Heh, my gf occasionally asks me to apply moisturizer lotion to her back. When I finish applying it I wash my hands vigorously with soap to remove it. She rolls her eyes and I remind her that I am way too moist as it is.
In honor of my recently completed “self-quarantine”, I give you this.
*On the first day of quar’ntine my true love sent to me a really nifty face mask.
On the second day of quar’ntine my true love sent to me two canned veggies and a really nifty face mask.
On the third day of quarn’tine my true lov sent to me three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the fourth day of quar’ntine my true love sent to me four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the fifth day of quar’ntine my true love sent to me five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the sixth day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the seventh day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me seven guards a-checking, six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the eighth day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me eight thermometers, seven guards a-checking, six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the ninth day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me nine friends’ messages, eight thermometers, seven guards a-checking, six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the tenth day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me ten surgical gloves, nine friends’ messages, eight thermometers, seven guards a-checking, six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the eleventh day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me eleven sanitizers, ten surgical gloves, nine friends’ messages, eight thermometers, seven guards a-checking, six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the twelfth day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me twelve gov’ment warnings, eleven sanitizers, ten surgical gloves, nine friends’ messages, eight thermometers, seven guards a-checking, six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the thirteenth day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me thirteen big bags of food, twelve gov’ment warnings, eleven sanitizers, ten surgical gloves, nine friends’ messages, eight thermometers, seven guards a-checking, six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.
On the fourteenth day of quarn’tine my true love sent to me fourteen red packets, thirteen big bags of food, twelve gov’ment warnings, eleven sanitizers, ten surgical gloves, nine friends’ messages, eight thermometers, seven guards a-checking, six gifs a-dancing, five E-mails, four WeChat texts, three take-out meals, two canned veggies, and a really nifty face mask.*
Better quarantine your packages too.
People is nuts.
My mom is moving to my town to be closer to me. Which should be great, and to some extent it is - I won’t have to drive 3 hours to get to her if there’s another life-threatening emergency, she’s moving into a great building that seems to have built-in community. All good stuff.
But I can’t muster the excitement everyone seems to think I should feel for a number of reasons:
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She is completely oblivious to, nor does she care about, other people’s schedules. Not only had I had certain events planned for months or even up to a year before her preferred move date (which she will not adjust), she’s asked me to cancel those events, one of which is a marathon I’ve been training for for almost a year. (I’m not moving it, but it still pisses me off that she’d ask.)
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Part of the tradeoff of having family nearby is spending time with that. My husband will not stop bitching about how, “I’m not letting her cramp my style, overly. She can’t just be showing up and expecting to hang out all the time.” I get that and I have my own reservations but thanks to all the bitching about it, I have no opportunity to get that off my chest.
On a completely unrelated note, I’m conducting annual reviews today. I also receive my annual review today. I’ll be interested to see if I post here, livid about my annual review in an hour and a half. So that’ll be fun. It’s like getting a report card in school only a little shittier because I doubt my abilities way more than I did as a kid.
I think I have the flu. Cough, congestion, body aches, fever. Could be just a cold because I don’t feel bad as long as I keep up with the Tylenol and ibuprofen. But when the drugs wear off I spike a fever and respiratory illness plus multiple days of fever probably means flu. Told my mom I was sick and her immediate response was “have you been tested for Coronavirus?” Sigh.
Insurance sucks.
I broke a tooth yesterday. I checked on the DMO website (new insurance this year) and found out that an office I used to go to accepted the DMO. I called first thing this morning and got an appointment. After I got there, I found out that their roster of DMO patients was full, and they would be unable to submit any charges to the payer. They have a policy of first exam free, which I went ahead and did, but to get things fixed, without insurance, is going to cost me $3K.
I called the DMO, and they gave me 3 names of practices that have open spots for new patients. Two of them are either already closed or always closed on Friday, and the third is only open until 4 PM. Even if I go to the one that’s open, I’m sure I’m not going to get the crowns I need today. Ratfarts! This is annoying.
I carry a habenero pepper in my pocket, use it as a stress ball. I have no problems inadvertently touching my face and eyes 
You’re great! If they give you crap, it’s so you won’t ask for a raise (I had a boss like that. No matter how many millions you made the company by getting new clients or catching expensive mistakes, or hiring brilliant people… come review time: “We’ve just got concerns about your performance, and everyone else’s, so there won’t be any raises…”).
Boss admitted that management actively kept people from knowing how well they were doing, so they wouldn’t want more… or be confident enough to look elsewhere. We ended up with an unofficial support group to keep each other from believing the bosses’ negativity.
ETA: Forgot to ask: How’d it go?
Good lord, that sucks. He/she sounds like a giant asshole, and so does that company’s management.
And my review went way, way better than I was expecting; the primary constructive feedback I got was that I’m “a little hard on myself.” What really made me happy, though, was how well my employee reviews went (at least the ones I had today). The three people I reviewed had all had a shitty, shitty week slogging through issues with really unsupportive teams.
I scheduled their reviews today because they all got such positive feedback and each one got a really solid bonus and a raise, so I wanted them to have the weekend to enjoy it. (Plus, I wasn’t allowed to give them their review earlier since I work for a really large company where it takes months of approvals to finalize a review.)
All in all, a pretty satisfying way to spend part of my Friday. But the day’s not over yet.
Aren’t cough, fever & trouble breathing the symptoms I keep reading about? What is one supposed to actually look out for to know whether to contact a doctor or not? It doesn’t seem like such a strange question from your mom? 
She’s in an area of the country with multiple covid-19 cases and is… over-reacting. I’m in a state with no cases (yet) and haven’t traveled recently. And I’m an ER doctor and get multiple emails per week about our current covid-19 response, most recent protocol updates, etc. There’s no indication for covid testing for me. But I have seen many patients with flu and other common respiratory viruses in the past 2 weeks. Which is undoubtedly where I got whatever I got.
Missed the edit window - If she’d asked whether I got a flu swab I would have explained why I didn’t bother but I wouldn’t be rolling my eyes the way I am about the Coronavirus question.
A mini-rave for a change: got my taxes done and after putting aside for this upcoming year’s property tax I’ll have left over ~$300.00 from my fed/state return and another ~$300.00 later this fall when I receive a special “homesteader” credit I qualify for. My returns basically pay my property tax so it’s nice to have a bit left over.
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Finally Hillary Clinton is being held accountable for the Benghazi debacle. My husband worked there and it was a cock up.
I know this is the Pit, but do you have a cite for that? I couldn’t find anything current about Secretary Clinton’s handling of Benghazi.
She has to sit for, under oath, about the private server emails as pertains to the Benghazi attack.
Again, cite? Do you have a link to a news story or an article that I can read? She testified in 2015, but the FBI recommended that no charges be brought against her. Anything more concrete than just your word?
Urm … it’s only been trumpeted in the news recently, and any casual search brings it up. Try Googling Hillary testify.
I seriously had not heard any news about this. And casual searches brought up nothing at all. I only found anything out about this by using the search term you suggested.