A few highlights from the weekend!
Friday
- Getting a new goofy toy for the cats (a fish that flops around).
Saturday
- Starting a new book. I did NOT like the last one I read and was so glad to finish it. Ha.
- Seeing my friends at Efit (where I teach classes). The studio is closed now, so that’s the last time I’ll see them for three weeks.
- Family lunch. We hadn’t seen Jen, Troy, and Declan since the weekend before our Atlanta trip, and it was great to catch up. And probably the last time we will talk in person for a few weeks. All the dine-in restaurants in Illinois will be closed from the end of the day today until March 30th. (They are still open in Wisconsin, as far as I know, and we live 1.5 miles from the border, but we’ll be cooking and eating at home.)
- Biscuits and gravy (at home) for dinner. Nomz.
Sunday
- Running with Bobbi! I’m so grateful she reached out to initiate doing our long runs together. I blabbed the whole time. We had plans to see Rachel and her husband Sunday night, and those got canceled, so I was glad to still have some social time – I needed it.
Lowlights
- Things being understandably canceled due to COVID-19. It’s completely necessary, but still a bummer! Our Foreigner concert was canceled for Sunday, my race next month is now virtual, and WORST of all – the library is closed! I had a few books come in I was so excited to go pick up on Saturday, the day it closed. Hopefully I can still get them when it reopens (they’re all a long wait digitally, hence getting the hard copies. Hooray for the digital library and Kindle Unlimited, though!). Again, all of this is completely necessary, and I totally understand. It was just a whirlwind week of everything shutting down.
- Feeling guilty for teaching a class and going out to eat.
I know what you mean about feeling guilty – I struggled how to caption my Instagram post about going to a pet portait event on Saturday night! There were only 8 of us in the class and the studio was thoroughly sanitized beforehand but I didn’t want people to think I’m not taking this seriously! Such a fine balance.
I need more info about this fish…
Exactly! You get it! I had that picture of all of us at Chipotle and was going to put in on insta with something about social distancing but decided I didn’t want to look at it later and feel like I was being crass. It’s so hard right now. And what we know changes each day. It’s like each day you regret something from the day before (almost).
Okay, so this fish. I kept seeing ads on insta and bought the knockoff on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0833MTG42/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1), it’s loud, which I knew it would be from the comments, but really funny – if you touch it it flops around. So the cats tap it so it’ll flop, then run away, then come back and do it again. You can turn it off so it’s just a kickaroo, too. I gave one to Bobbi and her cats love it even more than ours!
Oh believe me, I felt guilty and like an idiot for going to the grocery store last Thursday evening with eleventy billion other people, argh. But we all do things we regret, hopefully nothing we (the royal) did was too negative.
On another subject, I think we are so lucky to have the availability of e-books and such a plethora of online movies and shows to watch…yes we’ll be bored, but not as bored as we could have been if this happened in the 80s, say.
Thanks for sharing that! I know I can’t be alone in feeling guilty and conflicted on when it’s okay too leave my house and be around people. I agree – hopefully it’s not too negative. Also, we are out of produce so I am hoping find food when I shop after work. Wish me luck! 😉
Yes! We are so lucky right now to have so much digital content!!!! 100% agree!!! I am really hoping to get a lot read 😉