I tested negative today! Yay! Technically my isolation period is over although I have to wear a mask for the next couple of days if I get out. My intention is to stay in through Wednesday unless something very urgent comes up. There is a chance I could get a bounce-back case and I don’t want to expose someone in case I get round three.
I have one last dose of Paxlovid to take tonight. I will be grateful when this nasty bitter taste goes away. Hoping it will be gone by morning. I suppose it is a small price to pay as the Paxlovid helped me have a mild case of Covid.
I have felt a bit tired today but I didn’t sleep very much last night. I woke up at 5:30 this morning after going to sleep around 1:00 and I couldn’t go back to sleep. Just one of those nights. Thankfully it is becoming rare for me to get less than six to eight hours of sleep, thanks to my sleep aide. I took one last night but some nights they aren’t as effective as most nights.
I got my bathroom cleaned last night. I am working on cleaning my bedroom today. I have the sheets washed and put back on my bed. It will be a treat to climb into a freshly made bed tonight. After all the nights I ran a temperature the sheets were getting nasty.
I did three loads of laundry today and got everything folded and put away. I am working on washing two totes full of dirty dishes from the Pioneer Bluffs Fundraising dinner that was held last night. I had to back out of serving so volunteered to wash the dishes instead. I have done six dishwasher loads so far and have one left to go and then that job will be done. It gave me something to do today and feel productive a bit.
There was a meme on Facebook that said: “At this point I am about 97.3% feral and will not be able to be integrated back into society”. I felt that today! I still have no desire to go somewhere or to see anyone. I wonder how long I can string this out before I have to do society again?
A dear friend brought me some yogurt and a travel magazine today. The world does turn much sweeter when one has friends that care. I so appreciate the gesture and have enjoyed reading the travel stories.
The wind has been in a big hurry all day today. We had a 52.8 MPH gust with sustaining winds around 30 – 35 MPH most of the day. Thankfully the forecast for tomorrow shows calmer winds with clear blue skies and warmer temperatures. I will welcome spring back tomorrow.
As it is going to be nice tomorrow, I plan on letting the chicks go outside for their first time. Hopefully they will figure out how to go back inside tomorrow evening so I don’t have to chase them to return them to the big house for the night. Usually they figure it out pretty quickly.
Nothing on my calendar for the coming week except for housecleaning. With guests coming a week from tomorrow I have a whole house to clean between now and then. I work in very short spurts so it will take me all week to get the house clean. If I can do a couple rooms a day I will get it done. The way the wind is blowing I’m not sure the dust will stay outside but at least it will be fresh dust on things – right?
I wonder what stories our grandchildren will tell about their Covid days when they get to be my age? I still think we haven’t even begun to see all the ramifications that Covid has brought to our lives and understand the full range of cause and effect it has caused. I remember the stories about the depression that my grandmother and mother told and how that shaped my mother for the rest of her life.
Feeling very grateful that Round Two of Covid was relatively mild. I had two bad days of it and that was before I knew it was Covid. I am lucky to have escape permanent consequences from either case, as far as I know. The first case was definitely much harder and lasted much longer than the second one did.
Grateful to have tested negative today, grateful the last dose of Paxlovid is tonight, and grateful for friends that brightened my day.