Still here
Has everyone else's world become smaller and smaller lately or is it just me? I mean, I never truly had what could have even remotely passed for a life before - not for the last 10 years at least - but now? What even is this? Leaving the house for 5 minutes twice a week to take out the trash is a bit too much even for this introvert, recluse, sick parent's only caretaker that is myself!
The upside is that every single time I'm out with the trash (lol... this came out weird...) I meet some neighbor that I'd have just nodded at in greeting before, but now we stop and chat for a few minutes. Guess the lack of human contact makes us more open to people in the end. Last week some woman called my house and she had the wrong number. You know, usually there would be a simple, "Sorry" - "No worries" - "Bye" - "Bye"; this time? We talked a bit and she even ended the phone call telling me to be safe and stay indoors! It's one of the few nice things of these trying times: the kindness of strangers.
Things with the virus are moving in the right direction here but they're going at snail pace and, while the numbers aren't as bad anymore (though the death toll remains astronomical,) some days it still feels like we'll never be able to get on the other side of this thing. Every day at 6.00 p.m. they give us the daily report on the new numbers of cases/deaths/people healed and I'm usually both hopeful about it and dreading it.
Eh, enough of the depressing. How are you all doing this quarantine? Did you find things to occupy your time with? In a way I'm sort of lucky because, for one, I'm used to being at home most of the time and, for another, mom's routine is always the same more or less so my days are shaped by her schedule and it doesn't matter to me if it's a sunday or a week day, if it's Easter or whatever, if we're quarantined or free: I have to do what I have to do for her and that sort of helps at this moment if you get my meaning.
Speaking of Easter, since I just mentioned it, Evie I don't know if you got my message about the chocolate bunny but just in case... thank you for that!!! And for this amazing other gift I received just this morning:
Sorry for the quality of the pic... my phone is what it is. Also, forgive the horrible table cloth visible underneath the box. LOL!
I don't know what I did to deserve such a treat but omg you! You just brightened my day, and made up for my lonely Easter :) Thank you!!! *loves you lots*
Ok, so before I went on an Easter tangent, I was talking about my quarantine routine. So there's mom, and that's most of the day made, but I do have downtime and I spend it reading fanfiction or watching TV shows/movies. Soooooooooo much different from my regular, not-quarantined life, uh? LOL
Got back into reading fanfic gradually. I'd stopped when I was writing because I'm always afraid to be influenced by something I read, but my HP Muse flew away on her broom so now I'm back to being a reader. TBH, I did have a moment when I wanted to write something... I did not have a clear idea or anything but I had this nagging voice telling me, "Well, wouldn't it be nice to try it?" Talking to piksa about it as I usually do (because she's too nice to tell me to leave her be *g*) I even ended up having half an idea for a plot but... eh. It apparently died there because, while the voice is still saying to try it, I don't think I'll ever be able to. It's a completely different fandom for one, and the voices of the characters are waaaaaay out of my comfort zone. Ain't happening... and yes, this was a hint.
Ok, so I guess this was it from me. Hope you're all staying safe and taking care of yourselves and your loved ones.
ETA: Just got a V-gift from LJ. Quite auto-celebratory, tbh, since it's for their own 21st bday but still nice thought and quite a surprise. Remember when V-gifts were a thing? Wow. Different life.
*hugs*
The upside is that every single time I'm out with the trash (lol... this came out weird...) I meet some neighbor that I'd have just nodded at in greeting before, but now we stop and chat for a few minutes. Guess the lack of human contact makes us more open to people in the end. Last week some woman called my house and she had the wrong number. You know, usually there would be a simple, "Sorry" - "No worries" - "Bye" - "Bye"; this time? We talked a bit and she even ended the phone call telling me to be safe and stay indoors! It's one of the few nice things of these trying times: the kindness of strangers.
Things with the virus are moving in the right direction here but they're going at snail pace and, while the numbers aren't as bad anymore (though the death toll remains astronomical,) some days it still feels like we'll never be able to get on the other side of this thing. Every day at 6.00 p.m. they give us the daily report on the new numbers of cases/deaths/people healed and I'm usually both hopeful about it and dreading it.
Eh, enough of the depressing. How are you all doing this quarantine? Did you find things to occupy your time with? In a way I'm sort of lucky because, for one, I'm used to being at home most of the time and, for another, mom's routine is always the same more or less so my days are shaped by her schedule and it doesn't matter to me if it's a sunday or a week day, if it's Easter or whatever, if we're quarantined or free: I have to do what I have to do for her and that sort of helps at this moment if you get my meaning.
Speaking of Easter, since I just mentioned it, Evie I don't know if you got my message about the chocolate bunny but just in case... thank you for that!!! And for this amazing other gift I received just this morning:
Sorry for the quality of the pic... my phone is what it is. Also, forgive the horrible table cloth visible underneath the box. LOL!
I don't know what I did to deserve such a treat but omg you! You just brightened my day, and made up for my lonely Easter :) Thank you!!! *loves you lots*
Ok, so before I went on an Easter tangent, I was talking about my quarantine routine. So there's mom, and that's most of the day made, but I do have downtime and I spend it reading fanfiction or watching TV shows/movies. Soooooooooo much different from my regular, not-quarantined life, uh? LOL
Got back into reading fanfic gradually. I'd stopped when I was writing because I'm always afraid to be influenced by something I read, but my HP Muse flew away on her broom so now I'm back to being a reader. TBH, I did have a moment when I wanted to write something... I did not have a clear idea or anything but I had this nagging voice telling me, "Well, wouldn't it be nice to try it?" Talking to piksa about it as I usually do (because she's too nice to tell me to leave her be *g*) I even ended up having half an idea for a plot but... eh. It apparently died there because, while the voice is still saying to try it, I don't think I'll ever be able to. It's a completely different fandom for one, and the voices of the characters are waaaaaay out of my comfort zone. Ain't happening... and yes, this was a hint.
Ok, so I guess this was it from me. Hope you're all staying safe and taking care of yourselves and your loved ones.
ETA: Just got a V-gift from LJ. Quite auto-celebratory, tbh, since it's for their own 21st bday but still nice thought and quite a surprise. Remember when V-gifts were a thing? Wow. Different life.
*hugs*