Quarantine of the Day
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- mg330
I'm working in downtown Chicago with a few coworkers in a co-working space for the first time since early March, just for a few days this week to work on a project.
It was weird to wake up each day and think about what I wanted to wear. What I noticed as well that is so strange is that ordinarily this time of year, it's getting cooler and I want new fall clothes. I walked into a Madewell shop, and it was just weird... in normal times I would have picked up a few things I liked, but yesterday it was just like "who cares!" There's nothing I need, and working from home I'm probably only wearing 1/10th of my existing wardrobe.
Have any of you scaled way back on buying clothes because it just doesn't matter? I feel bad for good retailers and especially smaller businesses and American-made clothing makers. I typically put decent thought into what I wear and what I buy, but this pandemic is putting me right in that place where it seems so unnecessary to buy any new clothes. I'd rather spend the money on software, plugins for Logic Pro, printing art to hang in my basement, etc.
- it's been good to get the wooly jumpers back on but I'm waiting til civilisation collapses next year to rob some outdoors shops.PhanLo
- I haven't bought a stitch of clothing since April. Maybe a few cool masks and a trucker hat but thats it. I would have normally bought some nice flannelsfooler
- some nice jeans and some new boots. Now i'm fine with all my old clothes and wonder why I was trying to look so cool ( or what I thought my version of cool is)fooler
- I just started wearing jeans again after months of wearing shorts everyday. I have a bunch of raw thick expensive denim I would wear everyday to work.fooler
- now they seem so uncomfortable and constricting to wear around the house. Im more comfortable in my old beat up jeans than my "dress up" jeans.fooler
- I’ve worn pants maybe two days out of the last month. I work from home, thoughscarabin
- I still buy clothes like it's going out of fashionAQUTE
- PhanLo0
Anyone panic buying bog roll again?
- The only thing I overbought was salt, rice and water purification tabletsGnash
- At one point the only bags of flour we could buy were giant sacks, so far even with lots of cake baking we still have some.PhanLo
- jizz creamutopian
- Everything is readily available here in so calscarabin
- Paper mache some shitnb
- I bought a machetesausages
- Most folk are as soft as shite. My plan is to nick their stuff when SHTF.Phrenological
- PhanLo1
- First when I scrolled down I thought it was a gunsight. Now I'm wondering whether it's some deeply bleak portrayal of abuse in a domestic lock-down environmentNairn
- I though that too on the gun sight too, but he actually makes quite sweet images https://tony-mitchel…PhanLo
- fooler2
My wife and I and our 2 sons have been limiting our time outside in public for months because of COVID but now we can't even go outside and play in our backyard because we are surrounded by wild fires. We now have the worst air quality in the world!
I guess we should be thankfully that we live about 10 miles from the evacuation lines and still have our house and lives but we're going stir crazy!
I just went to get some supplies at the store and my eyes are burning from the 15 minute trip. This entire town is like the smoky side of a camp fire.- different disasters my man, this is not covid related...grafician
- oh wait, you live in the US, in California? Wow...my badgrafician
- and yes, I accept being bad here, the quality of my air rn is dictated by the guys outside fixing the boulevard before elections...grafician
- but good luck mate, stay safe!grafician
- jfc, I can't even imagine. As a new father myself I empathize, if it's not one life threatening thing it's another. Best of luck & hang in therewhatthefunk
- We're in Oregon. We were quarantining from COVID but now we're quarantining from the smoke. Its been 5 days and its still to smoky to go outside.fooler
- utopian0
- ssssexyBabySnakes
- Sure.omahadesigns
- Stuff that didn’t happen for $200, AlexGnash
- plot twist, her husband was Oscar Pistorius_niko
- It’s quite a good idea to sell those socks, though.maquito
- My cousin (son of Grandmaster in Kenpo) his wife has ankle long hair, one night her hair was across his neck and when she turned over it pulled across his neckmoldero
- he said he thought it was a rat and punched her headmoldero
- hes a big dude, n she's tiny, poor girl.moldero
- BonSeff0
How are you parents doing with school? I have a 1st grader and zoom calls are wack.
- We start in a few weeks. Hopefully it's better than the end of the last school year. What a joke that was.lemmy_k
- My son's back full time at high school. Sounds like a shitshow, reckon a month til another lockdown.PhanLo
- Thank god my kids are in university. I feel for you guysGnash
- My twins actually opted to do the optional summer school classes for sixth grade. Also, remote school is better than having to deal with a toddler or infant.evilpeacock
- Beeswax4
- I also recently bought & sold the stocks of this single seater electric car https://www.greencar…Beeswax
- Wow, that is one ugly carinv
- Looks like it would be shit in a crash. Avoid.Shabby_Titmus
- Del Boy mobile.Shabby_Titmus
- https://youtu.be/aFd…helloeatbreathedrive
- Nailed it! Covid-Tesla ftw!maquito
- It's here exactly like this but in large cans or in an invisible smartphone bubblemekk
- Beeswax1
- lolsted
- Oh wow, so this is real. Someone real spent time on this.Maaku
- beekeepersBustySaintClaire
- *reallyMaaku
- PhanLo2
Meanwhile in Finland.
left: "Everything will be alright", right: "Doubt it."
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- Bennn3
My work send a survey to everyone to know what we think about working from home. Everything is positive on my side.
I really hope I'll be able to end my career working from home! As an introvert, it's just perfect.
Also, that would mean I would have the possibility to move away from the city eventually.
- Becoming a freelancer while still at a full time job, congrats!grafician
- Yes, i'am very lucky if it happenBennn
- vers les laurentides!Salarrue
- Same. Office life sucksshapesalad
- Laurentides trop de mouches noires ;-)Bennn
- I’ve been working from home for the last 3 months... with a 2 month old baby, I’m loving itdmay
- Cantons de l'est, c'est mieux.zarkonite
- Gardener9
- So, does that mean we need a "Quarantine 2 of the Day" thread or is this just first wave a snarky retorts still working its way across?MrAbominable
- Second parts were never good...OBBTKN
- In Victoria(AUS), we've gone back into 6 weeks lockdown. What should I complete?Sellies
- This Winter is gonna be grim.Doris_McSquirter
- MrAbominable3
My new routine is working from home M-F. I work for a fine art advisory in NYC. And there is every reason to believe that my company might shutter in the next month or two. So yes the virus is bad; but like many people it's only one of the threats.
I'm overweight because my workplace depresses the fuck out of me. I had been jockeying to jump ship but the arts, like many other opportunities has totally evaporated. And so I'm stuck at home stressing about being trapped in a job that might also evaporate. And the plague.
My routine has been the working at home thing M-F but the real routine has been trying to use this time to be healthier. No more vaping. Do a little yoga twice a day to help maintain anxiety, promote flexibility, and do damage control on a largely sedentary lifestyle.
I've always enjoyed cycling. The weather has improved enough that I can now ride about five days a week. And i'm ramping up on that as another way to promote cardio-pulminary; and weight loss. Plus the endorphins help keep the anxiety at bay.
My diet is largely meat and veg and home prepared. I've been keto in the past and not sure if i want to go that hard again. One of the upsides of keto is the anti-inflammatory properites. To that end, I am returning to intermittant fasting and trying to only feed within an 8 hour window. Only water outside of that to not trigger the metabolism. The idea that autophagy will benefit my immune system.
In a normal world I would have already been doing all of this stuff already. And I've done combinations of it in the past. Maybe the keto will come back. Hard to do that with a limited supply chain. Going to stick to a sort of Primal diet for the time being.
And enjoying the quiet. Gotta keep the tv down because it's too easy to go alphawave at the end of the day and hope it all goes away. Hopefully more music; more reading; and back to producing art.
- Dope cornteen.nb
- I'm in NY too. Biking is pretty much a lifesaver mentally.CyBrainX
- looks like laps of CP are about to get slighly more morbid.MrAbominable
- your overweight because you make excuses like your job. really spend less time on the blogs reading about weight loss and just doing shitdeathboy
- not to be a dick, but that shit isnt good for you and probably worse than a j o b. Run, walk, get a partime job throwing bags of concrete at home depot.deathboy
- but easy to say without finding your own motivation and incentive. try to set a realistic goal. something small. run a 10 minute mile. a particular hikedeathboy
- blah blah blah u read enough you know it all, except your excuse, change it.deathboy
- mg338
I did pretty well with my anxiety for the past couple months, but after this past weekend, and Trump's outrageous speeches at Mt. Rushmore and in DC, I've really fallen back to the kind of anger and frustration that's making me waste time lashing out at people again - even an uncle of my wife's who I lost my cool at on Facebook. Stupid, I know... I'm dropping off of there for a while, limiting my time to once a week on Sunday to upload new pics of my kids and that's it.
The whole weekend I've had tightness in my chest and a headache and I don't doubt for a second it's from all this anger that's festering up inside of me and hard to control.
I've started to take on this stance that, as a parent, anyone who supports Trump and will vote for him again is an enemy to me, and I don't trust them, respect them, or need to waste any of my time on them. I keep telling myself that they're a direct threat to my children's future. I've talked about this with neighbors over the weekend who get where I'm coming from and understand that Trump isn't like past presidents. It isn't like a disagreement with someone over being for or against abortion, or economic models, or military spending. Trump is a fundamental threat to decency and the future of this country, and those that support him are complicit in creating a country in which my children will not experience the best that America has to offer.
It's gotten very, very frustrating. Two days after lashing out at her uncle, I'm feeling like I wish I'd just kept my mouth shut and blown it off. I just don't know what else to do. People like that - the sycophants and the complacent and the apathetic of this country have an impact on me and my kids when they vote for and support people who aim to mold this country in a way that is disastrously backwards and self-serving.
On top of that, I've had a few mild symptoms that I could attribute to anything that I'm worried are related to the virus. Nothing major, probably all a result of anxiety, not getting enough sleep, and not working out much for three months now, after being religiously dedicated to exercise.
I did so well with avoiding news and politics, work has been going well and we all busted some serious ass on a new business opportunity, felt great until Friday and then news and politics got the best of me again.
On the upside, we got a babysitter for our kids during the day, and they're having fun, playing with friends, enjoying the summer. Their daycare opened back up in June but we're just not ready for that yet.
- Hey man, try to not think at all of this at once, take steps to protect your mental health, it's the pain of being smart and figuring things out - anxietygrafician
- Try to go out and enjoy nature, it really does wonders!grafician
- If you need to talk vent we're heregrafician
- The thing that's hard is realizing I'm over that fine line of associating with people I consider a threat to my family. They're my wife's family,mg33
- but she lets me fight my battles and doesn't disagree with me. This virus is a strange thing in that it clearly prevents us from going and seeing any of hermg33
- family. I don't see some of them ever during the holidays; my inclination is to just say "screw it, if I stick to my guns these aren't people I want to bemg33
- around in any capacity."mg33
- If you feel that way then he succeeded, the polarization of the nation is exactly what they seek, same shit happened in my country with Chavezernexbcn
- I just hope another leader eventually rises that can reunite the broken nation we are seeing these daysernexbcn
- ill vote for him. not much better.deathboy
- Stay strong. You have a good heart and I'm sure you'll get through this just fine.dmay
- mate, don't get pissed with what you cant control. The world is full of idiots and stuff like this is always going to happen in one shape or another.dee-dubs
- focus on what you can control, earn money, be there for your kids, wife etc.. and be good persondee-dubs
- this is coming from someone living in UK who felt very similar when they voted to leave Europe.. just seem to be dragging country backwardsdee-dubs
- I've now kind of given up caring about the bigger picture and like you try to avoid reading about it as the world just seems to go from bad to worsedee-dubs
- mg33, dont ever go see what the conspiracy people are up too! You wont survive it. It's pure madness.Bennn
- It's important that you try to change people's minds, especially when it will effect your children. But also take care of yourself for the sake of your childrenmapleT
- Build a bigger fence around your property,Doris_McSquirter
- ok Karen.MrAbominable
