keep your sense of humor

My goofy youngest grandpuppy in my backyard two weeks ago

How is everyone doing? Anyone been in contact with someone with COVID-19? Does everyone have enough toilet paper? Are you keeping a sense of humor? 

I am trying to keep calm about it, not falling for the craziness. But working in health care, I do see and hear things that the general public does not. I’ve lost some sleep this week. I’m looking forward and thinking that some upcoming plans might need to be tweaked. I’m trying not to think that my husband’s age puts him in the higher risk category.  

But panic and hysteria do nothing for anybody. Hubby and I have always tried to keep a reasonable supply of basics on hand liked canned foods, extra bottled water, and – yes – toilet paper. I’m looking at our finances, my hopes for retiring in just over a year, and praying that I don’t lose a bunch of money in my retirement account due to an economy tanking over this pandemic. But life will go on.

Anyway, here's how my goals turned out. Green highlight is goal accomplished, yellow highlight is worked on and red lettering is a failure.

WRITING     

1)        Read through my novel-in-progress, “Ice Cream Spies”.  Still not. Don’t know what’s wrong with me. This shouldn’t be that hard.      

2)        Write a “thank you” section for the end of “The Truth Beyond the River”. (Not sure why I’ve had this under the “reaching” tab for all these months.) Finally worked on it.           

3)        Post three times to “The Dino Chronicles.” Yup.

4)        Post here once. Yup.

REACHING

1)        As soon as “To Find Justice” is published on Amazon, I need to spread the word about it. Posted it on my other blog and all my social media.

2)        Look at my website. I know I’m not ready to update it – that is so time-consuming, but I at least want to get some thoughts on what I want to do with it. No. It’s just too ugly to even deal with right now.

READING

1)        Since I just read a weighty novel, I’ve started something light – a cozy mystery. Would like to get half-way through that. Am at 71%.

2)        Read five other blogs and comment on three of them. Read five and commented on three. Maybe I should up this one?  

REMAINING

1)        Work on my family tree some more. I’m back as far as my 8^th great-grandfather, born in 1601 in Hügelheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. I do take it all with a grain of salt, because, really? Those records from 400 years ago were accurate??

2)        Wash the walls in our spare bathroom. Done.

3)        Remember our nonprofit? Tumaini Volunteers? I need to inventory the merchandise we have left for sale and take it to the store in town which has been selling it for us. Done.   

4)        BONUS. I cleaned the hall linen closet, something I was hoping to do a week ago but knew I’d never get the time then.

Next weekend we were planning on going to my brother-in-law’s, but that will depend on the whole Coronavirus track. I have a church meeting Tuesday which I have to go to, because we will be discussing whether or not to host the community-wide Easter dinner. I think that’s it for the upcoming seven days. Hopefully, things don’t fall apart in my little corner of the world in that time.

WRITING     

1)        Read through my novel-in-progress, “Ice Cream Spies”.    

2)        Finalize the “thank you” section for the end of “The Truth Beyond the River”.

3)        Post three times to “The Dino Chronicles.”

4)        Post here once. 

REACHING

1)        Continue to spread the word about “To Find Justice”.  

2)        Look at my website. I know I’m not ready to update it – that is so time-consuming, but I at least want to get some thoughts on what I want to do with it.

READING

1)        Finish reading “Ice Cream Murder”, the cozy mystery, I’ve been reading.

2)        Read six other blogs and comment on three of them. 

REMAINING

1)        Work on my family tree some more. 

2)        Clean out the medicine cabinet and linen closet in my bathroom.

3)        Discuss with my kids what we are going to do with the nonprofit.

That’s about it for now. Hope you are staying healthy and safe wherever you are.