it's week seven almost the end of April
now kind of crazy that it's like I'm
freakin buggin here oh I hate those
little bugs kind of crazy that we
started this whole thing and mid March
staying at home and now we're almost in
May honestly I thought we'd be back to
normal why no I mean I know that's naive
thinking I guess I just thought we'd be
back to work not exactly all normal not
we wouldn't be traveling again but I did
think we would kind of get back into
things by now but that's not happening
I'd actually just got an email from my
work yesterday saying that our work from
home has been extended till June now so
we were supposed to go back May 4th but
they just told us that June will be the
new date but they are saying that
they're going to start looking into ways
for everybody to come back to the office
so it's not like they're gonna have
everybody come back at once
but kind of do this staggered approach
kind of like what they're doing in
certain states right now like Georgia
Florida you know opening up beaches and
Florida and talks about you know opening
up certain things little by little just
to see how it goes
yes turkey in Sarasota is about an hour
south from Tampa they opened up their
beaches and you're going to do anything
there except for some days so sometimes
you're like walking exercising swimming
kayaking whatever that's fine but you
just can't sit there in sunbathe also
you can't gather around with ten more
people and you can't oh you have to
practice social distancing so as long as
you're doing those things you're allowed
to go to the beach now the Tampa area
hasn't opened up any of its beaches like
Clearwater Beach or Saint Pete but who
knows maybe they'll open up in a couple
weeks or so
if yes Dickie goes all right at my
apartment they actually opened up the
dog park so that was nice a lot of
people weren't happy about that I
actually don't go to the dog park here
anymore like I used to when come home as
a puppy I used to take her all the time
but I thought she's an adult she's kind
of bossy and just kind of works around
at other dogs acting like she owns the
place so it kind of embarrassed
means I don't really cook over there
anymore and plus when I do take her to
the dog park she doesn't do anything she
just kind of mopes around then she just
lays down and does nothing so I might as
well just take her on a walk so she gets
a little bit more exercise but in the
days that she was feeling a little bit
more energetic I have her do the
obstacle course they have their which I
love that they have also they have like
a little tunnel they have weave poles
and then these other poles where she can
jump on to so she likes doing those
because of course you'll do anything for
treats so as long as she kissed the
treats then she'll do them but she's
always been good at agility so I like
that they have that there so she can
practice that a little bit I wish they
did have you know her normal dog park
open door because that's where she has
all her childhood friends she gets a lot
more exercise there and I should just
looks happier playing there so hopefully
they'll open the parks backups if like
the beaches are going to open I feel
like dog parks can open next because
it's not like a whole bunch of people go
there before they shut it down we're all
practicing social distancing and keeping
our distance so fingers crossed so yeah
next month I was supposed to go to
Turkey but obviously I can't go there
now and I've been trying to cancel it
but been having a hard time because
everybody's trying to cancel their
flights and my flight wasn't until end
of May so I just kind of been waiting on
trying to resolve it and finally
yesterday I got an email saying that all
flights this is Turkish Airlines all of
their flights have been cancelled now
they give everybody options on what you
can do so you can get mileage credit you
could voucher you can be scheduled at no
cost and then of course the last option
is get a full refund which I want
because I just I have no idea what I
could travel again and usually you know
I don't even know if I'll use Turkish
Airlines the next time I travel so of
course I want a full refund I'm sure
that's what most of the people want so
they have a disclaimer saying that you
know you can choose this option but just
be war and then it's gonna take a long
time to process I'm not sure how long
it's gonna take but that's what I put it
for because I just I don't know
I'm gonna be able to travel again so
we'll see how that goes
also just so you know if the flight has
been cancelled you don't have to
reschedule
or you know opt or resort to a voucher
or a credit you are legally entitled to
a full refund so just make sure that if
you want every phone that you fight for
it it just it'll just take a while
probably to get the refund I was really
looking forward to that trip to I was
gonna go with a couple of the girls I
met in Prague last summer they were on a
solo trip as well so the three of us
kind of bonded and one of them was in
New York and the other one lives in
Dubai so we were planning on meeting up
again and Turkey but this happened and
didn't work out so hopefully when things
calm down and things are better we could
get together and make plans again to go
to Turkey so this past week we had
trivia night with some of my old
classmates from my high school in Japan
so I went to high school in northern
Japan in a city called Misawa it's a
very small city a super country there
and my graduating class had 50 people so
there was having people that lived there
and candy went to that school too but
she only went up to eighth grade so she
doesn't know the city or the school as
much as I did you know what I have she
doesn't have that make memories there
like I did but the people there that
went to me so were all kind of bonded in
some way because such a small community
and so every once in a while we would
have some like reunions in different
cities just to get together so since all
of us are home right now they decided to
throw a trivia night and they did such a
great job putting this together I didn't
do the first one they had a first one
like three weeks ago so me and candy and
one of my friends Janie we decided to
join on this one
and it was like a really good time well
that's about it on my end so let's see
like Candy's doing in California hi
candy over here in LA and let's see this
week it was a little bit surprising to
me but there have been some states that
have decided to open up certain
businesses and the ones I kept hearing
over and over again it's probably
because the news spikes to keep
repeating itself but Atlanta was
allowing businesses like bowling alleys
hair salons those type of businesses
were allowed to open up again and I mean
I don't know I'm not an expert I'm not a
scientist or a doctor I'm not a nurse I
don't really you know I'm not in the
frontlines and I don't see how bad
things are but I really hope that you
know even if we open things up that
things will be fine and it won't cause
any problems I know a lot of people are
worried that it's too soon and I guess
they won't know until we see what
happens but I hope nothing that happens
I mean no one wants anything bad to
happen in Japan on the other hand the
opposite has happened was just kind of
interesting I was talking to my dad this
week and he said Japan finally issued a
state of emergency it's a little bit
different from the state of emergency
here where daycares and schools and
everything was shut down all those
schools are shut down in Japan you know
my sister is don't going to work and all
those schools are shut down the daycares
are still open so I'm on is still
haven't I going to work so that's that's
what's a little bit different about
Japan compared to here when we had our
star shot down because of the state of
emergency in Japan and they're asking
people to work from home Japan actually
experienced quite a bit of system
glitches or he would have been trouble
with their internet and there's a lot of
problems accessing internet so I was
like oh that's that's not that's not fun
anyway so that's kind of like all the
news that I've kind of kept up with this
week and on a personal level I am
everything's been the same I still take
Zoey out on multiple walks and although
there have been some things that have
changed in our walks I've been noticing
a lot more like signs post and
everywhere
they're kind of fun to look at I've been
noticing more chalk art as I'm walking
and that's pretty elaborate chalk art
that I'm saying that I'm thinking like
are these the parents doing it are the
kids kind of like the parents doing it I
will say I was a little bit sad that the
trail and the neighborhood that I used
to go on finally there was tape around
it well I usually come on this trail
it's in the neighborhood to walk Zoey
and today was the first day that they
actually roped it off so I guess we're
heading back
sorry Zoey I did go to the UPS Store
today not today this week cuz I had to
return some things and surprisingly the
line was really long I wasn't expecting
the line to be really long at UPS and so
because I was long I was like I'll just
go next door and got some coffee so the
coffee shops are still open you can't
sit down but you and I can get takeout
and I was in there for about like I
don't know 10 15 minutes and then I was
like yeah you know by the time I get my
coffee the line should die down and nope
the line was still super long I did do
another workout session with Zoey this
week well if somebody workout I tried a
meditation session with sewing this week
and I was I don't know I didn't think so
we would really participate but she
actually did she was accessed I would
fall asleep and I think she was really
relaxed and she really felt the vibes
that I was relaxed too so yeah that was
that was kind of interesting and fun
I've never done meditation with my dog
before so that was something new all
right well that's everything that's
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