Week 82: So tonks

March 28, 2020

Lockdown.
Two weeks ago I mentioned that I didn’t need to worry about my dad as he has access to a lab so he can make his own hand sanitiser. Well guess what? He’s made his own hand sanitiser. It even has flipping aloe vera in it.
I’m doing OK? I keep waking up at night and not being able to get back to sleep which is obviously a symptom of stress, but I haven’t done much crying which is the usual thing I do when stressed.
E is at home with us now of course, so we split the days. I am doing about 5/6 hours of work a day, either 7am-1pm or 1pm-7pm. If I work flat out I actually get quite a bit done. Given my contracted hours are 7.5 per day, I’m working at about 80% - that’s not too bad really.
It is delightful spending more time with E. She just potters about and says cute stuff and I marvel at how clever she is. Organising activities for her is a bit tedious, but she does like pairing up socks and hanging and sorting washing so we’re really on top of the laundry at the moment.
I elected early on to drop some things, rather than do 100% of the things 80% as well.
Still no signs of COVID-19 in the house. E has a very runny nose but at any given time there is a 50/50 chance she has a runny nose because she’s 2 and that’s just how they roll.
I had not realised the sheer volume of domestic labour we would have to do having a 2 year old at home. At nursery E gets all 3 meals provided, and of course for every activity they also tidy up. Now she’s home I’m cooking, cleaning and washing up nearly constantly. I did not sign up for this! (haha just kidding)
Our houseplants are going to be so tonks by the end of this.
GAILS and Neils Yard have delivered me bread and cheese so we’re basically all set.
I have started playing Animal Crossing. One thing I like about it is that it seems impossible to play more than a couple of hours a day - I just run out of things to do. This is very good for me as I tend to get very sucked into games and I do actually have real capitalism to attend to.
An unexpected bonus of everyone going remote is getting to see the inside of Important People’s homes.
Seeing people’s cute babies on the Google Meet is also giving me a lot of life. BRING ME YOUR BABIES! LET ME COO OVER THEM.
I left some houseplant babies on my friend’s doorstep and some stickers for her son. Felt very good to give her some nice plants that I had grown because I know she was having a shit day.