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 #23785 Daily check-in poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 78

How are you doing?

I am OK
66 (84.6%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
12 (15.4%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
33 (42.9%)

One other person
24 (31.2%)

More than one other person
20 (26.0%)

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

[we_are_spc]

My heart hurts. John Prine. Really Covid?

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I almost put 'could use some help'...but I just...don't know what to say.

I got to walk outside to the mailbox (Which was empty) so I feel better for that. Mom's package of masks for the family should be here tomorrow, I'm here with a cup of coffee and a new game called SoundRTS...and I still have no motivation. The new schedule I've started is slipping...and while I know it'll take a few tries, I'm still probably being harder on myself than I should be, and it's hard to lighten up on myself and slow down.

Unfortunately, I come by this honestly; my mom is very self--conscious and is also hard on herself in a lot of ways, so it's a little harder to make myself break the cycle of it...psychologically speaking.

I just...I'm trying to find ways to simulate hugs because being a very tactile person in this is rough. The suggetions people have given in comments are very helpful, though, so...it's not as bad as it was before.

Now if only I could find something to make my legs stop phantom itching... Because oddly enough, that's where the worst of hte sensations are.

-T~

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

(Do you have a sweatshirt or hoodie you don't mind if it gets a little stretched out? Sometimes pulling your arms in from the sleeves can be comforting.)

Gah, I had the leg charley horse thing several nights back So Annoying.

I'm trying to think what confined quarters improvised equipment exercise might help. The internet should have enough soundscapes to get that part of being outside. If you are good with ground exercises, you could do those horizontal biking ones to a soundscape and imagine the wind and scent?

[we_are_spc]

...Yeah, I could probably find one. Especially since...desperation. LOL

What do you mean by the horrizontal biking exercises? Like, they might be hard to explain, but I'm not sure what you mean by that bit of wording.

-T~

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Okay, it can be done in two ways, on a chair if it's correctly chosen or sitting on the floor. I'm going to explain the on the floor because the selection of a chair is so dependent on Chairs had and known.

Sit on floor, stretch legs out, leaning back as needed. Now, move legs as if riding a bike. So, legs are going to be extending opposite each other, knees bending and flexing as appropriate.

I've never rode a recumbent bike but this would simulate that for given values. It's missing terrain, but I will give you an Illinois stretch of road, with a surprising absence of pavement changes or potholes. Add sound.

Hope that helps.

[we_are_spc]

It does. Thank you! :)

-T~