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thenerdygirl) wrote2021-02-11 10:29 am
thenerdygirl) wrote2021-02-11 10:29 am
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Deja Vu
Last week I went back to work in the office full time and I found it refreshing to be back. A little more structure helped curb the focus issues I was having while working from home. However, one week later I'm now back to working from home again because there's been a large spike in Covid cases since Monday, February 8.
We had about a hundred or so in March 2020 but with effort and a good dose of luck, Newfoundland was able to keep our Covid case numbers pretty low from May and throughout the rest of 2020, like single-digit levels and a majority of those cases were travel-related. We enforced isolation rules early on in the pandemic and that really helped us but sadly in the last few months, people got complacent and were going out more than necessary and not keeping stricter bubbles, myself included. Combined this with the fact we more than likely had a couple of rule-breakers who didn't isolate has led to us being in the 100 plus range again.
It's a blow to the province and feels like we're back in March 2020 again. I think we'll get it under control again because masks are already mandated as opposed to how things were back in March, April, and May of 2020. Overall we're more prepared now than we were back then and so far it doesn't seem to be one of the new variants.
One of my friends in BC has been sounding a little passive-aggressive whenever we talk about the cases in Newfoundland, essentially being like "Well, we had 500+ new cases" and in my head, all I can think is 'Yes 500+ is a lot more cases but I'm still allowed to be upset/worried when there's a spike in cases in the area where I live. It's not a competition of who has worst'. I know she's just tired and stressed and we're all just tired & stressed so I let it go in our conversation and will completely let go after this mention but I just wanted to get my annoyance off my chest.
Anyway, enough of that. Going on to the positives:
+ I've been participating in an online mindfulness course since the last week of January and it's been really helpful. I've struggled with developing a meditation habit for what feels like forever. I know meditation helps, it clears my mind but still hasn't been as consistent as I would like with this practice. The mindfulness course has been helping me with a shorter, simplified practice that I find comes more naturally throughout my day.
+ I had a successful counselling session last Saturday. Previously I had hit a standstill with counselling the last few sessions, not knowing what I wanted to do next because it felt like I was struggling to come up with stuff to talk about. I took a long stretch between sessions and was able to do some work on my own to figure out what direction I wanted to go in next. Which was really helpful and came to the conclusion I wanted to do more EMDR sessions so we're going to start doing that again in March.
+ I have been doing better with getting up earlier now that I stopped relying solely on my phone alarm and started using my Dad's old alarm clock as my primary alarm. My phone facilitates my snooze button addiction but this alarm is trickier to hit snooze on and forces me to get up to stop the noise.
We had about a hundred or so in March 2020 but with effort and a good dose of luck, Newfoundland was able to keep our Covid case numbers pretty low from May and throughout the rest of 2020, like single-digit levels and a majority of those cases were travel-related. We enforced isolation rules early on in the pandemic and that really helped us but sadly in the last few months, people got complacent and were going out more than necessary and not keeping stricter bubbles, myself included. Combined this with the fact we more than likely had a couple of rule-breakers who didn't isolate has led to us being in the 100 plus range again.
It's a blow to the province and feels like we're back in March 2020 again. I think we'll get it under control again because masks are already mandated as opposed to how things were back in March, April, and May of 2020. Overall we're more prepared now than we were back then and so far it doesn't seem to be one of the new variants.
One of my friends in BC has been sounding a little passive-aggressive whenever we talk about the cases in Newfoundland, essentially being like "Well, we had 500+ new cases" and in my head, all I can think is 'Yes 500+ is a lot more cases but I'm still allowed to be upset/worried when there's a spike in cases in the area where I live. It's not a competition of who has worst'. I know she's just tired and stressed and we're all just tired & stressed so I let it go in our conversation and will completely let go after this mention but I just wanted to get my annoyance off my chest.
Anyway, enough of that. Going on to the positives:
+ I've been participating in an online mindfulness course since the last week of January and it's been really helpful. I've struggled with developing a meditation habit for what feels like forever. I know meditation helps, it clears my mind but still hasn't been as consistent as I would like with this practice. The mindfulness course has been helping me with a shorter, simplified practice that I find comes more naturally throughout my day.
+ I had a successful counselling session last Saturday. Previously I had hit a standstill with counselling the last few sessions, not knowing what I wanted to do next because it felt like I was struggling to come up with stuff to talk about. I took a long stretch between sessions and was able to do some work on my own to figure out what direction I wanted to go in next. Which was really helpful and came to the conclusion I wanted to do more EMDR sessions so we're going to start doing that again in March.
+ I have been doing better with getting up earlier now that I stopped relying solely on my phone alarm and started using my Dad's old alarm clock as my primary alarm. My phone facilitates my snooze button addiction but this alarm is trickier to hit snooze on and forces me to get up to stop the noise.