johannasaurus Rex, the Second. @Johannab@wandering.shop

Please submit follow request if you think I'm worth the bother - I'm "locked" only to block nonsense, not Fedizens.

There are many johannabs, johannabees, johannab33s and more than that johannas out there. I am a few of them.

oh hai.
something is up with a big instance? Got a bunch of follow requests to allow since I last peeked in.
okay! Thanks. I accept all until you prove I shouldn't have, then deal. Usually follow back - if I don't it was possibly oversight, possibly overwhelmed at the time.

hope you are all staying well, times are weird.

WHAT is with this damned localized weather bubble.

We can literally watch a huge front coming at us on weather radar. Then it splits in two with storms NW and SE of here, but hardly anything actually here. I need the damn rain.

Back "to work" (which is just... a different kind of online activity in my same living room), child off to camp for 1 last week, anxiety going up already watching the pandemic stats for my region and province.

Sigh.

How's your world?

huh. emailed about a data breach at a payment processor connected to food bank charity donations.

time to go flip all the passwords I guess.

In other random brain droppings today... my kid has gone to day camp for the first time this summer and spouse and I are still finding it difficult to focus working from home.... it's eerily quiet all of a sudden!

(Dear reader, note we are in Canada in a region that has controlled CoViD well at this point, with a local Rt < 0.5 at the moment. So camp is... reasonable.)

We are so very lucky, also, that his long working life left him with a pension plan and my Mom's financial savvy left him with both retirement savings and home equity... he's been able to afford life in a private "retirement community" that has been more diligent and successful about keeping the virus out than many other care facilities.

I think I've not actually seen my Dad in person since Xmas. We attempt vid calls weekly or so (when he's up for answering).

The small blessing of his state of dementia is I think, time passes differently for him and he's often lost in his own world, so I hope the impression that my sibs and I have that he's coping well emotionally is correct. He's always happy for company/attention but doesn't seem to miss it when it's not there.

My bra had completely self-destructed and it’s the only kind I like which is probably why I’ve worn it out in just a couple years, but now I don’t want to get more of that kind because it wore out. Except I think the ones I hate (most of them) probably last due to not being worn, so it’s probably unfair to be this judgy.

Oh hai tooters. It’s been yoinks again . I am sucked into Insta and twit space by my want of “official” news and data... a couple of good epis and bio stats ppl to follow ... but it’s really not good.

Been playing ACNH otherwise, keeping my nose to the remote work grindstone, make my masks and trying to stay sane and safe.

How are you?

ugh. the vicarious trauma of various friends&fam who have struggles in life is something I'm usually in a position to... absorb a bit of. you know, deliver a meal, hug, hang out.

CoVid is making the other traumas in life harder on my nears&dears, and the ripple effect of NOT BEING ABLE TO BE USEFUL is creating its own grief.

Sorry to everyone who is let down lately. And sorry, pocket-frens, I'm just spewing here since the nears&dears don't need to deal with my anxieties. I know U know this.

Hello world.

Been a while again.

hm. my feed has disappeared. Hope you're all holding up.

I found a ton of wasabi soy sauce roasted almonds at the store and they may already be almost gone. NO REGRETS.

stupid weather. All the headache, none of the catharsis.

Storm, dammit! That thunder was promising me A STORM!!!!

Wine, a good book, a bathtub.

Where I went wrong was attempting skin care, too, because a face peel applied before hopping into a bath apparently melts... and drips into the eyes. So I can’t see well enough to read just yet, ow.

Oh well. At least, wine.