How is it that this week, the week of "Spring Break," if you will, went by so fast? Just as if we were not social distancing...
I did some cleaning on Friday, and broke my broom. How does one do that? you ask... Well, the handle, near the broom part was evidently rusted to weakness, and some vigorous get-this-dirt-off-the-patio swipes was enough to snap it off. Sigh. I wasn't done sweeping yet. Not surprisingly, there has not been a run on brooms in the stores, and I picked up a new one with no problems.
While I was at Albertsons, looking for the rest of the items on my list, I noticed that there were a few more things on the shelves than there had been. Sure, there were still gaps. I didn't get eggs, but I got pasta. There wasn't rice, but there was some barley, and I do enjoy beef and barley soup. There was a good selection of meat, and some mozzarella cheese (maybe we will make some pizza from scratch), but not the cheddar that I usually pick up to grate. I got almost everything I went for.
I even did some baking today, I made a chocolate cake. I used a recipe that has mayonnaise instead of eggs and oil. It has been a LONG while since I've made a cake from scratch, and it turned out all right. I whipped up some chocolate icing to put on it as well, and here's the finished product:
icing, to hide all the flaws... |
So, enough of the kitchen, and the shopping! Yesterday Onate English department had a meeting with Mr. Schapekahm to find out about how we are going to be doing school the rest of this semester. The building is closed for the semester, but we will be doing school in some other ways, including online. The kids will receive a pass/fail grade. It will be nice to be in regular contact with our students, and I think many of our students will think it is nice to be in regular contact with us. I'm interested to see what develops as we go into this unfamiliar place. I think it will be a learning experience for us all.
I've been keeping up with my walking this week, and getting into a grove of being more comfortable with it. When I first started walking regularly, a couple of years ago, it was a struggle to get comfortable with it. I'm not an athletic person, but walking is pretty basic, you would think. I had to change how I wore my shoes. No more sloppy slip-ons, I had to lace them up tight each morning, or I would get blisters on the bottom of my feet. That was kind of scary, because my mother, who was diabetic, lost one of her feet from an infection that she fought for over a year, that originally started as a blister. I'm also diabetic, so it kind of freaked me out when I first got a blister on the bottom of my foot. I also kind of stomped and staggered around my neighborhood and called it a walk. As I walked more, and got off some of the medication that can make me dizzy, that improved, and as I got stronger, it helped even more. I really like how I feel when I do that regular exercise, but I can't say I will ever love doing it. There are people who really enjoy exercising, but I am not one of them.
I know there are other things that I thought about writing about, but it's late, and I think I'm done for today.
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