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Pandemic week 2: Indoor Recess
Mar. 27th, 2020 11:12 amI have surrendered my phone to my child, who is now facetiming her bestie, so there are small voices (one moderately digitized) coming from upstairs and I am not being jumped on. I feel that this is a good trade for everyone. Her Megatheriosity has been getting more and more lonely with nobody but the cat and a couple of adults to pester, though I have actually gotten her to begin writing notes to mail to people. (Her school is teaching with phonics and has not done hardly any handwriting inculcation, and so she's writing in a weird mix of capital & lower case letters which are all the same size, her spaces have disappeared into the ether, and I keep having to remind her that words need vowels. So this is what I am trying to get her to work on...)
I am antihistamined up and deeply regretting not having done so yesterday; the problem with adult-onset allergies is that I still don't remember they're a thing until it's too late. Ugh. Happiest in the company of oaks, but only if they're not pollinating me at the time. I find I am even more resentful of short-term immune system miseries than usual because they are not the Doom hanging over our heads.
Other than that, I have acquired the new Animal Crossing game, and aside from being deeply irritated by the premise that I apparently was sold rights to a deserted island by someone who sold them to several other people also and then came with us and keeps inviting his friends... where I'm encouraged to pull up the local herbaceous plants and plant some weird flower hybrids sold by this same weirdo island baron... Anyway, aside from that it's reasonably entertaining so far.
The various local closures are officially extended through the end of April, so here we are. I am reconsidering my new book wishlist for what to keep as a library hold request, and what to order, but I haven't been doing as much reading as I'd like because urgh, kid. So it goes. Together we have been reading alternating pages of the Missy Piggle-Wiggle books (modern series reboot by Ann M Martin & Annie Parnell, with Ben Hatke illustrations; recommended!) and while the wiggler has a tendency to lose what line she's on because she's paying as much attention to her socks or the stick in her fingers as the page, her reading skill is definitely improving when she's actually looking at the words.
I am antihistamined up and deeply regretting not having done so yesterday; the problem with adult-onset allergies is that I still don't remember they're a thing until it's too late. Ugh. Happiest in the company of oaks, but only if they're not pollinating me at the time. I find I am even more resentful of short-term immune system miseries than usual because they are not the Doom hanging over our heads.
Other than that, I have acquired the new Animal Crossing game, and aside from being deeply irritated by the premise that I apparently was sold rights to a deserted island by someone who sold them to several other people also and then came with us and keeps inviting his friends... where I'm encouraged to pull up the local herbaceous plants and plant some weird flower hybrids sold by this same weirdo island baron... Anyway, aside from that it's reasonably entertaining so far.
The various local closures are officially extended through the end of April, so here we are. I am reconsidering my new book wishlist for what to keep as a library hold request, and what to order, but I haven't been doing as much reading as I'd like because urgh, kid. So it goes. Together we have been reading alternating pages of the Missy Piggle-Wiggle books (modern series reboot by Ann M Martin & Annie Parnell, with Ben Hatke illustrations; recommended!) and while the wiggler has a tendency to lose what line she's on because she's paying as much attention to her socks or the stick in her fingers as the page, her reading skill is definitely improving when she's actually looking at the words.