roaming_kate23

I’ve alluded to this before but I am on the autism spectrum. That has been interesting …the whole time we have been in this pandemic.

Look,I don’t like change, but the beer virus has forced me to accept it. Take having to live with my parents for quite an extended amount of time, for instance. Not ideal.Not in the freaking least..But there were as many good things about it as there were negative. Adapting is key, for me(it rhymes!) And the longer that it goes on(probably going to be around for the rest of *my* natural life the more we have to adapt.

(At this point,I’ve resigned myself that I am going to have to have booster shots every year.I am fine with that.Just like the flu shot. Both of them are so painless it’s not an issue(they have upped the needle game to where you’re like “you gave me the shot already?”😂 Not so much with the tetanus shot(speaking from personal recent experience there..)

I haven’t always known I was on the spectrum. A few years ago,I ran into someone who I had apparently gone to school with(I didn’t remember him) said that he knew I was autistic. That took me aback and I said “yeah..”

There is going to possibly be another booster shot. Yeah,I’m fine with that. I am also willing to do what I have to WRT travel(not necessarily international travel but just going out of state.)That’s something that people who complain about all of the hoops that they have to jump through to go on cruises.Almost a different thing but not really.

I’ve been lucky in that I haven’t had the side effects(apart from my arm being slightly sore and itchy.)

California is now open-which is great, but I’m proceeding with caution and still wearing a mask when I am put and about for now, anyways, even though I am fully vaccinated.

The problem is those who are NOT vaccinated(and there are a few of them. My parents had a notary over to the house who had NOT had either of his shots so my parents met with him outside.Luckily the weather was nice,

It’s not just the tin foil hats who are refusing to take the vaccine.There is some cross over if you made a Venn diagram.though.

(I’ve said, more than once, that when the vaccine is available I AM going to be taking it.I am at risk so I need to get it.

What I don’t understand is medical professionals refusing to take the vaccine.Nurses specifically. There already has been one person getting the shot on camera and she fainted.Of course all of the anti-vaccine people were over that.Turns out that this nurse faints easily.And getting a shot in front of a bunch of cameras definitely would do it. There are some seriously crunchy nurses out there...it just doesn’t jibe with what they do for a living.I worry about nurses not doing their job and causing problems. Yes, we do far too many c sections -as an example-there is no doubt about that.But they also *save lives*. See also:Midwives, to some degree.

(This went a direction that I wasn’t expecting..but the nursing profession.. there is an element to it that is..* smh* not sure if it’s just AllNurses..I actually asked a nurse who worked on several TV shows and I wish I’d saved my notes from that conversation because she had a lot to say and it was telling.

I can’t even get angry about all of the assholes who insist on not wearing masks, especially here in California where it is a LAW that you have to wear a mask.

Not necessarily, and especially in Orange County.Orange County is a law unto itself.They’ll do whatever the fuck they want to do.Kinda like Florida(to name but one place that has had issues with ‘Rona) My 15 year old niece is visiting my brother in Oklahoma but they are ALL taking necessary precautions.

This has gone on so long it’s a normal part of life.Going to be strange when things finally get back to normal(whenever that is and to what extent, too..)

1)Are you an essential worker? No.

2)How many drinks have you had since this started?Not that many.

3)If they have kids, are they driving you nuts?This is a good question for my brother!

4)What hobby have you taken up during this?TV watching though trying not to do so excessively!

5)How many grocery runs have you done?One to restock my house and 2 or 3(probably more if I’m honest)for my parents’. Though my parents are trying to keep their grocery runs to a bare minimum and my dad is going to take advantage of Costco’s senior shopping hours.

6)What are you spending your stimulus check on?Amazon.

7)Do you have any special occasions you will miss during this quarantine?TWO college graduations.

8)Are you keeping your housework done?Yes.

9)What movie have you watched during the quarantine?More like a lot of TV/Netflix.

10)What are you streaming with?Amazon Prime/Netflix.

11)9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby? NO! LOL.

12)What’s your go-to quarantine meal?Pizza

13)Is this situation making you paranoid?Not really.

14)Has your internet gone out during this time?My parents’ did -not even close to being related to ‘Rona.

15)What month do you predict this all ends?I want to say sooner, like end-of-May even the middle of June but I’ll say the fall and then we might have another surge.Greaaaaaat.

16)First thing you’re going to do when you get out of quarantine? My nails done.They look like crap.

17)Where do you wish you were right now?Not under quarantine that’s for damn sure!

18)What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most?Going to the bookstore.Sad, I know!

19)Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitiser?Nope. Can’t find the Clorox wipes and it’s been that way for a while.

20)Do you have enough food to last a month?At my house?Probably not. My parents’ house,yes, because they bought a second fridge which is in their garage.It’s one of the best things they could have done and quite frankly I’m surprised that they didn’t do so a LONG time ago.

Of both Cruise Critic *and* the beer virus.

But first, imma talk about the first episode of the new season of Call The Midwife.One of the storylines was about an outbreak of diphtheria.You don’t see diphtheria anymore(there’s a vaccine for it) . There also was an episode of House where the patient of the week had diphtheria.

Now, for the Cruise Critic portion of the post:
I could not do a regular post right now because it is all beer virus.To see the way that Holland America is handling it..there is a thread on the situation with all of the cruise ships wandering around not allowed to port-up past 60 pages.Yes. But given the fluidity of the situation HAL is going to get shit(yes, even from the diehards who love HAL and think that they can do no wrong.

Seth Wayne who is HAL’s spokesperson posted this on his Twitter:
I’ve had my fair share of negative messages over the years but in a time of need it’s amazing how many heartless people are out there. I responded with *nods*.There are some people whose main concern is when they are going to be able to cruise again.

Here’s the problem:There are a lot of people that like to think that they are HAL “insiders” and that they know HAL’s every move and what they are(or aren’t going to)do to fix the situation. Even the people who are “close” to the situation are posting thing that aren’t 100% correct. This is something that has bugged me, even when we weren’t dealing with the beer virus.

1) Sylvia Browne’s book being in demand because one of the Kardashians posted about it.A passage about a pneumonia-like illness that is going to be around in 2020.This is the same person who told parents of two different missing girls that their daughters were missing(and they weren’t, in fact-one of the moms went to her *grave* thinking her daughter was dead.

2)I went to the grocery store yesterday and I have to say..it wasn’t that bad.Slight wait to get in but I did get the things that I needed so there’s that.

3)My parents brought over lunch(manicotti and salad!) yesterday and we hung out(and that’s when we went to the store-afterwards)

4)On a positive note, my house has never looked better.Forced spring cleaning?Yeah, ok!I’ve been spending my days taking a room in my house and decluttering.Next up?My bedroom.In general it’s pretty good but there are some problem areas.

5)My psychologist cancelled on me for the next few weeks out of an abundance of caution.

With apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

You know it’s bad when:

Italy is under lockdown.

They cancel South By Southwest.

You couldn’t pay me enough to go on a cruise right now.

And NOW I’ve just found out that Coachella is cancelled until
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Not that I was going this year.