hi it's candy here over in California I
live in LA County and man a lot has
changed again since the last time we
recorded I believe was last Thursday how
was it Friday the governor of California
basically said that all the
non-essential stores shut down so
basically the only establishments that
allowed to be open are you know grocery
stores drug stores vet clinics hospitals
pharmacies so anything that's like an
essential is a lot to stay open
restaurants are still open - but not for
Dinah but only carry out but other than
that everything else has to close as far
as grocery shopping that has not changed
I'm still having issues finding eggs
it is almost 8:00 they closed at 8:00
they have now kind of it they closed
early now so they can stock up more on
food and they also I think opened up
earlier just for I'm not a strikebreaker
but I still can't find any eggs although
there was bread and right now we are
lucky there's claiming of alcohols - no
I did finally find some eggs at a much
more upscale grocery store I guess you
want to call it I it doesn't look that
upscale but the prices are upscale house
so I normally buy eggs just under two
dollars and I cannot find eggs that are
under $4 the aisles are slowly stocking
back up I've seen more bread now more
canned goods so and there's still plenty
of produce I haven't seen any like
produce being completely sold out so
that's nice because I eat a lot of
vegetables I guess things I've been
doing at home I've been doing more I
guess DIY projects and I decided to
start making my own face mask
I found a lot of like handkerchiefs and
kitchen towels that I haven't used you
so I decided to use that of my fabric
and I also needed elastic for the mask
part
and I surprisingly had some huh stick in
my sewing kit so I made some mass this
week and I think I did I did pretty well
I think if my sewing machine was working
a little bit better I could probably do
a better job I also decided to teach my
dog a new trick because I saw Krystal
teaching kuma last week how to bring the
Bell so I asked her where she got it she
got on Amazon so I bought the same ones
I've been teaching so he then she was
really fast because she's a little piggy
so and you think for treats she'll run
pretty fast so I've been teaching her
that good catch can you do it one pop
good catch
okay okay okay no no wait good and
probably try to teach her like one new
trick a week so that was my goal for
this week was to teach her that that
Bell click she still needs a little bit
more practice though so one thing I
started doing this week is when I went
when I went into the grocery store as I
put on some gloves
once now but how
when I get home and I'm putting my stuff
away but here that wiped out my boxes
and cans okay I wear my gloves in the
store I am picking my stuff
so when I had to check out I'm like oh I
don't want to touch my credit card of my
folks at my my stuff is on my phone in
my phone so then I kind of remove one
glove and then you know do the
transaction that way then I put my you
know card away put the clothes back on
and then when I get home
you know I remove the gloves but then
I'm like well all this stuff I just buy
i touched with the gloves on so then do
I have to disinfect the stuff that I buy
I don't know maybe I'm overthinking it
I've also been doing my daily walks as
usual with Zoey but I have noticed that
there are a lot more people out and on
the neighborhood you know taking their
walks even the park that I usually go to
is way more packed now I am at the park
today
and although you know the state of
California has put in a safer at home
initiative that does not mean you can't
go to the park but you just you know to
make sure to maintain your distance of
six feet from people I usually kind of
this part with my dog is a nice open
space there's plenty of people here
actually in the parking lot it was
almost full I grabbed the last spot
there are a lot of families here biking
riding their horses so there's a lot of
activity going on but everyone is
keeping their distance the only people
that are near each other are obviously
their kids or their family members um
that's allowed but if you are you know
if you're not related to the person if
you're just friends you are supposed to
keep your distance but right now I'm in
an area where it is very isolated I
don't see anyone at the moment there is
Zoey so I stopped going to that park I
love that Park but it first kind of
supposed to be doing social distancing
thing kind of defeats the purpose
purpose if I'm going somewhere where
it's packed those are the big
differences that are the big changes
that happen this week things are still
kind of scarce in the grocery stores
nothing is back to normal
things are closed I'm just keeping my
distance from people staying home like
the you know the governor ordered and
spending time with Zoey outside is the
only thing I've been doing when I do go
outside well besides grocery shopping
and then taking her for wax so things
like noticed I'm hard well just recently
you know with spring break and there's
still a lot of beachgoers a lot of kids
coming from college going to these
crowded beaches when you're supposed to
be practicing social distancing it was
just like massive amounts of people so
finally on Sunday a few days ago they
shut down all the beaches unless you're
on a private beach then obviously you
can still go to the beach but you know
all the public beaches are closed so no
more beach in Florida for now and our
County and Tampa Bay they're putting in
they're trying to put in a stay-at-home
order just so they have something in
place so our mayor is trying to do this
but the county's not really agreeing
with it they're thinking a curfew is
better so there's been like a lot of
debate on what's going to happen so yeah
maybe the next couple of days we'll hear
or something different because since
Monday she's been trying to push for a
stay at home roll but we'll see so what
I've been doing this week
I've actually been enjoying it this
quarantine look I mean it's not a
hundred percent quarantine because we
could still go outside and enjoy a walk
and I could still take my dog to the dog
park
but I'm very careful of you know
touching it anything I've been doing
exercises everyday at home yeah my goal
is to hit 400 calories every day so if
you have an Apple watch you'll know that
if you hit all three rings you've
accomplished all your goals for a day so
I'm trying to accomplish
hanging 400 calories every day walking
at least 30 minutes a day and also
getting up every hour 12 times in a day
so yeah just watch a lot of YouTube
videos that
and I love these dance moves and these
hip-hop moves just something fun to make
the time pass by a lot faster we've also
been going grocery shopping every other
day because you know I'm still trying to
find some things because last week I
couldn't find flour or veggie oil I went
to Walmart first thing this morning they
opened their new ours right now are 7
a.m. to 8:30 p.m. there was plenty of
water so if you're in Tampa and you're
looking for water come in the morning at
Walmart I'm in Tampa on the at the North
del Mabry location still no toilet paper
no flour no oil there's still plenty of
chicken so I got on the package again
because I know I'm gonna use chicken for
sure I'm just trying to get essential
items you know that all need that I'm
going to use I'm trying not to overstock
oh one thing I noticed is Walmart is
finally limiting the amount of things
you can get they have signs throughout
that say hey you know you can only get
one for item so I usually go to the
self-service checkout where they have
you know ten registers and you can just
check out yourself and usually there's
you know one staff member there just
kind of overseeing everything but today
they were on top of it they're looking
at every single cart and making sure
they only had one item per household and
made sure that they weren't hoarding
everything so there's a lot of people
that were hoarding of course
so they took out you know all those
items like hey sorry you can only get
one item so kudos to Homer for doing
that went to the Asian store this
morning at 9:30 a.m. and they still had
plenty of rice there was some rice packs
that were gone by like the cheaper ones
but I typically buy the more expensive
rice bags anyway because I just love
rice and I need to have the best rice
their grocery store still had lots of
products nothing was out of stock so
then I may feel a little bit better it's
Monday March 23rd
and I am at one part again today they
have not restart really anything or if
they did it's all gone already
I was looking for I was gonna say that
they had toilet paper but no toilet
paper
I did find flour though so I was happy
about that because I haven't been able
to find flour anywhere there's plenty of
vegetables chicken is kind of running
out today anyway I'm sure they're gonna
restock but y'all the chicken thighs
were out they have plenty of chicken
breasts a tip with the Walmart shopping
at least I don't know you know you'll
find this everywhere but at Walmart they
watch closely what everybody has in our
cards so if you have more than one item
of what they're trying to limit they'll
take it out of your car and they put it
in the separate cart by them so if
you're looking for any of these products
you know like water or 20 we were still
horrifying but veggie oil things like
that just look in that cart next to the
sales associate and you might find what
you're looking for
of course I've been playing with kuma
every day too you know she gets a little
bit bored so I'll play with her toys she
goes a little bit crazy with her her
fluffy toy that she likes to just flip
her head around and it kind of makes me
laugh but she loves to play that and she
also mastered her Bell ring trick so I
was very proud of her means about good
girl
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breathe it out good girl yeah she
learned that trick in like two days if
you have a food driven dog it is very
easy to teach tricks like this so yeah
I'm just wondering what trick I should
teach her next I went to the dog park
was kuma this past weekend and everybody
was practicing social distancing which I
was very proud of just take my baby to
the dog park geun way when I say hi did
you have fun yeah there was still the
normal people there everybody was
practicing the social distancing so that
was great everybody was aware you know
they haven't shut down the outdoor parks
yet so I'm thankful for that
I did see signs though that warned
people against using the playground
equipment because there's a children's
park frightening for the dog park but so
far it's a normal day to enjoy the dog
park here in Tampa it's a very large dog
park too so we have plenty of room to
spread out
so yeah so glad that I'm able to take
her to the dog park I also took care of
a lot of cleaning and my apartment is
pretty much a mess every day one day I
just like really worked at it and just
cleaned everything up and it just it
feels so good to have a clean place
again also talked to my family again so
yeah we're having these weekly calls and
those are great too so touching with my
dad and mom in Japan Canyon California
and then also this time we include our
brother and our needs and our
sister-in-law like all to know we talked
a little bit about what's going on on
each other's lives and surprisingly in
Japan life isn't that different so my
dad said that everybody's still going to
work everybody is you know still doing
normal things going to the grocery
stores going to the mall and they say
like no stores are really closed the
only thing that's closed our schools but
that's actually starting up again soon -
so it's kind of strange that everywhere
else around the world you know things
are shutting down but Japan is kind of
you know a normal like normal daily life
so yeah I think like that's
about it for this week of updates and
what's been going on hope everybody is
safe out there and make sure you're
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