Just another day

Today was just another day.    It’s the pandemic.    I continue to work from home for my other job.  I sat at the kitchen table trying to fix a major program I need on the computer.  Then I was off on cases.    I researched and made phone calls.   All the while, Joe would stand up from the couch and just watch me.   One time he came and kissed my shoulder.   Another time he wanted to know what I was doing.   

I should have been glad when he wasn’t hovering but it was then he turned on a news station.   It repeatedly went through stories and talked to “experts”.   

Despite it being three years, I have not gotten used to the hovering.  Over the course of the day the humidity dropped and the air became amazing.    As I tried to turn off the air conditioners and open windows he stood smack dab in the middle of the room.  

I forgot the computer charging cable at church and told him I was going to get it.   I got home and he wanted to know where I had been and what I had been doing.   

Classes at church will start soon and I have materials all over to pack up and get ready.   He wants to know what every single thing is.   
While I get frustrated, I also realize he is trying hard to still protect me and be a part of “our” life.   I am truly grateful he does this and is slapstick happy over the alternatives of angry and aggressive.   I wonder if I will miss this someday, while just wanting to take a deep breath all by myself.