Corona Virus Lists: A Post for the Ages - March - May 2020

Things we ate that I cooked:

1. Breakfast for dinner
2. Pork fajitas (cookie sheet baked)
3. Hamburgers
4. Hawaiian chicken
5. Chorizo burritos (with ground beef)
6. Chicken with little potatoes
7. BBQ chicken with fried rice
8. Hershey's chocolate chip cookies
9. Banana bread
10. Brownies

Frequent Takout items

1. Costa Vida (was sad when the chili verde went away - I want my chili verde nachos back)
2. Buffalo Wild Wings (Doordash)
3. Zao 
4. Village Baker
5. Zupas
6. Apollo Burger
7. Papa Murphy's
8. Chick-Fil-A

Books I read

1. Untamed
2. Welcoming the Unwelcome
3. Where the Crawdad's Sing
4. Circe
5. Spinning Silver
6. Getting Past your Past
7. The Path of Liberation (on going)

Zoom Meeting sources

1. Book club meeting with some of my dearest friends
2. Team meetings
3. Buddhist Meditation group meetings
4. Visit with a sister and a few nieces

What we watched

1. Finished Lost for 3rd time (2nd with Ben)
2. Bear Grylls 
3. Shark Tank 
4. Last Dance documentary
5. SGN with Jon Krasinksky
6. CNN/Morning Andrew Cuomo press conferences
7. 50 First Dates
8. Modern Family finale
9. Finished This is Us
10. Some Kind of Wonderful
11. When Harry Met Sally
12. Tiger King (only 1 episode)

Beverages we enjoyed

1. So. Much. Coffee
2. Hot and then iced vanilla latte with amaretto from High Point Coffee (on my way to the fabric store!)
3. Mike's Margaritas
4. Lime Pilsner
5. Birthday Suit 
6. Rogue - Just a Pinch

Types of masks I made

1. 1/2 inch elastic cut down to 1/4 with disastrous results with 3 pleats (geisha cat, Annie Oakley, mom's stash)
2. Hair band (disastrous) 3 pleats
3. Cut open thick-hair hair ties (3 pleats, soccer balls and field fabric, Jeep fabric, Dodge fabric, plain for 1 missionary)
4. Curvy no pleat with regular hair ties (more Jeep, more Dodge, soccer balls)
5. Double folds fabric ties yellow N95 covering for Suzette

Other stuff I sewed - mostly still unfinished

1. 60 Degree diamond top (currently still being quilted)
2. finished UFOs from 3 years ago (put log cabin borders have, need to border, bind, and quilt)
3. triangle hexies
4. fairy star - need to quilt and bind

Stuff I like to wear

1. Callia blue tights
2. 2 Callia sport bras
3. Lagoon print LBS
4. Title Nine tanks
5. Kuhl shorts
6. Various skirt sports skirts - almost every day, different skirt. 
7. Vacay Jaguar
8. Tree of Life tee
9. Blue Title Nine hoodie
10. running shoes for walking Willow
11. My moon phases Alex and Ani bracelet every day

Places I went every week at some point

1. Harmons
2. Sam's
3. Pine Needles fabric store
4. District for takeout
5. Lowes
6. Jordan Landing for Takeout
7. High Point Coffee
8. Costco several times
9. Rarely Walmart
10. Therapy/EMDR (online)

Places I ran

1. Trail
2. Around sunken park
3. Daybreak Lake
4. to Discount Tire

Types of workouts

1. Peloton Yoga
2. Peloton Outdoor runs
3. Walk Willow
4. Run with Audio
5. Sunday Hills walks

What I want to remember

1. Working at the kitchen table
2. Looking so forward every night to dinner that we made a calendar of dinners for 2 week periods, including takeout
3. So much cooking and actually enjoying it
4. Everyone being home all the time.
5. Forgetting a mask and covering my face with a hoodie or my arm
6. Zoom meetings in my front room and at the desk downstairs
7. Yoga in the front room
8. The earthquake/aftershocks
9. Getting toilet paper from an acquaintance who worked at Costco and feeling grateful
10. Getting excited over finding my favorite butter, any flour, and frozen avocado
11. Mid morning getting "ready" for the day - running skirt, tank top, hoodie, sports bra - and wavy hair from braid/humidity
12. Mid morning walks with Shane and Willow
13. Evening trips to park to let Willow chase the frisbee
14. The hawks (or are they falcons?) courting at the park
15. Ben working out at park
16. Thomas doing online school - finishing his second semester at SLCC
17. Thomas's friends coming home and a few going back out to stateside missions
18. Thomas doing maintenance at his work, then missing a month, then going back a few days before they opened again
19. Ben doing online school from his bed in the late morning, coming down to scan a math page, then eating waffles
20. Dog self wash 
21. late bedtimes
22. Marco polos with Camie
23. Marco polos with Rebecca, Cindy, Janna
24. Sewing in the evenings, making masks and finishing projects before Ben went downstairs
25. New birth control
26. Missing the library
27. Getting our side fence
28. rebuilding the back deck, lots of solar lights
29. watching all the neighborhood trees every day go from bare branches to flowers and leaves
30. Finding a random allium in my bleeding heart
31. Blueberry yogurt with blueberries and granola
32. Facetime with the Bells a few Saturday evenings
33. A lot of online shopping