• Light lanterns on your veranda
• Pick up the ukulele you haven’t played since 2015
• Spend all day trying to reteach your fingers chords and frets they used to know
• Realise that muscle memory is definitely a thing, but that does not mean that playing an instrument is like riding a bike
• Cough because your cold is not happy about you doing anything but laying in bed
• Practice all day anyway
• Get the good kind of frustrated because you feel like your mind is really focusing on something other than being worried about quarantining
• Listen to the neighbors having a very loud party which feels a bit out of place in a global pandemic where people really shouldn’t meet up for parties at all
• Realise that your fingertips are not a fan of suddenly pushing down nylon strings again
• Put a jumper on when the sun goes down and it’s getting a bit nippy
• Realise that you go full on American when you sing the word “party”
• Try and remedy this for some kind of consistency’s sake
• Also realise that there are apparently a lot of motorbikes in your area and that every single one of them are planning on driving past your house tonight
• Record yourself singing one of your new favourites even though your fingers haven’t really gotten a hold of the chords just yet
• Sing with the cold-infected voice that you have
• Ignore that it’s all a bit rough and stumbly and just enjoy the process
• Breathe

-Andrea