Seven Slices of DQ Life
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- Despite being divorced for more than three years now, I’m pretty happy about having kept that Costco membership. Toilet paper was never a worry for me.
- I’ve not worn my contact lenses in three weeks. It’s amazing how dirty my glasses get with constant use every day. On the plus side, I haven’t lost a pair of readers since all of this started.
- Comparing my bank statements with my current bank activity, I realize how much I was going out to eat, back in the BQ (Before Quarantine). This should probably be made into a durable lifestyle change and persist into the AQ (After Quarantine), rather than an interim adjustment for DQ (During Quarantine) purposes only.
- Joe Exotic is a piece of work, yo.
- I subscribe to Imperfect Produce, so that reduces my need to go to the store. I’ve been getting lots of citrus and getting myself some kind of citrus juice almost every morning. Fresh-squeezed juice tastes great. I probably can’t blame just the citrus juice for my weight gain, though: I’ve got salty crunchy snacks and elastic-waistband sweat pants, and I’m quite willing to use both.
- One thing I wish were still open were the animal shelter. This would have been the perfect time to have adopted a dog, being home all the time.
- Thinking about all that juice and all those snacks, and my dwindling (but soon-to-be-replenished) supply of homebrew, I found an old jump rope in the basement. Rolled out my yoga mat in my upstairs home office, and now I’m starting to use it. Turns out, jumping rope is quite difficult and I really suck at it. Still, I hope this can persist into the AQ.
Re your #6… I have read that animal shelters have adopted out most of the available population, many to people who are (temporarily) staying at home. I worry what happens to those animals when everyone goes back to the office.Report
You know, Burt, the Willamete Humane Society is going by appointment, if you want to adopt a new pet. (and it will get you out of the house!) Salem isn’t too far. And a friend in need, is a friend indeed.
https://whs4pets.org/
It is good to see you keeping a sense of humor about the whole thing, it really is the best way.Report
I call BQ “the before-times” and I suspect that the future is going to look greatly different from the before-times, but I tend to be a panicky pessimist.
I am glad I don’t have Netflix now; I lived through the news blitz on Joe Exotic when he was on trial (and before, when he was doing all his shenanigans and even running for OK governor) and I’d be seriously tempted to shoot my tv. Why are people so in love with lowlife grifters in our culture?
I’ll also say I was really hoping DQ would have something to do with Dairy Queen and I find myself disappointed.
But also: HOLY CRAP Imperfect Foods says it delivers in my area which is shocking to me (we never get anything like that) so I may have to see if I can get deliveries that would work around my weird food allergies….Report
Send me your email on Twitter and I’ll refer you. We each get ten bucks off that way!Report
I’m gonna have to think about it more. I looked at the amounts they send for a single person and….that’s more produce than I eat in a week. I don’t actually eat as much as most “meal plans” seem to suggest and I have a TINY freezer.Report
Title is misleading, I was expecting a post about ice cream treats!Report
We went to DQ for the older one’s birthday yesterday. They had the walk up window open. He’s been asking to go since we first visited last summer.
He ordered a fruit smoothie.
I swear, my children want us all to die from non-Covid causes.Report
Is everything okay now? I assume you’ve gotten the all-clear? (If so, I’m glad to hear it.)Report
Yes, Zazzy is now counted among the survivors and we’ve all emerged from quarantine. She’s trying to get involved in some survivor/anti-body studies. Good on her for that. I’ve been driving/doing deliveries for Feeding the Frontlines now that she can take the boys some nights.
Thank you for asking!Report
I’m really glad to hear things seem to be going better.Report
Very much same, though I do have Blue Bell ice cream bars in the freezer, so at least I have that.
in fact, I think I will have one after dinner tonightReport
Hopefully not pre-licked!Report
Yes, the cooking thing. I am now realizing how much I ate out. From getting a sandwich at the restaurant attached to the climbing gym after a session to just grabbing some Chipotle on the way home to “It’s Saturday morning… let’s wander over to that diner we like and get some eggs!”, I ate out a *LOT*. I knew that I knew how to cook, but it was like a party trick.
“Hey, watch me make some spaghetti sauce.”
I’ve gone from cooking being a luxury hobby to it being how I get all three of my meals everyday.Report
I get and don’t get all the interest in Tiger King personally. It seems like a show for gawking at the willfully dysfunctional.Report
…for gawking at the willfully dysfunctional.
There’s a lot of that going around.
The one thing I encountered when I was working for the state legislature that made me cry afterwards was when I sat in the back at a family counseling session paid for by a county family court. I don’t think they were willfully dysfunctional, but… The parents were two people who should never have been allowed to have kids. The extended family was there, as the kids spent time with one or the other set of grandparents when mom and dad were in jail or rehab. At least IMO, the grandparents should never have been allowed to have children either. The case worker told me later I should visit more often; everyone was on their best behavior because of the stranger in the coat and tie.
I have no idea what’s happening with that sort of county service during the local lock down.Report
The previous time governments have attempted to prevent people from becoming parents did not go so well. The best we can do is to ensure that nobody feels forced to become a parent.Report
Yeah, and I know that there are cases where someone who has messed up their life turns things around completely as soon as there’s a kid. Didn’t make watching any easier. I only went to the one session — the case worker told me she had six scheduled for that day. Left me with a serious bout of “It doesn’t matter how much we’re paying the case workers, it’s not enough.”Report
the thing that really bugs me about Tiger King is everyone watching it sees Joe as the good guy, the nice fella, maybe a little scattered but not really a BAD GUY, not like that white chick down in Florida who totally definitely killed her husband and threw the body in the septic tank.
then they get to the last episode where Netflix admits that the guy’s in prison for trying to have her killed and they just kinda stop talking about Tiger King.Report
It’s a case study in malignant narcissism. Which one of them is the malignant narcissist, you ask? All four of the zookeepers, that’s for sure.Report
Well, you know how Americans love the royals.Report
Was re: #3. Boy, but you ain’t kidding! And I thought I was doing pretty good. Yeah, no.Report