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Shobhit and I both tested negative for covid this morning. To call this a relief would be an understatement—particularly in my case. I really went back and forth regarding my expectation of how this would go, and I had a terrible night's sleep last night as a result. Given that my test on Saturday was positive, and this was only three days later, I became very worried that I would still test positive today—and what it might mean for my plan to test again Thursday, and again Saturday, even though technically it wouldn't necessarily meant anything, beyond the test result today itself.
Still, I basically spent the entire evening dreading a positive test in the morning. I dreamt about it when I was asleep, I thought about it the many times I woke up. It was like a "dread" version of the excitement you felt as a kid waiting for Christmas morning. It was Dread Christmas.
But, then the test was negative. I have to set a timer for 15 minutes, and there was still no second line after 5 minutes. Considering how wildly different this experience has been from the first, I saw that and still just thought to myself:
That's making me hopeful—but, in a suspicious tone. The clock ran out, though, and still no second line on the test.
Shortly after Shobhit woke up, I mentioned it to him. Somewhat to my surprise, he suggested he take another test too—mostly because of his persistent cough. He actually tested negative on Saturday, remember. He also took his final dose of Paxlovid last night, and I do recall there have been some reports of people rebounding after finishing that medication. So, I set up the test for him too, and had a new bout of minor worry, though not nearly to the degree I had about my own test last night. And: Shobhit still tested negative. That's two negative tests for him, three days apart.
With this turn of events, Shobhit emailed our building management conpany to get our unit back on the schedule for the Building Repair (residing) Project. I still prefer that I be back at the office when they do this, it's going to be so disruptive in our unit.
I want to have two negative tests of my own, 48 hours apart, before I return to the office. So, I'm still going to work from home tomorrow—but, plan to go back to the office with all my stuff on Thursday. That's also the in-person POS meeting at the Burien store, which starts at 10:00 a.m. My plan is to test early that day and, assuming it's negative again, take all my stuff back to the office—and, hopefully, get a ride from someone to Burien. The Pricing, Promotions & Project Management ("P3") team also has a Happy Hour outing scheduled after the meeting in Burien that day, which I'd rather not miss.
Laney and I have plans on Satuday, and I will test again that day just for good measure. I'll be really glad to get back into the swing of things with both work and social lives.
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We spent all day at home yesterday though. We might have gone for a walk, but there was a Zoom Boarding meeting for The Braeburn that Shobhit wanted to be in. I sat in the living room while that was happening, working on selecting grid photos for the family calendars I'll make for Christmas this year.
Speaking of which, it did occur to me to wonder, how long will I keep making these calendars? I don't know that I want to keep making them forever. I know that everyone who gets them really appreciates them, and that makes it worth doing, but I don't know how much use the younger generation—my nieces and nephews—actually get out of them. And maybe more importantly, they are a
lot of work. I've been making them since Christmas 2006, the only year I skipped being 2011 when I made the tribute video to Grandma McQuilkin instead. That makes this year's calendar the 20th year since I started them, but the 19th calendar I have made. I thought about it, and right now I'm thinking: maybe I'll just keep making them as long as Dad and Sherri are alive.
That likely means a good number of years still to come, of course.
After the Board meeting was over, I decided to watch a movie. I had looked at my favorite movies from last year and which I'd like to see again that are also available on streaming. I found
Robot Dreams to be available on Hulu, so I decided to watch that.
Shobhit had never seen it, and although he eventually went back to Tetris on his phone, he locked in for a surprising lot of it. There's no dialogue though, so when he wasn't looking at the screen he would miss key plot points—and then, of course, ask questions. It's like I married my grandfather.
Anyway, we did discuss taking a walk, but I wanted to watch the movie, and Shobhit made delicious aloo (potato) parathas that we ate too much of with our otherwise-leftovers dinner of garbanzo beans and rice (Shobhit also had okra, yuck). We were neither of us up for a walk after eating all that and finishing the movie. I got a fair amount of calendar photo work done though, so it was actually a pretty productive evening for me. I often don't even start on this work until early November, so I'm feeling ahead of the game. One of the upsides of being mostly stuck at home for a week, I guess.
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[posted 12:31pm]
