My mom is coming to visit. I’m not sure if that is wise since numbers are exploding. But we don’t have symptoms and haven’t had contact with anyone with Covid that I know of.
I’m so over work this week. We have 3 people quarantining. A teenager had a fever and didn’t come in, now a computer lab person is sick and our maintenance guy is on vacation then quarantining. So that’s 6 people total out, and I’m exhausted from doing everyone else’s job. And plus also I’m tired of people’s attitude. I’ve had people complaining about a change we made, then people complaining about the complaining (they brought this on themselves to be honest because they were the ones that insisted on the change), then I have people complaining that our work isn’t fast enough or perfect enough. We have 6 people out- you can wait and stop complaining. Then I have the public complaining about rollbacks due to Covid and asking me about them. How would I know, why don’t you pay attention to the Governor and health department like everyone else has to?
This weekend we have a whole lot of nothing going on. We aren’t really supposed to be doing much by request of the health department but it’s just a request at this point. They haven’t closed businesses, so people will still go the businesses, so I guess I’m not sure just requesting will help much?
ETA- At this point none of the quarantining workers or the sick ones have tested positive for Covid. They had close contacts that tested positive. The sick teenager is leaving anyway, so we just said we’ll pay you don’t come back. We are waiting on results on 1 test, but he wasn’t around any staff for more than 5 minutes.
Add me to the list of people tired of this week. I think part of is I’ve taken almost no PTO this year. I’m burned out. I need vacation. I plan on taking most of the week of Thanksgiving off, and I’m excited about that.
We are thinking of getting a cat friend for our cat. I think he needs a companion. Someone posted on our school FB page they are looking to re-home their cat. He’s also a neutered boy. Anyone have any advice on adding a cat to a family that includes a cat?
I'm trying to not care about how far behind I am at work. It will be there tomorrow (or end of December...). Trying to catch up on nights and weekends isn't sustainable.
Tonight will be our regularly scheduled wizza and Mandolorin viewing party - DH, two neighbor dads, DS, and a neighbor's son will watch, while us girls do girly stuff, and we'll all have wine and pizza afterwards.
Tomorrow is my waiting day.. I'll wait in the parking lot while DS has soccer practice - if he were older, I'd head home, but he's 4. Then I'll wait in the parking lot while DD has ice skating - it's a 20 minute drive to the rink, and there's not really much nearby it.
We're going to get a fish for the kids tomorrow. They've spent the last 29 days making beds, keeping the house picked up, doing chores, etc. to show that they're responsible enough for a pet. I'm not looking forward to having a fish, but I've really enjoyed the process of them earning it. And since DH is an undercover PETA member, our fish will have some sweet digs vs. just the vase I'd been considering.
I really want a haircut, but my person doesn't have any openings, and I'm kind of worried that our county will shut down salons before I get a chance to get in. I honestly can't remember if they opened in red or orange. I haven't had a real haircut (just my undercut has been done) since January. And I'm an every 8-9 weeks haircut person usually.
k3am apparently hair salons are now allowed to stay open even in purple, so you’ll likely be fine even if you go red. I’m getting my hair done this afternoon - it was originally scheduled for next week, but I feel like my post baby hair loss was accompanied by a crazy hair growth spurt, and my roots are driving me nuts.
Tonight DH and big kids are going to eat and watch an outdoor movie at old pod friends’ house, so I’ll be home with the little boys.
I only have 3 first cousins, but I almost never see any of them because of distance. One of those cousins recently moved from Florida to Phoenix and they’re visiting San Diego this weekend with their two girls. I’ve always wished we lived closed because I like his wife in addition to him. I haven’t seen them since my grandfather’s funeral in 2011 😬 But I feel like I know them better because social media. I got a babysitter for the two little boys and we’re going to meet them and my parents (who are in town at their condo here) for an outdoor dinner Saturday evening. We’ll probably end up seeing them another time over the weekend too so they can meet the little ones.
Oh, and baby will be 6 months already on Sunday! Daycare provider just sent me pics of him rolling/scooting himself across her living room.
Also exhausted. Having Wednesday off for the holiday totally messed with me. During my quarterly review the other day I told the CEO that I'm drowning in minutia like proofreading blogs have no time to work on strategy and analytics, which is ridiculous for someone at my level. Losing someone on my team back in the early days of the pandemic then cutting back on the retainer hours I had budgeted for my agency has been killing me. He agreed and is putting a new hire on my budget for Q1 and letting me ramp my budget back up. Between that and now no trip to plan, Q1 should be a game changer for me to feeling a little back to normal.
We're down to one week until beau moves in, so this is crunch time to pack and clean and organize this weekend. He's got half his stuff in storage already and I'm going to start loading up the storage unit tomorrow with stuff from my house to give us more space. I can't believe it's actually happening finally! As silly as it sounds, it feels really good to have another adult around in the evenings. One of us cooks, the other does dishes, the kids play. Now instead of them heading home to sleep, we can just put the kids to bed and have a normal evening as a couple. It's like this is the family life I envisioned when I got married, and I finally get to have it. (Fully realizing that in a couple weeks life will be a shit show and the transition struggles will be real for all of us. LOL But for now, I'm enjoying my fantasy version)
Post by sandandsea on Nov 13, 2020 15:02:00 GMT -5
On a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is it that I’ve been phoning it in on ds2s lunches for school? I’ve been packing an apple or banana, yogurt pouch, string cheese, goldfish/pretzels/veggie chips, granola bar, yogurt raisins, and a Nutella or honey sandwich or a chocolate croissant with milk this week. The boy refuses to eat all veggies and meat. He regularly eats the fruit, yogurt, and milk so I’ve given up on caring about the rest. I can only imagine what he teachers think of the sandwiches and croissants.
ETA. This is also the child who refuses chick fil a because “they don’t have food I will eat there”.
This morning started off with a Covid test, which is required for my ablation on Monday. I'm now waiting for someone to call me about a surgery time. Between worrying about surgery and rising Covid numbers, my anxiety has been extreme this week. My sleep has been terrible and I'm glad it is Friday. We have no plans this weekend so we'll have to figure out how to keep my mind off of things.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Nov 13, 2020 15:15:56 GMT -5
sandandsea, I don't suppose he's tried their mac and cheese? my vegetarian-except-for-bacon-and-hotdogs child loves their mac and cheese.
Things are slow at my office today which is so awkward since I now have a new guy and I feel obligated to fill his time at all moments of the day. The problem is we have 2500 projects in the pipeline and now are waiting for them all to explode on us at once...but at the moment we've done our part on almost all of it. I also hate days where things are slow and then everything blows up at 5pm.
I'm so tired of this week I'm aching to go home. With bringing on new guy I've been in the office and I'm just wishing I was one of the majority of our office who was at home so I could walk around my back yard while on calls or lay on the couch while waiting for the next shoe to drop instead of sitting at my desk. FFFC I guess!
Post by supertrooper1 on Nov 13, 2020 15:44:36 GMT -5
I have no clue what beau and I will do this weekend. We don't have plans, the weather will be crappy so we can't go riding or do anything else outside and nothing is open. It will be nice to have a low key weekend but I'm ready for COVID to be over.
sandandsea, a 1, you are sending food he will eat, instead of food that he won't. As long as it is food, whatever, I have one kid who will eat just about anything and one kid who would like on air.
sandandsea, a 1, you are sending food he will eat, instead of food that he won't. As long as it is food, whatever, I have one kid who will eat just about anything and one kid who would like on air.
Yep. Ds1 loves healthy food, asparagus, brussle sprouts, etc. DS2 lives on dairy.
He does not like the Mac and cheese at CFA. Only Kraft. With wfh Dh and I will occasionally get CFA for lunch so we get it but don’t have to deal with DS2.
On a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is it that I’ve been phoning it in on ds2s lunches for school? I’ve been packing an apple or banana, yogurt pouch, string cheese, goldfish/pretzels/veggie chips, granola bar, yogurt raisins, and a Nutella or honey sandwich or a chocolate croissant with milk this week. The boy refuses to eat all veggies and meat. He regularly eats the fruit, yogurt, and milk so I’ve given up on caring about the rest. I can only imagine what he teachers think of the sandwiches and croissants.
ETA. This is also the child who refuses chick fil a because “they don’t have food I will eat there”.
I send DD.. i a PBJ sandwich, apple sauce, string cheese, and some banana bites and that's it. DS gets the same but yogurt and usually no bites. I used to send yogurt for DD, but she won't eat it anymore, and fresh fruit (instead of apple sauce), but neither kid will eat fruit that isn't berries, and those are out of season.
sdlaura, our county is stricter than the state guidelines. So if the state say something is okay in red, our county says nope, still not yet, and we have to follow the stricter of the two guidelines. So far, everything thing that was open in red to the state, was not open to our county until orange. So I have no idea about where hair salons will fall.
BECAUSE THIS IS HOW SCIENCE WORKS, AND APPARENTLY OUR COUNTY KNOWS BETTER THAN THE STATE. (AND.. our school districts are more conservative than the county, which is more conservative than the state...) I basically want to cry about the whole thing. Cue broken record.
DD got great news at her private leskftom the head coach. They love how much progress she has made and no more probation!!! Got home and saw the governor put the while state on lockdown. So who knows what that means for gymnastics. OSAA says youth sports K-12 are exempt so we will see. Making masks and cookies tomorrow. Otherwise a quiet rainy weekend planned.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Nov 14, 2020 17:33:59 GMT -5
Well a fun Saturday at our house.
Today DH's teenage nephew has symptoms and then tested positive for COVID and now so DH's brother. His brother came by this past Sunday (outside only) to look at some stuff he has in our garage and to give us a swing set that he and DH put up.
Based on the positive I went ahead and took my work health screen and I was elevated to a nurse chat but not excluded since my contact was 7 days ago and was more than 2 days before Nephew's symptom and BIL's positive test.
We were supposed to get together with DH's family next weekend and that's canceled and we're waiting for his mom's test results to come back. She's very healthy so I'm not so worried.
This makes me concerned about thanksgiving though. We were supposed to host my family outside including my young adult nephews and I just see that as a big exposure risk right now. Both for us and my parents. I'm (semi irrationally probably) concerned about my nephews as being a greater than average covid risk.
My mom was actually in the hospital with pneumonia this week that she developed after having a cold. Just a COLD. During a 4 day hospital stay she had 5 negative covid tests. I'm just positive that if she does get covid it's going to kill her.
My family decided we're officially canceling Thanksgiving. It was only going to be my parents and siblings, who we have seen sporadically through the summer. But with numbers rising and the kids in school and our exposures up because of it, we're going to lay low. We can't do it outside due to weather, it requires a weekend away. I'm heartbroken. Thanksgiving with my family is my favorite. But I know it's the smart, safe thing to do.
twinmomma, we also official postponed Thanksgiving. We also are on a 2 week freeze starting Monday. But don't worry college sports will still be going on and football games will still be held. I may be a little annoyed by the fact that PAC12 schools who are causing our numbers to go up in our county but they can still do their thing.
We always host Thanksgiving but around August I started saying we aren’t hosting. So I guess it wasn’t cancelled since it was never on. It would be nice to see FIL and MIL though and my sister which won’t happen. In fact nephews are quarantining.
I'm so tired of fielding complaints from parents about the school closing for 2 weeks at Thanksgiving. Aside from the fact that it is government mandate (thus not my decision, though I support it), why don't they understand that if they want schools open, they need to stop all of the other contact - no sports, no indoor playdates? We were doing just fine until everyone starting thinking we were in the clear and thwy could just carry on like normal. Some exposure has to go and you're making it school by making irresponsible parenting decisions. Grrrr.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
We are also not doing Thanksgiving, which we usually host. We are considering going to BIL and SIL's but only if we can be outside and distanced; otherwise, we aren't going.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
erbear, I agree with you that people are being irresponsible. However, I also think this virus has a the capacity to spread and double very quickly leading to these spikes that we see that start overwhelming hospitals. Yes, schools are a concern, but the primary concern in our state is overwhelming hospitals. We already went remote, and really I think that is the only thing they can do considering the community spread at this point.
Europe is managing to keep schools open (so far), but they are shutting down businesses and helping businesses stay afloat financially way more than the US is at this point. And who is to say their schools won't close eventually anyway.