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Mine was insane as well
My Disability got delayed because the Federal Government closed and quit reviewing applications
My Husband worked from home ( and OMG what a Distraction THAT is )
I am a Foster Mom to bottle fed kittens and currently have TWELVE of them in my house ; all of the adoption events have been delayed due to the Corononense
My Aunt is finally starting to close out my grandparents estate and is now cracking the whip to get everything out of the house ( and until my Disability checks start coming we don't have the money for a rental truck )
if she had done it a year ago when I had planned time off for it ; it would have been MUCH easier all around.
if it wasn't for these pixel ponies and some great people I have met here I think I would have gone 'round the bend lol
Gift Exchange and being a Flamingo was a HUGE stress relief ( retail therapy works even if its just pixel money and items ) and gifting always makes me feel good

I work in the service industry, and was lucky enough that my workplace closed for several months. We're working on opening up again (unless the boosted unemployment comes through again in the next couple days), and I'm not excited about going back to work in a COVID world, but at least the owner of my cafe is safety-conscious, and our GM is a really sane, rational person.

I've been spending a lot of time at the barn with my real-life horse, and all this time off has really given me a chance to consider my career going forward, and I honestly haven't had much of a chance to be bored. I built a gaming computer, which I haven't had a chance to use yet, but I'm so excited. I did a ton of yoga for the first month, and then got distracted.

I shaved my head because my hair was getting out of control, so that was a first and super freeing. I really want to go back to my stylist, but cases have picked up in my state again, so I'll probably hold off for a little while again.

My summer has been far less crazy compared to the ones recounted here.

I do have a pending disability review, but of course that was put on hold. I did get a letter in March stating that I was not cooperating... despite the fact I had mailed in paperwork twice plus sent the proof of my disability as requested. So I don't know what the issue was, and I can't get it straightened out until the offices reopen.

Then my mom passed away on June 22nd at home rather unexpectedly. I had seen her a few days prior and she was "normal" at that time. She lived in a house two doors down from me. We lived in the same trailer park so she was just a short walk away, really. So there was no warning signs or anything of that sort that she was gonna pass.

I mean, I'm glad that she's now at peace, she had a lot of medical issues so now she's free of all that. I'll still miss her, though. Ellie's too young to play Yahtzee and Skip Bo with. Mom was my playing partner for those games, so I'm going to have to wait until Ellie is old enough to teach how to play those games.

What sucks is that her cause of death is still pending. Since she passed at home without someone licensed attending her, the coroner had to do an autopsy to determine what her cause of death was. They told me that there's a backlog at the lab they use. I've put in a request for a copy of the medical report because I am curious.

My boyfriend got furloughed from work, but they recalled him at the end of last month, I think. However, his work schedule got changed because his regular building is still closed. So instead of working Sat and Sun from 7 to 5, he now works Mon to Fri 5 pm to 9 pm. His work has only recalled a select few employees, they recalled the really good ones since they have a limited number of slots available. The rest of the base is still closed for cleaning service.

Holy WOW ! My prayers go out to your Family @Silverstar ; I cant even imagine

@silverstar I had a very similar start to the year. First weekend in January I got really sick. Wasn’t sure what I had but have never been that sick before. I ended up going to my moms house with my dog so she could look after the dog and make sure I ate. I just felt exhausted and so cold with a dry cough that was worse later in the day. Took a few days before I was strong enough to get up and walk around without being exhausted and another week and a half or so until I felt back to normal ish.

3 weeks later from the start I was down with the same symptoms (slightly better thank god) I ended up going to the doctor because I’d been coughing so badly and it was hard to breathe he said it wasn’t whatever flu was going around but the only thing he could do was give me a steroid spray to try and soothe my throat or something. I didn’t take him up on the offer since of course my symptoms had lessened.

Another 3 weeks later (mid February) it came back again. But the symptoms were much less strong than the last time and I was able to keep going about life.

Whatever it is took out most of our staff. Only 2 people didn’t get sick.

A month later Covid closed down everything.

I work in the parks and Rec department of the town I live in so in the winter we are mostly in the Arena and the summer we migrate to the parks. Normally we have one pad of ice year round so we still rotate through the arena.

We had planned on doing a quick turn around and take out the ice in the rink that stays year round and do some repairs and put it back in the first week of April. Half our staff stayed in the arena to take it out the first week everything closed since that gave us an extra 2 weeks to make the repairs and see if there was any other issues and also started deep cleaning and disinfecting the building. The other half of the staff went to the parks and started to clean the parks building and a few other town owned buildings. We also started cleaning and disinfecting any benches and crosswalk buttons in town.

The end of March they split our staff into teams and started a 2 week rotation so only half of us were working at a time and the other half was being paid to stay home and not get sick. I ended up getting switched to the other team after the first rotation through as one of them had attended a funeral and the town wanted him to self isolate for 2 weeks.

Every week more things have been added to our disinfection route through the town which now includes benches, disk golf goals and touch points on the basketball and tennis courts, 6 playground equipment sites, skate park.

In addition to the grass cutting in the 11 parks and arena, gardens needing to be weeded in at least half the parks with most having 2+ gardens, weed whacking the edges and around trees after the grass cutting, 11 planter boxes and 4 tree bags to water and any other miscellaneous projects requiring our attention (like removing weeds from the sidewalks downtown)

The crosswalk buttons were discontinued when citizens complained we were spraying some mysterious liquid on them (they could have just asked the person spraying what it was but apparently they collected a sample of the disinfectant and sent it to be tested) and someone took a picture of another staff person disinfecting the buttons and posted it on a FB page for the town and area saying she was disgusted in that staff persons idea of “cleaning” the buttons and that they needed to learn a thing or two. We all thought she (the poster) needed to learn a few things about the difference between cleaning (Washing/scrubbing) and disinfecting (letting the disinfectant sit and do its thing for 5+ minutes for best results)

It’s been an interesting experience to live through these times. Thankfully most people we deal with have been understanding that rules have been but in place but then we also have those that feel all we have been doing is sitting on our butts ignoring things because we’re too lazy to work.

We entered phase 3 the other week and someone thought we weren’t opening the playgrounds fast enough (we were phasing them in one a day so we could take the fencing down and deal with the weeds and thistles that like to grow in the mulch under the swings and equipment) and still finish all the other jobs we need to do that day and they went through several parks and took the fencing down for us one night.

I’m currently using some vacation time that I now have tons of since all my horse shows were canceled by camping in the woods a few hours north. I chose a site away from people and my mom keeps texting me that numbers are on the rise in my town. It had gone from 9 to 34 between Monday and Friday. 0 the week before.