Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - Day 4

I went to 7-Eleven again and a Marine struck up a convo with me. He was twice retired: Marine and civilian job for 18 years, so he told me. He was brushing this whole COVID-19 virus off. And the whole time I was thinking he falls into the "older population". Ok. Cool. Cleaned out a closet today and found $84! Score! Have some stuff to donate now, but don't know if anyone will pick it up. Everything could be "contaminated". So, that stuff will have to wait. Looked for Kaela's chicken tenders again. No luck. Every place seems to be out of TP, paper towels and bread...still. Amazon doesn't have this stuff either. I figure that once we need it, it should be back in stock. I hope. Darn hoarders. Our routine seems to be eating lunch at home and getting dinner "to-go" from somewhere, with me being the mule. Fred contracts everything and Kaela is an introvert. So, here I am. This was also Fred's first day to telecommute to practice social distancing. It's going ok. We'll see how it is at the end of this. LOL!

Monday, March 16, 2020 - Day 3

So, it was an ordinary day. I went to 7-Eleven for my soda. They no longer let you refill your cup for a discount, but they will give you the discounted price. Good move. I went in search of some BBQ chicken strips for my daughter, but couldn't find any. No TP either. No paper towels. No Lysol wipes. No normal white bread for the hubs. He's picky. Not a lot of meat, but I only recalled that after someone asked. There are people in the social networks constantly asking where TP is and meat and such. It's annoying. They're creating a bigger panic. Kaela and I were supposed to go to Disney from July 11 to July 18. That may not happen. As of right now, they closed the parks through the end of the month. I think they'll be closed longer...thinking mid-May at the soonest. The hotels and Disney Springs is still open. This is very strange and surreal.

"Social Distancing" weekend 1

I should have started this last weekend when we first started this "social distancing" thing due to COVID-19, aka Coronavirus. Due to the fact that this virus spreads so quickly, we Americans are asked not go "out and about" except for essentials, stand 6 feet from the next person and wash our hands A LOT! School in Virgina and much of the US is "off" for a couple of weeks. We were told on Friday, March 13th to bring anything home we would need to instruct. We wouldn't be back for awhile...a month! Teachers are expected back April 13th, which was an already planned workday. Students tentatively are due back on April 14th. So, what have we done. Fred and I went to our normal breakfast at the VFW. It was rather empty, but that was expected. Streets seemed to be filled with the usual amount of cars, but the VFW parking lot was not. Sheetz after seemed pretty much the same except the cashier was wearing gloves. Ok. Didn't do anything earth shattering on Saturday. Trying to figure out what I could do to occupy my time at home. Sunday, we didn't go to breakfast or church or anywhere really. By this time we knew there was a toilet paper shortage, for whatever reason. Why toilet paper? Who knows. We had enough for the 3 of us to get by for a couple more weeks. We weren't worried about running out, even though we would be home all day. This is the beginning. Should be interesting.

It's been awhile

This will be short. Trying this blog from my phone, a Motorola Droid Razr. I have Swype, so this shouldn't be too painful. I would like to start blogging about teaching Math and Math ideas, but will probably need to create another page, but would really rather not!
With the election officially happening tomorrow, life is a little crazy. Living in the DC Metro area is showing it's downside right now. :)
Ok. That's a rap. Hoping this will help me blog.

My Daughter's room

I'm currently redoing my 7 year-old's room. She first wanted a Tinkerbell room, but then changed her mind to an "Under the Sea" room. I'm not talking Finding Nemo or The Little Mermaid, but she wants sea creatures.

I painted her room 3 shades of blue and bought some decals from Amazon.com. I knew I could not paint fish. However, I did paint a scuba diver because I was not going to pay $26 for one scuba diver. My daughter thinks the diver looks great and that's all that matters.

All her furniture is wood. So we are installing wall shelves, buying a lighter desk and I'm painting her bed and dresser white. White goes more with a little girl. I had stripped the foot board and headboard to her bed YEARS ago when I thought I would just varnish them. Since then, I've thought everything would look better white. So I wasted countless hours taking off-white paint off the bed pieces just to paint them again! However, they are now white and look pretty darn good, IMHO.

Her dresser is my dresser from when I was 10. It's in decent shape and all wood. I'm still in the process of removing all the varnish to paint it white. This is tedious. I can't imagine 'wanting' to do something like this for fun. I've put a lot of time into this project, as well. I still have to do some minor repairs to the dresser, too, which required me taking the top off of it. I'm hoping gorilla glue for wood will help with the repair. My husband is doubtful.

So, when all is complete, I will post pictures. This is just a teaser, I suppose.