I'm so sorry, msbelle

I'm so sorry, msbelle.

I am not a big beer fan, but I do like Blue Moon beer, I recall.

We spent a decadent day WoWing, going for a drive (including the soon to be neighborhood), and WoWing some more. I am surprisingly wiped out. Got a shake from Sheetsz, too, which is my current fave shake out there. I am such a not-expensive date, I tell you what.

Tomorrow, back into packing.

My life has been so different. We were really locked down for maybe 4-5 months? But the kid and I have gone in for multiple haircuts over the year and I got the last of the navy blue stripped out. I've been going in to an office to work without fail other than a month last March-April. My son's been back in evening martial arts (distanced) and I sit at a cafe while he's there. We pick up food from a local business a couple times a week. The hospitalization rate has been very low, and the mortality rate lower.

I occasionally see someone wearing a mask not over their nose, but rarely...apparently there were a couple people at work that didn't want to wear masks and they got fired. Everyone's been very diligent about safety protocols and it makes a difference.

Got my second shot yesterday. I went to bed very early. Still a little dizzy, but I've been trying to drink a lot of water.

The experience here has also been quite different. We're under a rolling average of 5 cases per day (on an island of 200,000) so we've felt okay to go back to our small in-person game nights with masks. Half of us are now vaccinated. But they're being real slow to proceed through the age groups, I think partly because we have so many essential workers getting it (2 percent of the total population of the island will be getting shots next Saturday in a megaton) and partly because the old people are actually signing up for it.

I'm sorry msbelle.

My mom got her second shot Thursday (only side effect was a sore arm), so in a week and a half or so dining out at places with patios is back on the table just in time for decent spring weather. No idea when Phase 2 begins vaccinating here as yet, but I'm hopeful it'll be before summer.

I'm sorry, msbelle. I'm right there with you. My uncle who has been in and out of the hospital since just before Christmas has gone into hospice care. And my 93 year old grandmother fell and broke her hip a little over a week ago. She's actually doing pretty well. They're just having trouble getting insurance to approve a rehab facility for her recovery. I am worried that my parents haven't been vaccinated and are away from home regularly visiting the hospital. I haven't been able to find any useful information on vax availability in Missouri to pass on to them. The only useful thing I've been able to offer is a zillow link for my uncle's house.

I'm sorry, msbelle.

you'd be marinading your head in Olaplex until we chopped it off.

I may have threatened Tim to stop using my Don't Despair, Repair! hair mask now that my hair is re-highlighted (he is very curly and his hair loves that mask). He sensibly suggested we just buy extra.

I may have threatened Tim to stop using my Don't Despair, Repair! hair mask now that my hair is re-highlighted (he is very curly and his hair loves that mask).

My hair was never happier than when I was using AG products. My skin, on the other hand - I'm allergic to something in it, and had horrible, non-stop irritation and peeling. Now I look scruffy, but my face doesn't hurt/shed dead skin onto my glasses.

I'm sorry, msbelle and aurelia. I didn't know any of my grandparents but had zillions of great aunts and uncles growing up that did the elder relative role for me.

I was nappy and lazy over the weekend, but can't complain about the 2nd shot issues at all. Just relief to have it behind me. Not that I expect my life to change. Still using curbside pickup and expect to stay with that forever, because it is just so convenient! I've always hated shopping.

Aldi uses Instacart, and their shoppers are freaking gods. They text if they have questions, including sending a picture to be sure something is the right item. Meijer and Kroger shoppers, not so much. So we're trying to get more stuff from Aldi, because they make it so damn easy.

Trader Joe's doesn't have curbside pickup, but they're still enforcing 50 people at a time in the store, so shopping in the store is a delight now that a bazillion other people aren't crammed in there with me.