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Week 35 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 35, Day 241: I’m still slightly stunned that the election was called for Biden. I spent all last week doing my best not to think about it, not allowing myself to...
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Week 36 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 36, Day 248: I can’t believe that I made it to 7 pm without needing to cuss out someone at work. That’s a first for all Mondays nearly this entire year. Here’s...
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Week 37 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 37, Day 255: I wanted to support a local bakery for our holiday meals. I found one nearby and we ordered two large pies. The online order form offered free...
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Week 38 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 38, Day 263: A friend mentioned it was a good time to do the Mins Challenge again – where each day you get rid of the same number of things as the day of the...
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Week 39 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 39, Day 270: I enjoyed reading Jessica’s How to Cope (and Hopefully Even Thrive) in Times of Disaster. I’ve been doing financial stress testing since 2018 in...
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Week 40 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 40, Day 277: I’ve been feeling like a horrible mom to JB lately. I’m so distracted and preoccupied by: work, Smol Acrobat’s needs, my needs, my fatigue and...
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Week 41 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 41, Day 284: Holiday gifts for JB have been showing up on our doorstep all month. I am surprised to find, since I love opening mail, I’m starting to have a bit of...
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Week 43 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 43, Day 298: You’ll forgive me skipping the week after Christmas – we are still trying to right the ship that now has an extra human passenger and some days are...
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Week 44 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 44, Day 305: My jobs today were: 1) revive my old iPad, 2) talk to the vet about Seamus, 3) set up a therapy appointment for myself, 4) keep Smol Acrobat alive,...
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Week 45 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 45, Day 312: We miss grocery shopping pre-COVID. We love browsing the shelves and coming up with new foods and recipes to try. My appetite is really suffering...
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About sixteen years ago, I met him for the first time. My trainwreck sibling brought home this adorable puppy he had no business adopting because he had not one thing in his life that wasn’t a mess. I...
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Week 46 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 46, Day 319: TFW it’s 2 am, you’re thinking it is about dang time to wrap up because you’re already on your second post bedtime wakeup cycle with the baby (need...
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Week 47 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 47, Day 326: Sometimes I forget that it’s been 326 days since I could see the human elements of my family out the door to their work and school respectively, then...
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Week 48 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 48, Day 331: I’m struck by a peculiar manifestation of (Asian mom?) parental guilt that tells me that I’ve had almost a year with JB at home and my inability to...
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Week 49 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 49, Day 338: We got scary news last night. Our cancer battling friend lost consciousness and had to be hospitalized. This morning, tests showed that their cancer...
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Week 50 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 50, Day 345: We’re trying a new sleep aid, we’ve gone nuclear, and I am reserving judgement for a couple weeks but at least last night’s observation was: I only...
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Week 51 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 51, Day 352: Smol Acrobat managed one five hour stretch of sleep at night!!!! Cue a silent celebration. This is especially appreciated because they only had two...
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Week 52 of COVID in the Bay Area. Week 52, Day 359: After a 4.5 hour sleep, Smol is up at midnight, then again at 320 am for changes and feedings. My painsomnia is back full force these past few days...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 1: Hell of a day, I tell ya. A terrible confluence of events meant that PiC had to sleep from 3-8:30 am and then go into meetings most of the day. His...
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Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 8: My sleep debt is starting to resemble our mortgage. It feels impossible to overstate how tired I am and have been. I’ve been exhausted and undersleeping...
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