’m not suffering much from the lack of social interactions: being an introverted, I have no problems in spending time by myself, I always find new exciting hobbies which make my days fly by!

First of all, as you can expect, I’m playing a lot: I’m almost done with Musketeer, which will be my next review, and Usotsuki Shangri-La seems short, so it should follow pretty soon.

Everyone and their mothers are playing Animal Crossing these days, which I guess will be considered in the future the game that allowed the world to survive quarantine, but that’s not my style, so I’m forever alone in devoting my life to otome.

I plan to start the first episode of Tlicolity Eyes soon, maybe even Diabolik Lovers Chaos Lineage.

I’ll try to order Olympia Soiree, even if I don’t know when I’ll be able to receive it; I hope it will arrive sometimes by the end of May, but maybe even June, if the situation stays critical. Not like I’m lacking stuff to play anyway, I’ll do my best to get through my backlog!

Lately I’m also reading many books, at least 1 every week, because I have so many which I bought on impulse in the past years and somehow a lot of them were still untouched on the shelf.

I’m going through all Jane Austen’s books lately, I love her!

I’m also watching movies, since my culture when it comes to Hollywood popular stuff was basically non existent… and it still is, but I’m trying my best.

Since I won’t go to Japan, I went back studying Finnish and German, which are languages I both love with my heart, despite them being difficult to learn for different reasons.

But as long as I enjoy myself, even if my progresses are slow, it’s good.

I’m also watching old anime which I’ve always ignored for no reason, like Vampire Knight. I’m still on season one and I enjoy it so far, I’m curious to see how it turns out and I wish I could play the game, even if it’s for DS. We’ll see what I can do about it.

Then, last but not least, I listen to a lot of great music.

Nightwish just released their latest album, which I appreciated a lot, so I play it on repeat for hours, even when I’m doing house chores or playing with my dog.

That’s the best I can do, while waiting for this nightmare to end.

But I guess it will take a long time, probably all year, before we can go back to a normal life.

Anyway, let’s try to be positive and let’s survive quarantine the best we can, until the day we’ll be able to go outside freely again!

I’ll do my best to write more, hoping that my TOP10 and reviews will help you a bit to focus on happy stuff, at least for a few minutes. As usual, suggestions and requests are welcomed, follow me on twitter to talk if you want!

See you soon!