Author Archives: Sheryl

Remember that bird nest I mentioned in an earlier post? Well, we let the birds build their nest over our front door light. We think they might be “house finches”, but we’re not bird experts. It’s a good thing we decided to just let them build the nest this year, because it’s provided hours ofContinue reading “Day 22 — Tuesday, April 7, 2020 or we might have a little too much time on our hands”

I’ve seen all those tutorials online, everyone looks super creative and stylish with their fancy face coverings, but won’t those hair ties hurt your ears?? So I went to Shaw’s this afternoon — we needed a few items (or I needed a few items for lunches this week). I went at 5 p.m. figuring mostContinue reading “Day 21 — Monday, April 6, 2020 or I’m not sure just how to make a face mask…”

Maybe because it has! Remember my husband was working on a project in our basement? He’s been staining 6 wooden interior door to replace the brown plastic ones we have currently in our home (who buys plastic doors??) Anyway, he’s finished staining the doors (and the fumes are finally starting to vacate my laundry room!),Continue reading “Day 20 — Sunday, April 5, 2020 or I feel like my space has shrunk again…”

My husband purchased a bike last week from Amazon. He’s been an avid spin class participant for about 7 years now — he takes 4 or 5 classes a week. Obviously he can’t go to spin right now and he’s been missing the exercise. So he bought himself an inexpensive bike (he actually used creditContinue reading “Day 19 — Saturday, April 4, 2020 or sometimes we go back and try old things”

Yes, we did: What is in the very big box, you ask? Can you guess?? Do you need a hint? OK, it’s something we were totally worried about running out of. And for some reason, we just can’t find it in any of our local stores (darn you, hoarders!). Still not sure? OK, here’s anotherContinue reading “Day 18 — Friday, April 3, 2020 or we got the best delivery today!”

Today I participated in my first “office” Zoom call. My husband and I have done a few calls with family members, but I had yet to do one for work. So a colleague arranged for us to have a Zoom meeting this afternoon. He’s in a more senior position in our organization and I’ve beenContinue reading “Day 17 — Thursday, April 2, 2020 or at times technology can be down right scary…”

But it might not be totally our fault. Our house cleaners came again today. (Yes, don’t judge me, I have a house cleaner, it’s the absolute best thing I spend money on!) She came first thing this morning with her two helpers. Yes, that means there were 3 additional people in my house this morning.Continue reading “Day 16 — Wednesday, April 1, 2020 or today we were bad at social distancing…”

That’s right, but I have been out of my house during that time — a couple trips to the grocery store and Target and twice to get take out from our local pub. Oh and I have gone for walks pretty much every day and did a couple of runs. That’s not too much inContinue reading “Day 15 — Tuesday, March 31, 2020 or if I’d stayed inside my house for the past 2 weeks, I could now stop self quarantining”

My last day in my actual office was two weeks ago today. That seems just so odd. I have decided that working from home is pretty darn boring. I typically work on a bunch of events, but with COVID-19, all of my events have been cancelled. I spent a really long time working on anContinue reading “Day 14 — Monday, March 30, 2020 or welcome back Monday!”

It’s been raining and cold all day — sometimes the rain was pretty heavy. My legs were sore from yesterday’s run, so I decided to take today off. I didn’t exercise, I didn’t go for a walk, I didn’t go outside at all, not even for a drive around the neighborhood. I slept in aContinue reading “Day 13 – Sunday, March 29, 2020 or this was a nice relaxing Sunday”