Improvement

We were only able to get outside reliably one day last week.  By the end of the day Friday, I was at my wits' end.

Fortunately, it was nice out yesterday, and after I did my chores inside (which included disinfecting just about everything with a batch of cleaner that I made), I mowed the back yard, and sat in the sun for most of the afternoon.

Dave also got some outside time, and did some yard work.

I felt a LOT better after that, until we watched that thing that was on all of the networks last night.  It was uplifting, but it also made me cry. 

A lot.

Maybe it was good to cry, because I feel even better this morning.

My supervisor, in an uncharacteristically warm and pleasant mode, called me on Friday. 

She said she hadn't talked to many of us lately, and had only called me to talk about work....so she was checking in with everyone on a personal level. 

She called me to ask about how I am doing.  Not just with work, but with this experience we are all going through. 

It was really nice.  It was a gift to be able to talk with someone about my state of mind and about how we are protecting ourselves during this pandemic.

She is normally extremely pedantic, and reacts like an automaton when people approach her with humor or sarcasm, OR when we try to get her to respond like a human on a personal level.

She asked me questions, and we chatted for several minutes.

I felt a weight lift off of me after we spoke.  I have been worried that my productivity hasn't been adequate, and that management is watching my every move to be sure I am actually working while at home.

Her normal mode of being 99% impersonal adds to my paranoia.

In reality, when I look at my statistics, compared to everyone else's (I am, after all, for SOME reason, the one who logs the productivity statistics for our department), I am among the three most productive.

The fact that she didn't say anything at all about me not doing the best job I can (with most of my tasks being taken away for now) helped me out.

Management is trying to figure out how we can have a virtual meeting next week.  I hope they like my lavender hair!

In other news, Dave and I normally boycott Walmart due to their unethical practices, but we were able to get groceries delivered by them last week.

He is going to try to get through to the Shipt customer service line again today, to see if we can get that working again.

He also masked-up and went to Trader Joe's yesterday.  They are only allowing a limited number of customers into the store at a time, and they are insisting on distancing in the line outside.  They also have a staff person who wipes down your cart before you touch it, and who gives you a squirt of hand sanitizer before you go inside.

He was able to get us some of our much loved items from there, which will improve my overall attitude, truth be told. 

We talked to Pop last Sunday.  He was doing really well.  He's still struggling with responding to questions clearly, but he is trying!

Since it was Easter, they sent us a picture of him picking a treat out of a basket.  He was up in his chair, and dressed!

We just had a wren singing in the crepe myrtle outside of the living room window!  WOW!  I haven't heard one of those down here before! 

It should be a pretty afternoon again today, so we are going to head back to the park where we went walking last weekend before the weather turned yucky.

Enjoy your Sunday, especially if it is a little different from the other days!