Month: April 2020

Quarantine Chronicles Volume 3: Who Among Us Can Remember a Time Before?

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Well folks! Volume 3! Things are heating up in the news. The journey from bedroom to the couch has gotten drastically more interesting. Just kidding it’s the same boring bullshit it was last week.

1.Working more than more part time status mixed with the stimulus check made me look at my bank account like a baller. By baller I mean I was dangerously close to over drafting this week.

 

2. Got a projector for my birthday. Been a dream ever since I saw Disney Channel’s Smarthouse and the kid has an entire wall that projects his video game. Now all I need is a rug that absorbs all of my milkshakes.

*I have since gotten my sheet and screen more proportionate.

3. School is coming back into play. We got word we are making up one of our classes and we can actually go to clinicals. We are still delayed graduating a semester but at least we are getting back on the horse soon.

 

4. Katie Selleck made me watch TikTok and I think I have a crush on the guy who does Dadosaur.

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5. Watched all the Hunger Games movies in anticipation of the new prequel book coming out next month.  A little too dark for this era in history.

 

6. I ran outside. I’ve done that like a total of 6 times in my 31 years living outside of high school gym class. It sucked, I don’t get the big whoop. The only view in my neighborhood is a taco bell, judgmental seniors and stripper pole gym. So I’m ready for the gym to reopen.

 

7. My sister’s girlfriend left our bubble but came right back with her sweet puppy. He’s a  little bit in a bitey phase but adorable.

 

8. I recently did the essential hours time at Meijer. It was dopppppeeeeee. Not busy, all single adults keeping their distance, things were stocked and the vibe was so much more chill. Still no Diet Sunkist though, what’s up with that?

 

9. I discovered this game via my friends Ryan and Julian: Friday the 13th on switch. It’s super difficult, super addicting. You basically run around trying to kill off the counselors. Sounds gory and horrible but like I feel like our collective bar is much lower for horrible than it used to be so don’t judge.

 

10. My general observation is that people are really over social distancing/precautions. I’m not saying I agree, but I notice more people suggesting others to come over, or not wearing masks outside or just pushing the limits more. I’m not getting on a soap box but I’ve just noticed people seem to be over it.

Quarantine Chronicles Volume 2: The Shining Is Making More Sense Now

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Welcome to Volume 2. I can hardly remember my life before Corona times. When I watch television and people hug I automatically cringe. I keep thinking kids are going to use this against me in the future in such ways as “Mister you’re so old! He probably lived through Corona” and I’ll nod my head and walk away as they jet pack away.

Here are my updates:

1. I don’t have many updates because it’s basically when you talk to a person it’s like “How is your house? Mine is the same.”

Good weather

 

2. I can’t help but wonder if Zoom invented Corona because I straight up have not heard of them before this.

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*Zoom

3.  My sister’s girlfriend got an adorable puppy but then decided it was best to take him back to her parents and spend the rest of quarantine there leaving Mary and I to fend for ourselves.

 

4. I had to officially quit my job at the Center For Autism. I also can’t believe I still work there? I feel like my employment there has been hanging on by a thread since Nam. I say I won’t be back but I’ll probably be back.

The great tragedy is that is one of my best ID pics.

5. I had my Corona Birthday. Honestly could’ve been worse. Sucks to have a pandemic birthday but my friends sent some really kind gifts and I got to Zoom with my friends. My friend Alexis had a lovely cake delivered and I still got to watch a theatrical viewing of Josie and The Pussycats like I do every year.

 

6. My house finished out our MCU adventure. I feel like so much more stuff clicked this time around and while in my head I knew it wasn’t logical but a part of me felt the quarantine would end when we finished the movies.

 

7. We got masks at work. While I’m beyond grateful we have the PPE we need, I will say it’s a long 12 hour shift breathing in your own coffee breath and feeling the sweat form around your mouth while your ears are chaffed to shit.

 

8.  Mary and I decided to keep our movie routine. I found a Buzzfeed list of great films for cinema fans we can work through as well as taking turns forcing the other one to watch a movie the other hasn’t seen. I already forced 22 Jump street on her so you can tell we are sophisticated.

 

9. Community is on Netflix! I mean it’s been on Hulu for years. So people have had their chance but Netflix is more pushy so I’m hoping it spreads the gospel better. It’s easily one of my favorite shows and the perfect light hearted comedy in these dark times. Also let’s be real you have all already watched The Office, Parks and Rec, Schitt’s Creek so this is on deck now.

 

Also if you’re going to be difficult at least try Happy Endings on Hulu or Derry Girls on Netflix.

 

10. Meijer got more scary, more masks (which is great) but the tone got tense. I mean I’m glad people are distancing more but the vibe is bad jujus now. Also they like never have Diet Sunkist or chain lube for my bike and what’s up with that?

 

 

Quarantine Chronicles Volume 1: Life and Love in Corona

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Well here we are folks. The quarantine continues on and I guess one of my hobbies is this blog so I’m trying to take this time to utilize this hobby.

So far here is my situation in quarantine. My parents are still in Florida and now presumably staying down there. I live in their house but my younger sister and her girlfriend moved in for the pandemic so I wouldn’t have to be alone.

I’m still working but only part time (about 24 hours a week) and my sister Mary and her girlfriend Emily are temporarily laid off. I had to finish one of my classes online and the other got canceled so for the most part I’m not in school and my whole program got pushed back a semester.

So here we are, just trying to do our best. Since the world is chaos now, all I can do to help my mental health is try to maintain some kind of routine.

Around 9:00 AM: I make some kind of breakfast for the ladies. I can poach an egg so like I’m pretty good at breakfast.

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That’s a breakfast casserole. I got the recipe from one of my professors. I know it’s potentially the end of the world because I just pulled that crockpot out of the box from 2015.

 

Then around 11:30 I do some form of exercise. Before quarantine was super tight I would help my older sister walk her gang of dogs. Now I just go on walks alone or ride my bike.

 

Afterwards Mary will make us some lunch and we often watch House Hunters as a family. Where Mary yells at every couple for their dumb opinions and Emily was shook to know they never pick the furnished home. Also we watched a lot of them that take place in GR. I can’t help but think the producers tell them. “Choose a bit and commit. If you can’t stand a closed concept house because if the way you describe yourself is that you are always in the kitchen and can’t see your kids I want to hear about it. If you think you are saying too much, trust us you aren’t saying it enough.”

House hunters

 

Slowly the afternoon comes and it’s Rob Time. I watch a little bit of Tiger King to be part of the culture zeitgeist. Then I picked up Orange Is The New Black. I had previously watched the first few seasons but decided to finish it out as well slowly work through my “watch later” folder on YouTube.

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Then dinner comes and Emily has been making some wonderful food. They are even so kind as to make me food when I come home from work. I try my best to not come off like Darren Stevens from Bewitched expecting a martini right when I walk in.

michal scott steak

 

The best part is promptly every night at 8:30 we sit down to watch one of the marvel movies. I’ve seen most of them and Mary and Emily are fairly new. I mostly police them from looking at their phones and find pleasure in Emily’s genuine shock to every major event. (Tonight is Black Panther)

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Finally I lay in bed scrolling through YouTube or Tinder while Hulu plays American Dad! or Family Guy in the background until I finally drift off and the time loop can start back over.