We are supposed to go to the Big Island in 5 weeks to spread MILs ashes. We’ve been waiting since May 2020 to do this and it’s looking increasingly likely that we will have to cancel.
We’ve done our part. We’ve cut down activities. We got vaccinated ASAP. We mask. We contact the school board, our elected officials, I’ve personally organized a group of 550 people who are doing the same and, still, here we are, hampered by idiots.
I hate people.
We just got back from Hawaii and I have to say that I have never felt COVID safer. Every single person, everywhere we went, was wearing a mask. It was very comforting. Total mask mandate in every store, restaurant, etc.with temps taken for entry and no pushback. Only place without masks was at the pool (masks were even required in open air lobbies at the hotel) and people wore them to walk to and from the pool and when at the the outdoor quick service food line and pick up.
Agreed. We are in Hawaii right now (Maui) and I feel pretty good (DS2 is too young to be vaccinated). We took a direct/non stop flight into Honolulu and it was a relief to know everyone on the plane was vaccinated or tested negative (we still double masked!). Here on the island I’ve felt really good. Everything is so open air, including restaurants , hotel lobbies etc. and everyone has been very good at indoor masking. I think you can still go!
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Aug 21, 2021 18:58:32 GMT -5
Ok last time I mention it, but here is an enhanced (by moi) image from last night, from Weezer's insta. Lucy's got pink hair, makes her easy to spot in a crowd.
Ok last time I mention it, but here is an enhanced (by moi) image from last night, from Weezer's insta. Lucy's got pink hair, makes her easy to spot in a crowd.
“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,”
Ok last time I mention it, but here is an enhanced (by moi) image from last night, from Weezer's insta. Lucy's got pink hair, makes her easy to spot in a crowd.
Post by killercupcake on Aug 21, 2021 21:43:22 GMT -5
DS and I had a mommy son day today. He was so much fun. I got him a flashlight from the target dollar spot and that may have been a mistake.
He also scammed me into a giant rainbow pinwheel and a pillow shaped like a Christmas tree. Then he got a lollipop from the chaser at Trader Joe’s for helping with the groceries. He was in his 3 year old glory.
I bought him a weighted blanket too. I’m hoping it helps with the night terrors. They have been out of control this week and H and I are exhausted.
I told DH I was going to go down to the basement because he's watching F1. He went down instead and I told him I'd do laundry, but I'm just sitting here drinking wine and looking at Nintendo Switch stuff. I also need to work on downloading all the books I want on my Kindle so I can put it in airplane mode and have everything I want for our trip.
It’s our last “summer” day at the beach. For the last week E has been with my parents playing with her friends from Pennsylvania. We met 4 years ago and the past 2 summers we’ve had 2-3 weeks with them down here.
The girls are all little BFFs and made each other rainbow loom bracelets to say goodbye.
DS complained of a headache right before he fell asleep last night. Woke up about 2 hours later, crying and panicking, before running to the bathroom to vomit. This happened again about 4 hours later. He told DH that his throat hurt, too. That’s 3 covid symptoms, so we’re doing a drive up test at 11:00 this morning. I’ll be really surprised if its positive, but who knows anymore. He returned to school this week, however his school is fully masked. I make him wear a mask when we go anywhere, but my ILs aren’t as diligent.
Should DH & I get tested too? We have no symptoms. My sister said whenever she gets her kids tested, she only gets the ones with symptoms/possible exposure, not the whole house, so I’m going by her advice. I guess I’ll see what they say when we get him tested.
ETA: We arrived for the test to find a sign saying “we are unable to conduct covid tests today.” Insert me flipping out! We had just calmed DS down about the whole thing, talked up how brave he was, told him he could order some prize or whatever, and then nothing. Guess they don’t have the testing supplies. They also had no intention of notifying us or helping us contact a different location. I drove away and started checking online for other options. I called the pharmacy 2 miles away and the lady said that location had been out of supplies all week. Great! 🤦🏻♀️
Thankfully we did get an appointment later this afternoon, and have confirmed that they have the supplies to complete the test. Guess we’re all quarantining for a few days (PCR vs rapid test) here.
DS complained of a headache right before he fell asleep last night. Woke up about 2 hours later, crying and panicking, before running to the bathroom to vomit. This happened again about 4 hours later. He told DH that his throat hurt, too. That’s 3 covid symptoms, so we’re doing a drive up test at 11:00 this morning. I’ll be really surprised if its positive, but who knows anymore. He returned to school this week, however his school is fully masked. I make him wear a mask when we go anywhere, but my ILs aren’t as diligent.
Should DH & I get tested too? We have no symptoms. My sister said whenever she gets her kids tested, she only gets the ones with symptoms/possible exposure, not the whole house, so I’m going by her advice. I guess I’ll see what they say when we get him tested.
Similar deal—I only got the initial kid tested (but kept the other home and stayed home myself as we now had “pending results”). I figured that if the initial kid came back positive, we would then test everyone. When he was negative, we did not test. If he had been positive, I would have tested the other kid to see if he was asymptomatic positive and could start isolation but would not have tested him again until he was symptomatic or needed to test to end quarantine early. For vaxxed people, the recommendation seems to be if symptomatic or five days after contact, so I would have probably tested myself after he was positive if I had to go back to work before the other ended quarantine. Otherwise, I would have stayed home (real tests are hard to get here. We tested Tuesday, results Thursday, DOH contacted me Saturday to verify negative).
We just booked our trip to Slovenia! I’m going for a Friday - Saturday and H will stay on an extra week to go to Serbia for work. I’m a little nervous about navigating my way back alone lol. I haven’t flown internationally with a layover in a long time and never by myself. Luckily it’s just one layover in Frankfurt.
DS(5) has been doing exposure therapy with a dog trainer's therapy dog. Last night she let me know she & her daughter tested positive for covid. Thankfully we hadn't seen them for 4 days before their symptoms started and we were outside & masked the entire time.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Aug 22, 2021 11:40:38 GMT -5
My dog woke up this morning and won't bear any weight on one of her front paws and seems to be in pain. This is my dog who tore both of her ACLs (on both of her back legs) years ago and had TPLO surgery on both. She was totally fine before bed last night, so I have no idea what happened to her overnight to cause an injury (checked her toes and paw and that seems totally fine).
Our vet is closed today and I called the emergency vet, and they have a 6-8 hour wait time, so I gave her a left over pain pill and she's sleeping now, so I think I'm going to wait to call our vet tomorrow morning assuming she's still limping (and my guess is she will be, she was moving around a bit more after the pain pill kicked in but still not putting any weight on that leg).
If she needs another expensive surgery on another leg, I'm going to cry. This dog is only 5 years old!
It's my DS's 5th birthday today. I can't believe he's this old. I know I'm not a super active poster but I appreciate the support that I've gotten from people on this board when I've posted various parenting questions and talked about my PPD, so thank you all.
We had a small, mostly outdoor family party for him yesterday, and then I had friends over for margaritas on the porch after he went to bed. It was a great day. Today I think he just wants to play with all his new toys all day. I've offered to take him to the pool but he doesn't seem interested, and its pretty cloudy anyway. H has been working all day since his teachers start back tomorrow and students on Wednesday.
So far today, I am being so lazy! I am doing laundry and some general decluttering, but I ordered grocery delivery because I don't want to go anywhere. The cleaners were here Friday, so there isn't much around the house that needs doing. I do need to spend 1-2 hours doing something for work at some point, but other than that I don't have much of anything I even need to do today. It is kind of nice - I have been super busy lately.
My friend left at like 6am today - or at least I assume she did, I didn't even hear her get up and leave! That was the plan so we said goodbye before we went to bed last night, but I am a light sleeper so I had assumed I'd wake up when she got up and would get up and see her off. She must have been really quiet, or I must have been really tired. She had like a 12 hour day of driving today - with a brand new puppy - so I hope she feels better rested than I did! Between walking all over DC and going to a concert and dancing, I got over 20k steps on my fitbit yesterday.
We're back from our few days at the Oregon Coast to visit my sister and BIL. It was a lot of fun getting to hang out with them without our parents around; the vibe was totally different. My BIL wasn't ghosting my parents half the time so we actually got to hang out and talk to him, and we got to talk about things more current and relevant to our lives, rather than rehashing the same stories we've heard a thousand times over. Our lengthy discussion on weed, it's benefits, and how many milligrams of THC in which stain work best for getting high versus just chillaxing and reducing anxiety never would have happened in front of our dad. LOL!
It was also really strange to actually eat out in restaurants again. After 17 months of only eating home cooking or takeout, I felt very uncomfortable being unmasked around so many strangers in an enclosed space. But eating hot, freshly cooked seafood was definitely a treat.
I'm so bummed my favorite small locally owned restaurant closed permanently as of today. She opened Jan 2020 and had to close less than two months later due to covid. She tried doing takeout, stopped and then finally reopened this month. Then due to wildfire smoke and covid exposure they had to close. The owner is very supportive of BLM, immigrant rights, women's rights etc and active in the community in her support. Her restaurant was badly damaged because of her support (we live in a red city). She worked and fought hard for her restaurant. Anyways, I'm so sad for her.
I got back from my girls weekend and hit the grocery store with DS2. Now I think I’m going to take a nap. I’m SO glad I was proactive and made our dinner the other night so now I don’t have to figure out what to fix later on! DH is traveling for work this week, DS2 has a football scrimmage tomorrow after work and DS1 starts his own football practices on Tuesday. My dad is slowly getting better from his West Nile. My mom said he is awake for an hour or so and then sleeps for 2-3 hours. Poor guy, he hates being so fatigued and not able to do things.
My niece was in close contact with another kid at school who tested positive for Covid on Thursday (they’re in 2nd grade).
Now my sister and her family of 5 need to quarantine and get tested.
Before finding out about the close contact, we spent a few hours together having dinner and the kids played with each other.
Does this mean we also have to quarantine and test?
I’m not sure what the protocol is. Help!
Only your niece should have to quarantine, not the whole family. If the niece tests positive, then they will have to quarantine. Niece should wait to test until 5 days after exposure. Family does not need to test unless niece is positive. No issues for you at all.
I just spent an hour catching up on work, so I’m feeling better going into tomorrow. I also have nine incoming proposals (all due between 9/7 and 10/15) and only have resources for two of them, so that should be a fun conversation.
I need to get lunches packed for the kids for this week and start packing for my trip.
My niece was in close contact with another kid at school who tested positive for Covid on Thursday (they’re in 2nd grade).
Now my sister and her family of 5 need to quarantine and get tested.
Before finding out about the close contact, we spent a few hours together having dinner and the kids played with each other.
Does this mean we also have to quarantine and test?
I’m not sure what the protocol is. Help!
I would quarantine if at all possible until they get their results back, and if they are positive, then test (although if tests are available I'd probably just test ASAP for peace of mind). But if you don't quarantine and they come back positive, then everyone you are in contact with then becomes a close contact as well.
Post by pinkdutchtulips on Aug 22, 2021 17:18:39 GMT -5
This weekend I finally got to see what J plotted back in Feb for my bday. We make our way to Tahoe a mere few hours before they shut down the main artery here from the Bay Area due to 🔥🔥🔥. He planned an early bday dinner at Hells Kitchen and Sunday we were to see Dierks Bentley. The Bentley show was postponed yesterday afternoon to a date TBD. I feel so bad bc he was so excited to take me to see Bentley. Also the fact he managed to keep this a total surprise from me is phenomenal.