This feels a little strange, usually we get together with family, even if it is on the weekend before or after the actual birthday. This year, with corona looming all around, we are being told we can't congregate in groups larger than 10. Shit, most Mexican families have that many people living under one roof at any time, what do you do then? Wife said she heard that if we go to the store (here in Austin), we must stay 6 feet apart from anyone else. That is just starting to get more and more drastic. Well at least we can still say happy birthday, Mijo. Wife already bought some mixes to make a cake and a pie for tonight so at least it can seem like a celebration of sorts.
I really have no idea when we will be seeing my folks, my mom is taking the advice seriously of self-quarantining for the sake of my dad. Wife says pretty much the same thing is happening on her side of the family. My father in law is actually a couple years older than my dad, which I think puts him closer to 80 than 70 at this point (I don't know exact numbers). Wife said yesterday that over on her side of the family, they haven't let grandpa even leave the house and he is the kind that likes to stay busy running little errands and going to the Goodwill and pawn shops looking for "treasure."
Boy is turning 26 today which is a big one. At the start of the year, he had a brand new high paying job and he was fixing to be set up with medical insurance better than what we had. Fast forward a month, he was basically laid off, and now that he comes up on his 26th birthday, he has no insurance. If he can stay healthy it will be fine for awhile, but I worry about him more than Javalina. Boy had that typhus thing two years ago which the medication given to him, stripped him of his own immunity, then he came down with mono last year and that also kicked his ass. The disease is most dangerous to people like him, with compromised immunity systems, so I really do worry about our Little Nemo (he had the little fin on one side).
If we can look on a silver lining, he only has one class this semester and no job to take him out of the house. The job he had exposed him to a lot of people from out of the country, mostly China, so I am glad, for that reason, that he no longer has the job. Although, thinking long term, everything might be idled down and that will just prevent him from getting hired quicker than normal. There are rumors we might go under martial law and be forced to stay home, no one will be working for a few weeks, I am not sure how we even get past that huge blockade, much less survive and keep our houses and cars with no income coming in.
Oh well, we have to remain positive, nothing was ever solved by going to the dark side and thinking like the world is ending. Even if it were, we must still fight to make the best of what may come.
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