Good luck! My friend enters a lot of writing competitions. I hope that you do well!The contest results come out in November, and I'll post them after that. There's a rule about not posting… even on social media… until the contest is judged.
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I’m so sorry to hear this and I hope you’ve had better days since the beginning of the week!!
That’s an excellent grocery haul and good work finding smaller businesses for your needs!!
We always had a packed fridge because my husband gets all of the ingredients for a dish, uses what he needs, and then unfortunately it would just sit until someone made an effort to eat the rest or it would go to the compost! It’s truly shameful and I try my best to remind him but he’s the one who cooks and he has a hard time remembering to use what was leftover.
Now, we’re making an effort to eat all of our leftovers. It has sometimes meant the same food for days, and food that we don’t always enjoy, but it feels awesome to not waste as much and also to sometimes have space in the fridge.
We have to hunt for time slots for deliveries but my husband can usually find them. We enjoyed pizza carry out tonight with burrata and cannolis. Delicious!! I think tomorrow we will receive a delivery and can eat sandwiches, fish, steak, or chicken pot pies. Looking forward to it!
My husband wipes down all of the grocery store goods outside in the backyard and then they are brought in the house! I have to touch things when I leave the house but my husband or I take full on showers whenever we get home. I found us these water bottles that can hold soap so you can actually wash your hands right outside your car. Those are helpful for us as well. We’re just doing our best! Our masks still haven’t arrived so we do not wear masks on our neighborhood walks but we don’t see many people, luckily.
I am so glad to hear that you’re feeling better and on the mend! And also that you’re taking all of the precautions to stay safe and healthy. Please take care!! And I loved hearing the update.You're right! And until last week, I was going out occasionally to the grocery store because I was being careful. Plus, as you say, packages come into the house, so it's impossible to totally quarantine.
And then I went to the grocery store, and five days later I came down with an upper respiratory infection.Of course, you can imagine what I worried about!
Fortunately, it was only (only!) pleurisy. I have a wonderful pulmonologist. She sent me to the hospital (the hospital! eek!) for a chest X-ray, she saw me in her office EARLY the next morning, before any other patients arrived, she listened to my chest, she confirmed that it was only (only!) pleurisy. One week, and lots of prednisone, later… and I'm on the mend.
But. Now Mr. PG and I are banned from all outside-the-house errands other than outdoor walks. We just can't take the chance with my health. And when packages come to the house, they get opened outside and the boxes go directly to recycle. Then we wash our hands for a hundred years.
But of course we're older, and I'm at risk. I don't know that everyone has to be that careful. We're just following my doctor's orders. And I feel much calmer, now that we have a good plan to keep me healthy.
I think everyone has to balance what feels safe with what feels do-able.
I’m so sorry about all that you’re feeling. It’s truly a time of many emotions and much stress and overwhelm.
Is there anything that always cheers you up or at least pulls you out of your mind, whether it be reading, watching a movie, taking a bath, exercising, meditating, napping, baking a dessert? I wish you were able to find something that could help even a little bit! I was in the exact same spot about a month ago, or less, and building my morning routine saved me. Wake up, workout, shower, do my new skincare routine, put on normal clothes during the week, and dress my daughter in normal clothes as well. Without one of these steps, my mental state would be in the same place. I was having a hard time getting out of bed during the day unless my daughter needed me, and was extremely irritable and sad, even depressed. This has lifted my spirits immensely. I’ve also purchased a few new pairs of shoes since the very beginning of this thing, and the latest two should be arriving soon! I will share them here.
I hope you can find something that will boost your cheer!
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Wow I’m in shock! I saw there was a protest at Michigan’s capitol today and I am saddened and frustrated by that. There are so many more people not taking this seriously than I’d like to think. It feels a little bit like I’m in a bubble because I’ve been avoiding the news recently, we don’t see any crowds in our neighborhood (just plenty of neighbors getting fresh air on walks but with tons of space between), and I’m just doing my best at home to thrive and survive in our new life at the moment. Balancing the baby with my husband is essentially a full-time day job in and of itself, while we’re both working. So I just don’t feel like I know what’s happening in the “real world” and it’s saddening when I do “pop my head“ out and read these things.
We made an effort to eat all the leftovers too, but we didn't do that well last week. Some things ended up being thrown away. We just didn't like them. I just got another grocery order this morning. It was delivered before we were even out of bed. I had set it up before I went to bed. The doorbell woke us up at 7 am. I had ordered 1 pound of ground beef but 3 pounds was substituted. I don't know how I'm going to use that up. I was just going to make tacos. I don't make that many meals that use hamburger.
We do everything you do except do the packages mostly outside. Mail goes from my hands straight into the recycling bin, or the insides of the mail we need goes onto the counter. We need to wipe switches and doorknobs off more though. Good reminder! It’s hard to be “perfect” with any of this and I just feel that doing our best will have to be good enough. It sounds like you’re doing an excellent job!
Could you freeze the meat you don’t need immediately? What an early delivery. I’m sorry it interrupted your sleep!
People out for walks in our neighborhoods wear masks, although I would say it’s maybe 25% of the people we see out.