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petrea_mitchell) wrote2020-08-23 07:34 pm
petrea_mitchell) wrote2020-08-23 07:34 pm
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72 days to go
Hot again this week, but not overwhelmingly so. I managed to get out and cut the blackberry bramble back some this afternoon.
Inside, the SO has determined that the garage needed a new workbench, and dismantled and carted off the ratty old one that was in there when we bought the house. A new model has been picked out, but just like when I decided I needed a dedicated work table, approximately everyone has decided they need one at the same time, and so we will be waiting for an e-mail to let us know when Home Depot actually has one available locally.
I tried not to watch the political convention this week, because my mind is already made up, but it was everywhere, even on BBC America when I tried to tune in for BBC World News, so I wound up seeing some parts of the major speeches. The candidates seem like they'll do okay. It's still at least a month and a half until I'll have my ballot in my hands.
The part of isolation that's chafing at me right now is the grocery logistics. I used to not decide what I was going to make for dinner on the weekend until it was the weekend, then pop over to the store to get the ingredient or two I didn't have lying around. Now I have to have some idea on Thursday so I can get everything on the shopping list.
I'll probably be complaining about this less in a month or so when the rain is back and I don't want to go out in it unless I absolutely have to.
Inside, the SO has determined that the garage needed a new workbench, and dismantled and carted off the ratty old one that was in there when we bought the house. A new model has been picked out, but just like when I decided I needed a dedicated work table, approximately everyone has decided they need one at the same time, and so we will be waiting for an e-mail to let us know when Home Depot actually has one available locally.
I tried not to watch the political convention this week, because my mind is already made up, but it was everywhere, even on BBC America when I tried to tune in for BBC World News, so I wound up seeing some parts of the major speeches. The candidates seem like they'll do okay. It's still at least a month and a half until I'll have my ballot in my hands.
The part of isolation that's chafing at me right now is the grocery logistics. I used to not decide what I was going to make for dinner on the weekend until it was the weekend, then pop over to the store to get the ingredient or two I didn't have lying around. Now I have to have some idea on Thursday so I can get everything on the shopping list.
I'll probably be complaining about this less in a month or so when the rain is back and I don't want to go out in it unless I absolutely have to.
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Stores are stressing my wife out horribly. She barely had a handle on it before the virus (she had to do the shopping for 2 months before my surgery that happened just before the virus hit) and its now being overwhelming at times, especially when we try to limit trips.
It used to be before, when I did the shopping, that I'd spread it over 4 days a week, to keep loads smaller (as my hip was disintegrating I could move less things) and because we used multiple stores in different directions.
Only for the winter months did we do stock ups of things, non-perishables, I'd get fresh veggies and fruit as needed for specific meals etc Now we're lucky when we can get a shopping run where everything on the list is actually there.
I avoided the convention stuff by only watching and listening to non-live stuff yesterday. Streamed videos and podcasts only for me.