Social Distancing, Day 46: Bella's Birthday

It started with a jar of eyeballs.*

The shrieks of happiness were loud and plentiful.

We prepared the pinata while C lassoed H.

Pinata.

Fake mustaches from the pinata.

* The story behind this: for Christmas Eve, we played our gag gifts game, and one of the gifts was a small glass jar filled with plastic googly eyes. At the end of the game, people were allowed to trade for what they wanted, and Bella traded for the jar of eyeballs. Roz wanted to make her a big one to go with the small one.

Social Distancing, Day 45

I worked at the mask shop, then picked up R at home and we shopped for Bella's birthday. R is doing a great job with her driving. Here she is pumping gas for the first time:

Birthday prep today means birthday shenanigans tomorrow! Stay tuned! 

Social Distancing, Day 44

B started working again today! He dropped me off at the shop on his way there this morning. R picked me up (Hubby supervising her driving) at noon. Work went well. I was planning to join Barbara at some point and begin shipping wholesale orders after the sunbonnets arrived this week, but today we were told that they won't arrive for at least another week. So I'm still ironing for the time being. Fine by me.

I vegged at home for a while, then took two quick easy shops at Jantzen Beach Target. Here's my full cart:

I had some time between delivering these two orders, so I did an Uber Eats order and bought some dinner at Fred Meyer. 

Now I'm home with a lovely evening stretching before me. Ahhhhh.

Took this lady for a walk tonight:

Saw construction on the new elementary school near us:

Saw (and sniffed) some white lilacs:

We watched TV:

We played with my camera:

Meanwhile M & L put together their new wagon, a gift they received today from Neenaw and Cousin Stacy.

Social Distancing, Day 43

I slept terribly last night and felt cruddy this morning, and opted to stay home and sleep. 

It was an extremely quiet and relaxing day. Baby R and Hubby and I had a nice afternoon rest. 

After dark, Hubby and I took Goober for a walk. The night sky was beautiful but it's still too cold for me yet. 

Social Distancing, Day 42: Stress

This morning I did the Sunday unthinkable and shopped two orders at the Jantzen Beach Target. They had back-to-back delivery windows and both had promo pay, which means there was extra money attached to each order, since they were so close to expiring.

One customer was sweet, and the other one kept adding crap to her order and asking when I'd arrive at her house because she needed to leave. Grrrrrr.

There was also a Wi-Fi / app issue that was making me nuts, and the Target employee that checked my orders was - I can't think of a good enough simile or metaphor so I'll just say it - SLOW. Like I'm standing there becoming completely enraged and she's just calmly, obtusely asking about every item in Bratty Lady's order without coming out to the cart to look at the things herself, the way the other employees do.

I'd blame it on it being Sunday, but issues like this happen pretty much every time I go shopping, so that's not it.

Then McDonald's for lunch, and then home, where I had to deal with one of my children making crappy life choices. Being a mom is hard, but it's nothing that hours of lying in bed playing with my phone won't solve.

After the initial sadness and tension, the child and I actually had a very nice time chatting with Hubby and each other, about choices and other, more pleasant topics, and hopefully things will be fine after this. Time will tell.

Later: Ate dinner, ate cake, took a bath.

Even later: I'm now ordained. 

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Social Distancing, Day 41

I did four Shi** orders today - three great, one terrible, but the terrible one included a sweet drive along the Washougal River and delivery to a house near this gorgeous valley:

Then Hubby and I did more Uber Eats and rewarded ourselves with some Baskin-Robbins ice cream in Hazel Dell. Good times.

Social Distancing, Day 40: What Day Is It, Again?

Had a nice morning, ironing at the mask shop and chatting with N the production manager. Then it was off to WinCo for a few groceries, relaxing all afternoon at home, and Hubby and I did some Uber Eats driving this evening. We made bank.

Meanwhile, H started working again today! Yay! OSF is doing take-out orders again. Seems like the end is in sight!

Social Distancing, Day 39: Shi** Goes Into Time-Out

At the bonnet/mask shop, the morning went so nicely. I learned that the young man I'd been ironing next to for the past few days was one of C's soccer teammates from school - he graduated last year. It's a small world after all. He's a very nice young man. 

Then I shopped two orders at Hazel Dell Target, which went mostly fine (I'll give the paranoid weirdo who accused me of snooping through his purchases a pass) until one customer's organic cane sugar purchase went horribly awry. I texted her about it but of course she didn't text back until I was already in my car, on my way to her house, with the rest of her stuff. Then she griped that she really needed it today and didn't want to order another $35 of stuff to get same-day delivery. I offered to go back and buy it with my money and have her pay me back, but she didn't want that either. I may have been imagining it but she acted weirded out by my offer. 

The other two customers I shopped for were gracious and lovely, but the above interaction was enough to make me wanna yell SCREWWWWWW YOUUUUUUU to any other potential crappy Shi** customers out there. So tomorrow, I'm doing Uber Eats instead.

Social Distancing, Day 38

Ah, Wonderful Wednesday, my day off.

Chad and Wednesday, the 8 month old kittens, are in a terribly annoying stage right now. Consequently they find themselves shut in the bathroom pretty frequently. Today's project became "Clean out the garage and remove anything they would ruin if they pee on it" so we can throw them in the garage if necessary. 

C and I bought bins at Wal-Mart. We moved the bikes into the backyard and started rearranging and decluttering. C found stuff from his childhood that he enjoyed going through. Bella moved all the clothes from the laundry folding table, which, thanks to Catness and Magenta, must all be relaundered. Cats - why? I'm so done with cats. 

Eventually R came out, right around the time that C found the sports equipment, and the shenanigans began.

They made up a game called "Mitt or Net", in which C would smack a tennis ball onto the roof with a racket, and after it rolled off, R had to catch it either with the baseball mitt or the fishing net. 

Then it was Bella's turn.

At this point the game became "Mitt, Net or Glove," as C strapped a boxing glove onto Bella's hand. 

Eventually R found the furniture dolly and of course had to give it a spin down the street...

...which inspired C to put on Hubby's rollerblades so he could pull her down the street.

Alas, we had no rope.

Eventually the garage was put back together:

Somewhat better, and much closer to being done. The main point is to get our stuff into plastic bins so it'll be safe while we wait to get Chad and Wednesday neutered and chipped. 

I watched Hacksaw Ridge finally - so very sad, but so good. 

🍒

Social Distancing, Day 37

After yesterday's stunt work, I did my four hours at the bonnet/mask shop, and kept myself to two Shi** orders. 

One of them was absolutely monstrous, including a 19-pound pork butt ("Lady, YOU'RE a pork butt"), but I had a great tip.

Social Distancing, Day 36

Happy Birthday to my beautiful mother! This is one of my favorite pictures of us:

I worked my donkey off today. I did my four-hour ironing stint, came home for lunch with the family (KFC), and followed it up with five Shi** orders.

I came home and flopped onto the bed and didn't move for the rest of the evening, and I decided to never do that again. 

Social Distancing, Day 35

Today, we did quite a bit of work that needed doing. It felt good. My to-do list didn't get anywhere close to being finished, but the important stuff (i.e. dishes, laundry, a stankload of towels being washed, living room and dining room straightened,  floor mopped, Hubby cleaning all the dog hair out of the vacuum - it works again!) happened. Woo hoooo!

I also rage-quit Fakebook again today, for the umpteenth time. It's so tiresome and frustrating to see intelligent-seeming people take leave of their senses completely, chuck any basic knowledge of biology or statistics out the door, disregard anyone telling them what to do whether it's good for them or not, and turn into stupid ranting turds. They pass along useless and untrue information, or complain about government officials who are trying to keep them safe. Or they try to turn the pandemic into a political or religious situation. It's so dang dumb. 

BLEAH. Fortunately my sister came up with the fun idea of an ugly cake baking contest. That'll be fun.

Social Distancing, Day 34

Today began with R making herself some scrambled eggs, while Hubby and I coached her from our bed. She did a great job.

I did a nice easy Target shop, then I delivered my first Uber Eats delivery!! Awww:

For the rest of the day, I did Shi** and Uber Eats. It was crazy busy. I made it home around 7:15 PM. 

Social Distancing, Day 33

New masks from the bonnet shop! I'm up to four and Hubby has one now! We'll see if he ever wears his.

I love that the white floral has different fabric lining the inside:

Today, for seven hours, I did two things:

1) Iron little mask seams

2) Tie knots in the ends of mask strings:

...and I AM GRATEFUL. So glad we've switched over to making masks for the time being. 

Brought them home, and one of mine was immediately kifed. She wanted the white floral one and I said NO I love it too much. 

Hubby and I did a shop at Target, nice and mellow since the stores are better stocked now. We only had one substitution this time, almost unheard of. I plan on doing more tomorrow.