Hump Day

My day began great. I do a little bit of Animal Crossing to do my daily activities and see who is visiting. On Tyler's island, Julien was crafting something neither of us had so he decided to try Turnip Exchange to have people visit your island for turnip selling, DIY recipes and more. We have used this site to sell our turnips and get DIYs but never hosted. It was interesting and I think a positive experience for Tyler so maybe I'll give it a go one day.

We then did our errands, going to CVS, the bank and the post office. I got some coin wrappers because I have a plastic tub of coins that I've collecting for 5+ years. With COVID going on, there has been a coin shortage so places require a credit card or exact change. The other day when we went to the beach, we paid the $7 parking fee in quarters.

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Time to get busy. #coins #shortage #wrappers

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I managed an hour of sorting and packing coins. There are still a lot of coins to sort.

I started my 2nd batch of limoncello. This time I was able to get the Pure Proof 151 which will be a lot stronger than my last batch, thanks to my cousin who brought it from Arizona. Now we wait a couple of weeks and see how it goes from there.

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Limoncello batch 2: check back in a few weeks. Thanks @40yearoldmomwhywhywhy for the lemons 🍋and Pure Proof.

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Dealing with my mom who is hard of hearing is exhausting especially when she calls me on the phone asking questions and no matter how loud I speak/yell, she can't hear me or gets it wrong. Sometimes, I can see the humor of it all but today it was just frustrating and depressing. 

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Do not disturb. 😴 #philthecat #rescuecat

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Wrapping it up for tonight...enjoy a close up of Phil.

2020

Last night, the topic of our cats came up...how old are they?? Husband brings up my blog and they are 5 years old. Then he starts scrolling, reading my old posts and I am oohing and awwwing at the photos. I know how I keep saying I should blog more since it is really a nice way to journal my life. I do keep a handwritten journal since I've been into fountain pens lately. Oh, I haven't shared that?? So much to tell and share and lord knows, I have the time...

Did  you know that we had COVID-19 in March?? It seems like a lifetime ago but here we are in July and still in the thick of it all but there are 130,000+ Covid deaths in the US. I will share our COVID story soon. I have to collect my thoughts because it is a lot plus my memory of it is clear and hazy at the same time. 

Meanwhile, amuse yourselves with my mask photo. Yes, this mask looks like underwear and I look pretty stupid but if it helps protect my 84 year old mother and others then so be it.

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Hector’s work mailed masks home so I tried one on. He promptly responds it looks like chonies (underwear)!! Lol because it’s true!! Seriously, wear a damn mask!!! #wearamask #chonies #clothmasks #pandemic #publichealth #community

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Spending

More so than ever, I try to keep my spending to the essentials. But it's hard to resist some things...luckily I have a lot of gift cards. I have some that are multi-functional like Target where I can get almost about anything I want or need. Then I have some like Gap Kids (for the boys) which is a little harder since their inventory is limited (plus I don't feel like I get my moneys worth). I've had a gift certificate from a local photo shop with a $200 balance.

Today I decided to go and spend the remainder because I don't know if they'll stay in business although I hope so. I make a little list in my head and promise not to go over the gift amount. I went after mailing out some photo calendars (yes, I know its March) but I mailed them out anyway. The store was not busy so I roped some guy into helping spend my money. We got the remote control shutter release for $15, a high speed 4GB CF card for $100 so leaves me $85 left for filters. The man tells me they're selling used filters for $4. Sold. He brought out all sorts and picked out the different ones that I might be interested in or would be good in my arsenal. Warming filters, red, deep blue, light blue, starburst and something else (I can't remember the name) and more which totalled 9 filters. $36 for filters. Sold. A multi-card reader for $30 and a couple of lens cloths ($10) which cleared out my gift certificate. Yay!!! Actually, I was about $2 under my limit but the head dude said he could discount another lens cloth for me to spend it all.

So now I have all sorts of filters to read up on and play with. I need to install my card reader which will be easier for the camera and post some pictures.

Here is the starburst filter used on my bedside lamp. Ooooh, pretty lights! I can't wait to try this one out...