It has been over a week since I've posted. I don't know that I've ever gone that long with nothing to report.
Check that. It's not that we're not doing things. We are. Lots of things. It's just that the things we're doing are plugging along kind of stuff, not out and about kind of stuff. Our worlds have shrunk so dramatically this past year, under the specter of the pandemic
That said, we soldier on.
CJ is plugging away in college, and very successfully so. Tonight he filed his last English 102 research paper, about positive psychology (a useful topic in this day and time.)
He is done with his film studies class, and now that that's history, I'll have him soon list a recap of the movies he analyzed this quarter.
CJ's two quizzes away from being done with his latest math class, which has been comically awful. ZERO lectures or teaching, totally going it alone. It will be glad to have that in the rearview.
Annabelle audits all of CJ's classes. It's so nice that they have each other as classmates. It would be so much harder and lonelier if they didn't have each other.
We're also still volunteering where and when we can. Case in point: Last week we delivered a cake to a Birthday Dreams. The cake was for twins - a couple of 6 year olds who wanted mermaid cake.
On Sunday, we celebrated Pi Day on March 14 in a very low key way. We downloaded the 7-11 app and used it to buy large pizzas (5!) for $3.14. We cooked one and the extras went in our freezer. A little sad that this was a 'big deal' event for us this year, but that's pandemic life.
Our daffodils have finally opened up. This one is my favorite.
Three-plus years ago, I dug them up from our last place and brought them to our 'new' place. We had so many beautiful plants in our last yard that we left behind without a thought, but these were sentimental favorites. I remember the kids getting the bulbs for free at Sky Nursery in Shoreline on September 10, 2014. They planted them, they flourished, and I just couldn't leave them at the last place.
In other news, we're inching ever closer to our new retro countertop. And this week I started a new gig/job this is a lot, for lack of a better way to describe it.
We've been enjoying listening to Mariners' spring training games on the radio and dreaming of making it out to the old ball game for real this season.
One bright point today: I received a call from the deputy director for our congressman Adam Smith. I can't recall if I mentioned it here, but a couple of weeks ago, the news all over said all veterans were eligible to receive COVID vaccines. Christian, an Army veteran, inquired and tried to get one, but he was told he couldn't have one/enroll in the VA because he makes too much money (working as an essential worker during a pandemic, might I add). Anyway, I wrote our two senators and our congressman and lo and behold, something happened!
"The House unanimously approved legislation Tuesday night that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer coronavirus vaccines to all veterans, regardless of whether they’re enrolled in VA health care," according to a report on the American Legion website. The bill is on the Senate's calendar. The gentleman I spoke with hopes they will vote on it as soon as next week. Time will tell.
Good for you and your US Rep.
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