The butterfly effect rona has created for most

Day 1: 04/28/20

Everyone seems to like the fact that they don’t have to go to school anymore. I, for one, disagree. My grades will indeed drop drastically because I can’t ask a million questions or if I am even doing things correctly. I get confused and then decide to not do assignments because I do not understand them. In one such class, I have neglected to make it further than the first page out of around fifty pages consisting of three chapters we need to understand for the AP test. I just give up honestly. I thought about graduating this year because it’s online so I do not need to see people or interact. As we all know, people and I don’t agree. I am super nice up front, but that is because I’m generally a nice person. I could absolutely hate someone yet be their friend and help them through obstacles.

Okay, enough about that boring stuff so we can cover more boring topics. My general daily routine is to wake up slightly after nine. I get out of bed, throw on a sweatshirt, and go let my dog out to go to the bathroom. Then, I walk down the hallway to go feed her. My baby sister and step-mom are most generally at the table eating, so I smile and say good morning sunshine to the baby. She waits every morning for me to wake up and watches down the hallway for me to come out of my room. While my dog eats, I eat cereal. As of a few days ago, I ran out of cereal. I tried getting some from Walmart, but they don’t have it either. So, now I roam endlessly looking for food I like that I would actually eat for breakfast, which generally ends up being nothing. After this, I end up vacuuming or washing dishes to feel like I’m doing something so I don’t get in trouble for being lazy(lol).

The rest of my day consists of playing on my phone, talking to my boyfriend when he is on break, and waiting for someone to suggest something to do. Later at night, my dad comes home from work, we eat dinner, usually we watch a movie, and then everyone goes to bed and I stay up til the next morning watching Netflix and repeat the entire process again the next day.

Until next time,

Liv

Day 2: 05/01/20

This corona thing has got to be the most uninteresting thing ever. I have chopped off half of my hair and created a mouse cage out of a couple gallon tank. Other than the boring stuff I have typed so far, I have got nothing else…literally. I do nothing most of the time and want to explode. Calculus is awful and I don’t understand it. I really want to go back to work to make bank.

I am tired of being in my house and seriously contemplating graduating just so I can leave earlier. Not to be super weird or gory, but  Corona would be wayyyyy more interesting if it was like the Black Plague and killed everyone and not just old or sick people, so that we actually had something to be worried about and weren’t just stuck in our houses for no apparent reason.

To shake things up a bit, my weekends are slightly busier. I get to be slightly more occupied, which takes my mind off of the never ending boredom I experience every day. This weekend I helped my boyfriend,Eric, put in new LDL speakers. We ripped off all the plastic on each truck door. The old speaker system was unplugged, and the new speaker was screwed into each door. Then, all the plastic was placed back on. We also required a new screen/ display thing that plays movie into his dash and placed the plain back over that too. Aside from that, a back camera was wired from the back to the front of the truck because a new ground wire had to be put in, and a subwoofer and AMP system was wired in to make bass stronger and the music louder. If we’re being honest, I was absolutely bored for part of it and just ate food while holding wires and such. Fixing vehicles is not my thing. In fact, I would rather see a car blow up than fix one.

That’s all for today folks. I’ve got nothing else because, quite honestly, I don’t want to add onto boring with more boring.

Day 3: 05/04/20

As many of my friends know, I love animals. In the last couple of weeks I have been wanting baby animals. To add some insight, last year I had around four baby birds, three baby raccoons, and a baby red squirrel. Well, per my request, in a span of forty eight hours I gained seven baby animals. They were two different species, but all within around a week old. This means I have been waking up every three hours to feed said animals and running back and forth between turning on a heat lamp, switching the heating pad on, and making my room a literal furnace to keep their body heat up. My dog is not so happy with me. She tried to sleep with me, but she gets too hot and is panting so she moves to the much cooler floor. The sad but also beneficial part of this is that five of the babies were able to be relocated to a different home that has a better idea of how to care for them than I do. It also means less bottle feeding and milk all over me and the baby. The moral of this story is to be careful what you wish for, or at least to word your wishes differently. As of right now, I am still waking up at three and six in the morning to keep my tiny kids alive (hopefully). If they die, I am  going to cry. Animals lighten my heart and refill my extremely small  tolerance level for stupid people.

As of late, I am becoming excruciatingly fed up with people’s ability to argue. I believe if something is to be argued upon, real points need to be made. These points must be verifiable and factual. They can not be opinions simply based on judgmental issues. For example, based on true events, you can not say not to go near your baby sister to avoid getting her sick because a person you went hiking with is untrustworthy. That being said, said person works in hospitals and is around sick people and possibly corona patients. What does distrust in someone else have to do with me being around my sister? To tie this up, basically you can’t make arguments based on sarcasm and emotion. Your points must be true, valid points. You also have to know what you are talking about to even make any sense at all. The moral of this story is that stupid people will always fail in an argument whether they lose or the other person gives up trying to make actual sense.

Day 4: 05/07/20

Stress. Purrrrreee absolute stress. That is what I’m feeling. I applied at “necessary” places in order to get a job again to pay for my car. My aunt’s work place, the Warren Manor, called me back. I then went on to tell the guy I did not want the job because I was waiting to see if this veterinary office would call me back. I had emailed them previous to their call asking about an internship because I need animal hours for vet med in college. They then emailed me back and said they’d give me a job instead. The vet’s manager told me once this was all over-I was assuming she meant corona- she would talk to the Dr. and call me for a proper interview. Since this meant I would not have a job for a while, I proceeded to call the Manor back today and tell my aunt and the boss dude that I did in fact want the job again. I went in and gave all my medical papers to a lady, and I even got the first round of TB shots(I almost passed out). Then, I went home to feed my mouse. After about thirty minutes of being home, I get a call from warren that looks a lot like the veterinary office number. I answer and it is the Dr. Asking me when I can come in to work. The words out of my mouth were this,”Uhhhhhhhhhh…*long pause*…let me look.” I gave her a date and everything is supposed to be good, right? No, everything is not alright. I now have two jobs that times overlap and I literally told them both today I would work for them. Literal rip in the chat right there. I don’t know what to do. I forgot to ask what I’m wearing for the job, and I don’t know how either jobs schedule. I am so very deeply hoping it’s monthly so I can work them around each other. Please pray for me.

Yours truly but sadly,

Olivia

Day 5:05/08/20

Welp, my one remaining mouse died today. To say the least, I currently don’t feel anything other than maybe irritation with everyone. I didn’t even shed a tear even though my heart was shattered. I guess my dog, Aspen, is now back to being my main baby again. In all honesty, I get in trouble for “not being stern enough” towards her, because according to my parents, she does not behave. Little do they know she is a perfect angel with me, and the only thing she has ever done to misbehave is chew things. She has some weird mother daughter connection with me. She has been at my heels ever since she was born. I never used a leash when she was little because there was no need. She has extreme overprotection issues to the point where no one can enter my room unannounced. This is due to her keeping all of the other animals away from me. She has gotten into several fights with our other dog all because he walked over to me when she was clearly sitting with me. One such fight left him with his lower eyelid split in half and blood on his chin. Last night, she did not hear my dad walking down the hall way and when he opened my door, she started growling and was right beside the door ready to pounce. Needless to say, this earned her some choice words.

Overall, it has been a rough week. I hide in my room and push everyone that cares about me away, except for my parents because they couldn’t tell shit from chocolate. I mean, I guess I am fine other than being overly angry with things that I normally could hold the sass back from. My boyfriend has endured extreme, uncontrollable, and unprovoked yet  unintentional sass and raging bitch attitude from me. I totally feel bad, but what can you do? Honestly, he hasn’t even cared and always apologizes trying to make me feel better. That is boyfriend of the year award right there.

Day 6: 05/10/20

I am so tired. I want to sleep, but my head hurts and it’s also only seven o’clock. Today was kinda uneventful but not terribly boring. I went hiking with my mom, and then we went to applebees and got takeout. I listened to my mom tell me a lovely story of a lady that died of our dear Rona. Honestly, it was kind of sad but extremely funny. Long story short, she tripped over the cart the body was on, and was like,”Okay Karen(can’t release actual name sooo…) , just trip me.” All of the other nurses burst out laughing. That is kind of gruesome and morbid, but it’s absolutely  hilarious.

I attempted to put confetti in my boyfriend’s graduation card my mom got him, but it was too fat so he noticed there was stuff inside the card and dumped it out. In response to that, I took a handful and threw it on him. His parents got him a long range rifle with a $2500 scope. Holy crappp. That’s expensive, but it lights up the cross hairs and makes them blink when the gun tilts. This is because when shooting long range, the gun has to be almost perfectly straight or the bullet will curve.

Since this is my last post, I just want to say that corona is not going to go away. It will come back until an effective, long term vaccine is created. That being said, there is no way we are starting school up again. I mean, we may be able to go back for a few months, but once we hit fall we are screwed all over again. The only reason corona is going to dissipate slightly is due to the humidity of summer. The particles from the virus bounce of water particles in the air, therefore making it hard for them to transmit to other people. Once fall hits, water droplets decrease rapidly, and the virus particles can disperse  extremely far. So I’ll just say here and now, good luck to everyone. My step mom is the only one in our household that does not have something that makes it life threatening for her to get corona. Yay us!

Yours truly,

Liv