Party Tricks

Eternal sunshine of the spotless Instagram

A few days ago, I posted photos from my 40th birthday party, and in them, I do not look homebound.

“You look so not homebound!” were the exact words of my little brother in his excited text to me, which made me laugh.

The cost of looking not homebound for several hours ran me into the hundreds- if not thousands, including lost income- of dollars, and my recovery took 96ish hours which felt significantly longer.

I did not, in fact, leave my building during my “big night out” or rather “big night in”- I merely used my cane to access the roof deck. The night sky made a fair backdrop for Instagram - I might’ve been anywhere, not just, as always, at home. I didn’t drink any alcohol- those wine bottles on the table were 0.0% proof rosé.