Thread by @cayswann

Status Update: Been full-time Work-from-home WFH since Wed night. Crazed pace is slowing down. Am naturally inclined to be online by 6:30-7 AM when I have no commute. Hard to not work overtime, starting that early.

I'm not sure my coworkers understand that I'm pulling 9+ hour days now if I'm not careful. And the pace of keeping up with frantic documentation needs when I'm the ONLY tech writer?

But fortunately I was approved for my weekend hours overtime, which was nice. And my Sweetie has been bringing me hot tea when I'm cold, or a hot banana muffin straight from the oven.

I've never before EVER BEEN SO LUCKY as to be in this job, which was equipped to send most of us home immediately, or is in the process of standing up the infrastructure to be entirely WFH. This has been the first major day of majority WFH...

...and the informal polling has started on our messaging boards for people's experience. Some glitches, some stumbling blocks, but we still have our heads above water.

But while my day-job has been an absolute miracle and I'll be regularly paid, on-time, in-full, and sometimes with overtime, my partner has lost every gig for several months. We're having to pivot to create an online business strategy, stat.

And as the supportive partner, that means when I get "off work" from my day job, I go directly to business support role, trying to work on ads, websites, and technology support for possible online options.

I don't even know how anyone else is surviving without double-incomes or while also juggling small children / school-age children. The Boyo is 22 and in his last semester of college. His only question now is whether graduation is cancelled.

All in-person classes have either been cancelled or moved entirely to online for his remaining classes. Instructors are making all assignments online, and so he's just as house-bound as all of us.

But now that I'm on day five of the full-time WFH experience, the shell-shock of what's going on around me hasn't really abated much. I can just do things one-step at a time, and worry about how I'll do laundry since it's still raining non-stop.

I would just start hand-washing 1-2 days' worth of clothing every morning, but it's wild and windy and wet outside. So no line-dried clothing on the patio. Otherwise, we have plenty of food, supplies, meds, electricity, internet, books, and crafts.

Things I did NOT expect:
1: I haven't worn shoes since Wednesday. I *should* have expected that, but I didn't think of it.
2: I haven't worn a BRA since Wednesday. Never would have thought that was in my WFH life. But then again, all the comfy bras are in the laundry.

Things I did NOT expect:
3: Sweetie would buy a tambourine and now there are closed door rehearsals as he practices.
4: I will now be hunting for good tambourine lessons on YouTube.

Things I did NOT expect:
5: I am drinking less coffee and less diet Coke. Partially, because no commute, partially because Sweetie brings me hot tea.
6: How in the world can those two boys generate so many dishes in 4 hours?!?! I just washed everything at lunch time!

Things I did NOT expect:
7: A week of rain in CA is much more disturbing when you're trapped at home AND the entire patio is inside the living room because originally the building was supposed to be painted last Tuesday.

Things I did NOT expect:
8: I would suddenly want to channel my germophobic friends as I notice all the surfaces in my home I want to scrub. Good grief: cupboard handles, door handles, and light switches are gross.

Things I did NOT expect:
9: I sent Sweetie into the foyer/hallway of our apartment complex to clean the door handles and handrail on the stairs. I worry about my upstairs elderly neighbor.