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ei34
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Testy Tuesday
ei34
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Greetings from quarantine. I eventually felt symptomatic and was positive when I tested again on Friday. STBXH tested positive Sunday. DDs remain negative, DS 10-day quarantine ends Thursday and my 5-day quarantine ends Thurs too. My principal was like "see you thurs!" but I'm rolling my eyes a bit at essential employees having half the quarantine of everyone else. I don't feel great, so focusing more on health. My parents and siblings (including pregnant sis) are all positive too. So much for a Christmas gathering feeling safe since we all tested a couple days prior. Oh well. If my parents and sister come out of this okay I'm happy. We've all diligently masked, it feels like it's literally in the air.
Ugh oh and STBXH saw me typing in this chat the one day last week I logged on and was reminded that TK exists. Stated he can't wait to figure out how to check out how much I probably talk about him. I'm sure he will find his way here at some point. Toying with changing my screenname but if he followed closely enough (and why wouldn't he, he has nothing else going on) he'd pick up on the minutiae of my life and know it was me even if my new name was westcoastpizzahatingTrumper. So I might drop off for a while. I don't want to, I enjoy being here each day. I'll see.
Hoping everyone feels okay!
Ugh oh and STBXH saw me typing in this chat the one day last week I logged on and was reminded that TK exists. Stated he can't wait to figure out how to check out how much I probably talk about him. I'm sure he will find his way here at some point. Toying with changing my screenname but if he followed closely enough (and why wouldn't he, he has nothing else going on) he'd pick up on the minutiae of my life and know it was me even if my new name was westcoastpizzahatingTrumper. So I might drop off for a while. I don't want to, I enjoy being here each day. I'll see.
Hoping everyone feels okay!
Re: Testy Tuesday
I feel like it's only a matter of time before we get it. It sucks but my comfort is that we're all vaccinated/boosted and so far those around who are getting it claim the symptoms are "mild". My flu symptoms last week were mild too but it still sucks to be a sick grown up.
I picked up two tests from town today. They had a sign up yesterday to give out the tests that they received and I luckily got a slot to pick up two. I wonder how long these will remain unused.
We spent a week at my parents house and it was awesome to have some downtime. H worked all week and I was off - it was fun to just relax and play with the boys and my fam.
We got home Sunday though to a broken heater and freezing house. Luckily someone was able to come out fairly quickly and we had a bandaid fix for overnight at least. They came back yesterday to fix for real. So happy it was quick but that was ~$500 we weren't expecting to spend. Yuck.
Back at work today and working from home all week. Hoping my company extends the WFH option since cases are rising and we're coming off the holidays but I doubt it.
@ei34 I hope you can stay and that you and your family feel better.
Break went .... well. It went.
Because BK had a cold, then M picked up the cold {now SFIL has it} we couldn't visit anyone.
Not covid. BK had been tested and because SFIL was suppose to see M's grandpa in the retirement home, they wanted PCR test {too many symptoms to rapid test} and again, negative.
We all isolated all holiday.
BK now has separation anxiety with me, which is just fkn super. I cannot put her to bed because she won't let me leave without a fight and/or meltdown.
It made for really hard nights.
New Years BK was up from 2am - 4am fighting me to stay. M came in and got her to stop because I could leave the room.
We all slept in, and BK still wanted a nap.
Schools are shut down. BK is out until at least the 17th - but she has "online circle time" at 10:30am on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Gives her a little something.
My mum is going to take her a few days a week in the afternoons still.
This whole thing is a mess.
@ei34, I hope you don’t leave. fwiw, this board is made only for the smartest of the smart to locate from the mainpage 😉
Sorry BK’s school is shut down. I have a feeling we’re going to see a lot of that.
I'm back in the office today and damn, is it dragging. We're still doing a rotating schedule with just one person in the office per department per day. I'm here today and tomorrow, and then back home. Not sure if we're still going to be doing this next week, but with how many people are sick, I'm thinking yes.
Anyway, NYE was nice and relaxing. The band we were supposed to see in concert did a live streaming thing, so we watched that. I stayed up there for the rest of the weekend and then drove home Monday morning. It was nice to get a break these last 2 weeks from the city-ish feel of my place and be in the woods.
I have to say, being on this board has been my anecdotal evidence of just how contagious this new strain is! Since I have to work in the office, plus my Costco scan side gig, I feel doomed, lol.
It's been amazing weather for the last two months but, with January, winter and much colder temperatures have come.
Here is a funny example. My dog Izzy, is normally very well behaved with commands. I was sitting on the couch with a heated throw and then got up to get a drink. When I returned, she was sitting on top of the throw on "my spot" on the couch. I gave her a few pets on the head. Then said her name and pointed for her to move to the next cushion. Normally, she would move right over. But this time, she broke eye contact, looked away, and "pretended" not to hear me, lol.
When I wasn't budging and kept repeating her name in an increasingly more annoyed tone, she changed her tactic. She looked at me again, flipped on her back to show me her belly...we call that her bell-bells...and started happily wagging her tail. She is a master manipulator and knows we can't resist petting her belly when she is being so cute. So, of course, I gave her a few pets. But then I picked her up and moved her, since she wasn't being cooperative on her own. I know. I would be a terrible dog trainer, lol.
Holidays were good. We were lucky to have a bunch of really warm days, so lots of time outside and a few house projects. I had about all the family time that I need for a bit, which works out well because I think we're going into a semi-isolation this month. We don't go out much anyway, but cases are rising around here (schools are even remote this week), but people are still in denial. I was amazed at how many unmasked people were walking around home depot last week.
We have a trip planned for mid-February and I'm starting to worry that we might have to cancel. I'm so tired of covid.
DefConn is back to school today!! This is the first time in 4ish months I've worked from home without someone here during the day.
SSDD otherwise. Trying to get back into my 'normal' routine after the craziness of the fall and the holiday season.
Need to get off my butt and go for a walk. It's cold but sunny which is good enough for me.
sorry it’s been so difficult @kvruns, hopefully it all gets better
@MissKittyDanger Yep, hubby is online learning with his students until the 17th. Don't know what delaying by two days did for anyone, except I guess they wanted to plan how to announce the online learning? And they didn't bother to alert the schools, so hubby was getting emails about how in-person schooling would look as Doug Ford was announcing online schooling until the 17th. Teachers didn't find out until 6:30 at night that schooling was going online. Because, you know, they don't need to do any planning or anything, why inform the teachers? You're right, the whole thing is a mess.
Still feeling better and trying to do the work to keep myself there. More than anything, I just need to find my cooking mojo. I just don't feel like eating at all. So far, I've been eating buttered toast for dinner. I might need to seek out some meal replacements of some sort for awhile, b/c this is pretty bad. Usually this doesn't last this long for me, but my old tricks aren't snapping me out of it.
Otherwise, pretty good.
Also, I've seen a couple articles and nurses on my feed recommending getting your throat swabbed vs. just the nasal swab for Covid since Omicron seems to be living in the throat vs. the nose. They were testing that way way back when, but dropped the throat swabbing somewhere along the way. I wonder if your aunt needs to get a throat swab.
I'm going to lay low for the next two months. I'm going to be too busy with work anyways, but I'm just not going to do anything. I will grocery shop, and that will be my outing. I don't even know if I'll be doing book club - we are restricted to 5 people indoors anyways, and book club is 6.
Cases yesterday:
ES 1: 3
ES 2 (Chiquito's): 18
ES 3: 6
MS: 13
HS: 22
Previously they only reported cases by the week and we were often in single digits. I told DH that we should get more children's ibuprofen for fever reducing just to have it on hand. At this point I'm not even sure what else I can do to prepare for when we we get it other than accept it's coming.
All of those private schools have their own schedules and, during COVID, their own protocols. Unless it was a state or city mandate.
Even the public school system isn't consistent on those things either.
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Now for my social commentary. If I were to guess, it's probably 30-40% of students go to private school. But, if you are talking about the upper middle-class/wealthy class, it's 100% with only a few exceptions. Don't want to expose your kids to the riff-raff or people of other religions, amiright?
A lot of the private schools are same sex, even the high schools. Which I find SO bizarre.
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Fun fact. There is an all-girls school here (Ursuline Academy) that was founded in 1727! It is the oldest continuously running Catholic school in the country. Not just the oldest one for girls. The oldest one for all Catholic schools.
Dang! It's only 5 years away from it's 300 year anniversary.
That said, the only single sex aspect of my schooling was in my dormitory living and I lived in an all women dorm for 3 years and a co-ed by floor my senior year.