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Stay-At-Home Orders Received
Mar. 26th, 2020 10:29 amIdaho has officially initiated Stay-At-Home orders, so that’s fun. My mum, who works for the city government, will work from home half time and at her office half time — she helps handle phone calls from concerned citizens, which can’t be done from home. I’m so lucky that I get on so well with my mom. We aren’t friends — we’re definitely mother and daughter — but we have also been roommates of a sort. I moved back home in 2013 when my dad got sick and stayed on for another couple years after he died. Anyway, we’ll be good. We know how to give each other space, neither is insulted if the other goes to their room or reads or whatever.
Emotionally, this order has helped me with my anxiety — finally, someone is doing something! It’s annoying, but my fam is in a pretty good situation to take care of each other. The weather is cooperating (in my opinion) by being very sunny but very windy. It’s a cold wind, so I am not at all eager to go outside, but I get some lovely sunshine through the windows.
And! My yarn stash is pretty full. There are at least three blankets in progress stashed in my room (or a closet — I’m not sure where all the stuff I left here when I moved is at the moment, but I have time to find it). And I found a pattern I like for my Xichen scarf. It’s a lace pattern that doesn’t quite show up well on this worsted weight yarn (Caron Cake), but it does give the scarf a nice texture. I will be sending the finished scarf to my work bestie Mary Beth. She is the person I would shout about Untamed with irl. I got us bunny bracelets on Taobao last fall. She picked the LWJ bunny and I got WWX. MB is in Canada right now. She wasn’t planning on coming back to our school next year, and my heart is breaking at the thought that it might be years before I get to see her again. I cried about this on Twitter the other day, but it dawned on me that there are coworkers and students that I probably won’t see again. Quite a few of the staff planned to leave, move on to other schools, and if we don’t go back this year, the reality is that I won’t see them again. We do have social media to keep in touch, and that is better than nothing. But what if I don’t get to hug Becky again? What if I don’t get to joke around with my students? Tease them about their idol biases? Get them to laugh at me when I’m a dork?
Okay, okay, I’ve cried a lot in the last few days. I don’t want to cry again today if I can help it. Please enjoy the poorly-lit pic of my Xichen scarf-in-progress.
Emotionally, this order has helped me with my anxiety — finally, someone is doing something! It’s annoying, but my fam is in a pretty good situation to take care of each other. The weather is cooperating (in my opinion) by being very sunny but very windy. It’s a cold wind, so I am not at all eager to go outside, but I get some lovely sunshine through the windows.
And! My yarn stash is pretty full. There are at least three blankets in progress stashed in my room (or a closet — I’m not sure where all the stuff I left here when I moved is at the moment, but I have time to find it). And I found a pattern I like for my Xichen scarf. It’s a lace pattern that doesn’t quite show up well on this worsted weight yarn (Caron Cake), but it does give the scarf a nice texture. I will be sending the finished scarf to my work bestie Mary Beth. She is the person I would shout about Untamed with irl. I got us bunny bracelets on Taobao last fall. She picked the LWJ bunny and I got WWX. MB is in Canada right now. She wasn’t planning on coming back to our school next year, and my heart is breaking at the thought that it might be years before I get to see her again. I cried about this on Twitter the other day, but it dawned on me that there are coworkers and students that I probably won’t see again. Quite a few of the staff planned to leave, move on to other schools, and if we don’t go back this year, the reality is that I won’t see them again. We do have social media to keep in touch, and that is better than nothing. But what if I don’t get to hug Becky again? What if I don’t get to joke around with my students? Tease them about their idol biases? Get them to laugh at me when I’m a dork?
Okay, okay, I’ve cried a lot in the last few days. I don’t want to cry again today if I can help it. Please enjoy the poorly-lit pic of my Xichen scarf-in-progress.
