2020 Day 1 of Spring Break

For Rockridge, we are on Spring Break.  For other schools, they are suppose to be returning from Spring Break, but many are now closed because of the closing of schools due to the Coronavirus pandemic.  In fact, just last night Iowa recommended closing schools for four weeks, and New York City is closing some school until the end of April.  One thing the additional time does is give me time to write in this Blog more often.  So I told Alexa to play some Christmas music at volume five and here I am.  So far, Amber and Karrigan have headed off to Missouri to spend time with Amber's friend up in Rochester, as her friend is receiving medical treatments (not related to Coronavirus).

Accomplishments today include

1. accompanied Amber to Dollar General for some grocery...she needed to pick up diapers for Kourtney, and we also picked up some little thing for us.  I also picked up the ingredients for an awesome bowl of macaroni and cheese wonderfulness tonight.  I'm going to include tuna fish and peas and mushrooms, and it's going to be great!  My mom use to make that all the time, but Amber doesn't like "chunks", so this will be just for me.  I contemplated Chicago style pizza, but I decided I don't want to drive into Moline.  Amber's friend picked me up a pint of vanilla ice cream, so I can make myself a strawberry shake with supper too, since we recently got some strawberries.
2. took out the trash and recycle
3. agreed to dog sit Kya and Thor tomorrow for Kourtney.  So beginning around 1:30 tomorrow, this house will be a zoo....literally.
4. watched the news and received an update on corona virus information - one bit of news was to limit watching the coverage, so I'm currently following those guidelines by shutting off the television and listening to Christmas music while I type away here
5. I weighed myself (not good, but not too bad either) and updated my online spreadsheet of my checking account - also not good, but not too bad either)

Things I could do today...

• stretch and get a work out in...make sure to close green ring, but I need to incorporate a couple of exercise sessions in
• 10:51 - green ring closed...30 min. treadmill walk!
• take Sophie and Lily for a walk
• watch basketball - not live basketball, but the DVD's I have of my old high school games
• watch a movie - I think I might watch that foreign film that won all those academy awards - Parasite?
• try to reach out to Chase, Carmen, and Cole and see how they are doing
• visit my parents to check in on them and take some strawberries to them
• I visited with them, and they had a couple friends there.  Of course, one of them had just returned from Europe a few days ago.  Geez.
• figure out a quick way to digitally score the research papers I need to work on, and then score the research papers - about 80 of them
• run the shark around the house to vacuum
• While the main hallway doesn't look like it now, I did accomplish this - upstairs and downstairs.
• read a book (I finished my previous book, last night, and it was really good.)
• listen to a podcast or two or three - Google Tribe, Sober Guy, nutrition guys
• take a shower, shave, and get dressed...another advice tip this morning was to try to avoid just staying in pajamas and laying around all day
• I haven't done this yet - 7:51 p.m....I think I will shower before I go to ged.
• take a nap - I think it's going to be okay to do this but just keep it moderate.  I did wake up at 4:30 a.m. today, and I couldn't get back to sleep.  
• OKAY...maybe I didn't accomplish everything, but I did accomplish some things not on the list!
• I weeded my paperwork file tote, which was an all-day job, including three garbage sacks full of shredded documents.  That job has been on the "someday list" for a long, long time.
• I found the title to the HHR; more importantly, I found the title to the Dodge truck!  I wasn't sure where either was at, but it's amazing what can be found sticking misplaced in a different file folder.
• I found what just may be a long lost insurance certificate that is still active.  I need to check on that tomorrow.
• I organized my file folder that includes the Northwestern Mutual stuff - two life insurance policies and an annuity.
• I organized my file folder for my Modern Woodman stuff, including me, Carmen, and Chase.
• I added to the "divorce folder", but that's a good thing.  If I keep that awful memory in one file folder, it's just easier on my brain.
• I found the plastic replacement ear plug covers to my ear buds.  I thought those were someplace, but I didn't realize they were in my cabinet next to my bed.  You may think this is some trivial thing, but comfort for the ears when listening to music or a podcast is very nice.

Later today, I will update this to see what I might have accomplished.