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The Worst Year Ever: The End of 2020

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Australia bush fires, COVID-19 Pandemic, Kobe Bryant’s death, George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement, Murder Hornets, Beirut explosion, Chadwick Boseman’s death, West Coast Wildfires, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Donald Trump and the election, and Joe Biden Wins.

What a shitshow.

March 18th, 2020 (212 cases in Ontario) was the last day I worked before being told to stay home until further notice due to Corona Virus. On March 19th, 2020 I applied for EI (CERB didn’t excist yet), application took 4 hours to complete due to EVERYONE attempting to do the same thing. Over the next 3 months I panicked of not knowing what was happening with EI/CERB. No one knew what to do and there was rumors everyday of having to pay it back, have to pay the taxes, having to reapply every month and much more.
Like most people we panic shopped, we didn’t know what was going to stay open or if there would be enough food for everyone. We spent $800-$1000 on groceries in one month. Going to the grocery store was scary as you didn’t know who had the virus, masks were not mandatory and there was 100’s of people in the store at once. Eventually as things went on we figured out we had to wear masks and line up in order to get into the store and wash your hands as soon as you walked into your house. My hands have never been so dry in their life and I’m a hairstylist. My lockdown lasted 92 days before we were told we could go back to work. June 19th, 2020 was my first day back at work and I felt like I didn’t know how to do hair anymore. Masks became normal and being scared wasn’t a thing anymore – we just wanted to work.

September 26th, 2020 was my last day working at my first salon as I decided to move on to a new salon to further my career. On October 5th was my first day at my new job – it goes okay. On October 7th I get fired because the owner has a bad vibe from me. I go home dumbfounded that I just lost my job and we are still in the middle of a pandemic. Don’t change jobs in the middle of the pandemic! Over the next 45 days I job search and panic. I once again apply for EI and panic as the place that just fired me refused to give me a ROE, which you need in order to get money from the government. Eventually things get worked out (at least that’s what I think happened) and I get paid a month later from EI.

On November 21st, 2020 I accept a job at a hair salon in Maple. Panic because Ford was announcing if we were going into lockdown again. Fortunely York Region didn’t go into lockdown and I could work – I started December 1st, 2020. I get happy as I have found a job and the year finally seems to be turing around!

December 11th, 2020 the news announced York Region is going into lockdown. Work turned into an shitshow and hours got extended – I worked 11 hours.
Saturday due to too many workers and not enough room for guest I worked 5 hours.
Sunday, our last day, I worked 11 hours with no breaks. We ate when we could and sat for a 5 mins if we had time. We fit one weeks worth of clients into 2 days. I got home sore AF.

December 14th – Lockdown 1,940 cases
December 15th – 2,275 cases
December 16th – 2,139 cases
December 17th – 2,432 cases
December 18th – 2,290 cases
December 19th – 2,357 cases
December 20th – 2,316 cases
December 21st – 2,123 cases

On December 21st, 2020 Ford announces that all of Ontario will be entering a province wide lockdown starting December 26th, 2020 for a minimum of 28 days. As Toronto, Peel and York have already been in lockdown, this means that I will be sitting at home for a minimum of 42 days.

December 22nd – 2,202 cases
December 23rd – 2,408 cases
December 24th – 2,447 cases
December 25th – they didn’t post the numbers due to Christmas
December 26th – Provincial lockdown 4301 cases (this includes Christmas numbers)

Somewhere in between the 14th and now the UK has report a new strain of the virus that is worse and on December 27th two cases of the UK strain has been reported in Ontario.

This year seems to be never ending with bad news and it’s taking a toll on most people. I have officially been off for 5 months in 2020 and come January it will be a month off. I hope this lockdown gets us where we need to be to have a semi-normal life again. I haven’t seen friends, my dog has separation anxiety with me and people are getting tired of it. People don’t care anymore because it’s been a year long thing, humans adapt to whatever we need to and if the governament doesn’t figure it out this is just going to be something we live with for the rest of our lives.

This has officially been the most depressing blog I’ve ever written. This is just my verison of my year and the small amount I’ve dealt with. There are a lot of others who had it WAY worse and I’m thankfully the only issue I’ve had is to sit at home.

Thanks for reading,

Maeg.

COVID-19 Layoff: Day Twenty-Seven

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How is everyone doing today?

My day was a pretty unproductive day. I decided I wasn’t going to watch the news today and I’m in a much better mood, no idea if that is related or not.

My boredom got the best of me today, my boyfriend already had money on his Nintendo account and all I needed to do was get the rest and I could buy the new Animal Crossing game so that’s what I did. Once Drax was all tired out and ready for his afternoon nap I started to play the game. I played all afternoon until Drax woke up and it was time for his dinner and after dinner walk. The game is cool, instead of already coming into a city that is made you are on a island and you have to build it all yourself. Definitely stepped up the game and I’m super excited to unlock all the stuff.

After Drax’s walk I came in to make dinner, we decided on spaghetti and homemade meatballs. Dave said they were going to take long but they only took 25 mins to cook and I timed it so everything would be ready at the same time. Needless to say he was happy I made them because he went for seconds and then started to eat just the meatballs on their own.

Our plants/seeds are growing really well! It’s too bad it’s now snowing in Ontario…in April…

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So in the big pot we have my sunflower that I named Posty. His roots were growing out the bottom of the cup so it was time for him to upgrade to the big pot.
Top row going left to right: arugula, spinach, rosemary, pumpkin, and cilantro.
Bottom row going left to right: garlic, arugula, spinach, Dave’s sunflower named S.F. Malone, and another pumpkin on the end.

So the reason Dave and I named our sunflowers is for three reasons, 1. I’m obsessed with Post Malone, 2. He has that song Sunflower and 3. Dave and I are having a competition on who will have the bigger and better sunflower. As you can see mine is currently winning the race. Don’t get your hopes up though folks, I tend to kill plants so we’ll see how this really goes.

That’s all folks!

Thanks for reading,

Maeg.

COVID-19 Layoff: Day Twenty-Six

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Another 28 days….

Today was another day if doing nothing because I don’t know what to do with myself anymore. I read my Broke Millennial book most of the day, walked Drax and ate my three meals with some snacks of course.

Ford announced today that he’s extending the state of emergency meaning we have another 28 days before anything goes back to normal. I honestly don’t think anything is going back to normal until 2021. Canada or Ontario at least hasn’t even hit the peak yet, all we’re doing is delaying it more and more while keeping the whole province going stir crazy. I know most people I talk too rather just shut everything down and lock everyone up for 2 weeks and be done with it. Then again there would be idiots who went to go play in the park or something even though that’s illegal right now. Stay the fuck home!

In my house hold everyone’s sleeping patterns are so screwed up. My dog is actually awake during the day now, normally he sleeps because we’d usually be at work. Dave’s is completely messed up since he stays up until 3am playing video games and falls asleep on the couch all night. Eventually at 8am, I wake up with Drax and he finally goes into the bedroom until noon. I’ve tried to keep my pattern up but it’s hard when you’ve done nothing all day, not to mention I absolutely hate our mattress. I sleep with Drax most night now because Dave is on the couch (usually Drax night time bed), Drax decided to take Dave’s bed. Drax even uses Dave’s pillow like a human, it’s actually cute.

I feel like I need to start making lists to feel productive. I read somewhere that making lists are good because your brain get’s satisfied for crossing something off and feels productive.

On a positive note, our plants are growing! I will take pictures and post them in tomorrows post!

Thanks for reading,

Maeg.

COVID-19 Layoff: Day Ten

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It rained in Ontario today and if you know my dog, you know he HATES rain therefore it was a quiet day. A much needed quiet day.

We only went on 3 walks today due to the rain and that Drax’s ears are bugging him. His vet is closed on the weekend because of this damn virus so the poor guy has to wait until Monday. I’ve been cleaning them as much as I can but I think one has an infection so we gotta get some antibiotics for him. On rainy days my dog sleeps the day away, he loves snow but hates getting wet with rain so he avoids it at all costs. On the bright side I got amazing cuddle time with him!

This morning I made my sister’s bread but that only takes an hour and a bit then you just let it cool off. She came to pick it up in the afternoon and she said it was delicious! I need to look up other things to bake now because quarantine!

I started a new cross stitch, which is for my mum so I can’t show it. Hi Mum! Eventually I will show all of these, I’m sure the suspense is real!

That’s about it folks. I’m sure eventually these will get better as I get more bored and stir crazy. How’s everyone doing?

Stay tuned.

Thanks for reading,

Maeg.

COVID-19 Layoff: Day Eight

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My trial for quarantine is up and I want to return it.

It’s only been a week and one day and I’m bored out of my fucking mind. I honestly didn’t do much today and it makes me sad.

I walked Drax 4 times today, all these walks and not being able to do anything after is making my calves cramp up. With that being said Dave and I decided we actually need to add in a workout to this whole situation, and not to meantion we’re going to get chunky!

I finished my online course and aced my final exam, only got 3 questions wrong! I was just taking a introduction to Mircosoft Word. I know how to use Microsoft but I’m bored and I want to better my skills. I knew most of it but there was also a lot that I learnt at the same time. Short cuts using the keyboard, how to actual write a math equation without using regular text and much more. I signed up for the intermediate class but I’m going to give myself a break from it (even though now I think that’s a bad idea cause I’m BORED).

I read ONE chapter of one of the books I’m reading and all it did was make me sleepy so I stopped, plus I needed to feed Drax and get a move on with something.

That’s it, that’s all. I don’t have anything else to say besides I’M BORED. I’m so over being in quarantine. I want to go back to work and complain about regular things!

I’ll try to make tomorrow more exciting.

Stay tuned for more adventures.

Thanks for reading,

Maeg.

COVID-19 Layoff: Day One

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Did you know there’s a virus going around? The whole world is going crazy for toilet paper! I really don’t know why people did that but to each their own. I’m pretty much writing this because well, were apart of history now and I’m bored. So lets dig in.

As of today (March 19th, 2020) was my first “day off” from my work closing due to COVID-19. I wish I could work just so I could get paid but that wouldn’t be safe so I understand why everyone is closing, just dealing with applying for EI is insane!

Let me put this into perspective, I started my application at 1:15pm, it is now 5:20pm and I just finished the application. I gathered all the information I needed before to try to make this as painless as possible but that didn’t help really, no matter what I did this whole process was going to be a pain in the ass no matter what. So you start off the application process all scared and nervous because well shit you’re going on EI but by 4 hours later you’ve got this and you want it over with. Each page loads incredible slow because more than half the world is attemping to apply, at one point the page didn’t load so I refreshed (gasps) and it came back.

At around the two and half hour mark the site completely crashes and I can’t even get on it anymore. I took this as a sign to walk my dog and get some fresh air before I throw my laptop. I came back and tried again and thankfully was able to complete the process!

Other than going to Walmart to buy a puzzle, and walking my dog, this took up my whole day. Day one is officially a write-off. Now to make dinner and watch tv or read a book about how not to be broke (pfft).

Tune in for more exciting adventures.

Thanks for reading,

Maeg.