Daily Ooo's: Friday, March 13

[faerywings]

Here is where I put all of my good Friday the 13th energy into the Universe. I know I have said it before, but I always thought that 13 is a good, positive number and oh yes, I am sticking with that one today! :nod:

It has been eerie and a bit surreal for everyone in my family and friend circle. I am guessing for most of you too. Just in a matter of hours yesterday it seemed like everything shut down. The kids were supposed to have classes today, but the school closed early. The school districts are also closed. Cait and I are losing our "jobs." One of the cleaning jobs I have is for a woman who is a teacher and with her and the kids being home, I doubt she wants or needs me to come in. She tutors for a kid in 6th grade and that is on hold for a different reason.
Yesterday a mom drops off her 4 yo at the school she is interning at, telling the teacher that her coworker is in quarantine but that her boss won't let anyone else stay home. So Cait is worried that if the mom was exposed, and the kid was exposed and she was with the kid all day... what does that mean? She let the boy's father know what was up and asked what he wanted her to do which was naturally for her to stay home.
Cait is so worried that she could bring it into the house and have it infect me and especially Gary.

It is going to make for a very interesting few weeks.

That photo of Tom Hanks I posted yesterday tuned out to be a fake image. I should have double-checked but I think I so desperately wanted something to make light of the situation that I didn't bother. So I apologize for spreading a fake photo but I hope you view it as something that would be fun to see.

Today I am deep cleaning my house. I don't think it will make viral/bacterial difference but it will make me feel better hahaha!!:rofl:

Quick PSA: I think that you all know that I have anxiety and depression issues and have had them for a long, long time. I am trying to keep them under control but honestly, it isn't working all that well. Please be kind to each other. I know that I am preaching to the choir here because all of you are amazing people. But this is really difficult for a lot of people to cope with. Check in on each other and if you know someone who has struggled with depression, addiction, suicidal ideation- let them know that you are there.

and on that note--
I hope that all of you are having a fantastic day!
xoxo

 

[faerywings]

Nancy- What are you going to do with all of the sports seasons are getting canceled? You are going to be able to get a lot of knitting and scrapping done but what to put on TV in the background? heh.
Your son must be very worried about his GF. Is she able to stay home from work? Luther will be very happy to get lots of walks in with your DH being home too. And between the birds migrating and the plants blooming, it will be pretty all around.

OMG-- speaking of birds, we were crying with laughter last night at dinner. We were discussing the virus and quarantine when Gary noticed that my neighbor's front yard was *covered* with black birds. Covered with them. We are watching them, and they start to fly off and then we see that the tree to the side of our house was also covered with them and they came swooping down and then more and more and more. It was non-stop! ound:

Gary watched the Later Show and The Daily Show last night and it was just crew in the audience, said it was strange too. (I am so angry at the Trump administration the GOP Senators-- who just went home for the weekend! )
I can't remember who it was but an NBA player is donating $100,000 IIRC to put towards helping the arena workers.

Trudy- rainy here today and it still feels more like April than March.
I enjoy remaking old LOs too and thank you for giving me that suggestion, as I haven't thought to do that in a while. I am happy that you are being so creative!

Rae- it is all over the place, photos of the empty shelves everywhere. What the theater crowded or pretty empty? For the past month, I have been trying to pick up a few extra things every week I go shopping just in case but with money being so tight it is really hard. I was planning on going to the FP tomorrow but I don't know if I should.
Is J feeling any better?
I hope that you had a great walk with Taz and B in the sun!!

Hugs to everyone!

 

[nancyr]

good morning - yes I am bummed that there is not sports but I am totally in favor of them slowing down the spread of virus. My DH's school is on spring break but he has to go in to attend meetings with deans so that they can coordinate how to switch to online learning. They still have to figure out the labs portions too. The online instruction will last through the end of the semester. But he also has to figure out what to do with his graduate students who are in the middle of research and getting them access to the campus during this time. Me I am just watching tv and reading and walking Luther. Though today Luther is at day care. The weather is the pits cloudy and drizzle.

Chris I love the 13 and it has never scared me. I am so sorry this virus is causing your family so much distress.

Trudy to hear that Canada Hockey has stopped all hockey is something no one saw coming. It is raining here and I hope it stops soon. Hope you get some good weather.

Rae hope you had a great time with Jen and B. I really do love your photos.

Have your best day!

 

[BrightEyes]

Morning, all. I slept in this morning until almost 8 AM! WOW... Guess my body is trying to catch up on the rest it needs. Woke up to rain but it has stopped for now. I need to go grocery shopping so will see if it clears off enough to try it today.

Yesterday I had to go to the senior citizen center and renew my membership there. Glad they send out a reminder card. Picked up a few books at the library there but had forgotten to bring the bag of books that need to be returned. Will take them back next week. Then I was off to the Police station to drop off 3 large garage bags full of stuffed animals. Slowly but surely getting the stuff out in the garage sorted through. Found 2 boxes full of music cassette tapes - they were my mom's. Since I have the "Victrola" multi-player {cassette, CD, record player}, I will keep them. Need to figure out where to store them so they are available.

Got my census notification in the mail yesterday. Guess they wanted to make sure I got it as I received 2 notifications! LOL Went on-line and got it done this morning. Only took a few minutes and was so easy.

Chris, I understand your's and Cait's concern about that child whose mom may have been exposed to the CorV and that Cait might carry it home to you and Gary. Sorry that one of cleaning jobs may be gone due to the mom not going into to work.

Wow... that gathering of birds in your neighbor's yard must have a bit startling. Shades of 'The Birds'... Yes, it is that time of year for bird migration.

Trudy, smart you thought to remake old LOs. That can jumpstart your creativity sometimes. I really liked your LO and understand why you liked it so well.

I need to get started on a couple of LOs for the O's Birthday party. Looks like there are a lot of activity in the "Win Your Wish" forum. Birthday time is always a fun event.

Gotta run... cousin is calling. CYL

 

[taxed4ever]

Morning ladies... Well it will have been a tearful house at our son's last night!! They had to tell the kids that they are not allowing them to go on the trip to Africa! :hurt: I am not sure how their other grandparents are going to feel about it, but things are getting bad everywhere and they just don't feel comfortable letting them go on this trip right now. I feel so badly for them, but I think that it was the right decision! Hopefully they will be able to reschedule the trip for another time! I know that my DIL checked out what would happen if they cancelled the whole trip and really it wasn't going to be too bad $$ wise, so that was good! Anyway we also found out that the schools in Ontario are also shutting down for two weeks after the spring break which begins out there on Monday. So everyone will have to miss school for three weeks!! I feel for everyone that has to find a way to miss work for that long of a period! Heather is worried what on earth she will do with the boys for that long all confined to their little place. :mmph: I would offer to fly out to help her but I could just be bringing the virus to her door after travelling, so I sure hope that her In-Laws will give her a break and come and get the boys once in a while! What a crazy time we are all going through! :loco:

Chris - I am sorry to hear that you are losing your cleaning job! Hopefully all this madness ends quickly! Seems like the world is going crazy! I thought that maybe I had seen that photo of Tom Hanks before, oh well don't worry about sharing that, it was nice to think that perhaps he was doing well and being treated nicely! I hope that you enjoy your time with the kids in coming days!

Nancy - Yes my Gary is very bummed that there will be no hockey for him to watch for a while. Still it was probably a good decision that they made and it will hopefully resume again soon! Now he has to catch up on a few of the series that we started watching. Hope that your weather gets better soon, nice that Luther is playing with all of buddies today!

Kay - Thanks for the nice compliment on my page re-do. Yes it has sparked some inspiration for me to do some more scrapping and I really need to get one done for my challenge during the party! Was the call from your Cousin news that she has sold her place? If so you will be busy getting ready for her move! Hope you get your grocery shopping done!

Alright it is time for Heather and Hunter to call, oh and today I will take a photo of my painting progress and hopefully will post it soon. I really need to get things done for the party here at the O first though. I hope you all have a good day and that there is no more horrible news about the virus today! :wave:

 

[bcgal00]

Good morning ladies. I'm staying off the computer mostly this morning so I can get my desk work done and will head out in a bit to get some groceries as the shelves are getting more and more bare for the essentials. There is no TP anywhere so I will have to keep checking to see if I get lucky. Everyone is selling out within minutes of stocking shelves. We went to see The Hunt last night and really liked it. It was action packed, silly in parts and gory in others. Kept us entertained. The cineplex has 8 theaters so usually there would be at least a few hundred people there on a Thurs night but we saw about 15. In our theatre there were 3. It was very surreal. We sanitized our hands before and after, didn't use their washroom and tried not to touch any more surfaces than we needed to.

Wish me luck at the grocery store.

Trudy - how sad for the kids, they won't understand why.

Chris - I've been watching the Daily Show too most nights. It was weird that there would be no audience. The world is changing very quickly right now. I sure hope they get that vaccine ready quickly and things can go back to normal.

Ok, I've got to get out of here now. BFN

 

[Kythe]

Good news coming out of Ontario, the virus has been isolated so now work on a vaccine can begin in earnest. Have faith the science/medical research teams will get the job done.



My exercise regimen with my personal trainer is working out well. I just have to be more consistent with when I do the workout. Right now I fit it in around the dog but then sometimes I miss a day because I am too tired in the afternoon.


Chris, My DH suffers from anxiety as well. It is a tough thing to have to deal with as he never know what might trigger an episode. Hang in there.


I have to admit I am so uninspired these days with regard to my scrapping. There are so many wonderful kits in the store I am having a tough time choosing.


Stay well all.

 

[BrightEyes]

Quick in and out in between the storms. Have had 4 go through today with thunder and lightening and heavy downpour of rain. Another line is heading our way so on a couple of minutes to pop in. Glad I had decided to not go to the store!!!

Cousin just called to up-date me that no serious lookers so far.
DD#1 called to say 'open you garage door' as she was pulling up to it. She had a couple of kids car seats to drop off for DD#3 - for her son whose baby is due in June. She no more than got them into the garage when another squall line went through.

Yes, it was announced today that all the schools in the state are closed for at least 3 weeks as are all events with 100+ people... including sports, concerts and churches. They have set up a hot-line for people to call who think they may been exposed or are sick...saying to not go to the ER or hospital. They will send out people to test and evaluate them and determine if they need hospital care in an isolation ward. Hopefully that will keep the exposure to others down.

Ooops... hear the thunder rumbling again. CYL

 

[felis]

Hello girls!
I'm sorry Trudy, I respect and agree with your annoyance everybody to mutter about the virus, and will try my future post to be calm and normal, but today is just this mutter about the virus!
So everything is shut down with no actual purpose! I feel like live in cheap blockbuster! It's not looks like government have any plan beside "please stay isolate"! Hope that everything will be back to normal for the summer season!
My mom will be at home for 10 days, because the children daycare is closed, and she is relieved, as she really really hate her job! I'm so grateful for all that she do for us and love her so much, but she drives me crazy! Somehow she is decided that she is in risc group, even she is only 50 and something age and in excellent health. So she non stop watch news and freaks out even from action that are taken in other countries! I'm try to show her that what is in Europe, and even what is in our capital, is not in our town, and there is no reason for panic. Hope staying in home will makes her come down and bring back to logic! My dad is find new way to aggravate her, by acting like nothing happens (which I approve basically) and go out hanging on with his pals (hmm they are over 60th so in the not too riscy group). Living with them will kills me so I'll probably wouldn't be able to survive this 'quarantine' :roll: ! I'm starting to understand your culture of emptying 'the nest' after age of 18.
My house is usually 'chemical free', but now we are use all the cleaning products we usually use for the cat house to ours too. And there is some serious problems that will comes! I'm working from home so for now printing house is OK, but if our clients, which are mostly cafeteria and restaurants flyers, are closed, they will left us in non paid break. And of course I have no saved money, we call them "white money for black days". No I'm not predict anything like that, because if I have fears I somehow make them to become true, so my philosophy is to live care free! Uhh, interesting times come.
But hey let's look from the bright side of the life, now we will have more free time for Spring cleaning, which like Chris said it will make me feel better!!! Love this feeling for control over my own little world!

Chris, I'm notice your anxiety in few cases, but I had no idea about the depression issues :hug: ! Please if there is something we can help, or if you need private talk and hug, or whatever comes on your mind just let me know! When I was going thru this it was very difficult to get out, and there was no madness as this in the news right now, I can't even imagine how awful is all this for you! Please honey, stay concentrate on positive thinking! Give your time on the O party! Listen playlists music instead radio! Get sunbathing in your garden! Believes me world is went through a lot more scary things and it is survive! The whole this situation is over bloated by the news, because they makes money from every popularity!

Trudy, sorry that kids are disappointed, but I still think that Africa is not good idea for kids! I watched about people who catch parasites from African's hotel where dry the sheets in area with fly, and its left eggs on the sheets. So people sleep naked and parasites goes through their skin. I think it will be nice to go and see Heather and the boys, just make research about the mask you needs! I read that N95 masks can actually help particularly during necessary extensive international travel.


Nancy, I'm not surprised that you was better informed and was told me that sports events will be canceled, till I still thought they are just with no public LOL ! Now I noticed a few new people at the dog park, usually they are made short walks in different time than us, but now looks like everyone is wondering what to do with the extra time and extending their walks.

Rae, my friend Dom was advertising option in England to order TP on it regular price from some online service, check for something like that! Good luck at the grocery store!

Kythe, always happy to see you popping here! Are you plan to shows us some before/after exercises layout? I have in my wishlist this get fit/exercise kits, but never can't find right moment to bought it. No I don't exercise, but I plan fun LO with my sis about that. Hope your scraping mojo comes with the beginning of the O birthday!

Kay, hope the storm is not too bad, and no damages bring!