Covid-19 Diary Part 2

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Wednesday seems always start out slow for me.  When I first woke up, I feel it's Thursday,   Last week time flew by this week it's moving at a snail's pace for me.  I don't know about others.  Today I watched the Motivational Doc on youtube.  He had some good suggestions to ease anxiety.  I feel what little sleep I'm getting it's not good sleep.  I just want to make up and it be May and everything is getting back to normal whatever that is.  I feel this virus may be something we're fighting for a long time.  The main thing is the scientists find a good treatment plan and vaccine that will ease the symptoms if for some reason we come down with a case.

I'm telling myself to stay off twitter now as it's becoming worse than Facebook at this point.  So IG is somewhere I can go not feel like I'm going to see someone downing our government or saying they don't care if a boomer dies or not.  How sad that some people feel this way.

I have now turned on my Sirius radio and am listening to hits from the 2000s.  Hopefully this music will get me through the day.  Dave didn't have to work today so he's at home which is probably for the best.  I'm trying to be positive about his job but I don't know something tells me it's not what we had hoped it was.  No job is perfect.  Yes it's better than what he had but at this time, I can't see this being a permanent job for very long.  I hope I'm really wrong on this and it turns out wonderful.

To be continued:

Friday, March 27, 2020

So I took a week off from writing since it was pretty much Groundhog Day for me.  Get up, get ready for work, come home, get ready for bed. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat.

Dave will finally have a weekend off but there won't be much for us to do since we're supposed to hunker down and stay in place.  I guess a trip to Walmart or Walgreens will be our date.  There are still no cases in my county so in a way I feel cut off from everything.  Here at work, they're taking temps everyday and only one day, mine was 98.8 and of course, that scared me.  My temp rarely goes over 98 unless I'm in a fibro flare or upper respiratory infection.  I'm using my inhaler every day.  Normally I use it 3 times week.  I'm taking Monolaurin 500 mg. twice a day but no Elderberry at this time.  I'm not wearing a mask out.  I have one but the one I have they tell me won't help much.  According to our Health Department, we would need to be around someone with the virus more than 10 minutes and they would have to cough or sneeze in that time or touch us.  So far no one has coughed or sneezed within 6 feet of me and I'm rarely letting anyone near me except Dave.  They do have one care in Surry County where Dave works now so that's a little scary but Surry County has 2 different cities that have a population so I'm hoping he's been no where near the virus.  If my county, makes it through without any cases, I will be amazed.

So I'm going to try to film my blush video this weekend and the Colourpop Mauve video.  My views are horrible.  I don't think youtube is notifying anyone of my videos except for people to have videos turned to all.  I can't stress this enough, if you have a favorite youtuber, turn your notifications on to all.  It really helps us out.  I know I will never become a big youtuber nor do I want to be, but I do have goals.  My goals was always 50 subs a month and 150 views a video for the first 2 years.  I'm lucky now if I get 5 subs a month and 75 views a video.  Anyway, youtube is so fickled.  IG I seem to have stop growing too which is fine.  I'm happy with only getting occasional PR.  Companies want you to do all this work for nothing.  No longer will I do sponsorships for less $25 a video.  My time is worth that.  I know most people think we get100s or 1000s for a sponsorship.  No that's the not the way it works that I've seen.  Most brands now want to offer you a discount code and you must do a video within a certain time to even get the discount code which is not an affiliate code.   Sorry but I'm not promoting a product if I know nothing about it for a discount code.  I'll just buy my own stuff with no strings attached. 

Weekend - March 28-29, 2020

It was nice weekend weather wise, awesome temps.  It made me think the lord is sending us warmer weather earlier to hopefully knock out the worst case scenario of this virus.  That is if it's true it dies down during the hot humid months.  People though have got to stop being in large crowds and stop trying to act like this is brought on by socialism.  This is not socialism.  A quarantine is for your own good at this time. 

I filmed a video of the Colourpop Mauve Collection.  I gave an honest review.  The palette is nice but it's not Urban Decay quality.  I know some don't like Urban Decay shadows but they're still one of my favorite brands for eye shadow.  For $14 yes I recommend but don't be expecting a big payoff with color.  It's just not there. 

Monday, March 30, 2020

We now have one case of Covid-19 in the county.  It's a younger person and that doesn't surprise me.  I have no idea how they caught it.  People stay home unless you have to work and even then make sure your not getting into crowds of any kind.  If a person gets close, step back.  Tell them I'm not risking my life to be close to you.  I'm not even getting close to Dave much now.  We can't risk it.  It's not worth it.