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 Monday) to midnight (8pm Tuesday Eastern Time).

Poll #23736 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 83

How are you doing?

I am OK
73 (88.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
9 (10.8%)

I could use some help
1 (1.2%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
35 (42.7%)

One other person
27 (32.9%)

More than one other person
20 (24.4%)

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

[serafina20]

I sat down and wrote a schedule for myself this morning and I stuck to it. I felt really productive today. I hope I'm able to keep it up.

[we_are_spc]

I need to do that. I think it'll help.

I just...don't do cooped up well. At all. Especially when it feels like I'll never get out-ever again. Which intellectually I know isn't true, but tell emotion mind that shit. >.>

[serafina20]

A few things are helping me. One, my work (I'm a teacher) has mandatory online training that needs to get done, so I have that to work on. I also have a novel to write.

Are you allowed outside at all where you are? If I couldn't get out for a daily walk, I'd be in much worse shape.

[we_are_spc]

Yeah, but it's not very accessible for a visually impaired person. There's not a sidewalk, and the complex is one big loup, so it's easy to get lost without eyes.

I'm thinking of at least trecking to the mailbox and back just to do *something*.

-T~

[serafina20]

That's terrible. I'm sorry that it's not accessible to you. I don't know the weather where you live, but it might help to just step outside for a few minutes and feel the fresh air on your face. And, yes, trek to the mailbox to do something. Just think of mundane things that you can do to keep yourself occupied. Do you listen to any podcasts?

[we_are_spc]

Yeah, and I need new ones. I need to binge nightveil like woe, and there's a filkcast......Alice Isn't Dead...*sighs* I feel like I'm so behind on some of them that I'll never get cauvght up. LOL

I'm also trying to study magic. So that's on there, too.

(I wish I knew how to gat Amazon devices to play podcasts...

-T~

[serafina20]

I tend to listen to more inspirational stuff, but if you're interested, I really like Happier with Gretchen Rubin and a new one called Unlocking Us with Brene Brown. I need to get into some story-telling podcasts.

[we_are_spc]

If you're into scifi, Escapepod is pretty damn good. If you want a general book one, Book Bistro is run by a group of friends of mine, and it's pretty good, too.

I'm not sure where else to send you, though.

I'll look at the two you recommended me, thanks.

[we_are_spc]

... Gods, I need to work on that shit. (More the background things. Which worlds am I writing in; when are birthdays, shit like that.) I have a writing blog, and I'm so disorganized in my behind the scenes character stuf it's unreal.

...

OK, written up a schedule. Sent it to a friend. We'll see how it goes. Doing it a day at a ti me. I figure it's a good way to start. Start small. If this week goes well, then I'll do three days at once, so on.

[serafina20]

One day is at a time is all you need. Good luck!

[we_are_spc]

Thanks. :)

[tamsin]

Yay for being productive! I don't have a set schedule, but a number of tasks I'd like to get done.

[we_are_spc]

I am...not okay emotionally. Every time I slow down, all I want to do is cry. For no reason whatsoever. I'm with two other people, and still feel as if I'm living by myself.

I love my choice-nephew, but if I have to hear about'finding the ghost' one more time in the next couple of days, I swear I will scream. ... Hint: he'll start in again tomorrow because ghosts are his favorite things right now.

...

I just...I have a Star Wars game tonight, so I should be okay, but I just...I'm running out of cope fast, and I can't even retail therapy with needed things because no money. :( :(

-T~

[feng_shui_house]

*HUGGLES* Can you listen to some music that cheers you?

[we_are_spc]

Yeah, and it helps, but I need something to physically *do*. Like I don't contribute to the household much because *see abouve finances*...and my room mates are being good about it, but they are also not happy about it because I eat so damn much and they're basically pulling my weight along with the three of theirs. And their two year old is already eating like a kid twice his age.

And, dammit, I want my own comfort foods. *sighs*

Also, *snuggles back* ... that helps. I'm a tactile person. I have skin hunger like a boss...I know I keep saying that, but it's a thing) because, well, massage therapist. >.>

-T~

[feng_shui_house]

I've lived alone for years. After half a century of living with family who pretty much stomped on my self-worth constantly it was a step up. So sometimes. just sometimes, I put my hands on my own shoulders and hug myself and pretend it's someone else.

I think it helps fool the primitive part of my brain a little bit.

*HUGGLES YOU* I am warm and squishy, like a big cat.

[we_are_spc]

...

Huh, I wonder if that would work if one of my headmates was...sort of in the arms a bit. *now to experiment*... :d

*curls up* I love big cats. I have a few as headmates (Hello shapeshifters...I just wish I had a bigger cat to hug here at home. *sighs*)

Don't get me wrong, I love my two smaller cats, but gawdammit, a mainecoon would be nice.

-T~

[feng_shui_house]

A Ragdoll cat would also be nice! My 'mutt' cat I'm pretty sure is half Ragdoll. Her mom stashed her kittens in my yard so I had a good look at her before she decided they didn't need her and she vanished. They're big, fluffy, and very people oriented. They tend to go limp when you pick them up because they just plain love affection.

*sends you an imaginary Ragdoll cat to hug*

[we_are_spc]

*cuddlecouddle* :) <3

[azurelunatic]

I didn't think we had colored paper (for the putting up colored paper in a window to alert neighbors if you are/are not okay) but I realized while we don't have large sheets of colored paper, we certainly do have small neon cards that are intended for notes/greetings, with matching envelopes. So we have one of those taped up.

[minim_calibre]

Their customers (universities) overloaded with remote needs, my spouse was up until 3 am working on his product's Zoom integration.

Note: I start work at 8 am. The office is attached to our bedroom. There is no door.

I am tired, my head hurts, and yesterday the enormity of everything hit me like a semi into a 1967 Impala (I am apparently never letting go of that image, mumble mumble fandoms later), but at least last night I discovered that, no, I wasn't low on flour when I found and got 10lbs of it yesterday afternoon, I'd just squirreled a few bags of it away in the pull-out pantry instead of the pantry-pantry or the baking cart! So now I have extra flour that I can deliver to gwyn when we figure out the logistics!

[tamsin]

Ugh, that sucks. I hope your head feels better soon!

[feng_shui_house]

Mail carrier picked up my first batch of 16 cloth face masks for donation. Starting to get the hang of sewing again, it's been so long I had to refresh my memory on just about everything.

Wrote another little ficlet in which the character fight coronavirus. This one turned out to be a crossover between Dr. Kildare (the 1961 version) and Teen Wolf (the TV version). My mind is a very odd place...

[chanter1944]

Excuse the random comment out of nowhere, but you've now got me wondering if you've ever heard the Dr. Kildare radio series. It's by no means my favorite OTR series out there, but there are worse.

[feng_shui_house]

No, I haven't. I was just remembering the 1960s TV show. ;^) Richard Chamberlain was SO SHINY. He was like the model for the Ken doll. ;^)

I have got several DVDs I WANT to watch, but haven't had time in between sewing and ficcing.

*note* I like random comments out of nowhere.

*also note, auto-correct is obviously not a fan. It makes fic into fit and pic and flick and... SHEESH.

[chanter1944]

Not a great day, but I've had worse, and I have another verse to add to the ever-lengthening song that goes 'my boss is a sweetheart'. Turns out I've still got health insurance, since I've got a job, I just can't access it at the moment. Better yet, my company is paying health insurance premiums for furloughed employees! I did not expect the latter at all - I didn't entirely expect the former, to be perfectly honest.

Tonight I've eaten far too many potstickers. Oops. :P

My kitchen smells delightfully like freshly-baked banana bread, which I have not sampled as yet and won't for a while. See above. :)

[tamsin]

Feeling better today. I spent a bit of time poking through my closet and found some things to give away.