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

Poll #23741 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 75

How are you doing?

I am OK
63 (84.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
12 (16.0%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
34 (45.3%)

One other person
23 (30.7%)

More than one other person
18 (24.0%)

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

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I am starting to hit the issue that while I'm not on claustrophobic lockdown (Midwestern, homeowner, permitted to do grocery runs) I don't know when I'll be able to see a movie again. My internet is too slow for that. I've got tv to rewatch, but only particular things.

And there are some things I was intending to do (finish the sunroom) I can't do because I didn't complete it before the situation and I was exhausted and didn't expect a pandemic.

[elayna]

I was going to put in some new plants this spring, and the nurseries are open, but it just feels irresponsible to go buy azaleas right now. I’m glad I can go to the grocery store but it’s frustrating, all the normal things that can’t happen. *hugs*

[we_are_spc]

Right? Like...I'm stuck in my own county right now because I don't want to bus to Cuyahoga...and that's where one of my closer friends (Who is also blind) lives...and...we didn't know how much we missed seeing each other until we couldn't.

And now it's like...sure, we can be on the phone, but it's not the same as that warm body and the energy in the same space with you.

-T~

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I wanted to finally plant asparagus but I think the plants won't be available by the time that trip could happen.

[twistedchick]

Asparagus can surprise you. It's been around since the Romans (yeah, they called it asparagus, too) and it generally puts down roots and regrows from them every year. We had an asparagus patch when I was growing up that was planted in about 1949 and, as far as I am aware, is still putting up shoots. I think if you plant it when you can, if you don't get it this year you will next year. Just don't mess with the roots.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

The plants sell out fairly early and they may not bother to stock them. Also, I can't walk there and back.

Also, with an urban lot, I'm wanting the purple improved variety.

[torncurtain]

Just feeling worse and worse today.

[elayna]

I hope tomorrow is better. *hugs*

[torncurtain]

thanks :)

[kathmandu]

Sending virtual tea and sympathy.

[torncurtain]

thank you :)

[rhi]

I'm doing better today, but I did not realize just how badly perimenopause anxiety was going to heterodyne with ongoing environment until I woke up today doing so damn much better. {{hugs}} to everyone who wants one.

[we_are_spc]

Hugs back.

I want one physical so badly. I cry every time I can *amost* feel a virtual one. I give them and resieve them anyway because, dammit, I fucking love hugs.

-T~

[rhi]

Many, many {{hugs}} and I'm sorry they're only digital!

[we_are_spc]

{{{<3}}}

Thank you. :d

[we_are_spc]

I can't. I'm going to have to turn off the news apps. The celebs dying is getting at me.

...

I want to cry. I'm so damned touch deprived it's unreal. (I'm a very tactile person on top of being a massage therapist, it blody sucks) ... and my room mates have pain conditions+touch sensitivities that means that hugging one of them is out of the question, and the other isn't a hugger, so that's out too.

...

I was this close to saying 'I could use some help' but...that's something one *can* help with.

I miss different people. I love my room mates, but I want different people for a change. *...all of us want different people. Just because we share a body doesn't mean we also don't need physical others, too.)

However, I wrote out a schedule for the day, and it helped a bit, except for getting up a lot later than I wanted. Whoops. ... so there's something at least.

-T^SPC

[mecurtin]

Can you hug the toddler in your house? Even just hold them while they nap?

[we_are_spc]

He does give hugs, and he sat on me today to play with his activity table, so that helped...more than I want to admit.

But so far as naps? Nope. That's a mommy and daddy only thing. I'm auntie.

-T~

[kindkit]

My landlord will only accept rent payments made through an electronic payments system, and that system is only available (where I live) through Smith's grocery store or Walmart. So I went to Smith's, thinking to combine paying rent with picking up some groceries I needed (of the sort that I can't find at the fancy, healthy/natural grocery store where I work).

The Smith's I went to had closed its payments service because the person working there had to go home, and apparently no one else was trained to do it. I . . . was frustrated and nearly became That Customer, but managed to restrain myself.

Then I went to Walmart. Where the payments service was unavailable because their system was down.

Finally I had to go to the other Smith's location and was able at last to pay my rent. Luckily this isn't as huge an inconvenience as it would be for, say, someone unable to drive, but it still meant I was at three large retail establishments at a time when we're all supposed to be avoiding crowds.

All because the apartment management company decided, a few years ago, that accepting checks was too much of a hassle. *fumes*

ETA: And it's back to work for me tomorrow, as this is the last day of my weekend. It's . . . I'm glad to have a job, and I know a lot of people who work retail are in a really bad employment/financial situation right now. But I really, really envy the people who are either working from home or who have been given paid leave. I'm finding it kind of difficult to handle seeing those people complain about having to be at home.

[we_are_spc]

Oh gawd, I'm gladc I don't live in your appartment place. I would be screaming non-accessibility all over the damned twitterverse. Because that's just...WTF?

That's like...who knows how many people exposed because of that bull sshit. >.>

-T~

[dine]

I've been fully aware of just how dire things are/will be but have been maintaining my equilibrium, but it all hit me hard in the middle of the night. I'm feeling more fragile than I did a couple days ago, even though nothing major has changed in my life

[minim_calibre]

I am sorry. That was me on Sunday and it's just the pits.

[dine]

thank you - I'm doing better today. but you're right, it's just the pits. may we both skip that the next time round

[serafina20]

School's been canceled for the rest of the year. Well, moved online for the rest of the year. I'm more upset than I thought i'd be.

[goddess47]

Not at the level some others are, but I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow as a followup to the gall bladder removal 2 weeks ago (which seems like eternity). I'm not having problems but I have some follow up questions and I wanted the small errand as something to do.

Not that I'm going anywhere but to the doc's and back (and it's at most a 15 minute drive each way), but the hubby decides that he wants to go with me, mostly to get out of the house... He'll wait in the car, since he knows they won't want him in the waiting room, but... it's only the two of us and we have our own spaces in the house, and believe me, I use mine. But I really wanted the hour by myself. Out of the house. Alone.

He's also fretting about grocery shopping. He is health compromised (heart problems and rheumatoid arthritis), so he's projecting that *I* am the one worried about going grocery shopping. I'm just staying away from the first of the month and I may do the 'pick up at the store' option on Friday... I'll have to see about that...

Not a bad problem to have... just needed to say it somewhere! ;-)

[minim_calibre]

Group speakerphone call with my grandmother-in-law, who is confined to quarters in her retirement home for the duration. Was nice to hear a voice I don't live with or work with.

I'm still feeling unbalanced and vaguely numb at this point. (But not comfortably. No, the bad kind of numb where you feel a bit of the pain and none of the pleasure. It's VERY DISCONCERTING.)

[wyomingnot]

I was fnally able to have my cleaning lady in. We've both been on lockdown so long, it was nice to have another person in my home to talk with. As I'm on half-pay right now, having her out is not necessarily a financially sound idea, but ... it is SO GOOD to have a clean home again.

aaaand I just dropped an open bag of snack mix on the floor. So much for that.

[fred_mouse]

I'm a bit freaked about the fact that one of the carer's at the home my mother-in-law is in has tested positive to the virus, so despite them closing to visitors before everything else was shut down, she is still at risk. I have no way to tell, from the other side of the world, how much risk that puts her at.

[bleedtoblue]

My clinic has finally pulled itself together and I am going to be able to 'see' my clients via DoxyMe. That will certainly make my day go faster and I'll feel like I'm doing something worthwhile.

[feng_shui_house]

Yesterday I finished another 25 cloth face masks- Postal carrier is scheduled to pick up today. I wrote another Battling Coronavirus ficlette (Nick Fury VS the World Security Council-- I think we all know how that played out).

Started cutting out a fresh batch of masks, only my left knee decided to be tricky so out of prudence I've paused to take a break.