G has an interesting way to help with the masks that rub on your ears. Most of them seem to have pretty long elastic and she has started to wear her hair in a bun and criss cross the straps in the back using her hair to secure the mask. It's funny but she swears that it is more comfortable.
Me too! As a 90s teenager, not having access to the mall is just terrible for me(Except malls which I miss)
So cute!(I finally found a fox mask
Ugh, I get it. It would be so much easier if we just *knew* when all this would go away. Because even if it was a terrible date way in the future, the anxiety of "will this happen, won't this happen?" would at least be gone.
I don't see me going back to Disney anytime soon either. There's just so much I'm not sure I want to deal with even if I could go.
Happy belated birthday!!! LOVE your churros cart!They had a cool chocolate piñata one, but since it was just me I went with the churros. Which I didn't expect to come out in their own cart
Yes. Yes. And, yes.
HHN or Chicago/Boston Trip-8.5 weeks
Sorry it's been awhile since I updated! I don't really have many travel updates. We've also been dealing with some bug problems. We've never really had bugs in our apartment (except when our old window was rotting a few years ago and some carpenter ants started hanging out around it before they replaced it). But 2 weeks ago, we had an issue with ants.
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(Which was actually pretty easily solved once we sprayed and put down some cinnamon. Yes, apparently ants hate cinnamon
But for the last week we've been finding earwigs insideIt started out with a few, but last Thurs we found over 10 in one night.
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Over the weekend we raked out the nest (it seemed to be under the porch, we don't really use our porch and it appears maintenance just throws all the debris under porches) and sprayed. (They seem to be coming in the cracks in doors and windows which sadly we can't fill all of and our maintenance isn't much help). If you following me long enough you might remember the Great Door and Window Debacle of 2017 where they replaced our doors and windows, but did such a crappy job that I knew we'd have problems down the road. I think we've reduced the number getting in, but we haven't completely solved the problem.
Also they mostly come out at night when Josh is sleeping so I'm usually the one that deals with them, and last week one got up onto the bedso I've had a bit of a hard time falling asleep at night
Oh, and we started watching the old Unsolved Mysteries because the new one just isn't as good! (I'd say rewatching, but most the ones I saw I watched with my grandma when I was little). My favorite segments are the ones about hauntings
Trip Planning
In the last 2 weeks there hasn't really been a change to Florida's numbers. In fact they renewed the quarantine for the Tri State area coming to FL, and we now have to quarantine here coming back from 19 different states (of which Florida is one of). My work has let me know we could do that (though the time would be unpaid), but it would not look favorable on my record. It looks like HHN will be going on (so far), and I'd really like to go, but I'm doubtful things will change enough to allow it.
We aren't cancelling officially till Aug (because the hotel is all we booked anyway), so I'm hoping we have enough info to make the decision then. Right now I'm looking at Chicago or Boston for potential trips to take that trip's place. I probably won't decide anything until it's really close to the trip, but the only thing I can really do right now is book hotels and airfare (which we wouldn't need for Boston). NY residents can enter and come back from both states without quarantining currently, and things look like they're opening in both places. I've booked a hotel in Chicago and flights to and from just in case we decide on that. I think we'd prefer to go to Chicago, but if we have to choose somewhere closer Boston is a good option too.
We've decided to not go anywhere in Dec (unless Sep really really doesn't work out I guess). I think we're going to use that week to move. If we don't go on a second trip, I can start looking for cars earlier next year, and I definitely would like to replace mine soon.
I know I pretty much said this in my last update. But I'll keep updating, and even do a small TR for wherever we do end up going this year, but as for theme parks I'll keep this going for next year. (Tentatively next year we'd like to go to Cali in May, and Florida in Sep. If we don't do Chicago this year we may do it in the same trip as Cali, and I'm not sure if we'll do a long trip in Sep or a weekend one and then do a longer one in Dec which would include Miami).
Some photos from the last few weeks:
My birthday cake! It was chocolate cake with buttercream frosting, and the colors were an attempt at tie dye. (The Lactaid in the back is my brother's
My aunt got me these flowers:
4th of July:
(He was not looking which is probably good because he was driving
We can gather in groups of up to 50 now so my cousin had a family & friend BBQ on the 4th. Here's dad, me, my uncle, my aunt, and my cousins. (My brother was working).
A neighbor of theirs was setting off fireworks so here's one we could see:
Last night we had my brother's birthday
His cake was white with peanut butter frosting, and for some reason my aunt bought us all giant bags of random M&M flavors
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And hopefully you do get a getaway somewhere this year!! Am also thinking with money saved from reduced trips will be nice! I have a cruise booked for January but will cancel/postpone that until later 2021 or 2022 when I feel like sitting on hold for hours
I was looking up some info on a The Kitchen at HR and one of your videos was right there!!!
