Dear Wendy
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Sending good thoughts to you snd your fam, KT!
Just wanted to say I’ve been using the essy eyelash serum that you all recommended for about a month and I’m seeing some difference in my lashes (not my eyebrows yet, sadly, as I think they’re kind of a lost cause). I just realized that I tried this serum about two years ago and maybe I wasn’t consistent with it like I am now, because I don’t remember it having any effect then.
Yes, outdoors for the win!
And, yeah, we still have tons of testing sites around nyc (and free rapid tests available at various community and cultural places, like public libraries; I pick up four every week and we still test at home regularly since it’s free and easy).
@Fyodor Ugh, right? Two years ago I was cancelling Drew’s 50th birthday and now here I am wondering what will be safe to do with friends in two weeks to celebrate his 52nd as we barrel into the BA.2 wave. Ughhh
Kate, that guy sounds like an enormous asshole! SOOOO tacky. His poor kids.
Ktfran, hope your BIL makes a full recovery!
As for BA.2, it’s here and spreading quickly in NYC, and nothing will be done. We are supposed to be in a “learn to live with covid” phase, meaning, I guess, being ok with getting covid 2-4 times a year, which seems really wild to me. My kids’ school dropped mandates a week ago and I told the kids they could decide for themselves how they wanted to proceed but that once I saw evidence of a new wave, I would ask them to please wear their masks. As of today, the 7-day case avg had increased 50% since a week ago, signaling the beginning of a wave, so I asked them to please keep their masks on at school. I am not ok with this level of infection and transmission. I’m surprised so many people are. The longterm effects of such frequent mass viral infection is going to be bad.
I really like Glo products and that’s the Vitamin C serum I got. I’m sure others have good recommendations, too.
Oh, I forgot about retinol. Shit, I’m already putting six or seven things on my face every morning!
Sorry, Helen! Hope you all recover quickly.
Am I remembering right that you had long covid the first time? It seems like so many of us who got sick in March 2020 had symptoms that lingered and lingered. I had a bunch, but most cleared up by June, 2021. The last of the symptoms – lungs burning when I run, chronic insomnia, and an electric shock/ zapping in my leg (multiple times a day, every day) only finally cleared up in the past few weeks. I’ve been reading about others who were sick in march/April 2020 and it’s been stunning how many had symptoms that lasted for months and months. A friend of mine has to have part of her lung removed this summer after struggling for two years to regain her full lung capacity.
Anyway, I’m glad you and the kids have very mild cases this time!!
I’ve started using a vitamin C serum and a the LaRouche Posay dark spot per your advice and I’m seeing a difference after about three weeks now. I was already using eye cream, a night oil, moisturizers, a toner, and SPF, but the addition of the C has taken things up a notch (I’m not noticing a change in the dark spots yet but Ill give it a bit more time). I also added the essy lash serum but don’t notice any change yet.
Yeah, those are like what I was picturing.
Frye has cute sneakers that I think would be appropriate in a less formal office.
I hope a balance can be found that works well for everyone. Working from home can be so good for quality of life. I think it would be incredibly jarring to work from home successfully for two year and then be told to switch back to full-time working from an office. It doesn’t sound like that’s what’s happening for most people though.
