Thursday, March 19

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

I did choose to go to town today, to get more cat food mostly. Jones has special food that comes from the vet, and I had enough for about a week, but I wondered if the vet might be closed by then. A lot of places are closed now, and there's even some talk of places that sell animal feed and such being forced to do something like meeting you outside. The vet clinic is already not doing anything but emergency surgery. I am also concerned about supply. The vet clinic might be willing to meet you in the parking lot with the food, but what if there's delays in supplies? So, I got enough for about a month.

I did get some movies, mainly because I want to support that business. I'm sure they'll have to close soon too.

I got more groceries than usual. I can now say with confidence that I could go two weeks without any inconvenience, and that's likely exactly what I'm going to be doing. It felt very strange to go into the store, and see almost no frozen food left, the entire aisle of toilet paper empty, and low stock on all kinds of food.

What was heart warming, is one guy who bought something like five bouquets of flowers for his wife to cheer her up.

I really want my husband to come home from this job. It's in Burnaby, B.C., right next to Vancouver. I'm very concerned that at some point we could be issued a travel ban, and that he would get stuck there for a month or something. This job is doing maintenance work on an oil storage/refinery, and it should have been finished by now, but as many jobs do, it's going longer than anticipated. He could easily be there for two or three more weeks, and I feel like anything could happen in that time period. Two weeks ago, not much had changed around here. Today I went into town for groceries and everything is closed, and some cities are declaring a state of emergency.

When you think about all of those closed businesses, I think of all those people who aren't working right now, and that we're approaching the end of the month. What kind of chaos is going to happen if people can't make rent? Or these same people can't afford to stock up on groceries like I could? Some provinces are working on putting a halt on evictions and mortgages for the next six months. Alberta hasn't done this yet. There's talk of support for businesses, but not for the people who have been sent home. I am very worried about the economic fallout of all of this. Maybe even more worried about hordes of hungry people than I am about the virus.

I want my sweetie home, in case the shit really hits the fan around here. His room/work mate has a pregnant wife who wants her husband home too. Really, this job site might have to just cap things off and send everyone home, or they're just going to have people pick up and leave anyhow.

The gratitudes are:

That I'm in a good place for animal food and human food for a while.

That we have the means for buying enough to last a while.

That I am physically able to do this. It was quite a job hauling everything into the house today.

That my sweetie does have a job, and that he has been working such a crazy amount of hours since January. It's helped a lot with the bills from the house.

For the companionship of my animals. I can't imagine sitting in the house alone right now.

That there was still food available for me to buy today, and pet food. If anything happens to the supply chain.....

For the public radio station that I listen to. It really does play the best music.