It is awful. I relate hard to being desperate for a mediocre ass brunch with friends. I am so grateful I have a Switch lite because the immersion of video games has helped me a lot also. I’m happy to hear that you have calls scheduled with your folks to help keep your spirits up some. It’s certainly not the same, but…

There are several reasons your teeth could be falling apart. Most likely, something is damaging your enamel, thereby weakening your teeth. The human bite force can be pretty hard, so even if you don’t eat hard foods, you might be chomping down too hard on your food or doing it because of stress.

We need another paradigm; the old one isn’t working. Up here in Canada, the Universal Basic (or Living) Income is gaining some traction. If everyone had enough money to cover housing and food, or at least part of it, then working would allow people to, a) save for a rainy day without worrying as much about an…

I’m really sorry you’re going through all of this. I know you weren’t looking for advice, so please forgive me for offering this— but as much as possible, I think it would be good to practice some really good self care right now. Baby steps, small things, one thing, if that’s all you can manage, but just keep going in…

When I wish that I had a partner to help with some of the heavy lifting, I remember that very often the load is not actually shared, and the partner may end up adding to the load, rather than sharing it.

Congratulations! What a beautiful girl.

The laughable amount of $600 weekly is double my paycheck as an essential worker in a health care institution. 

I’m very late to the party but I wanted to introduce everyone to my new kitty. This is Bandita (as named by her previous owners.) She was living with a family in my town but was being bullied by the other cats in the house so they decided to rehome her. Fortunately, it coincided with my roommate and her cat moving out…

What could solve this is weekly testing for everyone. You test negative, you can work at/go to the salon, bar, restaurant, party, etc. I hear scientists in Israel have come up with a COVID test that is a breathalyzer and gives results in minutes.  That could be a game-changer.  Of course, our govt apparently wants…

Can confirm. I’m a freelancer whose last occasional, irregular gig ended a while ago. I finally lost hope and applied for UI. I could only do this because of the pandemic, mind you. After many failed attempts I finally got my application through and was deemed eligible. The UI is a laughable pittance but the extra…

She’s done them in the past! My favourite was a twice baked Tim Tam croissant. Holy Christ it was good. 

The other offerings today were blueberry meringue, Snickers (which I also bought and will be my lunch today), and a lemon something something. This woman is determined to kill me and I ain’t even mad about it.

I think I need to vent more than anything right now.

Greetings from the greys in COVID-riddled Florida, the state with over 11,000 new cases today. I got tested Wednesday and it came back negative. Problem is, I went to the dentist on Thursday. Yeah, the folks actually dealing with patients’ teeth all had N95's on, but the office staff? I’ve seen better mask discipline…

I feel your pain, but I also feel the ire should be directed at our appalling lack of federal leadership as well as the fact that the current UI setup doesn’t adequately provide survival compensation for workers who are unable to report to their jobs during stay-at-home orders. We, as a society, should be agitating…

Unfortunately, we’re all being played once again. Trump and his goons have made this crisis the same ol’ us vs. them battle to deflect from their complete incompetence.

We got some amazing news this week - Mom is officially in remission! She’ll be taking a month off to regain her strength, since the chemo did a real number on her, then doing some maintenance, since there’s no official cure for her type of cancer, but with her numbers and how quick they got her in remission, things…

Who are the “tech workers” that said it would just be a month long lock down? I know who the officials are, but am not familiar with the “tech workers” you speak of.

I’m quite introverted and have a pretty small circle as well. I just started meeting new people that I enjoy talking with by joining a pottery studio. I didn’t go there planning to make friends, but it worked out that there are people there that I quite enjoy talking with. Or did, prior to shutdown.

Its been a lovely winter weekend here in my part of Australia!! I finally got off my blot, and dug up the garden bed next to my driveway - a job I’ve been talking about doing since I moved in 3 years ago!!! I planted one native shrub, 2 lavender, a petunia, and a little daisy type thing. I’ve named them all and will…