Good Things Friday (55)
March 6, 2020
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Total collected: Lakota, $640.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
1. The work on our taxes should start this week. In about two weeks, I should be able to stop holding my breath for the tax hit. Ending that particular anticipation will be nice.
2. I finally got a few outstanding health appointments on the calendar. I need to find out what I’m allergic to because I am sick of randomly itching and random rashes sprouting. Cross your fingers for .. good grief, I don’t even know what to hope for other than an answer that’s palatable.
Challenges this week: My fatigue has been … well, overwhelming. I hate it. I hate it so much. I hate feeling useless because there are 30 things to do in a weekend but I can only do three of them and then I have to lay down for 3 hours. Hate. It. And there’s only so much existential dread I can take over the state of our nation politically, the state of our world medically with COVID-19, and the very serious goings-ons in dear friends’ lives.
3. We had a warm day! I set Ronnie Robot Vacuum loose to do its thing and opened all the windows for fresh air and aired out the house. It’s astonishing how different the airflow feels in every room at the same point in time. The combination of reasonably clean floors and fresh air and warmth was invigorating. Moments like these I miss the SoCal life. Not enough to go back and live in that traffic. But a little.
4. I’m also highly amused every time I watch Ronnie work, or know that Ronnie’s moseying through the house and cleaning the floors. It’s like having a less sentient Mo from WALL-E, except Ronnie gets stuck in random rooms sometimes and can’t tell me which one.
5. It feels like my sunrise alarm clock has been helpful in the dark winter mornings. I’m glad I found one half off but also glad that I bought it at all.
6. We are mindfully and carefully adding to our normal supplies, overbuying just a little each shopping trip so as not to stress supply lines with panic buying. It should surprise no one that my normal stash of dog food is a stack waist high of five bags. I’m annoyed that we’re already down to our last 1/5 toilet paper supply though because that’s the hot ticket item at all the Costcos right now.
7. My chicken and tofu Thai curry was a dinner hit and you know it’s especially good when, on their first few bites, JB asks if we can have it again the next day. Also they said it was “very very very very very very very so good.”