I think I am getting my new anxiety meds figured out... I like many of you have had Covid19 affect my family and am praying along with all of you for the best outcome. I Love how the Lord sends tender mercies of medicine, friends and family to help me through this. I have had text and calls and of course messenger as ways that they check up on me. I also had a couple of face to face visits (8 feet away) until I either was freezing or it started to rain on us! LOL All these things help! I might have to put my crazy lady hat away for a day or two! ;) Or I might keep it as it appears to be very stylish on me! I love how this isolation is bringing out the creative sides of people with their Covid19 songs, memes, crafts... And just plan being creative in anything! I still can't concentrate long enough to get creative! I am hoping to join the creative people soon! Jim Gaffigan is my go to for laughs right now! I think the man is hilarious!
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I am coming to the end of week 3 in Isolation and I think I have joined the metal hat crazy lady club! Oh my gosh!!! My new anxiety meds, Netflix, podcasts, amazon prime, and google just aren't cutting it anymore! I am reverting to my childhood and singing all my little kid rhyming songs and driving my poor mother nuts! If I revert much further I will be be a babbling baby! The little rabbit song keeps going through my mind... Help me! Help me! Help me! she cried, before the hunter shoots me dead! I can seem to move onto the next verse! The help me! just keeps going through my head!!!! I can't concentrate on anything!!!! I thought I would do some crafting.... I can't think straight to do it! I can't concentrate on my podcasts and have to keep going back to the beginning just to realize I wasn't listening again and put it back to the beginning! Here comes that song again, Help me! Help me! LOL I know I am not the only one feeling this way! I hope they have enough mental institutions to put us all in! I Think it is a wonderful plan to fast and praise God to help us! help us! this Sunday! Although, this metal hat is so stylish! HAHAHAHA Isolation today sure isn't like isolation when I was young! I was in isolation once as a child... (I think because I had the chicken pox) Back then I had probably 7 channels on TV and they did not run 24 hours a day! at night the American Flag would come on and the national Anthem was played and the TV then went to snow (That's right TV went off the air!) If I wanted to call my grandparents I couldn't see them and it was long distance and very expensive extra charges for calling. The list goes on and on of things we couldn't do that are now readily available! Thank Goodness! My grand daughters have been facetiming me so I can see them and talk to them! YAY! I had a doctor's appointment that was a video conference! My doctor typed in new prescriptions on the computer to my pharmacy. (No one had to pick up a paper prescription and take it to the pharmacy.) I paid for the meds with an app on my phone! Technology is amazing! I am so lucky to be in isolation now instead of back then! My favorite podcasters are recording the podcasts with members of the podcasts in different cities and even states and they are right on time with their weekly schedule! I can still sing goofy songs and go outside and scream on the deck when I am feeling a little stir crazy! (That way everyone knows I am still me!) There is one thing that is a little scary... I opened my last 30 roll pack of toilet paper today! I might have to panic about that I am pretty sure that 30 rolls will not last 3 months! I may have to send up an emergency flare to let people know we need rescuing!!! LOL I am a jammie girl in my jammie world!!! This, however, is getting ridiculous! I have always loved my jammies and when asked what I want for Christmas... jammies is always my answer! I have been in isolation for so long I think I am running out of jammies to wear! I might actually have to repeat a jammie outfit!!! I never thought that this would happen to me! I have even been exhausting my nightgown look! Oh the shame of it all!!! LOL I might actually have to wear real everyday clothes that other people wear!!! OR go to my Xena Princess Warrior Look!!! :)
I have been on isolation so long that my ADHD is taking over! I start something and... squirrel my eye catches something else or my brain just jumps! I have a ton of unfinished projects right now because of it!!! Oops! I believe I am driving my mother to drink! (Diet Coke that is!) I have been having alexa play Jim Gaffigan to help keep me laughing! And I just want to warn my neighbors if they believe that there is a cat caught in a trap... No! that is me singing at the top of my lungs really badly!!! Or if they hear screaming not to worry that is my impression of Tarzan trying to swing from the chandelier!!! HAHAHA!!!! My way of getting out all of this pent up energy! out of my system!!! Yesterday, I had to socialize a little bit keeping 6 feet away from each other in the front yard! And of course we used hand sanitizer afterwards just to be safe!!! I saw the study that the Chinese did that said people with type A blood are more susceptible to the virus and people with O blood type are more resistant. Of course I have type A blood!!! LOL And so do most of my kids! Good thing I am in isolation even though I think it is going to make me crazy! And to all of my wonderful children most of you have type A blood so be careful!!! I pulled my car out of the garage when we had the earthquake in case the power went out... and totally defeated the purpose by parking it under the large pine tree so that is another earthquake hit it could demolish my car so I couldn't drive it anyway! LOL As I was getting ready to pull it back into the garage I noticed that my tire that had a slow leak was looking pretty dang flat!!! John offered to come and put air in the tire! I jumped on the chance of being able to talk 6 feet apart from each other so we weren't talking to technology but in person!!! I asked him to bring hand sanitizer with him and maybe we could touch hands looking away from each other and then use hand sanitizer immediately afterwards!!! I believe this must be the new form of dating!!! LOL (Howie Mandel I am following in your germophobe footsteps!!! You trendsetter!!!) The 5.7 Earthquake we had this morning with ensuing after shocks had me checking my Emergency Preparedness Kits and to my dismay I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was! In fact one of my Emergency Preparedness kits I still haven't even found! I am wondering if I left it at the house the kids are living in... This is not good news! Since the house is okay and we are okay it is now time to get the kits in okay shape! I have all of mom's oxygen in the house ready to go if the power goes out but none in the car that doesn't require battery power to run! (That is until the wake up call today!) I still have my work cut out for me to get everything ready!
And this anxiety girl is going through her list and checking it 50 times to make sure everything specific to mom and I are on it! Then the new kits will be assembled to fit our needs and put in the appropriate places! Of course I will have to have extra kits just in case! I can't believe my anxiety about being prepared had been usurped by so many other things that I was this LAX! Oh my gosh! My daughter, Danielle, of course had horrible anxiety this morning making sure everyone was okay so I am sure she is doing the same thing I am! My anxiety friend, Mary, called me and was telling me about her day and she just mentioned how an earthquake could just wipe us out! I informed her that was not a perspective I needed right now with my anxiety! I am of course hyper focusing on the preparedness kits to deal with my anxiety that and constantly texting and calling people to focus on their issues! I hope everyone is having fun updating their preparedness kits! :) Our social media and snail mail are amazing ways to get through this time of Isolation! I am trolling family and friends on facebook! (HAHAHA!) When I see they are actively posting then I know they are okay! I am texting, calling, and facetiming family and friends! I Have told people that love letters need to be sent! So glad I have stationary and stamps! Knowing that we are loved and cared for brings peace to our hearts! We aren't in this alone! I think that is why when I watched the YouTube of President Nelson (a renowned heart surgeon and spiritual leader) about covid19 for the 3 minute video, when he said that he loved me it went straight to my heart and gave me peace!
It is amazing to me how many people are pooling their resources and getting through this! My heart goes out to the families that have sick and lost loved ones! I am so sorry! We just need to keep pooling resources and ignore the few selfish people that bought up needed supplies and are trying to make a lot of money off of the scarcity of some products. I am sharing for FREE my toilet paper that I just happen to already have with 2 other families! I have a friend sharing websites to help keep the grand kids with fun educational things to do! And hearing from people that they love and worry about us is uplifting! This is the way to get through this! pooling resources and helping each other out! Love and prayers to all of you and send love notes to each other!!! (An old fashion art of communication! ;) xoxo) I made it through another day of isolation! Yesterday I played beauty Salon with my mom and rolled her hair up in curlers. When I took the curlers out it look like we had gone back a few decades to the days of perms! I thought it looked great! I watched some murder mysteries and believe that this T-Shirt is perfect T-Shirt therapy! When I found it I got a good laugh out of it! I think this confinement is getting to me! I had a dream last night that it was WWII and I was hiding from the unseen enemy! I think I need to pray for better dreams before I go to sleep! I am changing my thinking to this is a great adventure and I need to hone some of my skills... You know ironing, cleaning and organizing! LOL That will be quite a feat since organization does not come to me naturally! (I am organizationally challenged!) I am pulling out all my old organization books! LOL I don't think I can handle doing that for long so I need to come up with something to take up time soon! Thank goodness for the internet, Alexa, and Google!!! My counselor is awesome and doing my sessions over the phone! Yay! If you ever need mental health help, isolation is the time!!! I had 3 of my grand kids facetime me yesterday! It was so good to see a friendly face even if it was on my phone! Everyone feel free to text message me any time! Mom and I are so lucky that we live in a very tight knit community that just randomly drops off caffeine diet coke on the doorstep and rings the bell! Thank you! Family and loved ones that have picked up needed items and dropped them off! Thank you! We are very blessed! The next few days I have decided are laundry, ironing (Yes! I am old enough that I know how to iron! A lost art! LOL) and cleaning out of closets! Please send any binge worthy Netflix, Acorn, Britbox or Hulu series to watch! (I have had so many surgeries to recover from over the last 2 years that I think I have depleted the options!) I have been given 2 the names of 2 new podcasts to listen to Yay! I also have 2 group chats on facebook one with friends I have had since elementary and high school and one of new friends from all over the world and they help keep me entertained! I am so thankful for the internet!!! Since all these schools etc are going online I hope the internet has enough bandwidth to keep us going! |
I am Ally. I am the center of my universe and I can determine whether to be a victim, survivor or thriver. At one time or another I have been all of the above... I am choosing to thrive!
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