#then work

Also hope you’re ready for more sketches/art later ;P I’m having ✨ideas✨ thanks to the outfits >:)

I am Looking So Intensely

I'm a little all over the place rn (handled a scary call, sent in an application to another workplace, trying to remember everything I want to do -) but mostly it's all going well!!

Have a little drabble cooking once I get done with all work prep >:3c

So on Monday my aunt called over with her child (who had a cough but a ‘negative antigen test’ that was almost certainly not done properly because my aunt wouldn’t dare hurt her precious child by putting the swab up far enough to accurately test)

She asked if my sister (12) if she could babysit on Tuesday morning- failing to mention that the reason she needed a babysitter is because she was told not to send her sick child to school due to the Covid risk (so obviously the best thing to do is expose family members instead?)

Tuesday comes and goes, babysitting goes smoothly and the child isn’t thatttt sick but certainly isn’t healthy

Tonight (Thursday) we get a message from my aunt saying ‘oh we went to pick up antibiotics incase her cough got worse but they sent us for a Covid test and it came back positive’ - but she didn’t notify us at all that they were waiting on test results until after they were told it was positive.

So now it’s Christmas Eve, it’s impossible to book a Covid test for all of us and even if we could we wouldn’t have results in time for Christmas. We managed to book 1 test for my sister for Christmas morning (to get results on boxing day) but that’s the best we could do

But basically it means Christmas Day will most likely be me, my mom and my sister sitting at home with no ham, no turkey, no proper Christmas dinner (we were supposed to go to my nans house but she’s immunocompromised and has cancer so I don’t think that’s an option)

And for some reason we’re not allowed to be annoyed at my aunt - she’s anti vax, intentionally brought her child up when she knew she was sick and didn’t mention it until we had already been around her.

Oh on top of that:

A) when my mom told me that my sister would be babysitting I was already annoyed because we were supposed to do a mini Christmas that day which then had to be moved around so she could babysit anyway

B) I only found out afterwards that the only reason we were asked to babysit is because the child was specifically told not to come to school while she was sick and my aunt ‘needed to work’ (she’s in a cushy job, she can 100% afford a day off) so basically if the child was healthy we wouldn’t have had to babysit - which signals to me that she doesn’t care about our health and has no regard for the fact that I have Asthma and had surgery over the summer so my immune system isn’t great anyway

So basically every single one of my Christmas plans has gone out the window, my dad (who doesn’t live with us), my partner and 2 guys in work are all potentially exposed because I was around them in the 48 hours after being around my cousin (they’re not considered close contacts because the risk of transmission that quickly is low but they’re all going home to families for Christmas so it’s still wrong on so many levels)

Idk I think I just needed to vent tbh but basically I’m supposed to isolate until New Years day unless I can get a Covid test but there are none available so idk what I’m supposed to do and I’m 👌🏻this close to having a breakdown because I can’t fucking deal with Covid messing up my life anymore, I already have to hide the fact that I see my boyfriend from my dad, I’m not allowed out to pubs even when they’re open because my dad thinks I’ll catch covid, I barely have a social life except when I’m in college because that’s the only time I’m allowed, I can’t plan anything because any time I try I get fucked over by shit like this and I can’t fucking do it any more. Any time I try to have a good day something like this happens