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1. Are you an essential worker? I am not, but my work can be done entirely from my home, so thank god I'm still working (because Himself has been between jobs since March 4; new gig starts Thursday).
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started? About five, one of which was a glass of wine (standing in for all four cups) at seder.
3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts? Oh my god, you guys.
4. What new hobby have you taken up during this? I have a full-time job and a three-year-old. New hobby, ha.
5. How many grocery runs have you done? I've done two. Himself has done the rest (one per week with an extra run one day last week when I discovered the local store had TP in stock).
6. What are you spending your stimulus check on? I think we did well enough last year (before Himself was between jobs) that we aren't getting one. I guess another way of looking at it is that we've been stimulating all along.
7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine? My brother and his family were going to be in town for my nephew's spring break. Alas.
8. Are you keeping your housework done? Sort of. I had a frenzy of kitchen-cleaning yesterday, and I sweep the floors when the crumb-bumbler that is my kid (and, let's be fair, his father) has made enough cruft that I can't stand it. But I'm afraid when our miraculous cleaning lady is able to return it will be as though she was never here in the first place. (Note: We are paying her on schedule even while she's not coming in.)
9. What movie have you watched during this quarantine? We started to watch Avengers: Infinity War one night after the kid's bedtime, a hundred years ago in the beginning or middle of March, and after 15 or 20 minutes I had to admit it had been a poor choice. Since then there's been more froth. The original Back to the Future (both adults) and one or more Jane Austen adaptations (me). We have also introduced the kid to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which he is watching about once per day.
10. What are you streaming with? Plex.
11. Nine months from now is there any chance of you having a baby? It is vanishingly unliklely.
12. What's your go-to quarantine meal? Ramen with an egg in it.
13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid? No.
14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time? PTUI PTUI PTUI
15. What month do you predict this all ends? All of it? Ends? Shoot, maybe next July. I have to assume we'll be poking our heads up like, as Bertie Wooster said, a snail after a thunderstorm quite a lot sooner than that.
16. First thing you’re gonna do when you get off quarantine? Realistically, knowing me, probably break down sobbing.
17. Where do you wish you were right now? Taking my kid to day care (or picking him up, either one) or a goddamn playground.
18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most? Date night.
19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer? No.
20. Do you have enough food to last a month? Not really, although a shipping error in our favor left us with a quantity of cinnamon applesauce that amounts to - and my husband calls - a strategic reserve, so maybe we do. We'd be unhappy but we probably wouldn't starve.
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started? About five, one of which was a glass of wine (standing in for all four cups) at seder.
3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts? Oh my god, you guys.
4. What new hobby have you taken up during this? I have a full-time job and a three-year-old. New hobby, ha.
5. How many grocery runs have you done? I've done two. Himself has done the rest (one per week with an extra run one day last week when I discovered the local store had TP in stock).
6. What are you spending your stimulus check on? I think we did well enough last year (before Himself was between jobs) that we aren't getting one. I guess another way of looking at it is that we've been stimulating all along.
7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine? My brother and his family were going to be in town for my nephew's spring break. Alas.
8. Are you keeping your housework done? Sort of. I had a frenzy of kitchen-cleaning yesterday, and I sweep the floors when the crumb-bumbler that is my kid (and, let's be fair, his father) has made enough cruft that I can't stand it. But I'm afraid when our miraculous cleaning lady is able to return it will be as though she was never here in the first place. (Note: We are paying her on schedule even while she's not coming in.)
9. What movie have you watched during this quarantine? We started to watch Avengers: Infinity War one night after the kid's bedtime, a hundred years ago in the beginning or middle of March, and after 15 or 20 minutes I had to admit it had been a poor choice. Since then there's been more froth. The original Back to the Future (both adults) and one or more Jane Austen adaptations (me). We have also introduced the kid to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which he is watching about once per day.
10. What are you streaming with? Plex.
11. Nine months from now is there any chance of you having a baby? It is vanishingly unliklely.
12. What's your go-to quarantine meal? Ramen with an egg in it.
13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid? No.
14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time? PTUI PTUI PTUI
15. What month do you predict this all ends? All of it? Ends? Shoot, maybe next July. I have to assume we'll be poking our heads up like, as Bertie Wooster said, a snail after a thunderstorm quite a lot sooner than that.
16. First thing you’re gonna do when you get off quarantine? Realistically, knowing me, probably break down sobbing.
17. Where do you wish you were right now? Taking my kid to day care (or picking him up, either one) or a goddamn playground.
18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most? Date night.
19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer? No.
20. Do you have enough food to last a month? Not really, although a shipping error in our favor left us with a quantity of cinnamon applesauce that amounts to - and my husband calls - a strategic reserve, so maybe we do. We'd be unhappy but we probably wouldn't starve.