Usually I don’t mind just hanging around the house, but now that we pretty much have to, I find I’m itching to go places and do things. Grocery shopping doesn’t count - in fact, any shopping doesn’t count. What things are you more than ready to do these days?
I need to think on that one, so in the meantime - Happy Moanday!!!
I’d like to go out to dinner. And, by going out to dinner; I mean indoor dining sans masks. Which of course means the plague would need to be gone, so going out to eat is not likely to occur any time soon. I’d like to go on a nice trip out of the state somewhere; Glacier National Park, maybe. I’d like to meet up with my friends again.
These are just a few things, and really basic, but there you have it.
I can’t believe it’s Monday, damn it. So much to do, so little time.
Yeah, Monday snuck up on us - the days seem to be screaming by of late!
FCD and I have been saying how much we’d like to go somewhere. For some reason, he mentioned Niagra Falls. I’ve never been there, so I wouldn’t mind, tho not in the winter. What I really miss is being able to take a cruise. We’ve had to cancel/reschedule 3 so far, and the one in June is still iffy.
And, yes, I miss being able to eat out like the good ol’ days. We used to do breakfast out on the weekends, but I can’t remember the last time we did - probably last Feb? I wonder how our favorite server is managing…
Afternoon, mumpers! It’s bright and shiny over here with lots of the white stuff around to reflect the sun. The weather app says “I enjoy sunshine. I just don’t like it when people blow it up my fucking ass” and promises me 3C/37F all day as both high and low. And mostly sunny which is nice as it might actually melt a bit of the snow off the car.
What do I miss doing? All the things I used to do before the plague hit, apart from the daily commute to campus. I miss seeing friends, I miss live music and the real thrill of going to a gig. I miss being able to eat out when we feel like it, and just the idea of going somewhere without having to plan it like a military strike to get in and out of town avoiding as many people/crowded places as possible.
Having spent all my time in and around home, I very much miss being able to get away for a few nights just for a change of scenery. I don’t think we’re likely to be able to do that for a very long time, and I am immensely saddened by the thought of spending another summer cooped up here.
Dine-in, even at fast-food places, would be nice. So would normal stocks of things like cleaning supplies.
Awakened by a power outage lasting a bit over an hour. The Princess does NOT approve. Even the featherhead seemed perturbed, and she’s typically the calmest family member.
Rainy week ahead, with a freeze AND high wind overnight, which is NOT going to be a fun commute tomorrow.
It’s pouring over here like no one’s business. Which is probably a good thing - we haven’t had much in the form of precipitation in a while.
I miss doing just about everything from pre-pandemic with the exception of being required to go into the office. I miss hanging with friends and playing board games late into the night. There’s also wandering through the bookstore without a mask on my days off, and having a real “day off” from people. I miss being able to casually take my kids places without having to worry about how many per household are allowed in a given store, and going out to a meal without a mask. I miss going on actual vacations and my son being able to go out with his friends. He didn’t get a “real” first year at high school and I feel like he’ll be playing social catchup for years.
And an outside concert on the lawn at the amphitheater sounds absolutely sublime. Also, in the summer we would pack up our dinner and take the kids across the way to the pool after work and sit around the drink wine and talk with the other parents until 9 o’clock while our kids screamed and played in the pool, and watch the sunset. Even just sitting at one of my daughter’s soccer games, surrounded by the soccer moms while we drink beer we snuck in like a bunch of teenagers would do.
Pretty much the main theme is seeing people and not worrying. I’m romanticizing a lot, but I just miss that feeling of things being easy and no big deal.
Morning all. Rain today and rain tonight according to the weather folks. On the good side, supposed to get to 65F today, so there is that. Need to do the Moanday run (some grocery odds and ends at Publix and a sub sammich at Jersey Mike’s).
Ali-bama is less restrictive on restaurants than some, so Sundays I do go out to eat, which is probably not the best idea but it does get me out for a couple hours, and 5-6 hours of (masked) indoor soccer on Saturday are my major forays. Had a major vacation out west planned for 2020 that had to be cancelled and without knowing when or where the vaccine will be available here makes 2021 problematic.
Been pretty much a private person most of my life, but I do value the people I do know and have missed some events that I would have liked to attend (in most cases they were cancelled). Took a couple 150+ mile drives just to go somewhere on occasion.
OK, need to get about doing things…or ignoring things I should do (very good at that). All y’all take care this week.
We are expecting a lot of snow today. The forecast says that we will get 10-12" Our friend BBBoo is fifty or so miles west and a little south and the guy on the TV just said she can expect 16".
It is a good day to be retired. I have a crock pot full of Chicken Tortilla soup and I have a levain for sourdough bread proofing in my oven.
i am still restricted to lifting 20 lbs or less, but the snowblower takes almost no effort to run. We will clear the snow later.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Been up, caffeinated, broken fast, and to the doc and pharmacy. Also have a hunk o’ beast in the slow cooker that shall become a pot roast for sup along with N.O.T., carrots, baby lima beans, and rolls. Go Me! ‘Tis 63 Amurrkin out and sorta N.O.S. with a predicted high of 77 and sorta N.O.S. for the day. Rain is due tomorrow and hump day, with a cool down after that. Thus is Winter in the southern U.S. of A. It’ll act like Spring for a day or two and go back to bein’ Winter.
Like others have said I miss goin’ out to eat without a mask. I miss regular Sunday church services. I miss hangin’ with friends either here at da cave or at their place. Both of us are natural born homebodies, but ‘tis nice to just decide to go somewhere and then go, without it bein’ a major production. Hopefully in a few months. Hopefully.
I feel the need for a snack and some Netflix. Sounds like a plan.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
Big excitement for today - we just got back from the convenience center. Boy, did we have a lot of cardboard to recycle. Lots of delivery boxes. Glad that’s done.
Now, to the basement to start a load of laundry and walk for an hour.
Morning, all! It snowed overnight, as expected. It’s all melting very rapidly but the outdoor kitties are NOT pleased with the ice on their pads when they go over to eat. They are staying huddled under cover and warm until they absolutely HAVE to go pee or eat. The indoor kitties, of course, are curled up in the window laughing at them. Going to be a multi-cocoa day, methinks.
Have to get out of the house this afternoon, but by then it will all be melted and the crazies will have either learned how to drive or be too scared to leave the house.
ETA: Oh, joy. Now it’s hailing. Not big, but lots.
Niagara is definitely something to see at least once in your life. Been there twice, once with just me & Mrs. solost, once with the kids too. Let me know if you want any tips for what to do and see if and when you go.
My lifestyle hasn’t changed all that much. I sit and home and read or muck about on the computer, and go shopping once or twice a week. We didn’t go out to eat much other than on birthdays, or to my in-laws’ on holidays, and as for travel, I think I’ve only been more than twelve miles away from home twice since 2017.
So what do I miss? Being able to go to the library and browse, instead of having to request books on-line and pick them up from a table in the lobby. And days of peace and quiet at home while Lady SCAdian was at work. 
What? Another Moanday already? Well, I guess that’s what predictably happens after each Sunday is done.
The big bin is hauled back up. Doing so, I noticed my sidewalk had been cleared. I owe my neighbor a “thank you” card. 
I miss afternoon “breakfast” at all-day diners. I’d like to date, but that’s proving difficult-to-impossible now. Barring that, I’d like to maybe, I dunno flirt a bit, without a mask in the way.
And oh yeah, I’d like to NOT WEAR A DAMN MASK ANYMORE I have terrible eyesight and my glasses were pretty much mandatory until recently. Now, my options are 1.) wear glasses that immediately fog up, can’t see, or 2.) skip glasses, can’t see.
Anyway, two hours till I gotta be at irk. I ducked out earlier for a coffee & hash brown - to get outta the house more than anything - and now am sort of at loose ends.
Well, those Zombies ain’t gonna kill themselves. Off to my silly timewaster game.
I miss exploring my city. Sometimes on my day off I’d hop on the train and head downtown, or to the Castro or Embarcadero, find a coffee shop to hang out in for a while, walk around and duck into any interesting shops I see, grab lunch someplace new. Now all my days are days off and I haven’t left my own neighborhood in months.
Rumor is that the Guv is going to lift the state-wide lockdown order today, though it’ll be up to the City whether I can go back to work. I’m ready. Still won’t be leaving my neighborhood much, at least until I get my arm poked, but at least working will break the Groundhog Day cycle a bit.
I miss hanging out with my friends. Go to their houses, or they come to mine. Watch movies. Go to the movies. My travel partner in crime and I canceled our England vacation in 2020, and canceled the rescheduled 2021 vacay. Look out 2022!
Mrs. L.A. wanted to go to the steak house at the casino Friday, but she had to have an emergency appendectomy Thursday. We wanted to go to the Mexican place the previous Friday, but they only have patio dining and it was full. (We got our food - and a couple of margaritas - to go.) We’re getting a little anxious to get out.
Thursday I got up at three in the ayem to take Mrs. L.A. to the ER. Friday I got up at five to get some work done before picking Mrs. L.A. up from her surgery. I got up early both days on the weekend. Now that it’s a workday, I wanted to go back to sleep when the alarum went off at six. Tomorrow I’ll have to get up at 0430 for my commute to Seattle.
Watched a tv show where the characters had an intimate dinner at a restaurant with cloth tablecloths, with no children. So jealous. It’s part of what I enjoy when we go on vacation, the lazy meals and not having any plans. Even if we have a nice meal at home, there’s cleaning to be done, the (home) office is just through the door. So it’s not really relaxing.
Really want to go to a concert and stand in the front and sing along.
And I miss the ocean.
I’m not an especially social person at the best of times, but I do miss the Friday night potlucks our social circle used to have. Imagine 30 -40 old folks sitting around someone’s house eating and drinking wine, cider &/or beer and laughing. It was good.
I miss being able to go to the store at any time of day if I’m out of something. Wifey and I now have to get up an expedition and go very early in the morning or late at night to avoid the crowds.
Mostly I miss eating in an actual restaurant sitting at an actual table. I traveled a lot when I was younger so I am pretty ho-hum about ‘going somewhere’, (although Wifey would like to.)
We’re just hoping we get to get vaccinated against the plague before we die of old age.
Hope Mrs LA is doing well, Johnny.
{{{{all you non-hermits}}}} Talk to us. We listen. Really we do. Even me.
(I’ll forget it 30 seconds later, but that’s my problem.)
Have a good week!
Oh, forgot: We, (mostly Wifey) watched the first season of Rickey Gervais’ series After Life yesterday. Now, I generally don’t like Rickey Gervais, and think he’s too smug and snarky towards people and things he doesn’t know anything about, but it (the series) was very good. I recommend it. That is all.
Well, it’s not exactly as though I’ve stayed at home lately, what with the moving house and all, but it would be very nice to be able to properly explore and maybe socialise in this new place.
I miss my juggling events too, though the group’s been really good about meeting online. In all honesty, I’ve talked far more to most of the group in 2020 than I did in 2019, because being in the same county stopped mattering, but it’s not the same as all being in person, and definitely not the same as a week long camping trip. I was hoping to have another trip round Europe before stuff got all complicated over here as well, which… well… Bit late now.
And it does have to be said: {{{it’s not the same}}}