Oh no, ND! Even if he makes you a nice carving, not soothing at all.

He cut down a bunch of trees in his yard, and is apparently now carving the stumps into chairs, and other things. This has been going on for at least a week.

When I moved from my last house the new owner took down a mango tree that was probably near 100 years old. My former neighbor took some of the beautiful wood and made a bowl for me from it. It took months after the tree was felled, something to do with aging the wood or something. Bowl is super pretty though.

Same, DXM. It's like I've come home.

I've basically been practicing social isolation my whole life. This is my time.

Oh yes.

I have four roommates.

(And a bonus my-girlfriend-has-moved-in-for-the-quarantine-and-I-never-said-a-word roommate. At least she's stopped moving back and forth since she got furloughed.)

It's a good-sized house, but other than going for walks and the occasional food errand I haven't been alone in almost a month. It's making me a little crazy. At the risk of going full-hippie, I feel them around me all the time.

Under the stairs, while everybody else is at Prom. Wait, where did all these people come from, under my stairs?

Yay for pandemic sangria. The New version of 'make lemonade'.

Also yay for Whedonverse syncretism. I didn't know there was a name for it.

his monologue is not very internal

I long for the days when I too knew the love of a laconic man. "In your head, honey. You're narrating your life again."

I got my car title! I can go do all my car related stuff ...but not now but later. Technically the DMV is open and they are taking appointments but I am not going through the DMV offices right now.

I think my sewing machine is well and truly broken this time. I may have to get the backup out of the basement -- it's made of cast iron...

Yay askye! That is great.

I had to go to the hospital pharmacy today because that is where my prescription went before I would have it sent elsewhere. They had you call and pay, and then brought it to you all masked up. The worker said that retired folks were liking it so much they were going to keep it up.

Since I was already there (it is quite a ways from my house), I went to my normal liquor store. She was letting in one person at a time and wearing a mask. I had a scarf because of COURSE I haven't made myself a mask yet and she gave me a mask (we are quite friendly- she took my phone number because she tried to call me to let me know she was open). I also went to CVS to get some necessities (no toilet paper, but I needed batteries). They had good social distancing.

I also took a walk in Mt. Hope Cemetery, which is a favorite walk. This time I peeked in some mausoleums which had glass doors, and they had beautiful stained glass windows.

This is probably the last time I will need to go out for awhile. One of my Uber drivers (an older man) was still skeptical. The other one is actually a nurse, and had me sanitize right after getting in the car. We had a good chat.

This was my first Uber ride in a couple of weeks, because it seems to not be the best idea, but my other options are a bus or a friend. The bus seems like I should avoid, and I am not sure friend's cars would be sanitized. I can smell the Clorox wipes in the Ubers. It is probably my last unless I have to go to the doctor or something. It made me wonder how I would get to help if I did get sick.