Quarantine Confessions (share yours here)

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Anonymous wrote:I've had a glass of wine at noon more often than I'd like to admit.

Good for you!

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Anonymous wrote:I have smoked weed a few times. My job randomly drug screens but I feel like they can't while we are at home. I'm not sure if the would send me to a place to do it, but I would argue about that.

I wouldn't count on that. I used to work for a company that did random drug screening, and even pre-covid, they would send the collection kits to our home. It was a while ago, so I don't remember how I returned it, but I remember there was some safeguard on getting someone else to take the test for you.

[Anonymous]

I'm generally an organic/healthy food type and didn't even eat ramen in college, but discovered (?) how delicious it is over the past few months. I eat it probably every other day, way more than anyone should be ingesting packaged ramen.

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Anonymous wrote:The virus is terrible and I wish it wasn’t here but I secretly enjoy staying home majority of the time and not going places or seeing people has been mostly fine for me.

Ditto!!! And most of all I love WFH. Even with kids in remote school. My social anxiety has dropped off significantly.

[Anonymous]

I beat my personal record of days without showering

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I beat my personal record of days without showering

this was almost me. i was sick and/or fighting a bug recently. showered this morning around 4am for the first time since last week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The virus is terrible and I wish it wasn’t here but I secretly enjoy staying home majority of the time and not going places or seeing people has been mostly fine for me.

Uff me too. And the missing of Thanksgiving will be the icing on the cake. So happy that I am not eating the hideous TG fare. I hate that meal. Hate, hate, hate!

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Anonymous wrote:The virus is terrible and I wish it wasn’t here but I secretly enjoy staying home majority of the time and not going places or seeing people has been mostly fine for me.

Same. I have no FOMO. People I know are getting together but I don't and I have elderly parents that live near me that I check in on, so I have an excuse.

Same here. I also realized that I was keeping up with friendships I don't care too much about. I am back to checking up on parents and siblings and some of my college friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love not having to fly with two young kids.

Hallelujah! Shout it from the rooftops. I especially love not flying with two young kids in December.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The screen time my kids are getting would make the most egregious of the 1970s benign-neglect moms disgusted.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:So I am still only showering about 4x a week.

Four times a week? I'm lucky if I shower four times a month!

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Anonymous wrote:Today is July 3. It is the first time I'm doing laundry since March.

How often do you wash your sheets?? How many pairs of underwear do you have?? Towels?? Socks??

Apparently I wash my sheets roughly every 3.5 months. In normal times, I wash my sheet more often, like once a month. I just folded and put away 9 pairs of underwear, but I don't wear any while i'm home, and basically leave my apartment like twice a month these days. To be fair I DO have a lot of pairs of socks (one entire dresser drawer is dedicated just to socks).

When you have to pay to do laundry during a time when a recession is looming, AND you have to share a washer./dryer during a pandemic it seems less risky to keep re-using your shower towel than to touch communal things.

I will not judge you. You are doing what works for you. I remember the days of relying on a laundromat.

We are a family of 4 and I end up doing a load of laundry every day, if not two. It helps me to not then deal with a mountain of laundry to wash and put away.

[Anonymous]

My teens are so happy at home mainly because they are able to sleep in. They are getting 3 more hours of sleep every day. I am so happy that I don't wake up in the mornings with a pounding heart because we have a long commute. My DH is happy, my kids are happy, I am happy.

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We are eating so much produce and fruits that it is not even funny! Mainly because DH goes out for grocery once a week and then he panics that we will run out of produce if there is a lockdown!

[Anonymous]

I’ve been listening to a Taylor Swift “The 1” on repeat for a week straight and seriously thinking about how I can weave the phrase “in my defense I have none” or “it would’ve be fun if you would’ve been the one” into a pathetic nostalgic message to my college boyfriend. Somehow this song has made me fall in love with him again (in a completely imagined delusional sense.... haha). I’m a 45 year old mother of teenagers who’s covid regressed.