Social Distancing and Things I am Doing to Keep Busy

Hello Friends,

I hope you are doing well. It has been over a week since the last post and I have still be mostly staying at home. I have been working from home everyday and I am fortunate that I can do my job at home and have been working at my desk. My dad brought over an extra monitor he had last weekend, so now I have two monitors and it is easier for me to work. At the office I have two screens so it feels more like when I work there. Just talking about it feels like it has been so much longer away from the office now than it has been. I guess two weeks away is a long time. I have been enjoying work from home and my fiancé Liam is also working from home with me too which has been so nice to have him here with me. I know for sure I will be working one more week from home at this point but I have a feeling it will be longer. Tonight Liam and I walked to pick up takeout for dinner and I felt worried about passing people I saw quite a few people wearing masks, we still aren't but I think of starting. I saw two line ups outside of LCBO and Loblaws, people rushing to get things for the weekend. It is quite a strange reality right now.

I actually binded off the Casual lace knit shawl and then I thought it was way too short, so I actually took the last bind off row apart to starting knitting row 73 of the pattern again. I am glad I made that decision, because I want it to be longer. The ends didn't come down far enough and I thought maybe when I block it it might help, but I don't want to leave it to hope that blocking will stretch it out to my liking so I will add more on instead, then block it. If it doesn't turn out the way I want, I probably wouldn't want to wear it so I would rather spend extra time on getting the desired length than finishing it sooner. I will hope to be done this weekend. I am staying in all weekend again anyways I have a lot of time.

I have started reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. It seems like it will be a really interesting book. I am still reading Good Morning. Good life by Ana Schmittauer Landino it is an easy read. I am thinking of also starting to read a fiction book soon too to get a little time away from thinking about the virus.

Some extra things I have been doing lately while in social distancing are:

•  I have started a puzzle I have done already. It's a Ravensburger puzzle. I enjoy seeing the buildings and I feel like it satisfies my feeling of wanting to travel right now.

• I have enrolled in a course taught by a professor at Yale University called The Science of Well-Being a couple of days ago. I heard on the radio that this course is very popular at Yale and is free right now through the Coursera website so I wanted to join in. I have started it and really feeling like it will be interesting. I always loved taking courses online so this will be right up my alley.
• I have also started taking a course on LinkedIn Learning for outlook to learn more tips and ways to use Outlook more to improve my tasks while at work. I will also be starting some other courses soon for work thinking it will be a good time to work on professional development.
• Continuing to exercise following Popsugar videos on Youtube. I also think a lot of gyms including my gym Goodlife fitness are offering online workouts so people can keep working on while at home.
• Playing games with Liam. We played Unlock!: The Nautilus' Traps last night. I got it for him for his birthday and we enjoyed it but the one I got him is tricky, but if you are into escape rooms this is a fun game to play at home. We have also played Portal 2 on our computers and probably will be playing more together this weekend.

• Listening to relaxing music in the evenings. I love listening to AlexrainbirdMusic it is such beautiful music and really enjoyed their Relaxing Sunday Mornings playlist last night while I wrote this post. It is so uplifting, beautiful, and so calming.
• We celebrated Liam's 31st birthday on Monday, his mom got him a cake and champagne so we had a little celebration for him in quarantine it felt special. 

I really want to start organizing my apartment more I have not started yet, but I am inspired by seeing so many other vloggers and bloggers tackling their closets and bathrooms during this time. I want to organize my space better while I am home so much.

Thank you for visiting my blog today. I hope that you have a good Friday. How are you doing with all this? It truly is a difficult time I miss seeing my family and friends, going to stores, and restaurants. I miss just being able to do whatever I wanted and not to worry about passing by someone on the sidewalk. I have no idea when this will all be done, but I hope that it is over soon and we can back to normal life and enjoy all that life has to offer us.

Joining along with Frontier Dreams for Crafting On and As Kat Knits for Unraveled Wednesday.