March Fo(u)rth!

Dancer on his New Blankie

I took all the covers off my daughter's bed to wash them and Dancer was looking very sad and forlorn on the bed without a blanket to keep him warm.  I took another blanket from the linen closet for him to use, but he doesn't look very happy about it, does he?  The blanket was a gift from a work colleague to my daughter when she was born.

Today was a mostly sunny day.  I didn't fall asleep until 6:00 a.m., but, I woke up once at 9:00 a.m. to feed the cats, then, slept until 10:30 a.m.  I could have slept a bit longer, but, I forced myself to get up and get going.  Maybe I'll be able to sleep at a more reasonable time, tonight!

The library had auto renewed the two books that were due today, but, I decided that I will return them, today, especially since I was going to the library to drop off my ballot, anyway.  I dropped off the ballot in the designated box and then, went into the library to return my books.

The library was not at all crowded, today; there were two other people using the computers and the printer and three library staff.  So, for the first time since the pandemic, on March fourth, more than seven months after I first went inside the library to collect a book from the hold shelves, I marched forth right into the library stacks to peruse the shelves and selected three books to check out!  

Two Non-Fiction and One Fiction

I was also able to take two more boxes of Covid test kits (each box contains two test kits) from the basket at the check out counter.  If I am going to start venturing out more, I might be needing them!  

After I came home, I had my brunch: a slice of the frozen pizza, that I had bought and baked, last week.  I warmed it up in the toaster oven and ate most of it.  There's a tiny piece leftover, to have as a snack, later, if I feel like it.

Then, I washed the last quilt that was on my daughter's bed and dried it in the dryer.  I took the trash cans to the curb and set them up in front of my driveway because there were vehicles parked on both sides along the curb and there was no room for the trash cans.  I did a little paperwork (there's no end to the paperwork!), watered the houseplants, read and commented on a few blogs, and watched the evening news.

For dinner, I cooked some rice with the last serving of the ham and split pea soup that was in the freezer.  Then, I heated up some of the ground beef mixture that I had cooked yesterday and I added some of the rice to it and had a bowl of what I'm calling rice casserole or a version of dirty rice.  It was very filling!

Now I have a rice cooker full of leftover rice cooked in ham and split pea soup, the rest of the container of ground beef mixture, the two Italian sausages that I didn't eat last week, and leftover pasta from Sunday night's dinner, to form the basis for the rest of this week's meals!  Plus four more banana-blueberry muffins for brunches!  I'm not going to make a meal plan as such, except to have chicken curry (from the freezer) and rice or baked salmon (from the freezer) and rice on the night my daughter comes home, depending on what she would like.   

Today, I'm grateful for:

- A mostly sunny day
- Being able to vote
- The library handing out free Covid test kits
- A safe drive to the library and back
- Working appliances

Today's joyful activity was actually going inside the library to browse in the bookstacks and selecting a few books to read!

Plans for tomorrow include more paperwork, some housework, and some reading!  Oh, and lots of crocheting while I watch the coverage of the Super Tuesday election results!

How was your Monday?  What are your plans for Tuesday?