Dear diary,
4/22
I started my day out early again, waking up to my alarm blaring at 5 am. I got up, put workout clothes on and headed to my basement to workout in our gym. I did my usual work out for an hour then stretched and did a quick 15 minute yoga sesh. I went back upstairs hopped in the shower and got dressed and ready to go to work. After that i got my breakfast and packed my lunch. I had a protein bar and banana for breakfast on my drive to work. For lunch at i packed a chicken salad, lime popcorn and some trail mix. I left a little late again and probably wouldn’t have clocked in on time if i didn’t go 80 the whole way there. Work was very long but it was very good to see my residents! We are still wearing masks and taking a lot of precautions due to COVID-19. I got done at 2 and it was really nice outside. I decided to roll the windows and sunroof down and take a drive around town before i headed home. My great-grandma lives right by where i was passing by and i saw her outside and decided to stop by and talk to her a bit since i haven’t been able to see her much. (don’t worry, we social distanced!!) When i got home i grabbed a snack and made myself a “to-do” list of everything i wanted to accomplish today. This list included laundry, vacuuming, work on pop lit final, facetime my partners for my philosophy final and work on that, and do my taxes. The majority of these tasks were done successfully except my taxes, i’ll do those tomorrow maybe. For dinner my mom and i made spaghetti squash and roasted turnips with venison meat sauce. After dinner i watched an all time fave movie of mine- step brothers. Soooo funny! I am very tired so it’s about to to hit the hay.
goodnight
-mads
4/25
I have a very unique story to share today. My best friend Molly and i have been friends since the 3rd grade. However, our lives changed drastically a little over a year ago. First of all, our parents are both divorced and single.Her dad asked my mom out for coffee and they really hit it off! They saw each other every day for the next almost 3 months until we went on vacation. We all did stuff together and it was really fun. They are honestly both very good together and make a great couple. 7 short months later we all moved in together! My best friend and i now live together which is crazy to think about but i wouldn’t have it any other way. Never in a million years would i have expected to be living with my best friend, practically sister!We are inseparable and do everything together. From concerts, vacations, photo shoots, road trips, you name it and we do it together. As if we weren’t close enough already, this quarantine together has made us even closer. We have really made the best of it and have done a lot of fun things. Some things we have done include, picnic on lake erie at sunset, photo shoots at least once a week, game nights, sleeping outside star watching, sleeping in our boat, painting our backs, road tripping all over the place even though we can’t get out anywhere, hot tubbing, hiking, baking and we even started working out and trying to eat healthier together! I am so thankful to have someone i am so close with during this scary and difficult time. We are planning on making a “quarantine bucket list” soon so i will be letting you know how that is going!
Goodnight and until next time diary,
mads!
4/28
Today was a really good day!! I felt very productive and had a lot of fun. To start off my day i made a chocolate banana protein smoothie for breakfast. I then got some chores done, these chores consisted of laundry and i had to paint a little hallway of my house! They took me probably an hour to do both, so not too bad! After i finished that i did some homework and tidied my room up a bit. By now it’s about 2 and molly and i decide to get ready and go for a photo shoot and a little drive to titusville. One of our favorite things to do is just drive around towns that we don’t spend a lot of time in and see what there is cool there. We also love to look at unique houses! We always find something interesting while adventuring in new places! This is an activity that we do now more than ever due to quarantine. We found a lot of really neat places that were perfect for a photo shoot!! We went to McDonald’s for some fries and ice cream on our drive home. Once arriving at our house, dinner was ready so we ate as soon as we got home. We had chicken tortilla soup, one of my favorites! It was delicious! We were pretty lazy the rest of the evening, just hung out and watched some netflix. We snuggled with our dog, Alder too! We also just recently got a new baby kitten, his name is Milo!! He is adorable and only a couple weeks old! One of our barn cats (who is not fixed) got one of our cats pregnant which we did not know until we heard all kinds of loud meowing that sounded like screaming. We are very excited to have another pet!! Well that is enough excitement for one day i’d say!!
Peace out diary
mads
5/1
Hello again corona diary! It’s been a few days since i’ve last wrote! So i’ll recap what has been going on in my life! Wednesday 4/29-
6:00 am- wake up!!
6:10-6:20- get dressed
6:25- make breakfast and pack lunch
6:38- head out the door and drive to work
6:53 arrive at work and rush inside to punch in on time
7-10:30 work grind
10:30- 11:00- lunch break which consists of primarily scrolling through tiktok while rushing to eat my entire lunch in a short amount of time
11:00-2:00 back on the work grind
2:00-2:20- take the long way home through town usually but eventually make my way home
2:25- get home and have some frozen mango as a snack while i watch an episode of my new fave netflix show-Ozark!
3:30- Got some motivation to be productive and actually do something so workout for a little while
4:30- shower and put pajamas on (yes i am wearing pajamas at 4:30 in the afternoon it’s effing quarantine)
4:30-8:30- ate dinner hung with the fam and watched some more netflix
8:30-10:00- scrolled through some social media and watched tik toks and netflix then eventually fell asleep!
Thursday 4/30-
8:00- wake up
8:15- make some breakfast and contemplate what i am going to do the rest of the day
8:45- cleaned my room and did some homework
10:00- decided to take my dog, Alder for a walk at the pael
1:00- arrive home from the park and hop in the shower
1:05- drop phone in shower and break it
1:10 panic because it’s tweaking
1:15- start crying because you have no idea what to do and your mom is in meetings all day
1:30- pull myself together and go to the AT&T store
2:00- Arrive at AT&T store that is NOT OPEN
2:15- get very stressed and decide to go to McDonalds lol
2:30- after waiting in line forever you get your food and drive to the next AT&T store which is even farther if a drive from home
3:00ish- arrive at open AT&T store and find out what to do to get a new phone during COVID
4:00- arrive back at home to tell your mom everything that has happened to you today
4:00-7:00 bored because you don’t have a phone and finding ways to annoy your mom because you have nothing better to do
7:00- 10:00 ate dinner, watched netflix and went to bed
5/30
Hi corona diary!! i am currently writing this at 7am after a very interesting night. So i intended on going camping last night in the woods behind my grandparents house with Molly. We get to the spot and set up a fire and get it going, it’s about 8 o’clock so it is starting to get dark and the sun already set. We start looking for two trees to set our hammocks up in, believe it or not this was very difficult. We searched for a good half an hour and ended up not finding anything that would work! It’s around 9 o’clock by now so we say f it we will just sleep in the back of the car with the seats down. We set our bed up in there and then go tend to the fire. We are about to make s’mores when we realize we forgot the stick thing for it! So instead of being unsanitary and using a stick we drive the four wheeler back to my grandparents house and get the fork type thing. On our way back we stop and get some more fire wood. We make some s’mores and hang out by the fire until probably 11 or so. We head into the car and scroll through social media and talk before we go to sleep. I fell asleep first, as i typically do. Next thing i know i’m tossing and turning all night, just couldn’t get comfortable! It was the kind of sleep where you are practically awake but your eyes are shut, ya know? I knew molly was sleeping the same way, she was rolling all over the place too. It was very cold also so that did not help our case. I wake up at 4am to molls awake too and we both immediately say at the same time “this is ass” because we were both sleeping horribly. Next thing i know molls says she is feeling really sick… this is never a good thing. She is the type of person who always throws up like at least 2 or 3 times a week, she has really bad acid reflex. She jumps out of the car and you can imagine what happened next. I cleaned up all of our stuff from outside, threw it in the back of the car and got molls into the passenger seat. I hopped in the car and started to drive us home. She is sleeping now and hopefully will feel better soon. We are hoping corona is over soon so we can have some pro campers camp with us next time lol.
-mads!
5/6/20
Dear corona diary, today i had to work which was unfortunate but it wasn’t too bad. On my way home i forgot i had a zoom meeting in a few minutes so i went and sat in a parking lot and zoomed with my class, it was nice to see my teacher and some classmates! After my zoom meeting i headed to the gas station to get gas because my tank was a little low. I get ready to go open the door to the gas station and realized i forgot my mask, i do this all the time. I pulled my gas and headed home to make some lunch.I made made a chicken fajita wrap, it was very yummy. After that i was feeling kinda gross from work but didn’t want to shower so i took a bath! it was very nice and relaxing, i enjoyed it very much. I then decided to play frisbee with my two dogs!! My mom made a really good dinner- Venison sausage spaghetti with my fave garlic knots from wegmans!! After that i was in the mood to take a drive alone and just decompress and think about everything that is going on in my life right now. I drove all around town with the sunroof down but heat on lol. I thought about missing my friends but being thankful to have every one i know is safe and healthy. It is sometimes just really hard to not be able to go about life “normally”, ya know? Unfortunately this is the end of the road for you corona diary. thank you for listening to my daily life throughout this quarantine. P.S.- thank you for a great writing 1 and 2 class, Cher! You made writing enjoyable and i learned a lot! Good luck on your PhD!!!:))) will miss your funk and sassiness!!!!!
Creative Minds 