A Me, Myself & I birthday

Another year, another lockdown.  With warmer weather coming, coupled with vaccine and ICU bed shortages, and people being cooped up for over a year now, the COVID numbers were trending in the wrong direction.

This time we got an amber alert on our phones that we are in the midst of a lockdown til May 19th.  Only essential items can be purchased during this time - that means food, pharmacies and alcohol.

Shops have moved to curbside pickup only.  As I go on my solo bike rides, I

take in all the closed shops.  And hope for the best for our economic future.   It's not like we have not been down this path before in history.  We have.  And we are still here and progressed.  The world has changed and we need to adjust.  That's all it is.

But we can still have birthdays and ice cream cake!  If there is one thing that is a constant in this world is that when things aren't going so well, an ice cold treat seems to make things a little better than it was.

Happy 16th Birthday!

Another Spring with COVID Birthday

Spring is here and COVID is still here.  And probably here to stay unless something goes according to a plan.  The vaccine is available but roll out is slow.  I'm sure everyone has seen and heard the news, since there is nothing else going on.   

Nothing is open.  It's also Easter.  So lots of shops are closed because of that too.   Except for Nations the asian supermarket.  They were open Good Friday.  Go figure?

But still we do the best we can with the situation at hand.  Notice I didn't say 'must', and it's because it's a choice.  Sitting around isn't going to do anything and since we cannot go out and about as we would like, we need to get creative and get thinking about what we can do, instead of complaining about what we cannot.  It's your choice, you choose.

We can continue to learn.  Learn how to do things that we'd always wanted to do.  Get busy being creative and making stuff with what is around you.  Whether it's cooking, baking or creating music or even re-organizing or giving something some TLC, anything.  It's not hard to find something to do that will have a positive impact.  You just need to look around you and start.  And once you start, the energy will be addictive and turn that light bulb on even brighter.

We can certainly shop online and pick up local.   And maybe reduce the amount we do buy since we cannot go out and be social, start thinking about reducing the waste we produce.  We've gotten used to how easy we can obtain 'stuff'.  But how much do we really 'need'?  And do we need it next-day?

And more importantly we should celebrate those around us.  Something we need do more often.  Since being in lockdown, we are nothing if we cannot share our lives with others.

It was Tresa's birthday and creating a card that's unique every year is a challenge, but some theme seems to come up that inspires the outcome of the card.  This year was no different.   Somehow something comes to mind.  The idea doesn't usually happen right away, but it's always something based on the reality we live in.  I'm not that creative, so I gotta base it off something.

Not sure about other places, but we don't get flyers delivered anymore.  I had to go online and print out flyers to cut out the text i needed.  Then Kieran and I got to work on the inside of the card. 

Happy Birthday!!!