First day of Holiday Lockdown
Today is the first day of our 14 day Holiday Lockdown. Both of us, both daughters, son-in-law, and extra adult child-for-the-holidays, are going into deep quarentine until Dec. 23, with the idea that at that point, we can all 6 of us spend the 23rd through the 26th together and even hug each other. I haven't hugged my children since the first week of March, and I haven't even seen the youngest at a distance since April.
We've been keeping pretty much to ourselves through all of this anyway. The only real differences for the next 14 days is that we're not going grocery shopping (Yay delivery service!), and we won't be seeing the other couple in our quarenpod. These are the folks whose basement sewing room I use for most of my sewing nowdays, so yesterday I packed up my serger and everything I'm sewing on for the holidays and brought it home. I'm finding that I get more done if I actually go "out" to work, rather than just down the hallway to my own sewing room. It helps that when A was setting up his sewing area, he consulted with me on what worked well in the costume shops I've worked in, and implemented those ideas. The cutting table is 4' x 8', with plenty of room around it and well lit, the ironing station is set up towards one end, there is hanging storage for both works in progress and patterns, and dual desks for sewing and serging. I was looking at my own sewing room last night, with its small table and cramped sewing station and pouting.
I'm also going to miss seeing A 3-4 days a week. If the weather allows, we may set up a couple of outside, 6 feet away and masked, visits.
Ultimately, the 14 days of isolation is worth it, but I know I haven't been doing well with the amount of it I've had, so I'm a bit worried about the next two weeks. It doesn't help that I'm at the down point of my mental/depression cycle.
We've been keeping pretty much to ourselves through all of this anyway. The only real differences for the next 14 days is that we're not going grocery shopping (Yay delivery service!), and we won't be seeing the other couple in our quarenpod. These are the folks whose basement sewing room I use for most of my sewing nowdays, so yesterday I packed up my serger and everything I'm sewing on for the holidays and brought it home. I'm finding that I get more done if I actually go "out" to work, rather than just down the hallway to my own sewing room. It helps that when A was setting up his sewing area, he consulted with me on what worked well in the costume shops I've worked in, and implemented those ideas. The cutting table is 4' x 8', with plenty of room around it and well lit, the ironing station is set up towards one end, there is hanging storage for both works in progress and patterns, and dual desks for sewing and serging. I was looking at my own sewing room last night, with its small table and cramped sewing station and pouting.
I'm also going to miss seeing A 3-4 days a week. If the weather allows, we may set up a couple of outside, 6 feet away and masked, visits.
Ultimately, the 14 days of isolation is worth it, but I know I haven't been doing well with the amount of it I've had, so I'm a bit worried about the next two weeks. It doesn't help that I'm at the down point of my mental/depression cycle.