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Are you staying home from work or school?
I’m disabled, so except for my husband being around the house because he’s working from home, my life hasn’t changed much. Oh, and yelling at my mother for constantly leaving the house.
If you’re staying home, who is there with you?
My husband, our four cats, and my mother (and her dog). My mother has her own apartment off the back of the house, so that could be a worse situation. You know, a situation where it’s just me, my husband, the cats, a dog, and a lovely garden I just planted for no reason at all.
Pretty much. Especially in the winter. April is usually when I start getting out again. Doctor’s appointments, a spring-time tune-up massage to fix what winter did to my body, oil change for the car, and planning home fixes or whatever is on the schedule for the year all starts happening in April. But before the lockdown, I’d already been in the house since mid-January, with only two exceptions: My husband and mother dragged me out to a restaurant for dinner in late January/early February. I was so fatigued, it was like I was drunk. And I got my nails done late February, I think. I remember thinking it had been two months since I’d gotten them done at Christmas, so yeah, late February. So...yeah...I don’t leave the house much.
An event that you were looking forward to that got cancelled?
So far, nothing has been outright cancelled, just postponed. Jason Manns in NYC was postponed to June. MomentoCon in Pittsburgh was postponed to August. And a couple doctor’s appointments. I hadn’t scheduled that massage, yet, so not sure if that counts?
What movies have you watched recently?
Hubby and I do Date Night every Saturday night, where we watch a movie and order in. When he picks, he’s making me watch all of the Bond movies since Connery’s first (he had a reason for skipping Roger Moore, but I don’t remember what it was), and I’ve been all over the place. We watched both Deadpool movies, and last weekend we watched Romeo + Juliet because I kept seeing posts about it on Tumblr.
What shows are you watching?
Tonight, I turned on Tiger King to see WTF everyone is talking about. I dozed off in the middle of the second episode, so I’m now even more confused than I was before I dozed off. Other than that, it’s just my usual network shows. Oh, and I just finished Schitts Creek. Emotionally compromised from that, now. Unhappy with the ending for H50. Still watching MacGyver, Tommy, The Rookie, etc. Looking forward to JDM’s new thing on AMC next Friday with his wife and the Ackles and others!
What music are you listening to?
Holy Chuck, SO MANY STAGEITS. Jason Manns alone does, like, 5 on Tuesdays. Rob’s been doing one on Tuesdays, too. Paul Carella is slowly taking over Fridays (today he did two, but I only tuned in to the second one). It’s not music, but I’m digging Rob and Rich’s podcast, too, which is saying something because I don’t listen to podcasts.
Nothing new. All fan fiction, as always. Like I said, life hasn’t changed for me.
What are you doing for self-care?
Putting away social media at the slightest sign of it affecting me, which means I’m not on Twitter as much. I’ve been obsessively scrolling through Facebook, though, which is highly unusual for me. It’s not good, either. I’m trying to put the social media down, and remember that I’ve got things to do, like I’ve always had things to do. I’ve started ignoring the updates from government officials (mostly because I know my mother will tell me everything as she rants about it, and my husband will tell me if anything that affects me happens). The only thing close to news I’ve watched is Colbert, but even he’s extra stressed, and I can feel it. He’s got a bit of an hysterical note to his voice since he lost his audience, so I’m gritting my teeth a lot.
Adding a question of my own to this because I’m curious:
What change have you noticed since the lockdown started that has surprised you?
I’m very surprised by how affected I am by the world’s stress level. My life hasn’t changed, really, so me feeling stressed out sometimes really surprised me. I’ve always been empathetic, taking on other’s feelings a little more than is healthy, but I didn’t realize that I did that to people I don’t know who are not in the room, you know? I always thought of people out there in the world, in my Twitter feed (and sometimes even my Facebook feed, which has more people I actually KNOW) or on TV, as being remote and mostly unable to affect me without actually interacting with me. But now, just reading that these people I follow are having a tough time is stressing me out. It’s why I’m putting down the phone a lot more.
I’m curious to hear what other folks have been surprised by!
