A world of contradictions

[susandennis]

I read blogs and journals about people (in Seattle) going out to eat in restaurants, going to weddings and funerals this week. And I'm afraid to go to Trader Joe's or the Goodwill store or even really leave my condo. I look at the number of people who are still getting the virus and I cannot imagine getting near another person. I am using my COPD as an excuse to be extra cautious and that does not feel wrong but it does feel weird for the rest of the area code to feel so differently about mingling.

Maybe tomorrow I'll venture out.

Today, no jeopardy so I did a walk around the block. It was still dark and probably would have been better to wait until daylight. A woman who lives in this building was walking her dog. She took my photo as I left the building. I cannot imagine she got much of an image. We've had some prowlers and the building manager keeps sending out emails about being on the lookout. So she was. She's a PIA anyway and now she has a picture of me... the prowler... leaving the building. Whatever I stole had to be stored in my hoodie - but she has photographic proof of the perp. And then there was the woman screaming for whoever to get their hands off of her. She was on the other side of the street, alone. So yeah, a lovely stroll around the block.

Today I may do a bit of laundry. I got a large soft kind of chenille top at Goodwill just before it got really cold this year and I want to wear it every day but really it needs to be washed now and again. At least it's keeping me from a huge backlog of dirty clothes.

And then it will be another day of yarn stuff and TV.

Reading: Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride
Watched: Finished off season 2 of Goliath. And then found The Fall (PBS/Amazon Prime). I know I've seen the first episode before but I think I may have abandoned it or simply forgot about it because I have no clue what happens next. But, now I'm hooked.

Comments

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

At the beginning of the photo sentence I thought — why didn't she send it to you so you could post it? I thought it was a neighborly "LOL look at the two of us out before dawn" photo. Instead I have learned that susandennis is Seattle's most successful cat burglar and a master of disguise.

[susandennis]

yeah she ain't the sharing kind — plus she tried to do it in a way i wouldn't see. i'm way happier with the successful cat bugler badge.

Stay on staying safe.

[(Anonymous)]

You don't need COPD as an excuse. You are behaving like a responsible citizen as well as protecting yourself. If everyone was like you the pandemic may have been over a long time ago.
I have lived like you since the beginning of it and am proud of myself. You should be as proud of yourself.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I think you are smart especially if there is COPD involved.

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

You are wise to be cautious. I read stories about people traveling again also, and I am really antsy to go visit my mom in CA. But she is old and frail and my sister who is also there is allergic to everything under the sun and gets sick if you even look at her wrong. I just don't think it would be good to go visit them right now, via 3 different crowded airports and who knows how many people. Fingers crossed that things will be better by summer.

[kate2.livejournal.com]

My sister is very cautious about going out to large social gatherings. Especially since she and my bil both got Covid and both were fully vaxxed. It wasn't as bad as they feared but it took a lot out of them.

She will go to her doctor appointments maybe a hair appointment, and her meetings. she just got some new masks and gave me some.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I couldn't remember what "The Fall" was, so I looked it up; it was on PBS from 2013-2016, and looked like something we would have watched, but I didn't recognize it from the description, so maybe we missed it. Or maybe we started it and decided we didn't like it for some reason.

[susandennis]

It's clear that I had never seen episode number 2. Very compelling show and, as it happens, they are rerunning it now on our PBS station. Weird about how it slipped through all of our fingers.