Toilet Paper Anger.

I can't believe I'm even writing this post.  What a tragic situation to find ourselves in a pandemic.

I finally was able to buy toilet paper yesterday on my (or my husband's) 14th trip to a store.  We've also had trouble getting meat and milk and other necessities.   If it weren't for the hoarders, I could have ordered it through Click List or pickup, or had it delivered to my house.  If it weren't for the hoarders, I would have never had to go inside a store at all.  But my husband and I had to go out and buy it and it took 14 trips before we found any.  I don't have the virus yet, but I know I'm not the only one who had to go out who would ordinarily have sheltered in place quite happily at home.  Some of the people who will die of this horrible virus will die because of the actions of the hoarders.  I believe that.

Not sheltering in place.

As a health care worker, I still have to go to work.  It's crazy times right now and I am exhausted from hearing about it all and from trying to do my co-worker's job  (she's off for the duration at this point) and from trying to get out of the darn building with most of the entrances and exits closed.  But, I'm trying to keep my sense of humor.  My son took advantage of a huge sale of downloadable games and he and my daughter and husband spend the evening last night playing some kind of cooperative cooking video game.  It was pretty hilarious to watch and listen to their comments.  At one point, my husband's character picked up a fire extinguisher and carried it around for a while without knowing it, which was funny.  When my son told him to put it down and he said "what?"  It's not too bad having to spend time with these people.  :-)  

We didn't rush the stores and grab all the toilet paper so we'll be running out in a little over a week and that is a significant source of stress to me for some reason.  Also, we placed an online order for groceries and didn't get any meat.   Hopefully, we can solve both of those issues this weekend.   Please, people, don't hoard.   Some of us are out there working in hospitals and don't have time to wait at the store for toilet paper.  

Still working.

I'm working and I'm studying.  It doesn't leave much time for blogging or any of my hobbies.  I did get to go out with my cousin last weekend and do some shopping, just recreational shopping, not shopping-shopping.  :-)   We bought some food for our weird diets and then had a weird diet-compliant lunch out.  It was great. 

Youngest son has had the flu this week and the girl thought she was getting it too, but she just had a cold.  I'm still going to work at a hospital in the midst of this corona virus scare, but I'm just not thinking about it that much.  I don't have time to worry about that.  I'm just trying to survive my job at the intense level it is right now.  I'm trying also not to think about the future too much because I don't know if I will be able to pass the coding test and become a coder and I don't know what I want to do if I don't.  I don't really want to stay where I am because I don't want to be pulled over constantly to do my co-worker's job.  I had've already had to do it 3 days in the last 2 weeks and I'm going in today for a day of it and also tomorrow.  Then back to my regular job for Thursday and Friday.  I am not happy but I am going through the motions, hanging in there and waiting for things to change.  They always do.  If I do get to start coding, I might be able to work at home and I feel like that's what I want, though I will miss the people I work with now.  I like all of them and they have been good to me. 

Sigh.   It's always somethng.  I had such a great job and then I got put into a position of subbing for my coworkers job which I hate with my whole being and everything changed.   I also just found out from my supervisor that they're not going to hire anyone to help, just depend on me to work all the time.  I am going to have to put my foot down about that.  I need a break. 

Anyway, nothing about homeschooling here.  Sorry.  We're not doing that anymore.  I miss it.  I have found that all my vacation plans seem like good homeschool field trips, the museum, the sculpture garden, the other museum .. :-)