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How are things going where you live, Omona? I hope everyone is safe & well.

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[aures.livejournal.com]

hi omona,

how are you guys? how was your week?
take good care of yourself everyone ♥

what have you guys been up to for those staying home (more) now?

what are your plans for the weekend?

i don't really have any plans, but i'm looking into some new at home hobbies. i don't want to make hasty decisions but i already enjoy just looking into things and learning about them even if i end up not doing them.
it's also my dad's birthday next week and i may try baking a (dutch) apple pie (appeltaart) for him but i'm not sure yet if i'm able to yet because migraines. we do have some other presents but i love making something myself when it's someone's birthday (like making my own birthday card, or some kind of origami thing or something to eat). i love making it a little more personal.

otherwise my poor dad is struggling a lot with his work, i told you guys he started staying home because he wasn't feeling well (coughing etc.) and he works in public transportation + with his asthma it's not a good idea but now his team leader/manager person (boss-type?) just keeps calling him and calling him and demanding he comes back to work despite him still not feeling well? that and the government keeps telling us to stay home if you are feeling unwell or are the high risk group, yet she keeps pushing him and it's so sad. he's been so stressed out about it because he wants to do the best for both his own health and ours. he's really upset about it and it makes me so sad so i just try to support and comfort him as much as i can but when it comes down to it there's not much i can do
it's so frustrating because my dad is always so serious about his work.

have a good weekend everybody, once again: take good care or yourself ♥

[imahurricane.livejournal.com]

hi, sorry to hear about your dad :( is there any way that you could talk and persuade your dad's boss? hopefully she will soften when she hears his condition first hand from his relative.

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your dad. I hope he feels better soon.

Its still lockdown in our country so no plans. I am still very thankful for VIU, Netflix and YouTube for keeping me sane. I like staying at home so its not an issue for me. But I'm actually the one in oir family with quarantine pass so I go out twice a week to do groceries. Last time, I was in line for more than an hour since they are trying to control the number of people inside the grocery. I don't mind really. I'd like to think I am generally a patient person...I don't mind all the waiting, falling in line since I know its for the better.

[imahurricane.livejournal.com]

i'm an introvert and i normally enjoy staying home but the past few days i'm so bored of doing the same things days after days. i long for walks, hanging out in a cafe, seeing my friends, being on a trip :(

my friend in a group chat started causing panic last night. she said that we need to be prepared cause there's something big about to happen in where i live. she said that it's classified and she's scared of relaying the news to us. i missed the convo when it happened so when i came back on the group chat, she already deleted the message. i have a hunch that it's about a coup overthrowing the government but it's mostly assumption and hearsay so i don't believe it (pray to god that it's never gonna happen). unfortunately not everyone in the group chat thinks like me, they start whatever shit other ppl say without checking the source first. i deleted everything on the group chat cause i don't wanna add another stress and panic into my life.

[apori.livejournal.com]

I'm the same as you, introvert and can stay home weekend after weekend not doing much without a second thought and rarely bored when alone, but I think I'm bored now. Working at home is almost the same as just sitting at home, I'm so unmotivated. I miss going to coffeeshops too, and eating out even though I rarely do, but at least like once a month or something.

You did the right thing re: the group chat. Worrying yourself even more than with everything that's going on is probably unhealthy. We can only deal with what's actually happening, not every worst case scenario on top.

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

Hello Omona! Just dropping by to say please be safe always. If you can stay at home, please just stay at home. Don't forget to always disinfect.

Btw, what do you use for disinfecting? Any routines you follow now for cleaning?

[apori.livejournal.com]

Same to you! Hope you and the family are safe and healthy at home.

I try to wash everything. I've only done one grocery trip since lockdown started, but when I got back I either wiped down everything or threw out the packaging while still outside and then put the cleaned items inside. I use water and dish soap (regular) for this. For hands I just use normal hand soap. The problem has been cleaning phones, I saw that you can use damp cloth and soap for that too, but I feel like I didn't get all the soap off a few times :X

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

Last week I shared a 'Fiesta' stage mix that was the first I found so j wanted to make sure I shared this far superior one this week since I'm STILL obsessed -

[aures.livejournal.com]

oef added to my watch later list, thanks for sharing!

i love a good stage mix

[apori.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone. How are you doing? Hope everyone and their loved ones are safe and healthy. Wishing everyone a safe and nice weekend!

I'm working as I type this, but I haven't been able to concentrate in several days. Too much stuff happening, too much bad news, and the work/life balance is completely destroyed. Weekend and evening after work day finishes is nothing special, just sitting around in the same spot I spent all day working (or "working"). I'm not easily bored but I think I'm bored.


I tried to make w WINNER post, but not sure if it's adequate, sorry mods!

WINNER's new song and mv is great (their first rewatchable mv for me since 2016) and yesterday when it came out I was peeved they wouldn't get to do concerts with this, just because it's a fun song and I know it would be fun and its' their last group cb before enlistment, I'm not mad at stuff being cancelled over covid, and that's affecting everyone. HOWEVER

Today.... when I found out Jinwoo is enlisting in LESS THAN A WEEK, I was gutted. FUCKING GUTTED. This means he won't even be there for the album's release!!!! WTF. I have no words to adequately describe this. It's nothing new, it's kpop it sucks, it's YG it's a affront to humanity. But still. I'm also a bit worried about him. He's enlisting as a service worker, which means the enlistment is longer but also he will get to see friends and family and I think go home? So it's better for him.

I expect a quick SH enlistment too. It is what it is. Mino akgaes will rejoice. It will be gross.

Seeing my bb Suhyun with the boys in the mv has me emotional lol.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

oh wow I dind't expect the enlistment, was it announced? it feels so out of the blue?

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

So we're on week two of the lackdown and I might be going a little bit crazy
I'm not a socialite by any mean but I do enjoy going out for a walk with BB-beni and right now both the lockdown and the weather are making that impossible.
I know I shouldn't be complaining because I am with my partner and my little one but this is actually pretty hard.
I'm trying to stay busy, work, clean the house, take care of the little one even doing some exercice (thank you Chloe Ting) but I'm suffocating (kinda)
Idk... we're in for at least 4 more weeks so... yeah

[aures.livejournal.com]

i don't really have much to say to make you feel better about the whole situation because lbr, it's just is what it is :(
i do hope you are able to enjoy the changes in the season, a lot has started to bloom here: very beautiful! i hope you can enjoy it even just for a little bit
big hugs <33
if you need anything (like idk food, meds or other supplies for bb beni) and you can't get it anymore there don't hesitate to contact me and i'll see what i can do okay? <3

[a-suitcase.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone. I hope you're all okay!!

It's the second week of working from home for me, and I'm still struggling. My work is being super good (I'm a university librarian) and so the main "job" I have right now is to read books for professional development etc, but I'm SO BORED and I miss my friends and colleagues. Plus, my wife is a rabbi and also working from home and her job is SO depressing right now because it's all just death and funerals and that's putting a damper on things for sure. Plus, one of her colleagues who we both really love it currently in hospital with COVID and he's in his 70s and has heart problems so we're fucking terrified he's not gonna make it :(.

[apori.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry :(
Hugs.

[yejun.livejournal.com]

Since all the events I'm responsible for at work got cancelled, I'm now in charge of translating news from Sweden into Japanese... which means all I'm doing at work is looking at Covid updates... so that's been... great fun. I guess I'm glad they're finding stuff for me to do. Some people are not that lucky, unfortunately. (Also my sister's stuck in the Philippines (El Nido) and can't get back to Sweden, so that's stress-inducing too)

Hokkaido's only seen between 1-5 new cases a day so I'm praying it stays that way but with how Tokyo's exploding right now I don't doubt our numbers will go up soon. At least the Olympics are postponed so we can expect to get more accurate numbers soon.

The Jpn baseball team I'm rooting for just announced 3 players have gotten Covid too.. so I guess this season ain't happening (the start of the season's been postponed to april 24th for now but.. yeah). Obv life goes on but baseball watching kills 3h/day so I was looking forward to that lol

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

Yesterday and the day before that I had a sore-ish throat (I noticed it when I woke up but it'd go away once I drank something). Pollen season is starting and it hasn't rained in a while so I can see all the road dust getting tossed around by the wind. Also, even though I've vacuumed my apartment multiple times this past week it's still somehow dusty, so this morning when I woke up I decided to wash the floors. I'm still not taking any chances though and I'm not gonna go outside for a while. I have a massive pile of laundry that I can't do anything about because I'd have to go to the laundry room in the basement, and that's not happening.

Since there's no work (and because I don't know if I have a flu or allergies) I've been watching Netflix (finally got into Kingdom, it was really good) and youtube, I started a 1000 piece puzzle that I bought years ago but never started and I have a crochet project I'm brainstorming, hopefully I'll get that started eventually. I also have a bunch of books that I should probably try to read and different animes that I need to finish/catch up on so at the very least I won't run out of things to do.

[yakuniku-8.livejournal.com]

Hi Omona! I saw a documentary the other day and it made me think about all the comments like "Does South Korea knows about condoms ?" On every shotgun wedding posts. The title was "A world without women" and it explained how birth control resulted in a inequal gender ratio in different countries. In the 60's the idea that there were too many people on earth was popular and rich countries asked less developped countries to control birth in exchange of international help. They didn't get food or medication if they didn't proove they were acting in that area. It was mostly private fondations like Ford and Rockfeller which were involved.
And in South Korea they asked young women to go to rural areas to explain men how to use condoms! They said they could get abortions very easilsy. They were shown videos telling them that developped countries developped because they had less children.
I learnt a lot of things about other countries but the interesting fact with South Korea is that they compared the situation with nowadays. Two women made a thesis about it and they said that at school they learnt that the fœtus was cut in parts and suffer during abortion. Also nowadays the law is very strict because the governments want more births. So I don't know about sex education...

[aures.livejournal.com]

oh that's so interesting! where did you watch that documentary? i want to watch it, too, because i've also always wondered about it and i'm willing to learn more about the subject
i've been meaning to look into it, but there's always so much to do that i haven't gotten around to it yet, so this would be perfect thanks for the recommendation

[lostintheechoes.livejournal.com]

hello omona,

tuesday i started working from home. it was very wierd to start, but i'm getting the hang of it. i even sleep in a bit, since i don't have a commute. haven't done my hair or makeup all week. it feels great! lol. the safe at home order was put in place on wednedsday for our state. i've started to play my ps4 more. may start playing the wii more too in this time of home isolation.

i've cut back on my social media and news watching due to what is all going on. it's making me depressed and still anxious. everything about this virus is scary. we don't even know what tomorrow will bring.

last night they finally postponed the BTS tour. that's a bit of relief off my shoulders.yeah i'm bummed, but it's for the best. we all need to keep healthy and safe. #wearetogetherbulletproof

[daynr.livejournal.com]

So how are we all managing exercise at home? How to convince myself i should add pilates, yoga, or barre when I'm already locked into my room working 9+ hours a day? (My room has my desk, bed, and yoga mat set up. I can't with doing it in common spaces in front of my family, ugh.) hmmm.

I'm lucky because I'm squatting in the 'burbs, so I did go into the backyard yesterday to do a quick fully body circuit. I can go for walks (without getting close to people.) It's not enough, but it's something, but it's about to get hot where I am. HOT.

[daynr.livejournal.com]

Also, like, I looked forward to this group chat all week, but realistically .... I have nothing to say. We're all curtailing our activities and somehow I'm working loads, so I can't even enjoy learning about NCT (Johnny v. Ten or the Korean members. and this WayV, do I want to flex my mandarin again?), or catching up on Got7, or watching the 13 drama shows starring hot pieces of a--.

I can tell you all that I'm sleeping loads. Riveting, eh?

Oh, and that after renouncing avocados for years, I finally had a good one on toast for breakfast. (I grew up with an avocado tree, but suffering through poor versions commercially available killed my love.)

I have been watching the shorts on global playlist, I got suckered by the promise of a show with a one-night stand. HA. Fooled me. It's been straight G rated every since the nookie was implied.

[adlyeith.livejournal.com]

My state signed a shelter in place order this week, so pretty much everywhere is shut down. I got my exemption letter at work in case I get pulled over to prove I'm employed by a company that's deemed 'essential' right now. I think that meeting at work, going over everything and what it means for us, kind of really was that final nail of realizing how surreal everything is right now. I never in a million years thought I'd be living through something like this.

My brother, sister in law, and I combined was what it took for my mom (a retired nurse) to take what's happening seriously. At work, I have to have truck drivers sanitize their hands before they can touch our paperwork. A friend that works at a hospital received instructions on how to sew her own medical mask because supplies are so low. My coworker's wife is an ER nurse and last night he quietly told me about how worried he is about her.

As for what I'm doing, I've had to make exactly zero lifestyle changes to compensate for a lockdown. I pretty much work, sleep (my long work weeks I work 60 hour weeks), play video games, or read books. When I get super bored, I sleep. It has been a deeply unproductive week so far.

My company that I work for rolled out a whole suite of extended benefits during all this, like 10 paid for counseling sessions, so I think I'm going to take advantage of that.

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

My brother is making me watch "Contagion". Its 2011 movie with Matt Damon, Jude Law, Katw Winslet, Gwyneth and a lot more. He said there's so much similarity with the current pandemic. I'm honestly scared to watch because its making me feel sad.

Have you seen this movie Omona?

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

i watched it a couple of weeks ago when everything here didn't feel "real" yet. i would not recommend you to watch it with things as they are right now; it would probably be stressful and depressing.

[blck-ink.livejournal.com]

i feel bad for complaining when there are healtcare workers literally risking their life but OMG work has been killing me these pas two weeks. our department has been losing members for the past months so now we have to take over so many people's work plus this whole crisis has given us even more work. and the worst part is that the other deparments have been chilling for the past two weeks while our small team have been working overtime to keep our compant alive. ugh. i just hope i survive this while thing mentally cause i can already feel myself losing it...

a positive though is that now i can actually listen to some more music at home and i just discovered yook sungjae's come with the wind. i'm curious to see what else i've been missing out on.

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[frequency.livejournal.com]

people are flying in to florida from new york, new jersey, and connecticut. why? cause apparently some of those residents don't like being told to stay at home! and our stupid governor is completely okay with it; i guess cause it means ~money~ for the state. those people are specifically being given stay-at-home orders and can face up to 60 days in jail or a $500 fine. supposedly the dept. of health is "tracking" the people coming in from those states, but i don't see how they could possibly monitor them all.

as far as the actual state goes, there's no official stay-at-home order for permanent residents. it's being left up to each county/city. orange county (orlando) has a stay-at-home order in place until at least april 9th, though i believe that'll be extended.

my neighbors across the street (from canada, of all places) are having a party tonight. a party! they keep coming into the yard while my dad's trying to paint and they don't listen when you tell them to stay back. unfortunately, we can't even report them cause our county has no stay-at-home order in place.

on a lighter note, i took advantage of my prime membership and downloaded the last season of "mr. robot", 3 seasons of "the marvelous mrs. maisel", and finally got "parasite" to download. i should get around to watching at least one of those things this weekend.

i've been enjoying ACNH for the last week! as for today, i'll probably work on some art and catch up on some albums. gotta hear that new dua lipa record!

take care, y'all. ♥

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

oh no, i'm just reading about florida now - desantis' lack of action should be criminal.

[croox-shielle.livejournal.com]

Hello, I hope everyone is safe and healthy.

I was so happy and relieved when I learnt that cats can't get sick because of the virus. My sister and I have two cats with leukemia (a dad and his son), so we were really worried for them.


And to talk about not covid19 related things:

I'm glad my teenager self decided not to wear makeup to hide my acne. (I mean, I've never wore it much, even now, besides lipstick, but even so). My acne wasn't severe, but it was enough for me to cry a couple of times while seeing my face in the mirror and not wanting to go out because of it, and for strangers to approach me with their unsolicited advice on how to get rid of it... family members too, uugh.

Ik makeup wouldn't necessarily have had to made it worse, but I also have sensitive skin and not enough money to buy higher qualitiy makeup, so it's better that I didn't get used to wear it to hide my acne. It was hard, but I learnt that not having flawless skin, or even clear skin, isn't so terrible. I don't like having acne and acne scars, and when I have breakouts it still kinda impacts negatively on my self-esteem, but damn I'm not gonna stay in my house hiding bacause of it and I won't let people make me feel bad because of it*

Also, not gonna buy a ton of skincare products. Just gonna try to use properly the ones I have, and maybe buy another one.

* I'm well aware I can say that because my acne it's gotten better the last couple of years. Also, I'm not shaming anyone who wears makeup to conceal their acne. I know it's tough, I'm just sharing my experience.

[croox-shielle.livejournal.com]

Also, the stress I had the last 2 weeks of college it's finally subsiding, I don't wake up with an incresed heartbeat anymore.

I'm a bit worried that not being able to go outside it's gonna make my anxiety flare up, tho :/ I really dislike not being able to go for a walk and having to stay at home all day. I'd like to at least have a nice garden/yard to go out to. Small complainments amidst everything that's going on.

I'm thankful my parents don't live in the same place as I do, cause it's the biggest city in the country and obviously the one with more cases. Instead, they live in a small city and in a kind of secluded neighbourhood with a good-sized yard around.

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

one of my friends is going to start work in an assessment clinic next week... it keeps getting more and more real!! of course plenty of people i have worked with will be doing it also but this is my first FRIEND.

[binderwritings.livejournal.com]

One of the couple's on my dad's route (he's a delivery driver) gave him some gloves and masks and I'm just so thankful to them. I think that my dad just being in his fifties puts him at a greater risk but he's been really lax about this and it's driving me up the wall. We're seeing people in their 20s and 30s that seemed healthy get really ill and no one can say what might also be triggering this because of HIPPA reasons (which I completely understand) but I'm stuck in a constant state of worry, it helps that my dad is pretty healthy. Anyway, my dad's not the most friendly and he looks super intimidating so I'm always a little impressed with how he tends to charm people.

I was supposed to "have" new job by the end of this month, it was my goal but with everything that's happening, job-hunting has been called off. My job is good, it's closed but we're still getting paid and there's been no talks of layoffs yet. It just really affects my mental health in a way no other job has which is so odd because all things considered it's one of the best on paper.

On a more positive note, Killing Eve is coming back earlier and Villanelle seems even more hilarious. My favorite psychopath assassin 😍

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

I am SO BORED. I'm even bored of Kdramas. Where was the Itaewon Class finale post btw?! Yall should watch, its the best drama I've seen in awhile. I liked it better than CLOY and WTCB even.

Week 2 of our lockdown.. trying to stay in shape but it's hard, I sit all day working. My boss is losing his mind and is a total asshole, agh. He blamed me for some shit on Tuesday and blasted it in Slack... i wanted to quit but this isn't the time to quit a job, lol. I regret going into finance because at my level, I'm always going to be working under a narcissistic asshole. Rich people suck. There's no way around it.

I left SF so I could stay with my mom but I feel so trapped in the suburbs. You can't walk anywhere. But at least there are trees here. What are y'all doing to stay sane and pass time? I need recs. Going to watch tiger king this weekend

[daynr.livejournal.com]

I charged my kindle this afternoon and decided that this is the time for reading, even though all I do for my job is read.

What is the plot of Itaewan? I haven't been able to get past his haircut yet, though I appreciate that he doesn't seem to mind that directors always want him to take off his clothes.

[cosmicdaze.livejournal.com]

i start working again on monday and i have TWO jobs, one of which that could definitely be classified as essential, so i'm panicking about getting sick or being a carrier but...my credit card debt isn't going away. 🥴 at least i got a deferment on my student loans for two months so that will help a lot. i'm still waiting for my state to order a shelter in place, especially considering that we have over 500 cases now.

everything is terrifying and overwhelming these days and my anxiety has been through the roof. it feels like my meds aren't even helping me at all anymore. but at least i have suho's debut to look forward to.

[neongoldtooth.livejournal.com]

i feel you. my anxiety has gone up so damn bad. and its crazy because it wasn't this bad last week when i was working but seeing everything on tv and then my job closing has pushed it hard. Stay safe!!

happy drama recs?

[neongoldtooth.livejournal.com]

korean/chinese/japanese etc...

I have been in such a bummy mood lately.