Post ONLY Good Things to come out of this C-19 lockdown

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1) I cook more. I realise I used to rely on convenience food through my usual days. I'd have a small pack of salad, or a fruit salad made by some retailer or coffee shop. Given the time they'd save, I'd kinda justify the absurd expense. But I'm enjoying getting back to planning three meals a day and experimenting with ingredients. A positive and healthy experience.

2) While getting exercise, I've noticed a university close by isn't staffed, and wild flowers have sprouted on otherwise very severly mown grass. I'm guessing they treat weeds with insecticide. We're short on bees in the UK because of many things including use of insecticide, so it was a simple pleasure to stand in the sun to watch some bees feasting on wild flowers that wouldn't normally be there. They were having a great time.

I hope the good things we've all written here continue after lockdown ceases. I hope it'll act as a reminder of how badly we've collectively behaved in the past. We need to make sure we keep an eye on continuing the good stuff.

On a personal level, my life has seldom changed. But it has given me time to refocus current projects, with the juggling of personal life acting as buffers and breaks to prevent a creative burnout.

I was disappointed to see the news of HIV prevention medication being buried. Considering the AIDS crisis of the 1980s was huge and panic inducing.

It is a massive breakthrough - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51897 ... ting-story

That the surplus population of humanoids have taken a drastic hit. (To quote Iago from Giuseppe Verdi’s setting of Shakespeare’s Othello: “I believe in a cruel God...”

And yes, I’m in an extremely foul mood!

I swear I read a story about Truvada as PrEP being available in London UK a couple of years ago or so - before it was available here. Maybe it was just a localized trial and now it’s nation wide?

Ive been taking it for more than a year, but less than two years - basically since a few months after it became available here via our Provincial medical plan that pays for it 100%.

But during this fun pandemic time I’m not having social contact with anyone let alone intimate, so I stopped taking it over a month ago. They still refilled a script tho (and 4 months vs standard 3) so I have a 5 month supply I’m not even taking rn. A couple more months of keeping to myself and I’ll be able to legally donate blood for the first time in my life.

As for the pills, I haven’t checked the expiry dates, but maybe I’ll end up giving a bunch away at some point since they’ll just keep giving me more every few months. I’ll give ‘em to someone who’s run out a bit before a refill or lost a bottle or whatever. Better they get used and do their job than sit on my shelf in a stockpile.

I guess that’s a positive thing to come of this: I’ll have bottles and bottles of PrEP to give away to a handful of others to ensure they don’t run out before a refill. (They shouldn’t anyways, but sometimes people do if they’ve miscounted or given some away or changed appointments etc. Obviously due to the nature of what the drug is for it’s dangerous for Some people to run out due to their high risk behaviour.)

Because many people are wearing masks now I don't have to look at their ugly stupid faces.
And they don't have to look at my fat face, either. And of course everyone knows fat = ugly and stupid.

I can wear a bandana over my face along with my pearl snap buttoned shirt and cowboy hat. It reminds me of playing cowboys as a kid.

My brother stopped working in mid-March when his company closed. This is the longest break he's ever had since he started working there about 35 years ago. He desperately needed this rest because he's a workaholic. I've appreciated being able to have long chats with him on the phone, rather than quick text conversations which were only about urgent questions. He seems so much happier, even though he says he's yet to fully relax or feel accustomed to the change. I wish he could or would retire early now that he's had this time off.

The place I usually volunteer is shut down, so I found another place to volunteer that might be a better fit as far as going from volunteer to hire.

My best friend since high school and his wife just had baby number 3 a couple weeks ago. Lockdown stuff definitely has the older two (8 & 12) home a lot and doing home schooling etc so it’s really good for them and The Baby (his name isn’t finalized yet) to get to know each other. Plus I THINK my friend has been working from home more vs going into his office full time so Hopefully he’s been home more to see his family & the new addition. During regular working times he sometimes goes a week or two without even seeing his kids since he leaves early and gets home late, so hoooopefully C-19 has resulted in him at home more. He’s an amazing provider, but I know his wife and kids want his time with them more than more financial success - so bless this time for that.

Love Island will be cancelled this summer. That's probably the best thing about this whole crisis.

Funny one somewhat started liking his brother. Occasionally has displayed caring.

Elder is eating better than he was with school.

I don't have to be out and see people. I hate being around people even family, for extended periods of time, feel scared, self-conscious, jittery, tense.

I feel very freaked out like someone is going to assault me or something (not that i think they will..but similar emotional feeling as if being in a war zone outside)

I've always felt this way since I was little, but now thanks to lockdown, exposure to outsiders is reduced to almost zero.

I found a new way to deal with telemarketers. This call was from a few minutes ago:

T=telemarketer K=me

T: How are you doing today?
K: I have coronavirus.
T: That's good.
K: It is?
T: I'll add you to the do not call list. Goodbye.

My dad drywalled the last walk of our next door neighbours’ garage & then I took over and taped/beaded what wasn’t already done and then finished the entire thing to a Very Nice level 4 finish that’s actually BETTER than the finishing work that was done in all of these houses when they were built brand new 13 or so years ago. Lol literally No One would opt for & pay for such a high quality level of wall finishing for a GARAGE (turned workout room for their football scholarship son to get stronger before university as he can’t go to gyms or friends places during covid) but I couldn’t resist being OCD and doing a damned fine job of it.

He expected us to give him a bill for our labour when I was done lololol we gave him an invoice for $0 because he’s been such a good neighbour mowing and trimming our front lawn and shovelling snow off the driveway and sidewalk etc most winters - especially the ones where my dad was injured or sick and so I haven’t had to do much snow shovelling and this was an opportunity to do what I do to restore balance to the neighbourly force.

I suppose it was also a bit of fun to show my dad the level of work I can turn out now after having worked alongside a few of the very best in my trade - guys that have been doing this for 45-50 years. For the amount of time I’ve been doing this, my work looks REALLY GOOD, and will still likely get a bit better over time - I just need to be less picky and get Way Faster at it and Then it will become rather lucrative.

TONS of time spent with my sons especially the elder who was treated not in the nicest way, at school, in my opinion (kept strapped to a chair, facing window while all the kids were seated together, no recess, etc - for TA's ease and comfort despite multiple requests and even meetings about it)
With me and dad he gets treated like a human being.

No more son's therapist. Wouldn't mind but she was off and on quite accusatory and paranoid and weird like questioning PSWs if the child was getting blended food (she was anti it, but scientifically it's proven to be superior to Nestle's formulas by multiple hospitals now), controlling, etc. Nice and good lady --but simultaneously weird and toxic qualities that were overstepping boundaries a LOT.

Learned to hula hoop.

do you have it or was it just a joke.. i dont understand
also why does he care if you do or dont if its over the phone...he cannot catch it

im less self-conscious when im fat than when i was slim and fit.
also i think most people view chubby adults = similar to chubby babies in the sense that they are both cute.
cuteness is not ugly.