continued quarantine in 2021

3:05pm

Well, we are finally getting rain around here. We haven’t had more than a sprinkle all season, but it has now been raining non-stop since last night. Like it hasn’t even slowed down to a drizzle or anything. Just a constant rain all day long.

It’s nice. It would be a lot nicer if I wasn’t stuck at work. Plus it’s quiet here today and it makes the day pass by so much slower. All I want to do is find a comfy spot to stare out the window while wrapped in a million blankets. Alas, the closest I’ve got is to open the screen/curtain next to my desk and peak out the little corner at the water raining down onto the parking lot. Better than nothing, I guess!

I’m currently in the office alone. We’ve only had a handful of phone calls so mom decided to run to the city my aunt lives to drop off her mail. She’s going to leave it in a bag at the door because my aunt tested positive for covid but absolutely refuses to admit she has covid. It’s insane. I can’t even talk to her right now because I’m afraid I’ll go off and say things I shouldn’t. So dumb though. She swears she doesn’t have symptoms and when we remind her that she’s coughing [also had runny nose, sore throat, exhaustion, etc] she says it’s from something completely different. Like she’s in such denial that she’ll tell you she only tested positive because they got some mucus from way up inside her nose. Seriously? How does that even make sense?!? It’s beyond me.

Despite her denial she has been quarantining inside her home for the last two weeks, so at least there’s that. Or at least that’s what she tells us. hah. I think it’s true because people have been taking her food and what not, although at the beginning she said she had plenty to eat. Seems like she’s definitely taken to the role of being cared for, and possibly taking advantage of that care. But whatever. It’s between her and her people. I have nothing to do with that.

It’s been just over 2 weeks and she’s talking about being released back into the wild, but I’m pretty sure she still has symptoms. She told my mom they won’t test her again because she can still come up positive for the next 90 days. I read that might be true but I’m pretty sure you still shouldn’t go out if you have symptoms. Ugh. I told mom, with all seriousness, she is not allowed anywhere near me, and by extension her, because I am not risking getting infected at all. It’s one thing to be out and completely unaware of a threat and it’s a whole other thing to put yourself right on top of the fire and not expect to get burned. I know mom is feeling weird about telling her to stay away so that’s why she ran an hour away to drop off the mail. She doesn’t want to tell her not to come. And that’s fine. But I am definitely more than happy to tell her to stay away from me even if she is family. This isn’t a joke to me. [and shouldn’t be for anyone else either]

So she’s off doing that and I’m holding down the fort. We’re back in season so contractually obligated to open certain hours. I just wish it wasn’t such a beautiful day to relax at home.
Oh well. We desperately need the rain so I’ll take it any day it decides to pour down.

EC came into town a bit ago because the neighbor finally cooked up a brisket they were supposed to make right as some of his family members tested positive and he’d been around them [the neighbor not my boyfriend]. They’ve been basically locked down ever since. Won’t let us come over any more or anything. When things started to relax after the first quarantine period they were at least letting EC and I over to hang out, but not this time. I think they just got really paranoid and banned everyone from their house. It’s fine. Like I said it’s not a joke and everyone should take it as seriously as they need to. EC still comes over to my place a couple evenings a week and on the weekend. Now that I’m back at work he usually swings by for the keys and goes to the house to start prep work for dinner on Saturday night. Starting this Sunday I’ll be working a few hours on that day too so we’ll see how we work it out. I definitely want to spend as much time with him as possible but it’s going to be a crazy schedule for the next few weeks.

He got the random day off today because of the rain. Out where he works they were originally expecting 2-3 inches. Last night on the news it looked like that whole area was going to get 10+. I haven’t heard the latest updates but if it’s been raining anything like it has here [and it was actually supposed to be worse] then I’m pretty sure they’ll have quite the total. We haven’t had this many inches of rain, especially all at once, in a very, very long time!

Since he works in AG and they’d basically be confined to their shop they decided to take the day off. They’re going to try to work tomorrow but we’ll see how it goes. The rain should slow down by then but who knows.
Originally he was not planning to come out this way [he lives 20 minutes away] but I guess the lure of brisket was too strong. Hopefully it was good. We were talking on the phone when he got to the neighbours but that was a while ago. I don’t imagine they let him in the house, but maybe he’s been hanging out there. Or maybe they’re doing some socially distanced hanging out. That would be nice for him. They used to hang out constantly. Either that or he’s already back home and just didn’t call me. Honestly I wouldn’t put it past him. He’s like that every now and then. Whereas I would have made the extra 2 minute trip to his office to see him, especially knowing he was there alone, he’d probably just head on home because he was done with what he came down for. hah. Oh well. Boys shrug I’ll find out eventually what happened.

Alright, I just felt like I should use this alone time to type something up, even if it doesn’t matter much in the long run. I should probably go find some random work to do, or walk around the office, or something. I didn’t have much planned to say when I started this anyway.

rose.
3:37pm