RBOC

• I tried to stop my DDA payments as allowed under the stimulus bill, but because of I don’t know what reason, instead of being able to stop $666 for two final paychecks, it was only able to stop $250 for one final paycheck.  I do not understand this at all.  They also made me provide a letter from after school saying it had been canceled.  But after school is trivial, it’s the summer daycamp that’s the problem.  We may end up being out $1-2K from this.  I’m glad I only put away $3K total.
• Delayed additional nuts.com candies came on Friday.  Easter was saved!  We did have some (sadly melted) stuff from a Target order I’d made a month ago, but it wasn’t quite enough to make the baskets look full, especially since the books I ordered as the non-candy item were too big for the baskets.  (These are not big baskets– my MIL bought them when DC1 was in preschool and we just reuse them every year.)
• DH is a bit of a min-maxer.  In an effort to preserve paper towels, he decided to use one of our kitchen cloths on some extremely buttery cinnamon roll dough.  He then washed it and got butter and cinnamon and nutmeg all over the washer drum and it took half the morning to get rid of it all (though things were smelling pleasantly cinnamony for a while).  He then realized that greasy or yucky things are the reason we are are trying to not use our paper towels for things that rags can easily handle.
• (This may be TMI, but a couple weeks ago I got concerned that we were going through a roll of quad-ply every two days in the master bathroom and were going to run out.  Since that conversation it’s been more like every 6 days per roll… I’m not really sure how one goes from those extremes and I don’t really want to know.  But I suspect it may have something to do with that min-max habit…)
• Despite what feels to me like a lot of groceries and online purchases, our pantry stores are diminishing rather than staying steady.  Maybe it’s the complete lack of eating out (including DC1 “forgetting” hir lunch and being “forced” to eat pizza, which mysteriously only happens on pizza hut days)?  Though our kids have also been on growth spurts, and boy can a hungry teenager consume a lot.  DH has decided that he’s been eating too much which I suspect means less stress baking (booooo) but may also have a large effect on how much we end up with each night as leftovers.  I don’t want him to diet, I just want him to be healthy and to eat what and how much seems right to him, but see above about min-maxing.
• I’ve started hitting chatty.  I apologize in advance to anybody that I have an even sporadic texting relationship with. I am pretty amazing in small doses, but annoying in longer interactions.  Trying to be less annoying never seems to work, so I’ve learned to spread myself out.  Which is hard to do these days!  I am #blessed that my family puts up with me.
• It’s not that I’m not getting zoomy interaction, it’s just that all that interaction is about important stuff.  It’s focused to a much greater extent than in person interactions because we can’t have little side conversations while we wait for the meeting to start without everyone overhearing, and of course the people who do have those side conversations in front of the entire zoom aren’t really the people I check in with (generally they are people with grown children whose kids are not at home!)
• My sister has noted this is a problem at her company so she’s instituted little 15 min check-in zooms.  I’m not sure how they work, but they’re supposed to be about not work stuff.  I’m not sure how I would feel about my boss doing this… I’d probably be annoyed, but it was requested by her folks.
• There are still people in my dreams and I still go places in my sleep.  I’ve been doing a lot of nature stuff in my dreams… places we’ve traveled or places we were planning to go this summer.  Usually there’s a lake.  (But no girl or otherwise who can speak with her eyes.) The other night I dreamed it was Christmas break and we were at DH’s parents.
• DC2 had fun facetiming individual friends but zie REALLY had fun zooming with all three at once.  They discovered all sorts of joint zoom whiteboard functionality I did not know about.  (I still don’t know where the checkmarks came from.)
• DH’s sister is pregnant with twins(!). (These will be children 3&4 and grandkids 7&8.).
• Remember when DH thought he had rabies?  His seasonal allergies hit recently and zyrtec hasn’t been as effective as usual (at least, this is our hypothesis).  So he started stressing out and getting physiological responses to the stress which make it harder to sleep etc.  But we haven’t been out in a month and we’re careful with groceries and packages and handwashing.  He’s been working on deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation and that seems to help tone down the physiological response to stress which helps with the mental response as well because he no longer thinks he’s caught something terrible.  DC1 has been coughing and I’d been having similar allergy problems (recall, I am allergic to everything outside).  I gave DC1 a zyrtec and zie stopped coughing and I took a zyrtec and stopped having post-nasal drip.  So… pretty sure this is just some common allergen like ragweed or something.  We don’t usually have allergies at the same time, but it’s been an odd year.
• Bubly grapefruit sparkling water tastes just like Squirt!  (Which apparently still exists?  But I haven’t seen it since I was a kid.)  (Not affiliate links.  Just reminiscent links.)