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Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 73: 1 am and 515 am wake up. It’s the US Memorial Day holiday so we all actually have the day off. We also have my most trusted relative in town and I...
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Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 80: 1045 pm, 330 am, 530 am wake ups. 😒 On the one hand, toddler just wants hugs. On the other hand, why can’t those hugs wait until actual...
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Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 87: 530 am. Cycling through pain, fatigue, brain fog, brain fog, fatigue, and pain in quick succession for the ten days has given me the chance to more...
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Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 94: 12 am, 2 am, 430 am, 445 am 515 am wake ups. I’m at my wit’s end today. Yes, it was a terrible night of sleep (half was my body being what it is and...
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Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 101: 530 am wake up. Our sleep experiment has been a shambles since we’ve all (except PiC) caught JB’s virus (not COVID). We couldn’t, in good conscience,...
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Year 3 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 3, Day 108: Alas. We had ONE good sleep night, Saturday, and it made Sunday feel 100x better than an average day. It was too much to hope for a second solid sleep...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 185: I spent most of the weekend on the shopping and tracking and all the admin work for our September Lakota families (background). I am thinking very...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 192: It’s early release all week long. My already short interruption-free parts of the days are now even shorter. But in a stroke of luck, I found a cursive...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 199: A brief vaccine timeline starting Friday night. * BOOSTED! Tiny poke, felt like nothing. * 4 hours post-vax. Arm very mildly sore. Top half of body...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 206: I wrote to all our CongressCritters today to reject KOSA and genocide, and to ask them to support trans people and codifying access to abortion. The...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 213: 89% humidity. YUCK. Not only is it terribly uncomfortable, it’s making our green onion’s soil moldy. Double yuck. I almost skipped ordering a couple of...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 218: There is going to be so much disruption this week. Two tomorrow for Halloween: the kids’ school parade and then trick or treating. Two appointments on...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 225: Remember that rest I was really hoping to get this weekend, but knew I wouldn’t? I was not wrong! The three hour party turned into a five hour...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 232: I submit a motion for Mondays to be abolished. JB vomited twice before 9 am so no school for them. Smol Acrobat woke up late and dragged their feet...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 237: This is the one week a year that I get help from someone I love dearly and it’s precious precious time. Last month I had planned to take time off this...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 244: I’ve spent all year preparing for the end of the year: clearing holiday shopping ahead of time, getting (almost) all the check ups done before...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 251: I’m mildly annoyed that the elementary school is having the kids do Christmas carols this year. Not specifically for our sake, we’re Buddhist and we’ve...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 258: My three sweet potato sprouts are dead. Unexpected cold got them, maybe. More slips are growing in the garage, we’ll try again after January. My onions...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 265: Brrr. Cold, dark, and rainy. Best for sleeping in, not best for Mondays when you have to get up and get out. I’m eagerly awaiting the last of the gifts...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 4, Day 272: My family isn’t Christian so we had no real reason to do Christmas but our parents enjoyed doing the gifting and the trees early on when we were little...
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