It’s 10/13/2020 and we it’s almost Fall. That’s crazy. I celebrated my pandemic birthday in Cerritos with family and we actually managed to go out for dinner. The annual tradition is to go to Lawry’s but since it’s in LA County, we were limited to tables of 4-6. So, we made a reservation at Five Crown’s a sister restaurant to Lawry’s in Orange County where they are allowed to have up to 8 at a table and started indoor dining at 25% capacity. We fudged it by making a reservation for 8 but told them we had 4 kids. So, they sat all 10 of us at a round table in the corner in the patio and we were golden.

Jesse finally scored me a Costco order of sanitizing wipes. Hooray! In addition to swim at Aquatech, the kids have also started kung fu again but at Lincoln Park. They are not allowed to have people in the studio yet so this will have to do for now. Jes and I actually like it better because we can bring lawn chairs and relax outside during the lessons.

Work has been ok and I’ve been able to work from home on Monday mornings and all day Tuesdays for now. It helps but I feel like I’m being pulled from both ends. People at work are asking when I will be in the office and the family is asking me when I’ll be home from work. Poor Jes is also going stir crazy and has started running and swimming…and doing yoga! What is this world coming to?!

I don’t know what Halloween will look like but we booked flights to go down to Cerritos for Alice’s birthday since I also have Monday 11/2 (our anniversary) off. I also booked flights to Hawaii on a whim. The flights were only $304/person round trip during ski week (mid-Feb)! What a deal! I figured it’s a good alternative since I doubt Canada will open its borders to us by then. Luckily Kaiser has started allowing self-scheduled COVID testing at no cost to members. Woot.

Next month will be an unpredictable one with the election coming up. We will just have to wait and see.