Daily Check-in

[starwatcher]

 
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Wednesday, June 14, to midnight on Thursday, June 15. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #29115 Daily Check-in

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 33

How are you doing?

I am OK.
23 (69.7%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
10 (30.3%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
13 (39.4%)

One other person.
15 (45.5%)

More than one other person.
5 (15.2%)

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

[kathmandu]

My new masks order arrived today! :)

[adafrog]

Yay!

[ride_4ever]

Yays! What kind did you get?

(I still mask every day at work and in other large public settings. I own about 20 masks, several of them with fannish motifs.)

[kathmandu]

Just regular Auras. I like the extra-thick padding over the nose, and they fit me well all around -- those vertical-fold masks that a lot of people like, don't seem to fit well under my chin.

I'd be interested in something that looked prettier or protected better, it's just a slow process finding things when you can't return things you've tried on. Recommendations are always happily received!

[ride_4ever]

Well, it's been a bit of a "trial process" for me. I've bought masks from fannish sources that are decorated with images from my fandoms and I've bought masks on Etsy for the just-simply-pretty. Some fit better than others. Some are better protection than others (for the less protective ones I wear them OVER a more protective plain mask).

And beware that there are mask-sellers who DO say they take returns. Ugh. Avoid those. I do not want to contemplate that those sellers may be reselling tried-on masks.

[fred_mouse]

we are several days into testing whether one of the offspring should not eat gluten; current evidence suggests yes. We are fortunate that both our household, and their fiance's household are already sufficiently gluten free, but argh, the complexity. This puts us at three from three who have inherited some of my food issues.

[kathmandu]

Oh, gee. Best wishes to you all on that.

Going gluten-free is complex. Fortunately there are a lot more products and recipes available now than in previous decades.

[fred_mouse]

Thank you for the good wishes. And oh, so true on things being easier. I started cooking GF in the mid-90s, when housemate was GF, and it was so much harder. These days we have cereal all our GF family members can tolerate, and pasta that doesn't turn to sludge, and a range of easily sourced flour and so many things. And it isn't all that many things that they are having to drop, because all communal meals are GF anyway. But they did end up taking their own packet of pasta to the social thing tonight, it being a bit late as a change for the host to be able to do anything.