How are you coping with the coronavirus pandemic?

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Of course my washing machine died. It started making noises like a jet engine during takeoff…then, every time it got to the spin cycle, it gave an error code and stopped. Oy Vey! It’s not in my budget to buy a new washer! We have to get one anyway…thank heavens for emergency funds… I will not buy a Maytag again. They used to be amazing washers with long lives. This one is five years old and was kind of meh from the beginning.

So, I’m going to spend time online searching for washers and reading the reviews…then hubby will attach the trailer and we will go pick one up…somewhere… 5 adults in the house and an 11yo means I can’t be without a washer for more than 3 days.
 
One of our neighboring parishes had a drive-in Adoration last week. The parking lot was packed with people who all stayed dutifully in their cars.
 
I feel a strong urge to crochet a basket out of plarn.

Plarn = plastic yarn made from plastic grocery bags floating around in our pantry.
 
Social distancing means more time to play Animal Crossing. It came out at the perfect time. I also got some beard products that I ordered a week and a half ago. It was pretty fast, considering that it came all the way from Florida.
 
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I believe you and I are in the same state, and home improvement stores are listed as essential, so go ahead and get what you need, and get started!
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Well that’s a relief! Project watch grass grow is back on. Plus, as of tomorrow my husband is finally working from home I could potentially make a brief outing without the kids.
 
…getting a farmer’s tan line working outdoors as I prepare soil for planting seeds, pruned back fruit trees and planted new strawberry plants. :sun_behind_rain_cloud: …experiencing perfect working weather.
 
I took the grocery shopping back over from my wife. I pinch pennies tighter, and am probably lower risk. I can also budget over the course of a year.

So I hit the Winco, and simply stocked up.

And most of the way to $300 of groceries loaded into the trunk . . . I heard that creaking sound . . . I’d brought my '93 Fleetwood, the last of the big, rear drive Cadillacs . . . and I heard that creaking sound . . . I’d put enough weight in the trunk that it found the need to level itself!

🤣 :crazy_face: 😱
 
I’ve been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons. With all the stress in daily life, it’s good to play something that’s uplifting and happy, and Animal Crossing is exactly that. This is my fourth Animal Crossing game. I played the original one on the Gamecube, City Folk on the Wii, New Leaf on the 3DS and now New Horizons on the Switch. I’m thinking about getting an Animal Crossing tattoo, but I haven’t asked the Lord about it yet. 🤔
 
I’ve mainly been doing the things that I normally do since I’m disabled and don’t work. It’s the things that I can’t do that is getting me down though. Not being able to go to Mass or to have visits with my son is really bothering me. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I completely understand and agree with there being no Masses but it was the one thing that I always loved to do.
 
I love to give my grandkids treats of all kinds but can’t in person so I have resorted to mailing them my love ❤️ via snail mail.
 
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I’m toughing out this semester of university. I’m hoping I can come out of it without my GPA taking too big of a hit, but the combination of illness, stress, and depression has left me feeling really demontivated over my studies. Online classes are also a major flop. I’m studying most of the material on my own.

If we’re still in quarantine after the semester’s over, I think I’ll resume working on my French, and start some Hebrew. I’m taking Hebrew as an elective next year, and intend to become fully fluent in that language. There are a couple of shows I also want to watch on Netflix.

I’ve started to keep a diary as well, like you, @adamhovey1988, but mine is less feelings-oriented and more “Today I need to finish this, I need to work on that” so it’s more like a daily planner.
 
one upside to this mess is lots less pollution in the SoCal region so in the evenings I take a walk w/ my dogs at look at the planets and stars,… meanwhile seems everyone else in the neighborhood is indoors staring at a screen watching Netflix or using Facebook

BTW anyone else notice all the info about covid (real and fake) is pretty surreal?

real news,…
The shutdown brought bluer skies but more nighttime ozone to the Inland Empire
March 31, 2020

Since social distancing measures to prevent COVID-19 have emptied freeways, businesses and beaches, Southern Californians have been treated to dazzling blue skies and the fluffiest, whitest clouds imaginable.

The reason? Staying at home reduces emissions of nitrogen oxides, or NOx, which reduces air pollution. One UC Riverside air quality researcher thinks that’s both good news and bad news. To maintain our cleaner air and slow climate change by reducing pollutants, some of the shutdown’s lifestyle changes, such as teleworking, need to continue long after we’ve vanquished the pandemic.

The shutdown brought bluer skies but more nighttime ozone to the Inland Empire | News
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LA nearing third straight week of clean air
Updated Apr 3, 2020

…For nearly three straight weeks, air quality maps tracking the region’s scores on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index have been nothing but green—the color that denotes the cleanest air.

…In 19 of the last 20 years, the American Lung Association named Los Angeles the smoggiest metropolitan area in the United States. Traffic analyst Inrix recently found the city’s traffic congestion to be the sixth-worst in the nation.

LA has longest stretch of clean air since 1980 - Curbed LA
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April fool news???
Report: Coronavirus’ Impact on Pollution Could Have Saved Almost 80,000 Lives
by PENNY STARR 1 Apr 2020

A website devoted to the study of so-called climate change is adding to the narrative that the global economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic has helped to reduce pollution and, in turn, saved lives — as many as 80,000.

An article posted on Forbes magazine’s website cited the study on the Global Food, Environment and Economic Dynamics website that used data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to propose the lifesaving theory, albeit the piece also said any notion a pandemic is good for health is “clearly incorrect and foolhardy.”

www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/01/report-coronavirus-impact-on-pollution-could-have-saved-almost-80000-lives/
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I finally ran out of grocery bags. I used all the ones in our pantry and all the ones floating around in the trunk of the van to try to crochet a large basket for blankets. Now anxiously awaiting my now only weekly grocery shopping trip so the crocheting can continue. Its got the structural integrity of a very floppy hat.
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He’s living with his dad until our CPS case gets resolved. They took him away from me and put him with his dad and I am going through court dates and everything to get him back.
 
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