Day 1 - Mask mandate in California is rescinded!!

My lasagna… Goldbelly - Gourmet Food and Gifts’ charges $109 for their lasagna [free shipping]

6/15/21. Tuesday

8:00–8:30 – I’m up so I go downstairs to say good morning to the dog. I rub her tummy three times, she grabs her toy, and we go outside. She runs around the yard before she goes potty while I water my potted jasmine plants. It’s already hot.

8:30-10:00 – Although I’m still in my pajamas, I get started on pulling the rusted fasteners, that currently hold the cords for my sprinkler system and garden lights, out of the wall, inside the garage. Once I’m finished, I rearrange the cords so they’re lined up nicely with the bottom of the wall and hammer in the new clips I bought at Home Depot.  Much better.

10:00-2:00 – I move straight to another task I’ve been putting off, using the “eat that frog” approach [time management concept – look it up]. Because the Tiburon trip was pushed back, I have an extra day to complete some unpleasant activities.

I revise my previous Welcome To My Class script to reflect my summer class – it runs for just 6 weeks and starts July 6. After, I record the AUDIO – Syllabus.

I check email at College No. 2 – nothing of importance.  It looks like the grades/Attendance were successfully scanned, otherwise, someone would be screaming at me.

Continue researching plane tickets for L.

2:00-3:00 – I thaw a frozen chicken and rice dinner that I made several months ago and have that for lunch while I read a Money Diary.

3:00 – 3:30 – L. is finally up.  I can’t bring myself to check email and my grade from my French Cinema class after I bailed on the Final Project - what must my teacher think? – so I give L. the password to my account and ask her to check.

L. reads an email from my teacher – apparently, my teacher made a last ditch effort to convince me to do the Final Project, but I never got the email – and then L. and I look at my current grade as it’s reflected in Canvas.  By all accounts, it looks like I got a 76%!!  My strategy paid off!!  I passed the class with a reasonable grade even after ‘gaffing’ the Final Project!!  However, the transcript is the only true official document so I will have to wait and see what my teacher ends up posting.  I’m certain it will not be a D or F, but who knows? Maybe she’s mad… It’s a nail-biter.

L. airdrops the AUDIO-Syllabus into Canvas.

3:30-4:30 – Shower. Lotion. Covid-19 uniform. No make-up.  I continue packing and making a list for last-minute items I need to pack tomorrow morning.

4:30-5:30 – Water my plants.

5:30-6:30 – I do an Insanity Max Interval workout. I’ll be gone for 4 days and won’t be able to work out during that time. My plan is to get one last workout in tomorrow morning, before I leave, but you know how that goes.

6:30-7:30 – Recover and read Estranged.

7:30-8:00 - I take the dog for a walk.

9:00 – 12:00 – I make the lasagna.  There are a ton of moving parts with this dish: 1) the pasta; 2) the ricotta cheese and spinach filling; 3) the ground turkey with mushrooms and onions - and then I still have to bake and freeze it. OMG - it is sooo much work.

I finish composing the layers then put it in the oven. While it bakes, I prepare overnight oats for tomorrow’s breakfast and make snack-bags - walnuts, small pieces of cheese, Lara bars, apples, almond butter, and chocolate chips -  that will hopefully sustain me for the duration of the trip. I pack everything in my insulated lunch bag.

12:00-1:00 – The kitchen looks like a bomb went off.  Kitchen duty and I prepare my coffee for tomorrow. Take the dog out and lock up.

1:00-1:45 – Nighttime routine. Bed.