things change quickly

I just read over last Sunday’s post here, and my, have things changed.

We had planned on going to my brother-in-law’s this weekend but stayed home due to the coronavirus outbreak. I was also supposed to have a church meeting to discuss the Easter dinner and whether or not we would host it yet. Well, Monday night, all of us on the planning committee started texting back and forth and came to the realization that the dinner was canceled without our say, thanks to COVID19, and so we canceled Tuesday’s meeting as well.

I was supposed to work a few hours at the day job on Friday but didn’t. You would think that working at a medical clinic, we would be more busy. But mostly what we are busy doing is calling patients and telling them to stay home and not come in for their routine appointments. Also, we had been fielding a lot of calls from panicky patients asking what to do, but even that died down by the end of the week, as people apparently figured it out – stay home, stay home, stay home.

Not sure what this week will bring. Our manager already said that some of us might have to start staying home as well, but who knows what that is going to look like. Take vacation pay, take off without pay, apply for unemployment? I’m not going to worry about it.

I do have to say, and maybe this is what everyone else is thinking too, but doesn’t it feel like we are living in the latest apocalyptic movie? Like, how is this really happening?  

Anyway, you would think I would have gotten all my goals accomplished, and then some. Instead, I have spent way too much time reading articles on-line about this (and previous) pandemics.

So, 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”. Have read through half of it.     

2)        Finalize the “thank you” section for the end of “The Truth Beyond the River”. Did not work on it.  

3)        Post three times to “The Dino Chronicles.” Done. Actually I wrote an additional post on Saturday, sharing some more thoughts of mine on COVID19.  

4)        Post here once. Done.

REACHING

1)        Continue to spread the word about “To Find Justice”.  Blogged about it on Friday.

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. Nope, did not look at it.

READING

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

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

REMAINING

1)        Work on my family tree some more.  Hmm? I don’t think I did.

2)        Clean out the medicine cabinet and linen closet in my bathroom. Done. And actually I washed the bathroom walls and ceiling as well. 

3)        Discuss with my kids what we are going to do with the nonprofit. Hmm? Yes, I should say that I did. We didn’t come up with a definitive plan, but I think that will have to wait until we know when COVID19 is going to be done messing up everyone’s lives.

That was last week. Nothing extra is on the scheduled for the upcoming week, as you may have guessed. So I have no excuses.

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)              Read up to 50% of the novel I started late last week, “Unbroken.”

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

REMAINING

1)        Work on my family tree some more. 

2)        Work on some quilt squares. I started these a couple years ago, just making squares out of random fabric I have laying around.  

3)        Cancel our spring vacation reservations. I’ve been putting this off, but I think the reality is that nothing will be moving yet in four weeks.

 

I hope you are staying safe and healthy, staying home and making the best of it. I am blessed to live in a house in the middle of four acres of woods. I can at least go out and get plenty of fresh air. And visit with friends like this one, lazying in my front yard.