How we spent our first lockdown. (Besides cooking, I’m saving that for a different post.)
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Doing weird household tasks like going under the house to take a look at stuff and thread cables through the floor.
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Re-learning how to use a sewing machine so my ears don’t freeze when I’m biking to work.
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Finishing crochet projects that I started a year before.
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Getting back into cross stitch and re-invigorating my Etsy shop.
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Drawing cartoons for my weightlifting club’s newsletter: Isolation Edition.
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Playing every single board game we have. I saved all of them to my Instagram stories if you’re interested. A forgotten favourite was Lords of Waterdeep. A forgotten loser was Tsuro of the Seas.
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Doing yoga.
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Crying that we didn’t get to go to Canada and having to get Rosemarie to mail us all our Arcteryx goodies.
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Picking lemons. This doesn’t really fit the post but I’m just so happy with our lemon tree.
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For a brief two weeks: Going out for breakfast! Going back to the gym! Having family dinner!
But then cases started going out of control again and we got put back in the strictest lockdown. :(
Ahh we want to get a lemon tree next year! We just planted hearty kiwis.