Day 3 - California Reopening Plan - Phase 2

8:00 - Mothers Day!! I take the dog out and go back to bed.

11:00-1:00 - I scroll through my Ipad and delete last week’s podcasts to free up space for the coming week then read Leaving the Witness. It’s Mothers Day so I can do whatever I want.

1:00-1:30 - This week, Camerata Pacifica, my favorite chamber music company, has been advertising a live performance on You Tube today, in honor of Mothers Day and I’m so excited to see it! Maybe they’ve developed a work-around for performances during the Covid-19 era?

1:30-2:00 - …..And they don’t. It’s a live performance from 1/20/20, before the pandemic and I don’t particularly like the music. I go back to reading Leaving the Witness.

2:00-4:00- L. wakes up and comes downstairs. She has a wonderful card for me and she wrote heartfelt comments inside. I get a pair of New Balance tennis shoes for my Mothers Day gift that I pointed out when we went to a Free People store in Malibu, the first weekend in March, on a whim. Who knew it would be the last retail store I would ever set foot in? After shopping, we had lunch at Malibu Farms, our favorite restaurant. It was just a typical weekend, but our last weekend out at a restaurant. I really took it for granted. On that day, the store was having a sale and offering free champagne and fruit - everything was laid out on a table in the middle of the store and customers were serving themselves (gasp).

As an aside, Soup Plantation is the latest chain to announce their collapse. They don’t think the buffet concept will stand up in life-after-Covid 19. What will happen to all of those Las Vegas buffets?

L. also gives me a “New School Mom” T-shirt in honor of the college she will allegedly attend in Fall 2020 and some Dark chocolate bars, infused with orange. It was all very nice and after that we sit and talk about a new show she’s watching, The Midnight Gospel. I’m lucky to have her! In honor of Mothers Day, L. offers to treat me by picking up lunch and I get to choose. I select Fish Tales and she picks up three baja fish tacos and calamari for me. I end up eating almost everything.

4:30-5:30 - I read the news online then get the websites ready for my college classes this week. I also field emails.

5:30-7:30 - We watch Married at First Sight - Season 9. L. and I are completely hooked. Can you tell I haven’t showered or dressed yet? Hey, its Mothers Day.

7:30-9:00 - Shower. Spa Day.

9:00 - 11:00 p.m. - L. gives me a pile of clothes to give to the women’s shelter this week, and I try them on to see if any fit. A few do, so I set them aside. I repair a picture frame that fell off the wall a few nights ago and start a load of laundry. I go outside, sweep my patio, and water my 36 plants, then take out all three trash cans. Trash day tomorrow. The dog vomits on the couch so L. and I assume our positions, similar to a crash crew at a hospital when someone is coding. We have it down to a science.

11:00-11:30 - L. helps me with the ‘contact’ section of my blog.

12:00-1:30 - L. and I watch another episode of Married at First Sight. If you haven’t figured it out, yet, I’m a night owl. My circadian rhythm is such that my energy burst occurs later in the evening. My whole family is like this.

1:30 - 3:00 - I clean the kitchen, dishes, and do food prep for the week. Clothes in the drier.

I pack for tomorrow’s beach trip:

In my large beach bag, I put in 2 beach towels and a beach blanket, sun screen, mask, gloves, a few paper towels, a ‘trash bag’, and Purell. In my lunch bag, I pack a bag of Trader Joe’s peanut snacks, cut-up cheddar cheese, and rosemary/basil almonds; a taco I saved from yesterday’s lunch; my standard container of almond butter that goes with me everywhere; dark chocolate infused with orange; and cut-up fruit from L.’s picnic from, like, a week ago (the fruit is still good); and my spork. My Hydroflask goes with me everywhere.

That’s a wrap. A lovely day.