Cancelling Work on Saturday....
Oct. 9th, 2020 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse I was supposed to go into White Bear Lake Library on Saturday from 11 to 2--a wonderfully short shift, mostly to emergency cover people's lunches, but... Shawn has developed flu-like symptoms with a persistent headache, massive exhaustion.... and I don't need to list the rest. We are actually pretty sure it's an actual flu, however, the nurse line went ahead and scheduled a COVID test basically to rule it out. Thus, we are landlocked now until the test results come back.
Which should be three days?
So, not too long to wait.
I had managed to pick up our CSA before the call to the nurse line, so we are set on veggies (more Thai eggplants, yay!). We are having Amazon Fresh deliver us some of the rest that we need to tide us over. We have not really used Amazon Fresh for actual shopping before (once or twice to get things like Kleenex or dish soap,) so this will be interesting. I have mostly continued to shop in-person this entire pandemic so I've never had to deal with random substitutions, etc.
For all my light prepping, this one caught us unawares.
i really do think it will be nothing, but my family is hyper cautious and hyper... preventative measures, I guess?
It stems, in part, from having a teenager in the house that grew up on the kinds of YA books where a single act of sacrifice saves the world from certain destruction. When Mason had COVID toes (and if that's not what those were, I do not understand how he got frost bite in the middle of the spring), he self-isolated and stayed away from the pets and wore a mask to interact with us the whole five days he waited for his results. Which... also turned out to be negative (and you'd think that'd be a relief right? That just made my paladin son depressed at the though that he had probably been asymptotically infecting people before the toes showed up--since they can appear after an infection according to the articles we found on the toes.)
ANYWAY.
In other news, I have started a new quilting project.
Image: pink and purple squared quilt, with a bird pattern interspersed.
I will also be at CONFabulous over the weekend. I'm on a panel about Star Trek and queerness and might join the John Carter of Mars RPG game.
Can I confess? I'm a little happy to have cancelled work? I was going to have dash home at speeds and be on a panel an hour later. This will be more relaxed.
I would like Shawn not to be sick, however. That would be best.
Which should be three days?
So, not too long to wait.
I had managed to pick up our CSA before the call to the nurse line, so we are set on veggies (more Thai eggplants, yay!). We are having Amazon Fresh deliver us some of the rest that we need to tide us over. We have not really used Amazon Fresh for actual shopping before (once or twice to get things like Kleenex or dish soap,) so this will be interesting. I have mostly continued to shop in-person this entire pandemic so I've never had to deal with random substitutions, etc.
For all my light prepping, this one caught us unawares.
i really do think it will be nothing, but my family is hyper cautious and hyper... preventative measures, I guess?
It stems, in part, from having a teenager in the house that grew up on the kinds of YA books where a single act of sacrifice saves the world from certain destruction. When Mason had COVID toes (and if that's not what those were, I do not understand how he got frost bite in the middle of the spring), he self-isolated and stayed away from the pets and wore a mask to interact with us the whole five days he waited for his results. Which... also turned out to be negative (and you'd think that'd be a relief right? That just made my paladin son depressed at the though that he had probably been asymptotically infecting people before the toes showed up--since they can appear after an infection according to the articles we found on the toes.)
ANYWAY.
In other news, I have started a new quilting project.
Image: pink and purple squared quilt, with a bird pattern interspersed.
I will also be at CONFabulous over the weekend. I'm on a panel about Star Trek and queerness and might join the John Carter of Mars RPG game.
Can I confess? I'm a little happy to have cancelled work? I was going to have dash home at speeds and be on a panel an hour later. This will be more relaxed.
I would like Shawn not to be sick, however. That would be best.