Well, grocery delivery has turned out to be surpisingly convenient

[conuly]

and there are some things I can order that I can't easily get without a long bus trip - blintzes, Ben and Jerry's ice cream*, butter at a decent price** - but I'll be delighted when I feel secure going to the store myself again. The tips are really cutting into the grocery budget, and I don't begrudge the delivery guys their tips - they earn them! - but....

Also, it was impossible to even get a slot for ages, and I've been buying two weeks at a time, but that's died down and I think I should be able to start buying for one week at a time again pretty soon, especially if I'm buying in person (no tips!), and that'll clear up a lot of fridge space.

Now, NYC is talking about starting to reopen June 8th. Give it two weeks to see if cases spike, that puts us now at the end of June so I think I won't make any changes at all until the third Monday after July 4th. If there isn't a spike at the end of a partially reopened holiday weekend then we should be pretty safe. Safe to go grocery shopping, anyway, in the mornings when it's not too crowded and I'm all masked up.

Still not encouraging my mother to go out and about even a little. Hahahaha no.


* I know, it's a travesty.

** All I ask is that they don't gouge!

Comments

[lightbird]

Ben and Jerry's! I love my New York Super Fudge Chunk.

I really feel like June 8th may be too soon (in general, I think states are opening too soon, but it's not up to me and maybe I'm just more of a nervous person). My neighborhood is already super crowded on nice days, and a lot of people don't wear masks, or they wear them under their nose or under their chin, don't social distance, etc.

On the plus side, a lot of people will wait it out 2 weeks anyway, to observe and be sure. I'm lucky enough to work a job where I can work full-time from home, and my firm is already saying that they're going to wait 2 weeks from the official 'open' date before they let people go into the office. It will be flexible when they do, at least through the summer - if people want to work in the office they can, and firm will be making sure numbers and shifts are staggered so there aren't too many people in the office to social distance, and people who want to continue to work from home can.

[conuly]

Well, I'm not gonna start going out clubbing, anyway. I might go to Silver Lake or the beach (not a crowded beach, our local beach which is fairly dead during the week) and the grocery store. Maybe to the ETG book cafe. Not into the city or anything like that.

But I'm going to keep a watch on the numbers and, as I said, I'm not making any changes until after the 4th anyway. Two weeks after, so, like, the 19th or so.

[lightbird]

lol, no clubbing for me neither. I'm arranging to go out to my mom's in NJ once it's safe to do so. I really want to see her, and it will be out of the city.

I live in the East Village, so there's just a lot of people around and the parks are never empty unless it's a really off hour.

[conuly]

The North Shore is pretty built up, but if I'm careful to stay off of a few specific streets* and time my dogwalking carefully I can usually avoid people, thank goodness. Even now I could probably get all the way up to Silver Lake if I go the twisty way instead of straight up Victory - nobody goes the twisty way because the hills are too steep and it's all too turny. But Silver Lake... I don't know. It's a big park, and it ought to be clear enough of people, but then a lot of people might go there to let off steam or allow their kids to run around.

* Unfortunately, one of those streets is my normal route because that's the one with all the convenient garbage cans, so.

[conuly]

(Actually, come to think, the ferry ought to be safe if I sit outside during off-peak hours. But then I'm just wandering Lower Manhattan for the sake of going to Whole Foods.)

[lightbird]

Yeah, I think as long as you're doing stuff during off-peak hours you should be good, and the ferry should be fine if you're sitting outside and it's not crowded.