Not-quite-quarantine life

I saw a couple of people do that meme about quarantine, and I kind of feel like I'm quarantining, more or less, but really I'm not, not entirely. We're "essential," we weren't given a choice, as far as work goes. We are masked all the time at work, and mostly distanced and behind plexiglass, and our department is not open to the public but we're open for university employees and their families. I don't feel unsafe there. We've been reopened for what, over six months now, I'm pretty comfortable with it, on the whole.

We do go out some outside of work, too - not a whole lot, but we have been to movies a few times and we go out to eat once every week or two, to the places that we have found are careful about distancing. We are very careful about wearing masks outside of work, too, although of course you can't wear them to eat. Honestly most people around here are pretty good about it. This may be Texas but we live in the suburbs, it's highly populated and there's a lot of pressure to mask.

Earlier this year, when Rob was working the evening shift and I was working days, I bought the groceries. Normally he buys them. I didn't mind doing it but now that the stores are staying open later, he's gone back to doing it, and honestly I'm happy to let him. If there's someplace people are going to flagrantly go unmasked, it's probably going to be Kroger or Walmart or HEB. And I'm the one with the co-morbidities. (I've lost forty pounds over the last couple of years, though, have I even talked about that? So that helps a good bit, but I'm still overweight and borderline diabetic, etc.)

We were going to go to my sister's for Christmas, she invited us a while back, but we've called it off. It just seems like really bad timing. And I don't mind staying home, to tell you the truth. I don't think my sister and her husband are going out, so it's more that we're a danger to them than that they're a danger to us, and I just don't want to chance that.