Time is a Slippery Fish
May. 16th, 2020 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlerulesTime's really getting away from me these days. Howzit mid-May already? All this (CV) seems to have gone on forever, yet it was just mid-March a blink of an eye ago. Time flies, except when it seems frozen. Basically, I only really know that time's passed because I must re-fill my weekly pill-box on Sundays, and at some point I start running out of undies so laundry needs doing.
Hard to believe it's been two (2) months since I late ate in a restaurant. (Had a Cibo dinner date on 03/16/20, the last day PDX/OR restaurants were allowed to be open for regular table-service.) Now, though, with things re-opening to some extent, matters feel really scary. Yeah, I'm incredibly privileged and lucky, so I can continue avoiding the world for far longer than most. I'll keep ordering food To Go from a few local fave spots in an effort to keep them going - and to supplement my increased cooking. But there's no frakkin' way I'll go shopping for anything other than groceries (every 3 weeks or so rather than every couple of days) for...months, most likely. I drive to hardware stores at least once/week, but let the BF do the shopping there (like he lets me handle the groceries).
Anyway, dunno where I was going with this. I'm coping, some days less well than others, but basically doing okay. I dunno when I last spent this much time in a row sleeping at home, without traveling further than Forest Park for weekly hikes (with additional multiple times/week walkies at Mt Tabor). Nearly a decade, mostly likely, after my last big break-up, when I fell down a rabbit hole of self-doubt and recrimination and barely left the house for chunks o time.
Hope you're doing okay. *virtual hugs to those who want 'em*
Hard to believe it's been two (2) months since I late ate in a restaurant. (Had a Cibo dinner date on 03/16/20, the last day PDX/OR restaurants were allowed to be open for regular table-service.) Now, though, with things re-opening to some extent, matters feel really scary. Yeah, I'm incredibly privileged and lucky, so I can continue avoiding the world for far longer than most. I'll keep ordering food To Go from a few local fave spots in an effort to keep them going - and to supplement my increased cooking. But there's no frakkin' way I'll go shopping for anything other than groceries (every 3 weeks or so rather than every couple of days) for...months, most likely. I drive to hardware stores at least once/week, but let the BF do the shopping there (like he lets me handle the groceries).
Anyway, dunno where I was going with this. I'm coping, some days less well than others, but basically doing okay. I dunno when I last spent this much time in a row sleeping at home, without traveling further than Forest Park for weekly hikes (with additional multiple times/week walkies at Mt Tabor). Nearly a decade, mostly likely, after my last big break-up, when I fell down a rabbit hole of self-doubt and recrimination and barely left the house for chunks o time.
Hope you're doing okay. *virtual hugs to those who want 'em*
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Date: 2020-05-16 08:03 pm (UTC)I think re-opening is going to be like that, at least for me. The things we do to stay safe have to change, and transitioning from one to the other is going to be scary.
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Date: 2020-05-17 05:28 pm (UTC)I plan to stay at home just as much - possibly even more - for the next month or more as more places open and more folks get out and about and CV spreads.