QuaRAntine Day 15

I have surpassed cranky. I’m downright bitchy and mean. I have a lot of work that needs to be done, my sister and her daughter are on their way over, as it’s my sister’s birthday. I stayed up late last night doing work to cover for today’s work and as a result, very little writing was done on William. My check – which USUALLY arrives around the 29th, has not been automatically deposited as of last night. Since the new super was installed, they’re literally waiting until end of the day on the 31st, which is killing me as I have a bill due on the 25th and they won’t BUDGE on moving the due date!!!

And yesterday was ManCandy Monday.

Sigh

I don’t even want to poke fun of this shit anymore!

Spawn is having a Grand Aspie Meltdown. He’s in the process of buying a car and the tag offices are closed so he can’t get the tag meaning he can’t drive the vehicle.

It’s not pretty in the Zee-household.

We have officially taken over the kitchen in this house. So far….

Hoagies. Spoon mixture on large hoagie roll, cover with provolone cheese, microwave or put under broiler long enough for the cheese to melt and eat. Sooooo delish!!!

Raspberry and Lemon pork chops (recipe on RABBBWW) ginger orange stir fry veggies and rice.

Mom said she was going to pretend to be sick more often so I would come home and cook.

#16 – Saddest ChaRActer Death

ALL OF THEM! Please! EVERY FRICKIN’ ONE!!!! I was shed copious tears if they kill off Trevor Belmont! I will. I shit you not. I’m sick of watching that man die!

I think he managed to walk around a long time after Azog ran him through

And Sir Guy’s does me in every time!

 

So there. Here’s some holdover ManCandy

If I’m still crabby tomorrow, I might vent. You’ve been warned.

QuaRAntine Day 14

I”m cranky and I have cabin fever.

 

I got up this morning to politics. I’m so fed up. I’m fed up with finger pointing, I’m fed up with partisan politics, I’m fed up with a lot of shit. So I went to my work email and spent almost 7 hours doing work projects. Just…. done. Done done done! A friend – who is Conservative – posted a statement of a Congresswoman I have no respect for, making disparaging remarks about our president – who quite frankly is working his ass off a whole lot harder than his predecessor did during the H1N1 crisis!

One of her other friends stated – she (the congresswoman) needed to catch Corona.

I took offense to this. It pisses me off when the Left says that of the right and i’ll get pissed when the Right says it of the Left and I told him so. His response?

Well, they think we’re thugs anyway! 

NO effing reason to prove them right! Take the high road dammit! Don’t become them.

I’m rather shocked I’ve not been blocked from the conversation or unfriended. We have enough shit going on, no need to add to the pooper!

And it’s just getting uglier.

Mom is driving me nuts. She has no short term memory and any attempt to talk to Dad about it gets one snipped at from both sides. Right now, Spawn and I have taken over the kitchen until we leave on Sunday.

I’ve been staying away from Social Media. I know there are people rising to the occasion. MORE are rising to the occasion than are sinking in the mud and i’d like to just focus on that. Except the media just wants to tell us about the crap, and not the people and groups who are rising up! Rise up, people!

Grrrrr.

coughs

Trevor is so full of little witticisms.

I’m going to go chug closer to that light at the end of the tunnel with William Would be SOOOO nice to finish him today.

QuaRAntine Sunday!

And happy Sunday!

I am digging deep for some retail therapy. NOTHING at Zulily grabs my eye. Nada. I don’t know if it’s my ire at the credit card company – who has screwed me royally twice in 4 months – or the fact i don’t trust their sizing system.

Ah me

Full Beauty (Roamans/Womanwithin/JessicaLondon) is another story.  Right now, they are having the huge sale that gets me EVERY time, except, my card is full and the sale will end before I get paid.

This is a popular top. It’s been on my wish list in different colors over the last few years. It always sells out in MY color by the time I get around to it. Dammit.

 

These are so pretty!!! And dressy! Like for church! They sold out in my size and this color in a week last year!

I have this in white – it’s so pretty, so why do I want it in ecru??? Take a good look at the tail – hard to see. It’s not like that in the other colors.

I should ‘want’ this in other colors because this color won’t look good on me. But I don’t like how the crochet bib looks on the other colors. Besides, I have things in the other colors..

Sick, isn’t it?

 

If it weren’t for purple, red would be my favorite color. LOL!

I love this. I do I do. It’s already getting too hot to wear long sleeves and it’s such a SRPINGY color!

This too. I don’t know, my room tends to stay cool at school. Either one would be okay.

Guess what this year’s color is???

Oh well, no clothes for me. I’ll just look. I need to save up some money anyway.

Okay. Maybe ONE thing… maybe!

The IRS website is being an ass and while I SHOULD have had my tax return back by now, (which would have been a gamechanger for the above picspam!) they’ve rejected it yet again for an ‘incorrect code’ (NOT!) and I’m going to just have to snail mail it when I get home. I have extra payments to make on a few credit cards, plus a new phone. The one I have is fair useless.

I probably mentioned we went to the grocery yesterday. Shelves weren’t EMPTY, but.

My mom is driving me nuts. I woke up this morning with a growing weight on my legs. She’s put 5 quilts and God knows how many pillows on the bed and every night, I take all of them off. There is NO room for me at all. It’s caused problems with my sleep. Either way I wake up this morning and she’s piling ALL that shit on me. I asked her to stop and she says – I thought you were cold.

Why? Was I shivering???

I’ve contacted my siblings. We need to stage an intervention. Neither one of my parents cook anymore, so needless to say, I was saddened – and angered – at my dad’s ‘grocery list’ he made yesterday (in addition to mine.) Pre-cooked sausage, eggos, and tortinos pizza. And Cokes! That’s what they live on. Spawn and I sat down with the recipes at RABBBWW and pulled ingredients for 7 healthy, diabetic friendly meals. Now mom is upset because there is FOOD in the refrigerator and freezer!

I can’t.

Right now, we have pork chops thawing out so we can make raspberry and lemon pork chops for dinner tonight.

I wrote until 2 AM this morning. There is ONE scene left in William’s story arc – the penultimate, climatic scene this story as been aiming for since I started it – oh 4 years ago. So I hope to have it finished today or tomorrow and sent to the betas.

sometime today, I need to shower, dress up and have Spawn take some ‘outdoor’ pictures for the Spirit Week staff is putting on at the school Facebook. I’ll share.

Monday – Me outside, taking in the sun…

yeah right!

QuaRAntine Day 14 – Most annoying character. 

Oh dear God, Lee, hands down!

Beautifully annoying!!! Here! I let you appreciate how annoying he is some more! Coming and going!

Thank you for putting up with me in my cabin fever dotage. Spawn and I are talking about sliding out of here a day early maybe. I don’t know. The cats will figure it out and become pains the minute it looks as if we’re packing it up. We should probably pack them up first. Catch them off guard.

Ya’ll have a great day of social distancing!

QuaRAntine Day 13

Happy self-contained weekend to you all! We went to the grocery this afternoon – omg, my parents pantry is EMPTY and what they are eating will kill them if this keeps up! Pre-cooked sausage, eggo waffles and pizza. Pretty much every single day! Spawn and I dragged them to the grocery with a list and a weeks worth of menu – taken directly from RABBBWW! God have mercy! Most of us weren’t wearing masks – I started with one, but took it off because mostly what it accomplished was fog up my glasses. We kept our distances for the most part and people were cordial and friendly.

You go first. 

No, YOU go first

Babe, you’re blocking the aisle. Go first! 

Ah, Okay! 

The Greater Atlanta Area has gone on complete lock down. Only necessary workers are allowed out and about. You can go to the grocery and the pharmacy, but that’s it. And now, the entire state is under notice you have to be HOME (unless you’re an emergency or medical worker) at 9 PM. Means Spawn and I will probably leave Saturday or EARLY Sunday to head back home. We’ll probably stay and not return, even though we have 3 weeks before we MIGHT return to school. Spawn and I will need to find somewhere where we can walk in peace. He’s getting cabin fever bad!

This week, for work, I accomplished quite a bit! My lesson plans (half that I can’t use this year) are done for the rest of the year, my standards for KK are unpacked, put in kid-friendly language and I can statements are done. These will pretty much work for 75% of my 1-5! And my extra special, kid friendly set up for my music room is done. I’m going to work on the standards/I can for the rest of the classes and sign up for some Online professional development. They’re FREE! So, yeah, gotta take ’em!

Costco has posted signs that they will NOT be refunding for bulk toilet paper, paper towels, wet wipes, or sanitizer. People are realizing that they’re going to be SHORT come rent time next Wednesday! HAH!

I have written the epilogue of William Edward’s story. I now have something to aim for and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. For those who don’t know, I tend to write the end of a piece when I’m heading down the stretch with a fic. It usually makes things move faster.

This virus has brought out the best in people. It’s brought out the worst in a few, but it’s brought out the best in the majority. I have faith in my fellow man.

I’m having a really hard time NOT doing any retail therapy. Really. REALLY! But right now, I’m standing strong.

That might change when I get paid Monday!

And now…

#13 – Favorite Season finale.

Castlevania Season 2. Our parting shot of Trevor is him riding off in a wagon, with a talented, intelligent, beautiful (if anime drawn) young lady, who apparently LIKES him and he’s happy for the first time in God knows how many years. Alacard even questions her – are you SURE??? Yeah. She’s sure.

I think I’m going to rewatch a specific scene so I can lay out my little one shot this weekend. Tonight or tomorrow.

When I finish William. Must finish William. And then after that and after this little one shot is done, I can focus on Gary.

And Reaper.

and my old old old fic that I have no idea WHERE I’m going to post it as everywhere it was posted are gone. Except for AFF and I don’t know if I remember the password.

Ah well. I hope you’ve had a great day today. Staying in. Reading. Cleaning. Whatever. Stay in. Stay safe. Wash your hands! This virus’s molecules are held together by GREASE so wash your hands, dammit It doesn’t like hot stuff, so coffee and hot tea are excellent and DO NOT TAKE ADVIL/IBUPROFEN! Ibuprofen makes it worse. Tylenol and aspirin!

There. My work for today is done! Love you all! (Even those who are mad at me and not speaking to me, ya turds!)

Oh dear Lord

Yesterday was GuyDay!!! I had a big project due for school and it just slipped by me. I shall rectify that NOW!

 

I’ll be back later for QuaRAntine. Pollen headache.

QuaRAntine Day 12

And how are we doing?

My cabin fever exploded yesterday and a friend treated me to lunch (drive through) and his humorous company in the Goodwill parking lot while we ate. We then drove around the country side and lamented on the process of aging. We talked about the things we missed from our younger years – the ability to go out and party until 4 AM and get up at 7 and go to work. I recalled getting up at 4:30 in the morning, being on the road at 5 AM to get to college by 5:30 in morning on Monday and Tuesdays in order to practice. PRACTICE! The Fine Arts custodian KNEW I was coming in and would make sure one door was unlocked for me. Why did I do this on Monday and Tuesday only? I had a full day – with classes starting at 8 AM and going until 3 PM. My piano lesson was Monday, my organ lesson was Tuesday and I had keyboard harmony on Tuesday as well. Keyboard harmony pissed me off, because it was required for ALL music majors but I was graded harder than the others. I was ‘The Performer!” Not to mention, the professor realized I had a scale that I hated with a passion, knew 3 different fingerings to and as a result, when I went into overdrive and auto-pilot, they would mix up. I end up in a knot at the bottom of the run and she chose THAT scale for tests for me – EVERY FUCKING TIME!

Either way, I worked 4-9 Monday-Friday (at the company where I met this friend! Sooooo many years ago!) and I put in a 12 hour day on Saturday. I’d like to know WHEN I did my homework…

I was freaking awesome!

either way, hopefully some time today, I’ll take Spawn for a walk. He doesn’t get out at all.

For some odd reason, the first 3 books i read this month were books about viruses wiping out 75% of the world. Where is my brain?

Our governor closed all schools through April 24th. So 2 extra weeks than what we planned. Of course, my system has loaded up MORE work for us to do. One is due at 3 today. I have to arrange my room in a kid-friendly manner. It also states it has to be clean. I’m thoroughly screwed.  Needless to say, when I finish this post, I”ll be heading over to finish THAT project. At least my lesson plans AND my KK I Can Statements and Standards is complete. I’ve copied the Standards over and I’ll move them through the remaining grades. As MoST of them of identical or similar, I should be able to just move along and continue.

I also have Professional Learning to take advantage of.

The pollen count here is astronomical. You can TASTE this crap! Another reason to stay in.

#12 – Favorite Kiss.

You know, I love all of his kisses. I love the Harry Kennedy kiss. I love all of the Esther Krug kisses, I even love the kiss he shared with the reporter that got killed that first round of Berlin Station. I love the desperation of Guy’s kiss with Marian, when she was using him so cruelly, the skank! (Yes, I know there are those who love the couple, and I respect that opinion, but my opinion was she was a skank!) and yes, the North and South kiss was truly special, but my favorite kiss….

There ya go.

I’m off to draw up classroom plans. Lord have mercy.

QuaRAntine Day 11 dammit

Lesson plans are done. Half done with unpacking my kk standards. This is dull work. Very dull work.

I’m hoping when I get KK done, the rest will go faster as they are similar, just maybe a bit extra here and there. I was reading outloud to myself yesterday when mom stuck her head in – kinders learning a song in a foreign language? Are you kidding?

Nope. I remember singing ‘Frere Jacques’ when I was that age. Foreign language. Counts. Every year, my K-2 program teaches at least one song in a foreign language. This year, we’re doing Yiddish. A song about potatoes. It’s really funny. Very few words, but funny.

Our concert was cancelled. I was really looking forward to this one. Salsa, Yiddish, and Brass Ensemble all rolled into one 1 hour concert for little ones. I’m telling you, they raise the roof!!! In the past – in the foreign language department, we’ve had – yeah, Cajun-French, Creole-French, Indian (as in India) Spanish. So yeah. The warm up I do with 3-5 is in a foreign language. Nigerian. So I have the Foreign Language standard pretty clear.

We get out the scarves and sing the chorus. They had the best time and she had such fun WITH us.

During lunch, I was dinking around facebook and THIS was posted to one of my music teacher groups. Bagpipes made out of recorders, straws and a trash bag! You KNOW we’re doing this next year!!!

It sounds like cats fighting! I”ll be doing a Donors Choose for this. (This and classroom instruments. my jingle bells are in PIECES and a few weeks back, while playing claves, one of the thicker ones split in mid smack and went flying! Luckily, my kids know how to duck!

I’m thinking I might be here a few years. Right now, i’m good with that.

Lessee… today’s question…

#11 – What episode did you watch more than five times?

What episode of what? My favorite? Robin Hood? Strike Back? Let’s just go more than 5 times…

There are a few Robin Hood episodes I’ve watched more than 5 times. Guy in a tree. Guy tied up.

Masticating Guy

Smirking Guy

Long drink of water Guy

Half Nekked Guy. Mah Favorite!

I’ve also watched the various Hobbits more than 5 times.

I’m thinking I’ll be watching more of this as well…

hmmm mmmm.

What a man what a man what a man what a mighty good man mighty mighty good man!

Yeah, it’s a song.

Back to work for me. ho Hum.

 

QuaRAntine Day 10

And welcome to day 10. What IS today, btw? Tuesday? Wednesday? It’s Wednesday! Killing me.

Today, I have a goal. Finish ALL of my lesson plans. I have 3 weeks more to do – so 18. Today!

And then I have to unpack my standards, write I Can statements, reword the standards into kid friendly terms, focus trail next year….

I’m shaking my head. The things I do for a paycheck.

Hugs to our friends in Italy. Postal service is slow, everything is by mail… it’s just… damn.

This was on Esther’s blog. I thought it pertinent and necessary.

It is my understanding that Richard Carpenter (the writer and sister to Karen, who recorded it) has seen this and he was truly touched.

Also, this is necessary.

And now – Day 10.

#10 – What show did you think you would like, but didn’t? 

I’ve mentioned this before and I know I”m going to get hate, but the show I didn’t like that I thought I would, because everyone thinks so highly of it is – North and South. Yes, the costumes are wonderful, the setting is wonderful, the music is wonderful and THAT KISS! But the story just didn’t capture me at all. Granted I watched it over a 2 year period… and the first 3 episodes over a time I was job hunting. I watched the 4th 2 years later in a spat of boredom. Perhaps I should rewatch, binge watch properly during a quiet time. Maybe.

Look at this? I went clear back into my files here into 2018 and not a single picture of John Thornton. i googled one. Sheesh!

QuaRAntine Day 9

My mom is driving me nuts.

I know I know. I’m glad she’s still here. But I find myself answering the same questions over and over and over – most times 5 minutes apart. Right now, she thinks it Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving festivities have been cancelled so she’s calling the family to come for turkey.

*headdesk*

Today i need to check my work email, figure out how to upload the lessons I have done… meh. Just meh.

Today’s laugh

We braved WalMart last night. Place was DEAD and the few workers that were there were all masked and wore gloves. Lysol wipes were everywhere. An employee was spraying shopping carts.

Thar ya go!

#9 – Which show did you think you wouldn’t like, but did? 

Castlevania. Honest. I’m not an anime fan, adult cartoon, whatever you want to call this. The show is completely different than what I expected. Right now, it’s my favorite Richard project!!!

And now, I must go WORK! what a drag! LOL! (But at least I’m getting paid. I know many who aren’t!)

QuaRAntine Day 8

How are we doing? We’re entering day 8 of this mess. My son is having a difficult time. He had planned some hangouts that aren’t going to happen. One of his friends is having a birthday and that party has been cancelled. The only restaurants that are open are the ones with drive thrus and I’m SICK of drive thru food! Sick, I tell you! A friend and I are planning on going out, if we can ever get our sinuses (pollen allergies) and we realized the extent of dinner out would be driving through a drive through and sitting in the parking lot, giggling like teenagers.

I have made a deal with myself (I know funny right?) When I finish William Edward, I will reward myself by writing the Trevor/Syphia one shot. One shot. That’s all. But first, I must write lesson plans today!

Sister Felicity Immaculata, Mother Superior of the Order of Eternal Indifference; sends you blessings from quarantine.

 

I found a Popsicle late last night. Made my sugar go into the 160’s. Mom is now seeing things that aren’t there in addition to the memory problems. She swore up and down that there were 3 cars in the driveway. Then we went out to actually count. Nope. 2.

sigh.

It’s Mancandy Monday and I’m not in the mood to dig very much, so it will be an all RA Mancandy day. After the essential QuaRAntine question

#8 – What audio book would you like RA to read?

coughcoughMannafromheavencoughcough

And now…

kinopoisk.ru

Ya’ll have a safe day!