I recently read that people who enjoy writing should be daily logging this experience so that they could look back and have it on record. Quite frankly, there’s nothing I’d like to do less, despite the fact I enjoy writing.

I think we all develop coping skills and strategies that ideally work as best as they can for us, for some that will be writing. That’s not the case for me. Thus far, my coping strategy has been working 100% of the time I am awake.

I am classified as a healthcare worker. I do not work directly with patient care. But they have deemed us critical even so, and I get it. I have spent the past two weeks working on plans to split my team in two in order to have half work from home and half physically at work, switching weekly. In part, this is to ideally keep my entire team from getting sick at once. We are also aware that if things go completely pear-shaped, we will be called in to work patient care in some manner though we are all hoping it will not come to that.

We move to the split shifts this upcoming week and I am hoping things run as smoothly as possible because I think we are in this for the long haul now, and I am hoping my team works together to prove we can operate in this manner.

Planning for work situations is where my brain is right now. If I am not directly working, I am thinking about work and what I/we can do to help. I am really struggling to turn that off, and since I can’t turn it off too well, I tend to end my days completely exhausted. I appreciate my understanding family.

Mr. Ink is in danger of losing about half his hours, or more, as the shop begins to make moves toward splitting their team as well, plus parts warehouses are in danger of shutting down completely. We are extremely thankful for my stable job right now, even though things might get tight.

All this is to say, in part, that I haven’t had a lot of time or energy to be working on knitting or crafting projects. Before this all started, I’d cast on a lintilla shawlette as I wanted something mindless out of my handspun, and lintilla is one of those knits that really brings me peace and joy.

It is already the size it would be if I was using 4 ounces of fiber, but I am using an 8 ounce handspun so this one is going to be mega-sized. I am totally ok with that. I can knit on this forever and not get bored. And I greatly appreciate having this long term piece to knit on when I am feeling like attempting stillness.

I do hope you are all quite well out there, and are holding up in place and aren’t putting others in danger no matter how hard it is. We are in it for the long haul, and like everything, this too shall pass.