Pandemic Postcards with Heartbreak and Outrage

As the clock helps show the Soon-to-be-Ex-President out the door, RantWoman, true to her psychic state offers here mix of snark and cotidian details drawn from life during pandemic.

COVID testing UPDATE

RantMom was thrilled to watch the inauguration. She was not so thrilled later in the day.

RantMom has to quarantine again, at least for a few days. RantMom got her first shot yesterday. Today she learned that her ACCESS driver from a few days ago tested positive for COVID the day after he drove RantMom to...a COVID test required before a medical procedure. Welcome to the #pandemic.

At least RantMom forgave RantWoman for bursting out laughing and even managed to crack a chuckle too. .Stay tuned.

A year of COVID strangely: 

RantMOM got her first COVID vaccination today. Irrepressible Nephew got his because of a home health care role over the weekend. RantWoman thinks her turn will be a ways off and is not too distressed by that reality on top of everything else. RantWoman is sad, though, about the growing list of people she knows who have fallen sick and even died...

Snark from Twitter: Ruin a Book Title with one letter.

RantWoman's contributions:

--Lady Chatterley's Liver

--Done

--Little Louse on the Prairie

Quips via Twitter on behalf of Latin America After the January 6 assault on the US Capitol:

"Of course the coup failed. There is no US Embassy in Washington DC"

"The US is keeping it local due to COVID."

Personally, RantWoman does not want to pay to house people who treated the Capitol worse than Fallujah. RantWoman wants to house the unhoused. RantWoman wants to charge everyone who can be charged. To heck with privacy: RantWoman keeps thinking of virtual dragnets to identify all of the "I'm not a Terrorist" crowd who took part in the assault. RantWoman wants these people, rounded up, charged with the most serious charges they can be charged with. RantWoman wants them fined heavily, sentenced to long periods of home monitoring they have to pay for. RantWoman would definitely add some community service, though RantWoman can also see where finding suitable community service assignments might be a tough road.

Not the only hopeful clip RantWoman has seen.

The Pillars of Democracy are holding

Christmas present roundup

Brother in law's socks turned up in the mailbox to which RantWoman had been directed to send them.

RantMom's present needs to be delivered and RantWoman will soon be asking RantMom to schedule another round of flirting with hypothermia

RantWoman is thrilled with a new mixer food processor combo. RantWoman specified what she wanted and dispatched Little Sister to suggest options on Amazon. RantWoman is a pretty simple girl and almost all of the options suggested just looked like TOO MUCH especially for RantWoman's storage and counter space issues. Soon RantWoman will actually make something with her new appliance.

Stimulus

After upgrading the underwear supply and some badly-needed new clothes, RantWoman still has part of her last stimulus payment in the bank. RantWoman has plenty of options for what to do with it. In the meantime, new stimulus will go for new shoes, a favorite brand with new guess about width due to changes in foot size. Add some new compression socks because there are new patterns and more importantly some old pairs are starting to get holes.

RantWoman is also on the lookout for a high-capacity exercise bicycle and more importantly one she can afford.

Food and Grocery Shopping Bless your heart Child.

Recently the Queen of Spades dispatched RantWoman to replenish the cat food supply. RantWoman thought she needed Olive oil popcorn; RantWoman has decided maybe not in the future just because if there is olive oil popcorn around, RantWoman tends to eat it, more of it at once than she needs.

At the checkout counter, RantWoman realized that the bag your own regime is no longer in effect, at least at that store. Store staff will actually bag one's groceries even if one insists on bringing one's own bag. 

Mixed blesssing: RantWoman used to managing her own bananas and avocados.

That day the guy bagging RantWoman's groceries did not ask RantWoman before putting all the groceries in one bag. If RantWoman hands the clerk more than one bag it is because RantWoman is on foot/ bus  and bus and has various approaches for balancing her load.

More pro tips:

Cold things in one bag. Things that do not need to be refrigerated in another.

Long handles.

RantWoman probably should just not have handed the cbagger the bag with the hole. Bless his heart. He put all of RantWoman's groceries into the bag with the hole. The hole is more than large enough to lose cans of cat food on the way home. Boo Bagger. RantWoman is glad there was a table on the way out of the store where she could rebalance the load.

And this, with new clothes and holes in a shopping bag, SO LONG #POTUS45!