With great begrudging assistance from staff at my employer that work from home already, I now do too!
It has been an adjustment that is turning out ok. Hubs is in 1 room, me in another and kid #3 is online learning in another. There are 2 teachers that share his class, one live streams the lesson and the other posts assignments and is available to answer questions for an hour a day. It seems to be working really well. Apparently while you are on video chat with your class it is TERRIBLE if your mom walks behind you getting coffee. It is pretty funny when all 3 of us are on a call or video! Talking away about 3 vastly different topics.
My oldest that was exposed to his friend that has/had the virus did not develop any symptoms. I saw on facebook a friend from childhood caught it too. She’s finally feeling better after 2 weeks. One of my occasional office mates has a friend that caught it too. Her friend was tested because she was at an event now we call it a “cluster event” in hindsight. She had only the symptom of fatigue, but because everyone that attended was tested, she found out and isolated herself. Otherwise she would have been spreading it with family and at the grocery store.
Our grocery situation has been fine. Shelves were a little sparse after everyone was ordered to stay home. But they were good the week after. Hubs and I did a Costco run. That was interesting. We waited about 10 minutes to get into the store. All people except for 1 family observed the 6 foot rule and were respectful. I bought $450 worth of meat and staples, which will last us about 1.5 months. We still need to supplement with fresh produce, but that is about once every 10 days.
The daily updates from our Canadian leaders and health ministers are very informative. We all need Dr. Bonnie Henry in our lives. BC you are so fortunate!! Things are changing daily. Can I just say that I LOVE the sign language interpreters. When they make the mad/disgusted faces with thier gestures, as well as when you can see that they are truly frightened about the information they are conveying, it is sobering.
Then there is the 3 ring circus to the south, led by the orange buffoon. What a performance. It’s shameful. There is a Canadian rage building over his behaviour and orders. It’s going to get worse.
The weather has been nothing short of awful, that helps everyone stay inside. Snow, wind howling, it might as well be January. The window in my home office is a bit higher so I cant see the ground when I sit. It makes me “think” is is a beautiful sunny day as all I see is tree tops and the birds hopping along the fence.
I’m cancelling our family trip that I have booked for July. We aren’t going anywhere. This isn’t going away. Until there is a vaccine, which is at least a year away, I think this world is going to be pretty subdued.
Luckily we have a friend’s netflix account, high speed internet, treadmill and gym equipment, lots of food and we both have our jobs. Life is as good as it can get under the circumstances.
I hope that our scientists that are working tirelessly on a vaccine, and our Doctors that are struggling to manage the worst of the symptoms can get it figured out, sooner than later.
My thoughts of the morning:
I’m so happy I can go to work in my bathrobe
Most of the people could really benefit from understanding basic rules to “Cooties”
