Day 316-319 of Sheltering In

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Sunday we made a late afternoon stop at my daughter’s group home to drop off crafty stuff and some snack and grocery items after sending my son out to shovel. I got the oil for the snowblower, but “someone” I’ve asked several times to get gas for the small gas can (the one we use exclusively for 2 cycle engines that need an oil and gas mixture), multiple times since the 1st of the year. Can’t say she didn’t have a credit card because she kept that and the gas rewards card for over 2 days, which made the other reason I went out on Sunday an epic fail. I was going to go to the bodega for vegetables and some of their fantastic Pico De Gallo. I had no way of paying for it, so my son and I took the long way home.

Monday was my appointment for the orthotics place in Oak Lawn. That was a hike. Just went there and then home. Saw some interesting restaurants along the way. Hakuna Matata (middle eastern fare). We’ve only had middle eastern food once since moving to the burbs. Back to the brace. I’m not liking the fit. It was a standard, out of the box Velcro contraption. Doesn’t look like much coming out of the box, but it’s very bulky. It’s longer than the one I got on Amazon, but it also has 2 metal plates in pockets and those are meant to go on the left and right of the knee to protect it from further damage and allow healing. Not really “custom” if you asked me.

Wednesday I got an email from Amazon’s Reading Challenge. I read ALL 31 days of January! “Read” as in books. The beginning of January I started cutting down on the amount of news I read online. I drastically cut down. I still do not watch any news on television, although I did watch the events of 01/06/21 and the inauguration, but that’s it. I’ve also cut down reading on Facebook, but that’s mostly due to being frustrated that notifications repeatedly reload when I’m trying to scroll down to pick the next one to read.

Storm supposedly coming Thursday starting at 11am. That means I need to get up early to grocery shop. Even though I’m up til the wee hours, I still can get up between 8-9am, so shouldn’t be a problem for me. However, my wife has been keeping about the same hours, but she sleeps until noon. When I’m ready to leave...I’m going. She is supposed to run errands for her Mom’s friend while I shop. If she doesn’t get up in time, that’s not happening. 

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