Surviving in The day to day

Taking things day by day here as I am sure most of you are too. I’ve made small accomplishments while being sequestered away in my house. I finally got my ex’s desk cleaned off. Now if only I could get it moved to the garage so I could set up my craft area. Who knows when that will happen.

They’ve closed schools for in person teaching until May 1. We start NTI teaching next week. Honestly, I am pretty sure the rest of the school year will be NTI. According to several models the peak for COVID-19 in our state won’t be until the middle of May.

I should be getting my first unemployment check tomorrow. They are supposed to be making the payments automatic without us having to request them. I guess we shall see if that is really the case or not.

Finally catching up on all the shows my ex and I watched together. I hadn’t watched a single episode of them since we split. No time like the present I guess when I have absolutely nothing else to do. I did re-watch all of The Office before delving into what we watched together. That was extremely therapeutic. Went by really fast too.

I did also watch The Tiger King. The best thing about watching that was that my friend and I did it while using the Netflix Party extension for Chrome. If you don’t know about that then I highly suggest it! There’s a chat window and it syncs up your Netflix accounts to start and watch something at the same time. She lives on the other side of the country so it was cool to be able to do that with her. I tried to start listening to the Tiger King podcast but I am a visual person. I can’t just listen to people talk. That was my first and only time trying a podcast. I guess I am weird.

I started drawing on my living room windows with chalk markers. I had acquired some to write on my car windows during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September. I’ve done that for the last 4 years. So now I’ve drawn the Easter Bunny and an Easter egg. Someone posted a picture of the alien character from Home drawn on their door. It had him saying Can we come into the out yet? I really want to do that too. But alas my black chalk marker is not working. I may still attempt it but we will see.

I did 6 of the 7 puzzles I had to do. May start the last one next week since I took a break for a week. I did a Diamond Painting. My first one. That was time consuming and fun. The one I got was leftover from Christmas. I found it at Meijer on clearance for $2 before all of this started. Worth it. Would probably do more of those. I wish I had found some before everything shut down.

Hope all is going well for everyone else out there. I hope everyone is taking this pandemic seriously too. There’s plenty of people here that aren’t. I have repeatedly had to tell the neighbor kids they can’t come play with A. We’ve gone outside for him to ride his scooter in our driveway and they try to come over. It’s two different households playing together that are trying to come over. Obviously their parents haven’t explained what’s going on to them. I’m not trying to expose my kids when I don’t know where everyone in your household has been. Because they come and go constantly. I know some may have essential jobs, but still.

It may be a little different to me. Since I’ve lost a child. I’m not trying to take that risk. I opened my daughter’s chest of mementos today. I had made masks for her when she was going through her stem cell transplant. I wasn’t sure if I had put any of the fabric I used for those masks in her box. Now that I think about it, that fabric was probably ruined when our house flooded the first time. I hadn’t opened that box in a few years. I expected a little bit more emotion from me. But it will come. It always starts to build up this time of year. Her birthday is May 2nd, 2012. And her death date is June 22, 2013. She would have turned 8 this year. I need to go visit her grave. I haven’t been in a year. I had planned on going before all of this started. Her cemetery does spring cleaning in March. They throw away anything on the grave or in the vases. I decorate her grave every year but I always go clean it out before they do. I didn’t get to do that this year. Maybe that’s a plan for today. It’s supposed to be pretty out so I can go and sit at her grave for awhile. The boys are going with their dad for a couple of hours.

Well this entry has gone all over the place. I didn’t even know what I was going to write when I sat down. I’ll leave it here though. Stay safe.