Could be better. I've had way too much shit go on these past two weeks than I ever cared to see happen.

If talking about it helps, I'm here for you bud
If it's finances... I can promise an attempt. I'm starting to get a little nervous about art sales on FA after seeing so many dirt cheap YCH's browsing the front page. I feel like they would have sold so fast a couple years ago :V
My fundraisers were my pride and joy...

Glad you found your pass of the word :D

Thanks, Gaffe~! God, me too. I knew I would lol

I'm doing good still and you?

I'm one of the lucky ones
Er... For now. I'm working at a super market, part time. As soon as all this blows over I gotta get out, the people here seem just hostile. u_u
But they won't close down, so that's great news!

Same, I work in food production so I have job security.
Not sick yet but with how many of those morons we have there who like to show up sick its prolly not gonna be long

Yikes!! You guys have enough staff left? I'm seeing that's a problem with understaffed places. A friend of mine couldn't go to a dentist because she was the last person working her position at a place. It's intense, like whoever isn't fired is quitting or slaving

we are managing but holy hell its more than just grueling >.<
and because of the glove shortage now we have to have 2 30 min breaks instead of 2x 15 and a lunch
because of that the time in between breaks is longer and its draining everyone's will to work
at this point most of us are just zombies

Glove shortage? Omg, stay safe over there guys! That just sounds even more dangerous for everyone working there

Hang in there good buddy
This stuff is all going to blow over soon. They're already working on a vaccine and testing it. So that's good news ;3;

The zombie things too damn real, it's like that here too everyone's on their last leg. Their last termite infested peg leg.

Sadly the vaccine wont be ready till next year, it's in the earliest stages right now and will take anywhere from 6-12 months to get a viable vaccine and an additional 2 months to get it out to the public in force

on the glove shortage, its the whole of the world that's got it now. moronic people buy up 100 boxes and toss away gloves after touching a single thing. Biggest waste of gloves. Hospitals need em and the food industry needs em more than the people trying to avoid everything. After all, if they get sick and go to the hospital and they don't have gloves what then? If my job runs out of gloves then it means no food can be made. It starts a cycle that will lead to more needless deaths all because of select few putting themselves over others

And no kidding, I'm covered head to toe in cuts, bruises and full of fatigue

If your kitchen's anything like mine was, you guys'll be patching your last pair with flex seal and washing them with handsoap until someone shuts you down ;_;

Wow, I just can't believe it's gonna take that long for the vaccine! The outbreak'll be over by then!!

This outbreak is gonna last most of the year since there isn't any real way to slow it down

and on the gloves, my job managed to get more but we are still doing the 2 breaks a day thing and its going to make people start quitting soon from being overworked

Don't be defeated!!! Blast motivational gym music!!

Naw I'll just enjoy furry art to stay motivated

I'm glad you're back!

Thanks! I miss this community I really hope everyone's pushing through this terrible plague with everything they got

Welcome back!! :3

I've been... well, stressed out to the brink of suicide lately over not just the COVID-19 itself, but the incredible reaction that we as a people have shown towards the outbreak. It truly stints my heart to drive down a street in my cute little mountain town and see so many shops closed, so many businesses shut down, so very few cars driving around and people walking along the sidewalks... what used to be prominent with people now seems deserted and altogether forgotten about in the midst of this ugly ongoing pandemic. Then the stores are picked clean. No paper products whatsoever (so LAAAAAAAAAAAME), no meat, no canned goods... this town is short on far too many resources. :(

Then to top things off even further, I work in an elderly care facility. This place is merely a branch-off from the main HQ, located in WASHINGTON STATE. Numerous elderly residents living in THEIR facility have died from the COrona, so we also have become BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING 1984 in nature. Complete lock-down status, routine temperature checks at the door along with health-related questions to be answered, a closed dining room in place of cart-delivered room service... I've felt more like a freaking bellhop in a fancy hotel than a kitchen lackey working to serve food & drink to the elders. Our method of approach has been horribly disrupted, no thanks to this... this... THING that's contaminating humanity as we speak.

Oh, that's not all either... I've been dealing with frequent power outages, heavy snow days, icy road conditions, TRUMP, financial woes, relationship estrangement, depression and anxiety and insomnia...

but despite everything, I still make a feeble attempt at maintaining optimism in my life, even though I wish I could just stop already because it can get extremely frustrating and even exhausting sometimes.

But enough of that! How've you been? :3 Fairly well, I hope?

(I wonder if you still remember the couple icon from before, with my shepcoon and  Rin~Rin's foxcoon OC featured? Not a HUGE biggie, just checking in!)

I feel it. My family risked it a little and got fast food on more than a few occasions just to get napkins. When it comes to politics, I voted for Bernie then buried my head under a pillow this time around. It just seems like nothing good happens on the news, I want exactly enough awareness to know what I want then after that, focus on making the world a better place one small step at a time, you know? If it makes you feel any better, that's exactly what you're doing in your job, taking care of those sweet little old people. <3 It's stressful, but it means the word to them to depend on tough employees. This pandemic has really weeded out the weak-willed from every business still functioning. It's just the chain reaction from a few people quitting and then waves of customers flooding everybody while they're under staffed, which of course chases more employees out. What a nightmare

The icons!!!! Yes!!! I'll try to get those done asap. My telegram's railgunsharky and my discord's JongJong#9810
Feel free to ad me on those if you want closer communication, I can keep you updated every day as I chip away at it for sure!
_{I have a lot of unfinished stuff, I'm pretty ashamed, but better late than never is my motto. ;_;}

So glad you’re safe! Things are okay here, just mostly making sure my family is keeping safe while they’re at work! But their workplaces are doing lots to protect them so I feel good about that. Canada overall is really cracking down and doing what they can for people’s safety and it is great to see both that and civilians helping one another. Now if only everyone would stop hoarding toilet paper ;D

I hope you’re doing well there, I missed ya! <3

Shanks, Fell~ I missed you too ;_;
Glad to hear you're holding up alright! I was just talking about the fast food napkins. It's totally a thing right now, if any fast food's still open. It's always a risk, but it's a risk you can wipe with. .-A-.
Did you hear about the scalpers? I read some news about people selling their houses to buy/sell upcharged toilet paper, then amazon put a ban on upcharging it. Those people lost everything and all they have is tp. :Y It's pretty wild!!

Haha right? So true! I got a case of tissue to use as emergency backup. Whatever works right?
I heard about it yeah! Our local site, Kijiji, banned the sale of it at all as well. And most grocery stores and drug stores have put limits on how many you’re allowed to buy, with the first hour of opening being senior and disabled shoppers only.
Honestly what did they expect? It was so mean of them to try to profit off misfortune.

Scalpings no way to pay the Bill's, for sure. More often than not, they lose big. i have no idea what makes people think something that shady's garaunteed enough to sell their house. :Y

That's a smart idea, giving the more vulnerable guys an hour of safety. More places should be doing that here in the states but I just keep hearing "they're thinking about it"

Right? It’s so silly.

I thought so too, and it’s smart to do the first hour so everything is clean and sanitized for their safety, and everything is in stock.
I really hope they do decide to follow through with it in the States as well, it really seems to be helping.

I'm doing as I do. Glad to see you back on FA!

And he will do as he do, do~

They cut my shift ALOT. After I work 23rd and 24th, I don't have any shift this month( But the managers won't lay anyone off and they don't want to let people go)

Seriously, I want to bitch slap whoever brought that corona virus in U.S.

Tell me about it. I really feel lucky to have a part time job but I feel useless rn, I'm supposed to be working 2 full times
The job market is supposed to be great when everyone bounces back though, that's what everyone's saying. :D

Doing ok. Still working, but working from home.

Sounds fun if you don't go stir crazy~ Has it been relaxing or hectic with less concentration?

Distracting, but it’s getting better. Gotta just adjust my mindset for it.

Town may do a 15 day quarantine but everything is fine here so far, glad you got your password recovered, always sucks losing access to things

Thanks! I knew I'd get back in ;3

15 days of grounded, eh?
They're leaving grocery stores open in town though, right? Everywhere looks so deserted, now's the best time in history for paintball and it's illegal. Boo. u_u

Still working as people need to be able to get their money, shocked and annoyed by how all this came about and the speed, doing fine overall and hope you are doing well too

It did tho!!!! We got hit so hard all at once.
I'm doing fine, glad to hear so is this bouncing baby pinkfluff~ I know how nerve wracking it is to work with people, I feel like if I don't wash my hands and everything I touch every five minutes I'll kill someone's nan
The pressure's really on for us workers

Lol I got my account back ;)
What's up bro!

A yorkie is one of the best dogs in the world
Sorry to hear you lost the little fellow, how recently was this?
It's spreading around? Are you guys locking everything down yet?

Poor little goodboy..
Over a decade is a good life though, for a puppy, and he spent it with someone very caring. Oh man, Beck, you always get so worried when your family's going through stuff. I hope you're remembering to spoil yourself a little bit

Oh yeah, everyone except for essentials is closed here in Ohio. Goodness, in Cincinnati the police are limiting what they'll come out for and people are just casually looting stores unless they hire a personal officer on duty apparently

Oh my
Missed you, JJ

What has happened
I've become an uncle ^.^

You're an uncle? :y
Now you have to learn dad jokes!

I'm already plowing through some books on the subject xD

Let's test your skills
Hit me with a dad joke!

Hmm, gotta translate them from Swedish so makes sense ^^

A Swedish dad decided to use the spare room in his house for a den
After some work, it became a pretty sweden

Any chance you're still around? I miss you man