The pandemic is becoming a major ball and chain for my husband and me. Even though the area we live in is pleasant in many ways, Hubby is not that happy here. It's hard for me to be happy, too, because everything is stalled. Under normal circumstances, we'd be thinking about next steps. It was our initial understanding that my husband's best friend would have work for my husband in the area we're living. However, the future of that seems grim as the friend is basically disabled by the psychosis he's experiencing from covid-19. If we had known this would happen, we would have picked a different area, much closer to my husband's friends and family in/near Prague. We would have also liked to start exploring France even more, but that can't happen either, because of covid-19. Let's get this stupid pandemic over with already! I'm eager to get the darned vaccine already and hope everyone else will, too. I can't express how people not getting the vaccine only makes life harder for everyone. Supposedly, people like me and Hubby who aren't yet in the insurance system can get appointments for the vaccine sometime in June.

Another hassle we're dealing with is getting our mail from the US. My husband's friend was getting it for us since he lives in our old area in the US. Since that friend also regularly came to Czech Republic, monthly, he was bringing it. As he has been ill with psychosis for so long, we've been unable to get it. We're not blaming him. Of course not. But that still creates a difficulty for us. My husband has asked another friend to get it and send it, priority, to us. My sister has already mailed stuff to us from another source. "Priority" seems to be extraordinarily slow, unlike in the past. I can't help but think the current USPS head, and his cronies, are mostly to blame. She mailed it one and a half weeks ago and it still hasn't arrived. One time we even had mail sent by UPS (United Parcel Service) but that cost almost $200. That reached us in three days only. That's not affordable to do more than once, or max twice. In contrast, USPS Priority costs about $35. If/when we finally get it, it will be received as slowly as regular Air Mail letters, way back when. In fact, I think the Air Mail birthday card my sister sent me reached us faster.