Life in Progress

Kitchen:

• Cabinets have been delivered
• Old vinyl floor tiles have been ripped out - ready for new engineered bamboo flooring!

Family:

• E is back from Orlando - the orchestra and chamber group performance was solid and they won a bunch of awards.
• H is busy with Envirothon
• C is doing swimming, soccer, school musical, and robotics club
• Husband has oodles of work and is stressed out.

Self:

• Work has been on the slow side, which is in some ways good (I went on a solo hike during lunch) but also not good (will I be laid off?)
• Constant stress - hard to not be stressed out with the baboonery going on in the government.
• I am very sad that Voice of America is gone. Our radio was able to pick up VOA when we lived in the Russian Far East, around 1990-1991. The reception would cut in and out, and some days we couldn't hear it at all. My parents wanted to know what was actually happening as the USSR was on the verge of collapse. State-run news were a pile of doo-doo, so VOA was a critical source of information. I am hoping this shut-down is temporary.
• What's going to fill that void? Russian-run propaganda channels? 
• President shutting down news channels - next it will be "enemies of the state" for everyone who disagrees with him. Are we still in the US?
• Note to self: resist, don't give up, don't despair.

Wish List:

• Tidy, clean, mop, open windows.
• Fix up the garden walls and plant stuff
• Play more games with kids (H and I played hangman while waiting at the doctor's office - so much better than reading or playing on the phone!)
• Sleep more
• Get more treats