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Post by hop2 on Apr 15, 2020 1:27:42 GMT
Gone to work without my face on! I still have mascara and eyeliner and a brow pencil but everyone keeps telling me how "tired" I look when take my mask off at work. I'm like Listen, Linda. This is a 48 year old face that is now missing SIX FULL LAYERS OF TRICKERY. Shut it. You mean face filters aren’t real life? 😜
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 15, 2020 1:35:54 GMT
Had a concern about toilet paper availability, and gotten up early to try to go find some and left empty handed.
Spent this much consecutive time with my DH in 32 years of marriage
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Post by shescrafty on Apr 15, 2020 1:49:57 GMT
*counted squares of TP that I am using. I have one roll that has lasted me 9 days so far (nobody else uses my bathroom).
*stalked Amazon for TP (was able to order some today!) and ordered food through Amazon fresh
* ordered groceries for my mom to be delivered
*had a video conference with kindergarteners! I miss my students so much!
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Post by *KAS* on Apr 15, 2020 1:52:25 GMT
- Gone 5 weeks (and counting) and not stayed in a hotel or gotten on an airplane in the almost 20 years at my job - Met most of my neighbors - until tonight! I went outside to walk and 6 ladies were all in their driveways in lawn chairs chatting (spread out by at least 10 feet!) Sat outside and chatted with them for a while. - made banana bread multiple times in the same month. - Had an actual home office (that wasn't my dining room table) - Worn so little makeup and worn so few of my nicer work clothes - done.so.many.damn Microsoft Teams live video conferences (multiple times a day, every day! It's good and bad! haha) - eaten Easter dinner completely alone - gone so long not eating out or going to Starbucks - cooked so many meals - used my dishwasher so much - attempted to do nail dip on my own nails
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PLurker
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Location: Behind the Cheddar Curtain
Jun 28, 2014 3:48:49 GMT
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Post by PLurker on Apr 15, 2020 2:12:35 GMT
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 15, 2020 2:15:43 GMT
Welcome to the club. We've been waiting for you.
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 15, 2020 2:15:51 GMT
I purchased and am wearing leggings. I have snakeskin ones on now. I have big thighs and never wanted to look at myself in them, but they sure are comfie working from home. I did, too! I started out with black and charcoal. I added floral last week. I probably won't wear those outside the house.
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ComplicatedLady
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Posts: 3,083
Location: Valley of the Sun
Jul 26, 2014 21:02:07 GMT
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Apr 15, 2020 2:28:53 GMT
Had to talk a friend out of being suicidal. This situation is a strain in so many ways. Hugs to both you and your friend. Thank you for being there for your friend. Mine is never have I ever not left my house/yard for over a month.
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Mary Kay Lady
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PeaNut 367,913 Refupea number 1,638
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Jun 27, 2014 4:11:36 GMT
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Post by Mary Kay Lady on Apr 15, 2020 3:29:55 GMT
I started doing makeovers through zoom. I mail the appropriate samples and set up a zoom conference to do the makover.
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Post by Baseballmom23 on Apr 15, 2020 3:41:04 GMT
Walked into a bank with a mask on
Noticed how loudly my DH chews his food and gum
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Post by LilyRose on Apr 15, 2020 3:58:56 GMT
Welcome to the club. We've been waiting for you. I never thought I’d see the day. It took a pandemic.
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Post by pjaye on Apr 15, 2020 6:08:09 GMT
Done so little laundry. In the first week, I washed everything including the doona & mattress protector. Now I go shopping once a week and the rest of the time sit around at home in my underpants and a tank top. At the end of the week my clothes washing is 7 undies, 2 tank tops and a t-shirt!
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Apr 15, 2020 6:28:21 GMT
Never ever have I: Worn a facemask anywhere Slept so much and kept such crazy hours Skipped my daily shower Watched Mass on television Went a month without filing my gas tank
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Apr 15, 2020 7:08:36 GMT
Got our temperature taken when we start our shift at work. (They say before our shift but I don’t see that happening like it’s going to be a thing)
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Dalai Mama
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Jun 26, 2014 0:31:31 GMT
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Post by Dalai Mama on Apr 15, 2020 10:15:04 GMT
Never have I ever gone for a walk around the city a 1:30am. Every once in a while, if I wake up in the middle of the night to get some water and find the boys are still up, we’ll head out for a much needed walk. It’s kind of awesome.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Location: The UK's beautiful West Country
Aug 2, 2014 13:03:45 GMT
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Apr 15, 2020 11:09:17 GMT
Deposited a check using the mobile app. It was awesome and I don't know why I didn't do it before. Measured how long it takes us to get through a roll of toilet paper (average 6 days). Had the courage to put the couch covers through the washing machine. I've been spot-cleaning them for years. Met most of the neighbours in our road. Also this is the first year in my living memory that I haven't been to church at Easter.
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georgiapea
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Jun 27, 2014 18:02:10 GMT
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Post by georgiapea on Apr 15, 2020 11:20:20 GMT
Ordered groceries for pickup.
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Jun 25, 2014 20:50:09 GMT
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Post by wellway on Apr 15, 2020 11:28:49 GMT
Cut my own hair and am quite happy with the result. I have short hair that was due a cut just before lockdown. Today was the day I had had enough with the too long hair.
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 15, 2020 13:11:16 GMT
Cook this much (and I am probably still behind the normal amount of most people..lol)
Not eat in a restaurant for this amount of time.
Not going to the gas station very often (I still drive to work but only 3 days) so I am only filling up every two weeks and probably could go close to three weeks.
Not caring if DD is playing so many games online... poor kiddo... no siblings at home or friends, not even close by to wave at. She finally has a virtual play date this afternoon..
Played games/puzzles/color so much.
Creating a To Do List and finishing it (well I haven't finished it but I am working on it.. haha)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2020 13:24:47 GMT
Used a wringer washer! Being out in the country now I’m finding city dirt and country dirt are different. My “city” washer doesn’t do a dang thing against “country” dirt!
Also getting over feeling like an idiot wearing a mask in stores. Down here in KY only about 5-10% of people I see are wearing masks.😳
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Dallie
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Feb 25, 2020 16:33:25 GMT
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Post by Dallie on Apr 15, 2020 17:18:10 GMT
Gotten take out from a restaurant (other than pizza and Chinese).
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Apr 15, 2020 18:18:31 GMT
Attended a funeral via Zoom meeting. One of my best friend's dad died and they had to have a virtual funeral service.
Had a tank of gas last me over a month! I filled up on 3/17 and I've only used 1/4 of the tank so far!
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Post by jenjie on Apr 15, 2020 18:24:41 GMT
Attended a funeral via Zoom meeting. One of my best friend's dad died and they had to have a virtual funeral service. Had a tank of gas last me over a month! I filled up on 3/17 and I've only used 1/4 of the tank so far! I’m so sorry 😔 that had to be so difficult for your friend and her family.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Apr 15, 2020 18:48:08 GMT
Attended a funeral via Zoom meeting. One of my best friend's dad died and they had to have a virtual funeral service. Had a tank of gas last me over a month! I filled up on 3/17 and I've only used 1/4 of the tank so far! I’m so sorry 😔 that had to be so difficult for your friend and her family. It was. There were only 6 of them at the actual service. Her mom and dad had been married for 63 years. Very good, loving, stable family. I so wish I could have been there to give them a hug.
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Post by jenjie on Apr 15, 2020 19:09:45 GMT
I’m so sorry 😔 that had to be so difficult for your friend and her family. It was. There were only 6 of them at the actual service. Her mom and dad had been married for 63 years. Very good, loving, stable family. I so wish I could have been there to give them a hug. This is the first I’ve heard of someone actually having a service during this time. Although it’s not as they would have preferred, I’ll bet it will be better for them to move forward rather than waiting to have the service.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Apr 15, 2020 19:46:14 GMT
It was. There were only 6 of them at the actual service. Her mom and dad had been married for 63 years. Very good, loving, stable family. I so wish I could have been there to give them a hug. This is the first I’ve heard of someone actually having a service during this time. Although it’s not as they would have preferred, I’ll bet it will be better for them to move forward rather than waiting to have the service. Yes, I think having the funeral is helpful with the closure. They will plan a celebration of life kind of thing later (summer/fall?) at my friend's house. She lives on a lake and her dad loved to fish so they're going to have a fish fry.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Apr 15, 2020 19:47:41 GMT
Gone to work without my face on! I still have mascara and eyeliner and a brow pencil but everyone keeps telling me how "tired" I look when take my mask off at work. I'm like Listen, Linda. This is a 48 year old face that is now missing SIX FULL LAYERS OF TRICKERY. Shut it. Truth!
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Post by lisae on Apr 15, 2020 20:20:50 GMT
Ordered 17 yards of quilt fabric from a shop 15 miles from me and had it shipped US mail.
Stood in a cold wind for 20 minutes to get into the butcher shop to buy hamburger and am very grateful for this business.
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Post by dewryce on Apr 16, 2020 15:58:09 GMT
Had groceries delivered. Boring. But I don’t work and am a homebody so most things haven’t really changed all that much for me comparatively speaking.
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Post by theroadlesstraveledp on Apr 16, 2020 16:26:48 GMT
Actually went hunting for TP and then posted my find on FB. Our neighbor responded that she needed some and so I left the store with the biggest thing of TP I’ve seen in a while! And I ordered allergy eye drops from Amazon, I was desperate and the two stores went to last week had nothing. I found the kind you put in every 4 hours. One the peas and I don’t remember who it was said to put allergy drops in before bed. Thank you! OMG this makes a big difference in my life. Then I put in more when I wake up.
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