You got hook up the router first.
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I retract this statement, although my reaction still isnāt bad. Vaccinated Monday afternoon and woke up today (Wednesday) feeling blah, left work midday, managed to actually nap a bit in the afternoon but mostly laid around reading a trashy novel (Iāve almost finished two books in two days, oops). Took some headache drugs and felt normal for about two hours and now Iām planning on going to bed early after dealing with Kiddo bath. Usually Mr. Meer does bath and I do bedtime but that was too far away.
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Just got my first shot and waiting the 15 minutes! The PDX airport drive-through clinic is impressively efficient. 10/10, will get the jab again.
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Marmalade got his first jab at the convention center yesterday and was very impressed by the organization and efficiency as well. Go Oregon!!
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āYou canāt just turn off that anxiety; itās got to power down,ā Kenneth Carter, a psychologist at Emory University, told me. The newly vaccinated have been tasked with reclassifying a whole suite of behaviors that were very recently dangerous, breaking months-long habits that were set and solidified during a time of crisis. āRecalibrating around that is tough,ā Carter said.
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I feel seen and yet attacked.
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Iām going to have a hell of a time readjusting to standing near people. My social anxiety already made me act weird in public before all this, I canāt wait to see what new weird habits Iāve picked up 
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Iām not gonna do it.
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Yeah my therapist was already like āMaybe you have agoraphobia since you seem to have strong feelings about that one time you were out on a Saturday afternoon?ā and I need to come back to that point to be like āOh, thatās not the pandemic, we already did our regular grocery shopping at 7AM Sunday (as off peak as we can get) just because we donāt like people. Not in a phobia way, just a āwhy the hell are they taking up room in the aisles and check out lanes?ā way.ā Basically a āget off my lawnā attitude but about any road or store or anything I want to use. 
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I was just talking about this with Boyfriend last night - again. I donāt want to remain in lockdown but for months now weāve just said no to anything that involves going inside a building or being around people even outdoors - and in a way that was easier. Now weāre back to āis this safe? Says who? Are we sure? What if weāre wrong and get breakthrough infections because we did something that wasnāt strictly necessary but just for fun?ā
ARGH.
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We ate out at a restaurant last night and it was so weird. We went late at night and sat outside with only one other table anywhere near us and even they were about 10 feet away. The server was masked the whole time and the restaurant has been super on top of it during the pandemic.
Still stressed me the f out. But it was good. Today we walked around the mall and did some much needed clothes shopping.
Baby steps.
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My husband wants to go out to a fancy fancy dinner with his best friend and his wife to celebrate their wedding (in Florida, that we missed), and Iām SO stressed out about it. Weāre all fully vaccinated and it should be fine, but the last time only time Iāve eaten in a restaurant since this started was like last June and Iām still a little anxious thinking about it, haha.
Iām finding it difficult to reconcile KNOWING (intellectually) that it is low risk but FEELING like weāre doing something terribly wrong and dangerous.
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Iām both terrified but excited to eat at a restaurant (outside) again sometime, but Iām not comfortable having the kiddo with us, so Iām not sure when itāll happen. Iām worried the longer I wait before I make myself resume things though, the harder itāll be. We rolled straight from ānewborn in flu seasonā into the pandemic, so Iāve eaten out once in a year and a half now, last March 
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Fully vacced! Such a feeling of relief. I know it takes another 2 weeks for the immunity to fully kick in, but stillā¦
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Ditto. Although mine was late Feb 2020. Itās pretty wild to think about! So much wonderful naivety during that time period.
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I ate brunch outside with other fully vaxxed friends and it was A+. I did outside social stuff all weekend. I felt like me again. The weirdest thing for me was driving.
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Does it freak anyone else out that the best we can do for our kids is send them to school in Sept and hope herd immunity will protect them?
Iām concerned.
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From all Iāve seen children do well with covid and are essentially the same level of protection as a vaccinated senior. Someone may have posted an article about this up thread.
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From what we know at this point, itās similar risk to them being in school when flu, RSV, and enteroviruses are circulating. Obviously we donāt know all the long term stuff yet, but the risk profile for acute illness at least is pretty ābusiness as usualā for school aged children.
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Iām getting more worried about the long term stuff. I know we canāt know but my kid starts school in September and Iām scared. 
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