I'm giving praise every time I hear that someone I know has been vaccinated. Yesterday it was my niece (hospital pharmacist) and she tells me the vaccination programme is proceeding at a steady clip in her workplace. Yay!
I'm giving praise every time I hear that someone I know has been vaccinated. Yesterday it was my niece (hospital pharmacist) and she tells me the vaccination programme is proceeding at a steady clip in her workplace. Yay!
Maybe some news programmes are doing it and I've missed it, but I wish they'd announce the number of people vaccinated alongside the numbers of cases and deaths. It would be encouraging to have a good number; one you actually want to see go up.
Nenya, the Scottish government is publishing the vaccination figures as part of its Covid information. from 8 December to 20 December 2020, 56,676 individuals received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccination.
and on 30th December we will publish a figure here for the number of individuals vaccinated by 27th December.
The number will increase more slowly once they are giving the second dose as well as the first. Also my niece says that, because the vaccine has to be stored at extremely low temperatures, it's easy to vaccinate in fully equipped hospitals, but the logistics of vaccinating in the community may be more difficult.
Nenya, the Scottish government is publishing the vaccination figures as part of its Covid information. from 8 December to 20 December 2020, 56,676 individuals received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccination.
and on 30th December we will publish a figure here for the number of individuals vaccinated by 27th December.
I'd like to offer praise and thanksgiving! I just visited the Senior Community where I've been on the waiting list since September. I wasn't expecting to choose somewhere until next summer, but suddenly things moved very quickly. I had a telephone call yesterday and went to see a place today (actually saw three). I have a few days to decide and pay my deposit, but I'm 99% sure this is it! (And I'll get the 2020 price!)
I've been planning on an eventual move here as long as I can remember, so I'm really excited (and a bit nervous). I'll be there for the rest of my life; if I have to move to assisted living, the care center, etc., they'll see to that, but I'll be in Independent Living for a while (a 2-bedroom, 2-bath cottage, with full kitchen even though meals are provided). It's about two miles from where I'm living now, and several friends from my church live there. One good friend will probably be moving about the same time as me.
All I was expecting to give myself for Christmas was a new pair of slippers!
Thanks, Doone! After being totally surprised just two days ago, I'm beginning to cope mentally. Luckily I'll have about five months to pack my things, sell my house, etc. (I've been doing serious decluttering for several years now.)
That sounds so sensible @Pigwidgeon . A friend moved to a similar sort of place in the UK a couple of years ago and he's really settled in and thinks it was the best thing he could have done. Good you'll have people you already know there.
Hurrah for new grandchild @Mamacita. A birthday no one will forget.
Thanks, Mamacita and Sarasa! I have 2 1/2 boxes of kitchen things to take to my favorite thrift store on Monday (and plans for many more).
One of my friends who lives there just sent me the story of the people whose cottage I'll be getting (they've moved to Assisted Living, in the same community), as well as my future next-door neighbor.
Downsides of being a frontline social worker - many, including currently feeling exhausted, depressed and not trusting whether my managers have my back
Upside of being a frontline social worker - first dose of Covid vaccine booked for tomorrow! Woot woot!!
P&T for safe arrival of tiny TQTastic-let #3 with amazing rapidity at home on Wednesday evening. Emerged before any midwives etc. could get here but everyone is very well. P&T also for Mrs. TQTastic who coped astonishingly with fast-evolving situation!
For the inauguration of Biden and Harris, without the feared/expected violence, and for a return to sanity in the United States' leadership. It's been rough.
Congratulations to the TurquoiseTastics.
For the return of some sort of sanity to American politics. My writing tutor who is American looked so happy when discussing the inauguration at our class yesterday.
For the inauguration of Biden and Harris, without the feared/expected violence, and for a return to sanity in the United States' leadership. It's been rough.
I must admit being almost too scared to watch it. I was so relieved it went well.
P&T for the heating engineer Neil who worked *all weekend* to get our heating system up and running (the oil boiler, which of course is on an outside wall, stopped firing up in the mornings, so Mr. S had to get up extra early, put on his galoshes, and go out with a torch to reset the cut-out. Luckily gender equality only stretches so far in this house!
Neil - who is working 5-day weeks on a big project - not only deferred two boiler services to come to us but yesterday battled through some inches of snow on ungritted roads to reach us in our country lane to finish off the power flush, fit a filter, service the boiler (and put right all the things the last guy did wrong )
I am so grateful and I suspect Mr S is even more so! Where's the <notworthy> smily?
It's a joy to find someone so committed to customer service!
Also P&T for the very thorough consultant who spent 5 hours today, examining Chateau S inside and out for damp, condensation and other nasties (mind you, if it was ever going to be damp, today would be the day...)
Good tradespersons do exist, and when you find them they deserve P, T and prompt payment!
Thanks for the long phone call from a friend yesterday reassuring my friend that those who despise him are not in the ascendant, that he has not been the only one mistreated (and for the email from another last week which also made that point). I hope these help to bring him out of grief, but it will take time. A year is a long time, and isolation hasn't helped a person who needs a lot of contact from others.
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from 8 December to 20 December 2020, 56,676 individuals received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccination.
and
on 30th December we will publish a figure here for the number of individuals vaccinated by 27th December.
The number will increase more slowly once they are giving the second dose as well as the first. Also my niece says that, because the vaccine has to be stored at extremely low temperatures, it's easy to vaccinate in fully equipped hospitals, but the logistics of vaccinating in the community may be more difficult.
I am clearly channelling my inner Scot.
I've been planning on an eventual move here as long as I can remember, so I'm really excited (and a bit nervous). I'll be there for the rest of my life; if I have to move to assisted living, the care center, etc., they'll see to that, but I'll be in Independent Living for a while (a 2-bedroom, 2-bath cottage, with full kitchen even though meals are provided). It's about two miles from where I'm living now, and several friends from my church live there. One good friend will probably be moving about the same time as me.
All I was expecting to give myself for Christmas was a new pair of slippers!
Thanks, cgichard!
Thanks, Doone! After being totally surprised just two days ago, I'm beginning to cope mentally. Luckily I'll have about five months to pack my things, sell my house, etc. (I've been doing serious decluttering for several years now.)
P.S. And I'm wearing my new slippers.
I'm sending up prayers of thanksgiving for the safe arrival of my 2nd grandbaby, a boy born 11:23 pm on Christmas Day.
Hurrah for new grandchild @Mamacita. A birthday no one will forget.
One of my friends who lives there just sent me the story of the people whose cottage I'll be getting (they've moved to Assisted Living, in the same community), as well as my future next-door neighbor.
Upside of being a frontline social worker - first dose of Covid vaccine booked for tomorrow! Woot woot!!
For the return of some sort of sanity to American politics. My writing tutor who is American looked so happy when discussing the inauguration at our class yesterday.
And for a welcome shift in north American politics.
I must admit being almost too scared to watch it. I was so relieved it went well.
Neil - who is working 5-day weeks on a big project - not only deferred two boiler services to come to us but yesterday battled through some inches of snow on ungritted roads to reach us in our country lane to finish off the power flush, fit a filter, service the boiler (and put right all the things the last guy did wrong
I am so grateful and I suspect Mr S is even more so! Where's the <notworthy> smily?
Also P&T for the very thorough consultant who spent 5 hours today, examining Chateau S inside and out for damp, condensation and other nasties (mind you, if it was ever going to be damp, today would be the day...)
Good tradespersons do exist, and when you find them they deserve P, T and prompt payment!