Covid Support Thread
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Miss MJ, why not order some Nice & Easy root color (my mom’s fave) or some Color Wow Root Cover-up (it’s a powder, not a dye and can be used to cover either gray hair or dark regrowth AND take care of grown-out highlights by connecting them)? And/or just get some cute headwraps and headbands? They have cheap ones at Forever21 or you can go fancy and do Nam Josh or whatever.
And a bottle of Lysol Hawaiian Breeze to spray everything with, and some wet swiffers. I feel you on having to clean all the time and it’s still not enough. This is such a fucking grind.
But also, people I see on Zoom have a bunch of gray roots or very scruffy hair or shaved heads. It’s okay.
I’d do a zoom – I’m doing virtual happy hours with my team once a week and we just chat about anything but work.
My mom bought all of these supplies to fix her gel nails and I get to learn a new skill. I’m both dreading it and excited to see how bad the results will be. As soon as Florida reopens (which will be in any day) I expect that the places that are overwhelmed first are hair and nail salons.
Yesterday I realized that I miss TJ Maxx. Which is so fucking stupid. But it’s true. I miss just browsing a store and touching everything.
I would be up for a zoom meeting/meet up. We do one weekly with my family and it is great and we look forward to it every Saturday evening.
I have such mixed feelings about reopening right now. I can’t wait. I want to sit at our local bar, eat a hamburger and french fries and drink an old fashioned. I want to hold my new niece. And the hair goes without saying. But I’m also terrified that we’re going to open too soon and too fast and we’ll be worse off than we are now.
So, I’ll wait. It sucks. But I’ll wait.
I should add that when Florida reopens it will likely trigger a disaster. The numbers here are growing because people will not stay at home/isolate. In my mom’s community – the numbers have not increased, because almost everyone is being careful but also because they’ve shut everything down and people are sick of getting yelled at by their kids and grand kids to stay home and not go play cards at their friends’ homes. That’s really the only thing that has made a difference – good old Jewish guilt.
Alafair sounds like we had a similar childhood. Nothing can touch my neck or cover my face. My husband had to get used to the bedsheets only reaching our waist. I was only able to wear the mask in the er because I was doing it for the amazing staff.
I’m so sorry Jackson had to experience that loss Wendy. Will our kids ever feel safe at school?Peggy you are so right. While trump was wishing away CV lots of us saw this coming. My husband works for a Canadian company. The benefits blew my American mind away. 4 weeks PTO from day one! I usually pay $500+ for a pair of glasses. My last pair came out to $80 & the whole store was convinced they rang me up wrong because it was so cheap. They did, it was supposed to be $60. Everyone’s jaw was on the floor. Hail Canada. If they’d take me I’d go in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately even my amazing Canadian health insurance couldn’t save me from my current crisis. I’m doing a home detox instead of a medically supervised one. I was prescribed blood pressure meds & benzos to help stave off delirious tremors, aka DTs. The death rate is pretty high if you develop it. I actually have experience doing a DIY detox before I took my best friend to the er last year in very bad shape. Before they treated her someone came to her room and showed her how much everything would cost. I had to pick her up because she still blew a .12. They didn’t even know if she was going to have a bad outcome because she was still drunk! Took her home and gave her an airplane bottle at extending intervals. So now that’s what I’m going to do with myself. Don’t ever look down on an addict in America. You have no fucking clue how hard it is to get help
I have two other different Zooms this week, wednesday and thursday around 7 pm Pacific Time. But I am so down for “meeting” at earlier times which might work out better for any East Coasters…
I actually left the house yesterday. Went for a long drive to scavenge rocks from the shoulder of the road. All these yellow flowers were everywhere! So the bloom approaches. Found 30 small football sized rocks.
The yard is looking great!
Playing for the LONG game here. Many of the planted cactus cuttings are still admittedly pretty puny. But everything is growing. Meaning many of the formerly single prickly pear “pads” are now three. They kinda sorta resemble Mickey Mouse.
Oh, I recently put out an orange sliced in half into an amazon impulse-buy oriole feeder. Yesterday, a bright yellow oriole showed up and methodically pecked away all the orange leaving two very clean orange rind halves…
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I do remain a bit annoyed by all the breezy weather lately. Only in that I really wanna spray paint more patio furniture.
Other than that, all is well in the desert. Though I do keep seeing more and more tailless (allbeit otherwise happy!) lizards. The roadrunner much be on the warpath.
Speaking of hunting, late last night — the coyotes were howling up a real storm. Fell asleep listening to them.
Hi Helen. I feel very fortunate that I live in Canada and also have universal health care and great benefits. I am so sorry you are going through a health crisis and hope you come out the other side okay.
I had a sister that went to Florida on a holiday with her husband. She was killed by a drunk driver on Spring Break. Luckily, she had great insurance and everything ended up being covered. However the driver had very limited insurance which covered almost nothing of the cost of her care ( by law here, we must have at least a million in liability) and her care for 10 days until she died,was about 450,000. I cannot imagine dealing with the stress and pain and worry of a health issue ( be it myself or a loved one) and stressing over money at the same time. We had people from the admin office follow us around the hospital and hound us to get our brother -in-law to make payments.
She got excellent care, but if she did not have insurance or adequate insurance ,
it would have destroyed them financially. Sorry to go on, and I guess it is not directly about the virus,but the system seems very strange and uncaring to me. I suppose there are people that avoid covid tests or care too,because of this. I do not want to assume,but it seems possible to me.If the timings worked out I’d jump on a zoom call, you could all look at my morning coffee and sunrise while you enjoy margaritas lol.
Not to detract from the seriousness but there’s a fb group going bananas in Aus right now of people getting dressed up to take out their bins. Worth a look if you need a giggle: https://www.facebook.com/groups/306002627033697/?ref=share
Well just did something I never thought I would do, I bought face masks for myself and my 3 year old daughter. This is really bizarro US.
@Helen, hang in there and know we are here to cheer you on.
@Ange, I’ve been enjoying the Bin Isolation Outing group and it has provided me with much need chuckles. Another good group on instagram is influencers in the wild. It is so entertaining
More flowers bloomed for the very first time here today in my planted desert. I just now walked the yard, sipping Licorice Tea. A lovely diversion before I tackle the tedious work of prepping some more patio furniture to spray paint…
