I'm in far Southern New Jersey, almost 3 hours South of NYC.

I spent 20 years drunk, depressed and obsessed with all kinds of fictional doom (been here since the beginning).

This virus hit, I stopped drinking and my depression lifted. So weird.

I think what happened is … in my subconscious … "This is the doom you have been dreading and prepping for your whole adult life … let's do this."

Life is not normal - I am working from home and homeschooling.

For the purposes of isolation, we're counting my household, my SO's household (we do not live together due to real estate issues), his ex-wife's household, and my ex-husband's household as one household (5 adults in their 40s, 5 children 8-14, and a brand new baby belonging to my SO's ex-wife and her new husband).

We made a deal that the kids don't go anywhere else or have play dates outside that bunch, nor is anyone coming to visit any of the 4 homes. This in itself is the strangest thing that has happened in 6 years since my divorce … this level of cooperation. We are even texting each other if someone goes out, so that the others don't have to expose themselves … it's unbelievable to all of us, I think … but we are doing it for our collective kids.

Fortunately, 4 of the adults are able to work from home and my SO is a contractor who doesn't get near anyone all day.

In my house we're vegetarian so we've had no problem with food as it seems like the meat is what's missing.

I miss my sister and her family, and my mother. They all live together and we aren't visiting.