Ha! I can't edit my spices down that far - we're about to reorg them, as I need to do a big reorder, I'll have to take a picture once it's done.
Please do! DarkKnight & I were a little nervous that we wouldn't be able to get it down to 48, but it really didn't take a whole lot of juggling. We definitely didn't get rid of anything we will miss, and if we did, we'll just buy it again.
I am up early this morning, as someone messaged me about stopping by to drop off Christmas gifts for a senior. I don't officially open until 11, but with the holidays, if someone needs to deliver presents early or late, I am so down! I want to make it easy for the donors to contribute, not more difficult! I actually was awakened by the alarm since it doesn't normally go off until 9. So I was OUT when it woke me.
Oh! The sponsor just rang the doorbell, so the gifts are here!
I need to write out my to do list for today, but mostly I am a mix of tired and happy. Yesterday was honestly the LAZIEST day I have had in a long time. The only thing I did that was even remotely like work was log the 4 boxes of gifts that arrived from Amazon and sort them into totes. I watched the entire first season of Downton Abbey, and both DarkKnight and MisterMoonbeam watched the most of all of it with me! I didn't expect that, because I was expecting them to be off doing their own thing. But I guess they sat down and got hooked. lol Now I am faced with the conundrum of to whether wait for them to watch again with me, or continue on alone. We have two more episodes with Season 2 of Discovery, and that's what we watch together right now! Downton was supposed to be a filler marathon for ME. Gah! lol
My schedule this week is filling up. The Blessing Box is going to be open today and tomorrow, and then closed the rest of the week. For Thanksgiving, MisterMoonbeam and I are going to his parents. No one else is going - just us. They live in Virginia, in the county with the lowest positivity rate, and have been quarantined this entire time. We feel this is an acceptable risk. My son and BugGirl are coming to our house on Thanksgiving while we are gone, to visit with DarkKnight and to hold our annual Chinese food & board games get-together. BugGirl has been a part of our bubble, but we haven't seen my son but a handful of times since Covid started. Of course, he and BugGirl live together, so by extension, he's been a part of it, but we've tried to distance with all of my kids. At least, I think this is the plan. DarkKnight and I are going to talk about it. He might just pick up Chinese and deliver it to them at their house, and then play games remotely. That would be safer, but I am going to let him make the decision.
Our current plan is having our actual Thanksgiving on Saturday, as we always do. Our governor has put the cap on 10 people that don't live together, and we are below that! It will be my polycule (so 3), my son, BugGirl, and my youngest daughter and her boyfriend (they also live together).
What I like about this is that if my kids were to pass something on to us, MisterMoonbeam's parents would still be okay, since we are visiting them first. What I don't like is that with 3 kids, the risk is larger for my polycule. I don't wanna be a part of the Corona explosion! That said, since BugGirl is part of our regular bubble, with my son by extension, and my youngest also being in BugGirl's bubble up until recently (they work together - or they did until BugGirl got fired), I feel we *should* be okay. I think we are going to discuss plans more tonight. Because what I don't like about this is that it is still an awful lot of people. We may also do a drive-by Thanksgiving, and again just deliver the meal to their separate houses. It's what we did for Easter. I feel really sad about this, and it's a difficult thing to work out. On one hand, I really do think we will be fine, but for each person added, it's like exponentially increasing our risk. More discussion!
I do plan to go shopping on Black Friday, but 100% from my home! I've only had time to purchase a Christmas gift for my son, and that's it. This weekend I hope to knock it out of the park and get almost everything done. A friend is having a Black Friday shopping zoom party, so I will probably log on for that.