garnigal | Obladie Obladah (Reply)

Life goes on.

1. Snow is melting. I'm sure we'll get one or two (or eight or nine) more big dumps before true spring, but it's definitely headed towards warmer weather.

2. Work is going reasonably well. I've learned an astonishing amount about rubber, conveyor belts and chairs. Also about writing in circles to sufficiently bedazzle the CRA.

3. VV's school is going smoothly, and we have her in a Thursday afternoon virtual 'homework' program. We did figure out that math section was stressing her out because they were using kahoot — which gamifies answering (fun!) but includes a timer (traumatizing!). Yesterday we turned off the volume and didn't log into the competition aspect, and VV liked it a lot more.

4. I am going to be one of those people. March Break got shifted to April for our schools (I suspect it'll be cancelled all together but who knows with this govt), but my dad's birthday is Mar 18. Mom wanted to do something nice and the ski hills are open so she booked a condo in a local ski resort. My brother and SIL booked one as well with the kids, and Mom offered to take VV. So she is taking 3 days off school to go on a vacation with people outside our household, provided of course we don't go into lockdown before that. We are rationalizing that they will not be in shared spaced other than outdoors, but we know we are rationalizing and we are just desperate for a parenting break and to give VV something to be excited about. We are skipping the middle niece's birthday because there's going to be extra people, but apparently that's okay 3 weeks later? Like I say, desperation. D and I are staying home to work (though we might try to go up for night skiing).

Humans aren't rational, what can I say?