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Day 18 of the Homebound Saga: Adjustments
Apr. 2nd, 2020 11:08 amOr Thursday April 2nd, 2020
I first want to wish my good friend and fellow artist Hansi Oppenheimer a Happy Milestone Birthday. She is an amazing documentary film maker that interviewed me for her Squee project about women in fandom and did the awesome documentary about Joe Lansdale entitled “All Hail the Popcorn King” among many others. You can find them at Squee Projects.
Second, I have a time for my puppet building demo for the virtual Heliosphere which is 1 pm on Saturday April 4, 2020. Peter is doing a reading at the same place at 4 pm of his pulp epic Professor Ironheart. I will post links once I have them. Come on by an see how I make puppets. This is a rare panel as I can only really do it from home because the amount of stuff I would have to haul is too much.
It is nice to have a goal and a deadline to meet. I had been gearing at the beginning of March for the convention until I knew we were cancelled and then I felt at loose ends.
We have been adjusting to the new normal for almost three weeks. I am counting March 16th as our start date because that was the day that everything changed for us with the various orders from both the state and local government.
We have had to find other ways of continuing to exercise with daily walks and workouts online along with those things we know and can do at home. It is part of our day. The walks are very important because we do cardio and we also get, for the most part, sunshine which helps our mood a lot.
We have been adjusting to the new way of buying things. After the run on the stores for certain items, it is hard to find those items even three weeks later. I was running out of Hydrogen Peroxide which we use every day for cleaning mouth guards and the like. No store I went to had it but a neighbor knew I needed it and found it at the local dollar store and got me a bottle. I am good for the next month or so now but have no idea what store shelves are going to look like then. Same for toilet paper.
Also now when shopping you need to keep a safe distance between people so they have lines on the floor marking things out. For the most part this was not a problem for me until I got to the pet food aisle. I just needed to get the cats their daily wet food that’s all. There were two ladies right where I needed to be. They were going over all the wet food and commenting and complaining about the price of those items left as all the cheap wet cat food was sold out. Normally I would slide in, get what I want, and be on my way. Or rather the old normal because in the new normal I had to wait for them to be done and move on before I could get in there and obtain what I wanted. A shorter lady behind me asked if I could move some of the cans on the top shelf down for her. I was wearing my nitrile gloves and she was wearing dish gloves, so I did. She thanked me and I went to check out.
Things are slowing re-appearing on store shelves and the stores are putting hard limits on how many can be bought at one time. Meat, eggs, and milk are limit 2 per type. Bread seems fine but the baking aisle is a crap shoot of whether or not the item I want is there. The flour left is the expensive kind, but the salt is the generic brand. Large bags of sugar are not be found. There is no yeast. The spice section is missing some basic spices unless you want to buy the exotic organic humanly harvested 2 to 3 dollars more a bottle version.
Caroline is adjusting to her new normal for her continuing education. I feel very lucky that I have a child who knows how to plan and schedule her time, so she gets her assignments done in a timely fashion. She has been doing this since she first had homework.
Peter is adjusting his writing schedule for what needs to be done when. He has a couple of projects that he is rotating through. We have also caught up on our DVR with two exceptions that we need to watch the episode we were missing on demand.
We are keeping ourselves entertained which was not a big adjustment for us since Peter and I work out of our house.
That is the one advantage we had going into this. We know how to live in the same house together and what each other needs to be able to do their job. Others are having to seriously adjust to this and figure out how to navigate the day.
I am grateful for things that we don’t have to adjust for.
I first want to wish my good friend and fellow artist Hansi Oppenheimer a Happy Milestone Birthday. She is an amazing documentary film maker that interviewed me for her Squee project about women in fandom and did the awesome documentary about Joe Lansdale entitled “All Hail the Popcorn King” among many others. You can find them at Squee Projects.
Second, I have a time for my puppet building demo for the virtual Heliosphere which is 1 pm on Saturday April 4, 2020. Peter is doing a reading at the same place at 4 pm of his pulp epic Professor Ironheart. I will post links once I have them. Come on by an see how I make puppets. This is a rare panel as I can only really do it from home because the amount of stuff I would have to haul is too much.
It is nice to have a goal and a deadline to meet. I had been gearing at the beginning of March for the convention until I knew we were cancelled and then I felt at loose ends.
We have been adjusting to the new normal for almost three weeks. I am counting March 16th as our start date because that was the day that everything changed for us with the various orders from both the state and local government.
We have had to find other ways of continuing to exercise with daily walks and workouts online along with those things we know and can do at home. It is part of our day. The walks are very important because we do cardio and we also get, for the most part, sunshine which helps our mood a lot.
We have been adjusting to the new way of buying things. After the run on the stores for certain items, it is hard to find those items even three weeks later. I was running out of Hydrogen Peroxide which we use every day for cleaning mouth guards and the like. No store I went to had it but a neighbor knew I needed it and found it at the local dollar store and got me a bottle. I am good for the next month or so now but have no idea what store shelves are going to look like then. Same for toilet paper.
Also now when shopping you need to keep a safe distance between people so they have lines on the floor marking things out. For the most part this was not a problem for me until I got to the pet food aisle. I just needed to get the cats their daily wet food that’s all. There were two ladies right where I needed to be. They were going over all the wet food and commenting and complaining about the price of those items left as all the cheap wet cat food was sold out. Normally I would slide in, get what I want, and be on my way. Or rather the old normal because in the new normal I had to wait for them to be done and move on before I could get in there and obtain what I wanted. A shorter lady behind me asked if I could move some of the cans on the top shelf down for her. I was wearing my nitrile gloves and she was wearing dish gloves, so I did. She thanked me and I went to check out.
Things are slowing re-appearing on store shelves and the stores are putting hard limits on how many can be bought at one time. Meat, eggs, and milk are limit 2 per type. Bread seems fine but the baking aisle is a crap shoot of whether or not the item I want is there. The flour left is the expensive kind, but the salt is the generic brand. Large bags of sugar are not be found. There is no yeast. The spice section is missing some basic spices unless you want to buy the exotic organic humanly harvested 2 to 3 dollars more a bottle version.
Caroline is adjusting to her new normal for her continuing education. I feel very lucky that I have a child who knows how to plan and schedule her time, so she gets her assignments done in a timely fashion. She has been doing this since she first had homework.
Peter is adjusting his writing schedule for what needs to be done when. He has a couple of projects that he is rotating through. We have also caught up on our DVR with two exceptions that we need to watch the episode we were missing on demand.
We are keeping ourselves entertained which was not a big adjustment for us since Peter and I work out of our house.
That is the one advantage we had going into this. We know how to live in the same house together and what each other needs to be able to do their job. Others are having to seriously adjust to this and figure out how to navigate the day.
I am grateful for things that we don’t have to adjust for.
