Checking In

[twistedchick]

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

Poll #24302 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 54

How are you doing?

I am OK
43 (81.1%)

I am not OK but I don't need help right now
10 (18.9%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
22 (41.5%)

One other person
16 (30.2%)

More than one other person
15 (28.3%)

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

[cynthia1960]

Physically ok, but utterly disgusted.

[mecurtin]

The night before last I had my first pandemic dream. I was in some other state (not NJ), at a grocery store, and no-one was wearing masks! I kept trying to tell them nicely to put them on, then not so nicely.

There was also an Accidental Toddler Acquisition plot, and the orphanage didn't have enough masks for the staff. So I was trying to order masks using the Extra Frustrating Smart Flip Phone I have in my dreams ...

[hitokage]

I don't even know how to answer the first question anymore, probably due to painfog from the last two days of just constant pain, mostly low level, but still exhausting.

[mecurtin]

Is there anything we can do to help? Especially to help you guys maintain a secure lockdown as your state goes up in flames?

[hitokage]

I keep hitting a wall of "what do I ask for that is helpful?" because my brain still has my mother in it and her bs that asking for help is a sign of weakness ... but also just in general a sense of I don't know anymore. The one good thing about being rural is that we really don't have contact with people even with the mandates being eased (because what's six thousand dead kids if it means billionaires aren't asked to pay more taxes?). But since we don't have that much direct contact with people other than each other, we're going a bit stir crazy, even with the internet. Maybe some marshmallows we can roast on the flames? ^^; Or masks maybe.

I have both a Patreon (creative writing) and Ko-fi if someone wants to talk commissions or something? IDK, suddenly people visiting. XD

[ETA] ok, now that guests have gone back home ... more support for my writing would be good, even just more eyeballs would be a start (I kinda have a niche I write in, so that's a thing, but all the completely-free-for-all original fiction writing can be found on this tag, should anyone be interested in taking a look).

Our landlady also clearly doesn't understand/care that we're still in a pandemic and is being extra stress I don't need, but short of someone volunteering to mow and/or haul off boxes for us poor housebound crips....

... I feel like there was something else, but the painfog is back and ow so much ow.

[fred_mouse]

My current issues are entirely self-inflicted (15 km bush walk) and tomorrow I will hopefully feel good. But ow.

[feng_shui_house]

Finally got around to sorting out/fixing up for the internet/ photos taken around my yard over the last few months, so tomorrow I will try to see if I can get them uploaded to share (I would not flood the comm with them, just put a notice here if I do get them posted to feng_shui_house) & possibly they'll give folks a few moments of distraction.

Mostly pretty lizards and butterflies and a few birds.

One dead fish, but that has a story behind it-- I'm still not sure how it wound up there-- possibly it actually fell from the sky-- the day before had been extremely severe weather so who knows, possibly a water spout picked it up and dropped it on my sidewalk. Weird fish- it had *fangs*. I buried it under a tiny rose bush, which seems to like fish...

[mecurtin]

Fangs, eh? Did you take a picture? I am fascinated.

[feng_shui_house]

Yes, I do have a picture of Dracufish. :^) I think I'll post that one separately tomorrow because dead fish is not to everyone's taste. (Although the rose bush loves it.)