Ok - so...: Self Isolation

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!