what are your plans for when we STOMP COVID'S STANKASS INTO THE MFING DIRT

Gonna start a sock account on my favorite message board

Sorry: borad

omg, at the mechanic's a while ago there was this bernese puppy, the goodest goddamn puppy, who pranced up to me and sat so politely and hopefully with his tail all athump at my feet while i waited at the counter and i told him that he was the best and most beautiful puppy in the world but no, i couldn't give him his rightful pets because there's this pandemic and i didn't want to risk spreading germs around, and he flopped over to tempt me with his fluffy belly and not rubbing that belly was the hardest thing i've ever had to not do.

a day of reckoning will come, by god, when i find that puppy and give him the bellyrub of a lifetime.

New. York. City.

Black Cat Black Cat Black Cat

give mom a big ol' hug for the first time in ages

lukas otm.

all these birthdays to make up for, so much cake

Think I'll bake some bread

Miami too

ILX Roadtrip/MegaFAP anyone?

Sign me up

lol, megafap

but yes that is a capital idea!

Hanging with my folks and family in general next month is the first step as we’ve all got/are getting our shots. Also making it a belated 80th birthday celebration for my dad in combo with a less belated 50th for me, so hey.

Happy belated Ned 🐬🌊

I’d be down to meet up in Chicago

Think I'll bake some bread

Go fucking dancing

I also have a new niece to meet!!!

yeah I'm gonna have potentially 2 nephews to meet as well, actually kind of getting emotional about the fact that one of them may be walking by the time I actually see him

My plan is to be very happy that many fewer people are getting sick and dying unnecessarily and in a painful, awful way, but the perhaps sad truth is that I don't have any particular plans for myself and I don't expect my own life to change very much.

I mean, to be clear, I will go places and do things instead of not going places and not doing things, I have places to go and things to do, but what I've learned over the past year is that not going places and not doing things isn't as different from going places and doing things as I would have thought.

what we know as "life" is a mirage ~hot take~

Going back to Cedar Point

most looking forward to rolling around in the yard with my nieces and nephews, meeting my newest niece for the 1st time, and going to the movies and sitting in the front row

Electric word, life, it means forever and that's a mighty long time

go home to scotland without having to do the whole 2 week quarantining thing that i can't really afford to do

haven't seen my niece since she was a month old and she's now a year and a half old. literally the only thing about covid that has affected me substantially, so not too much to complain about, but shitty anyway

otm, my sister's kids are completely different people now. huge regret that my partner and I decided to just stay home christmas 2019

Haircut

Travel for pleasure.

Also hugging all my friends, seeing family, etc.

otm, my sister's kids are completely different people now. huge regret that my partner and I decided to just stay home christmas 2019

this is gonna pretty self-important but my kids were 5 and 3 when this started, now they're 6 and 4, and that's a huge chunk of their development that my family just missed. they've changed so much physically, mentally, and emotionally. I feel sad that they didn't get to see it happen.

totally. I mean I live in Montreal and they live in Chicago, so it's not like I'd see them more than a couple times a year max, but they were 3 and 5 last time, now 5 and 7. On the plus side, the 7-year-old is now verbally and socially adept enough to call me with no parental involvement, which has been fun (sadly, the 5-year-old absolutely refuses to video chat, so I feel like I don't really know him).

on a lighter note, I too am excited for a professional haircut

I'll be fully vaccinated plus the two weeks on April 12. All I've got in mind is eating a nice leisurely dinner outdoors at a restaurant again. I would love to pick up dudes again at bars, but the unvaccinated sleazo count in Miami-Dade County is exorbitant.

We'll have to reexamine our dating practices, no? "Show me your vac card before responding to my OKCupid message."

I briefly contemplated trying to pick up someone at the vaccination clinic, but none of the men were my type.

:)

I just want two weeks off. This past year has been some aggro-stressful B.S. in the bowels of the IT industry.

"Show me your vac card before responding to my OKCupid message."

Why would you care if you're vaccinated yourself?

For the same reason i dont want to be around people who havent been wearing masks in public

Why would you care if you're vaccinated yourself?

― groovemaaan

Hey, I already live in the shadow of HIV. One more anxiety is no big deal.

go look at art in museums

There are a lot of things I can't wait to do, but making concrete plans at this point feels too much like tempting fate for me.

i totally get that, jon. like i'm not booking plane tickets just yet, merely feeling of something like ☆anticipation☆ rather than dread for the first time in over a year. there's still fuck of a long way to go, for sure! but more people are getting jabbed every day (never enough, but always more) and soon... well, soon the mass shootings will start up again in earnest and it's back to numbly doomscrolling on the couch, hahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

maybe i'll go to the mineral show this fall, get me some opals. opals are nice.

might treat myself to a slab of meteorite, moldavite, something from outer space

one of those geodes the size of a bathtub

i did book plane tickets, two weeks after my second vaccination (which is happening april 8); visiting my vaccinated parents in new orleans

hopefully i didn't tempt fate too bad

Ha, no, no intention of disparaging anyone who has the shots or has them on the calendar! I'd say that is plenty of reason to make concrete plans. I was just saying without any timeline or shots on the radar, it's tough for me to get my hopes up.

Will say it's going to be a really hard summer watching from the sidelines.

lol i figured jon, i just am like also crossing my fingers that something silly doesn't happen between now and me getting my second vaccine

Best of luck!

bradical!!! all will be well, i order it so 🧞‍♂️

that's it, i am absolutely 100% going kayaking this summer. COME AT ME, FATE!

n.b. please do not actually come at me

No big plans for travel this summer, just the usual camping/hiking around the Pacific NW. We need to renew our passports this year and after that we'll think about next year. For me the biggest thing will be feeling more at my ease while doing otherwise normal things, like entering enclosed public spaces for a purpose less exacting than supplying the bare necessities of life. Including public toilets when I'm away from home!

ease, i remember ease, am really looking forward to being able to breathe in public again without envisioning a miasma of plague ghosts colonizing my juicy airsacks.

I traveled internationally for the first time (as an adult) in 2019 and I was really amped up about seeing other places in the world, which didn't end up happening. So I guess we'll re-plan that trip to Istanbul for 2022 or something like that!

Making my Capitolfest plans.

really really really want to go to the beach. feel the sand and the cold frothy waves on my feet, gentle breeze across my skin, ruffling my hair, smell the seagrass and water and sun, the cry of the gulls and sussuration of the sea.

cosine

all my local fam are now semi-vaxxed, one heckuva bbq in a few weeks i tell you hwat

Can't wait to get back into a stuffy rehearsal room with my band and rock the fuck out.

i am going to the (cold) beach exactly one week from now

For the people who are going to beaches - you're traveling, right?

i don’t live on the beach, if that’s the question

The Oregon coast is about a two hour drive from our house. We plan to go there next Tuesday, once it is established that our 2nd dose of Pfizer this Thursday doesn't lay us too low to enjoy ourselves. We figure a four day interval between the injection and the trip should suffice.

I’m just saying if you live by the beach, go to the beach! You’re not going to get COVID at the beach.

Yeah, I'm honestly a little confused about the connection between vaccinations and going to the beach. It really shouldn't be an issue either way unless it's jammed packed with people.

When the Ocean City (MD) boardwalk reopened, the news was full of images of crowds who had rushed back. I went for a few days at the end of the season; on the beach itself it wasn't hard to keep 6+ feet away from other people.

I just got a text confirming my second Pfizer shot on Saturday. LOL gluttony, but for me the pandemic will be over when I'm able to feed my face at a Chinese buffet.

Beaches were always safe tbh

If your beach looks like Coney Island in the 1950s, I'd steer clear. Of course, I'd give the same advice without a pandemic.

Beaches were always safe tbh

I dunno, that sounds like shark propaganda

i am a thousand miles and several hundred moneys away from any proper beach ;_;

but fuck that because I'M DOUBLE JABBED NOW, BITCHES, REN FEST IS ON

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you guys

the library's open!

i'm gonna go in

i'm gonna touch stuff

i am going to browse so hard

you never seen such browsing

might eat in a restaurant later, this is happening, it's all coming together

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