Due to the recent emergency, the Cutetropolis City Council has unanimously voted to authorize the Strategic Puppy Reserve to deliver puppies to every home.
Just what we needed, Sharon H.
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Best decision ever!! Now, if only my local city commission would get their act together and start making smart choices like this one…eyeroll
I hear you Puddleglum. Every day is something new and different, sometimes contradicting what was announced just yesterday. In any case, these puppers are adorable and SO FLUFFY!!!! If it wasn’t for the fact I hate dealing with all their puppy antics I’d take a couple.
I could use a puppy. Not feeling very optimistic about all this.
Allein, negativity impacts your health. I know (believe me, oh, how I know!) it’s not easy, but do try to dwell on any positives you can find, and limit your exposure to negatives. Limit your hard news access to one manageable check-in per day. And remember that the puppies are here for us!
I’m trying but I’m not doing very well right now.
Hugs to you Allein. Lots and lots of hugs. I don’t have any sage advice for you – we each deal with this in our own way. I spent last week beating myself up for not doing the things I should have been doing. This week I’ve come to accept there is only so much I can do – and I let my mind wander. It takes a trip about every 10-15 minutes. The only place it’s not allowed to go is the news. Maybe it’s time to take up underwater basket weaving?
But seriously – lots of hugs to you from me and the three boys, Jacques, Swee’Pea and Butch. We always love your comments here. 🙂 (heart imogi too)
Thank you..
It’s so hard to ignore the news. What if I miss something important…? But I don’t know what to believe and then what can I do about it, anyway..?
Go for a walk Allein and turn off the news! Hugs to you!
I’m going to pick up meatloaf from my parents’ porch in a bit.
Duckie – I heard about people putting up Christmas lights!
If you sign up for email updates from your elected officials, you won’t miss anything important.
Or, if you have one trusted friend you can count on to send you important updates and no other “news,” you won’t miss anything important.
Another option is to check in with the WHO once a day. Or, if you prefer, the CDC, once a day. Personally I prefer the WHO.
And that way you can stop watching, listening to, and reading the so-called news, most of which is speculation anyway.
I learned these lessons the hard way after September 11, which left me with a case of PTSD from watching the news all that horrible day.
Following the directions of Dr Wiener and Daphne is probably all you can do about it, so that answers that question. 🙂
BIG SANITARY HUGS!
P.S. You may want to find out if your health insurer or local medical authority can get you access to telemedicine therapy. I’m not a professional, and sometimes a professional is what is needed. I’ve found them to be godsends (when I found the right ones – it’s very personal, and sometimes you have to shop around).
All six of my kitties–even Scorpius–send kitty kisses and purrs. I know things look bleak right now, but human ingenuity is amazing. Ricky & Bibi’s Mom has some great advice.
Off to hunt for toilet paper. Wish me luck. If you don’t hear from me by tomorrow . . .
thanks 🙂
I know we’ve never met in person but I love you all and am grateful for this site.
💕💕💕 hugs and more Allein. I have no idea how to cope either. I am very anxious and sick to my stomach some days. Does it help at all that we know how you feel? 💕💕
It does help, thank you.
We love you too. This community of people who’ve never met is truly amazing.
🙂
It will get better Allein it will.
Not by next week but we’ll come through this. Sounds stupid but set some goals three – six months ahead or even a year and focus on those.
Or just start with some goals for tomorrow or next week like cleaning out that closet/garage or trying a new recipe. Even hitting a high score or new level on your favorite game.
Focus on the good that’s ahead of us, there will be tough times but we’ll get through it.
I need to clean.
Allein! I’m cycling from cold sweat anxiety to full dying in a hospital to calm. Also I had a case of food poisoning that lasted five days and I had to call the doctor on Sunday thinking I had the virus. My temp jumped from a low of 97 to 100 and I got terrified.
So I totally stopped watching CNN, only local news. I also limited my mental images and concern to the limits of what is actually happening in my house, in my room, in my own body. I’m off CNN and NY Times online too. Local news will give you the facts you need not the world or big hotspot news.
I do have a new doctor who is available almost 24/7 7 days a week on the phone. I’ve called him mane three times. And I had my regular shrink visit today via FaceTime. That helped tremendously!
I did sit on my porch for about a half hour. People are out. Kids are out. I saw people being smart and stupid. But one lady walking gave me a nice nod I wouldn’t have gotten in the past.
People are not stacking up like cordwood in the streets. There are calmer statistics developing. And even if you get sick they want you to stay home. Most people recover at home!
My biggest challenge is to not manufacture symptoms or envision myself on the way to the hospital! It’s been tough but today I calmed down from last week.
And think people are still having babies, calling the cops, etc.
How can we help you directly?
Heh…doesn’t help that my “local” affiliates are all NYC…I haven’t turned on the TV during the day, at least.
Opened my tablet to a headline about a 50 year old man from my town purposely coughing on an employee at the grocery store I usually shop at and telling her he had the virus…simply because she asked him to step back because she felt he was too close to her and the prepared food she was working with. Now he’s being charged with terroristic threats. The [bleep]s will always be with us, I guess.
My biggest challenge is to not manufacture symptoms or envision myself on the way to the hospital!
Oh, my, god, I do this kind of thing all the time on a normal day!
How can we help you directly?
Just keep commenting here.
It’s gray outside right now. Just made some hot chocolate and logged into work. Hopefully it’ll be nicer out by lunchtime.
Hope you are feeling better.
PS Duckie sent me a picture of Little Duckie yesterday. 🙂
I left my calendars at work so I miss my WeRateDogs and Thoughts of Dog. Will have to remember to check their twitter/facebook pages.
The [bleeps] will always be with us, indeed. But for every story of somebody doing something awful, there are plenty of stories about people doing lovely things. I may start sewing masks this weekend, if the local hospitals can use them.
I have no ability or supplies to sew, but I’m glad people are doing this. Hope they are at least some protection for the people who need them.
Faye, so sorry about the food poisoning! Hope you’re feeling much much better.
Yay! The most importantist news ever!
People in Alberta are putting up Christmas lights as a means of coping and support. Duckieville is next on the list.
It does help a bit.
I love the idea of emergency puppies! Or kittens. I’m not fussy.
How about some emoigency boidies?
https://flic.kr/p/2iG2eDD
These little peeps are all rescues, living their best life at a bird and small animal veterinary practice in my neighborhood.
If it’s small and I can snuggle it, I’ll take it.
Oh that is lovely. Thank you.
The 6:30 news just featured this in their “America Strong” segment at the end (only caught the last few minutes before Jeopardy while I was heating up my dinner that i picked up from the take-out place called “My Parents’ Porch”).
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-HmReylQLq/
Allein – I too have been struggling a lot but I’ve discovered a few things that have been helping. Maybe one or two will resonate with you or give you an idea for something else.
I guess like those folks who put their Christmas lights back up I am listening to Christmas music literally right now. I have one favorite CD that I played to death 3 months ago so I pulled it out again. It definitely makes me feel good to hear it.
I live alone in a small apt in NYC and spending a lot of time cooped up has never been good for me so our current situation has me nervous about having to spend so much time inside and away from people. Yet I want to abide by social distancing (and having asthma gives me an additional incentive to keep my distance now but also additional anxiety). So, I’ve made a point to go for at least one good walk everyday for exercise and mental hygiene BUT I go at odd times like 8am so I can avoid most people. I’m NOT a morning person, believe me, but there is nothing like that crisp (ok cold) morning air and hearing the birds chirp away right in front of me. I feel so much better afterwards and it carries throughout the day. Last night I went for an hour walk in the pouring rain and I saw maybe 5 people. Yes I was soaked through but it was so peaceful and it made me feel better.
I regularly practice yoga at a place where most of my friends are. Fortunately some of my teachers are streaming live classes so I’ve been doing them along with a few of my friends. No it’s not the same as being in person and I can’t hug them through my laptop, but seeing their smiling faces and hearing their encouragement keeps me going.
Think of one thing that always lifts your spirits and try your best to do it everyday- as long as it’s legal. 😉 If you don’t have the energy to try, that’s OK! Give yourself a break. As Scarlett famously said, tomorrow is another day!
Hang in there!!
I don’t mind so much being inside, but it will get old at some point, I’m sure.I do need to get outside more. Yesterday it rained all day but today was nice. I went out to get the mail mid afternoon and it was perfect sweatshirt weather; and then went to pick up dinner at 6:30, a little chillier but I didn’t need a coat. I have been making a point to open my blinds while I work so I get some daylight in my living room, at least. When I got to my parents’ my mom was on the phone with my cousin, who suggested 15 minutes of just listening to classical music a couple times a day. (I actually have the Symphony Hall channel on in my car and listened to Bach the whole way there – Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, I think it was.)
I live in a small apartment in NYC too (1BR). It felt claustrophobic , for the first time, really, during this. Sunday I moved out to my sister’s house in Nassau County, One of her cats sleeps with me. Yay! Oddly enough, something I’ve found comfort in is home delivery of my paper copy of the New York Times to my sister’s. The first delivery arrived on her driveway this morning. I have been reading my own copy of the New York Times since 1963, when I started attending high school in another borough and had to take the subway to school. Holding the physical copy is a pacifier.
Christmas lights, you say? For almost three months my Christmas lights have been sitting in a box in the corner of my bedroom…until yesterday, when I finally got round to putting them back in the loft!
Haha. Well?
Unfortunately the entrance to the loft is in my bedroom and getting access to it is a major operation. It involves moving a large chest of drawers and dragging a ladder up and down a narrow staircase because I can’t work the locks on the pull-down ladder fitted inside the loft! I think I’ll do without the lights and think of another cheering-up method. I’ve resolved to take up crochet, which should keep me occupied for the rest of the lockdown…
Wow! Im impressed you put the lights away at all!