Wedding Woes
Jen4948
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Friday
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I'm now working mostly from home. My office put us on a two-days per week in the office schedule for the time being.
Trying to work in an apartment over a dog park where the only amenities now are trash pickup, mail and the dog park itself, and where only "emergency" maintenance is available (which probably doesn't include changing burned-out bulbs in ceiling track-lighting and fixtures), thus limiting me to natural daylight and lamp light is ... interesting.
The office building scheduled a power outage for electrical work tomorrow, so I can't even work then. I wouldn't mind the extra day off, except I am socially distancing myself in order to protect my cancer-surviving parents. Oh well, the silver lining there is peace and quiet when the dogs aren't barking...
Trying to work in an apartment over a dog park where the only amenities now are trash pickup, mail and the dog park itself, and where only "emergency" maintenance is available (which probably doesn't include changing burned-out bulbs in ceiling track-lighting and fixtures), thus limiting me to natural daylight and lamp light is ... interesting.
The office building scheduled a power outage for electrical work tomorrow, so I can't even work then. I wouldn't mind the extra day off, except I am socially distancing myself in order to protect my cancer-surviving parents. Oh well, the silver lining there is peace and quiet when the dogs aren't barking...
Re: Friday
My boss suggested a social media break, she was starting headaches also and found it helped.
It's not perfect, but it is what it is.
This weekend M is donating blood - he's universal donor and since the blood banks are still open, he's going.
I think he may swing by home depot to build BabyKitten a kitchen helper step. We planned for her bday, but she stands by our pass thru window to watch him in the kitchen so we're doing it now. Might be easier to round her up lol
In other news, I'm starting to think about the furniture we still need for the new place. Of course we're limited to online window shopping for now. Anyone have places they like for furniture online? I've pretty much exhausted wayfair (the dining room table I like is 10k!). Where else do you look at furniture?
We went to Walmart last night and it was bare. Literally, no meat or cheese. I think I'm going to have to run to Meijer at the ass-crack of dawn tomorrow or Sunday. I'm currently storing overflow snacks in my office to keep them from being opened before other snacks are used up.
How are CA peeps with the new shelter in place? I've been thinking of you all.
SSDD around here. Weather's going to crap fast, windy, cloudy, and getting colder.
Unfortunately the premier of our province will get what he wants - online classes
DH IS HOME!! So far he needs to be plugged in to get his connection to work so he's standing up using one of our speakers as an office. This is what 2020 looks like in a working 2 family household while the kids are running around.
I am also safe from the March installment of the coronavirus baby boom. So tonight I think I need to make sure the beer's still good because we had to cancel St. Patrick's Day.
Yesterday I prayed a rosary w/ DH, and Chiquita at 4 and we watched a mass at 8:30 that was at a church near BIL and SIL that happened to be said in honor of their daughter that passed last year.
DH's family may get a family Zoom meeting going tonight. This becomes a new way of having a social gathering.
I was able to order paper towels from Costco this week. They cut my order (from 2 packs to one), but arrival is scheduled today. I think demand is starting to level off, so you should be ok.
Day 5 of WFH with baby and i've gotten about 5 solid hours of work done outside of my normal volume of conference calls. Our house is a mess and we're both going a little nutty. I'm going to bake a lot this weekend and try to get our new (from the street) bedroom set cleaned and upstairs too.
I ran to the grocery store and walgreen yesterday and was super annoyed at people not social distancing at all. It was outrageous and the places weren't even that busy. Walgreen did have tape on the floor and signs to indicate where ppl should stand in line (6ft apart) which was nice.
Hope everyone is staying safe.
nope, mariano’s was out of t.p. So I canceled the order and will head out during my “lunch”. Someone posted about Having t.p. yesteeday at a local place, but that was yesterday. Why the eff was hoarding all this t.p. a thing?
I'm pretty sure the entire state of MO is going to have high as hell infection/death rates between the assholes, our governor, and the state Republicans. Oh, remember me being furious about the mega church that didn't cancel services? One of our now positives went to the damn service. IDK what their attendance count that particular day was, but their average is 10K people. SO stupid, SO preventable, SO careless and putting so many people at risk. I think the church should be fined and shut down by government order until further notice (they have 4 campuses in this area with an average attendance of 15K between all 4 locations). They were warned and chose to do what they wanted anyway. There should be consequences to such flagrant carelessness and disregard for societal health.
I'm glad it's Friday. I need a break from this week. Holding it together has been really hard at work. I'm scared and being at work with the number of people we have here in such close proximity has made it harder. Still no plans for any of us to work from home or in shifts. The managing partner's paranoia is going to have terrible consequences. I honestly believe it's just a matter of time. Hell, some of my co-workers fall into the high risk age groups.
And end rant.
My boss's oldest would not have finished school if anything was requested online. She's anticipating going back to college in the fall, and one course she wanted to take was solely online and opted out because she knew she wouldn't be able to keep herself entirely accountable.
This year has been hard on my province because we've already had rotating strikes due to this g-d premier because it's a fucking twat! Urg ...
If you work in an essential business then you're still going. That means that you need to go to your job based on what they said if it's in healthcare, the take out restaurant, gas station, post office or other delivery carrier and if your job is in a role that is part of the vital supply chain to keep stores stocked and hospitals in operation.
I don't know how those companies identify if they are or are not essential though.
It looks fantastic and they are one of the most inclusive, positive, supportive, and amazing burlesque troops I've ever observed. I've watched the preview and it looks like it's going to be fun. They're doing a new one for every Friday night until this passes.
I went out this morning to make another payment on my HELOC. I checked before I left and Hancock-Whitney is switching many of the branches to drive-thru only after today. I asked at my branch and they said that their branch is one of the ones that will keep the lobby open because there's enough room to have appropriate social distancing. But it will be drive-thru only on Saturdays. My other bank has gone to drive thru only for all their branches.
Then I stopped at a donut shop where I'd already placed a carry-out order. The have special maple bars that are generously sprinkled with small pieces of bacon! OMG, so yum! In fact, I am munching on one as I type, lol. Found out they are going to start selling loaves of bread starting tomorrow. Good for them! I like the win-win of them seeing a need in the community, at the same time they are seeing a dip in their own business.
I hadn't planned to go to the grocery store but, now I was near my main one, so I stopped in to get some chicken noodle soup because I forgot that on my last trip. I didn't go wandering through the whole store, but it didn't seem that bad. Though all the bagged salad was gone. Got my soup and bananas just fine. I saw one woman in line with a "precious" loaf of bread, so apparently at least some loaves were available.
Camped out at home for the rest of the weekend, though I still have a lot I want to get accomplished around the house and for my personal business. For example, I want to put together a "help" list to send out to all my tenants. Like links to apply for temporary unemployment and SNAP benefits, that kind of thing. Right now, everyone is up to date on their rent. But it's going to be a rough road in the near future for all of us (general us). Plus, I know two different tenants, bartender and Uber drive, who had their income dry up overnight and can already use the help for whatever programs are out there. My H and I also need to make a trip to Home Depot, at some point, for a return.
My birthday was kind of a let down because social distancing. I, for some stupid reason (weight), decided to cut out sugar this month so I didn't even have cake. I am just getting depressed I think, I hate being in limbo.
Yeah in NY we can go to supermarkets, the doctor, gas stations, hardware stores, pharmacies, etc. Everything non-essential has to close by Sunday but lots of places have already closed. @CharmedPam I've had luck with toilet paper at 99cent stores (unfortunately there's racism happening here so the Asian-owned ones are especially well-stocked). I've also had lots of luck with groceries at the mom&pop shops as far as the staples (bread, eggs, etc). I haven't been able to get anything I've needed from Target, Stop&Shop or Costco for a couple of weeks.
@ILoveBeachMusic the TP thing is everyone's silver lining here. Since everyone has a sprayer next to the toilet, no massive run on TP lol.
If anyone is interested, join Two Fat Expats on FB. A lady from China posted today about what the virus/ community looks like 2 months out and it is very inspiring. It has really helped me keep things in perspective.