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Feb. 15th, 2021 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wychwoodI have had my first jab!! On Saturday (I went OUTSIDE and caught a BUS and also while I was there popped into the SUPERMARKET next door to the health centre, INSIDE ACTUAL BUILDINGS WHICH ARE NOT MY HOUSE). It was -4 and we all had to queue in the car park for a while, but I wore a million layers and it was fine.
I felt fine all the rest of the day, too, although I was definitely a bit, hm, rundown on Sunday, felt like I was coming down with something (although it was also a particularly miserable day, we were all rather flat on the family Skype call, and I actually turned the central heating on for the first time in three years because it was down to 11.4C in my bedroom and that is TOO COLD). But then today I felt pretty normal, so if those were side effects then I got off pretty lightly. I should get notification in about 12 weeks to book my second appointment, so until then I guess I just sit here gently encouraging my immune system to pay attention.
That was, of course, the only thing of actual interest to happen to me in weeks, but that's OK. I finished both my book group books (meetings are this week) and a couple of my birthday books, which were marvellous (booklog to come!). I have also unpacked my Brexit stockpile box and am slowly incorporating the contents into my cupboards rather than buying replacements, since actually grocery stock levels don't seem to have been too badly hit so far - I bought almost no vegetables in this fortnight's shop, and am hoping to free up some space by eating the assorted tinned and frozen stock I bought for the original Brexit date. Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, so I'm going to use up the red cabbage and apple frozen mix and make pancakes filled with the mix and topped with cheese, which is something we used to make at University. Hopefully it will be as good as I remember!
I felt fine all the rest of the day, too, although I was definitely a bit, hm, rundown on Sunday, felt like I was coming down with something (although it was also a particularly miserable day, we were all rather flat on the family Skype call, and I actually turned the central heating on for the first time in three years because it was down to 11.4C in my bedroom and that is TOO COLD). But then today I felt pretty normal, so if those were side effects then I got off pretty lightly. I should get notification in about 12 weeks to book my second appointment, so until then I guess I just sit here gently encouraging my immune system to pay attention.
That was, of course, the only thing of actual interest to happen to me in weeks, but that's OK. I finished both my book group books (meetings are this week) and a couple of my birthday books, which were marvellous (booklog to come!). I have also unpacked my Brexit stockpile box and am slowly incorporating the contents into my cupboards rather than buying replacements, since actually grocery stock levels don't seem to have been too badly hit so far - I bought almost no vegetables in this fortnight's shop, and am hoping to free up some space by eating the assorted tinned and frozen stock I bought for the original Brexit date. Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, so I'm going to use up the red cabbage and apple frozen mix and make pancakes filled with the mix and topped with cheese, which is something we used to make at University. Hopefully it will be as good as I remember!
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Date: 2021-02-15 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-02-15 07:58 pm (UTC)INSIDE ACTUAL BUILDINGS WHICH ARE NOT MY HOUSE
IT'S WILD, RIGHT??? I went on BUSES and into a BUILDING for the vaccine trials, and it was a thrilling adventure.
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Date: 2021-02-15 08:09 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's so weird - that's literally the first time I'd been on a bus since, uh, 5 March 2020. I took a train in August 2020, that's my only other transport experience in the last eleven months. I didn't feel safe enough to really enjoy it, though... I had to ask the lady closest to me to actually put her mask over her nose, and she wasn't very nice about it (although she did comply).
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Date: 2021-02-15 08:13 pm (UTC)Early March for me too. Had one heavily-masked car journey since then and that's it.
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Date: 2021-02-15 10:48 pm (UTC)Hurrah for being halfway vaccinated!
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Date: 2021-02-16 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-16 12:27 am (UTC)Just in these last two weeks, I've started having substantive amounts of people in my social circle / extended family / workplace get their first shot. There were a few before that, but now it's more like popcorn in an old-fashioned popper. You get one pop, then another, and then all of a sudden it's pop-pop-pop all around. It's very exciting.
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