log what you accomplished during the coronavirus workfromhome-xtravaganza

i didn't work from home yet this week and as a result i'm exhausted but i have some goals and dreams and i'd like to hear about yours

should be pronounced "workfromhomestravaganza" but i mixed up the spelling in my head

- i slept 22 out of 30 hours thursday/friday
- watched a movie
- did not panic when my mom called me four times/left me three voicemails while i was watching the movie; she's fine/i'm fine (ffs)
- mnmttiu

first full work from home day friday:
- lots of depressing phone calls
- work shut off my credit card but i got it back. what a journey!
- ate too many snacks but forgot to eat lunch
- enjoyed the sunlight provided by my home office and a lovely walk with b

i accomplished nothing today. i did go to walgreens to get mucinex and acetaminophen so i am ready to be sick. i might go for a walk tomorrow.

i am not working from home but mrs mac is and it always makes her v excitable and enthusiastic and chatty for when i arrive in the door and it is i must tell you very unmrs mac behaviour

in fact seeing as laundry is my job, im getting less done (cant throw a wash/dryer load on when leaving in the morning now) what a disaster

i'm doing a terrible job working at home. i have a phone interview tomorrow for a job. i have made half a tote bag.

totes e-motes

i have joined and rejoined approximately two thousand zoom meetings because my network connection is apparently unstable.

i did a marginally better job working today. i almost finished the tote bag.

almotes

this isn't going well

5 days in a row i have taken as many steps as my running watch says to. i put it on the setting where it gives you an automatic goal and increases it according to how many you did the previous day so my lazy ass is at like 5500 steps now but i do them all in one go in the evening. this is after my whole body started to hurt from sedentariness.

finished knitting a portion of a sweater i started in november and haven't touched since before xmas, discovered i made a weird mistake that is not very important

i have been/am being utterly useless, apart from growing hair

and yet i can already feel myself becoming annoyed at having to go back to work onsite someday

increasingly skeptical that i'll even have a job then, so win-win i guess

i learned that my home internet is so flaky i can't reliably deliver online programming so because i am a glutton for punishment i am going to have to wear real clothes and go into my office a few hours a day for the next two weeks while attempting to make an artist residency work via computer and it is sure to be a disaster. why didn't i just cancel it all?

i am definitely fatter. i've given up on life. i hate this. i did finish another sweater part.

i have eaten a lot of ice cream, it is my main accomplishment

my beard is all in my mouth

i went to the grocery store today and there was almost no ice cream except there were a few limited edition friendly's EGG NOG ice creams left. why would these not be bought up?! i was going to make an apple pie but to save myself eating the 2 whole sticks of butter in the crust i will make an apple crisp instead. good choices.

my phone self destructed today and the phone store appears to be closed for the pandemic.

apparently i need to buy a bow-flex or stationary bike or some other crazy shit because my body is degrading at a greater rate than i am used to

I started looking at treadmills which is a sign we are in truly dire times.

just ordered a knockoff rowing machine, because the nice ones aren't shipping until mid july

tza i give you my mom's essentially mint treadmill but idk how to get it to you

i considered buying a nice one a while ago. i am a rower. i mean i was. i may do it after i paint etc my second bedroom. which i will do in the next few months.

I have a really weird rowing machine from the 80s and I don’t know how to use it!

I was going to order a treadmill but I also can’t figure out how to get it in and installed because delivery is limited to the front door.

I also might not have a job soon so maybe I should just figure out how to use the rowing machine!

:-(

the other thing i've accomplished is to assemble a very impressive wardrobe for pinkl of lil orcas, catch a ton of butterflies, and plant hundreds of flowers.

that sounds so lovely

i planted about 20 flowers. i hope the rain yesterday didn't push my seeds around.

dastardly rabbits ate my middle peony.

surely this is a euphemism

https://i.imgur.com/4q9Z0Ho.png

i accomplished gaining 7 lbs so i did some running today and i promise not to eat so much this week

dude

impressed?

depends on the jarbl

i accomplished getting laid off at the end of the month. looking forward to not working from home.

my company won’t pay for my unused vacation time so I will be not working from home tomorrow through may 28. My last day is may 29.

this sucks, t.

ffs

what the fuck. i'm so sorry.

At least I won’t be doing work for them (mostly, I will have a hard time not working especially when so much needs to be done). The whole situation is lacking in logic but alas this is where we are and I’m ready for it to be over.

sorry to hear this tehresa

increased alcohol tolerance

same

we trained for this.

nuking my few remaining relationships from orbit

ah, mooks

i made peach jam

yummmm

i made a peach cobbler

i lost 11 pounds in five days and am now patenting my new breakthrough diet

mookieproof

i haven't been all that successful at losing any pounds but i'm not sure i'd like to try this diet

it's not for the weak of heart, so to speak

mooks <3

i have completed the nyt crossword puzzle each day since mid-march

i visited lancaster county for the first time and bought some delicata squash and large sweet potatoes (and tomatoes for canning)

i am eating the delicata squash and thinking of the time we made dinner on the island and my contribution was delicata squash. i need lxy's lentil recipe.

a) did you pronounce lancaster correctly
b) please send me some tomatoes. please. really

i did not say lancaster out loud to anyone. i gotta see how many jars i will get--i'm trying to cook these down a lot so it may not be many! also i keep trying to think about how best to mail jars. it's risky.

I worked from home from the second week of march, 2020 through the first week of September, 2021.
I worked from work from the second week of September, 2021 through the last week of December, 2021.
I have not worked from anywhere since the first week of January, 2022 and I will not work anywhere ever again.
thank you, generous state pension!

during WFH I got into cooking and sewing. I am now very good and confident at cooking beans, which was not previously the case, and I am proficient at sewing this one dress pattern that I have adapted in a bunch of different ways. I made my wedding dress out of it. oh yeah, jergins and I got married.

after I retired I canned some stuff I made from our vast persimmon harvest (chutney and jam). I am now eating persimmon jam with a spoon out of a jar I just opened. I hope I don't get botulism. I am a nervous canner and I don't know how to tell if something I canned is poisonous other than to eat it and hope I don't die.

I am using a laptop that capitalizes some words but not others, and it's very annoying.

neither retirement nor marriage have made me any less irritable, you will be delighted to learn.

congratulations <3

i didn’t get botulism, btw

i have now been unemployed for one (1) year

mookie, i hope you are okay, friend.

omg lxy that's incredible. i have also been sewing. not canning as much but i like canning too.