July 4, 2022 9:48 AM
COVID, part 2
I was feeling pretty good on Saturday. My fever went down, and I was able to get out for a couple of walks. When I got back to the room, I started working on more code for my mobile app, which went okay at first, but I was feeling worse over time and decided I needed some sleep.
Sleep was really rough. I was waking up every hour to pee, and my nose was getting more stuffed as the night went on. At around 5am, I texted Dan and asked him to go look for some medicine for me because I was feeling desperate. He found some Afrin nasal spray, and man, that stuff works fast. Apparently you're not supposed to use that for more than 3 days, or you might become dependent on it.
After waking up and having breakfast on Sunday, I decided to try to get back to the mobile app stuff. I was finally successful in being able to upload gifs, but in the process, I ended up breaking the functionality that made photos oriented correctly. Turns out that the old (deprecated) library I was using for creating a "Bitmap" object didn't auto-rotate images, but the new library I switched to was smarter. So I could delete a bunch of code.
After doing that, I wanted to see if I could replace more deprecated code, but I quickly started feeling worse again and then I concluded that I really should not be looking at code while I'm trying to recover from COVID.
I think I felt worse on Sunday than I did on Saturday because of the poor sleep I got. I tried to take a nap during the day, but I wasn't able to because of my nasal congestion. I ended up pacing in the room because it made my nose feel better.
At around 3pm, I figured there was no way I was getting a nap in, so I decided to take a walk outside. Even though it was way too hot and sunny, I finally felt like I was feeling a little better. It was really good to breathe in the fresh air and move my legs more.
I had an early dinner outside. My family was outside too, and my cousin and I sat at one corner of the pool to keep our distance. It was nice to be there and laugh and watch my uncle beat everyone at cornhole. I also took a walk with Dan once it got cooler, and my nose was feeling much better while I was walking.
Of course my nose decided to be stuffed again right before I went to bed (even though I took Sudafed earlier that day). I was able to sleep a little better though. I still woke up several times in the middle of the night, and then I started coughing a lot, so I took Mucinex for that.
I don't know, my symptoms seem to keep changing each day, but I guess that's just like other colds I've had in my life. I'm hoping today is better!
July 2, 2022 11:37 AM
COVID
Two days ago, I woke up with a sore throat. I took a COVID test, and it was negative. My cousin also took a test and she was positive.
Yesterday, I woke up feeling mostly the same, but a few hours into working, I started losing focus and feeling feverish. I took a COVID test and it was positive. I went upstairs to the guest bedroom and mostly took the rest of the work day off. Dan tested negative so he went to the room next door.
Do you feel bad?
I kinda feel bad in an emotional way
June 27, 2022 1:41 PM
I know this isn't my food blog, but
Last Wednesday, I made tacos for two of my friends, and on Friday I helped my other friend prepare some cheese fondue and hummus. I didn't take a single picture, but I wanted to make sure I saved the memory of it here.
It makes me happy when I get to cook for my friends. It makes me happier when I see them enjoying my food, and it makes me even happier when everyone lends a hand in cleaning up. It seems to be the socially acceptable thing to do, to not have your guest help you clean up afterwards, but I always, always, feel better if the dishes are done and the tables are wiped before moving on to the next part of the night.
I don't think I'd ever want to feel obligated to prepare meals for other people. I'd never want this to be my job, or to have family that I needed to cook for. But I like having a friend or two join me for my meals.
June 19, 2022 11:56 AM
Mammatus clouds
Last Thursday evening, after a few days that were much too hot, there was a brief storm (at least I think there was, because there were really dark clouds forming, but I was inside playing DDR for a few hours, so I missed it completely). After the storm, the sky turned into a warm yellow color and was filled with mammatus clouds, which was a really really cool sight to see.
But even cooler was watching all the people that got outside of their houses and cars just to take a look at these clouds. It was like Pokemon Go, except instead of capturing a virtual monster, everyone wanted to capture a photo of the sky.
June 11, 2022 3:32 PM
Adulting
I went into the office this past Thursday. I woke up half an hour earlier than I normally do, put on a dress, made myself coffee, packed my lunch, and walked to the bus stop. I was feeling like such an adult. And then right before I got to the actual stop, a bus flew right past me and I had to wait 15 more minutes until the next one showed up.
As I was sitting on the bus, I was thinking about what I should eat for breakfast because I almost always have breakfast (or else I get the shakes). I really didn't want a granola bar. How did I do this before? I've been eating breakfast regularly for many years, even when I was going to the office more.
...the eggs. Right. I would always microwave eggs for breakfast, but there's no way the admins are keeping the office stocked with eggs now.
So even though I'm trying to save more money and and even though I made my own coffee so I could skip my Starbucks run, I ended up going to Starbucks anyway for a breakfast sandwich. The person struggled to call out my name when my order was ready, so I looked at the label on the bag: "Kerstine". That's a new one.
By the time I got to the office, it was close to two hours since I woke up, and man, I used to do this commuting thing every work day and I know it didn't take this long before.
But, I got to the cafe and I saw my friend, and then two more of my friends showed up, and I remembered why I do this. In spite of the extra hours it takes, I want to keep going into the office, and I'm going to keep nudging my friends to join me.
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