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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Feeling a bit deflated! The holiday is coming, and I’m woefully unprepared. I actually am not planning on doing anything...just another day as in the past it was always a table full of family and friends. My husband considers Christmas a commercial holiday and so planning pizza for two is not real festive. Yet the kindness of new found friends, and old ones popping up may stir some Christmas cheer after all. For most of 40 years I’d head back home and we’d bake hundreds of cookies to share with all those that stopped by. Taking trips to the garage to refill the plate (Wisconsin is good for cold storage) was not a chore but an honor, and a creative challenge. That memory flooded in on one of my few trips to the store and I found myself buying sugar, flour and butter. Let the merriment begin! I’m ready for eggnog spice balls! 12/15 entry
January 2, 2021
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Talk about how the events of recent months have affected your financial situation.
My finances have completely been messed up snd I feel my profession has been really hurt. I am not sure I will be able to pay my fees and remain a massage therapist and not sure I want to either with wearing masks and having this hang over us so long. I feel I fell in the cracks and if it were not fir my husbands job our family would have been severely affected. I have had a trickle if clients and that has helped somewhat as well as some money from the government. I am confused if I still can get any. I do not have sick days or ei. Its a tough one
April 23, 2021