January days

[serafaery]

It's a bit of a struggle just to be conscious, right now.

It would be the perfect, perfect day to clean the apartment, but Josh is very sick. So he is here. All day. I can't clean when he is underfoot.

He hasn't tested for covid and I don't want to ask him to, he just had covid over thanksgiving. But there are strains that make their living by reinfecting - the xbb1.5 strain is a recombinant, meaning in formed in carriers who had two strains of Omicron at the same time. That's like having two colds at once. Generally, this doesn't happen, because your body is already primed to be fighting viruses and reducing viral count so any further exposure isn't a threat. This shouldn't happen, but it does, with this virus.

Poor thing. He probably just has a cold?

I'm testing negative. I felt I had to test myself for work, even though I have no symptoms.

As long as I have a negative test I feel okay working. Even if my hubs is coughing and sneezing.

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I ate over two thousand calories yesterday. I feel weirdly okay about it, today. I think I just needed a day, you know?

had a good morning workout today and did all of my PT already except for the sitting stretch, I'll do that shortly. Foot feels meh. I still hate that I can't run but I'm excited that Hanne is joining me at the lookout tower on Monday, so I'm focused on cleaning as much as I can and prepping for that.

And maybe dancing tonight.

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There was someone I realized in the middle of the night last night who needs to be watching Gudetama, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was. That I was like, OMG you have to watch this. Ohyeah Gregory maybe.

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I'm a bit high on coffee and walking around in the rain. It feels temporary but really good.

I bought a latte and immediately dumped the entire thing. They refused to charge me for another so I tipped them the cost of the second drink. Let's sit with the comfort of how spilling a latte is no longer a horrible hardship - I can afford to replace it. I am so grateful to be here.

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I've been wracking my brain trying to remember the name of this song for three days. I had the word "super" but couldn't finish it, until finally coming home from the soggiest farmers market visit. YAY I love this song so much, so glad I found it.

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I don't believe in fate
Nor psychic vision
But when things fall into place, superposition
In any universe you are my dark star
I want you to want me
Why don't we rely on chemistry?
Why don't we collide the spaces that divide us?
I want you to want me

Comments

[arethinn]

Omicron is apparently really good at reinfecting people even if they already recently had it. :-/

[serafaery]

Yep that's how the XBB1.5 variant formed, from folks who got sick with two forms of Omicron simultaneously. (Which is pretty rare for most viral infections to be able to do). It's a recombinant and it's wildly infectious.

I finally came down with Josh's cold and am still testing negative for covid, so I don't think it's that, but I do think that if I continue to go outside and interact with people without a mask, I will definitely catch XBB1.5 - there's just no escaping it. It's been too long since my booster to be able to fight it off and I don't qualify for another until March. Sigh.

[arethinn]

I had the bivalent one in September, but the data on that seems to be that it's not very effective against preventing transmission, although it still does a decent job of reducing severity of the disease. And of course any vaccine is even less effective when only small numbers of people get it, which seems to be the case everywhere. Uptake was comparatively high where I am, but it's still only something like 30% of those eligible (in contrast to the numbers near 80% we achieved in some places for the first two-shot course).

We (husband and I) are still pretty strictly limiting our exposure to others without masks. When we shop, we're masked, even at the outdoor farmer's market. We do occasionally go to restaurants, but usually sit outside, and we're extremely picky about crowd levels inside. We went to one holiday party, but showed up right at the start and left after about an hour when there were too many people in the house for comfort. We have an occasional game night with another couple who are a known quantity as far as COVID. And... that's about it. I'm still running the online version of our local fae/elf/mythic-folks meetup, and I know some people would like to get back to it being in person, but... it's just too many unknowns for me to feel safe doing so, especially since we live with my parents who are both about 80 and neither of whom got vaccinated past the first two shots. :-/