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So my dad stopped talking to me the other day because I dared to question why they had my brother and his wife and kids over days after they had attended a massive family Christmas gathering with her extended family. Today my brother told a cousin who announced he's contracted COVID that he should try to exercise it away. Like... his legit advice is "physical exercise" for a virus that affects your lungs. It's like the intelligent people I grew up with all either got lobotomized or replaced with fucking pod people and I just can't fucking cope with this shit

That's our big Christmas plan as well! We got a fancier recipe HelloFresh and are gonna have fancy dinner and watch Wonder Woman! (and I just wanted to make sure my nosy bitch ass wasn't prying too much because I tend to ask stuff and not realize when I'm asking too much! BOUNDARIES, SELF, BOUNDARIES)

You don't gotta share any details you don't want, I was just very curious esp since my future will likely include similar surgery (hopefully before it gets to that point though, yikes!) I ain't really bought anyone presents this year because of pandemic so i'm like GIFT OPPORTUNITY so if you do think of anything lemme know! If not, also fine! Very glad you're home!

That's one reason I was curious about the specifics on surgery! I have PCOS and other issues that can wind up with me needing a similar surgery at any point and it's pretty fucking scary. I'm really glad she was able to have it taken care of and is on the mend/the way home! Offer still stands on me sending a game or something!

Yeah, now that it's pointed out it seems obvious re-reading it I AM AN ANXIETY RIDDEN DUMBASS, WHAT CAN I SAY Incidentally, if either one of y'all (y'all being galeigh and desi, fuck the rest of y'all) have an amazon wishlist or something y'all want to pass time in hospital/quarantine be it book or game or something share it please! Although mailing systems are slammed maybe I can get something to y'all!

that makes sense, the initial post made me think it'd already been addressed so i was very surprised

May I ask what the surgery was for? If the answer is no, that's perfectly fine! I was just shocked to see it!!!

SURGERY???? man. SWIFT RECOVERY WISHES i don't even know what to do but scream in the void i'm glad it went well

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. Tell her I love her and wish her to get better immediately ;;

holy fucking psychopathy batman

STOP GETTING SICK YOU FUCKS I CAN'T STAND THE STRESS (only sorta joking, of course I don't want y'all to get sick like this ever) Lee and I both went for our annual physicals today and our doc made me feel a bit better about covid stuff, not in the sense of she made me feel like it wasn't scary but she was very validating about the concerns while keeping positive and I was just so starved for that over doomscrolling on twitter that it felt significant to me. I really hope everyone here heals well and is able to stay healthy. I love y'all.

i honestly assume it's because i'm so fucking pale that it doesn't register my skin as existing and thinks my mask is just an uncovered face

there's a poke place we get takeout from that has a similar thing, it's like a lil tablet on a stand that scans your face and shit for mask and they've had it for months, they got on that shit QUICK but the problem is every time we go in for whatever reason it does not register any mask I wear and starts yelling and the employees are always just like yeah you're fine we can see your mask so ??????????

I mean, I started to object to her once years ago when she was talking about how Red Lobster was way too fancy but then I remembered this lady's diet at the time was like 65% frozen burritos. She definitely doesn't fit the stereotype of the fantastic cook grandmother but we love her all the same

It just seems like people are panicking again. So fucking dumb. We're due for a big grocery run and I don't wannaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa but the delivery selections are weirdly narrow for a lot of things and even then prone to just being out so we get incomplete orders all the time. Frustrating, but what can you do? Buying a fuckin' bidet was the best money we've ever spent I bought a big ass sam's club sized package of tp like a month or so ago because it was in stock and i figured the next panic was looming, but that'll last for ages along side the bidet. We're doing a thanksgiving thing and I'm fucking dreading it. It's small, and we've all been isolating, but ugh. It's literally the last chance we have for a holiday where lee's granddad will be with us, by next year he'll either have passed away or will have declined so much mentally he won't know any of us from the rate things are going. Last part's already happening, so my in laws are frantic to have this and I get it I just.... wish we weren't. I wish a whole lot of things weren't happening this year though. On the lighter side, we're not cooking food together like we usually do and have arranged to pick up catering from Cracker Barrel and grandmom is excited because she thinks that's very fancy. Lee and I took care of that, and we wanted to get it from a place we've been dying to have thanksgiving catering from for years (woodfire grill place that does amazing things) but that was legit TOO fancy for the family's palates so CRACKER BARREL IT IS

The one time I actually got mad was at some old lady doing the aggressive old lady at the grocery thing... is that a universal type thing or just fucking me? Where some old biddy stays like right up your butt for like 2 aisles because she's somehow decided she needs to be exactly where you are when you are already there and when you move on realizes no wait, she needs to be THERE right now and it goes endlessly until she actually needs to decide on something and pauses or you escape to the other side of the store and by got mad i mean I gave a clipped "please give me space" and just left to shop produce so I mean...not very exciting but up ya butt grannies are still out there waiting for me so maybe in the future i'll just throw hands with grandma in the spice aisle

I will admit to being a bit of a jackass about the lines If it seems people aren't noticing them then I'll say something like "oh i see the marker, yeah we're going the right way" a smidge louder than is necessary. Only did it a couple of times in the early days but yeah lmao. I'm THAT BITCH. I never actually got mad or confronted anyone though, and most of the time it would just give people a lightbulb moment, but yeah. Jackass.

Well, let me expand--- they had it a month or two ago, and as far as I've seen recently, it's very possible to get it again and be asymptomatic. They quarantined until they realized they weren't gonna have to go to the hospital then resumed normal life from what I understand. Just the other day got a video of them at their giant ass mega church and my brother was the only one visible in the video, rest of the crowd included, wearing a mask and even then he had it loose around his neck. They recently went to Disney World. Do I need to expand more? They're selfish arrogant idiots and my parents are high risk.

WELL MY MOM COMPLETELY IGNORED MY USE OF THE EFF WOOOOOOOOOORD SO IT'S OFFICIALLY THE END OF THE WORLD BYE FUCKERS she said I gave her some things to seriously think about in regards to me telling her that if they were having my brother and his family come visit the week before thanksgiving then they shouldn't go to the family thanksgiving. Stop exposing themselves via my brother and then exposing the rest of the family for fucks sake My brother and his wife both had it and had very mild cases (they caught it/spread it among my SILs family during a giant family beach trip.) and seem to think this means they're completely immune and therefore don't have to be cautious. For their sake and the sake of those around them I hope they're immune but there's no proof of that and no proof that my nephews also have immunity and it's just so fuckingaedrf;gklaqrf;glkawefda;lfkjda i'm so tired

The "obvious" but not easy route is hard lockdown with universal pay and support for all from the government but I mean there's fuck all chance of that happening in the way that would be needed on the scale it's needed on. Both nuances and absolutes are needed in how we address this thing and people just aren't capable of it. I'm so over this that I just said "fuck it, do whatever" to my mom in an email I censored the word fuck but even a censored version is enough to really piss her off so maybe i'll regret it but who the fuck cares, can't stop livin' amirite i'm not doing well today lmao

A teacher friend of ours had another teacher friend pass away from COVID this week. She got it when schools opened back up. A longtime family friend from our church passed away today after being in the hospital for months due to COVID. She'd finally seemed to round a corner on the virus and then had a devastating infection crop up as a complication and they made the decision to take her off life support. There is a picture of her husband decked out in PPE holding her hand and stroking her face (she's cropped out of the shot thankfully but you can tell what he's doing) as they were waiting for her to pass on. Her daughters talked about how she went peacefully, surrounded by family, so I guess in a way they were lucky because they got to stay with her but at the same time... dude. Everything's so fucked up. I'm so fucking sick of all this. "Well we can't stop living just because of some virus" obviously we can, Karen, so shut the hell up.

someone shared a video on nextdoor from their video doorbell of someone coming up, using the provided hand sanitizer to clean their hands then taking the entire candy bowl and running to a car and driving off i'm still laughing when i think about it

We never have much of a turnout, which has been a disappointment ever since we moved here because I had been so sure that living in an actual house in a neighborhood instead of an apartment meant I would get lots of trick or treaters so my hopes are never high, but this still blows. It was PERFECT weather here and everything T_T We had one set of kids who came up to get treat bags because we went on and put some out while it was still light out and then we had a set in costumes come up later and that's it. Still gonna leave some out and have our lights on for another hour or so just in case because we're gonna be up so might as well. We've gotten some later visitors in the past so maybe someone on their way back from one of the drive through events or something will stop update--we've had a couple more groups so that officially puts us as more total kids visiting than the other couple of years we've lived here!

I bought stuff to put together lil treat bags. We never get more than a dozen trick or treaters so I'll have a dozen goodie bags (crayons, colouring pages I drew myself, candy, stickers) and if we wind up getting more for some reason then i still have enough to throw together some bags with just candy and maybe stickers. I'm putting the bags out a few at a time on the porch and will sit by the screen door to greet kids if they come but maintain distance