Laura F,
I'm so sorry, but your post made me laugh!
We are in the same boat. My family finally decided to go on a vacation we have wanted to take forever. Needless to say, it's off, thank you coronavirus.
And your second rant reminded me of the time my father cut down all the plants in my mother's garden because he allegedly thought they were weeds. They heard her screaming on Pluto. ?
I am still following Dr. John Campbell on Youtube and in his daily blogcast, he discusses countries around the globe with an analysis on how they are coping and what resources they have to fight the coronavirus. His viewership is up to over half a million followers in just a matter of weeks. While I do need to suspend my emotions every day while watching, I always come away with more understanding of the pandemic. He also includes the latest research coming out of Europe, the U.K., China, South Korea, etc. Years ago, I worked in a major academic medical center and have always been interested in medicine, medical research and clinical trials (in the meantime had a mental checklist of medical procedures and catastrophic illnesses to avoid at all costs). Pandemic wasn't on my radar.
Have been self isolating since Friday. My life is not much changed. I already spent long stretches at home alone with mostly just the cat. Was already switched over to online tutoring w my kids. Now I have a two week staycation, because Governer Wolf shut everybody down for two weeks. I will be able to pick back up with lessons soon after. I am at an advantage already working with cyberschool students
Am scared, am bleaching and keeping my house as sterile as I can. My man is a butcher and has work at one of his jobs. Like a surgeon he wears a lab coat and hair net and gloves so he is in a good sterile situation most of the time. He has been home a bit more and I must say my back and neck hurt much less without the long commutes I do. I do not miss my long 2+ hour commmute several days a week.
I know my daughter is home now, at her dad's. Somehow he became a good father and I know she is safe with him. I can't bring myself to interact further at the moment. I just send her love. Pray she has not been exposed. Pray her dad has not either. He also has a grocery store job.
I have been making some beautiful art, and baking. I read, watch tv., waste time on the computer, enjoy the show put on nightly by the cat.
Life is very good now, despite these dark occurrings. I am starting to think I may not catch it. Every healthy day that goes by I feel more hopeful, if not confident exactly.
With every closure and cancellation my hope rises. People complaining need to awaken.Closures are GOOD. They protect all of us. Every day is a gift and we are inexplicably bound together like moving parts of one body. When we do something we have already trained for, being couch potatoes, we are saving someone else's life as well as our own hopefully.
Yesterday was a day where I felt fully alive in every moment of the day. This virus is curing me of living in the future, and that has been helpful. I can only focus on now, and take inventory how I feel. So far, not ill.
No worries - better to laugh than cry. I'm Sicilian, so I have a hot temper anyway, all it takes is ONE THING to trigger me. The good news is that, like a thunderstorm, it passes quickly. I'm channeling my rage into housecleaning today.
@ghandigirl - tell your dude to cover his face if he's doing butcher work. That's how this whole pandemic got started.
German and Russian. Baking and cleaning today. LOL
I agree about the lack of attention span. My attention span ha taken a downward turn ever since wifi came into my life but boy has it really gone out the window lately. I'm not even trying to work today -- I don't really have to today, anyway, but I can tell it would be futile to try.
@laura-f your tincture idea sounds like a good one and I think I'm going to partake myself right this second, if only to celebrate having (almost) survived another day. (And, sorry about the landscapers -- that's just such a bummer, on several levels.)
A beautiful, hopeful and really optimistic place to be in now! I am just thrilled for you that you found this lovely harmonious flow to ride out the waves on instead of being pulled under or crashing and bouncing around over them.
I am glowing with happiness from reading this! Wonderful ghandigirl, just wonderful!
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German and Russian. Baking and cleaning today. LOL
Wonderful!! Love this! ?❤?
Scottish and English. Frugally calculating how we can stretch our food supply to last longer and estimating how many vegetables we can grow in our garden. I wish for chickens daily but my husband says no.
I feel the vibrating when I take the time to tune into myself. Especially at night, and in the middle of the night when I wake, and first thing in the morning. It is my own concerns rising, especially at having grown children who are not hunkered down with us. I'm sure they are fine, but I'm mama and it's storming out there. Then there is the collective fear rising up, and we empaths feel everything! I read in the news about all the people having panic attacks out there.