End of Fifth Month

May has come to an end and summer has finally showed up in New York City.  The Depth Year is going pretty smoothly, though I've come up across my first puzzle about clothing.

Please pardon as the next paragraph is my rambling stream of consciousness, which can be a bit scattered at the best of times.

I have plenty of clothes in general, but my wardrobe wasn't built with quarantine in mind.  I'm probably like 70% work appropriate clothes, 10% pajamas, 15% "fun" weekend clothes, 4% costumes, and <1% workout clothes.  I literally have 1 pair of sweat pants for the gym (not the fuzzy-lined lounging kind), 2 pairs of yoga pants, and 1 pair of mid-weight leggings.  The thing is, I have started doing yoga every single day; and, as advised from elsewhere, I have been very good about changing out of my night time pajamas into "day time pajamas" (which is essentially something I can do yoga in).  So I've been rotating through 4 pairs of pants for 10 weeks now, with rare exception (and lots of washing, of course).  The sweats are holding up, and the leggings are fine so far, but both yoga pants are about shot and are getting holes.  So I'm wondering, at what point am I allowed to buy a new pair of yoga pants?  Am I?  I can't really do yoga in jeans, otherwise I'd be set.  Do I need to wait for both pair to completely give out and shred before I replace them? It's not like I'm going to a yoga class, or leaving the house.  I guess actual pajama pants would function the same, I'd just have to be careful about the mental slip of living in a single set of pajamas for a whole day (or days!).  I could designate certain pajama pants strictly to daytime, so I'd still be "getting dressed" every day.  Or maybe it's a non-issue? Maybe by the time they fully give out it will be high summer, and I'll be living in shorts, which as long as they're not tight should function fine. Then I won't need them again until fall weather sets in; and by then we might (hope) be working back in offices, and my daily yoga might not even be a thing by then (though that's kind of a sad thought). 

Welcome to quarantine land, where I have enough time to devote entirely too much thought to my depth year and ponder this extensively over whether or not I'm allowed a new pair of exercise pants.  

Since I started writing this post, there's been a conversation at the day job that the NYC office might not fully reopen before the end of the year.  So, small amounts are being approved for folks who need to beef-up their home office for the long haul.  I'm assuming work-sponsored items don't count in the Depth Year, as I had been using a 4:3 ratio monitor from 2005 until now.  I've also been thinking about buying a window fan for the apartment, since the one we had last year died right at the end of summer, so we didn't bother replacing it.  This seems like it's a necessity, and it is replacing a broken item that doesn't have a back-up or something that can effectively be used in its place.  Similarly this past month, the crisper drawer in the refrigerator broke.  So I bought replacement parts and changed it out myself.  That definitely counts as a necessity.  The pants issue, I will keep debating internally until they literally fall apart. 

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