“Remoted” – Workday Twenty-Seven (Monday)

The calendar indicates it’s Monday, and after 35 days of not leaving the house, thank goodness for the calendar or I would not know what day it is. The date and time stamps of life at the office are gone for now – the regular Marketing bi-weekly meetings, the full Sales and Marketing team monthly meeting, the 2:30-ish daily filling of the downtown streets when the high school lets out for the day. The only predictable time stamp at the home office so far has been the noisy gathering across the street on Monday afternoons that erupts into dirt bike races. Mostly, the days kind of blur and flow into each other, not unlike the colors in a watercolor painting.

Today, however, was a bit remarkable (as in kind of wacky). There were some clearly defined lines in the masterpiece du jour when the pantry went from dwindling to suddenly overflowing in a couple hours. The pantry before and after would not be even remotely interesting in the "normal days" of needing things, going out and getting things and moving on. But these are different times, and entertainment options are a bit limited.

On April 8, an order placed with Amazon Pantry posted with a going-to-feel-like-forever delivery date of April 29. In a panic over dwindling reserves that might not last another week, coupled with the miraculous opening of a delivery window, an order was placed with Whole Foods on April 19 with delivery on the 20^th. Imagine the surprise when shortly before the appointed hour of the Whole Foods delivery, a text came in from Amazon Pantry to inform that the order scheduled for the 29^th would be delivering early. As in today.

Clearing the pantry with
rice and beans.

In a rapid switch from the recent self-imposed rationing program, dinner became a challenge to clear some pantry space. It was rice and black beans for the win, which used the remaining rice to clear room for the new bag arriving from Whole Foods. The canned black beans and jarred salsa made room for the premature arrival of those items from Amazon Pantry. The volume of cooked rice was a wee bit excessive for the dinner entree, so a container of it went into the freezer. The volume of prepared rice, beans, and salsa was also excessive, so a portion went to the freezer after a smaller container went into the fridge for lunch on Tuesday. 

It was a brilliant execution of the usual Sunday afternoon cooking strategy, but happening on Monday evening, it is not going to help the “What day is this?” situation at all. Especially where,to confuse things even more, the usual Monday trash and recycle pickup this week is happening Tuesday.