Self Isolation - Day 14

Last day of isolation. I counted from the first full day we were home so when we woke up the morning after returning from Florida.

So far we have some big wins, everyone is getting up and getting dressed every morning, we haven’t spent the whole day in our pajamas.  We attempted some “homeschooling” today. The girls watched 3 episodes of Jessie on Disney+ in French and did 30 minutes on a math app.  If I wanted to be a teacher I would have been.

I got this notice today. Crisis averted. 

In the news today:

I’ve been wondering why Germany has such a low death rate on the website I’ve been following and have pointed it out to a few people.  CBC did an article on it today “Why Germany’s low COVID-19 death rate might be a mirage”.  They’re currently at 60,659 cases and only 482 deaths, a rate of 0.8%.  One thing is they have tested over 1M people, so they are detecting cases that are mild or asymptomatic giving authorities the chance to break the chain of infection at an earlier state before it gets passed on.  They’re now seeing a sharp increase in cases and climbing fatality numbers though - they have one of the best healthcare systems in the world but also an aged demographic with 21.6 percent of their population over 65.  They were also faster to test but slower to enact the social distancing.

Premier Doug Ford today asked for people not to go up to isolate in cottage country, their groceries, hospitals and infrastructure aren’t built for people this time of year.

CBC obtained a report issued by Critical Care Services Ontario, a branch of the Ministry of Health that shows that as of Saturday 92 patients in critical care wards have tested positive for COVID-19 while another 342 ICU patients are considered ‘suspected’ cases...this is where our numbers in Canada look good but are deceiving - we just aren’t testing! Or the results aren’t yet in.

There are a lot of articles and blogs from Nurses popping up, I can’t remember if I wrote about this on Saturday but Nurses have been sent a letter from their Union that says if they aren’t getting adequate PPE they can walk out.  I think I did write about it because I remember writing out Personal Protective Equipment in case I don’t remember what PPE stands for when I read this in the future.  One blog today said that a nurse in Toronto was handed two masks in a paper bag for her 12 hour shift and that’s all she gets for the day - that’s all she’s ‘worth’ is two masks.  Her floor Manager only gets one because she isn’t client facing.  Its a big problem - the title of the blog is ‘I didn’t “sign up” to die at my job’ because people are saying “You’re a nurse, you signed up for this” Um no.

Caroline went to Costco today and asked if we needed anything.  I had her pick us up a flank steak and some croissants, dropped them to the porch. Now the flank is marinating for dinner in a few nights.  Tonight we are having bone in skin on chicken because that’s what Trev ordered for me by accident - we’ll see how that is, I’m sure its good - and roasted potatoes and frozen veggies (because the girls ate all the veggies and I don’t want to make a salad and use up the rest).

I touched base with a bunch more clients today.  I’m now on J on an alphabetical first name basis.  Not sure how I still have hundreds of clients left, like 650.  Some are duplicated but also as I input them I’m inputting them as spouses as well and not all as single clients so that makes a big difference, that probably cuts my 800 down to 500 anyway as most of my clients purchase with a significant other.

Jay goes to work tomorrow.  Its freaking me out a little bit.  He’ll be the only one in the office, they’re rotating through one person per day to accept courier packages and answer the main phone.  I made him take wipes to work and promise to wipe down anything he is going to touch - light switches, door handles, bathroom handles, his desk and chair and the phone handle and buttons.

Julia set up a HouseParty party for Wed night at 8pm for wine with the peeps.  Its an app Sarah suggested similar to Zoom.  Jay said Zoom has a 45 minute meeting limit without paying for premium which makes sense why all the webinar’s I’ve been watching on Zoom are limited to 45 minutes.

I couldn’t get to sleep tonight.  I had told Sarah I would go to Costco with her tomorrow and I started to worry about it and Jay going to work, so after reading for a bit, trying to go to sleep and failing I watched an episode of Ozark.  I just started Season 2 last night.  I finished my episode and went to bed.

Self Isolation - Day 13

This is about to get real. We’re about to lose half our crew, for a number of reasons but mostly because last night it became illegal in Ontario to socially gather in groups of more than 5.  Also because our 14 days of isolation are over and that means that people, including Avery and Kobe, start to go to work and we haven’t discussed yet what that means for socializing.  If we kept our original crew we are 10 so we could split the kids up at one house and adults at the other if we wanted to get together - but once people start going to work its a different ball game.  Julia might go in to work as well, she’s been working from home so far.

It rained all day today, and its Sunday, so we didn’t do a lot.

I watched Avatar, read my book and finished a puzzle.

The girls made a salad for lunch and I was torn between being happy they were eating healthy and not wanting them to eat all the fresh fruits and vegetables because we don’t have a food delivery until Friday - I can go out as of Tuesday to the grocery store myself but I’m not sure I want to yet.  We won’t be able to live on bananas alone though, which we still have in ample supply!

Jay had two naps, went for a run, did a work out and did some yard work outside.

I suggested to Juls, Maggie, Sarah, Sarah and Mary that we do this this weekend - coffee and breakfast tailgate. 

Kerry and Sarah dropped off some brownies and a fun scavenger hunt for the girls to do when its nice out.

I had the controversial glop for dinner. It was delicious even if the girls say it looks like cat vomit. 

Trump announced that the US self distancing measures will be continued until at least April 30th and back tracked on his statement that this will all be over by Easter.  He went so far today as to accuse nurses and hospital staff of stealing and re-selling personal protective equipment (PPE) and wondering how the demand for masks could have gone up from 20,000 to 300,000.  Hello?  Pandemic? Asshat.

We all went to bed.

Self Isolation - Day 12

Jill called, she and Dave are reading and I had offered them my Kindle Unlimited information. Dave got laid off yesterday which sucks. 

Mom ordered 8 bananas in her PC Express order and got 8 bunches!  Banana’s for everyone!  This is after I porch dropped off to Trev, Sarah and Jill. 

Mom asked me if we had Amazon Fresh. We can get groceries but nothing fresh when this classified as fruit. 

We went to the Faust’s for dinner. We’re all still isolated together, no one new to the scene to contaminate any of us. We played Quiddler and a new game I don’t know the name of. 

We brought Avery and Myah back to our place for a sleepover. 

Turns out we didn’t do too much today!

Today’s numbers, they changed the grid to include the world numbers at the top:

Self Isolation - Day 11

There was some debate yesterday with Steve on if we are on Day 11 or 12, he counts the day we arrived home and I started from the first full day that we were home, so we woke up at home.   I don’t think it matters given we will still practice physical distancing after the 14 days are over.

I did a lot of work today and listened to another webinar about business in this crazy time. I also touched base with another 35 or more clients today as I transferred their data into my CRM, updating my phone contacts if I was missing their email.

Kobe came over and helped rake the leaves today, he did it for about 5 hours so I think most of the leaves are finally all raked up, which will make our neighbour with the pristine lawn super happy.  We are on 15 acres, but at the bottom of our hill at the road on the left side the neighbours back yard backs onto the part of our front yard.  You can’t see their house from ours or vice versa but its kind of an odd little set up. Anyway, their back yard is leaf free..and it wasn’t until Jay started to rake all these leaves that I realized they probably cursed us all fall!

I watched an excellent segment today where Trevor Noah had Dr. Fauci, the infectious disease specialist that is advising the White House on a conference call.  It was 13 minutes of great information and answering the questions that people have.

We got an emergency alert saying that by law you must self isolate for 14 days when you return from out of the country.  We got it around 3pm and then again at 11:16pm.  Still no official lock down orders.

The girls were asking about getting together with friends when this is over, this 14 days.  I said “Its more likely you’ll go hang out outside with friends, go kick around the soccer ball, not go in their houses, if you go in their houses you might as well be licking their faces since you’re touching all the stuff they’re touching”.

The girls have been out on the trampoline again today for hours, I’m so glad that we have that, its been worth every penny during this isolation period.  Warm or cold they’re out there bouncing and playing away, creating dances and soaking up the sunshine.

Its 4’thirsty.  Time for a beer.

News today:

The PM announced a 75% wage subsidy for qualifying businesses for up to 3 months retroactive to March 15th to help businesses keep and return workers to payroll.  They will allow businesses, including self-employed individuals, to defer all GST/HST payments until June.  They also launched the new Small and medium Sized Enterprise Loan and Guarantee Program which will enable up to $40B in lending, supported through Export Development Canada and Business Development Bank.

The Bank of Canada made another emergency rate cut to the BOC rate.  Scotiabank dropped their bank prime rate to 2.45%.

British PM Boris Johnson has tested positive for COVID-19.

US hit over 100,000 cases today around 4:30pm.  All eyes are on Trump to see how he responds, asshat.  I read an interesting article this morning about how the US and Canada are handling this differently and I’m not sure anyone can say Trudeau hasn’t been handling this well.  Even the majority conservative provincial premiers have nothing bad to say about his handling of the press and initiatives during this time.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the total count hits over 600,000 today.

I touched base with my cousin, Kim, over Facebook Messenger today.  She had to go back to work on Wednesday from her mat leave and she works at a hospital.  Just wanted to see how she was doing, see how Grey was doing and let her know that I was thinking of her.

My Mom is adding a few things to her grocery list for me, she picks up tomorrow at 11am.

Juls and Steve came over for dinner. Juls has had a rough week going back to work, she enjoyed her wine tonight.

The girls called us out to watch their dance, which is great but they laughed all the way through. We told them to have us come out when they could run through without laughing so they did it again later and I videoed it and took some pictures. 

They did a great job, they danced to Fix You by Coldplay.

Shortly after this Julia had her first of three dance parties in the kitchen and Myah did a run through of her competitive dances for us before dinner.

Trev went to go pick up his PC Express order, he didn’t get a lot of the stuff he ordered - he set his pick up for Friday night at 7pm...not a good idea.  Pick up in the morning before everyone has shopped all day.  It will be interesting to see my Mom’s order tomorrow, she’s picking up between 11 and 12.

After dinner we found a puzzle piece!  Oops, we’ll have to drop that off to the Mitchell’s house!



The dogs were out ALL DAY yesterday.  They are loving this weather, they finally came in at dark and were just beat.







Numbers for today:

Self Isolation - Day 10

Woke up to Sage beside the bed whining.  She had just come inside but wanted to go out again.

It’s beautiful out today!  I think maybe its supposed to rain later?

Oh, its actually not as beautiful as it looks.  HAHA, and it is supposed to rain later. I just suggested that we turn off the heat and open up some windows but maybe no.

Paige, I have to say, has been extremely helpful in the last 10 days.  Mostly doing what we are asking of her somewhere between the first time (which is actually happening) and the fourth time without too much complaining and headache.  I’m really hoping that we’re turning a corner there.  If Sophie were smart, she would pick up on that and adjust her behaviour as well - so far no.  I just said to her “can I share an observation with you?” And explained this and told her Paige’s good behaviour is actually making her normal behaviour look a little worse and it would be nice if she would try to adopt some additional helpfulness - she frowned at me and asked where Dad was. Lol.

Time to go out and do some yard work while its nice out!  10 minutes later... “I did 30 minutes of work”.  Ummm, no.  Yes! No.  YES! No.  We settled on 20 minutes and now I’ve made a list of jobs that count as work towards the hour because feeding the dogs does not count and neither does training them to go in and out of the dog door in the garage.





I spent this afternoon creating a new CRM.  I’ve never really done it before, all of my clients have just been on my system but I really should have a separate CRM so I’m doing that today.  And as I enter them all into the new CRM from my system I’m touching base with each of them just to say “just wanted to touch base and see how you are during these crazy times (or these uncertain times depending on their age and how well I know them)”.  Its not a business contact, just a how’s it going contact. That’s what I did for 4 hours today as I got it all set up, tomorrow will be faster.  40 down and 760 to go! Haha - I got nothin’ but time so its ok.

The US overtook both Italy and China today with the most number of cases of COVID-19.  Scary times, scarier still when Trump insists that the “LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be detrimental to my election success,”

I made jerk chicken and Greek salad for dinner.  Its one of my favourite dinner combos.  After dinner, which was accompanied by wine, we enjoyed a scotch and some chocolates.  Also a favourite combo - the Estate is always the one I choose and so far (because I bought him the bottle) Jay hasn’t suggested (insisted) that I try something else.

I also realized it was the 26th which means that hockey camp opened up yesterday.  The girls were undecided if they wanted to do the McKay-Hefford camp this year but with hockey being done now its kind of a necessity since try outs are in the fall.







Trev was fidgeting with my phone camera to see how he likes it compared to his Xsomething, I don’t know which one he has but before Florida I upgraded to the iPhone 11.

Then I had a spirited conversation with my family over Glop because Dad was a $h!t disturber and texted how delicious it was.  I may have called him a greedy ba$tard.  Good news is Carrie is deliverying Glop. Haha.

Numbers for today: