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Hopalong:
Sorry, forgot to include the link:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ps22+i%27m+gonna+love+you+through+it
Hopalong:
As identified cases increase locally (about 8 now), a bit more fear.
Also, perhaps, noticing how friends vary in their safety practices, is something to navigate.
A good thing is M is being very intense about all of those. He set a rolled down to the outside bags outdoors and called to the delivery person to please remove the groceries from the existing bags, place them in his bags, then he'd bring them in.
And when he came for our first six-foot-walk-and-talk yesterday, he brought me a gift of wine (and a few latex gloves) in an "old clean bag." I appreciated that.
I still worry a bit about complete trust in his practices but generally I think he's a good partner in prevention. Hopefully, after the full three weeks since he returned from California (after shaking uncountable hands for three days) is up, I'll feel safe having him come in my house and me go into his. If that works out with neither of us coming down with it, then we'll have our "virus safety zone" to go to and from.
But I need to get an honest answer from him about the last time he was out and about. What if he got gas somewhere, gloveless, and didn't sanitize his hands and door handle before getting back in the car, for instance? I'm not sure he'd have thought of it.
Anyway, these are the thoughts that make me uncomfortable. That plus every momentary spring-allergy symptom I'm feeling. Aaarggghhh.
The bigger darker realization is the whole "life as we know it" changing forever. If it's 18 months, I figure most people who stay well will endure it and be okay. But that's a position of privilege, which half of us don't have.
I think my healthiest goal should/could be to stay in the present. Keep practicing prevention and physical distancing, and focus on deeper beauties and life itself.
Just rambling corona thoughts.
Hugs
Hops
Hopalong:
UGH. I must go out.
Ordered too much stuff for the duration and my checking account tapped overdraft line. It's okay as I can transfer from savings.
But I have to do that at the bank, can't yet do so online.
I'll use the drive-throughs and sanitize hands like crazy.
Not ever touching face is a big challenge for me as something's always itchy: nose, eyes, etc. Allergy season.
Off into the Scary World.
hugs
Hops
lighter:
Maybe take an allergy medication you go? Honestly, big dog cone structures, for people, are a good idea, IMO.
Online banking is so easy, Hops. You have to get that set up, but you know that.
Lighter
Hopalong:
All went fine. Used the drive-throughs. Put my ID in a sandwich bag, held ATM card by its corner which I also sanitized afterward.
I do online banking but refuse to relinquish paper statements, so don't have full access to current balance. My reason is I prefer working on paper if I'm sorting out something and also, I'm wary of access dependent on computer functionality alone. What if for example, during the pandemic, a computer can't be repaired or phone trunks tank?
What I need to set up is how to transfer from the credit union (savings) to the bank (checking). I'll figure it out. For now, math meltdown averted!
And my two gallons of plain hand sanitizer get (60% alcohol as required) arrived! I had thought they were ripping me off.
hugs
Hops
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