I'm sorry, Laura. That would be hard to deal with for your friend, and also sad for you and your DH.

I'm glad to hear more people are getting their vax appointments!

Laura, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Just got my vax appointment for next Tuesday! Woo! So excited. Jabbinate me baby, eight to the bar.

WTG, Hec! I will get my second Moderna shot on Thursday. I think brenda will, too. The past 22 days seem to have taken forever.

meara, pants are jerks.

I hear that. Once I'm fully vaccinated, my family was all, "You could come out here and stay for an entire month!" And my reaction was, "No, I don't think I will." I've spent the last year in quarantine living by myself and not having to compromise. Let's start with two weeks and see if I'm not fully losing my mind.

A month anywhere is a long time, shrift. I think you're smart to start smaller.

My mom has a cottage in Maine, and that's pretty much the only place DH and I have gone on vacation since the kids were born (which worked well when they were little, because at least one of them would get sick). We've always done weekends here and there based on the kids' schedules, etc., and then one week.

One summer, we decided to do two consecutive weeks, and it was the longest two weeks of our lives -- with our own kids -- with whom we already lived. I don't even think my mom was there for most of it (if any), so it wasn't even that. It was just a long time to be somewhere else with them.

they put me in full sun

Sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 way faster than expected

This is one of our favorite places! We've been there multiple times over the years, though it's been a long time since our last visit. It's in Desert Hot Springs on a residential street, and you think you must have made a terrible mistake until you walk through the front door and are in love. They're fed by natural hot springs and cool the pool to something silly like 90 degrees and the huge tiled hot tub to 104.

Yeah, her pictures looked so alluring. Even better than the ones posted on their website. So cool that you've been there!

Now I'm anxious because I haven't gotten my confirmation email. I did make sure to screenshot my officially Booked screen with all the details, but when I tried to use that confirmation code through my Walgreen's account, the code was too long. So I presume there's some special code for Covid vax, but that's disquieting. I just hope they need a cycle to upload all the new appointments before they send out the confirmation email. (I'm used to automated instant gratification confirmation!)

DavidS, it took several hours for my confirmation email to come through from Walgreens. Don't sweat it.

When I showed up for my appointment, I only had to give my name, they didn't ask for the confirmation code or email. They did ask for my photo ID.

Same experience as dcp, David. It was making me anxious how long it took Walgreens to send me my confirmation emails, but the Walgreens app did show me my COVID-19 Vaccination appointments pretty quickly. I just took a look a the Walgreens website and couldn't figure out how to find my appointments until I went to the vaccination scheduler and an "Manage existing COVID-19 vaccination appointment" option finally showed up.

Sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 way faster than expected

So are you saying that Trump was right about the tanning beds? Actually the part about using the rays in air filtration units sounded interesting.

Definitely understand appointment anxiety! I ended up with two appointments for my second dose, because it was supposed to be a Wednesday and as of Saturday they hadn’t made me an appointment, bu ‘‘twas volunteering and got someone to add me. And then they made me an appointment. Oops.

Tom, glad sunlight takes out the virus....it also takes out me (she says, from a shaded pool chair). I am so pale I can only take a little at a time!

Every year though I think “why don’t I just rent a house for a month in the winter??” Maybe next year my dog will be mature enough to trust in a rental house.

We took the dog with us to the AirBnB in NY for a couple weeks this past winter and it really added a layer of stress. Not super relaxing to have to worry about dog issues.

Thanks, dcp and shrift. Anxiety now erased!