Daily Check-In

[mecurtin]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Thursday) to midnight (8pm Friday Eastern Time).

Poll #23649 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 80

How are you doing?

I am OK
71 (88.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
8 (10.0%)

I could use some help
1 (1.2%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
33 (41.8%)

One other person
21 (26.6%)

More than one other person
25 (31.6%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[lastrega]

I feel like the things I'm disappointed about (cancelling the research education series I devised, the trip up to Darwin for work that was going to be a daiquiri extravaganza for my birthday, going out to the waterhole for a picnic) are all pretty trivial things to be sad about in times like this, especially when the stakes for people around me are so high. But feelings nonetheless.

I'm also having complex feelings about how my folks are managing. We're low contact and they're on the low information diet, but they're also old and crumbly and still my parents despite being pretty terrible people. I spent an hour online sorting them out with grocery delivery yesterday because they don't go out and are freaking out about running low on things. Things are never just one thing, are they?

[jesse_the_k]

Never one thing!

And I finally learned in my fifth decade that anyone's unhappiness is their unhappiness and therefore valid. Comparing myself to others doesn't make me feel less unhappy.

[feng_shui_house]

I'm glad you are expressing your feelings. You should be able to say you're stressed/disappointed/uncertain- however you feel, it's real.

*Huggles*