Here we are, 263 days into the Covid-19 stay at home situation. Lock-down is the wrong phrase, as we are free to go where ever we want and while our household is choosing to stay home as much as possible we still visit the grocery store at least once a week and do takeout food 1-2 times a week. We are not locked in our house Anne Frank style.
However, we celebrated the second of the big three family holidays with just the three of us. July 4th is usually a big family gathering, Thanksgiving is the other 30+ people event and we will be passing on Christmas as well.
Summer was easy to manage as we had lots to do outside, backyard pools, distanced hanging with the favorite neighbors and good weather. Thanksgiving was a different event. We made our own dinner and, honestly it was pretty good. A bit too salty, but better than dry and tasteless.
The picture shows the settings I've just allowed on my phone, which means that I should get an alert if I'm at the grocery store and someone who is positive is within 6 feet of me. I cannot really accept that I'm giving others the ability to track me within 6 feet, but until we're clear of this virus, I'll keep it active. I can turn it off (in theory.) There is a small piece of me that wonders if it's a big plan to whittle away our privacy, but I know people in the medical field and they cannot be lying about deaths.
We are doing well, planning for a quiet Christmas. We will be mailing our holiday gifts to our beloved parents this week. I wish they could come, but it's not smart.
The good news is that the (sorry) fuck-tard trump did not win a second term and grown ups will be returning to the white house in January. Mr. Biden was not my first choice, but I'm very happy. He's packing his cabinet with qualified people and many of them are women. I hope that we don't pay for this moment of sanity in eight years when the GOP elects a literal bag of shit. Common ground would be nice, but tRump...what a nightmare. I would hope the GOP could find a candidate that would stand for their values without being a racist, whorey bag of crap. And, (while I'm at it) be against abortion, but maybe let's make it irrelevant vs. illegal. The un-aborted baby is a human who will need support, especially if the mother wasn't in the position to have a child in the first place.
Oh man... ranting.
We are safe, we are happy, the tree is up.
