Oh My, What An Exciting Weekend

Another weekend in quarantine and considering I can barely remember what happened three days ago, let alone last weekend, this weekend was almost rager in comparison.

It's been really hot, so we've been taking our walks in the early evening, when it's still warm but breezy and nice. We got it into our heads that Khaleesi should join us for a walk this time. Years ago my mom bought her a badass little kittie hoodie harness and I had a leash, and I'd put it on her before and she wasn't too impressed, but what the hell.

I tried to let her walk it out, but she kept trying to run back home, or crawl under bushes, or jump up walls. And my Lord was she bushy! Poor baby.

I had to pick her up and carry her a lot, but every now and then I would put her back down and see if she would keep up, but it was a struggle LOL. We saw birds and ducks and butterflies and squirrels, but she was wayyyyy too wide-eyed and paranoid to care, poor little Bug! It was fun nonetheless. And all pets gets treats after walks, so when I brought her home, put her back on the couch where I found her, and gave her some kitty treats, everything was back to normal. I really should have been starting her on the harness when she was much younger!


And then yesterday was Luca's 3rd birthday that we had celebrate via social distance :( Geena won the Zoom backdrop having a Cars one with Luca in the background, and it was awkward singing Happy Birthday since everyone was at a different part of the song LOL but I don't think Luca noticed...

It's already May this week! Can't wait for 2020 to fly by so this can all be over (assuming people follow the rules, which they aren't. Ugh.)

Happy Earth Day

It's really hot out today but our bougainvillea trees in the backyard seemed to burst overnight, and I watched Khaleesi try to hunt (and thankfully, fail) a really pretty black and white bird. That's the celebration of the Earth I've seen today. Welp!

Here's what I've been up to this quarantine since last week...

Taking Anana on daily walks and seeing the cute squirrels out and about

Baking a quarantine cake (with the recipe I posted from Instagram below)

1. Cake mix cause you can’t find flour anywhere
2. Three large eggs
3. One cup of water, produced by your tears
4. Put on a sad soundtrack of The National, Cigarettes After Sex and CocoRosie and wonder why TF people won’t take this situation seriously
5. Really really suck at frosting
6. Apply unicorn sprinkles to cover your sucky frosting job
7. Eat in one sitting by yourself
🎂
YES I am available for your next event!

And then playing some Houseparty games with my family, here were Kathleen's drawings for "cello" and "kangaroo" respectively.

(I know it seems obvious since I told you, but I definitely kept saying 'guitar' or 'sitar' over and over)

And here is my response to just about everything now since quarantine is still going on

Aaaaand here is my favorite meme of quarantine so far!

Definitely waiting for that spike in case from the ignorant, selfish people out there who "need haircuts" while people die. #endrant

Quarantine Videos

Happy Easter Monday (that's a thing, so says iPhone). We had a nice Easter. It was really fun, even if it wasn't Easter-centric. We made chicken and waffles with a sick 90s R&B playlist going, then did dishes together. We busted open our Cadbury mini eggs (which ended up being dark chocolate - I almost cried. I didn't realize that. I hate dark chocolate. Assumed it was Cadbury milk chocolate).

In the evening we Zoomed with AJ's family, which was really fun. We're actually spread between California, Tennessee and Washington state, so I don't remember the last time we were all together in the same place.

And anyways, as you've probably seen, we made some videos with Anana, but I'll put all the uncut videos up here because what the hell else are any of us doing?

Kathleen sent me a video because apparently there's some challenge going around about giving your dog an egg. The theory is that dogs are aware how fragile eggs are and will handle them as such, both in their mouth and when they set it down or I don't know, play with it or something. So we tried that with Anana.

As you can see, it was a complete fail. She chomped onto it right away and then dropped it on the floor. It's not the best video to watch all that but take my word for it.

Then of course, the whole treat challenge. Anana never figured it out but it didn't stop us from trying!

I wanna try it with Khaleesi some how cause I saw this great video of a girl doing it with her cat, and the cat chose the wrong cup and when the girl lifted it and there was no treat in there, the cat attacked her LOL. But, I'm not sure I could get Khaleesi to sit still next to me and pay attention that long.

Well, I guess that's it for now. The quarantine isn't that weird anymore, but the monotony and repetition still sucks, despite all of our best efforts. Sigh.

Happy New Month!

Yes, March 2020 was longggg and miserable. Even though April is shaping up to the be virtually the same, at least we're in a bit more of a routine at this point and have a lot more of the reality ahead of us (instead of literally every fact and directive being double-downed on within 24 hours).

I also really hate April Fool's Day and was glad there was a worldwide moratorium on it since "this whole year has been a joke". Actually, AJ showed me a video of three girls dressed and ready for school outside, when the dad calls out to them to ask them what day it was, and they slowly realize they'd been pranked for April Fool's Day and run in screaming that they hate their dad and their dad just says "GOTEM!" Despite my incredulous laughing I actually thought that was borderline traumatizing and cruel with all this! But that was the only poisson d'avril that I saw.

Like you, all is the same for us over here. One day at a time. I work in the living room, AJ works in the office. Some mornings I do morning yoga. At noon I take Anana for a walk. In the evening I go on the treadmill for 30-45 minutes. Some nights I do some Just Dance routines. I play other games on the Switch. I watch TV. I actually have a long list of shows that I cycle through. We did just watch Tiger King, but otherwise I'm pretty content with The Office, Arrested Development, Portlandia, Broad City, This Is Us, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, Fleabag, Flirty Dancing, Game of Thrones... it helps mix it up. Since Friends is off of streaming services (wahhhh!) I'm currently watching it on TV as though I'm Amish. I have to say the worst part about it isn't even the commercials - it's that it's the cut versions and not the extended ones you're used to seeing from your DVDs back in 2007, so a lot of jokes get cut off! #rude

I think the biggest variable in my day are my meals. Since we're not doing anything, our grocery budget definitely increased, but at least we get a lot of options for our meals and snacks.

Today I tried to work outside, but it was a bit of a fail. At that time of day, even the shade of the umbrella didn't do much to detract the sun, I was seeing more of my reflection than anything else in the screen, and my sunglasses would make the screen completely black. Still, outside with Mozart on was a nice break. It was just a few minutes ago though, that I'm here working on the living room and something caught my eye in the backyard. Anana is in here with me, and it didn't move like Khaleesi, I thought maybe it was a rabbit. I saw some form of leg, and I moved to look around the doghouse and it was a friggin road runner!! How does that even happen?? I guess wildlife really is returning to normal! LOL. I texted AJ and then tried to go outside to get a better look, but it was long gone (no coyote to follow though, thank goodness). Still, that'll be the biggest event today I'm sure and how I'll remember it and distinguish it from any other day this week LOL.

I'm glad that I already got into my bread-making craze a few months ago and already have all the ingredients, because apparently everyone is getting into it and now you can't find flour or yeast anywhere!

Well, it's noon so time for the dog walking. Hope you are all staying safe and well!