Irregular Schedule

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Hey friends, I am doing okay. Like barely okay at times but still mostly functional. The situation with my mom is significantly worse than I realized going into this, so I am going to be spending a lot of my mental and emotional energies there. My Dad however seems to have gone through surgery just fine and is recovering quickly. It is predicted that he is going to be released and I will be going over to the town he is in to pick him up. The challenge however is that I will not be returning him to the home I grew up in, but instead this other house that my family has used as swap space. My ancestral home is a bit of a death trap, and there simply isn’t enough time to get it prepared for someone that just had hip surgery.

So all of that is super fucking stressful and as a result my blog entries are going to be real sporadic for awhile. My folks live 40 minutes away and I am spending a lot of my time driving over there to check in on things. Today I am heading back because there are a whole slew of things that have to get done before 10 am… when I am apparently needed at my aunts house (the swap space) to accept delivery of one of those stand up chairs. Which means I need to get off the computer, pack up the dishes that I took home to wash and the laundry that I took home to wash and get on the road.

I hope you are all doing fine. I am also riddled with anxiety about the turn out of the election. I voted in person yesterday and that was its own nightmare fuel. Statistically I was sitting in a room with likely a dozen or so folks with Covid-19 and mask usage was non-compulsory and social distancing was nigh impossible. I am scared about now going and being around my aging folks… but they need help in a way that I cannot deliver remotely. Up until this point I have pretty much been in serious quarantine with every little interaction with the outside world. Here is hoping that I did in fact manage to make it through yesterday without exposure.

Keep me and my family in your thoughts because I have a feeling we will need it. I wanted to write something this morning since I really hate having missed yesterday. All that said… the blog is going to slip for awhile and for that I am sorry.

6 thoughts on “Irregular Schedule”

  3. hugs We had to pop out of our self-isolation the other day for a mum emergency and we’ve also been going out for appointments, so we’ve just been doing extra-washing of hands and even clothes. That’s all you really can do. Just make sure you’re doing everything you can do around your parents to keep a safe distance just incase you did pick up something when you voted. Hopefully you didn’t, but needs must, and if you have to run around with a bottle of anti-bac and wipes like a weird person, well, who’s gonna know? Do whatever you need to do to make yourself feel better and your parents safe.

    If you need me to send you some quick mindfulness videos on youtube to help with the anxiety just let me know <3

  4. All the best to you and your family, Bel. Let’s hope for at least some good news out of the election.

    I just got off a phone call with my regional manager telling me I’m furloughed again as England goes into another month of full lockdown, which ironically means my own post frequency will most likely go up. Looking forward to reading whatever you manage to put up, whenever you have the time, energy and inclination.

  6. All the love to you and your family! I hope you’ll get through this as fast as possible – not for the sake of reeding more blog posts but rather because of the load that it must be on you. Take as much time as you need and remember to take breaks and breathers whenever possible. These times suck lately but I’m sure you can do this!

    Oh, btw, I never noticed that there’s a set schedule on your blog. I always just assumed that every blogger is just blogging whenever they can or feel like it… Interesting! 🙂

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