COVID-19 hobby and life impact

I dread going to work everyday in the assisted living when we send a resident to the local hospital for a fall they come back in less than 24 hrs and they are not tested for this virus knowing full well that the hospital has Covid-19 patients in there!! I have to wonder what is the management folks thinking???!! All the residents I look after have dementia and they don't like staying in their rooms either.....shake my head....

 

@idrisfynn, I was in the same space going into w*l-mart today (minus the having covid-19....knock on wood). Tons of people without masks, no one practicing social distancing, young teenagers in there just to waste time/throw things around to one another....does no one take these things seriously? At the very least, they're endangering themselves and the workers who don't have access to PPE. I'm lucky, because I have an N-95 cloth mask left over from when Northern California was on fire in 2018, but so many people aren't. It's infuriating.

Either way...I'm having a very hard time convincing myself not to spend a *little* bit of tax return/economic stimulus money on a doll as a pick-me-up.

 

Just come here to say hi and add some update.

Life : My work place finally allow us to work at home. What a relief
In contrary, although our gov. already take it as a serious issue, many people still not follow the suggestion and keep wandering outside with no mask
It's like they didn't see how fast the number jump in our city.

Hobby : My country stop receiving international ems package. So if I want to buy any doll stuff outside the country, I could only choose normal registered mail as the shipping method. And yes all the shipping are slow down around the world, I assume.

 

Unfortunately I just started getting into the doll hobby right around the time the pandemic hit. I've been interested in BJDs for years, but was never able to afford one, but now that I've graduated and have had a decent job for about a year I figured it was time. It's just not the best time as of now....ofc....lol.

Anyways, I actually work in the hospital in the laboratory, so I've actually dealt with/done testing on suspected/confirmed covid-19 patient samples. We have pretty strict protocols in place on how to handle them, but it's still a bit scary. Because there is new information everyday there was initially a lot of adjustments but now we seem to have settled on a system that works relatively well. Even though I don't work directly with patients, I still can't help but worry if I will catch something, and I'm more so worried of getting my family (since I still live with them) or others sick (the thought of something happening to my parents especially since they are older terrifies me)....I try to be as careful as I can, wash my hands, wear masks, and use hand sanitizer religiously but just going to the hospital back and forth can be rather anxiety provoking. Unfortunately the way our laboratory is there is really no way to practice/adhere to social distancing with my coworkers since we simply don't have the necessary space. I feel grateful to have a job when so many people are struggling, but I feel like I'm paranoid the whole time I'm at work, and even when I come back.

We have a lot of patients right now that are covid-19 positive....it's about 850 last time I checked, not counting those that recovered and were discharged. I really wish people would take things more seriously as a whole and do what they can to protect themselves and others.

I hope everyone stays safe!

 

Cheering from japan. You job is essential and definitely prevent many people from getting infect. It's a hard time here and I can not help much but I'm promise that I will keep wearing mask everytime I go out side, wash my hand and only go out when need to buy some necessary item to help minimize amount of your job.

Please keep in mind that you are doing good thing.

God bless you. (And your family)

 

You have every right to tell that to people, maybe they'd take it more seriously, i know some people in México that still think the virus is not real, my husband's family keeps getting together for birthday's and it really sucks that they don't care and they kinda get mad at us for not going -.- i went to walmart yesterday and there were babies and kids screaming all over the store, not wearing masks and ignoring the big sign at the entrance asking people to go alone to the store, only one person per family... It's ridiculous.

I'm really happy to hear back from you and know you fully recovered from the virus, let's hope you've gained immunity from that, stay safe!!

 

@fate_xo My brother does testing too, he has to get tested for Covid weekly. At least my city has somehow managed to open up disease testing for everyone. I think we got lucky and shutdown before the worst could reach us, but only time will tell.

In other news, my upcoming job has dropped housing for me to keep their more essential workers well separated, so me and the other techs are going to try and find some before we start. As long as they don't drop my employment I'm good, goodness knows I won't be able to find another job anytime soon.

 

Does your brother work in a hospital? They don’t test the employees here unless they are showing symptoms They are taking our temperatures every time we come into work though.

I hope you are able to find a place soon! Everything seems to be at a standstill because of the virus ;; Despite the circumstances, I feel lucky to still have a job tbh! Aside from my father, actually, who is on unemployment rn the rest of us all have jobs (my brother and sister work from home).

 

@fate_xo I'm not sure, I think he does.

Thank you! I hope you stay safe!

 

My husband seems to have recovered but now I'm starting to experience some symptoms. I hope it ends up not being Covid!

We got our stimulus check as well. As I am still working and he (eventually) will get unemployment, we also felt a little weird getting the money. My employer threw a huge online fundraiser where they were matching all of our donations to food banks, elder care, and domestic abuse charities. I put a few hundred towards that, and then bought some gift cards to leave for our postal workers and to give to our grocery store clerk next time we go out (in weeks just in case). We wanted to show some appreciation even if it wasn't much!

The rest of it I want to use on doll things because it is comforting, but I know we should save it for the unknown to come.

 

Wow, 850? My hospital's max capacity is like 400 something (although we are considered tiny in our city). I can't imagine having that many positive cases... it must be anxiety inducing.

I was looking at my preorders today; now is when you really, really need to be patient in this hobby. It must be frustrating for someone who is newer! Sometimes I want to troll Ebay for a fixer upper just for some new variety, when I know I have blank dolls at home and I KNOW that's not what I really want.

 

I'll make it feel bigger; when I was a kid, the hospital where my dad worked was the smallest in the state at eleven beds. After they remodeled it, it actually went down (though I'm not sure what the number is right now). Thankfully, it's part of a network and does have a helipad for airlifting out cases that can't be handled there. (Also thankfully, my dad is retired and the current main doctor is around my age, I just can't remember if he was in the class ahead of me or behind me in school out there...)

I know patience is a big thing in this hobby, but I ordered some of the little Plapico kits off Aileendoll as something fun to do (I'm nearly out of Pokemon kits), and it's been nearly two weeks without them shipping yet. It makes me worry about the people working there and really hope they're doing okay. I've seen with some of these companies how being down just a single person can mess up everything.

 

At least you aren't in the early internet era where there was only like 1 place to get a doll in the US, then you had to wait for them to either do their seasonal orders or have enough to make it worth the company's shipping unless you wanted to risk the early days of Ebay.

I had a head arrive with a ring of cardboard and brown paper, no padding or nothing. Somehow it did arrive safe.

 

I'm pretty exhausted and stressed out. I'm still working and on top of that I had one incoming doll from someone I traded with but it seems to have dissapeared into thin air. My trade partner received my doll in less than 4 days and I'm in well over a week now. It's making me sad knowing it's out there somewhere...

Most ironic part is that I could've gone to pick the doll up in less than 2 days but due to the lockdown I'm not allowed to cross the border. I shouldn't complain though since my partner in crime bought two dolls just before the lockdown and they still haven't arrived. Just feels like such a hopeless situation right now. Trying to distract myself but it's hard.

Been very annoyed at the people disrespecting the rules out here too. Throwing parties, loitering, not respecting distances, spitting at others because it's funny, ... It's sad to see such disrespect towards others and life in general.

The grocery stores are still pretty empty so getting some favorites is tough luck too. Not complaining there though. Food is food.

 

It's pretty stressful times. I just graduated in January, was searching for jobs and then the virus hit.
I haven't applied to any new jobs at the moment since everything's on lockdown. Now that I'm home, I've been trying to downsize my doll collection. I also have some dolls on order at the moment and I'm planning on selling one of them since I no longer want him. Good news is that the body for one of my floating heads just got shipped so there's that.

Hopefully everything gets better soon~

 

I’ve been feeling the same. Since I’ve been stuck in the house, I’ve been going through stuff to sell/donate (not just doll stuff but everything) and just in general feeling I don’t need so much stuff. I do have one doll who just shipped that I ordered in December and I definitely do want to keep him. I’m really looking forward to working on his faceup and tattoos.

But then I also want to work on the other ones I’m keeping so I keep saving up for more clothes and accessories for them. There’s also one more doll on the wishlist I’d like to bring home. Am I really fixing the issue at all?

 

I've been viewing my collection in a different light whilst in lockdown. Being "forced" to be around them a lot more has made me realise that they're definitely not what I want of them at the minute. Or even in the long-term. I want to resize my resin crew to FID or similar. Not sure how that'd help with restringing issues I have currently, but it will help with space. My vinyl boys will stay the same size and sculpts. I adore them far too much [more than the resin side of my crew] to alter them in that sense.

In a non-doll-related side note; I had my first 'quarantine dream' last night. Anyone heard of these; vivid, perhaps weird, visions while sleeping, which are brought on by the... monotony and stress of the lockdown? While being the most vivid of recent dreams? And, often recurring? I'd heard them mentioned briefly in an ASMR Reiki video, but I hadn't had any. Until last night. And, I feel this is the only place I can "talk" about it. I don't remember much of it now (it's almost 9PM here in the UK). But what I do still recall is that I was hanging out with the Korean pop group VIXX. In either a food hall or cafeteria and walking in the street. I still vividly and specifically remember walking with Leo, while talking with Hongbin on the phone, and stepping off the curb... I am a fan of VIXX, but... why was I just randomly chilling with them in my dreams? Although, I shouldn't really complain, should I? I can think of worse things to be doing instead.

 

It is such a strange, hard time for everyone. We have been in lockdown since March 23rd in the UK. For me it hasn't been as hard as for others as I am a natural homebody so it is usual for me to be at home.
I moved back to the UK from Canada in early September and have been unemployed since July. I have been job searching since then as well as taking a break.I was meant to start a new job in a nursery on march 17th but then it got moved and then the lockdown started. Because they didn't have any parents who are key workers they shut down.
I have been living on inheritage money while living with my parents again. Not sure when I will start working again or get paid.
But I am grateful that so far my family are all well and doing okay.
I think that we will learn things from this time and things will change after this.
Everyone who is working as essential workers I am really thankful to you.
I have not got any dolls right now but I have started a new doll house project. The problem is getting supplies such as paint and wallpaper. Paint has a 21 day wait period and the wallpaper I love comes from either America or Canada so I would have to expect a long wait. So at some point my project will grind to a stop until I can get things. So it is annoying but they are not essential so I can wait to do it if needed.

 

I am spending my whole time at home and only going to the packstation. It's a good time for me, because I can peacefully write my thesis and ship extra clutter out of the house (we're planning an overseas move).

As for the dolls... I think I became more mindful and not buying on impulse. Now that I have all the time in the world and still some of my girls aren't re-dressed or repained, I see time is not an issue. It makes me want to be more responsible with my future purchases.

On the bright side, I am using up my fabric and creating new dolly outfits, which is awesome. I can downsize on the fabric yay And I am busy rearranging my containers with dolly accessories, making sure they're not mixed up, etc. It's cool

 

The only light at the end of the tunnel for me is maybe the pandemic will cause the insanely overpriced housing market to crash, and people will be forced to sell their short term rental properties. That would be a relief, being able to buy my own place to own outright.

 

Wow, 11 beds... didn't know that was possible, either. But I guess those are critical access areas or... there is some specific name for them, right?

I've actually ordered from Aileen doll before, too! I just checked at my last orders and they seemed to have shipped within a week, although shipment itself took like 2 weeks. Did your items ship by now? They might have a severely reduced workforce right now.

 

I’m in Colorado as well and looking forward to some restrictions being lifted. However, it probably won’t impact us much because I’m a stay-at-home mom of two young kiddos. So other than places like the library, zoo or a rec center - we really don’t have anywhere else to go and I’m not sure those places will open anytime soon.

I got into the doll hobby in November. I have 2 dolls from less expensive companies coming in a couple of months. But what I really want is to order a Loong Soul msd size girl. I think they are awesome but last I saw on the Dolk website they are going as far as 6 months to a year out. So that’s pretty upsetting because now I feel stuck. I have sold nearly half of my collection at this point and I’m not sure what direction I’m heading with my doll types. I mostly have YoSD size now but I really want a bigger girl that I ADORE and I just feel like that’s super unreachable now.

I really am enjoying checking buy and sell groups though. I have 2 sweet little girls on the way from previous owners so that’s nice. Otherwise I feel a bit trapped in the US - as far as shipping goes.

 

I suppose something like that, yeah. The next nearest hospital is about 30 miles to the southeast, so it's pretty important to have something there, especially for critical care. There were a lot of evenings when the phone would ring and my dad would have to run in to take care of an emergency case. It's all teeny tiny towns and farms out there, so there's a lot of terrible things that can go wrong that make having that hospital there helpful, even if it's also teeny tiny.

I finally got a response on the CS board, turns out that it was my shipping that was the problem! I picked K-Packet not realizing that it was actually shut down, but they let me pay the extra to upgrade to EMS and shipped them out almost a week ago now. It hasn't moved from the "International Post Office" step, of course, but it is in motion! (And I do still have an eevee kit to do... I think it and pikachu might be in scale with my dolls so there may be some Pokemon themed photos at some point.)

 

I’m in California and this pandemic messed up my last year in school. I really shouldn’t complain, as I get how important it is for everyone to remain safe and social distancing, but my heart is sad because I was looking forward to sharing my special graduation day with my family.

I’m fortunate in that my post-graduation job is still holding my position, but I’m anxious about what how the state will administer the Bar Exam. (Test I have to take to become a lawyer).

One positive from this pandemic is that it inspired me to pick up sewing. I’m learning how to make patterns, clothing, and wigs for my dolls! Sewing (by hand and machine) is now soothing to me and will help keep me sane, and my girlies quite fashionable!

 

I'm in Malaysia and work as shipping & admin. We were being put restriction for two months but I occasionally came to work to settle things and thank God that I'm not suffering financial crisis because I still get paid during the restriction period. Our company just got back for operation since last two weeks but due to overseas clients affected by this pandemic as well, many shipments have been delayed thus for now I only focus on admin works.

For hobby, I did try to make my own doll clothes but many times failed so I stopped for a while and cool down from frustration. I also just finished paid my layaway. The doll I ordered will be completed in July but I'm not rushing to have it because I'm currently mentally unstable because the pressure of this pandemic has impacted my LDR with my boyfriend. I feel like there's no use to have it if I can't share my excitement of receiving my first doll with him because he is my big supporter for this hobby.

Currently, I'm into building a model of my dream house to distract myself. Like building my own house means I'll leave my plan of living with my boyfriend at his place. Kind a step of moving on if anything happened. I've done with the floor plan and I'm just about to start making the model with guidance from my dad.

In the meantime, next week will be Eid Celebration but my family isn't affected that much because as usual, we don't really go out to visit relative and it's a blessing that we don't have to spend much for this year. Besides, I don’t like this hectic celebration and hope no one will visit our house too because the government has informed to avoid it.

 

The only impact has been access to healthcare/medications as a compromised individual
and routine food and household supplies.

It was hard with rare diseases before, but now it is just stupid. There is so much rushed and junk science being produced.

People are buying up medications bc facebook had an article that said X will cure a virus, and now people who need them are having to go without bc of lack of stock.

I honestly probably had it back in December. A unknown virus hit our area and it had all the symptoms of coronavirus sars. I have led a normal life. No masks, no isolation. I'm at work, so is my sig other. He is more immunocompromised than I am.

Nada since they forced everything closed.

 

Go to the post office and do a change of address thing. If the package is somewhere in their system, if you have a tracking number let them know, they should be able to catch it and redirect it. If you're on good terms with your delivery person you can give them a heads up about your move too.

 

I'm a teacher in Chile and the workload has tripled. Due to the way in which the school I work at works, my job is secure for the rest of the years. I worry about my 5th graders constantly and I can see this is taking a toll on them. My health took a nosedive for a while due to stress which landed me at the doctors office, but things are better now. I haven't left my house in two months (except for the brief visit to the doctor) and I'm so very thankful that the apartment I bought is not ready yet and I'm still at my parents house. I think having to go through lockdown on my own would've driven me mad.

In terms of the hobby, the borders on my country are closed. Nothing gets in and nothing gets out. I've had several items returned to the sender and keeping track of them has been a mess. One of those items was a Dream Valley Glen fullset. I've inquired with BJDivas if they've heard anything about it, but I have recieved no news so far. I've made due with buying things locally, but shipping between cities is also complicated.

 

Thankfully my husband is essential and already has to wear a mask at work, he's a machine operator. I'm disabled so the only income I bring in is from my tiny business, but that's usually from convention vendor tables and they all got cancelled soooo.... I thought I'd use the time to work on commissions but I've had no drive, I'm actually feeling really guilty about not making anything lately. I've spent a lot of time zoning out and napping with my service dog. I did get one new doll though, specifically to make into my favorite character ever Edogawa Conan, so that was exciting! ...Except I only got as far as a couple sewing mock ups and then I lost my drive again.

 

Before things started getting really bad I was able to get my doll and doll items shipped to me from Japan and China and then for the past three months I haven’t really had time to play with the dolls due to a whole bunch of other things. I think the most major impact for me is not being able to buy things because of uncertainty with my job and whether I’m gonna need extra mone if something happens at the workplace...

The other thing is not being able to try to connect with people from the Vancouver Bjd community since I had moved late last year and was thinking maybe I can finally go to Vancouver meetup and that never happened XD

 

Has anyone else's collection exploded during quarantine?

All of my trips have been canceled, I've been working from home so I don't eat lunch out at work every day, I don't go to restaurants at all of course, I've been cooking more, my student loans are on hold, and then the stimulus check.... I've had so much extra disposable income. I'm a stress buyer, so I have just added a lot of new dolls to the collection.

 

Mine did! I, too, am a stress buyer. I started out with one. Then I had 2 by May. Tomorrow I will have 3. And by August, my grand total will be 4 dolls. I’m stoked because I found my grail, and finally had enough money to get a doll with darker skin. But going from 1 to 4 this quickly is wild for me, lol.

 

I've added some AileenDoll PlaPicos, but no resin yet... I've been waiting ~2 months now for the last dolls I ordered to arrive (as in, they shipped to the dealer two months ago!), which makes me not really want to put in another order for anything, and none of the stuff I want tends to show up secondhand. With the extra money from stimulus plus no student loan payments plus being on furlough, though, whenever we can start meets again there may be some impulse buys there...

EDIT: well that's a lie now. I had decent luck shipping from AileenDoll, so I think an order from Luts should be just fine, right?

 

Well, I’m a chef so you can only imagine what Covid’s done for us kitchenfolk. I was due to come back today only to see a Permanently Closed sign on our door. Owners decided to close shop without notifying anyone. I had a great manager who let me work limited hours due to disability. I loved my job so I’m pretty sad, but unlike thousands of people worldwide, I’m financially fine and I’m not worried. I feel thankful and fortunate.

Now I’ve got all these dolls coming in a few months and I’ve been feeling so guilty but my sweet husband is happy I got to almost finish my collection. No new doll buying for a while but I think I’ll live. I got to buy five new wonderful dolls before this happened. I might have to delay buying their outfits but at least I’ll have them, and my favorite beauty has two gorgeous incoming outfits for me to look forward to.

So I have more time to dote on my precious dolls, to get better at taking photos, maybe finally develop some talent at making them things

 

The only impact it's had on me hobby wise is I no longer take my doll to work to sit on my desk occasionally since my hands have a constant build up of sanitizer on them and I know that would be bad for their resin over time. Plus I just don't feel good having anything with me I can't dissinfect easily.

I'm a technically a front line worker so I've got many other things on my mind at work anyway.

 

It's been really tough. My uncle just died from the coronavirus. He was getting better, but had a heart attack while fighting it and his body was just too weak to fight it after that. My cousins are around my age and just lost their mom to a a few years ago. I am heartbroken, but I'm even more heartbroken for them. On top of that, my one cousin and his wife caught it while trying to get his dad medical attention. It's just a tragedy.

I'm a professor, but a lot of my work is research based, to translate it into terms that the college uses to pay me. I basically get paid like I'm teaching classes for making and designing costumes for shows. As of right now, we're proceeding forward as if it won't be an issue in the fall, but I don't know what is going to happen when it inevitably continues to be an issue. Hopefully I'll still be getting paid. I'm hopeful that my employer will keep us on. They've been paying every single faculty and staff member, working or not. I may just end up teaching a lot of classes I've never taught before to keep my paycheck the same.

I know I'm lucky I still have a job. So many costume designers are out of work indefinitely right now. I'm talking full year+ with no jobs lined up. My best friend is in theatre and she was just let go this past week. I'm trying to convince her to move up to where I am because I can probably hire her as overhire or find her some adjunct position and I have a few free rooms she could sleep in.

As for the hobby right now, I'm taking pictures. I'm sewing. I'm using it as a way to keep myself busy, but I'm not spending money. I've been looking at options for things and window shopping for when everything seems more certain. That's enough for me for now.

 

I am so so so sorry for your loss. How gutwrenching for your entire family.

 

I haven't been active in the hobby much these past few months. I do pretty well with being isolated, since I am not entirely alone, I have my hubs and the cats and dolls. But... I have been battling with mental issues for ages now, so I buried myself in playing Animal Crossing so I didn't have to think about all the fairs I should have been on with my company (I am self-employed), and all the doll-related gatherings that had to be canceled as well. The nature of my webshop is crafting based, so I have had more sales during this time than I usually have, however, my biggest income is usually from the weekend fairs and they have all of course been either postponed or canceled. We are ok though, we are used to live off my husbands income alone, and thankfully his job was immediately switched to a 100% remote position, and even though Denmark has been opening up and things potentially could go back to normal for my husband's job, they offered him to keep working remote, because the commute is rather long. So we are saving big time on gas, which is nice.

 

I was Disabled before this started so I didn't lose a job I don't have anymore, on the bright side. I admit I've been too depressed to do much with my dolls. Because I am immunocompromised and probably wouldn't survive the virus, I've been isolating pretty thoroughly. Because of that I can't have the cleaning people come and clean my home which is a very physical task I can't do. But now I am doing it because no one else can, so I spend my time either cleaning, or resting trying to recover from cleaning the floors/laundry/dishes. it's pretty wearing. My sister and her husband both had it, which was very scary, because she's got the other autoimmune disorder in this family, but now they have recovered. I hope they get some kind of immunity from it and that it will last so they will be safe for a while.

Stay safe everyone. Please wash your hands, stay distanced and wear masks, because the lives of people like me really depend on it. I feel so loved and valued like I never have before as a disabled person seeing people wearing masks to protect the vulnerable like me.

 

I am finding my mental health is taking a huge hit. I have agoraphobia already, and being stuck inside has made it a lot worse. Like I used to be able to go out sometimes if I was with someone, but now it scares the hell out of me. And I feel really isolated. Finding it hard to motivate myself to connect with anyone. And I don't want to bother my friends with my junk. So... I'm alone.

It's especially hard because ten years ago a crappy thing happened, and I wasn't expecting the anniversary to hit so hard.

(I find myself worrying about everyone, no matter if I know them offline or online, if I start thinking about it too much. I want everyone to be safe and well, but am scared because quite a few people in my online circles are disabled or poor or otherwise at risk either from illness or economic problems. I empathise too much and get overwhelmed. I don't have the emotional energy, so I isolate myself even more)

Sorry for rambling ^^;

 

@bentosmile Think of all the dogs you haven't met who are out there in the world. You must have had places you went to before that were okay. When you go out reward yourself just for the effort.

I could easily fall into the comfort of not going out that much but I had to go to four different stores yesterday to get a phone with thee right amount of memory and then to get it activated. I don't like phones but life has insisted I now have a personal one. Everything went well and there was reassurance from the universe That what was happening was supposed to.

 

I've been on furlough for two and a half months. I got put on furlough one and a half months after I bought a house with some family members. Yay! Thankfully, we have savings, so we'll be OK for a while, but if I don't get called back by August I'll be moved to termination. A job I've had, and liked even if I didn't always love it for nearly 12 years down the drain. My boss called me to check up on me a weeks ago, and gave me a little update on the company. Me being ever the pessimist I don't foresee being called back especially after what he said. Company revenue down 60%, and Stay at Home orders are being re-issued because certain people in my state can't be bothered to socially distance themselves or to wear masks. Even if that wasn't the case I'd still find it highly unlikely I'd be called back. Much of our revenue comes from ads, and a lot of those ads are for large scale events, not to mention the revenue from the events we put on ourselves. Even if we were continuing to open up those types of events would still not be viable. So, I expect to be looking for a new job in a month.

On the bright side I've had time to work on the house. I painted a dresser I bought before quarantine. Painted my livingroom walls, put together some Ikea cabinets for added storage and decorated them. I'll probably start recaning the chairs I bought before quarantine as well. And, then there's our 27 year old dining table that could use some love. After the initial shock I've actually been less stressed out, I've been sleeping better as well. If only I could find a way to make decent money working on house projects forever. lol

 

Oh no @Cloudedmind I'm sorry you possibly will lose a job you like. 12 years at the same place is a long time, so it's a real shame if it's over. That really sucks. (I hope things will turn around and you'll get good news instead!)

 

@bentosmile Same. Having to dust off a 12 year old resume is not something I'm looking forward to.

 

I work for myself, so I still have my job, and can work whatever amount I like. I'm trying to stay isolated, and only accept work from established clients. Definitely can't afford any new BJDs right now, but that's been the case ever since I left a better-paying job a few years back because of work stress.

 

It motivated me to start making and selling doll clothes on Etsy so that’s a plus. It definitely ramped up my doll spending so I gotta get that under control. And it also helped me to pick up some new hobbies like roller skating.

 

A friend of mine just started skating, too! I used to skate a lot as a kid, so it's cool to see it coming back.

 

I’m really glad it’s back in fashion. I’m really enjoying the nostalgia of it!

 

I work IT at a state college that I am also a student at. My life has absolutely blown up since the pandemic started. Like most schools, we did NOT have the amount of equipment needed to make operations remote and with enrollment down, that's not likely to change unless budgets get rearranged, not so easy a task.
Now my main hobby (the SCA) has shut down all in person events for the rest of the year, so my man non-work time sink has been lightened.

 

I thought I'd make an update, in case anyone was wondering. I did get called back to work after the 16 weeks. Sadly, my department co-worker did not. So, that was a bummer. Now, I have no one to complain with about stupid work stuff. :P But, on a serious note I'm counting my blessing, but trying to be caution since things could turn upside down again.

 

Up until now, my family (myself, my girlfriend, her mother, her brother, and her mother's boyfriend) have been relatively isolated and almost completely quarantined since March. We only go out for groceries, and usually it's myself or my girlfriend's mom exclusively... but my girlfriend's brother is suddenly experiencing a lot of covid symptoms. He's getting tested tomorrow. Crossing our fingers that he'll be okay.

 

Hi
I work in Healthcare so things are crazy, and the level thereof varys. So work is steady.
I usually do part time writing and art, but no time or motivation at the moment.

I am also studying towards a double degree and at times classes are via Zoom so we don't really miss out on much study wise.

This year I have decided to try to find one of my grail dolls so not buying anymore till I track down "the one".
It has been incredibly hard not to lay away there are so many gorgeous dolls at the moment.

Postal service are really good here, no issues other then delays for international packages. Everything arrives eventually and haven't had anything lost or damaged.

Hope everyone else is keeping safe and doing well xo