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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (85)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 302: After a too active weekend, I started this day in a bad place. Bad mood, drained of energy, short of breath, mostly zombie. I think everyone started...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (86)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 309: Everyone else has the day off today and I’m jealous. I’m also annoyed because JB’s morning shenanigans wasted an hour of my work time which means I...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (87)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 316: We don’t technically live paycheck to paycheck but I sure do look forward to payday as if we do. About six days before we get paid my radar starts...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (88)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 319: Welcome to another week of “What childcare?” with the added twist of a random no school day in the middle of the week. It started at 430 with Smol...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (89)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 326: Third terrible night of sleep in a row as I wait out this latest flare up that feels like my bones are on fire. Tossed and turned for hours last night....

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (90)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 333: Our week of summer ended with yesterday’s warmth and fancy free sunshine. Today we’re back to cold, fog, and gloom. Brrrrrr! ***** I was in a real mood...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (91)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 340: Woof. Still recovering from the weekend physically. And I foolishly skipped the full dose of diphenhydramine I’ve been taking to force myself to fall...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (92)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 347: An ill-timed Amber Alert at 1 am woke me up and destroyed my ability to sleep the rest of the night. 😩 It was not good. Smol was up before 6 am which...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (93)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 354: Smol started the festivities at FIVE AM. I, having had severe heartburn until 2 am, was less than pleased. And less than half conscious. Thank goodness...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (94)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 2, Day 361: *The day numbering reflects when I started chronicling our lives in the pandemic, about a week or two into the shutdowns. This two year “anniversary”...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (95)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 3: As promised, the Things Got Even Harder edition! Challenge 1: 3 hours of sleep, y’all. Painsomnia had me deep in the marrow and it burned until 3 am. Of...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (96)

Year 2 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 10: Somehow, it’s never easier in the way you’d think it’ll be when just one of us has the day off. One of us is trying to use that time to get a lot of...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (97)

Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 17: Hello Monday, we meet again. It started with my scalp itching dreadfully. It has for the past four days. Something set off my allergy-to-something that...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (98)

Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 24: Well hello Monday. Starting at midnight with the utterly brutal pain that made it hard to breathe, and then moving right along to the four am wakeup...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (99)

Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 31: JB has another wiggly tooth and we’ve gone from the excitement of having a wiggly tooth to Extreme Angst Because It Hurrrrtttssssss. I hope we’re not...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (100)

Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 38: Yesterday was a rollercoaster day: lots of conflict with JB; made egg salad for today’s lunches; worked some but mostly laid down as much as I could....

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (101)

Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 45: What a terrible night of sleep that was. I thought I was physically up for a walk to the play structure with the kids because I made it there and back...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (102)

Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 52: Smol’s waking up at 445 am was painful but I now have a theory that they’re waking up cold. I noticed their hands and feet were colder than usual and...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (103)

Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 59: La Mamá y Pequeño dia! Ways it started right: I’d made egg salad for today’s lunches yesterday afternoon, and made PiC’s coffee in the early evening so...

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Living in the time of pandemic: COVID-19 (104)

Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 66: 515 am wake-up. Late last night I looked up ME/CFS to see if my night sweats might be a bonus symptom and it is. It also reminded me that both sore...

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