The activity for Day 20 of the Family Connection Experiment is supposed to be to create a family calendar. I think I’ve made one before. But, thanks to Facebook we are now pretty good at remembering the birthdays of our living relatives. Because of that, and because I got really good feedback on yesterday’s post, I am going to continue to chronicle my life during this pandemic. (I won’t be as “deep” as yesterday, though. That wore me out!)
Today’s post is a simple one. It’s also a “cheat post.” Sometimes, you just have to take the easy road…
On April 17, I created a Quarantine Bingo Game and shared it on Facebook. If you’re a “Facebook Friend” you may have seen this already. Sorry. Not sorry. Like I said earlier, I’m tired!! Why am I so tired?
Well, first of all. I’m 65 years old. Apparently I can’t stay up writing blog posts until midnight and then wake up at 8:00 a.m. and expect to function for another 14+ hours.
I FaceTimed with my daughter and grandaughter mid-morning. We were a little concerned because Paisley announced she was TIRED and wanted to rest on the couch. These words had never been uttered by P before (and it looked like she had a little rash) so of course, our thoughts went immediately to the dark place – is it that new illness kids are getting??? (P was fine within the hour. We determined the rash was from smacking herself in the face with a telescope.)
I had a Zoom meeting with a student from 12:30 – 1:30 and then taught my class (on Zoom, of course!) from 2:00 – 3:00. I sent and received at least 8 emails and texts encouraging my online students to finish their courses by tomorrow’s deadline. (That was a rough situation yesterday – the course platform was offline for more than 12 hours!) I checked and rechecked students’ progress on the platform at least 3 times during the day.
At 4:00. it was time for cheese and crackers while we listened to our governor’s daily report on the status of reopening our state. I used to watch Judge Judy. Guess that ship has sailed.
Made and ate dinner. At 7 p.m., I joined a Zoom call sponsored by DuoLingo – the app I am using to learn German. I’m doing pretty well! Jetzt ich konne Deutsch besser lesen aber ich spreche Deutsch nichts sehr gut. (Now I can read German better but I don’t speak German very well.) I wrote that in German without cheating! The grammar is definitely off but I got my point across. Anyway, I am trying to improve my conversational German, in case I ever get to take that trip to Vienna we had to cancel. Where was I going with this?? Oh, yeah – I’m tired. My brain was getting too full so I logged off after an hour. It was fun though. I’ll do it again.
My phone notified me I was supposed to be attending a webinar at 8 p.m. Whoops, forgot. Logged on to GoToWebinar for a webinar on accessing German Genealogy records. I lasted 5 minutes. Guess I’m German’d out. The webinar will be recorded, so no biggie.
Uh oh! I need to write my blog post. The challenge is 21 days long because that’s how long it takes to develop a new habit. It worked. I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I didn’t write the post.
Hence… the “cheat post.” I created this bingo game at the website Bingo Baker. It’s fun! You can make your own to print or play online with others! Enjoy!
Who We Are and How We Got This Way 