Quarantine, Day 167
August 25
The bad news is that it is lonely here when my husband is gone and I have to do all the chores by myself (with some assistance from the kiddo.) I have been very lucky to avoid the toxic stereotypes of cishet relationships in the sixteen years of my marriage; my husband is my best friend and he is an equal partner in keeping the household running. We can each manage without the other when necessary, but it is never as good without the both of us together. The good news is that now the bedroom is MINE, ALL MINE, with nobody needing it for teaching or maintaining a normal human sleep schedule or other boring things like that. I have already rolled all over the bed in wild abandon.
The kiddo and I did take advantage of Dad's absence to indulge in a big carryout order from Dominos, a chain that we like and he does not. We got pizza and spinach and feta cheese-stuffed bread and a Philly cheesesteak sandwich. It's enough food for at least three meals, which means less cooking and less kitchen cleaning, yay! We don't eat out a lot, but when we do, I like places that give a lot of leftovers. Good coupons too, so we got it all for a good price.
We had no sooner gotten back home with our hot cheesy goodness than I had to make an emergency trip down to the cat rescue to get more formula. Our fat, fat kittens are eating so much that they would not have had enough formula to get through the night, but it turned out that the only opportunity to get more was EXACTLY RIGHT THEN. So I took the old pickup truck which has barely been out of our parking lot since March and hit the road. This truck is rough, you guys. It kicks when it downshifts and the brakes are worryingly loud. I hate to add yet another expense to this extremely expensive month, but I think it needs a mechanic if we hope to keep using it. And I definitely hope to keep using it. Everyone should have a minivan and a pickup truck, they can carry anything and anyone! Anyway, I got the formula so the fatlings have plenty of food again. I am going to start tomorrow night with weaning the boys, because at a certain point you just have to start giving them solid foods before they explode from excessive milk consumption.
Power Hour today was "Make a Minecraft video." Neither of us actually knew how to do this, so we watched a couple videos and downloaded some surprisingly easy free software. By the end of the hour, the kiddo had a twenty minute video made of him playing and narrating his play. We still haven't even touched on "editing your video to make it interesting," but it was a good start and we are pleased. Creating content is hard!
Tomorrow is grocery day again, only ten days after last time, boo. There's just too much stuff we need, like more allergy pills and the things I need to set the kittens up in the big playpens. And of course every time there is grocery getting, it ends up being a ton of groceries somehow. Getting them with the pickup truck is sure to be an adventure, I just hope it's a better grocery trip than last time and that we come home with all the stuff we paid for. I have already promised myself that even modest improvement will rate a glowing review.
It is still extremely hot and extremely humid. Next week the kids should start getting the equipment they need to start school in September, barring delivery difficulties. We still don't have any kind of real schedule for how school is going to go, except that I know about 2500 students have chosen full virtual and the other 9500 or so will be going back as soon as the schools are allowed to open. I certainly admire the optimism of anybody who thinks that an opening that starts anytime soon is going to stick, what with everybody opening and then immediately closing again all over the country. I understand that people want it because they need something to do with the kids, but it seems like this is just even more disruptive with the starting and stopping and quarantining. No good answers, really.
