working out for Disney

[Sans Souci]

Hello-

Today was an arms and abs workout. Ab workouts are never my favorites. I also got out for a walk. It was sunny and 70, so why not? These are days are going to become less common, so I am going to get out in it while I can.

The weather class was interesting. Now I can say I did something productive in 2020. All I have to do is wait for some questionable weather. I did find out that this region gets EF0-1 tornadoes and that blizzards are rare (but not unheard of) here. I am glad because blizzards are so disruptive. It's not the snow that bothers me, it's waiting around for things to go back to normal. You're basically stuck in your house for a day or two before all roads are clear and businesses are opened again.

 

[Figgy1]

It's really fast and easy. Your arm might be a bit sore the day after, but just take an aspirin and it will be better.

I wish that was so for me. I spent the weekend in bed sleeping. I really didn't mind as I had planned for it and the boys had plenty of food they could nuke up

 

[Figgy1]

Hello-

Today was an arms and abs workout. Ab workouts are never my favorites. I also got out for a walk. It was sunny and 70, so why not? These are days are going to become less common, so I am going to get out in it while I can.

The weather class was interesting. Now I can say I did something productive in 2020. All I have to do is wait for some questionable weather. I did find out that this region gets EF0-1 tornadoes and that blizzards are rare (but not unheard of) here. I am glad because blizzards are so disruptive. It's not the snow that bothers me, it's waiting around for things to go back to normal. You're basically stuck in your house for a day or two before all roads are clear and businesses are opened again.

Where you are even the worst winter storms never mean being stuck inside for more than 3 days. Our record here on the top of the mountain was 8 days. Would you believe people question my pantry always being full

 

[Figgy1]

Epcotisbest lost his little buddy Tyson https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/tyson-2009-2020.970636/#post-9489751

 

[Figgy1]

I'm still at the no impact stage but I'm feeling less twinge in my ankle. Being god stinks!

 

[Songbird76]

I read an article that there was some push back from teachers about opening windows here b/c there is concern about a potential school shooter using an open window to enter the classrooms. I know at my son's HS, teachers kept the doors locked during class, so that also limits ventilation. I don't know what the remedy is for that.

It's a good thing your husband knocked on the door before entering, because I think I would have had a "WTH?" moment. If I saw a room filled with half naked people massaging each other, I think "sport massage class" wouldn't even in my top 5 ideas of what I was witnessing.

Private ownership of guns is illegal here, so that chance of a school shooting is pretty slim. That's not to say it couldn't happen, but it's unlikely. But when it's below zero temps, you can't have the windows open for ventilation. And who has to sit next to the window? There are just too many problems. I don't know what they are going to do.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm still at the no impact stage but I'm feeling less twinge in my ankle. Being god stinks!

No one said you had to be God, though.

 

[MinnieM123]

No one said you had to be God, though.

I think she meant to type good.

I was actually going to tell her, that "Being good stinks" should become a meme!

 

[Songbird76]

I think she meant to type good.

I was actually going to tell her, that "Being good stinks" should become a meme!

Oh I know...I just found it funny, so I had to comment. I love typos that still make a word....hilarious.

Speaking of hilarious...I just laughed SOOOOO hard. So the company my husband works for is celebrating so many years of the business....it's the company birthday, so to speak. But for the past few weeks, they've all been working from home, and normally the company would take all the employees out to dinner to celebrate, but with corona rules, you couldn't go out with a group unless it was only one household...it's been that way since restaurants opened back up in like....July? So instead, they invited all the workers to come in today to the office for cake and a "surprise". The surprise turned out to be a dinner gift card that's good at multiple restaurants in the Netherlands, which they apparently bought last week. Now for the hilarious part....Tuesday's press conference announced a closure of all restaurants and bars. What timing!

 

[HouCuseChickie]

They announced last night that we are doing a partial lockdown for 4 weeks, and checking in in 2 weeks. If the numbers aren't down, we do full lockdown. But stores (except grocery stores) have to close for the evening, no alcohol sales after 8pm, restaurants and bars all closed, and they are working on a face mask rule, but it hasn't been set up yet, no more than 3 guests per day in your home, no more than 4 people together outside, adult sports only up to 4 people at a time and only if you can keep distance, no games/competitions, no audience for anything, so I can't go with A to tennis...still nothing for schools yet, and youth sports can continue training, but no games and parents aren't allowed to stay and watch. I don't see how shutting everything down is going to help if they keep schools open. That doesn't make sense to me. I understand that it's hard to explain to 5 year olds that they can't hug their best friend, or share their lunches, etc...and that little kids have no concept of distancing. But then it makes more sense to shut schools down than it does to exempt them from the rules, which is what they are doing now. Kids under 18 aren't required to distance, schools aren't making face masks mandatory...so they've basically exempted them from the rules, which isn't going to help anything. Because if someone gets it, they bring it home and spread it to their whole family, and all their friends, and possibly also their teachers, who then also bring it home and spread it to their families. But what do I know?

Yeah, it would seem that keeping schools open and not mandating masks would allow for things to keep spreading. Younger kids aren't really good with distancing and so many older kids seem to think it's not a big deal. The family spread is a very real concern. I got a text last night that a coworker's mom and brother tested positive and that she was off to the ER to get tested because she was experiencing symptoms. Found out later she's also positive. So, now I have to wonder who else in their family is likely infected...the kids, her husband, other family members? I haven't seen her in person in over 7 months, so no direct illness risk for me, but still...it's evidence it clearly spreads so easily. I looked at the numbers and it also looks like they are steadily rising for you guys too. At this rate, it may be full lockdown soon. I hate that, but I don't know what else they are going to do, although, putting in some kind of mask order might help a lot. It might not show in the numbers for 4+ weeks, but it can't hurt IMO.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

I don't have any gadgets yet. The presentation was interesting. There were lots of photos of different weather phenomena and basic weather safety that everyone should know, go inside when you hear thunder, don't enter flooded roads, etc.

That's funny about becoming obsessed with hail. They had a list of objects for estimating hail size last night! The guy presenting it went kind of fast, so I have a bunch of incomplete notes, but they are going to upload a presentation on YouTube next month.

F5s are so scary. When I was in HS, an F5 hit 2 towns adjacent to mine. The damage was insane--trees stripped of leaves and even bark, cornfields that were scoured from the tornado plowed through. It destroyed a HS the day before classes were due to start.

I love that your dad got upset with you because you don't get the Weather Channel anymore!

It's funny you bring up the weather safety. When I was a kid (with the exception of 20 seconds here or there to try and get hail), we had all kinds of weather safety rules. As a result, I am an adult who is terrified of being caught out in thunderstorms. My husband thinks I'm nuts, but I tell him it's basic weather safety. And needless to say, I am a wreck when the kids are playing softball and I see a storm starting to roll in. I've had to lecture my dad a few times. He'll send us waterspout pictures he's taken from the boat and I'm like...why the heck are you out on the water??!?!??! Of course, he counters with "you never know where these little storms are going to pop up."

Interesting that you'd bring up the measurements. I remember one of the times, he came home from work and began measuring all of the hail I collected.

I was too young to remember much of any of that day. I have these little snapshot memories, but that's about it. I just remember in school, we went over the F5 that hit Xenia, OH (about 50 miles NE of us) on that same day and the destruction was unreal.

He'll always ask how I get my weather updates if I don't have TWC I have to reassure him with the apps and websites as well as phone alert settings.

 

[Songbird76]

Yeah, it would seem that keeping schools open and not mandating masks would allow for things to keep spreading. Younger kids aren't really good with distancing and so many older kids seem to think it's not a big deal. The family spread is a very real concern. I got a text last night that a coworker's mom and brother tested positive and that she was off to the ER to get tested because she was experiencing symptoms. Found out later she's also positive. So, now I have to wonder who else in their family is likely infected...the kids, her husband, other family members? I haven't seen her in person in over 7 months, so no direct illness risk for me, but still...it's evidence it clearly spreads so easily. I looked at the numbers and it also looks like they are steadily rising for you guys too. At this rate, it may be full lockdown soon. I hate that, but I don't know what else they are going to do, although, putting in some kind of mask order might help a lot. It might not show in the numbers for 4+ weeks, but it can't hurt IMO.

Well, we got an email from E's school this morning that starting October 26th, masks will be mandatory to get the jump on the National mandate that begins on Nov. 1st. Next week is fall break, so no school. As soon as they go back, it will be mandatory, though, so I hope that will help. Nothing from A's school, but I don't know how they will do that with literally every student having Austism...a lot of them have sensory issues which makes mask wearing more difficult. With E's school, they only have to wear them in the halways and such until they are seated in their classroom. So it's not really too bad, though the classes are too big to distance them properly, so I don't know how much it will help when they are sitting in close proximity to each other the whole day without the masks on. But A's school can better distance with only maximum 9 kids in the class. If they only have to wear them in the hallways, that's no big deal....A's classroom is the first one in the door, like 20 feet from the entrance. Even the furthest one is only like 50 yards farther. I think there are only like 8 classrooms in the whole building, so wearing them until they get seated shouldn't be a big deal, and it should help with the smaller class sizes that they can distance properly. But I think we're headed to a lockdown, personally.

 

[Sans Souci]

Where you are even the worst winter storms never mean being stuck inside for more than 3 days. Our record here on the top of the mountain was 8 days. Would you believe people question my pantry always being full

Yeah, I find glazed ice to be more of a problem down here. It coats branches and power lines and all you need it a stiff wind--instant power outage.

 

[Sans Souci]

Private ownership of guns is illegal here, so that chance of a school shooting is pretty slim. That's not to say it couldn't happen, but it's unlikely. But when it's below zero temps, you can't have the windows open for ventilation. And who has to sit next to the window? There are just too many problems. I don't know what they are going to do.

Oh, yeah, I know the school shooter issue is an American phenomenon. I wouldn't want to be the kid who has to sit next to the window. I think I would the shivering and teeth chattering too much of a distraction to learn.

I read an article that last month that had photos of an open air classroom in Boston during a TB epidemic. Yikes.

I found it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/14/open-air-schools-outdoor-coronavirus/

 

[Sans Souci]

It's funny you bring up the weather safety. When I was a kid (with the exception of 20 seconds here or there to try and get hail), we had all kinds of weather safety rules. As a result, I am an adult who is terrified of being caught out in thunderstorms. My husband thinks I'm nuts, but I tell him it's basic weather safety. And needless to say, I am a wreck when the kids are playing softball and I see a storm starting to roll in. I've had to lecture my dad a few times. He'll send us waterspout pictures he's taken from the boat and I'm like...why the heck are you out on the water??!?!??! Of course, he counters with "you never know where these little storms are going to pop up."

Interesting that you'd bring up the measurements. I remember one of the times, he came home from work and began measuring all of the hail I collected.

I was too young to remember much of any of that day. I have these little snapshot memories, but that's about it. I just remember in school, we went over the F5 that hit Xenia, OH (about 50 miles NE of us) on that same day and the destruction was unreal.

He'll always ask how I get my weather updates if I don't have TWC I have to reassure him with the apps and websites as well as phone alert settings.

Haha. Your dad sounds awesome. "You never know when these little storm are going to pop up." It's only a little waterspout...

I get twitchy around storms, too. I think it comes from monthly tornado drills at school and then going in the basement when the siren sounds a few times every Spring and Summer. I would be twitchy about storms at softball practice, too. You have metal bleachers and the chain link back stop. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that. Yikes.

 

[Sans Souci]

Good morning-

I completed week 6 of my 12 week program, so I am half way there. Today was a full body workout.

I am hoping to get out for a walk today, but the radar is telling me otherwise.

I found a way to work with my cravings for sweet things. I've only been using my light box for a week--week and a half, so it takes a while to get some relief for SAD. It needs to build up, anyway, I have been making overnight oats with a scoop of vanilla protein, 2 TBS of powered peanut butter mixed with non-dairy (coconut) milk. Before I eat it in the AM, I mix a few dark chocolate chips in. I'm not going to act like this is the healthiest thing in the world, but it's better than baking cakes and cookies (and eating them) all week long. These serious cravings should go away in another 2-3 weeks. I'm still a bit down and irritable, but I have more energy. It just takes a while until I feel "normal" again.

I ordered a set of tarot cards that I'd wanted for a while. They were marked down for Prime Days, so I bit. They are arriving today, so I'll be "getting to know them" a bit a today.

 

[Songbird76]

Oh, yeah, I know the school shooter issue is an American phenomenon. I wouldn't want to be the kid who has to sit next to the window. I think I would the shivering and teeth chattering too much of a distraction to learn.

I read an article that last month that had photos of an open air classroom in Boston during a TB epidemic. Yikes.

I found it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/14/open-air-schools-outdoor-coronavirus/

Huh! That's interesting. I wonder how they would fare today with the Corona virus? Would they be allowed the big oven as a heat source? How would you pump the heat through the room without spreading the virus? Isn't that the problem they had with fans in the warmer months? You couldn't use fans, because those blow the contaminated air and spread the virus further. Interesting to think about though.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Well, we got an email from E's school this morning that starting October 26th, masks will be mandatory to get the jump on the National mandate that begins on Nov. 1st. Next week is fall break, so no school. As soon as they go back, it will be mandatory, though, so I hope that will help. Nothing from A's school, but I don't know how they will do that with literally every student having Austism...a lot of them have sensory issues which makes mask wearing more difficult. With E's school, they only have to wear them in the halways and such until they are seated in their classroom. So it's not really too bad, though the classes are too big to distance them properly, so I don't know how much it will help when they are sitting in close proximity to each other the whole day without the masks on. But A's school can better distance with only maximum 9 kids in the class. If they only have to wear them in the hallways, that's no big deal....A's classroom is the first one in the door, like 20 feet from the entrance. Even the furthest one is only like 50 yards farther. I think there are only like 8 classrooms in the whole building, so wearing them until they get seated shouldn't be a big deal, and it should help with the smaller class sizes that they can distance properly. But I think we're headed to a lockdown, personally.

I'm sure the masks should help, at least some, in the schools. I can also see how challenging this could be for any Autistic child. I've seen a mix of stories on the matter locally and with some college friends. I have to wonder if they'll shift to full lockdown before you guys come back from your break. It's maddening, because I don't think anyone anywhere wants to lock down again...but if things get out of hand, I'm not sure what the best options might be at this point.

 

[HouCuseChickie]

Haha. Your dad sounds awesome. "You never know when these little storm are going to pop up." It's only a little waterspout...

I get twitchy around storms, too. I think it comes from monthly tornado drills at school and then going in the basement when the siren sounds a few times every Spring and Summer. I would be twitchy about storms at softball practice, too. You have metal bleachers and the chain link back stop. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that. Yikes.

It occurred to me that I've probably accumulated a number of weather related emails from him in recent years. I did a quick search using the term "waterspout" and came up with five emails. One was even from a cruise ship! I believe this one was when they were returning back to the marina in FL...it's double waterspouts! Although, the trees and buildings are blocking the Atlantic to see them touching the water.

I know people who grew up in north TX who have similar reactions with/from storms, storm drills, storm cellars, and sirens. Most of the sirens here are just for lightning, but they never halt play as quickly as I'd like. Of course, I'm usually the first person to spot lightning, but the officials have to see it.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm sure the masks should help, at least some, in the schools. I can also see how challenging this could be for any Autistic child. I've seen a mix of stories on the matter locally and with some college friends. I have to wonder if they'll shift to full lockdown before you guys come back from your break. It's maddening, because I don't think anyone anywhere wants to lock down again...but if things get out of hand, I'm not sure what the best options might be at this point.

I don't think they'll lock down while we're on our break....they said they'll assess in two weeks, which is right AFTER the break. But our breaks are divided by region and we're in region 2 this year, and region 3 will be on their break that week. Back in February when it all started, it lined up with our spring break and such. The kids were supposed to be coming back from break when schools closed, I think....and I know that elementary school kids went back right after the May break.