Rainy Days With Amanda

You guys, it has been 8 weeks since I started quarantine(ing) and I am measuring my quarantine by when I started working from home, so that has been a full 8 weeks. It's crazy. Week 8. It has me writing letters to friends and doing renditions of Broadway musicals. For those of you who don't know, I took theatre from middle school to high school and even took a class in college. That was actually going to be my major in college until I came to the realization that if I can't sing, I was not going to make it. So here I am, making my poor furbabies and husband endure my performances. Quarantine also has me feeling accomplished. I have done quite a lot, and purchased quite a lot, for stuff I've been needing to do and get for the house but just didn't have time or was using the money for something else. But now, I don't have any excuses. My husband and I also have this great cleaning schedule going on and I'm definitely going to miss that once we go back to w...

Anyways, I am happy to inform you that my husband and I haven't killed each other yet and my dog and cat seem to be happy to have us around still. I feel really blessed right now because my husband and I are one of the few households where we are both still working (from home) full time, so we are not experiencing this financial burden that I know so many people are feeling right now. It's unsettling and my heart goes out to everyone right now. To not go stir crazy and fill my head up with negativity, I have been doing stuff around the house to spruce it up. We recently bought new plants to transform our front yard, fixing up our sunroom and I bought my cat his own little aquarium to help his boredom and fill in his bedroom. But last week, I had one day where after I finished work, I didn't clean. I played Animal Crossing and when I finally looked up at the clock, it was well past the time I had been consistently been cooking dinner. And for some reason, the little...