I may have had other things to say this week, but with the CDC announcement that vaccinated folks no longer need to wear masks in most settings, even indoors..... I'm just going to copy/paste what I shared on Twitter: I’m feeling gaslit here. The pandemic ISN’T over. We have ~56% of FIRST vaccines completed here…
After a weekend working on the chicken coop, we decided to go look in person at a local store that had a chick delivery... just to “go see.” Let’s just say it took some serious willpower to leave the store without any chicks, regardless of the unfinished status of the coop... As the build gets…
These are weird times at present. All of our close friends and family have been vaccinated locally (and around the country), other than the children, which is a whole different worry. But things feel safer locally than they have in a very long time. At the same time, the COVID transmission rates among the unvaccinated…
The weather has been absolutely glorious this week. The sun has been shining every day and the temperatures have gotten into the low seventies. The rain returns tomorrow, which feels pretty bittersweet. Such lovely weather during April in the Pacific Northwest has been wonderful, but after needing to water my garden multiple times already, I…
Five more days until I’m fully vaccinated (two weeks after my second shot). My husband gets his second shot on Wednesday. And our roommate got his one and done Johnson & Johnson shot a week ago, so he’s fully vaccinated next Friday. The kiddo won’t get his turn for a while yet, but the rest…
Ahem. As is probably clear by the title of this post, I GOT MY SECOND COVID SHOT on Wednesday afternoon. At 3:51pm, because Rite Aid picks odd times for appointments, because why not, I suppose? I am verrrrry tired (napped at 10:30am today - Thursday), so I almost didn't write this week's post. But like…
It's April! And thankfully, by the time of this posting, April Fool's is done, because it's definitely up there on my least favorite holidays list (along with Valentine's Day). In other good news, my husband got his first COVID shot this week! The state opened up vaccinations to the construction industry, and I was able…
We're in the final stretch of the month of March, and it's definitely sped by in way that March 2020 did not. We're still deep in pandemic life, but it's better than last year. We know more of how to see people safely (outside, masked up), and that makes a huge difference for me. March…
It's Thursday night, and I got my first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine yesterday. I'm about 24 hours past the shot, and I'm pretty dang sleepy (I slept in until 8:45am this morning!), but otherwise very, very thankful to be on my way to being fully vaccinated. After helping assist 200+ people schedule their…
Thursday night, President Biden gave a speech commemorating the official year mark of the pandemic in the United States. We might have already been in it a few weeks here in Kirkland by that point, but this time a year ago, people were starting to realize things were going to be really different, and really…