Omicron or O-M-I-Cranky!

Volume: LOUD WHINE!
Issue: AGAIN WITH THE COVID?
Date: January 15, 2022

“We can do this.”—Rosie the Riveter

Omicron or O-M-I-Cranky!

Just when I thought we were out of the woods! Just when I thought there was a light at the end of the tunnel! Just when it seemed like there was a rainbow after the rain! Just when I thought my scale showed I had lost 5 pandemic pounds! Just when I had put my mask out to pasture in semi-retirement!

Here Omicron rears its ugly fifty-spiked head!?! I feel like getting my own multi-spiked club and smacking it in the keister, wherever that keister might be!

Zooming back to masks—though they do hide those aging cheek and lip wrinkles! Zooming back to Instacart charges for ordering grocery delivery—though I don’t miss grocery-shopping! Zooming back to Zoom! Zooming back to the ACK emoji!

This crazy covid dance—3 steps forward, 4 steps backward, 3 steps to the left, 5 steps to the right—this cacaphonous band Covid and the Heartbreakers keeps playing the same damn musical refrain over and over. But—hey we dancers can do this dance marathon and keep boogying til the end when the music stops!

Time to hop back onto the Starship Enterprise again, go where no man (or woman) has ever gone before, don our cloak of resilience, dial our medical phasers to stun as we shoot life-saving serum into our arms, and call up our own inner Dr. Spock: “Live long and prosper.”

Time to stop mixing metaphors and wish everyone health and inner peace amidst the highs and lows, ups and downs, rocks and rolls!

Time to channel our inner Rosie: “WE CAN DO THIS!”