Emily Living and Laughing : COVID-19 Self Distancing Week 8 Recap

Last week was hard people. I am going to recap it by saying that we had major plumbing issues and we lost our cat for 3 hours. We rise above all that though and did some serious relaxation on Sunday to catch up with our energy being so low. I am not 100% recovered from the stress of last week and that's okay. I am working on it. Still need to tackle my lack of sleep lately. I have had some wicked insomnia.

What I learned:

Stella is more deaf that we originally thought. She went missing for 3 hours and my wonderful mom and friends came to help look for her. I found her on a chair in our basement after roaming around yelling for her for a LONG time. She is going to outlive us all and we will die from sleep exhaustion and stress.
My husband is really handy. I mean I would never ever attempt to break up concrete in my basement and find a valve in a pipe that needs to be replaced. If it was up to me I would be spending like thousands upon thousands to fix the issue. Ryan is on the hunt for parts right now. It is good it only messes with the bathroom in the basement and we can go back to using all our other bathrooms. Another handy thing he did was make a giant planter for veggies this year in our backyard. It looks great and will be super functional.
You can legit make pesto out of any greens and nuts. I have tried them all. This past week I used carrot tops and walnuts. It was a delight.
I am learning how to go out in public in a limited fashion. My anxiety still does not like it and I panic if people get too close to me but I did a curbside pickup for the mothers day flowers from a local green house and did not freak out once. I was full on mask and hand sanitizer the whole time but I did it! I don't plan on "going out" once things open up just an FYI this is just me trying to be okay with doing more curbside pickup stuff out of necessity. For me I take this self distancing seriously for my health and I will keep evaluating my boundaries weekly.

Star Wars day was last Monday. :) May the 4th be with you!

I had leftover chicken so I made chili.

Flowers on one of my walks.

I made homemade chicken broth. Super easy.

It was cinco de mayo and taco tuesday. I made cherry limeaid margs!

Classic tacos.

Doing some progress on this painting.

Ryan wore the shark head to a meeting.

Pesto time!

It is soooo good and made a lot.

Not a fan of the lamb chops but that pesto. yum.

DIVA

She was drama all day I should have known on TH she would run away.

Classy.

I did it I went to the green house!

Our flowers picked up from a local green house Werys.

OMG this cider was needed after the bathroom and cat drama.

Snuggles Friday with our drama queen.

Flowers in my garden.

YEY-- I made this. :)

Sushi for dinner Friday.

REALLY Stella I cannot see.

Ryan had to remove our linen closet and then beat through concreate with a sledgehammer to find the valve we needed to replace that was broken. See valve below.