I love receiving wine, but guess all my friends are rude...

Sure, but there’s a lot of demand for babysitters, they get to set their prices. I used to babysit a ton on the side (only stopped because of the pandemic). I work full-time in marketing, babysat on evenings and weekends. I found that parents were absolutely desperate to find a babysitter they trusted, and if I was…

Yes, people pointed that out after I commented! Can’t believe you didn’t predict the future. Still don’t want to party with my neighbors, pandemic or no, though.

I hear she talks about what a monster Jill Ellis is! Love Pinoe even though I am obligated to hate the Reign, very excited to read this.

I’ve seen it happen, just didn’t register this time!

Whoops! Well, I stand by my comment, don’t know why people in 2011 weren’t predicting a pandemic in 9 years that would make is unsafe to interact with people!

You realize it’s a pandemic, right?

That is exactly what I did with my neighbors and it accomplished nothing.

I tried earplugs while also running two fans and a white noise machine to drown out my neighbors...did not help. The bass still kept me up. After talking to them directly twice and leaving them a note once, finally reached out to the property management company. After multiple warnings from them, they have more or…

Oh also...besides my partner working in health care, people in my apartment building often don’t wear masks while wandering the hallway, and while I can avoid going into stores, I can’t really avoid going into the mailroom to pick up packages, and if I want to ever go outside to take a walk I have to walk through the…

I also work from home, but my partner also works in health care and takes public transit every day. Not particularly hopeful.

They made no effort to screen the men in Rachel’s season for racism so doubt they would have done it anyway.

GSUSA is a secular organization. 

I do actually enjoy getting together with my family for the holidays (just my parents and my brother and his wife usually, we all live in the same city) and I am a little bummed that there’s just no way to do it safely this year. Over the summer we hung out in my parents’ back yard a few times, distanced, but now that…

I also found it really sad. 

I’ve thought about getting a bike but I feel like I would probably spend a whole bunch of money and then be too afraid of getting hit by a car to use it.

Hmm. I’ve never owned a car (never been able to afford it) and it’s never sucked more than during the pandemic. Since we’re not doing any indoor activities outside of our apartment I would really love to be able to go on hikes or go to the beach. I’m not taking public transit anymore because it seems really unsafe so I…

I used to love cooking and do a lot of last minute plans and improvisational meals. Then the pandemic hit and I stopped using public transit which means I could either get groceries delivered or stop at the one very small very expensive neighborhood grocery store. Then that store closed because most of its business…

I miss opening the window so badly. And leaving my apartment for any reason. If only I had known on Labor day that that would be my last time leaving my apartment in...who knows how long...I would have appreciated it more.

If you checked in on friends and family living in the Northwest when protests were making the national news, maybe check in on them now too, they are probably not ok.. (I’ve had multiple conversations—online, of course, haven’t left my apartment for 9 days—about how we heard from every well-meaning aunt and college…