another temporary apocalypse
Mar. 24th, 2020 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateI have been failing in my blog check-in duties, I guess... Mostly I've been hanging out on the craft forum and playing silly phone games.
We are beginning week 2 of the theoretical 2-wk school closure (I am *highly* skeptical, but the announcement has not yet been made in MD) and the Megatherium is already flirting with peak "You're not the boss of me!!" We have a schedule; we're doing wiggle breaks, the minimal school assignments we have, a variety of e-learning apps on her b-day present tablet (which we were conflicted about getting her at the time, but so glad we did...) and heading outside as we can, thank you suburbia. Last week we did dress-up themes; this week we're doing US geography since there's been a lot of "where's that?" when discussing who's under what level of isolation at the dinner table. Next week will be either Cryptography with Daddy or geography of some other continent (probably Asia, as today we are pretending to be Pallas's Cats, and that is where they come from.) Grauwulf's work is at odds with itself on how much & where he's supposed to be, but *our* current theory is that he'll be home next week.
To no one's surprise at all my writing brain has gone out again. Also my doctor is recommending I join the colonoscopy club (ugh) so, um, I'm not sure how that's going to go yet, what with all the exciting complications to healthcare at present.
Pandemic prep was good for the kitchen at least; I have cleared out things I should have dealt with YEARS ago, reclaimed two counters, lost one again, defrosted the freezer, and set up an AeroGarden. Not that I'm done or anything, but most of the things I was deeply avoiding got done; now I just need to apply that mentality to the rest of the house. In our 15-minute/day cleaning-things time block. Yeah.
Anyway, we are overdue for our mid-morning wiggle break, and then I want to start cutting out some cotton for face masks in case we do have to brave medical establishments or whatnot.
We are beginning week 2 of the theoretical 2-wk school closure (I am *highly* skeptical, but the announcement has not yet been made in MD) and the Megatherium is already flirting with peak "You're not the boss of me!!" We have a schedule; we're doing wiggle breaks, the minimal school assignments we have, a variety of e-learning apps on her b-day present tablet (which we were conflicted about getting her at the time, but so glad we did...) and heading outside as we can, thank you suburbia. Last week we did dress-up themes; this week we're doing US geography since there's been a lot of "where's that?" when discussing who's under what level of isolation at the dinner table. Next week will be either Cryptography with Daddy or geography of some other continent (probably Asia, as today we are pretending to be Pallas's Cats, and that is where they come from.) Grauwulf's work is at odds with itself on how much & where he's supposed to be, but *our* current theory is that he'll be home next week.
To no one's surprise at all my writing brain has gone out again. Also my doctor is recommending I join the colonoscopy club (ugh) so, um, I'm not sure how that's going to go yet, what with all the exciting complications to healthcare at present.
Pandemic prep was good for the kitchen at least; I have cleared out things I should have dealt with YEARS ago, reclaimed two counters, lost one again, defrosted the freezer, and set up an AeroGarden. Not that I'm done or anything, but most of the things I was deeply avoiding got done; now I just need to apply that mentality to the rest of the house. In our 15-minute/day cleaning-things time block. Yeah.
Anyway, we are overdue for our mid-morning wiggle break, and then I want to start cutting out some cotton for face masks in case we do have to brave medical establishments or whatnot.
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Date: 2020-03-24 07:45 pm (UTC)Also I love Cryptography with Daddy as a subject, I had something kinda like it as a kid and totally loved learning about Morse code. (It was in an Encyclopedia Brown mystery! Best!)
Hang tough, and good luck! It's good to hear from you.
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Date: 2020-03-24 08:54 pm (UTC)Excellent! I only learned about it from craft forum people in the last month; hooray for sharing of useful information. :)
Hang tough, and good luck!
You also/more so!
I shall try to update more regularly; one of our morning time-blocks is for e-learning and adult computer-time, so I don't *actually* have a good excuse if I'm not up to writing fiction.