Just keep 'imagining' yourself here:
Ideally with that forbidden drink that has an umbrella in it? At hand, of course.
I suspect a severe case of cabin fever is happening here! What to do? Besides all of us?
When I get this way? I relive those most delightful and also most 'dramatic' of lifes moments. Snorkeling in the tropics w/a school of tropical [really] fish nibbleing at me and deciding I'm not food? In warm bathtub-like waters that are clear and pristeen...
Or Walking along a Georgia coastal island [later to become a park] down a road flanked by live oak trees with spanish moss draped over them to go to a beach to see a pod of whales that'd gotten beached. An impressive and sad sight both. Then? Find a perfect sand dollar!
Or being a passenger in a small 4 seater plane, flying over mountains that suddenly become small. It was the prelude to the current Google Earth?
Those are big things? But re-learning how to walk [again] ranks high among the smaller things. Having your cat or dog curl up near you JUST when you need it? Or just having your S.O. do something small that is perfect for your state of mind at that time.
Please don't trip over that ladder? And, Do keep your mind and heart warm for the duration! - 's - j

I am way past cabin fever. I have crossed into a new realm.

I have decided to make soap....despite not being able to hold onto pots and pans. I have endeavored to invade hubby's personal space, like a zombie...I can use his body to do my 'dirty work'. He agreed to lift the heavy pots. He agrees to everything. I have no idea why.

I haven't told him this involves lye yet. I will tell him later.

This all seems sorta scary to me! Making soap can be a HOT and truly burning process? Remember you burn already...believe me, if you get burned this way? It'll be much worse!
Let me know you get outta this alive, please? - j

you guys in washington DC, Baltimore and Virginia did a great job saturday of keeping that snow south of here. See what you can do on Wednesday. Much appreciated.

My Mom made soap using lye for years. Her hands were affected and not the best but she had no trouble. She made hers outdoors but when they made it at church, it was indoors.

Yes, you have to be careful but she had no problems. And it was the best soap ever and used for many things. Hers was a nice white color too. I still have some of it that I just keep to remember her by.

Well, I will be a rookie at soapmaking....my goal is not to spill or blow anything up, lol...including myself. And lye does give off a fume....I have a gas mask...lol. We will see how it goes.

That is sweet, keeping a bar of soap to remember your mom. Scent is very powerful at provoking memories. Smell is our first sense to develop.