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

Poll #23750 Daily poll

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

How are you doing?

I am OK
69 (86.2%)

I am not OK but I don't need help right now
11 (13.8%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
33 (41.2%)

One other person
26 (32.5%)

More than one other person
21 (26.2%)

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

[elayna]

My brother's roommate has a fever and cough but was able to get a COVID-19 test and was found negative, so today has put me on a relief high.

Then a friend emailed something like... "Yay, you can go back to normal pandemic stress." Which thankfully just made me laugh out loud.

So yes, I'm back to normal pandemic stress, but not freaking out over my brother at least.

[dine]

yeah, that's a relief. an odd one, but a relief.

[mecurtin]

"relief high" -- yes, I know EXACTLY what you mean.

[we_are_spc]

I am full of pork soup and bread. I have a 'one day at a time' schedule (With a friend who's not afraid to put a huge (metaphorically speaking "Why" when I don't fill it out for a day, I hhave music for the weekend.

I managed to get out for a little today, and I have decided that interacting with the insane child to keep him from being bored enough to destroy the entire hous is a small proice to pay for repeted games of looking for a ghost every five minutes.

...

Right now, I'm okay, let's see what happens when I lay down in my bed tonight.

-T~

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Daffodils are starting to swell buds and it was sunny.

[kathmandu]

Flowers around here seem to be confused. I'm seeing crocuses to forsythias, all in bloom at the same time.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Hmmmmmmm.

[mecurtin]

My brother is getting better, maybe? He first started showing symptoms 2 weeks ago. He has a low-grade fever and a slight cough, but nothing worse. Yesterday he had a headache, but it's better today.

Unfortunately one of the other friars who's older and in frailer health has had it progress to pneumonia. They're probably going to have to transfer him to the hospital, which in New York right now is ... not good.

The first parishoner deaths have happened, and they're working out how funerals and mourning are going to work.

My parents continue to be scrupulously careful about maintaining isolation, thank goodness. But not being able to go out for PT is really not good for them, my mother especially--her legs have gotten very weak.

[darkemeralds]

I'm glad your brother is getting better.

I now have one friend who has lost a loved one (as it happens, not to the virus, just to extreme age) who will not be able to observe funeral rites. It's an aspect of this pandemic that I don't think anybody knew to plan for.

I hope the frail friar makes it.

[feng_shui_house]

Nothing unusual with me-- still sewing face masks for donation and still writing characters fighting the pandemic. Today's fic has the Addams family handling staying at home with their usual cheerful off the wall view of life.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23433010

I wanted a little treat, so I scrambled an eggie with cream and bacon bits, and put it in a gluten free ice cream cake cup.

[we_are_spc]

Ooooh!

Speaking of. We're having breakfast cups for dinner tonight (Probably not gluten free though)...because so many eggs. We are all excited for dinner tonight now. Becajuse those are one of our collective faves that our room mate makes. *mouthwaters*

-T~

[feng_shui_house]

NOM NOM NOM. Now I feel hungry. :^)

Can't eat right now, I'm currently wearing a homemade face mask, trying to get used to it, so when I DO have to go out (hopefully not for a month) to get groceries, I will have trained my body to accept it and not have these ITCH ITCH I MUST SCRATCH impulses.

Darn, I failed and scratched. OH, well, training is slow.

[we_are_spc]

...

I need someone to discribe how to make a non-sewing face mask. I have a desposable one that I dab with hydrogen peroxide, but I want a washable one, or two.

-T~

Non-Sewing (just folding and 2 hair elastics) cloth face mask

[feng_shui_house]

I found a good one. It uses only a square bandana, handkerchief or scarf (the bloggers use one that’s 18 inches by 18 inches) and two hair elastics.

Here are the instructions from the post.
To make this easy DIY face mask even easier (not to mention more comfortable), use hair elastics that are slightly worn in, so they’re not too tight behind the ears, and pick a scarf made with a cotton blend rather than flimsy silk.
Here’s how to do it.

1 Place the scarf or handkerchief facedown on a flat surface.
2 Fold the top half down to the midline of the scarf, then fold the bottom half up to the midline.
3 Flip it over so that the seam faces down.
4 Fold the new top half down to the midline, and the bottom half up.
5 Flip it over again so that the seam faces up.
6 Loop a hair tie over each end of the folded rectangle.
7 Fold the free sides of the rectangle in toward the middle, layering one side over the other.
8 Flip it over! Loop the elastics over each ear to wear, making sure the mask covers your mouth and nose.



I include the link for others who might like to view the video, too.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/how-to-make-a-diy-no-sew-face-mask-with-fabric-and-hair-elastics


Note: In the video, the hair elastics get put on about 1/3 of the way across the fabric, so the fabric that extends past them can be flipped over to nearly meet the other elastic.

I hope this helps!

Re: Non-Sewing (just folding and 2 hair elastics) cloth face mask

[we_are_spc]

Yaaay, thank you! <3

-T/J~

[jb_slasher]

Work is frustrating.

It's the time of month in which my hormones provide brain weasels so if I'm not okay, it's due to unrelated-to-pandemic brain weasels. The past two days have been an emotional rollercoaster, today feels a bit better.

Yesterday I cooked a dish (will probably last me until Saturday), re-watched a movie, read a non-fiction book and enjoyed some fic.

Today I need to make a grocery run and do the dishes, maybe put on a load of laundry as well. I feel exhausted just thinking about it. I'll see how many spoons I have at the end of the workday and go from there.

In other news, winter made a comeback.

[firestar]

Had a virtual knit night with my knitting group last night and it was so great to see everyone, especially since we're a monthly meet-up group, not a weekly one. While I'm not particularly feeling the isolation yet it was still great to see everyone and catch up and hopefully it's going to be a weekly thing while we're all in lockdown.

[fred_mouse]

I think the family are starting to hit a new normal. Not sure what will happen next week when Youngest is officially on school holidays. I've suggested that they do the refurbishing of the cubby house they thought about doing over the summer -- we have at least some of the necessary equipment already, so no having to go shopping.

[d_generate_girl]

Work has tripled (online education sucks *balls*), student enrollment has dropped 60% and the corporate overlords have decided that they're cutting pay. My roommate is driving me insane by intermittently screaming to disinfect everything and then going out to multiple places to hang out with people. Because, you know, transmission isn't a thing.

[feng_shui_house]

From my time zone, this post is a day behind, so you know, it's April 2nd here for me. I just had a nice little surprise- the Make Masks folk sent me a link to a virtual bouquet in appreciation for my contributions of face masks.

It's so nice to get a pleasant surprise- especially these days!