My sister retired in February this year. She planned on being able to go places and do things. Yeah. A couple weeks after she retired they went WFH. She has regrets.

Ooh, that is rough, msbelle.

I am also proactively sad and/or worried about holidays, although I just heard the amazing plan my church's music director has come up with for a pre-recorded service that is as over-the-top as the in-person services usually are. But what about seeing family?? I'm afraid there's just no way.

Unless we all actually quarantine in advance? That could actually work, maybe.

For Thanksgiving, my family's plan is that we all quarantine in advance (which we're basically all doing anyway). Still trying to figure out the safest way to get from Cincinnati to NJ, though -- I'll probably have to stop at a hotel for one night in the middle of the drive, though I might be able to do the drive in one day.

ltc is going to freak out about Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm trying not to think about it. She's home with a slight fever today, no sign that it is Covid, so I'm trying to stay calm.

We had a BIG Thanksgiving gathering for my dad's side of the family in Kentucky last year, so I think we'll be good just doing Mom & me this year. Christmas with my cosuins is most likely on as usual, we'll just be careful. (Luckily the two households with children each have a smart medical professional, so I think they'll be as safe as humanly possible to share a meal with.)

ltc is having cheese and crackers for lunch and I'm having a frozen burrito.

I feel like it is Friday. Alas....

I am gluing on new nails - ALL GLITTER!!

Also following up on work stuff. THE TIMESHEET IS IN!! HA! Off my plate for 2 whole weeks.

HOORAY TIMESHEET BEING DONE

Health~ma for ltc

I am trying to motivate myself to go to the grocery store. I am out of canned cat food, so that is pretty strong motivation, but I am just moving pretty slow. Fortunately, not much of a deadline on it.

So I discovered I accidentally mailed in an extension form for my taxes not my actual taxes so while I'm on my vacation I will be mailing out my taxes.

I got my SC taxes back and I was very adult and responsible and put the majority of it towards a big credit card payment and that card is almost paid off. I'm going to use the rest to renew my costco membership and get more stuff in the freezer. I've been doing fairly well with getting my credit card debt under control. Maybe not as fast as I would like but I have been paying more than the minimum and doing extra payments on one card to chip away at it.

This is my big adulting thing. I buy lunch too much for work so I have to get back to taking lunch.

I have just over a week off, which is nice. I spent the last three days working 7-3 and that's over. The company has been testing all the stores with new plans on how to deal with online order fulfillment (they are getting really serious about it and creating new corporate and store level roles for this). I was a support person, doing second looks for things that couldn't be found and trying to keep people within their time frame. I got good feedback on it and I found out that when the managers found out about this test and were planning I was someone they thought of for this and the store manager asked me if I was interested in doing this when it's peak season.

I really liked it, it was oddly less frustrating than just pulling the orders, it's kind of a leadership role and a support role. Not only was I looking for things but I was being asked to make judgement calls about when to give up on a search for items and tell whoever it was they could just go ahead and submit their lists as finished or if I needed to pull in a manager to check behind me.

Also even running around the store and walking over 15,000 steps I wasn't as tired or as achey as I normally am.

I haven't thought about Thanksgiving beyond - the mall will be closed and we still don't know if our store will be closed. I guess M's family will do something and I will try to stay away from that because they aren't taking precautions and 3 of his extended family members now have Covid.

If the hurricane hadn't happneed I would have been very very very tempted to drive down to FL and see my Dad from a distance and stand on the beach because I miss it. People from work keep going on their break and coming back from vacation somewhere and I want to go but I'm also not going to risk it.

I want to hug my parents damnit. I want to see my Dad face to face. He doesn't do any kind of video chat so I haven't even seen his face since last year.

Oh, 2020. I, eh, did not have a colleague who is suspected of terrorism on my bingo card.

Xenoethnography

I do not know Transformers (I heard of it, not sure if I watched it), but I'll give it a look. Thanks! (For the record, I'm not an anthropology student. I'm just a qualitative research person in a school of public policy. Who loves anthropology).

Hil, I am so sorry. This is a lot.

msbelle, I'm sorry.

{{{esse}}}

And hi, DebetEsse. Can I have some details on the Zoom thingy please? I don't have Facebook, so I can't see the details.