DAY 41

Miss Nine finished her schoolwork yesterday. She has to turn it all in tomorrow. I wish she would take her time with it because now we have two days to fill. Today she spent far too much time on her tablet, and when I made her put it away she wanted me to play "family" with her. I asked why we had to play family when we are a family. This involved me being the dad who just came home from work. She was the mom telling me that the baby had been fussy all day and she needed a break. I can relate to that. She asked how my day at work was and I told her it was stressful. She asked if it was That Dude again. I am not sure what dude she was talking about but I played along. In the midst of all this I got a phone call. When I hung up she said " I was quiet while you were on the phone but I had a whole story going on in my head." I am sure she did. We also played Potato Heads. I was daddy potato and brother potato. We made a lot of jokes about spuds, french fries, and tater tots. Mom and sister potato did not think we were funny. We thought we were hilarious.

I tried something new at Meijer today. I downloaded their Shop and Scan app to my phone. I put my reusable bags in my cart and started shopping. As I took an item off the shelf I scanned it with my phone and put it in a bag. It was going pretty well until I got to a dead zone in the cereal aisle and could not get a signal. I put the rest of my groceries in the cart and waited until I got to a better location and finished scanning and bagging them. When I was finished I got in line at the self serve checkout. When it was my turn to check out I scanned a spot on the screen and my order popped up. The cashier came over and scanned a few things in my cart, I guess to double check my order. I paid and I was out the door. It took me longer to shop because it was new to me, but I liked having all of my groceries already bagged. I do not like the idea of putting a cashier out of a job, so I will not continue to do this when we are no longer social distancing.