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The Quarantine Meme going around
1. Are you an Essential Worker?
Yup. One of the ones defined as support staff for distance education, if operating under the rules of social distancing. However, I and the rest of my coworkers at the library are able to work from home, so we do, thus distancing ourselves appropriately.
1a. Are you in a vulnerable category?
Not especially?I worry more about my mom, who's in a retirement community, but I've only heard so far that it's had one case of COVID-19, which a resident seems to have contracted while in the hospital for somethng else, and they started showing symptoms the day they went home, so they were immediately sent back. Mom's been wearing a mask when out of her apartment and being more sensible about social distancing than other residents (some of which were still gathering to play cards a week or so ago).
I know she's bored, so we talked her through installing Steam and bought her a couple of games we thought she might like, and I sent her the three murder mystery boxes from the Mysterious Package Company. They arrived this week, and she said she plans on spending many hours immersed in the puzzles.
They're running on a two-week delay in shipping for obvious reasons, but I do recommend the Mysterious Package Company for entertainment during lockdown, if you've got the money for it.
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?
One. I rarely drink, mostly because I never got into the habit, partly because they tended to trigger migraines (and still trigger really bad headaches) if I was the slightest bit dehydrated.
3. If you have kids . . . Are they driving you nuts?
No kids, just cats. And they don't drive me nuts that much because they sleep most of the day.
4. What new hobby have you taken up during this?
In what spare time? I still have my day job, and my book cover clients all expect me to do the covers they contracted me for by the deadlines they want them.
It's actually been sort of frustrating and stressful because I am behind on covers due to being Out Of Cope and wanting to do things like sewing masks for immuno-compromised friends, and occasionally just sitting and staring at YouTube or a book for hours because, as I said, Out Of Cope. But feeling stressed and guilty the entire time because I need to be working on covers.
(How many covers do I have to do? I am currently not accepting any new commissions until JULY. And I may not be accepting any in July because I already had to cancel the month off I wanted to write, which is stressing me out EVEN MORE. If you're a client of mine, I need at least 3 months minimum now for bookings. I suppose it's a good problem to have...)
5. How many grocery runs have you done?
We do about one a week, which suits our levels of stir-crazy, but they're not very big runs because we stocked up a week before everyone else around here did.* The runs also tend to be to CentralMarkup Market, an HEB store, which means they're they started preparing in January and take social distancing seriously (they stagger entrance to the store) and supply their workers with masks and fixed up the registers with sneeze shields. As they're somewhat more expensive in the general run because of selling somewhat premium brands, that means there's slightly more food available at the regular stores for people who can't afford CM. (At least that's the theory...) And we also hit our local Asian market, who had started social distancing/mask/hand sanitizer well before anybody else did.
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myrialux's natural tendency is to pick recipes and buy just the ingredients necessary for that so I had to push him to buy more. There were lots of repetitions of "Well we already have two cans of black beans, so we don't need more," and "Maybe we should buy two more?" during the original trips. :)
6. What are you spending your stimulus check on?
No idea. I think we're getting one based on the rules, but we also fall into that segment of people getting the "We can't determine your eligibility by the info we have" error on the goverment website, so who knows?
7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine?
Our anniversary was Tuesday. We already had last Friday off for Good Friday* and we took Monday off to have a four-day weekend in honor of the fact since we couldn't do anything else.
*The university closes for Good Friday but not Easter Sunday, oddly enough. At least I no longer have to take weekend shifts.
8. Are you keeping your housework done?
Inasmuch as we ever do. The kitchen is clean becausemyrialux putters while thinking, and his usual form of puttering is to do dishes.
9. What movie have you watched during this quarantine?
Two of the Fast and Furious movies--#4 and #5--and the plan is to go through the rest (excepting 1-3) over time, since neither of us had seen any of them but Hobbs and Shaw.
10. What are you streaming with?
YouTube, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Britbox. I think we finished Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet on AppleTV+ before the lockdown, but havne't watched anything else on it. We only have it because we bought my phone a few months ago...at least we think that's what it is, because we randomly got an email that said "Thanks to your purchase you get a free year of AppleTV+!" and didn't explain what the purchase was.
11. 9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby?
Nope.
12. What's your go-to quarantine meal?
That would be breakfast, with either a Clif bar or Raisin Bran. The rest of the meals have been fairly wide-ranging, since we get bored easily.
13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid?
No? Anxious, depressed, even more cynical, but not paranoia, I don't think. My sleep is terrible, in part due to Everything a well as stress from dayjob and side gig. Last night was bad because we went Outside! For a walk! Because the weather was good and the sun would be Very Good For Us!
Aaaaaand I got a faceful of pollen, which coated my sinuses. I spent the first 20 minutes after the walk inside really, really, really needing to sneeze but being unable to, and when I finally sneezed, it was multiple times. And after that I was sniffly and stuffed up which lasted through the night and kept waking me up.
I AM NEVER GOING OUTSIDE AGAIN.
14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time?
Nope, luckily.
15. What month do you predict this all ends?
No idea. I do fully expect lockdown to be ended early because of The! Economy! and for there to be a second round of infections because of that.
16. First thing you're gonna do when you get off quarantine?
Go OUT to a RESTAURANT where SOMEBODY ELSE COOKS and SOMEBODY ELSE DOES THE DISHES.
17. Where do you wish you were right now?
OUT at a RESTAURANT where SOMEBODY ELSE COOKS and SOMEBODY ELSE DOES THE DISHES.
18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most?
Going OUT to a RESTAURANT where SOMEBODY ELSE COOKS and SOMEBODY ELSE DOES THE DISHES.
19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer?
Nope. We bought some TP during the first stocking-up run, andmyrialux found some at Target last Saturday when he went at 7AM (He recommends that time, BTW). We don't expect to have to resort to it, but we've got a bunch of really thin washcloths, bathroom trash cans with lids, and a washing machine with a "sanitary" cycle, so the Ultimate Disaster Plan is to go into cloth-diaper-care mode.
We didn't buy hand sanitizer because it was already out, but... Our employer has a yearly Staff and Faculty Appreciation lunch that we never go to, but which supplies a small gift each year that gets handed out to attendees and mailed to non-attendees. This year it was university-branded bottles of hand sanitizer. How were we to know that the stupidest gift they'd ever given was going to be the most useful gift evar? We actually made a run up to campus after lockdown started to retrievemyrialux's tube. XD
19a. Have you run out of anything else?
Nope. Well, we do make weekly grocery runs so being out of something means only for a few days.
20. Do you have enough food to last a month?
Yup. We also started a CSA delivery box every other week, because I foresaw wanting fresh fruit and vegetables after living on canned and frozen food for a long time (I didn't realize we'd end up hitting the grocery weekly) and this particular box allows us to customize it so we don't get delivered a giant box of kale, broccoli, and squash.
We also do a decent amount of drive-through and curbside delivery from restaurants (see answers to 16, 17, and 18) in the hopes that the local restaurants will survive.
Our favorite restaurant we haven't picked up from. It's run by a local chef who does one meal a day, starts handing them out at 4PM, and runs out by 5:20. We tried the first day and there were TWO lines EACH over a mile long. Um, yeah. Anyway, we approve: he had to furlough a bunch of employees like a lot of restaurants, but all the profits and tips from the once-a-day meals go to a fund to support his furloughed employees.
Today's menu (Facebook). Ah well.
21. Has anything major happened in your life during the lockdown?
Not really?
22. What are you grateful for?
Family, cats, being in a position to be able to weather lockdown with no financial difficulties, being able to buy ebooks online, the intartubes.
23. Is there anything you'll miss about lockdown life?
Working from home. I really like not going in to the office, and I spend my days at the office hiding in a closed office not talking to people face to face so my daily work hasn't really changed, except for fewer meetings. It's nice to be able to take a break anytime and go annoy the cat.
1. Are you an Essential Worker?
Yup. One of the ones defined as support staff for distance education, if operating under the rules of social distancing. However, I and the rest of my coworkers at the library are able to work from home, so we do, thus distancing ourselves appropriately.
1a. Are you in a vulnerable category?
Not especially?I worry more about my mom, who's in a retirement community, but I've only heard so far that it's had one case of COVID-19, which a resident seems to have contracted while in the hospital for somethng else, and they started showing symptoms the day they went home, so they were immediately sent back. Mom's been wearing a mask when out of her apartment and being more sensible about social distancing than other residents (some of which were still gathering to play cards a week or so ago).
I know she's bored, so we talked her through installing Steam and bought her a couple of games we thought she might like, and I sent her the three murder mystery boxes from the Mysterious Package Company. They arrived this week, and she said she plans on spending many hours immersed in the puzzles.
They're running on a two-week delay in shipping for obvious reasons, but I do recommend the Mysterious Package Company for entertainment during lockdown, if you've got the money for it.
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?
One. I rarely drink, mostly because I never got into the habit, partly because they tended to trigger migraines (and still trigger really bad headaches) if I was the slightest bit dehydrated.
3. If you have kids . . . Are they driving you nuts?
No kids, just cats. And they don't drive me nuts that much because they sleep most of the day.
4. What new hobby have you taken up during this?
In what spare time? I still have my day job, and my book cover clients all expect me to do the covers they contracted me for by the deadlines they want them.
It's actually been sort of frustrating and stressful because I am behind on covers due to being Out Of Cope and wanting to do things like sewing masks for immuno-compromised friends, and occasionally just sitting and staring at YouTube or a book for hours because, as I said, Out Of Cope. But feeling stressed and guilty the entire time because I need to be working on covers.
(How many covers do I have to do? I am currently not accepting any new commissions until JULY. And I may not be accepting any in July because I already had to cancel the month off I wanted to write, which is stressing me out EVEN MORE. If you're a client of mine, I need at least 3 months minimum now for bookings. I suppose it's a good problem to have...)
5. How many grocery runs have you done?
We do about one a week, which suits our levels of stir-crazy, but they're not very big runs because we stocked up a week before everyone else around here did.* The runs also tend to be to Central
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myrialux's natural tendency is to pick recipes and buy just the ingredients necessary for that so I had to push him to buy more. There were lots of repetitions of "Well we already have two cans of black beans, so we don't need more," and "Maybe we should buy two more?" during the original trips. :)6. What are you spending your stimulus check on?
No idea. I think we're getting one based on the rules, but we also fall into that segment of people getting the "We can't determine your eligibility by the info we have" error on the goverment website, so who knows?
7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine?
Our anniversary was Tuesday. We already had last Friday off for Good Friday* and we took Monday off to have a four-day weekend in honor of the fact since we couldn't do anything else.
*The university closes for Good Friday but not Easter Sunday, oddly enough. At least I no longer have to take weekend shifts.
8. Are you keeping your housework done?
Inasmuch as we ever do. The kitchen is clean because
myrialux putters while thinking, and his usual form of puttering is to do dishes.9. What movie have you watched during this quarantine?
Two of the Fast and Furious movies--#4 and #5--and the plan is to go through the rest (excepting 1-3) over time, since neither of us had seen any of them but Hobbs and Shaw.
10. What are you streaming with?
YouTube, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Britbox. I think we finished Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet on AppleTV+ before the lockdown, but havne't watched anything else on it. We only have it because we bought my phone a few months ago...at least we think that's what it is, because we randomly got an email that said "Thanks to your purchase you get a free year of AppleTV+!" and didn't explain what the purchase was.
11. 9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby?
Nope.
12. What's your go-to quarantine meal?
That would be breakfast, with either a Clif bar or Raisin Bran. The rest of the meals have been fairly wide-ranging, since we get bored easily.
13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid?
No? Anxious, depressed, even more cynical, but not paranoia, I don't think. My sleep is terrible, in part due to Everything a well as stress from dayjob and side gig. Last night was bad because we went Outside! For a walk! Because the weather was good and the sun would be Very Good For Us!
Aaaaaand I got a faceful of pollen, which coated my sinuses. I spent the first 20 minutes after the walk inside really, really, really needing to sneeze but being unable to, and when I finally sneezed, it was multiple times. And after that I was sniffly and stuffed up which lasted through the night and kept waking me up.
I AM NEVER GOING OUTSIDE AGAIN.
14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time?
Nope, luckily.
15. What month do you predict this all ends?
No idea. I do fully expect lockdown to be ended early because of The! Economy! and for there to be a second round of infections because of that.
16. First thing you're gonna do when you get off quarantine?
Go OUT to a RESTAURANT where SOMEBODY ELSE COOKS and SOMEBODY ELSE DOES THE DISHES.
17. Where do you wish you were right now?
OUT at a RESTAURANT where SOMEBODY ELSE COOKS and SOMEBODY ELSE DOES THE DISHES.
18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most?
Going OUT to a RESTAURANT where SOMEBODY ELSE COOKS and SOMEBODY ELSE DOES THE DISHES.
19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer?
Nope. We bought some TP during the first stocking-up run, and
myrialux found some at Target last Saturday when he went at 7AM (He recommends that time, BTW). We don't expect to have to resort to it, but we've got a bunch of really thin washcloths, bathroom trash cans with lids, and a washing machine with a "sanitary" cycle, so the Ultimate Disaster Plan is to go into cloth-diaper-care mode.We didn't buy hand sanitizer because it was already out, but... Our employer has a yearly Staff and Faculty Appreciation lunch that we never go to, but which supplies a small gift each year that gets handed out to attendees and mailed to non-attendees. This year it was university-branded bottles of hand sanitizer. How were we to know that the stupidest gift they'd ever given was going to be the most useful gift evar? We actually made a run up to campus after lockdown started to retrieve
myrialux's tube. XD19a. Have you run out of anything else?
Nope. Well, we do make weekly grocery runs so being out of something means only for a few days.
20. Do you have enough food to last a month?
Yup. We also started a CSA delivery box every other week, because I foresaw wanting fresh fruit and vegetables after living on canned and frozen food for a long time (I didn't realize we'd end up hitting the grocery weekly) and this particular box allows us to customize it so we don't get delivered a giant box of kale, broccoli, and squash.
We also do a decent amount of drive-through and curbside delivery from restaurants (see answers to 16, 17, and 18) in the hopes that the local restaurants will survive.
Our favorite restaurant we haven't picked up from. It's run by a local chef who does one meal a day, starts handing them out at 4PM, and runs out by 5:20. We tried the first day and there were TWO lines EACH over a mile long. Um, yeah. Anyway, we approve: he had to furlough a bunch of employees like a lot of restaurants, but all the profits and tips from the once-a-day meals go to a fund to support his furloughed employees.
Today's menu (Facebook). Ah well.
21. Has anything major happened in your life during the lockdown?
Not really?
22. What are you grateful for?
Family, cats, being in a position to be able to weather lockdown with no financial difficulties, being able to buy ebooks online, the intartubes.
23. Is there anything you'll miss about lockdown life?
Working from home. I really like not going in to the office, and I spend my days at the office hiding in a closed office not talking to people face to face so my daily work hasn't really changed, except for fewer meetings. It's nice to be able to take a break anytime and go annoy the cat.
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ITA about being able to go to a restaurant.
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