- Before the library closed, I was most excited about borrowing the book Oona Out of Order. It’s the story of a woman who jumps to a different year of her life every year on her birthday. On Tuesday I saw a giveaway for the book on Instagram and tagged my snister (it was a requirement to tag someone) and told her why I did, then she surprised me by buying me the Kindle version of the book! I was so annoyed with work that day, and the gift totally made my day and helped my mood. I can’t wait to read it next. Thanks, snis!
- We have lots of friends and family with April birthdays, and I was worried about getting birthday cards for people since I only go out to shop for groceries, but I looked in my card box and Past Kim had already picked out a few cards for specific people with birthdays in April. A few is better than none! Good job Past Kim!!!
- Past Kim planned to buy birthday presents closer to people’s actual birthdays, so the gifts were still in the return window when they were given. That plan backfired – delivery dates are much longer than normal now due to COVID-19. I’m not complaining, I get it, I just had to get creative with gifts. You could say gift giving is not important right now (but look how happy it made me in the first bullet!), but I think it will be nice for the people stuck inside on their birthdays to get a gift in the mail.
- Related (to long delivery times), I tried to place a grocery order and the earliest delivery date was Tuesday April 7th. Whoa! I should probably go to the store and let the people who really need to have groceries delivered use that time slot instead.
- Mood change alert. With everything being canceled, can we also please cancel difficult, demanding, draining people? I’m not sure I can handle them much longer. Can we also please cancel thinking you have it harder than everyone else? It must be exhausting to constantly think about how much easier everyone else has it.
- I’m glad the Olympics were postponed and not canceled. And I hope team USA (okay, and all teams!) can adjust their schedules to still be in the best shape for them in 2021! This article (pdf here) is an interesting compilation of athlete’s responses to how the games being postponed affects training.
- I love all the funny memes and images on social media right now – I’ve laughed so hard at some I’ve cried! But I am mindlessly scrolling like CRAZY. GAH! I am working on being more mindful of how much time I am spending on social media, and am doing better with it.
- We started watching The Wire (ha, apparently we are not alone) last week. I’m struggling to keep the story and characters straight (and some of that has to do with us not having window treatments and not being able to see our TV well during lunch time! I can’t see who is on the screen or what is going on.) but am going to stick with it for a while. I found some recaps that will help me understand what I’m missing. <— mostly putting that here so I have the link later!
Link to Random Thoughts Thursday 268
What a thoughtful gift to get you that book! You’re right, gifts are such a great way to lift someone’s spirits right now. And that was smart of you to get some of the cards in advance 🙂 I’m sure the cards will raise people’s spirits too.
They are! My snis was saying she wanted to get me the hard copy but it would take a month to get here. I’d rather have the digital copy anyway and am so grateful I have a Kindle!
I hope they do! 😀
OMG I can finally comment on something book-related! I’m actually reading that book right now! I really like it, although I haven’t picked it up in a few days, oops.
I know a lot of March birthdays, so this year definitely sucks for them. My dad’s birthday is Monday and I also don’t want to go out to get him a card. I’m arranging for a local bakery to deliver some treats to him and my mom 🙂 So maybe sending a meal would be an option for some of your April birthdays?
That’s awesome! Where did you hear about it? I saw it recommended on Goodreads. I am so excited to start it once I finish this 1,000,000 page long Stephen King book I am reading.
That’s a good idea! I was trying to come up with things to support the economy around where the people are so I should look in to that, thanks! 🙂 I hope your dad has a good birthday. You should totes arts & crafts a card for him with lots of glue and glitter!
Real Simple magazine recommends 5 new books each month, and that one sounded really interesting. I have “Separation Anxiety” and “House Lessons” in my Kindle cart to download eventually – those were in last month’s recommendations.
LOL if only I had craft supplies (my SIL makes us homemade Valentines each year with her nephews, so that’s right up her alley!). He’ll probably get a text card from Violet. There may be local gift shops that are offering shipping or delivery of gifts too. I know my hometown has some that are doing that.
Oh cool! I will look up the other two on Goodreads!
Darn! 😉 He’ll like the text card from Violet. 🙂 I will have to look in to that! I know what shops I’d use here; it will be fun to find ones in other towns.
Have you looked at Postable? Not sure that it’s great for a quick timeline, but I’m pretty sure you can type a message and they send the card for you! 🙂 https://www.postable.com/
I’m so happy that it made your day better Snister! That’s the second time I’ve used an Instagram giveaway post to know what to give someone as a gift. I bought Kelsey a shirt for her birthday that she had tagged me in trying to win from a local company. 🙂 Love you!
It so did! <3 I am just itching to finish this long arse book so I can read it!
That is a really good idea! I need more people to tag me in stuff for that reason 😉
Love you! XOXO
I love it when Past Shelley has done things like purchase birthday cards in advance; I actually have had one for months for my BFF, which is fortunate considering her birthday is in a few weeks. Sadly I don’t anticipate April being any better than March in regards to getting out.
I did curbside delivery for our groceries and it was a six day waiting period back then…wonder how bad it is now. We have plenty of frozen and pantry food and can also order groceries from our local bakery, which is how we had fresh asparagus last night, yum!
I’m relieved the Olympics were only delayed; I can’t imagine Tokyo losing out on all of that excitement considering how much you know they had to have prepared for this.
I am glad Past Shelley was on the ball! Woot! My snister told me about a site that mails cards for you (Postable), which is fun! I may give that a try! (But I also need to pick up a Target prescription by April 6 so I might get some then)
I remember you posting about that 6 day wait and I didn’t even remember it when I went to place my order. Ha. That is awesome you can get stuff from your bakery! My neighbor owns a restaurant and they sold all their produce and stuff they weren’t going to use
Oh my gosh, yeah. They’ve put billions in to it. It would have been such a loss for so many reasons, to cancel!
That was so thoughtful of your sister! And I can’t wait to hear how you like the book. It’s such a unique premise!
I’m so nervous to go to the grocery store now! My mom told me yesterday that our local store is BARREN. Not even anything in the freezer section. I have enough food to get me through next week so at least there’s that! Time to start rationing, lol.
It was! It’s a fun and easy read so far – I am already half way done!
Oh no! I hope Florida gets stocked soon 🙁 I am glad you have enough to get through the next week.