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School decided to take their spring break after all, so we have "real" e-learning with class-specific assignments & group video chats starting Tuesday. Her wiggleness is compensating for lack of friends by watching all the Breath of the Wild walkthrough videos by some guy called "Zebra Gamer" that we'll let her and listening obsessively to the Penderwicks books. This afternoon she spontaneously reinvented the quote-recognition game we used to play with Gilbert & Sullivan libretti, only for Penderwicks... She calls it "The Penderwicks book game 1."
After a week off free & clear (& even paid!) grauwulf's work has decided to jerk him around again & ease back up to normal hours. Because they are stupid. *ahem*
He's also doing the ongoing tango of frustration with SCA web stuff, so that's fun.
The weather is lovely, our neighborhood continues to be gloriously walkable, and I have done a bunch of poking at the garden. I've also done some attempting to clean up the living space, which so far has not gone terribly well, and resulted in getting into a protracted battle with the Ikea online ordering system which at present only knows if something is in stock after you've gone through the first two check-out screens, after which it kicks you back out and so far as I can tell marks the things you just attempted to purchase as unavailable for the next multiple hours. I ended up resorting to a partial alternate plan via Amazon before being driven to tears.
I have not yet run out of flour, and am running the bread maker on Mondays & then devouring half a loaf of still-warm bread. As one does...
I finally ordered a journal from the Brooklyn Art Library, which I have been aware of for years but never committed to; will see if I can get my child to write a little something in is as a family exercise.
I made a fitted mask for the Megatherium (purple & white with pink biohazard symbols surrounded by flower wreaths) which she refuses to wear, and one for me since apparently I'm supposed to get another fasting blood test next week (all the fun...) but our healthcare provider is desperately trying to sort their streams so that one can do such things in a somewhat lower risk fashion. We'll see.
My MIL sent an Easter basket, because apparently she thinks it's a good idea to go to UPS to mail a gifty basket for which she had to shop in the middle of a pandemic, and also now we have a bag of very plastic easter grass which smells like jelly beans and my child is madly in love with and the cat wants to eat. I mean, I guess it's nice that some things don't change?
I called all my federal representatives to ask them to support the postal service, ordered stamps, and sent a package with click-and-ship and scheduled pick-up. I am all about supporting the postal service, but my problem is that I could happily mail people flat things for the rest of the year and not run out of stamps I've already bought, which doesn't help their current operation costs in the least.
There were at least twice as many things that I have intended to talk about in the last week or so, but my brain is mush, and a post posted is better than a draft unshared, or something like that.
Here, have a lovely Fox in Socks rap rendition, very melodic, recommended by me who generally hates rap. (He fudges a couple lines near the end, & I still like my Lite Opera version better, but this is pretty good & actually exists in shareable form.)
After a week off free & clear (& even paid!) grauwulf's work has decided to jerk him around again & ease back up to normal hours. Because they are stupid. *ahem*
He's also doing the ongoing tango of frustration with SCA web stuff, so that's fun.
The weather is lovely, our neighborhood continues to be gloriously walkable, and I have done a bunch of poking at the garden. I've also done some attempting to clean up the living space, which so far has not gone terribly well, and resulted in getting into a protracted battle with the Ikea online ordering system which at present only knows if something is in stock after you've gone through the first two check-out screens, after which it kicks you back out and so far as I can tell marks the things you just attempted to purchase as unavailable for the next multiple hours. I ended up resorting to a partial alternate plan via Amazon before being driven to tears.
I have not yet run out of flour, and am running the bread maker on Mondays & then devouring half a loaf of still-warm bread. As one does...
I finally ordered a journal from the Brooklyn Art Library, which I have been aware of for years but never committed to; will see if I can get my child to write a little something in is as a family exercise.
I made a fitted mask for the Megatherium (purple & white with pink biohazard symbols surrounded by flower wreaths) which she refuses to wear, and one for me since apparently I'm supposed to get another fasting blood test next week (all the fun...) but our healthcare provider is desperately trying to sort their streams so that one can do such things in a somewhat lower risk fashion. We'll see.
My MIL sent an Easter basket, because apparently she thinks it's a good idea to go to UPS to mail a gifty basket for which she had to shop in the middle of a pandemic, and also now we have a bag of very plastic easter grass which smells like jelly beans and my child is madly in love with and the cat wants to eat. I mean, I guess it's nice that some things don't change?
I called all my federal representatives to ask them to support the postal service, ordered stamps, and sent a package with click-and-ship and scheduled pick-up. I am all about supporting the postal service, but my problem is that I could happily mail people flat things for the rest of the year and not run out of stamps I've already bought, which doesn't help their current operation costs in the least.
There were at least twice as many things that I have intended to talk about in the last week or so, but my brain is mush, and a post posted is better than a draft unshared, or something like that.
Here, have a lovely Fox in Socks rap rendition, very melodic, recommended by me who generally hates rap. (He fudges a couple lines near the end, & I still like my Lite Opera version better, but this is pretty good & actually exists in shareable form.)