hirondelle

Deepak is ON FIRE! 

@Dulcet

Hey @Timberwolf can you update here?  I can't remember everything we watched... we binge watched Peaky Blinders, we are slowing working through The Ranch...  what else? 

19 hours ago, Dulcet said:

This has long been my favorite place to check in. I only wish it were under better circumstances. All good things have been happening lately. I moved closer to the city of Chicago and am hopefully in a better environment. EVERYTHING is is right at my corner including a Walmart, Gamestop, and an ALDI. I'm pretty well stocked up on. food and toilet paper luckily. I'll see how stores are next week. I'm fien and don't have any symptoms, but our building is doing a self-quarantine thing I guess. There's staff here and staff cannily communicate with us by phone now until further notice. And all groups have been canceled. No visitors are allowed either. I'm thinking this also means our mail isn being held because I haven't gotten any mail in the last few days since the policy took effect. I'm doing fien though Having lived in DuPage county my entire life, adjusting to Cook County has been rough. I won't be able to see a psychiatrist for a few more weeks which sucks, Services over all are more limited here, despite it being closer to the city. I've been living off gas station food because I'm too lazy. McDonald's and Burger King were my go to spots when I first moved here, but I don't have a car to use the drive  thru. 

I have been getting out and getting exercise everyday. I walk a lot. There's a blind guy downstairs that asks me to take him places like the gas station and the blood bank across the street so it feels kinda nice to be needed by someone. My neighbors are nice and under regularly scheduled weeks we have game nights and coffee talk. But the corona virus has definitely put a damper on social events and things here. I'm bummed because now is the time I normally go to my cousin's soccer game she coaches. All games have been cancelled until further notice. I remember with swine flu she had trouble getting other teams to play her and kids shaking hands was a big deal. This is much worse cuz I don't remember whole sporting events being cancelled. Oh well. I just hope all this hand washing pays off in the end and we live through all this. 

Stay safe ya'll and I love ya. *HUGS & LICKS*

 

Sound like you are in the best place you can be to weather the storm hun.  Look after your mental health as much as your physical health.  I will post some resources in the appropriate forum and tag you.   @Dulcet

21 hours ago, SoulDragon said:

Hey, i totally forgot about this place (again), so sorry. ~huggles for everybody~ Hope you and your loved ones stay well 

For me personally nothing's much different, i'm always home sick thanks to my chronic desease, i am being extra careful when i have to go out to the store because of my bad immunesystem. The whole social distancing is definitely my cup of tea, finally a socially excepted reason to avoid as many people as possible . My mom keeps comming for our weekly chit chat and that's enough for me, you can't keep us appart no matter what, if i tell her i'm sick she still comes if i'm up to it and the other way around as well.

I was extra sick the last 2 weeks or so, if it was Covid or just a bad flu....who knows, i'm recovering from it with plenty of rest as always. I did get worried when my mom got sick last week, but it's only mildly sick and mostly anoying coughing.

The worst part for me is all those people hoarding, the grocery delivery service is fully booked a week ahead, while normally i order and get it delivered the next day. But no shortages there, yet, only in the grocery stores...no toilet paper...which i really don't get, it's not like you get diarrhea from covid?!  
(seriously, can anyone explain to me why that's the first thing that gets hoarded?)

So far the covid update on my part, i got plenty of other stuff to tell, but that's for another topic.

Yes Soulie, you have to take extra care   do you know if there are cases in your area at all?  I know the Netherlands has around 3k cases in total at the moment.

9 hours ago, Moonhawk said:

Checking in, having the kids out of school  has helped with time with them. My agoraphobia and anxiety rear their heads more frequently since the outbreak, however still going to work. Having your own business and employees who depend on you is hard. My Filipino teams is on lockdown so most are working from home. However not the same for my Miami team yet. I fear the worse is yet to come after speaking to two friends who work in government. Hope all are safe

Thanks for checking in Sweet Hawk. The anxiety is kicking my ass too, glad I already went to the docs and got some pharmaceutical support before this all kicked off. Prior to the virus I was having anxiety for other reasons.. Now it's just all piling up. Glad you are still working and able to keep work for your people. Many aren't so fortunate. 

10 hours ago, Tika said:

I forgot until I got here how much I miss this place when I don't come around.

We're doing ok here, I'm on the opposite end of the work from home scale.   We haven't had any cases in the town I live in yet but it's coming and probably soon and the small hospital I work at could easily get overwhelmed.  My town is mostly shut down, no schools, no restaurants or bars open, most businesses closed, limited hours at grocery stores etc.  I'm isolating as much as I can but the odds of me getting exposed at work are pretty high no matter how careful I am.

*hugs Tika* you can hope they get it under control before it gets to you but yeah hope for the best but prepare for the worst as they say

1 hour ago, Forest Mage said:

This just added more to the living hell I've been going through.   I lost enough family already,  I don't need to lose more cause of the damn virus.   I keep praying my heart out that my family keeps staying healthy during this time.     

 

Sending healthy vibes and prays to all of my Northlands family. 

Oh honey I am sorry you are going through it - I know you lost your uncle end of last year.  Who else passed away?  I am sorry if I missed a post.  Love and strength FM.

@icewlf that sounds tough! I guess I am lucky, I have been working from home on and off for ages and I just have Dom and the animals who are very cooperative and good and not distracting me when necessary.  My recent discovery of a really good quality noise cancelling headset has helped a lot with meetings though.  A must have I now realise. 

I am not sure about physical contact to be honest.  I like a hug when I am feeling down, but just from Dom.  I am happy not touching friends lol. What can I say, I was made for social distancing.  I seem to be able to get all the social connection I need from this kind of thing... sharing texts with you guys.  I am the social equivalent of an air plant or something. 

@fox you know I want details about this gentleman.

Thank you for sharing @fox.  Being away from your babies must be tough but you know they are in good hands. I am sure there was an element of not wanting to contribute to the panic that informed your decision to travel, I know I am constantly weighing that kind of choice.  Even the decision to buy some groceries made me feel guilty, and I had rationalise it by explaining to myself that I am just buying what normal people have anyway - I am not panicking or hoarding or being selfish.  I am simply acknowledging that I may not be able to rely on food delivery and restaurants being as smooth and conveniently at hand for a few weeks, and it isn't selfish to stock up with SOME provisions.  I have gone from a zero pasta owner to a 2 bags of pasta owner.  It doesn't make me a crazy prepper.

We are okay so far in Thailand. They are talking about closing more things down. Schools, entertainment venues etc. I think @fox  is having a 14-day self-quarantine moment having travelled recently. Maybe I can lure her here to explain. 

I don't know about you all but when I am afraid or sad I come here, just to look around and see if there is anything to cheer me up and distract me, or maybe someone around to share my fears and / or tell me everything will be ok. It makes me sad that The Northlands isn't the sanctuary it used to be, but that is just because we got busy and grown up and the internet got noisy. 

But anyway, I wanted to make the post I secretly came here hoping to read... to reassure you The Spirit of the Northlands is still going strong. We are all here, holding hands in the digital dark - caring for each other - and WyldFyre and Ogre are looking out for us from another realm. 

And I am here, your Goddess waiting for you to creep home for a hug.  I see you Northlanders... parents afraid for your kids, I see you kids afraid for your parents.  Me? I'm afraid for my mum, my pets (if Dom and I got quarantined) and a little for myself because I am not ready to die yet despite having thought about ending it more than once in recent years.  Nothing like an external threat to put things in perspective. 

Most of all I am afraid of losing Dom my most darling wolf - and we have been through some shit recently and I pondered leaving, or at least taking an extended break... but again, I didn't want to lose him, I just wanted him back.

So if you pop in looking for some comfort, please leave a post here.  Whether you think it is armageddon or a media conspiracy, let's hang together a while - like old times.

Love you all, and miss you something fierce. Hirondelle

Awesome - I love fish... I am slightly obsessed with this YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Kk8tvhHkWMMfKBb0q0X9g

On 11/20/2019 at 12:51 PM, fox said:

Because he moved out. (Not going to make a big deal update-y post about it. Husband and I are separated, have officially been since the spring. He moved out at the beginning of this month. Life is life-y, I'm not good at keeping up with everything just yet - hence several months of NL break. UGH. That all said, this is a good change. We can all, kiddos included, breathe differently now the the dust is settling and we are creating a new normal.)

Sorry I only just saw this.  Complicated eh. You want sthg so bad and then it happens and it is still a punch in the gut.  But yeah, the only way forward is through.  Love you.

On 10/8/2019 at 10:22 AM, Forest Mage said:

My Uncle who was battle throat cancer passed away today.

I'm so sorry Forest Mage

I am so sorry you are going through this @Dulcet but grateful you came here to vent.    I know you have explained how you are in a slough of despond (literary phrase for it  ) but I am going to tell you (speaking from experience) that you have to DO sthg and you have to start REALLY small. Don't wait for sthg to change. It won't, it really won't.  Get up an 40 mins earlier than you have been getting up and go for a 30 min walk, sthg fast enough to lift your heart rate.  Then come home and sit and meditate for 10 minutes.  Just do that.  Every morning, no days off.  Then when that becomes comfortable make the walk a bit longer, and the same for the meditation.  Make steps like that, with faith that while you dont know where it is leading it IS leading somewhere.

People get paralysed because they look at an end goal and it seems impossible - that is because here to THERE is impossible without all the tiny steps in between.  It is the tiny steps that are your concern right now, look at them.  You have no idea what the end goal is - it is a suprise, waiting for you.  Just take the tiny steps.

And come back and tell us about them.

4 hours ago, Spyder said:

Guess I can knock some rust off the gears and see if they still turn.

We are all rusty AF. I know I am, I think @foxhas still been dabbling

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