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 Saturday) to midnight (8pm Sunday Eastern Time).

Poll #23767 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 77

How are you doing?

I am OK
68 (88.3%)

I am not OK but I don't need help right now
8 (10.4%)

I could use some help
1 (1.3%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
30 (39.5%)

One other person
29 (38.2%)

More than one other person
17 (22.4%)

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

[sylvanwitch]

We went for a long and glorious walk in the late afternoon sunshine, exploring a new-to-us trail that I didn't know was even there, so that was both an adventure and some much-needed communing with nature time.

[feng_shui_house]

Had to cut back on the sewing-- the sewing's not too hard on me, but the ironing was making my back ache.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

In the meantime I did write another Battling Coronavirus fic. This one is a Despicable Me fic, with minions.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23486380

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Gardened, hellebore are starting to bloom and I got much of the Siberian iris cleared of last year's leaves.

[minim_calibre]

Had an adventure today, for our modern values of adventure. I took a fuckton of groceries to my parents, who have now been at this for most of a month (we brought them the first Costco delivery on the 7th of March) and dropped them off, which allowed me to see my mother from a great distance (more than six feet in any direction! I think the deck's got to be at least twenty feet up from the road and then at least another twenty back). And, as I was going down to that part of town anyway, dropped some stuff off for gwyn and had a too-short conversation through her window, but OMG, seeing people I know and don't live with is amazing! Even for short periods of time, even from a distance.

I'm keeping busy. Made marmalade again this morning, made clam chowder tonight. Told my manager on Friday what a rough week it had been and she admitted she'd burst into tears a day or two before. We're trying to keep up morale. Most of the newer people on the team haven't worked remote before, so we've been guiding them through that. (I've set my Zoom background to a picture I took in Hawaii almost a year ago. Seems like longer ago than that now.)

I think I've settled into "not okay, don't need help" for the long run at this point.

[dragoness_e]

I made brownies for the first time in a very long time.

[sylvanwitch]

I swear, I've been craving brownies for DAYS and have been resisting the lure of a box mix in the baking cupboard. It's good to know I'm not the only one craving them!

[jb_slasher]

My brother is in a really bad place mentally and needs help. This news came to me yesterday via Dad, they'd been talking on the phone about it, and Dad asked me to help my brother. They are both pretty quiet about their issues except with each other but Dad is really worried now since he's over 70 and can't leave the house.

So. I slept really poorly last night and I'm supposed to try and be supportive today. I am really not feeling confident at all.

[we_are_spc]

Ug, I feel you there. So much. Good luck.

-T~

[hitokage]

I got to play in the dirt and yeah, it's terrible quality dirt (a lot of clay) and I'm *still* picking shards of glass out of it because freakin' rednecks, but I've planted six rows of vegetable seeds ... so about a quarter of what's planned, maybe a little less.

Though if I could figure out how to apply for further financial assistance so I could get some more gardening tools (like some pruning shears and maybe a hand scythe), that would be nice. On the one hand, they say unemployment has been expanded to freelancers ... and on the other, they keep saying the systems are all crashing from so many applying at once.

But we're managing to get groceries. Even if a friend of tried to suggest we appeal to a local church for help (I'm Buddhist-Pagan, wife's agnostic). Ah, living in the rural South....

[kathmandu]

One of my relatives applied for unemployment (online) yesterday; he did succeed, but it took three hours to get all the way through what is designed as a short-and-streamlined process.

[we_are_spc]

1)...insomnia, boo. My brain is making it hard for me to sleep, it won't shut down. ... Just die already brain weezles, please.
2) this lack of touch thing means the struggle is real. Can skin hunger actually make your skin itch? My legs feel like they're about ready to fall asleep most days now, even when they aren't. Sure the toddler helps (I swear to goodness I've never gottn so many hugs from him as I have during this last two weeks. And I'm not complaining whatsoever.)
3)...I'm slightly okay due to an amazing friend who sent just enough money (And by just enough, I mean *exactly* enough) for me to do a small bit of retail therapy to support a small business, so now I have computer speakers on their way to me which means I no longer have to be under headphones 24-7. Which is a huge relief, let me just tell you.

...

I still feel on the edge of falling apart, though, and this not sleeping regular hours ain't helpin' none.

...

Is it wrong of us to be looking forward to CPAP supplies just to be getting *something* on a regular basis? Like for serious.

-Trausio/Jay^SPC

[gwyn]

I haven't felt okay about going out for a while, because I have a cough that's pretty nasty but nothing else serious so I don't know if I'm infected or not. minim_calibre brought me some groceries when she made a run for her folks, who live south of me, and oh my god, I almost cried. Not just for groceries and the kindness of that, but because I got to see a friend and have a conversation, even if it was just through the partially opened window. I felt like we should have been doing Kirk-Spock hands through the glass, I just miss hanging out with her so much. Also got a call from my ex, with whom I am walking buddies, he's going to bring me a mask his wife made, and it was also nice to hear a voice of a human.

For some reason, my lawn guys showed up even though they're not essential business, and mowed the lawn, and I had to give them a check and make sure they understood not to touch it without gloves or use hand sanitizer. I feel terrible for them, because they have to make a living, and I know that some of his family are in a precarious state as undocumented immigrants, but I was really nervous about some of my neighbors getting on their privilege high horses and going after them. Fortunately, that didn't happen, but I'll have to warn them away next time they're due, since I didn't think they would show up this time.