Oh, make some noise! It is NoiseDesign's birthday today. Woo! Happy birthday!
When I suffer through the broadcasting from home segments on the news I often think that the quality surely pains Drew even more than it pains me. (If he indulges in the bleak broadcasts at all) Yesterday, I think, I saw Nancy Pelosi from her kitchen and it was the absolute worst. Barely understandable. A quarter of them are well done, maybe half okay considering the circumstances, and another quarter just really need tech support urgently.
Happy birthday, ND!
The closest I get to a vegetable is green powder thrown in a smoothie.
I thought maybe I'd start cooking and baking during this enforced at-home time, but no. Like Popeye and Jehovah, I am what I am.
Our farmers market has changed to drive-through pick-up of preorders in a local park, instead of wandering through a downtown parking lot.
I love sourdough bread, but I'm definitely not baking my own. It takes too many of my spoons just to make an omelette. I don't know where all my spoons went.
The masks make it hard to breathe. I think they must be especially hard on asthmatics. I get anxiety whenever something's covering my face.
Toddson, thanks for the heads-up about water stagnating in unused offices.
I miss a few very specific people, but I'm actually starting to feel the relief of not having to interact with the general public on a daily basis.
Me too. Except for a handful of friends/family, I'm not missing people at all. I'm actually anxious about the end of the pandemic restrictions and having to go into the office and interact with people. I'm doing video chats with co-workers every other day and that's enough for me. My co-workers are talking about how they miss the office and I'm like... what?
Still looking forward to Katie moving in, though. As Buffy said about Spike, I can be alone with her here.
Laura, that's a fascinating dream. Do you ever wonder if sometimes we drop into other people's lives for a bit?
Do you ever wonder if sometimes we drop into other people's lives for a bit?
That sure is hell is what it felt like. I suffered for this guy!
Zen - and anyone else who may be interested - the CDC has advice on reopening buildings that have been closed down for a while.
It's one of those things people don't think about until something happens (why does that sound so familiar?).
Happy Birthday ND!
At the very least, it will be memorable.
I had a dream last night that they reopened the library but had rearranged everything and everyone else seemed to know all about it but nobody had told me. And in the dream I suddenly realized nobody was wearing face masks or social distancing.
Also I was carrying a spoon around.
Was it a wooden spoon? Did you hit them with it, flea?
I'm missing being able to be alone in the house. And this morning... Matthew has his Xbox on playing Pandora while he watches an anime on his phone and his mom has the TV on although she's not on the phone so that's a bonus.
It's mildly annoying right now. I'm going to either go outside or get on the computer and put my headphones on.
I thought about finally baking something but not until the noise dies down.
There is stuff I want to do, mostly cleaning and organizing but I would rather do it with no one here and that isn't going to happen. It's not all bad being here but at this point I want to take a vacation to the beach by myself and have a week alone.
And then I think about Matthew's sister who is at home with 3 kids, her husband and father in law in a house smaller than ours.
I don't know what I would do if I had other people in the house with me. I know my parents are managing mostly because my dad has dedicated himself to working in the yard all day every day so they have separate spheres to be in. They've been married over 50 years, they know their limits for actually spending time just together driving each other nuts. My sister just moved in with her boyfriend right before quarantine, but I haven't heard from her recently so I don't know how that's going. I should call her. And my brother just moved into a new place and I'm not sure if it is just a room in a house or a separate apartment sort of situation, but he goes out to work every day so I imagine that helps.
Our house is just big enough for everyone to be alone while we're working, or together if we want to be. I have co-workers in Brooklyn apartments and much younger kids who are really struggling.
I don't know what I would do if I had other people in the house with me.
I was just thinking this as well. I am starting to miss interaction a little. When I run a necessary errand I find myself taking an unnecessary amount of time about it, enjoying being out. But my home is my sanctuary. If I couldn't be alone at home I would not be doing well.
