A Day in The Life (Quarantine/Spring Break Edition)

Happy Tuesday! I thought I would do a Day in the Life blog, but give it a a bit of a twist: Quarantine/Spring Break Edition. It will be EPIC, so hang on to your hats, kids!! I am in the second week of our regularly scheduled Spring Break, all while being quarantined (#stayhomecanada(....soooo...fun times!

9:24-Wake Up, check my phone/Insta/News reports/CoVid Reports (I don't actually see the amount of new cases in the morning)/FB/VOD from my Bible App. I forgot to take a picture, but you can trust me that I did wake up then :)

9:30-Wash face/brush teeth/hair. I try to locate a missing toothpaste tube; start new toothpaste tube.

9:45-Get breakfast and cold coffee (still leftover from yesterday). I make a muesli with yogurt and granola.

9:50-Take breakfast into our bedroom; I start watching my shows that I am behind on; Grey's to start. I start out by bringing up blog, and looking at the posts that I want to write/publish.

9:58-I dump out my books and magazines, settle in on our bed, I start on this blog post.

10:05-Eat breakfast while watching (and rewinding) Grey's. I have my laptop open; I peruse FB, etc.

11:20-I make our bed, start in on The Resident (an episode that I had missed a few weeks ago), begin looking for my lost phone.

11:25-Find my phone underneath the covers. Continue watching TV.

11:30-Grab a new (somewhat warm) coffee, start filling the sink with dish water to wash dishes.

12:15-Watch The Great Chocolate Showdown (we got Blue Curve a few weeks ago, so we get TLC, Food Network, etc again), while calling/texting friends, and hanging out on FB.

12:30-Anker and I get some packages that he had brought and ordered from Banggood, so I try on what he bought for us (a neck massager thing), and I do dishes, and I take out frozen leftover for dinner (how may times can you dress up spaghetti?). I make a drink from some tea and sparkling water.

1:00-I decide to organize and switch out my clothes. I never did this until a few years ago. I am thankful that I have gotten a lot of clothes (mostly shirts) in the last year, and I love some of them, but some of them would look better on someone else....sooooo, as well as switching them over, I am also going through them, and getting rid of stuff I don't like.

1:30-I decide to do a load of laundry. Not because we need clean clothes, but because I wanted to go through all of my clothes, and to see what ones I should keep, etc.

1:45-Back in our room, I relax and watch The Great Chocolate Showdown, and wait for the laundry to finish.

2:00-Chat with friends via text, switch laundry over, and start a new load (I forgot to take a picture). Chat with Emily (and a couple of other neighbours) on the way back (from a distance, of course!). I make up a snack for lunch.

2:30-Eat snack, watching Chocolate Showdown (which I realize that I had seen before).

2:38-Mom calls while I am getting my snack, so I call her back. I eat while talking with her. I nearly choke on a broccoli floret. Mom and I chat about what she wants to put in her new blog post (we banter back and forth about the virus crisis, and I ask her opinion on something).

3:00-Call Dad and ask some political/CoVid question. We talk about this virus is different than the flu, as more people die from the flu each year than how many are dying of this.

3:30-I do a bit more organizing of clothes, I take the one load from the dryer and bring it in.

3:45-I decide that I NEED to get out! I grab some magazines, a book, and my journal, and I go off for a drive. Anker is knee-deep in a project. I go for a drive, and had hopes of sitting and reading/journalling, but I end up missing where I was going to stop, so I change plans a few times, before I decide to get a French Vanilla and drive to my friend's house.

4:00-Friend isn't home, so I decide to go "up the hill" to "my" teacher's house. My boss calls while I am at said friend's house (on my side of town), so I stay parked for a few minutes while I talk with her. When that is over, I text "my" teacher to tell her that I bought a French Vanilla, and I assume that she thinks /knows that means that I am coming over.

4:15- I gave the car a good run, and since I missed her turn off, so I was turning around in an empty Casino parking lot when she called me, asking if I were home, and then I explained that I was nearly at her house! She was quite surprised when I told her that I was down the street :) Yes, we get a long just fine!!!

4:45-Drop off her FV on her front door, chat with her for a few minutes at her house, and head home. On the way, I pick up a FV for Anker (free!), and I run into the grocery store to grab milk, and some frozen fruit. They have tape on the floor to show you were to stand #socialdistancing.

6:00-Come home, heat dinner up for us, bring the laundry in from the dryer, take a picture of the sun, chat with one of our neighbours, dump the clothes on to our bed, and grab dinner to eat on our bed.

6:20-Eat dinner, while sitting in my chair, and catching up on Instastories. I would have turned on the TV, but I know that I am going back out later, and I know that I am going to try out a Google Meet thing with my teacher, so no point in turning it on for a few minutes.

6:50-Get my dessert, and try out Google Meet with my teacher. We chat for a few minutes. Since being on Spring Break, and since we are both in town (she cancelled her trip), and we can't really walk or go for coffee in the usual way, we have been chatting at least once a day (or every other day). I am thankful that I have someone who I work with so closely is someone that I get along with really well. We are able to figure out the Google Meet thing with a fair amount of ease, chat for a few minutes, and then we say goodbye.

7:00-I eat my dessert while watching more Instastories. I also do some Instatories of my own; check out some IG accounts, and I think some more FB cruising, and I check out my mom's website and blog (I will post the link later), to see if she had published her new post yet (it hadn't showed up yet), and then I decide to go out for another drive

7:30-I catch up on my COViD-19 Bible Plans (yes, that is a thing!!!)

7:45-I play on my phone a bit in the car before leaving the house. I go and stop by my friends house for a few minutes to check out her display of hearts on her window. We visit (from a distance!) for a few minutes, and then I take a drive around a park, while saying a prayer for our city, and our front line workers (YOU ROCK, btw!!!), and stop at the school for a few minutes. The WiFi is spotty, but I check out some videos on FB, and then I come back home.

9:00-I come home and hang out in the car for a few minutes. K calls me, and we chat, and then I come inside, and then I call her back, while I start organizing and folding the rest of my clothes.

 9:45-I realize that I will have to finish the clothing organizing fun tomorrow, so I put the winter clothes in one basket, and the clean clothes that I will fold (eventually) in another basket, and I put them on the floor. I clean off our bed of my stuff; and and I run a bath. Still keep looking for lost toothpaste (yes, it bugs me that I can't find it!!)!

10:00-Have a bath, and do some reading from my Guidepost magazine.

 10:20-Get settled on our bed; turn on the tv, and I start in on finishing this blog post :) I start watching Chopped: Sweets, and I upload the rest of the photos to FB of the day (I have been doing this all throughout the day). Does anyone else know another way to get their photos from their phone (I don't use a camera anymore), other than through posting them on FB? Watch various cooking shows.

11:00-Anker comes to bed, and we chat for a bit, and we talk with and pet Calico for a few minutes. Anker says goodnight, and turns over to fall asleep.


11:45-Still hammering out this post, perusing FB, and chatting with people.

12:05-Turn off TV; In hopes of starting on bedtime routine.

12:31-FINALLY stops updating and going through this post for the umpteenth time! Closes this post (I will probably edit a bit more of the wording tomorrow)! Bedtime routine!....figure out a movie to watch, take meds, throw water in my sleep machine, take final walk around place, make sure doors are locked (Anker told me that he locked them, but I sometimes check), put in my night guard, throw in movie (or show) in my laptop DVD, turn on any night or twinkle lights that I/we want on for the night, put on sleeping mask lights out. Everything until putting on my sleeping mask isn't necessarily done in that order!

FYI: That journal, the mags, and the book that I took with me? Yah, I never got to those at all today, let alone during my time out (twice!).

1:00-...Lights out! I will probably play on my phone for a while (I know it is bad for me...but in some odd way, it helps me to fall asleep...and it also helps me to wake up...go figure!)!

Well, it is now March 31st, a week after I did my Day in the Life :) I had gotten all the text down, but I have uploaded the pictures just today (and edited a bit), so, here ya go! I hope you enjoyed my VERY EPIC day in the life post :) I did take a few more pictures of the day, but I won't include them, as they are pretty much just the same ones as the ones that I have posted here. So, how's your quarantine/self-isolating going?

PS..I FINALLY put my winter clothes away in their shelf on Sunday!