An Arizona Cheesehead's Thoughts

It's surreal that I've been working from home and socially distancing for over two months and haven't lost all sanity. There have been points where it could have happened. One night, April 7th to be exact, I had too much wine (that's not just on April 7) and tried to find a new hobby activity. After scouring the Michael's website, I came across paint by number kits. They didn't actually have any available at the time so it was off to the interwebs. I found Bling Painting  and ordered two kits. Then, I emailed a bunch of girlfriends and suggested they might want to do the same. I got about a dozen takers. I see a Zoom art show in our future. What I didn't predict was that the kits were being sent from China. Ugh. They got held up in customs and it took for what felt like forever to arrive. But, arrive they finally did. At least, I hope everyone has theirs by now. Here's a picture from the website of the one I started on first: Moo Since ...

I was already a prolific consumer of content from my TV before getting locked down in my house thanks to COVID-19. It's even worse now. Or, better. Depends on your point of view. Besides my usual shows, here's what I've been watching. Schitt's Creek I'm late to the party that is Schitt's Creek. I started watching right before the last season began and it was all I could do to force myself to go to bed each night instead of watching "just" one more. The rich people go broke theme has been done nearly to death. This was done exceptionally well. The characters not only redeemed themselves from their selfish, out of touch with reality ways but they learned they were capable humans and worthy of being loved by others. Superb casting and fun to see many Canadian actors that I'm used to seeing on SyFy shows. I've been pushing this on everyone I can. It's that good! Watch it and thank me later. Tournament of Champions I lo...

I'm usually one to let my birthday slide on by with as little pomp and circumstance as possible. It's just not a big thing to me. I think people who actively forget their age are like that. Please don't ever do the math. But, this year I was truly sad coming up to the day. I share the same day with my friend Adam and we were all supposed to be in Vegas celebrating his 40th. Not my 40th, again, please don't do the math. Instead, I got up at 5:30 AM on a Sunday to do a 4 mile walk through my neighborhood. So. Not. Me. But, leave it to my family and friends whom I don't deserve to make this a fantastic day. Card Barrage Starting a few days ago, I started getting cards from people I've never gotten one from before. It was only a few and I thought maybe they were taking the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to stay more connected.  Thursday's Haul My letter carrier rang my doorbell on Thursday because this box didn't fit into my mailbox. She...