52 Card Project 2021: Week 31: Scourge
Aug. 5th, 2021 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrSo...the Delta variant is surging. I am going back to masking up when I am inside. I am going to Convergence this weekend (because everyone will be masked and vaccinated), but given the growth of the Delta variant, that will probably be my last sort-of-back-to-normal-life for a while. Until this variant is knocked down again.
I experienced a metaphorical example this week that reminded me of Covid, so this card is called "Scourge." Which refers both to the fact that Covid is surging again and...
My pantry got invaded by pantry moths.
It was hugely disruptive, and expensive to throw away tons of food, and ugh, ugh, ugh. So gross. I became paranoid about contagion and about getting rid of this mysterious, yucky force that upended my life and how could I make sure that it NEVER COMES BACK? Did I clean enough? What more can I do to protect myself?
Rob was terrified of spiders, so I always Took Care of the Spiders. They don't bother me. But these--urgh. I used Disgust from Pixar's Inside Out as the central character to represent me. I didn't even want to put pictures of the actual moths and larva on the card because I know I would never be able to bear to look at it again--they make me so squeamish. So I used a child in a moth costume instead.
Oh, and those expensive Good Grips Pop Top containers I used to stock my pantry? Moths can TOTALLY get into them.
URGH.
Scourge
Click here to read about the 52 card project and see the year's gallery.
I experienced a metaphorical example this week that reminded me of Covid, so this card is called "Scourge." Which refers both to the fact that Covid is surging again and...
My pantry got invaded by pantry moths.
It was hugely disruptive, and expensive to throw away tons of food, and ugh, ugh, ugh. So gross. I became paranoid about contagion and about getting rid of this mysterious, yucky force that upended my life and how could I make sure that it NEVER COMES BACK? Did I clean enough? What more can I do to protect myself?
Rob was terrified of spiders, so I always Took Care of the Spiders. They don't bother me. But these--urgh. I used Disgust from Pixar's Inside Out as the central character to represent me. I didn't even want to put pictures of the actual moths and larva on the card because I know I would never be able to bear to look at it again--they make me so squeamish. So I used a child in a moth costume instead.
Oh, and those expensive Good Grips Pop Top containers I used to stock my pantry? Moths can TOTALLY get into them.
URGH.
Click here to read about the 52 card project and see the year's gallery.