TWTW - Q8 for the moms

Friday I think the weather was shit. I worked extra Thursday so the Friday 4 pm tap out was even more welcome this week. Lunch was a fun plate. Vincent ordered dinner of pizza and fried things. Nails are Essie Blue Rhapsody. I fell asleep on the couch at like 10? Maybe? Friday feels far away now.

Saturday Gus fell down the steps at 2:30 am, and I was up from 2:30 to around 8 then slept from 8 to noon so that was totally fucked. Note: on Monday, I had to ask MFD what day this happened LOL. I still don't think he's right but he has to be. I took it easy the rest of the day and spent most of it reading and putting laundry away, etc. I made stuffed peppers for dinner. We zoomed with our old crew (these fools plus Jenny, Kim, and Ian) for over three freaking hours. I finally had to go to bed at 12:30. 

Sunday I was up by 7:30, which did not help the sleep deficit. I caught up on correspondence, paid bills, and then we sat outside for a while. I had big plans to do things but Gus wanted to lay with me so I did that instead. I stopped by to see my stepmom for Mother's Day, then on to do the same with my Mom and my stepdad - his birthday was Saturday - thankful for a nice day to visit. Hope all you moms had as good of a day as possible even though this year was different than usual. Different is not bad, just...different. If your perspective is correct, anyway. Anyhoo what a weird year the past week has been.

When I got home we watched an inadvisable number of Hoarders. I finished a book and started another and that's about that. 

Tomorrow is Show Us Your Books with me & Jana. See you back here for that! I never share what I'm currently reading in that post, so for inquiring minds this is the book I started last night:

Things I've been looking at on the internets

My googles are getting a workout. Some things I've looked up this week...you?

That there ring light to share with coworkers for use on video calls to help with lighting

Ergonomic chair

Folding ergonomic chair (don't bother, no options)

Yardley Italian restaurant - after patronizing it for over 20 years I could not remember the name "Carluccis" off the top of my head

bloombox to see if they had mulch for delivery

Britney Spears shaved head - to do side by sides with coronacuts in pictures

Sharepoint

Bekins Moving Solutions - you never know when I woman might want to say F it and move to the shore

PetFinder - because why wouldn't someone who already has four dogs look at more dogs in need of adoption? 

Romeo & Juliet Claire Danes Leonardo DiCaprio

https://legioncompressionsocks.com/collections/compression-socks

Best kitchen tools

Mother's Day images

Jeggings - my six year old, $30 pair couldn't hold up to increased Quarantine wear

Scrunchies. No, it's not 1990. Yes, I did purchase them 

SEO in Mississauga - SEO is work stuff for me

Cruelty-free lip balm since Bruce and Ben ate my lip balm

Weather for the next 25 days

Pug garden statues I need to get out of this house

Hollywood cast

License to Drive dad

Has your internet behavior increased? Decreased? Changed?

Happy Friday!

Thursday Thoughts - Things are bound to be improving these days one of these days

Watching UnOrthodox, Hollywood, A Secret Love. We're on episode five of Hollywood. Also the Parks & Rec reunion. I thought it was nice of those people to get together and do that. I love and miss the Parks crew.

Talking like Leslie Jordan. Welll shiiit. How y'all doin? I hope you're following him on Instagram. He makes me laugh every day.

Reading slowly still in quarantine. Show Us Your Books is Tuesday!

Riding in cars with dogs. 

Considering getting a more ergonomic chair to work from home. Do you have one you love?

Collecting flip flops on the ground floor. I keep coming to my desk and kicking them off then there they stay.

Cracking the fuck up. Fucking unboxing videos

Needing to paint my nails, change the sheets, put laundry away, pack up returns, get something printed somewhere, get a plant in the ground before it dies, etc.

Eating taco salad. The best part of making tacos for all is crafting a delicious taco salad. Big into salsa verde right now.

Listening to These Days by Jackson Browne - lyrics behind the Thursday Thoughts

Receiving a lipstick in the first week of May that I ordered last freaking year to support the Women's March.

Disbelieving that so many people are sharing fucking YouTube videos on goddamn pandemic conspiracy theories during Nurse's Week of all weeks. Humans are egotistical as fuck thinking nothing occurring in nature could take us down. You dumbasses. It's a novel virus. IT'S NEW. It has to be studied and understood. That doesn't happen in six months. Science is actually real, which some of you have forgotten in your years studying as facebook experts in microbiology, etiology, all other science-related fields, as well as politics and the Constitution because you are well rounded know-it-alls if you're nothing else. And no, it's not a conspiracy that the quack video keeps getting taken down. It's getting taken down because it is dangerous misinformation that can lead to the death of others. It's being pushed by trolls and you're fucking doing their work for FREE. This is how fucking bad it is - YouTube rarely removes ANYTHING. That is how fucking stupid and bad the idiot video is. So do not post it and say you're just "putting it out there" or whatever the fuck you want to hide behind as the reason for posting it because what you are DOING is spreading FALSE INFORMATION that could get people KILLED. Do not post it, share it, like it. Just fucking don't. Whether you think it's overblown or not overblown, a lot of people are dying from this and I don't want you to have to know someone who dies from it to take it seriously. And yes, I do know the economy is suffering. Believe me, I know that in my own home with my spouse not being allowed to work and making $0 and receiving $0 in unemployment thus far. Just stay in your fucking lane. You don't need to solve this one from your keyboard in your home. You fucking think your tin foil hat is tapping into a frequency of a worldwide plandemic? Come the fuck on now. Stop. It's embarrassing as a human.

thanks for the image Nichole

Appreciating nurses this week and every week, and teachers too. Why do nurses and teachers have to share an appreciation week (nurse image is day, but it's week this week too)? It seems extra important that they get their own time going forward LOLOL. Every time a loved one has been in the hospital it has been nurses that have kept them going with excellent care and knowledge and provided support to family members. And my life would be extremely different without the tremendous teachers I had throughout with the exception of a very few. Sometimes the only thing some kids have are teachers who care - this job is so important. They both are. Pay them more.

Loving this photo my cousin Rob found and sent to me

Thinking I was a little ahead of myself here. This came up last week and I didn't start a blog until 2011.

Wondering when I'll even be on a train next.

Reminding you

Laughing at an oldie but a goodie

What's new?

Linking up with Kristen

TWTW - Q7

Friday Coffee and dogs before I kicked off my workday. I got my second cup of coffee from other people. OPC for the win. Mom sweetened up the middle of the day by dropping off baked goods. I was supposed to help pack food for the Recovery House initiative after work but got caught up in a work project. Instead when I was done I planted bulbs, packed up food and clothes, and left for the shore at 10 pm. When I got there it was a wild mess - furniture had been delivered and shit was all askew and MFD had to leave before putting it to rights - so I got some of that put away and fell out around 1. I so missed Bruce realizing we were arriving at the shore and looking out the back and side windows (car is in park). Packing up and heading down felt super normal. 

Saturday Dog walks and more organizing and moving stuff around in the apartment. I took the dogs to Dog Beach, which was open (beaches in Ocean City still are not open) and everyone was keeping distance and/or wearing masks when they came near others. All photos I saw were that case but people were sitting on beaches which is not allowed, so they ended up closing Dog Beach yesterday and Corson's Inlet (beaches there are a state park, which opened Saturday) Saturday night. It felt weird to be on the beach but it also feels weird to be here and not be at the beach either at sunrise or to take a walk or whatever. It's all weird. Then I came home and read the Internet, which is never a good idea anymore, is it? Readjustment is going to be hard. It seems like 85% of us are sure everyone ASIDE from us are doing it wrong.

I had myself a little driveway party with no actual party elements so basically I sat in my driveway by myself while Bruce stared at me through the screen door. Lots of reading, then I made rice and sausages for dinner. MFD arrived with the old dogs around 7 and we lounged out on the new sectional. I read and he watched TV. Chill night.

Sunday My day started with rain and poop (read that clickable caption, I can't go into it again) and totally improved from there. After we purged and organized the apartment, MFD went fishing and I spent the afternoon finishing a book, starting another, eating leftovers, hanging with dogs, walking dogs, sitting on the porch with dogs, and seeing a lovely sunset. 

I'm still at the shore, will head back to Philly tonight or tomorrow. 

Thursday Thoughts - Feed the flame 'cause we can't let go

1. I start most mornings outside now and I freaking love it.

2. Outside is the true quarantine MVP. 

3. Outside and dogs. 

4. I wrote this post yesterday about struggling with productivity outside of work most days and fucking killed it today from the start. If that's what it takes, I'll write a post like that every damn night. Just kidding. I know I am working in cycles right now and today's triumphant return to productivity is not the standard, it's just the lucky day.

5. Me: I hate everything cherry flavored except sour cherry dots. Also me every afternoon without even realizing it:

6. Nails: Essie One Way for One. Love the color, meh on the name. 

7. It's been a long time since I've seen gas under $2.

8. Good stuff is happening too. The sectional for our shore apartment that it took us four years to decide on and buy at the end of February that was supposed to be delivered March 20 finally got delivered this week. The shower replacement (cracked shower pan and virtually nonexistent sub-floor that MFD patched up which lasted through last season on a wing and a prayer) we put the deposit on in the beginning of January and some other plumbing work necessary in a 120 year old house got (mostly) done this week too. The sectional takes up a ton of space in the apartment so everything will be reorganized down there in the coming months and I'll do before and after pics of that space and the bathrooms but this is it for now. Also why are the pillows that come with couches always so butt ugly?

9. Reminder: There's always time for feminism. Maybe more acknowledgement and recognition of unpaid labor will come from this. Also if you disagree or want to immediately interject with "men do stuff too," bye, forever. I'm not wasting the energy with you.

10. E-cards...

It's the last day of April. Not too sorry to see this month go.


The words following the hyphen are the song I am listening to when I start the Thursday Thoughts post. This week is Circles by Post Malone