Assuming air quality is okay, DS has his first ever soccer practice. In another case of second child syndrome, DD has been involved in some kind of sport/activity by herself since she was 18 months old. DS is 4 and just now get his "own" activity. (To be fair, we had planned on him starting hockey in April, but coronavirus had other ideas.) Unfortunately due to covid restrictions, we won't get to watch his practice. But there is a high likelihood it gets cancelled, since AQI is forecast for 151-200 (unhealthy), and I know daycare won't let the kids play outside during it, so my guess is soccer won't either. Womp womp.
DH's parents are coming out on Sunday. Please send booze that are okay with warm weather that I can hide in the garage with so I can survive.
Besides that, I don't know what the weekend will bring. It all depends on whether we can breath the air outdoors or not, which is not looking so hot at this point.
Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 21, 2020 11:44:16 GMT -5
DS goes to his dad's for the week and I'll spend it with beau. We're picking up a used washer and dryer tonight for his shop so we can wash our motorcycle gear. It's amazing how quickly it gets smelly! Tomorrow we'll go for a drive in his rebuilt Jeep for break in miles, probably up to our ski lodge that just opened up for the summer. The views are beautiful and it's always fun walking on 10 feet of snow in shorts and short sleeves. My parents had asked me for help putting in a little hay, but we've had rain the last couple days so that may be delayed. We plan on going motorcycle riding with his son and brother on Sunday. It would have been his other son's birthday, so the ride will be in memory of him.
DD is going to a friends tonight until 10. The poor kid needs some social interaction. She doesn't get out as much as DS and I try to get her out for walks and lunch as much as I can, but she it's hard being home for several days in a row when it used to be school, sports, clubs and on the go. Not sure what else is planned. DH is off, so I would like to do something, just not sure what that may be.
Work, work, and more work. I am so swamped at work and can't seem to get caught up since I've been tied up training the new engineers how to run software tests. Also, everyone else is asking me every hour what other test cases they can run. Just when I get in a groove, someone interrupts me. Go away people, I have work to do! I also have to do some planning for my grad class next week.
So I'll try to get caught up this weekend. Tomorrow we are going to my parents' house to celebrate my mom's birthday. My brother is making homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs. Yum!
Post by librarychica on Aug 21, 2020 15:57:18 GMT -5
It has been a day. It’s my day off so I’m running virtual school and it was teacher meeting after teacher meeting. I feel like the younger one is getting the short end of the stick because I’m always helping the big. Hopefully she needs less help as she gets used to it. The big also learned a valuable lesson about reading the math questions all the way through during exams. This is going to be a 18 weeks.
I also got some sad news about a friend’s dad and a colleague’s brother. I feel like I am going to need condolence cards in bulk soon. Damn 2020.
I am hoping to clean the house and spend some outside with the girls this weekend. Idk where. I had hoped to kayak but I’m not sure of the weather. Right now they’re running around in a drizzle collecting mosquito bites.
2020. I think I'm going to add this shirt to my collection if I can find it in a v-neck.
The sky is currently brown and the "sun" is dank orange. At least we are in an area that (crosses fingers, knocks on wood) shouldn't have actual fire damage. I hope you hurricane people stay safe.
I had a lovely day with the kids. I just got their school schedules from the district, its like a whole day of stuff, every day, for virtual learning. And none of it lines up between the two kids.
rere I have great Corolla memories! I got a red 1995 Corolla (bought a couple years used) in high school - I bought it with my parents. My little sister and I traded it back and forth for years and it was the best little car. Eventually when I was moving from New Hampshire to California 12 years ago, DH and I stopped in Ohio to give it to my cousin’s son.
Three months later he ran it off a little bridge and into a ditch and totaled it - but luckily walked away from the accident. I thought DH might be annoyed that he totaled it when we could have gotten a little $ from selling it, but instead he was like ‘the Corolla went out in a blaze of glory!’
We had as good of a first week of virtual school, preschool, and daycare, plus me going back to work FT remotely, as I think I could have hoped. Both little boys did great. Preschool son adores school and asked if he could go on the weekend, too. Baby started sleeping awesome and loves watching the few other kids all day at daycare. I’m so grateful my older kids get to be with a teacher every morning. I dropped off a bottle of fancy wine to the parents hosting the kids every morning in their garage. There are so many moving parts with our set up that I almost worry that it went well because now I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Preschool or daycare to close because of a case, or teacher to find another job, or something...
Now our superintendent says they’re aiming for hybrid in person school starting mid-September, since our county’s virus numbers decreased so fast. If they stick with small stable groups of 8 to 10 kids that could only mean one day a week on campus. We have no details yet.
No big plans this weekend. It’s ridiculously hot here for coastal San Diego. 89 today and a ‘real feel’ of 94. A lot of people here don’t have AC, but luckily we do. Big kids will go to skateboard park tomorrow morning and I imagine we’ll do a lot of pool time.
Kicked off my mini vacation by spending the night at the restaurant with a good friend. Beau let us close the place down. The weather was so nice, we just sat outside for hours catching up. It's probably good that it takes an hour to get there, or I'd live there and he'd get sick of me taking up a table all the time.
We leave for the Cape today and will be gone until Tuesday. Both of us are so ready for this break. We decided this will be our "vacation" for the year and then we're saving like mad for house stuff.
Soccer cancelled. We had a brief respite of good air, which is already over.
PGE has informed us we have surpassed our energy allotment and they’ll be charging us higher rates.. so the choice is pay more so we can run the AC or let it heat up indefinitely since we can’t open the windows and take advantage of the cooler outside air. And we just got our bill for last month that was $580 which is a damned mortgage in parts of the country. (I need to call them about because it’s absurdly high, even for our area.)
I’m grumpy and this blows. I’m already ready ship my kids off to the lowest bidder. They are anxious and tired of being stuck inside and I don’t blame them.
Ugh, I’m sorry k3am! I wish there was a ‘dislike’ button. It’s ridiculously hot here and I can’t imagine not being able to use our AC as much as we need or go outside!
Side note - we got an email notification from our smart thermostat yesterday that there was something wrong because it was working hard but the temperature kept going up. We thought it was so funny that the unseasonably hot weather made it confused.
I know we are lucky that our home is not in danger. And I know there are some other crazy weather things hitting other parts of the country. I’m basically just a whiny wench right now.
We’ve been looking up things that have affected the world, and the teens of 1800s was the year without summer, 1918 obviously Spanish flu, and now mini Armageddon in 2020.
I know we are lucky that our home is not in danger. And I know there are some other crazy weather things hitting other parts of the country. I’m basically just a whiny wench right now.
We’ve been looking up things that have affected the world, and the teens of 1800s was the year without summer, 1918 obviously Spanish flu, and now mini Armageddon in 2020.
You have every right to whine. This year has been terrible.