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17 Mar 2020 21:29 * Day two of my paid furlough from work and I woke up at 12:45pm covered in cats. I'm not a morning person, although not usually quite this literally, and I set an alarm to be able to make an 11:30am haircut appointment across the street. But, still. The furlough is out-of-nowhere, appearing haphazardly on the weekend with no warning. I think they got yelled at by OEM or just saw the closures coming. Or both.
The hardest part of being at home and at liberty is creating structure where there is none. I can't treat it like a perpetual weekend, where there is no schedule and just a list of stuff that has to get done before Monday and booze at 5pm. (Yes, yes I do have a drink on weekend evenings. It's a treat and a ritual and I indeed drink alone. Not to get drunk, just to enjoy it.) The freeze on pro sports has also thrown a monkey wrench into my daily routine -- there's no hockey game at 7pm and I use the NHL as background noise and clock in the evenings, picking early and late games if the NYR aren't playing.
So far I've managed vacuuming and laundry (in-building) and getting a big box to the UPS store on my granny cart and some light food shopping. I am not buying water or anything like that; this isn't a hurricane and I'm not worried about losing power or sanitation. My freezer is literally overstuffed and I have no more containers to store prepared food and so I cannot even pretend to food insecurity. Or do any more cooking, although I made pizza tonight. My panic buying has been two cans of evaporated milk and a cabbage because I don't want to have to drink my coffee black or run out of green veg if we get a shelter in place order. There are no available slots on any of the online groceries, but Chewy has assured me that they are sending my boys their litter, kibble, and cans of wet food as per usual, so I am not worried about them. It feels like I should be preparing for stuff, but... what? I can't stop feeling like I'm missing something necessary to do and I think this is the impetus for people panic-buying a lot more than cabbage.
* I have belatedly realized that I have a Worldbuilding Exchange thing due at the end of the week. I should get started on that.
* Thus far on the streaming, which has been less than you'd expect because I still can't do daytime watching: Ip Man, Clue, and The Farewell.
* America's Test Kitchen has a page full of unlocked recipes of what can be called 'broader Americana,' so I recommend perusing.
* How is everyone else coping?
The hardest part of being at home and at liberty is creating structure where there is none. I can't treat it like a perpetual weekend, where there is no schedule and just a list of stuff that has to get done before Monday and booze at 5pm. (Yes, yes I do have a drink on weekend evenings. It's a treat and a ritual and I indeed drink alone. Not to get drunk, just to enjoy it.) The freeze on pro sports has also thrown a monkey wrench into my daily routine -- there's no hockey game at 7pm and I use the NHL as background noise and clock in the evenings, picking early and late games if the NYR aren't playing.
So far I've managed vacuuming and laundry (in-building) and getting a big box to the UPS store on my granny cart and some light food shopping. I am not buying water or anything like that; this isn't a hurricane and I'm not worried about losing power or sanitation. My freezer is literally overstuffed and I have no more containers to store prepared food and so I cannot even pretend to food insecurity. Or do any more cooking, although I made pizza tonight. My panic buying has been two cans of evaporated milk and a cabbage because I don't want to have to drink my coffee black or run out of green veg if we get a shelter in place order. There are no available slots on any of the online groceries, but Chewy has assured me that they are sending my boys their litter, kibble, and cans of wet food as per usual, so I am not worried about them. It feels like I should be preparing for stuff, but... what? I can't stop feeling like I'm missing something necessary to do and I think this is the impetus for people panic-buying a lot more than cabbage.
* I have belatedly realized that I have a Worldbuilding Exchange thing due at the end of the week. I should get started on that.
* Thus far on the streaming, which has been less than you'd expect because I still can't do daytime watching: Ip Man, Clue, and The Farewell.
* America's Test Kitchen has a page full of unlocked recipes of what can be called 'broader Americana,' so I recommend perusing.
* How is everyone else coping?
