corona lockdown day 243

 The birthday version. I took a vacation day and took it easy. Slept in and went for a walk. Zoomed with my parents. Overall a good day!

The cases in Kingston took a jump this week which will likely bring more anxiety out and about. 2 McDonalds are closed. They have been popular staples for people in the pandemic so it is possible that this may have larger impacts in the community, we will have to see.

My real estate agent said that most of the houses in kingston are being bought up from people from Toronto who are trying to get out of the city. She also said that building materials are short as many people are doing renovations instead of travelling.

Community update about rising cases - November 13, 2020

corona lockdown day 242

 Thursday is always my day of meetings. It went ok but was very long. I made chicken orzetto after it all was done.

James went to school but changed his internship from working with a school phys ed class to working with Ryan from hockey helping him with some admin work and the team. So that means his bubble is smaller right now, which is good. We'll have to see how things look in octomester 4.

corona lockdown day 241

 Tomorrow is a school day. Since March James hasn't needed to eat food from home and I wasn't quite prepared so had not bought anything so he'll have a bit of a challenge putting it together in the morning.

Today was another nice day and I did manage to get outside for a walk. My email is still pretty backlogged but tomorrow is all day of meetings again.

MOH advice

James is back to school tomorrow. Guess that is essential!

corona lockdown day 240

 Today was another beautiful day and I made a point to get outside as I was not able to yesterday. At lunch I biked to the bank to pick up some paperwork for Rustle. I wore a mask in and they greeted me by name but then in order to give me the paperwork, they asked me to pull my mask down to confirm that I was me. I found that a bit odd. I spent some time in the backyard as well.

James had a lot of training today. Octomester 3 starts for him on Thursday. Unfortunately, we have had an elementary school close thanks to covid and one case in a high school today. So we'll see how octomester 3 goes.

corona lockdown day 239

 Today was a very long day with lots of meetings but we got through a lot of things, just my work is building up while I am in meetings. So not much to report as I didn't leave the house even for a breathe of fresh air.

corona lockdown day 238

 I had a laugh at this:

I took on Loblaws at 8am and it went well. Rustle online at 11am. The in person 11am was full. Christine said she needed to wait outside (but they did end up having space). Maybe this will inspire people to arrive on time. At any rate, it worked for me to be online. Funnily they muted Todd when he sang happy birthday as they thought his voice was too bad. Hahaha.

In the afternoon I biked to Rustle to pick up the bills. They are changing our account to need 2 approvals to pay the bills so I am paying them quickly before the new account features are activated.

Made peameal bacon. The frozen box was ready to ship in the next few days but I still have frozen things in the freezer so I went in and found out how to delay the box so I was pretty pleased with figuring that out.

corona lockdown day 237

 Happy anniversary to my parents!

Today I went to the grocery store for the first time in a week. I went relatively early and it was not too busy. I also went to Shoppers and they still had some of their sales, so that was good. Pretty successful trips. Kim came over and we went for a neighborhood walk. One of the houses a few doors down went on sale today and despite the high price and the lack of a sale sign the house was hopping with viewings. 

corona lockdown day 236

 A day with many meetings. I still need to write down all the notes. Took a walk after the meetings in the Strathcona area. Made Italian sausage risotto for dinner. I am hoping to see Kim for a walk tomorrow.

I have a number of work things to do on the weekend as well as getting some groceries.

corona lockdown day 235

 Today was a day of meetings as Thursdays usually are. This one was more meetings than usual. I only had a short time to make pasta and heat the sauce at one point in the day Tomorrow is better but likely my tasks are backlogged from all my meetings today.

During one meeting out of the corner of my eye I saw a thousand legged millipede and had to scramble to kill it. Really don't like those things- it was big!

corona lockdown day 234

 Today was a long day of meetings and tomorrow will be another one as Thursdays normally are. I did get a walk in at lunch. The weather was very nice!

Made pizza meatloaves for dinner!

corona lockdown day 233

 Today I did manage to get out for a walk. I had a training session from 5-7, wrote lots of email in the evening. Tomorrow have lots of meetings in the morning.

On my walk I saw a truck delivering chef's plate but on their website Tuesday is not an option for me to select for delivery. But a lot of houses in my neighbourhood seemed to be getting deliveries and Tuesday used to be my delivery day so I'm trying to understand the system. But glad that other people are enjoying chefs plate.

corona lockdown day 232

 On the day of a project submission it is always a busy day. I had hundreds of emails to get through so it was a very long day- 12 hours or so, but I got through a lot of things so that is good. I didn't get outside at all. Simple dinner of chicken and rice. More work than anything today! 

corona lockdown day 231

 I was woken up early. I had been planning to walk to Metro as it was to be cold and rainy but as it was just windy, I biked and managed to keep control of the bike! I picked up some good meat and so can freeze a bunch. 

I watched Elevation church and Rustle online.

Did a bunch of registration work.

Dinner was a whole chicken and it was early as James had a 7pm skate. James had pasta a bit before the skate. James got a puck to the knee so was limping when he came back.